skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a call from a poor recruiter in Chattanooga, TN trying to fill a Rails job. Seemed to be getting a little desperate. Being in Atlanta, I have no trouble finding stuff right here. When he tried to punk me by saying, "Well, if you have roots I can understand," with a tone like I'm hurting my career prospects by not being willing to move, I asked, "Well, just for kicks, what kind of compensation is being offered here?" When he said $60-70K I almost laughed in his face. "Yeah that's not nearly enough to get me to move. Oh well, good luck!"

You don't have to be in a startup hub to find work, just willing to move somewhere. That makes you much more marketable.
I'd not heard of IFTTT. Thanks for the tip.
so basically avoid any criticism, push hand to your ears and start chanting LALALAALLALALALA? why even ask for feedback you are not willing to take criticism? I agree HN sometime can be harsh, but I think this actually reflects how the "world" will feel like about it.
> This is not true. Although some policies and attitudes have changed since 9/11, US society has not fundamentally changed and the major problems pre-9/11 are the same post-9/11.

We have way more problems after 9-11. We've invented more problems, starting with the TSA that nudiescans and molests people -- the Patriot act, spying on Americans, other fear mongering.
I would give away my "right" of spontaneously discovering porn.

"Suddently porn" is an annoying issue on many sites in the web that are on the side of shabby. Take torrent trackers for example.
even without considering that you charge an anonymous card with your bank account, if you keep only one, it's quite easy to follow patterns still. Especially if they have already targeted a person and they have additional information, there are not so many people that check in X and check out Y on days W,Z.. and so on. The more additional info you have, the narrower the search space.
He writes that his wife is worried for his liver (Day 3, I think). Maybe he has Hepatitis C?

Edit: Well, this shows that I'm not a doctor. I have no idea if Hepatitis C can kill as quickly as this. Maybe he was diagnosed very late and his malady already is at its final stage?
Seems fake from day one. The tone, the Twitter account etc.

But I guess almost twenty year of Internet can make you a bit over-suspicious :)
If you work in finance (City or Canary Wharf) you might get that treatment from recruiters. See, as a contractor, you are going to make a lot of money and a part of it is going directly to the recruiting agency so you're definitely going to get some free coffees.

I imagine you could have that too in Shoreditch if you're like the special one.
If I was hiring him and he just said "wasn't a good fit" and didn't say anything bad about the organization, I'd be happy with that answer.

Bad mouthing former employers in an interview is totally not cool in my books.
I'd love one thanks dageshi at gmail.
I believe the Canadian parliament provides an excellent French-English training corpus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard#Translation)

For example, see http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Lan... and http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Lan...
One of the problems with describing an illness as psychological is that people think we are dismissing their illness, that we are saying the illness is not real. They think we are either saying that it's all in their heads, or that it's not serious, or that it's just a matter of them needing to "pull their socks up".

I think that might be why people cling to a biological model for mental health problems.

Obviously, we're not saying any of that. I say that there are powerful talking therapies; that these are evidence based and effective for many people; that medication may help although it's probably over-prescribed and it can have unpleasant side-effects; and that some people won't respond to any of that and may need electro-convulsive therapy or other severe interventions.

I agree that people tend to overstate the biological model, and that is a problem. It's a problem because, as you say, we don't know if it's true, and it's a problem because it steers people away from talking therapies.
French to English generally works rather well because they have similar sentence structure (except for inverted adjectival order) and neither has a lot of long-distance dependency stuff. Even Systran kicks ass on French to English.

Where FR>EN fails is vocabulary. This text, as you see, is really basic terminology, nothing technical. The French categorize things very differently in technical texts sometimes - to the point of despair for the translator. Google tends to do OK on that to a point, then fail in alarming ways when you least expect it.
Why? There's absolutely nothing wrong with porn.
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I'm surprised the compiler goes straight to assembly, rather than targeting LLVM (most native programming languages) or C- (what GHC does/did)
How Kickstarter Got Gay Marriage Into Massive Chalice
don't forget the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit), in many ways it is more present to us.
Total idle speculation, but a while back I read about how google uses statistical algorithms to do their translations instead of using the more traditional machine translation methods. They do this by running the stats on sets of identical documents that are available in multiple languages. Given that French is the other established major international language, I suspect there is an exceptionally good corpus of text to use from international organizations like the UN. I would also suspect Canada has a huge number of documents in both English and French as well.
It might help to actually read my article, otherwise you're saying exactly the kind of stuff I'm telling people to ignore. Others in this thread have made the same point I think you're trying to make in a much more civil and agreeable manner.
The headline is equally disgraceful.
Getting Comfortable with the Softer Side of Development
I used the internet unsupervised for various things (including porn). I have not noticed any damage.
Looks interesting! A few thoughts to make a bit nicer to use: it could be much smaller, and flow slightly higher above the text. Also the animations between different modes (for text align, etc) should be faster so I don't feel like I'm waiting on it.

