skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'A player' will say nope and then work for your competition.

Not to mention that 'working' != 'working', I can sit in the office all day and produce 10 lines of shitty code in between of talking to my co workers and surfing the web.

That would make me an A player right? Wrong.

People who know what they are doing, will plan it properly so they don't have to work after hours and set proper expectations.

But if you actually expect them to work late and on the weekends all the time then you should be paying for it.

My life is not a charity.
Did you consider this as a potential business opportunity for yourself? My reaction on reading this was that someone should be giving you either cash or equity for your roles as both an evangelist and the person who realized this was going to be needed and organized it.
Now that quantum computers have been out for a while, has RSA been cracked?
Agreed with the other comments so far, a terminally huge red flag.

Now, if the question was of this sort, suitably tailored for the job, it might be OK:

"If the production database gets wedged, would you be willing to work overnight to get it fixed?"

(Been there, done that (my boss made a programming goof, had to do a point in time recovery), company made sure we were fed and got home safely without paying extra.)

Hmmm, it strikes me that even in this form the question is worthless for interviewing, unless you have a remarkable talent for detecting lies, in that anyone who's going to continue the process, or not look for another job ASAP if they're desperate right now is obviously going to answer "Yes".
If somebody gives you a kit with which you can something you need, is it still a gift? I say yes.

Mindless suffering is indeed something of no value. But mindful suffering for me has been extraordinarily valuable.

For example, I recently did my first triathlon. The training had plenty of suffering. The race was, in some ways, miserable. But because I embraced the suffering, I've grown a lot. Not just physically, but also mentally.

Losing people close to me worked similarly. The suffering was enormous. But so was the growth.
Data journalists bringing accountability to offshore funds
It's been a while since I saw something and instantly had a dozen ideas for things I could build with it. Nice!

Has all the makings of a great infrastructure business. Once a startup or SME (or big enterprise) gets something like this integrated, they're often loathe to rip it out, so the cheques keep on coming.
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"The framing of this is right off the bat aggressive, casting him in the light of a criminal." Ignoring any moral aspects, isn't he technically a criminal? This certainly seems more neutral than your suggestion. Calling him a traitor would be out of line, but I do believe it was against the law to do what he did.

It IS only 'purportedly' him; why do you expect CNN to report what it cannot confirm?

The quotes around 'abusive' are suggestive, but it is also how you indicate that the word came from someone other than the author of the article. If you expect neutrality, expect the writer to segregate their words from their subject's.

Your summary is far more emotionally charged and subjective.
I might be wrong but would the trick maybe be to break it down bit by bit, so for instance break off your existing file upload stuff and replace it with CarrierWave or something different. I don't know what your codebase is like but doing it that way should in theory make it more copable to slowly tick it up to rails 3+
But consider this: what value is there in reviving the dead and frozen rather than preserving the living?

There'd be lots of value in being able to revive people who died a long time ago, if only for their value as contemporary witnesses. Hell, a few years ago the scientific community went pretty crazy for some frozen dude we found in Austria, and that one was thoroughly dead. [1]

We already don't have anyone left who remembers the First World War. In a few years, we'll lose the last Holocaust survivor. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to preserve some of that first-hand experience? And come on, how cool would it be to be able to unfreeze an Ancient Egyptian, or a bunch of people from the Middle Ages?

I agree that the future probably won't have a use for a whole horde of our living dead, but I can see there being quite a bit of interest in reviving a few hundred or thousand people - and once you've gone to all the trouble to develop the technology, maybe it'll be cheap enough to go to the trouble of unfreezing everyone else.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
Did you not see my further comment? It seems to me that far from being an historical throwback, they still have a strong religous bias. Can you imagine something like the NYT or BBC News running a poll entitled "Are you more intelligent than a Christian"? I can't, because it would be offensive.

To me, that undermines such a site terribly, and I don't think it's fair to accuse me of being ignorant simply because you disagree with my opinion.
> So if your odds of infection are 0.5% but the odds of horrendous digestive system meltdown are 5% and death is a 0.1% likelihood, you're better off getting tested.

Except when you get bitten by a tick and have stage-1 Lyme disease symptoms like a huge swollen bulls eye, your odds of infection are more like 99.9%. If someone is getting tested for getting bit by a tick, they most likely have some sort of symptoms.

