skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there are a lot of employers trying to ditch 9-to-7 in order to institute 9-to-whenever-they-please (hint: don't expect daylight after exiting the office, not even in summer). Wide acceptance of 9-to-5 means guarantee of going home soon, that's what I don't want to lose. Yes, 9-to-5 it's broken for the kind of work we developers do, but be wary of everyone trying to dismiss it without talking about alternatives.
That discussion link isn't particularly enlightening. (0 comments)
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Can we all remember that being murdered by your spouse or ex is probably an order of magnitude more likely than this, purely from the fact this is making the news rounds where as generally you'll mostly not even hear of a murder by an ex in another state.

That's not to say this isn't interesting from a SEO or how do we live in a world where information cannot be removed once it's out there perspective. Or even how information attacks are possible.

But if you're getting up in arms about this personally it's a good reason why you shouldn't read the news because this is less likely than being murdered and that I doubt you'd worry much about that.
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Exactly, this is the point, not a bad or good education. This teacher forget that each brain is different.

The "kitchen" for doing complex maths is in a specific area of the brain. Some people have this area not specially developped, or damaged, and compensate this developping other areas. The 90% of the great geniuses of the history are really plain stupid in other fields of knowledge.

I understand the frustration of the teacher, but to spread that everybody can do complex math or either is a lazy/dumb people, is exactly the same idea as to spread that everybody can be Mozart or that everybody "can grow a cut leg if trying enough" (salamanders can do, we are much smarter, so why not?) if you prefer substitute leg by brain.

There is a biological/chemical/physical structure subjacent. Sometimes it can be changed, sometimes can not be recovered in a reasonable time, and often simply don't need to be changed. The people find a new way to achieve the solution, or simply ask the solution to a machine or other people. Nothing wrong with this.
I think it pretty obviously IS sarcastic...
You never answered me on the private school comment; did you miss my reply?
Seems like a deep thesis has been done.
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The first two paragraphs are intro, almost everything after that is a description of Paul's quest to get a good software engineer job for great pay. It includes interview prep and negotiation advice that is both excellent and very recent.
Small environments also have an influence over the body size of animals. Surprisingly the change does not always occur in the same direction: see Insular Dwarfism and Insular Gigantism.

[1] http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/08/09/insular-dwarfism-1...

[2] http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/08/02/animal-gigantism-1...
I think this is a honest attempt at creating a gatekeeper for the use of the term and protect it from corporate interest. I also believe that the example of the doctape hackathon shows how this attempt does not work very well.
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Oh, I forgot to follow up. Private schools tend to be very different in terms of stuff like what happened with that girl. Its a mix of the higher end parent base along with tuition checks on the line.
I don't understand this whole argument, nobody has really outed him as a designer. He's never said that he is either.

He's leading the changes, so he'd put some people to make his vision of iOS etc come true, why would he design the icons himself? Surely he has more important things to do.
No it wouldn't. It would be just as bad. If a theoretical girlfriend has knowledge of that, she should go to the police and let them and the courts ruin a man's life, regardless of whether it is true.
They don't even have any plans for how they will distribute the money they get, and their actions contradict their own statements. I'm unclear how anything about this could be seen as honest.
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Working with an outdated version is frequently not a problem.

I'm a professional animated filmmaker, and I've spent most of my career using versions of Adobe products that were two or three versions behind the cutting edge. Aside from the DeBlur tool, for example, I don't even know what's in CS6.
Oh for God's sake! The "piracy is a gateway to purchase" argument is asinine and only believed by people trying to justify their own thieving. Any "backlash" to Adobe's move will come from the thieves, who were never going to be customers anyway.

As I said, what is good is that the lower end of the market may have been opened up.
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Damn, whoever bought heh.io please make it a link shortener!
UbuntuKylin OS Launched For China's Linux Fans
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Oh, bother - just seen that this is a duplicate. the discussion is over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664839
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Plus their parent(?!) company, http://www.nachtausgabe.de seems to be a party organiser and unrelated to the dev scene at all...
I suspect the turning point was the Prenda Law people turning up in court and taking the fifth.

By refusing to testify on the basis of the right to avoid self-incrimination, they effectively admitted on the court record that they'd committed a crime. At which point, the judge can see the smoke, and though he may not be allowed to investigate the ignition source he can certainly point the DOJ in the general direction of the fire.
Epic Citadel comes to HTML5
Articles like this always bother me. They're link bait and serve no place on HN. If you want to be a career programmer, than sure. Learn SQL and be done. Learn Java and be done.

