skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Scientists find woman who sees one more dimension of color than others"
Seeing similar in home-services. Plumbing, electrical, etc.. have steadily risen over the last few years. We have highly optimized ads pointing to highly optimized sites (better than 30% conversion to phone calls). In the end we're rapidly being priced out.

We saw it coming, thankfully, and have been moving to a broader advertising strategy which is working well.
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The use of metaphor here is correct.

"SIMILE: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses).

“She's as fierce as a tiger” is a simile, but “She's a tiger when she's angry” is a metaphor."
Yay!! I'm there :)
I don't have the link and I'm reading this on the go, but Matt did some ad stuff that wasn't very kosher once upon a time. I seem to remember it was vaguely black hat seo and got Wordpress thunder banned on google for a minute.

That's just off the top of my head.
I see our age discrimination problem as the fundamental sign of us being a defeated tribe. Ageism is one of those horrible traits of management culture (i.e. if you have a younger boss, you're a loser) that we wouldn't face if we had kept our tribal integrity (because "bosses" would be coordinators and mentors, not hierarchical superiors, making age irrelevant.)

Good programmers aren't ageist. We look up to the gray-haired badasses. (Ok, old bad programmers are annoying, but so are young bad programmers.) Ageism is a managerland prejudice. What the fuck is that shit doing in our industry?

Most of us are intellectual whores: massively overqualified for the work we're assigned to do, but hired because it makes the boss feel important to be able to say things like, "I have four Ivy Leaguers working for me" even when the work could be done by one script-kiddie. Meanwhile, the work that could actually use our talents is hard to find, because our society is in such a depraved state that social media gets VC-megabucks but cancer research gets peanuts.

It's perverted. When you're young, it's hard as hell to get a good job but getting a job is easy. But that's exactly when you care about getting the good jobs that will build your career. When you're old and have actual use for the crappy jobs (you need to sustain an income) you can't get them; and if you were sidetracked by taking too many crappy jobs (and that's not hard to have happen) you're not qualified for the good ones either.
yeah i like this too. very nice! and would much prefer looking at and using this to pypi.

although i will say i usually just google for a python package and come across a stackexchange that points me to some package, rather than using some index. if you can become some authoritative reference, more power to you.
500 requests/s with Ruby on Rails 4 on a 5$ / month server
Note that we are talking about paid vacation. You get both. Your paycheck still comes, but you don't go to work.
The problem with such people is their managers. It's the same problem of remote work -- don't blame the slackers that only deliver a couple hours of real work per day; blame managers and team leads who are too incompetent to evaluate actual performance, then reward engineers that deliver and get rid of those that don't.
My stepfather is in this situation, just turned 66 and has told me on several occasions, shit, the writing's on the wall, can't compete with the young guns.

Of course, he's been in the business since the punch card days and has a huge amount of experience to draw on; as such, he's miraculously (to me) been able to land guaranteed 60 hour per week gigs (even though he likely only works 30 hours) at $125+ per hour.

K-rist, that is a skill in itself, landing high paying telecommute gigs and putting in half the hours you're paid for, the f-er ;-)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734480

Also submitted many, many times:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%2...
Depressing yourself is incredibly easy. If you don't believe me try thinking about Global warming, Poverty, War... you get the idea.

It's getting out of depression that's difficult. Otherwise people would go to the doctor to complain that they're not getting depressed enough, wouldn't they? There is such thing as not being sad enough. It's very rare that someone has unipolar mania, but it's common in bipolar disorder to fluctuate between the two extremes.
You're already convicting him for murder based on contradicted conjecture?
Thanks for testing. I will fix on iOS. The goal is to make it work on tablets also at least, but I'm not there yet. :)

About the name, the original idea for the app was "Steve, your technical cofounder" (an allusion to Woz obviously). I will definitely think more about the name.
Glad that you like Dan Boneh's crypto class. I made the programming exercises :-).
Okay. I don't know European law, but in the U.S. it's explicitly illegal.

Ever notice how the flight attendants on U.S. airlines are mostly in their late 30s to 50s nowadays? The airlines learned a very expensive lesson there.
Try this German site https://www.freelancermap.com/profil/BojanNisevic/1
Perhaps the drug dealers got smart, "hey, if we hand over the video showing Ford smoking the crack we sold him, doesn't that prove we are drug dealers? damn mo-fo, we outta here!"
well charging higher than 25$/hr cuts both ways I originally started from elance a few years back and gave a low-ish rate but I was being ignored or being asked for discounts on near bottom rates, I realized if you want to be valued you need to have a rate that's respected.

