skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would happen if you didn't remember your gpa? It is shocking that they would ask something like that though.
Taman Shud Case: A murder mystery from 1948
Lower conversion rate ale signifies lower page quality which is another factor that AdWords use to calculate the ad position, and if and to whom to show the ad to. Which, in turn impacts click rates and so on, ad nauseam.
From the point of view of the freelance worker, gun.io has been amazing. Interesting work and very nice clients!
This is yet another good reason not to use Perl.
I fully agree with that. Trusting crypto in a closed-source product is something I'm not comfortable with. That said, I'm using btsync just for syncing unimportant files across clients within my local network and it's working really great.
Y2K: Much Ado About Nothing?
You are right, ioquake3 is not a clone. It's still really prominent and I don't want to omit it.

As for OpenArena, this is more 'inspired by', since in my opinion 'clone' follows original game a bit closer. I agree that the difference can be subtle, but that's how I've chosen to treat those words. :)
> I would wager that in terms of increased personal learning and productivity in the 3-4 years or 10000+ hours of use since then, I've made far better returns on that purchase than even a purchase of AAPL stock in its heyday.

Which was a return of ~$216.6k according to the OP. So, you've made a marginal $55,000 a year since 2009 which you would not have made with any cheaper laptop?
I get the feeling that those who "like" wordpress are either heavily invested in the platform or can't read code.

Simpler, more specialised blogging engines are so beautifully designed, I don't see myself ever wanting to work with Wordpress again.
We have a tendency to overwork because relative status matters to our well-being. In short, it's a massive prisoner's dilemma and income tax can be seen as a corrective on this.

So mandatory holidays are in fact a great idea because they overcome a coordination failure.

(Discuss...)
Well it'd be ten times as large in your scope, but I don't think I'd call it an "easier target"-- you have to deal with a much more dramatic arc and unknowable atmospheric wind conditions.
I see a lot of people put their GPA from 25 years ago on their resume. I didn't put mine on my resume and nobody has ever asked about it.
Cooking is easy. What stumps people is the prep work and cleanup. That's rooted in laziness.

I worked in a kitchen for a bit and I learned how to cook meals the way that restaurants do:

1. Buy everything as fresh as possible.
2. Get your prep work done first.
3. Pre-cook what can be pre-cooked.
4. Don't let anything spoil. Cook what's about to turn. Don't buy more than you will consume or cook for later consumption.
5. Make stuff from scratch. It's cheaper in the long run.
6. Rotate your ingredients and buy what's in season. It's fresher (#1) and cheaper (#5).

If you are a smart chef, you cook on Sundays and Wednesdays. You make more than you need for that day's meal and assemble fresh meals from the cooked ingredients prepared on those days.

It's easy. Buy a pound of bacon and cook the whole pound in the oven at once. Now breakfast is an egg or two in a frying pan on the stove and some bacon reheated in the microwave. Vegetables? Buy a bunch of brocoli, blanch it and put it in the fridge. Buy a bunch of spinach, blanch it and put it in the fridge.

Lunch is precooked chicken breast over blanched vegetables reheated in the microwave. Add rice you've pre-cooked if that's your thing.

Dinner is a salad and protein that's reheated. Chicken/beef/whatever.

Food isn't hard. I spend less than 4 hours cooking per week and I eat super healthy using only fresh ingredients I buy at Whole Foods and the local natural market. Grass-fed beef, marinated chicken, etc.

The only reason people in their 20's haven't learned to live this way is because nobody has ever made it a priority for them. The plethora of fast-food, college meal-plans, and bar-food/takeout have made it possible for a 20-something to never be hungry but instead chronically malnourished.

Seriously, you can code C++ but Rachel Rae is better in the kitchen? WTF? This stuff isn't rocket science.
upvoted for "emacs still takes ages to boot" -- hit me right where it counts.