Great start, might use this for something!
That is an interesting parting phrase. I suppose on that level where he's coming to grips with only have 30 days, he must be rationalizing that today is the first of those, and that he'll at least get the 30... Heavy.

I can't even imagine the understanding of my own mortality where I could say "See you tomorrow... Maybe." and actually mean it.
What do people expect? It's either that or open war mongering. This administration doesn't want to be seen as a militaristic one, but the world doesn't stop being what it is because voters get tired of wars. So something has to give. More drones, expanded secret ops, more information gathering.

I don't like the idea of being spied on, not at all. But from a security perspective, I understand the need for better information. I'm kind of playing Devil-advocates, but it's naive to expect your government to provide you safety, lifestyle, freedom, without having to play behind the scene - or openly fight oversea - when the rest of the World lives a completely different story.
You can grab the source code from github and play with it. https://github.com/tomgruner/T160K_Game

This game was built in 5 days and donated to help out the Indiegogo campaign of T160K Libraries in Exile. It is far from perfect, but works well using chrome. I had hoped to take advantage of Raphael.js to make the game playable on ie7+ and iPad, but that goal was too ambitious. It is playable on ie10, chrome, safari, and ff.
How to play Audio Files in Android with a SeekBar feature and MediaPlayer class
Ironically, one cause of sudden unexpected porn in the UK is apparently content filters on mobile internet access. Like all content filters, they have both false positives and questionable classification decisions, except that some of the mobile providers apparently decided it was a good idea to use the blocked-content page to advertise the hardcore porn you can buy from them.
Hacked As Gezi Park protests continue, Turkish hackers target Istanbul police
I'm not ok about opt-in either. If the router does filtering, fine. The ISP's network should not be capable of filtering.
Developers are Authors
That's exactly what I was thinking. All UN stuff is in both English and French, and as you say Canada would be another good source.
Well, it's also 5:30pm on the west coast, so presumably a lot of people are getting off of work, and hopping onto HN there too.
I'm an American and a Verizon customer.

Maybe I'm the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water, but I'm not outraged. I'm not really even annoyed. I don't know why exactly, but I think it boils down (no pun intended) to two different things.

First, I'm under no delusion that the US federal government has my personal best interest in mind with everything that it does. I think that usually the federal government as a whole has the best interest of the entirety of the American people firmly in mind, but it's a big behemoth that is often unaware of the individual.

Second, I willingly use technology every day in which people are actively monitoring my actions. Verizon didn't magically start collecting these data at the bequest of the government. Or even if they did (really, they didn't), they'll happily use it in their daily business operations. You're monitored every day by many, many corporations. Many people here have started businesses on that principle alone. Strangely, I trust the federal government more with how they'll limit the scope of their monitoring than I do the private corporations with whom I constantly interact through the use of their technology. Maybe I'm naïve.

But here's the thing. These are reasons why I'm not outraged by this particular event. The USA PATRIOT Act angers me. Our insane alarmist reaction to terrorist attacks (aka our endemic inability to apply simple statistics) angers me. The amount of money we waste in our military angers me.

But this? Meh.
Note that, last time I checked, the 3internet APN gets you a globally routable IP address that isn't behind any firewall. Which is handy but you need to be a little careful about it.
You read the post and feel pretty bad. You load the comments. You see what the top comments are about and it dawns on you - this is why engineers are stereotyped as being emotionless robots.
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Don't you get it? The government tries to prevent terrorism!

Public fear of terrorism is what's being used to take away rights and liberties, especially in post-9/11 America.
Read the full FISA court order compelling Verizon to hand over data to the NSA
My wife and I took the cue from Scott Hanselman & his wife Mo a few years back. Pay all income into one account and then pay yourselves an allowance for "guilt free spending" for all the little things you want to just buy.

http://hanselminutes.com/216/geek-relationship-tips-with-sco...
> all pornography should be behind a paywall

You mean this?

http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/henri-de-toulouse-l...

Or this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Gustav_Kl...

This is particularly naughty, ought to be censored:

> Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.
9 Killer Strategies for Finding Great Designers and Developers
Would you be upset if this was a fake ?