> You've just defined the recipe for developing antibiotic resistant "other things". Doxocycline-resistent... donno UTI or STD or gum disease or whatever. That would suck if STDs became resistant, now incurable.

I thought that was more likely from the hundreds of millions of pounds of antibiotics used in factory farming, not preventative medicine.

When a bunch of us were exposed to a person who 48-hours later came down with severe meningitis (coma), they dosed us all with cow pills of antibiotics. I'm sure they could have waited until we all got 105F fevers by the time the tests came back, but they took the risk of antibiotic resistance and pre-treated us all.
Rep Peter King of NY who has a hardon for protecting the children from terrorists.
Everywhere. contact me directly if you want international we are piloting this with a few select customers right now.
Can we rephrase that as "Should Google know as much as the government"?

Or would that be rude?
It really depends on how well everything works but that seems reasonable even for part time use. I like to compile a lot while i'm coding and I typically make heavy use of the simulator so i'm still a bit skeptical. Looking forward to trying it out though.
Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over
Rackspace Australia cloud price cheat sheet
Variants of that argument (usually related to smoking, alcohol, and backyard pools) have not persuaded anyone in debates over the Second Amendment. They seem unlikely to persuade anyone in debates over the Fourth.
His point is that HN is turning into a 'What did Snowden say today' channel.
It's a hell of a lot better in the U.S. for these folks now than it is in China now.
This does not seem to be fixing null checks. It seems to be fixing lack of proper error handling. The problem is not that you have to check for null, the problem is that you don't know if null is a valid value, and even if you know it's not, you don't know why the method failed. This is simply a lack of a channel for returning errors.

There are a lot of ways to fix this problem... Many modern languages use exceptions for this. Some languages use out parameters. Languages with multiple return values often return a value and an error. They're all essentially equivalent, and yes, they're all better than just returning null.

I don't really see a difference between:

data_source.person(id) do |person|
person.phone_number = phone_number
data_source.update_person person
end

and

data_source.updatePhoneNumber(id, phone_number)

The latter one encapsulates the find, the error handling, and the setting. Yes, you might have a null check in there. Or you might have a try/catch, or you might be checking an out value or a multiply returned error value.... there's really no difference. You've changed the API to signify that the person might not exist and this function might not actually do anything. And that's fine, if that's fine. However, most of the time, if I go to set someone's phone number, I want to know if the system thinks that person doesn't exist.
I'm going to apply your rule too from now on, but with different exceptions (writing this from an uncomfortable bus seat in the middle of 12-hour ride).
Won't that drown the dancing hamsters?
I currently live in the DC suburb of Fairfax. My rent is $675. I'm renting a room in a 4 bedroom 3.5 bathroom house. I had a friend that came down from New York to visit. He joked that my kitchen was the size of his apartment.
I love the intention here -- but it seems obvious that this will just push advertisers to set up a subdomain that points to advertisers -- and advertisers will use ip address and/or browser fingerprinting to track across domains.

... and we'll end up right where we are today.
Wikipedia says 85% of Mozilla's revenue is from Google. Mayer's moves are sure to ruffle some feathers at the search giant if they go through with it in Firefox.
Now we just need a Redstone x86 processor to run it on.
Very cool! I was actually thinking about wanting something like that.
True, but then you're writing server code. Our platform is intended to help front-end developers / designers avoid writing server code.
The New Era of Cognitive Computing
It sounded like you were saying that making your codes interface bigger in order to make your code's implementation smaller, is a Good Thing.
What Makes Tattoos Permanent?
Salesforce is probably the most common request we get :)
Ask HN: please review my startup idea: a traffic marketplace
The idea is this: in the media/publishing world, ~everyone does traffic deals where I send you X clicks/month, and you send X back. We both get more unique visitors, and the same amount of pageviews. We both win, and expose more people to our sites, who may become regulars. Additionally, Outbrain and competitors monetize outgoing traffic. And people buy traffic at about 0.04c/click (prices vary).