I wonder though, is reckless advancement better than taking time to do it right? A lot of people are finding success with the fail-and-iterate model -- isn't that essentially what we've identified as a problem now?
Pretty obvious that Bloomberg has no real news source on this. Pure speculations based on the same rumors regurgitated by other sites.
Lots of generalizations there. Change '50 year old' to 'woman' and the thought-police will have your scalp. :-)

Yes of course there are lots of clock-punchers out there. We used to call that mentality 'terminate and stay resident'. (maybe only 50+ will get that reference...)

I suppose if I was employed by a large company, I might have grown cynical over time. But I'm working on my own stuff and having a lot of fun with it. The tools are so good I can do things that used to take a team to accomplish. And I can execute way better than I could earlier in my career, just by knowing how to shut down distractions and stay focused.
What's the mistake he references?
If you think being an old engineer is tough, try being a new one.
You can mount dropbox and a whole bunch of other cloud services as a filesystem using ExpanDrive - google drive and box support coming next

www.expandrive.com

(I am the author)
50% is as much or more than the percentage of tax that most Western Europeans pay and US government entities seem to provide less services compared to their European counterparts. Perhaps part of the reason is the huge portion of the Federal Budget that goes toward military spending?
The article is wrong.
It happens all the time, and is perfectly normal.

First, let's get over the idea that any talking about a view before the trial is wrong.

They have submitted mountains of evidence. The judge already knows what the experts are going to say on both sides, etc.

The judge has to have an opinion on how the case will turn out to rule on various motions.

It's perfectly normal for a judge to say "After reading these motions, and the evidence, here is my view ...". This tends to encourage parties to settle, rather than continue to waste the courts time.

To put it simply: Having an opinion based on the evidence and law so far is not bias. Sharing that opinion with the parties is not bias.

If the judge knew nothing, walked in, the lawyers walked in for the first time, and he said "good morning, i think apple's guilty", yeah, that's a problem.

Here, it's closer to:
The judge and his clerks read many thousands of pages of evidence and documents.
The judge gave them an opinion as to what he thought would happen if it goes to trial.
> etc. before throwing resources at African wifi.

They're helping to expand existing markets and creating new markets. African mobile telephony is a success story.
I liked the article a lot. For more detail its worth looking at:

Join Processing in Relational Databases, Priti Mishra and Margaret H. Eich, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys, Volume 24 Issue 1, March 1992, Pages 63 - 113

via http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/04/join-processing-...
> Hopefully they'll be equipped with some offensive capabilities as well to combat and dissuade guerrilla and terrorist acts.

Um ... Google drones are the last thing we need. Enough problems with the military ones already.
If time and money are really fungible try asking your employer for more holiday. I suspect many will not even enter into this kind of discussion.

Just want to clarify my point: in theory I agree that there is likely to be some substituability between the two, but in practice I haven't seen employers do this.
Not every profession has high mobility and low competition. In fact, the overwhelming majority of professions, even highly skilled ones, have medium-low mobility and high competition. Even doctors and lawyers have pretty low mobility these days, thanks to crushing debt.

What do you think would happen if the > 90% of workers in low mobility jobs just magically got high mobility jobs? There would be no one left doing the sorts of critical jobs that make civilized life possible for us pampered engineers.
As of last year they sold managed Chromebooks in quantities of 1. I looked into it but passed.

Has that changed?
Where is your evidence that it's a WordPress-related template? Here is the ThemeForest page for the claimed original work from StampReady:

http://themeforest.net/item/the-talk-responsive-email-templa...

It appears under the 'email templates' section. The only place the string 'WordPress' appears on that page is in top navigation (to a different section). The template is described as being compatible with, among other things: Mailchimp, Gmail, Thunderbird, and Outlook. It's not described as interacting with WordPress in any way.

You're making nasty allegations of bad-faith based on an erroneous assumption -- that this is a template for WordPress or derived from WordPress. There are other kinds of templates sold on ThemeForest!