I have tripled that rate and the quality of projects and clients has improved considerably.

ps do give a rough range of budget on elance but never an absolute number, if someone invites me to a project offering 20$/hr I run the other way.

disclaimer: I run marketlytics and generally participate on these sites as a consultant so this maybe more to my benefit.
This theory is fine, but isn't the Taliban the strongman in this case?
He probably also doesn't know how to use a sliderule or churn butter.
sad that this isn't getting more attention here. it has all sorts of implications for people who are looking for ideas for their startups - and what to avoid - who want to reach a big market.

pair this with this WaPo piece: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/27/i...
I think it's valid since Life, in this case, extends Box of Chocolates and therefore "is a" Box of Chocolates. If Life had implemented the same interfaces or extended the same parent class as Box of Chocolates, then it would be a @simile as Life, in that case, would be "like a" Box of Chocolates.
We're now way off topic into the details of a particular industry, but I'll entertain your comment anyway. I just want to stress again: These problems generalize to many many many other industries.

> Why can't the schedule be arranged so that the same crew and leader stay together (as much as possible)

Because...

1) Flights get delayed or canceled

2) Crew member get sick or stuck elsewhere around the world

3) Planes are of varying size with varying size crews

4) Destinations change seasonally

5) Holidays and events alter flight schedules

6) People quit

7) People move and transfer bases

Never mind that flexibility to travel is the #1 job perk that they have to offer as career bait. Flight attendants trade flights, full trips, and destinations all the time. They are in that line of work so that they can go to interesting locations, if only for a short while. You could half their pay and they would still complain much more loudly if you halved their destination flexibility.
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Minor correction, he would be Mr. Sun, with given name being Jifa.
A little tip :

I know static page generators are more cool and nerdy but there is a wordpress plugin called really static[0]. This plugin can generate static html files from your site. It can save html pages on some folder or upload via ftp.You can install wordpress on your laptop or some password protected sub-domain, buy some nice looking theme, start publishing and enjoy having best of the both worlds...

[0] : http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/
Exactly, this is the big issue that is never mentioned in the Forbes article nor the BT Sync docs. Maybe it's obvious in hindsight, but since they're comparing it to Dropbox and all...

However with the daemon running on a Linode instance or something like that, I suppose that's no longer a problem.
I'm a Torontonian, and definitely not a fan of Rob Ford, but somehow it feels like there is an ongoing, organized effort to get him out of the office and out of politics (whether by the opposing parties, or some other organization). Sometimes he really doesn't help the issue by somehow managing to charge head first into even more trouble, but the string of various things he's been charged/accused of can't be coincidental.

Now there's a video of him smoking crack (which it looks like nobody will see, but trust us - it's there!), then there are some anonymous drug dealers who swear that Rob's brother Doug was a major drug-lord back in the day (which for some reason, just surfaces now).

I don't know... it's all a bit convenient and yet ethereal.
Undergraduate GPA is a great measure of how prepared you were for college and how certain you were in your major. And you know what? Maybe some people think its important to hire the kind of people who had everything figured out at 19. I'm not one of those people, and I think its bad as a recruiting tool, but I can see what would lead someone to ask that.
What's the advantage of JSON templates over HTML templates?
But why is "startup" synonymous with "consumer internet startup"?

We are software people, we solve problems with software - not just with the internet, and not just for the mass public.

Today was the launch day of the bike-sharing program in NYC and I've taken a few bikes out for a spin. The whole system is plugged into a (supposedly) impressive backend that will allow the city to gain an unprecedented insight into cycling patterns and drive the future of not only bike sharing but also cycling infrastructure development in general.

Why is it that when we think "startup" we don't think about problems like this, and instead we only think about mass market consumer internet applications used exclusively by young adults?

We solve problems with software. The fact that we've pigeonholed Silicon Valley into strictly solving end-user-young-adult-internet problems is our fault.
Hi there,
I may have missed the point but what is your competitive advantage compared with PaaS like AWS ?
You should also consider adding a bit of CSS to your website. Bootstrap is your friend ( http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/ )
Lacking an "about" section is even bad if your product is self-explanatory. Why do we need another Package Index? The purpose of an index is centralizing things. Why would we need crate? Is this just an attempt of Heroku PR? Or isn't heroku behind this? I am quite confused, and kindly negative attituded to this project.
proposal: cpp.wikipedia.org - to categorize and store all the stuff cpp had and have.

</sarcasm>
More like cornered it like Apple, since there is an approval process for all projects.

IGG is an open barn door by comparison, which is what drives a lot of project creators there.
Are you refuting what I'm saying? Or are you making an additional point in my favor? I'm not sure...

Because if high supply of labor means low paying jobs, then you're suggesting that if everybody suddenly became skilled enough to get a high paying job, then those jobs would become low paying jobs due to labor surplus.