It's an interesting writing and life experience in any case !
I really like the idea of alternating the color of lines of output, although I might use something a bit less bold. Is there an easy way to have command piped through this in bash?
‘How we Learn’ – A Perspective on Google Zeitgeist Session
Wonderful writing, I loved the way it circled several times around the central issue - the value of work, and I particularly liked this conclusion - much validation and reward in our society is driven by how much people are willing to pay you for your chosen work, and it's very hard to separate your self-worth and confidence from that. It's hard to reconcile when your values don't meet those of the people around you, as expressed in the salaries for various jobs, which vary wildly without much sign of reason or relation to what society ostensibly values. I think what he's trying to get at is why we overvalue these jobs, which on the face of it are not particularly rewarding either to society or the individuals doing them (apart from monetarily). If you ask people in the street whether we need another Facebook, most would say no, and yet we have hundreds of inchoate and uninspiring replacements being worked on and funded right now, so it's hard to see where the demand is coming from, or why this work is valued so highly, and whether it is in fact a bubble which will burst.

Going back to 17C Holland there was probably a huge demand for market traders able to distinguish fine differences in and trade tulip bulbs, until all of a sudden there wasn't - this is the kind of illusory value the writer posits for today's fêted startup web workers. I'm not sure I entirely agree, but it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, because he's not just saying it's unfair, but that it may be unjustified.

The price of a word is being bid to zero.

This sentence near the end cuts to the heart of the matter for me - for writers or other producers of original content like photographers there is a cruel and dismal comparison to be drawn between the wages of those paid to frame content and present it to the world, and the wages of those who produce the content. The creative content (writing, photography, art, travel guides etc) is all in demand, but no-one wants to pay for it, perhaps because it's so easy to produce something yourself, and so hard to distinguish the fine differences in quality which separate a remarkable piece of writing or photography from the mediocre.
For me this is the key:
"when you ask your data the right questions you can find hugely valuable insights"

Many people treat data as the Oracle of Delphi hoping to just make an offering (investment) and wait for knowledge to be dropped. This idea that you can just shift through endless data and pull out insights is just plain wrong. Frist start with the decisions you can or have to make, then look at the data to see if it gives you insight into the best choice.
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OTOH, it's mainly possible because computers are faster so Javascript isn't a slow language anymore, and the document model is just getting out of the way and letting you manipulate pixels directly.
> I do think that without virtue there can be no value, if these are properly defined.

This is an unproductive line of argument because either of us can just keep moving the goalposts until we're exhausted.

Economic value clearly doesn't follow any "gut" virtue. Here's how an early moral theorist put it in a notoriously influential book:

I returned, and saw under the sun,
that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise,
nor yet riches to men of understanding,
nor yet favour to men of skill;
but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Generally speaking, attempts to create ranking functions for virtue lead to mismatches with the observed state of the world. You line up the list of virtuous things (curing AIDS, feeding poor people) and the list of valuable things (Ruby on Rails programmers, inanimate chunks of metal) and discover that they just don't line up. At all.

But if you try to impose a virtuous order, it all goes kerflooie. Because the whole system of production and allocation relies entirely on value. When you take value you away, it stops working. Partial enforcement leads to partial derangement and in general, creates new evils, requiring still further ranking functions ... it spirals out of control thereafter.

We read this:

Dear friend, it is not possible for man to avert that
which God has decreed shall happen. No one believes
warnings, however true. Many of us Persians know our
danger, but we are constrained by necessity to do
as our leader bids us.

Verily 'tis the sorest of all human ills, to abound in
knowledge and yet have no power over action.

And imagine ourselves to be men and women both of knowledge and power. But it was always an illusion.

I'm doing a pretty poor job of explaining all this. Hayek's Social or 'Distributive' Justice does a much more convincing, thorough and erudite job. It was published in the second volume of Law, Legislation and Liberty, also in The Essence of Hayek.

edit: by the way, your blog about LedgerSMB and PostgreSQL is bloody marvellous.
There was a survey a few years ago in the UK where over like 70% (maybe 80%) of parents were in favour of having access to porn via their internet connection. The results were slightly lower with those who didn't have children, presumably because they thought they'd change their minds after having kids.

Point being, I'm pretty sure the country isn't in favour of this. It's being thrust upon us because of two party system and a political class that seems to intent on listening to moral crusades. One can only hope Scotland gets a clue in 2014 but I'm not really that hopeful. :(
Iiiiiiiiiii wanna beeeee anarchy.

Sorry folks. We should have been well beyond the point of detached thought experiments about this. Change the power structures or change the power structures. They've gone too far in so many ways. Change from within, change from outside, or stay home and get what you deserve?
I feel like this is perhaps fake. The first post read well to me, seemed reasonable, at least the first time through. The second post, about the job, is what gave me suspicion.