Unless you can provide evidence that StampReady's email template 'The Talk' is derived from WordPress, you should apologize to StampReady and/or delete the allegations against StampReady of piracy, 'libel', and 'willful public defamation' in your latest comment.
Pretty much. I work for a pretty large software consulting firm and there are hours of meetings about simple design decisions. These are decisions that a recent grad out of university could make in about 10 seconds and make correctly. We have a team of designers that we work with that appear to have stopped using the web in about 2000, and their designs and work show it. However, they're somehow associated with the company and so continue to get the work despite the subpar work. Corporate BS basically.
That picture is not a free-flying blimp, but an Army aerostat (tethered balloon). About 10 are used to enforce the southern US border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System
You're right. It even looks better on IE8. http://i.imgur.com/xrhfJGp.png

Here's a screenshot of nightly with a similar issue. http://i.imgur.com/HP02e5b.png

Even this, with the font stripped out looks better http://i.imgur.com/6KB2iuG.png
This looks pretty nice. It would look better if you moved away from the default Bootstrap look. You don't really say what it is, but I'm assuming it's just a front end for information from PyPI.
Not sure that running at a loss in order to develop a market is illegal otherwise every loss leading promotion in history would be illegal.

Once you have a monopoly position, of course, then it is different.
IC's in all professions think their managers are idiots. I've heard it from lawyers, police officers, teachers, and sales people.

I think its just human nature that your boss (or management in general) is out of touch and an idiot. It's why politicians are clueless -- until you get elected and then you suddenly are viewed as clueless too.
Isn't that all still done by Hafas? I remember when their web site redirected the search to "reiseauskunft.hafas.de" (late 90s?)... Where you actually got a Postscript program when you used the print function in a Linux browser.

Sadly it's pretty rare to find something like a "technology blog" on any German corporate website, apart from a few startups.
It sounds like it might be advantageous to make the poster of the topic the admin for the thread. That way, each individual poster can control the conversation how he sees fit.

Another idea that just came to mind from your "bike shedding" topic is the ability to move the entire thread of a side conversation into its own post and have each post link to each other. That way, you don't have to navigate through pages of side conversations you don't care about (like I do here on HN) and instead get a quick list of relevant conversations that the original post spawned. It also makes it easier to find certain conversations. I can't tell you how many times I've searched forums for a specific conversation and found it buried deep in a completely unrelated topic.

Hiding arguments would have to be handled carefully, I think. Some people may derive value from watching two people argue about something. Sometimes, it's not just rhetoric and ad hominem, but actual information being communicated.
As the human body hasn't changed much over time, I would expect an older doctor to be able to draw from experience and diagnose the underlying problem quicker. Ideally, for non-trivial issues, the older doctor would then refer the patient to a specialist in the field who keeps up-to-date.
http://imagebin.org/259223

There's no search bar in Safari anymore; the search and path bars are the same thing, just like Chrome.

My grandmother didn't have much of a problem with it, all I had to do was tell her they both do the same thing now. She uses the iPad more but only because of the advantages of direct manipulation versus the small touchpad of the Chromebook.
The current website is about our 8 week program. What this post is about is getting feedback on creating a longer Fellowship program for seniors in college to help increase their chances of getting a good job upon graduating, and making the fellowships free. Totally agree to become a world class marketer and in your example a world class copywriter takes years. But what I am thinking about is giving these students a jump start since what they learn in College isn't skills. So you could say we are wanting to create world class beginners. Does that make sense? Would like your thoughts.
So here's what the article says:

"I know two or more engineers around the age of 60 that graduated from MIT or Stanford 35 years ago. Of those two or more, at least one has lost his job, and at least one is afraid of losing his job."

Here's what the article doesn't say: what field these engineers are in, whether or not they're good at their job, what company they work(ed) for, what they work on, how up-to-date their knowledge is, etc.