Either side of the hypothetical makes it clear that it is absurd to think that everybody can magically be more mobile via shear force of will.
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How I very nearly bankrupted Red Robin, just by using the bathroom.
Red Robin. An American institution, fixed up with delicious burgers, shakes, and an all around traditional helping of fatty foods, a fun atmosphere, and, oh, pretty ignorant managers who happen to just leave INDUSTRY LEADING TRADE SECRETS in the middle of a scroungy bathroom. That's right, Red Robin. After enjoying one of their many delicious bacon-stuffed amenities, I wandered into the nearest restroom, and, much to my surprise, found a little black book in one of the stalls. Believing it was a checkbook, I picked it up to see if I could find a name, address, something along those lines. Instead, what I found inside was a full helping of classified recipes, manuals for cooking equipment, even remote login instructions (with pass codes) for their CCTV system. Smooth, Red Robin, real smooth. Heck, I was thinking about taking it over to the Five Guys and attempting to sell it then and there. Fortunately for them, I managed to drop it by a waitress on the way out. I only wish I had taken a shot of their delicious Peppercorn Burger for home usage.
They will donate any surplus money to a charity relevant to dealing with drug addiction.
The fact that this is getting such widespread attention is making Toronto look like a farce, and as someone from there, it really upsets me. Now when I tell people I'm from Toronto, it will be, "Oh, that's the city with the crack smoking mayor right?"

Really unfortunate and despicable. Cannot believe we voted this idiot into office.
I would agree but for two things:

1. Chromebooks are either really cheap and slow, or really expensive (Pixel). There needs to be a middle ground.

2. Google doesn't let you create a local account on the computer without creating a Google account. I find that unacceptable for an OS.
He fired his chief of staff last week for telling him to go to rehab. This is according to the Sun which, as newspapers go, has been his cheerleader for the past ten years.

So you can't claim there's no substance to the drug allegations when his highest ranking staff-member is advising him to get help.
More than that, his brother (Doug Ford - also a counselor) is being accused of being a high level hashish dealer in the 80s. 2 of his staffers have now quit, and one was fired for apparently telling him to go to rehab. He's been told that he's no longer wanted as a volunteer high school football coach. Also has been kicked out of a hockey game for being too intoxicated and was arrested for dui & possession of marijuana in florida before he became mayor. It's a circus.

Also he was almost kicked out of office at Christmas time this year for voting on something in which he had a vested interest.
Yes, if you disable the use of relay and tracker servers. See page 8 of http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BitTorrentS...
I've not looked for such a thing, but as you suggest a wrapper rather than yet-another generator is probably the way to go.

Perhaps even a CMS-like thing that could be done online entirely?
An online accredited degree that doesn't say Online in the degree title
Looks like you can opt-out of the relay service. From the very bottom of the article:

Traffic Relay
...
You can opt out of this, but it could result in peers not being able to network with each other.
Push, Pull, Fork: GitHub for Academics
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Have you ever considered that vacation might not even be possible without capitalism? After all, how else would employers allocate capital to make up for the employee's absence, and the employee allocate savings to make up for the additional costs of travel and lodging? I suppose a central planner could allocate these limited resources, but history has adequately demonstrated individuals and freely associating groups are much better suited for that task.
The fallback position of giving the money to addiction and mental health charities was arguably a better outcome than giving the money to dealers.

And one of the reporters who saw the video was on the radio this morning saying that three other copies are floating around.
Kids don't even learn cursive writing in school anymore. Well technically they do, but they aren't required to use it.
I've setup alerts when a certain TV show is available for torrenting
To be fair, this:
"Oh, that's the city with the crack smoking mayor right?"
Could also refer to Washington DC.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robert_olejnik/sets/72157633736...
A recent example of that: Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen just wrote a new-agey sort of book explicitly taking that "we're here to change the world" angle.

They could've written a different book, more like one Warren Buffet might write, about the business of software and online services, and running a profitable company in the industry. But they don't appear to consider that to be the bar for success.
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> Is it an example of ageism if someone who is 45 can't find a job when what they know is Ada, Cobol and Forth?

Um, I'm 54 and the languages of my 20's were C, C++, etc.

I also fairly regularly get calls from recruiters.

> So yes, you either need to find a job that doesn't change (eg a plumber or a teacher) or you need to constantly battle to maintain relevancy in a fast-changing industry or you need to become master of your own fate.

Or, you can be a driver of this change yourself by developing a modern, advanced programming language.
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...

This has similar presentation, and makes for great story telling, especially dramatic stories.
This might be a case where there actually should be an organized, ongoing campaign to get this man out of politics. Clearly this is not a man who should be in a leadership position.
Are you on XP? (I ask because it looks like you don't have any anti-aliasing on).