The way he quits, the feeling of "liberation", it borders on sociopathic in some ways. Pretending you're going on holiday when in reality you're going to die, who has time for such games when they've got a 30 day timer running.

It reads like a movie, not like my experience with reality.
IIRC, that submitter ridiculed stock photos harshly in the original title and so that's why people reacted with negativeness and also, the points about Apples logo not being eligible for unapproved advertising is actuallynNi e to know
MakerBot in acquisition talks, says report
likewise! I was several times in NL and perceived you guys the cooler germans.
This open minded culture I adored seemed so fixed to me. I hope this conservative backlash will diminsh.
it might be because he was ill some time before it was discovered.
I hope you do. If more of you move out here, the price might deflate to something less completely ridiculous.
> He writes that his wife is worried for his liver

lol no! you lost something in translation...
Fellow dabbler here post-30. I totally understand and feel the same way.

Recently, I realized that my dabbling behavior is what keeps me from achieving expert status in any particular tool/language. I am broad, not deep. Oh ...and I discovered that I don't like managing people.
There seem to be a few paths, but if I were you I would stick to the ones expounded by the true spiritual geniuses of our species- Jesus and the Buddha. Maybe Mohammed- I don't know enough to say one way or the other.
OSX: iCal
Linux: Evolution/Sunbird/Lightning (Thunderbird plugin)
I'm not sure if Outlook is still shipped with Windows but IIRC I remember Outlook supporting CalDav in the past.

I do realize that all of these run in userspace and technically are not a part of the Operating System but they are provided with the distribution/purchase.
http://interviewsy.com/

I like the board layout and how you pull the social info. But I don't understand focusing on "technical interviews" - that's just illogical to me. A typical 100+ person company's technical interviews happen much less frequently than their non-technical interviews, don't they? Maybe that's not clear - in other words, for your typical company that has technical employees, don't those same companies also need to hire non-technical employees as well? Of course they do. So... if I, the hiring person, use your tool for the technical interviews, what tool do I use for the non-technical interviews? If the answer is, "Uhhhh..." or "A different site", then that's it - I won't use you. I don't want to have to use multiple sites/tools during hiring; I want to either use one site or no sites.

Here's an idea - maybe you open up the board layout/social part for all interviewees, and make the coding/testing aspects an in-site purchase/option? I don't know - it's your business and all - but it seems to me that people will pay a premium for those extra features:

* Coding tests

* Intelligence testing

* Custom Q&A with grading (like @staunch said)
Why? Ocaml was around long before LLVM, and GHC has a mode where you can emit assembly (and one where you can emit LLVM as well).
I've noticed that some people have a certain color blindness when it comes to these security/privacy issues. They just don't see them or "get" them. No amount of increased government intrusion would affect them unless it happens to them very personally and viscerally.

Even after a dramatic event, it's unlikely that they'll realize that they willingly walked all the steps to get to the point where they were suddenly and massively violated by the State. They'll look to blame other factors that they weren't responsible for supporting.

Such is psychology.
In the digital economy, we'll soon all be working for free – and I refuse
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Well, sure, but there's a difference between understanding this on an intellectual level (which he already does) and coming to terms with it on an emotional level.
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Agile is the biggest piece of nonsense I've encountered in a over a decade of software development. Why is it allowed to persist?
It can be more convenient, but the added type safety prevents the programmer from doing many kinds of common mistakes. It's a trade-off.
Even if they were disorganised, behind the times and afraid of source control?

Sometimes companies are just damn awful.
The background image of this site causes a weird strobing effect on the screen of my MacBook Pro 6,2. Really odd.

When I drag it over to the cinema display it looks fine.

Noone else here in the office can see it, both those with good vision and those who are technically blind. Maybe I have special powers. Or a brain tumor.

EDIT: The tool is great btw :)
also, on the md4 diagram, it seems like most of the left column of vertical lines are carrying zeroes, so do not affect the output.
Yeah, I had a similar reaction. I guess I'm selfish: I just don't care about what's going on in others' lives if it doesn't impact me. I also don't share what's going on in my life with the Internet, unless I think it would interest or help someone else like me. (E.g. I started a blog last fall. It has 3 posts. Every post has over 700 words. Social media just isn't my bag.)

I tried using Facebook for about a month, and got overwhelmed with the amount of boring and infuriating crap that goes through the service. It felt like reading chain emails from the 90s. Why would anyone subject themselves to that level of banality?

As you say, different strokes for different folks. It just doesn't do anything for me.