Maybe there is age discrimination in the engineering field, but you certainly can't infer that from this anecdote.
At that age the rates are irrelevant compared to the health insurance compensation. Most people at that age would be willing to take a pay cut in exchange for generous health benefits and flexible hours.
You're rigth. I've been looking into freelancing several times (and I have a verified account on Elance), but I haven't found a project I'm 100% confident I can take on my limited time and skills, and which isn't overrun by cheap developers (Elance is really good at making me lose my confidence, lots of seemingly great developers at ridiculously low prices, so I end up not bidding).
You seem stuck on the idea that it's a WordPress theme. It is not. The theme (linked from the article):

http://themeforest.net/item/the-talk-responsive-email-templa...

It's a responsive email template. Not a WordPress template. None of your proselytizing about WP themes and the GPL is applicable to this situation.
I didn't even assume to look at the alias, since in my mind there was no doubt a man was behind that statement... Fixed my comment :) and this made me want to read a blog post from MaggieL even more so!
Looks like you need to turn on ClearType.
Is a mirror of PyPI. Is not only frontend, is a separate service.
I have send email to vsevolod.solovyov@gmail.com, and alexander@solovyov.net.

>http://osgameclones.com/

Please add Minetest, open source clone of Minecraft.

Alexander Solovyov replied.

>Hi,

I'm a bit reluctant about adding it since idea of most clones is that you can't play original anymore. And this is untrue for original Minecraft, it's still easy to play it.
it would be very useful for guitar beginners, playing with cool effects before buying any hardware
Yes everything seems to go full circle from mainframe to PC to the cloud (Mainframes). It may be the same problem but someone younger might know how to tailor that solution to the younger generation.

The other thing is all these founders are so young they may lack the experience or maturity to hire an older person.
Not after an hour.
Gamemaker (and probably the rest) do have the ability to optimize it. If people use it or not is their choice. To make an interesting (or even ok) game with those tools, you will be writing tons of code. As people do (read the forums). Even in 'educational' game makers like Gamesalad, you can see that people are taxing the system by 'writing' (drag & drop in this case) quite complex routines which do things (like raycasting) which Gamesalad is definitely never made for.
BTW this post is about a new program, not the one on our website. The one on the website is about an 8-week paid program. What I am looking for feedback on is creating a new 8 month free Fellowship for college seniors to help them build skills to increase their chance of getting a job.
Indiegogo fund raises enough money to buy video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack
It has a massive problem which Dropbox solves: the need for both computers to be on at the same time.

I have a laptop. I have a desktop. They are almost never on at the same time. With Dropbox this is _fine_ - the files go from one to the cloud, and then to the other when it's turned on.

With BTSync, this would mean that my files would never sync.
BTW this post is about a new program, not the one on our website. The one on the website is about an 8-week paid program. What I am looking for is feedback on creating a new 8 month free Fellowship for college seniors to help them build skills to increase their chance of getting a job.
Very interesting, but seems outdates. Also couldn't find a link to the code.
Hi HN,

This is our project that my partner and I have been working on for several months. We figured who better to come to than the HN community for our first testers and to get some great feedback. I hope you enjoying testing out fluttrbox and can't wait for your feedback.
Yes it can sync across LAN:

"If your devices are on the same local network, BitTorrent Sync will use your LAN for faster synchronization."

http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync/technology.html
1. The DOJ guidelines do not have the force of law.

2. The Sherman act says nothing about the DOJ guidelines, actually, and it certainly doesn't make them law.

Here is the Sherman act:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1

Only sections 1 through 7 are the Sherman act.

The Sherman act is a very simple act, and nothing in it say anything about the DOJ. Feel free to point out otherwise.

Maybe you want to try to argue the various Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Sherman act say something about the DOJ.
AFAIK, they don't.

The DOJ guidelines are simply used as guideposts for companies to understand how the DOJ is likely to view a proposed act.
That's it. The DOJ doesn't have to follow them.