Being a career programmer is _boring_. Sure, it pays the rent, but it's a horrible way to live. There's more to software than learning one language and being done with it.

Good developers use the right tool for the job, whether that be C++ or Ruby. Good developers also tend to make the highest salaries (hint hint).
Fake Firefox Spyware Riles Mozilla
I intensely dislike this.

Artistic careers usually aren't extremely stable, revenue-wise.

Before Creative Cloud, it was possible for an artist to buy all the tools they needed in a boom period, and then keep using them no matter how pear-shaped their income situation got. (Bear in mind that in the film world, for example, clients simply not paying at all is close to routine.)

Now, if your revenue stream dries up, your tools go away, and you're completely fucked.
I'm very surprised how easy it is to bring something down by just posting a link on HN. Simple things like blogs, but also most weekend projects don't hold up. I've never had anything going down due to HN load and also never spent a dime on protecting it. Good code, a fetish for saving CPU cycles and anticipation is what it takes.
Need negative comments to blow - for KickBorn
Ask HN: Why is SPDY deactivated again?
Often, Hacker News saddens me.

This article provides some good insights on the Angular framework and a nice way to follow the code iteratively and understand the thought process. It gives a refreshing angle (no pun indented) to introduce the framework.

Why does this article only has 22 points when I see some articles like "How to get user feedback by giving away free coffee at Starbucks" or "What really happened at Company X while they farted some money" getting x10 points.

Oh well...
In the US, it's supposedly because they don't accept and hold deposits. That is, you can't give PayPal $1m of your money to hold, you can only use it to make business transactions. The FDIC also justified this in a hearing on the matter by saying: "PayPal does not physically handle or hold funds placed into the PayPal service"
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Seeking out media seems to be working:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lee+clayworth&aq=f&o...
Yes, the tips and tricks shared are good enough to crack the interview.
So a company extorting money from anyone who uses a common phrase to organize a certain type of event is what you perceive as being a "gatekeeper for the use of the term and protect it from corporate interest"? In what kind of backwards universe does that even make sense?

In the original thread about the Hackathon trademark you advertised for Nachtausgabe's IT recruitment "branch": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650052

Are you by any chance working for them or an affiliate company?
I've found that it's all about the connections you make. Are there any nearby hackathons or meetups? They're great opportunities to get connected.

Also, not sure if this is intentional, but your carousal image looks a bit funny on larger screens http://i.imgur.com/nTuf63B.jpg
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I've felt that pain too, and heartily recommend rlwrap to lessen it.
China does not have the kind of high minded ideals that angsty westerners like to project on to them. They are pragmatists. The see the arc of their economy following that of the U.S. Watch what happens as they become a net exporter of technology rather than merely a user of technology.
>The "piracy is a gateway to purchase" argument is asinine and only believed by people trying to justify their own thieving

For my benefit, please explain what is wrong with his rationale.
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Well it seems that it wasn't just fluctuations of the exchange rate: "There was actually no currency conversion because the withdrawal was initiated and cancelled almost immediately."

So you pay this guy some money, then immediately change your mind and he loses money.
In theory: Brilliant. The software has suddenly become cheaper and I don't have to worry about what computer I install it on. I'm also not having to shell out huge amounts of money for upgrades.

In practice: There is just something I can't deal with when it comes to moving these kinds of tools to the cloud. What happens if Adobe decides to cut the cord 4-5 years down the line? What if they go bust? With CS6, it wouldn't bother me that much. I still have the tool I purchased but I know it just won't be updated. But with this model, I'm suddenly stripped of all my tools and unable to do work until Adobe sorts out the situation or an open-source alternative comes along. Uh-oh
Definitely worth reading the full zine, some scary stuff in there (including very readable python LFI-based exploits for unpatched MoinMoin and ColdFusion).

Highlights: 1900+ days uptime on a sparc box somewhere in sourceforge.net, root on ICANN, root on Debian repositories..
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Maybe. I don't know enough about it to tell. It sounds like like a lot of the stuff leading to the judges angry response is somewhat incidental to the business model.

In any case, if they hadn't evaded taxes, forged signatures and were "legitimately" representing copyright owners they may not have gotten such "harsh" treatment from the judge. So even if not completely above board, they may have escaped with a wrist slap and moved on to another scam.
Taiwan University Sues Apple over patent infringment
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You're getting downvoted not just because before your edit it did actually seem very much like that is in fact your opinion, but also because it's a very stupid question.