If you adjust your cleartype settings (or turn it on in XP) it will look a bit more normal.
What are the key differences between Meteor, Ember.js and Backbone.js?
Well? Don't leave us hanging, did he get another job?
No, not really. I answer when asked something, I ask someone specific when I have a question but that's it. I have far more questions than answers.
The assumption you're making is that if government hadn't funded network research, then all of the engineers who worked on the Internet would have been hoeing turnips in the fields. As if only the government can create technology, and that without a government bureaucrat to direct research, we all would still be communicating via smoke signals.

The fact is, that if government hadn't been employing these engineers to create war technologies, our technology would probably be much more advanced and the world would have less war and be a much better place.

Whenever government employs people to do something, it necessarily keeps them from doing something else. This is well explained in chapter 4 of Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson (http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap04p1.html) in taking the example of government spending for a bridge:

"The bridge exists. It is, let us suppose, a beautiful and not an ugly bridge. It has come into being through the magic of government spending. Where would it have been if the obstructionists and the reactionaries had had their way? There would have been no bridge. The country would have been just that much poorer. Here again the government spenders have the better of the argument with all those who cannot see beyond the immediate range of their physical eyes. They can see the bridge. But if they have taught themselves to look for indirect as well as direct consequences they can once more see in the eye of imagination the possibilities that have never been allowed to come into existence. They can see the unbuilt homes, the unmade cars and washing machines, the unmade dresses and coats, perhaps the ungrown and unsold foodstuffs. To see these uncreated things requires a kind of imagination that not many people have. We can think of these nonexistent objects once, perhaps, but we cannot keep them before our minds as we can the bridge that we pass every working day. What has happened is merely that one thing has been created instead of others.
Are Mobile Processors Ready for HPC? [pdf]
Multi-collisions is another thing. What Wikipedia means is that once you find m and m' s.t. H(m) = H(m'), then you've also found the collision H(m || X) = H(m' || X) for whatever X, i.e., unlimited collisions.
I doubt it's legal across Europe either. Then again, turning down applicants with foreign-sounding names is illegal also, yet statistically you'd have at least 10:1 chance of getting called for interview with "native" name.
> When you think of this system at scale, running unchecked, you can see how 9/11 style acts of terrorism happen.

9/11 hijackers were mostly well educated, middle-class Saudi Arabians. Not Taliban, as you seem to imply.

If anything, what could be argued is that Afghanistan lacking a national police force makes it easy for terrorist groups to establish military training camps there. But that's a whole different thing.
In my opinion, Georgia Tech's $6600 online degree is less disruptive because the degree you receive, if I understand correctly, is an "OMS" (Online Master of Science). I would expect that anything with Online in the degree title will be of significantly less career value.
I have no idea who Mayor Rob Ford is, but I assume he must be to the right of center for this to be the top item on HN.
You must have a frightening amount of data!
"... Sometimes he really doesn't help the issue by somehow managing to charge head first into even more trouble..." or a camera! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8haZzvaE8)
Although the program listings say Online I don't think the final degree received says that from Ohio.
Hopefully he works remotely from home.
Am I reading the ab output wrong or did you only make 40 requests and 13 of them failed?

Also there's no mention of what your test actually is?
Just checking, but you do know that the Taliban and Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 or any major international terrorism? Al Qaeda on other had is a different beast, but although they were operating in Afganistan for a time, they are nothing like the loose Mafia you describe.

A decent job has been done of removing Al Qaeda, but the only way to change a country like Afghanistan is to stop sending millions over there in cash from international drug money. The war on drugs helped fund this situation. And doesn't seem to be helping to bring a resolution yet at great cost to them and us.
A lot of the problems these companies cover are interesting to everyone. Search is interesting to everyone, maintaining a social network is interesting to everyone, buying stuff online is interesting to everyone.

Cab-sharing is not interesting to everyone. Staying in strangers' homes instead of a hotel isn't interesting to everyone. Taking photos of your meals and sharing it with friends is not interesting to everyone.
IMHO, none.
Tests: Two tier, he used an tool we ended up buying for the UI testing (actual phone automation, cool stuff, trying to remember company name), and full unit test with deep (not 100% coverage).

UI was presetup by a designer, so he didn't have much choice in that, but he implemented it pixel perfect. No idea on Android, he was only doing iOS for us.
Why would this be game over for AeroFS? Yes, BT Sync is direct competition, but I've used AeroFS for over two years now, since their early alphas and AeroFS works almost flawlessly for P2P sync. It also has S3 sync for their team server which works very well. AeroFS is free for everything BT Sync does, it's only when you get into features that BT Sync doesn't handle at all that you would need to pay for AeroFS. I think AeroFS could work on their marketing and software UX, but so could BT Sync.