It even says this in the guidelines:

"By stating their general policy, the Agencies hope to
assist those who need to predict whether the Agencies will
challenge a practice as anticompetitive. However, these
Guidelines cannot remove judgment and discretion in
antitrust law enforcement."

3. A finding about Amazon will be completely irrelevant to Apple's conduct in this case. The question is whether Apple committed horizontal price fixing. Amazon's possibly illegal conduct is going to be completely irrelevant in that, as horizontal price fixing is still per-se illegal. They could prove Amazon hurt the market a lot. They could prove whatever they like. As long as the DOJ proves they committed horizontal price fixing, it's game over.
Now, the supreme court may, in the end, decide horizontal price fixing should be analyzed under the rule of reason instead of being a per-se violation, but that's completely irrelevant to the current state of the law, and in fact, Apple's behavior. SCOTUS is not going to change the doctrine because they think Apple did the right thing here, they will change doctrine because they think the doctrine was wrong in general. However, that doctrine is the current state of the law, and what this case, and the appeal, will be analyzed under.

4. Bob Kohn is a guy who made his living off running companies dedicated to digital revenue for books. He has a huge stake in this game, and in fact, has unsuccessfully objected to every settlement that doesn't agree with his theories. You should be very wary of his legal viewpoint. It's like listening to Florian Mueller talk about Microsoft or Oracle. The only difference is that Bob Kohn has been rebuked directly no his theories by judges a large number of times now, whereas Florian has just been wrong without having the pleasure of Judges directly address his craziness.
You want to control the topology of your own network? Not really.

BitTorrent Sync allows for LAN syncing, yes. When a direct connection between hosts is not possible, it will use a third-party server as first a matchmaking server for NAT hole punching. If that fails, it will route all sync traffic through the third party server acting as a relay. (These third parties are controlled by the BitTorrent Sync developers)

You may need to have some way of killing the btsync daemon on your home machine if you want to sync directly from your laptop to your office machine.
Rather than resorting to name calling ('leftists') you could perhaps engage with some of the many arguments presented in this thread for why it is sensible to have a minimum guaranteed holiday period.
Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability
Angular.js vs Backbone.js
This article starts from a personal experience (with a really small social circle) and generalize to everyone. Worse, it generalizes to "engineering" which has wild and quite different fields.

If you have worked on Cobol or Fortran when you were 25 year-old, these things don't exist anymore (or enough to employ these old developers).

Otherwise, just put yourself in the place of the recruiter. I guess, except for special fields like Medicine, Law...; in most of the fields this ageism is the same.

If you want to have a builder, would you prefer a 65, 20 or 30? Certainly, you'll pick 30. He has more experience than 20 and way more energy than 65.
> Seattle's transportation is great

How do you get to the Microsoft campus from downtown Seattle? Everyone I know at Microsoft does that commute but drives (and complains about how often the bridges over Lake Washington are closed or jammed with traffic).
"There are thousands of flight attendants based in NYC alone. It's not uncommon for the flight leader to never lead a particular team member a second time."

Just because this is the way that flight crews are scheduled today doesn't mean that it's the only way it can be done. Why can't the schedule be arranged so that the same crew and leader stay together (as much as possible) on subsequent flights? Of course, there's no reason for the airlines to try any new approaches as long as unions won't budge on seniority.
Much of my family are in chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, and similar engineering fields, and from what I can tell just about the opposite is true. The companies would much rather hire someone back out of retirement as a consultant at 3x their previous salary, than train up someone younger. They'll hire someone younger, but seemingly as a last resort. This seems most true in a few specific fields (e.g. metallurgy specialists), but also true for more common things like process engineers.
I'd have to assume that Google is writing their crawler to read Shadow Dom elements?
They've already started with the app icon of their iOS weather app.
Season 3 isn't out on itunes in Canada at all yet. The only way for me to watch Season 3 is to subscribe to the $100/month + $20/month cable package that carries HBO.

I've not bothered to pirate it, yet.
twentysomethings are interested in the problems of twentysomethings.