You're asking about a ridiculous hypothetical situation where a person would be guilty of all the things she smears him with (check the articles), a situation where you ask the opinion of random onlookers to imagine they are somehow magically 100% certain of his guilt as a fact, yet this person is somehow not convicted.

I call troll.

Maybe not even on purpose. If you have to qualify your question with "I am just genuinely interested ...", I don't think I ever used that phrase outside of circumstances where I was purposefully trolling.
IBM open sources new approach to crypto
Incidentally I have a dropbox account and the daemon is always running in the background but it's kinda useless for me as I only have one machine. I don't access my dropbox from any other machine.
I'm looking forward to being able to pop into a mobile phone shop here in the UK and buy a phone running Ubuntu. Canonical being based in London at least (although a multi-timezone company).

However, I wish somehow things like this...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/...

could get fixed slightly quicker. If I had the skills, I'd have a go. The bug affects the integration of LibreOffice with Unity, and is the reason I'm sitting out 13.04 using Ubuntustudio. It isn't just UI feedback on highlighting, the 'accelerator key' menu shortcuts don't work, neither does HUD. See comment 3 on the bug.
Also: Some of those teenagers will grow up and eventually purchased the product. I (allegedly) pirated Dreamweaver (haha), Flash and Photoshop when I was still learning because I was broke (unless you count £10 a month pocket money as steady income...) After spending a lot of time with those tools, I eventually purchased CS3 and have upgraded to both CS4 and CS6 since then. Not to mention the various licenses I've had to buy for employment.
Another interesting article from the BBC about how parents now feel about not having given their kids the MMR injection:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22354895
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It's actually more useless than a pie-chart would be in this circumstance, which is impressively useless.
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Node-load-tweet: node.js script which posts Linux load and uptime to Twitter
Where as I've found that occassionally people I've met in the US have a hard time understanding me

My spouse is from England and we live in Ireland. Here, Irish people will have a lot of exposure to English accents (though TV & film), however English people will not have had as much exposure to Irish accents. (There is much more English TV than irish TV, and much more English TV is shown in Ireland than Irish TV showsn in England).

As a result, there is an asymmetry. Irish people will understand the accent of an English person, but not vice versa. But the Irish person may presume that the English person can understand them as well as they can understand the English person, so they probably talk fast and use idioms, etc.

So you might have the same situation. Remember just because you can understand their accent fine, doesn't mean they can understand yours!
This echoes my experiences about a year ago almost exactly (although I was looking in London). The obscure programming problems are largely a waste of time, but fairly non-threatening and generally ok (there were a few companies that did group problem solving exercises instead which really impressed me).

The biggest issue that I found by far was communication. Especially in the Silicon Valley based companies that were looking to hire in London at the time. Communication times of a few weeks seemed fairly commonplace (with contact still extremely positive after such a long wait). One company (I suspect the same as the non-profit mentioned in TFA) took more than a month to get to my second interview, during which time one interview was cancelled about an hour before it was due, and one interviewer simply failed to turn up with no explanation.

My limited experience is obviously no indicator of any wider issue, but if that's generally how companies interview, then I'm really not surprised at all that they find it difficult to hire talent.
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This has inspired me to buy another .by domain, just on the offchance...
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If your volume is growing at a rate that's much smaller than the market at a whole, yes, in a sense you're dying.

Windows is still shipping in volume, but its relevance is withering. The less relevant it becomes, the harder it is to command its high price, and that's the real problem for Microsoft.
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Cool! It is necessary to have second opinions as the recent Excel blooper shows (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/24/i...)

I heard that http://bohr.launchrock.com/ is working on something similar.
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I have had similar experiences as well with the slow feedback on the interview. Although I cannot confirm this, but I have heard that the lack of communications is their way of avoiding any litigation action from the candidate. They fear that any rejection can be mis-interpreted by the candidate in such a way that litigation is possible. So no communications equates to no chance of litigation.
> tried to cause trouble for HTP.

Here's hoping the FBI "causes trouble" for the lot of them. Breaking into other people's stuff is not cool. If I leave my door open by mistake, yes, that makes me a bit absent minded, or foolish, but it does not give anyone the right to wander into my house.
Nodelist should come with a .forEach() out of the box
I wonder if we can say that Europeans "stole" the inventions they saw in China 2000 years ago.
Was discussing this with Christian Heilmann on Twitter who suggested I file this as a bug.

There's so much talk about Vanilla.JS and querySelector() / querySelectorAll() obviating the need for selector libraries.

But the first thing any developer inevitably does is create a shortcut to allow them to iterate over the NodeLists these new methods return.

Browsers providing NodeList.Prototype.forEach() would be great way to pave a cowpath.

(technically NodeList doesn't inherit from Array, but there's nothing stopping them from using the same code as a mixin).

Hopefully KHTML/WebKit/Blink and Trident will follow suit.
The Star Trek references in the judgement are rather strange and (to me) diminish the judge's credibility. Is it normal practice for judges in the US to use popular culture references in their written judgements? Anyone care to explain the reasoning behind this?
He's sarcastic.
That's right. Instead of visual gimmicks, Apple needs to fix longstanding and glaring functional defects in its devices. Like this one: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
He was talking about the chart in question, obviously.
A not very well publicised guideline is that the codenames are only supposed to be used before release, and the version number after release. If you go to ubuntu.com they consistently use the version number, not the codename.
Really? Mine's a fraction of that.
That helped a lot, thank you.
The problem is simple isn't it. Even if PayPal is doing nothing wrong here, they are the ones through whom he experiences wrongs done by every one in the hierarchy. May be the RBI is directly at fault here, and may be the banks are screwing him indirectly- It's through PayPal those policies are enacted and its through them the customer experiences it. So the customer simply thinks PayPal is to blame.

This is like blaming your company for deducting taxes at source from your salary.
This is my worst nightmare. I had a fairly recent being-trashed encounter and it was the worst month of my life. But thank god it was offline. Made me quite a bit more paranoid about photos, online accounts (closed all), etc. I can't imagine what this must feel like. There really needs to be better legislation for victims.
... found it, liarscheatersrus.com/contact-us conveniently links to "internet reputation control.com" and "remove names.com", both sites that also conveniently name liarsandcheatersrus.com plus a short list of very similar SEO-happy domains. Wouldn't surprise me if they're all operated by the same people, or at least split the money people pay to have their names cleared.
There's absolutely nothing that still could be called "honest" about what Lutz is doing here. He already contradicted several of his prior statements, or "lame excuses", in regards to his plans with the registration of the trademark.
I think we should all be clear on what's happening: China's use of tons of man and computer power to attack commercial interests has led to the militarization of the internet (which, in all fairness, would have probably happened anyway)

So those saying "it's all the same" -- no, it is not. You don't bring up a new server at a site in South America and see a hundred attacks from American computers, but you'll sure as shit see attacks from China. The Chinese have notified the world early on through their actins that the internet exists to be plundered. While in the west the net is a symbol of individual freedom and power, to the Chinese it is another tool of the state.

This will continue to escalate until it ends up with people dying or both sides back down.
We're currently authoring an API and have a built an extremely crude reporting page showing endpoint response times by method.

https://sandbox.microco.sm/api/debug/slow?method=GET

The data on it isn't accurate at the moment as I keep runnning tests designed to flush caches and then re-request resources which skews the numbers.

I want this kind of data so that if I were a developer implementing against an API I would have real data to tell me what the expected response times for a HTTP method and endpoint.

When we get to producing an uptime page, I was thinking of treating uptime as a relative quality measure rather than a yes|no thing... if an endpoint responds in more than a couple of seconds then it's score might by 80%, and less than 50ms then it's 100%, and unresponsive or down would be 0%.

Question is: Is this kind of thing useful? Does anyone have a preferred format for this kind of data?
Am I the only one who read that as "grew up in Hacker News"? :)

On a slightly more serious note, I got 93% North Central. As a non-native speaker, I have no idea why or how.
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I absolutely agree. As both an interviewee and interviewer I prefer this approach. There's nothing worse than having someone spend 5 minutes waffling or doing very little, then tell you they're going for the complex solution without having shown you the simple one.

Honestly, when I interview and ask a question like this, it's a leading question. I want the simple solution as a FizzBuzz style test of your abilities, then I'm going to ask "and what problems can you see with this solution?" and we'll go from there.
The most interesting part to me is the Windows 1.0 screenshot at the very top of the article. They were using the "mobile menu" icon doohicky/convention at the top left. I wonder what that actually did.