This is in effect an existing marketplace for outgoing traffic. But it's inefficient. Middlemen take a 40-50% cut when money is involved (when buying/selling traffic), and when it's a free exchange, it's all done manually and inefficiently with no good tools (except homegrown ones here and there).

I propose to create a Saas marketplace tool that:

1. Makes free traffic swaps much more efficient/automates it to some degree.

2. Makes selling and buying traffic much more efficient (and takes a lower/more reasonable cut).

Harsh feedback welcome :)
Update: I asked the blind guy selling SIMs on the subway today how much they cost. The price has gone up to AR$10, which is currently about US$1.20.
To be fair - most of the points you've brought up apply to a pretty good majority of the random bed and breakfasts I've stayed at.
Hello there! I'm Tom. I made this. I didn't expect it to go this far. A few notes for you, which I've also added to the original site:

Yes, I'm aware this is pretty meaningless - my original tweet was "Not sure if it's net-art or just a load of guff." It seems to have sparked some discussion, though.

No, I'm not selling the books. I try not to create too many useless physical objects. If you're hell bent on it, or want to see the full text, I've uploaded all the source files and there's a link at the bottom of the page. I ask that you don't sell anything you make with it, although given I'm ripping off Shakespeare and the JPEG algorithm that's probably a bit rich.

If anyone wants to commission a professionally bound hardcover set for some net art exhibit, let me know. I'll happily pretend to be a serious artist.
Building a DSLR Simulator with Canvas
Tmate - Instant terminal sharing
OpenAirplane: Find airplanes near you
This can only play out a few ways, right?

A) Firefox holds its ground, Advertisers hold their ground as well. Advertisers refuse to work with websites that support the version of Firefox with "Do Not Track", unless the websites add some code to tell their visitors to use another browser/refuse to load the site. This leads to two scenarios:

Ai) Developers agree and implement advertiser strategy, Firefox becomes an unreliable browsing experience, market share slips. Firefox possibly reverses position.

Aii) Developers refuse to implement advertiser strategy (by using either another ad partner or moving to a different monetization strategy), and advertisers finally reverse position.

B) Firefox holds its ground, advertisers cave: websites start seeing less revenue from ads as targeting isn't as effective anymore, websites that get most of their money from ad revenue either start panicking and blocking Firefox users, or start putting up paywalls.

C) Firefox yields, advertisers get their way: pretty much the status quo.

D) Firefox yields, advertisers yield: some sort of compromise between the two camps.
Right - but when doing the price comparisons, did the article's author's include them in the comparison.
I have had hotels cancel on me. Some hotels have a policy that if you don't check in by 2am they will give your room away, and no amount of calling ahead and negotiating will change that.
Probably feedhq also.
https://feedhq.org/blog/3-supporting-google-reader-api
Skinny Controllers: Taking Advantage of Futures in Angular JS
Upload your content and receive 100% of advertising revenues
Should have called the owner, AirBnB and your credit card company.

In that order.
My cloud dev env: Linode + Tmux + Emacs
Native Payments
Is the source code online somewhere?
"This image seems to imply that Christianity caused the dark ages."

For those HN readers (not necessarily implying the poster) uneducated in liberal arts, the topics to google for are "edward gibbon" and "the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire". If you're going to talk about something complicated, at least throw the noobs a bone.

Gibbon in the 1780s is pretty much the source of this argument, or at least its strongest promoter. Not to say its universally agreed with. I'm not even going to attempt to paraphrase Gibbon's couple hundred pages of reasoning here, but a bit of google will take care of it for you.

As a life goal I finished reading Gibbon a couple years back. Its kind of long, like 3000 or so pages and took me about two seasons, reading about a half hour per night. Maybe a foot or so on a bookshelf, although I read the project gutenberg ebook version. And a bit repetitious in parts, probably because that's just how life was back then. It was worth the time, overall, and I'd recommend it.
This is cool, one of the first time I've seen parallax scrolling working somewhat correctly on a iOS device. There seems to be issues with inertial scrolling though. You loose control of how far its scrolling a lot, and it seems to introduce a lag on responsiveness of touch gestures.
This is awesome, I was really dreading the options before, and $195/mo is totally reasonable for my relatively limited needs. Thanks for finding a good company to support this.
Congrats on the launch Jeromy and the APIXchange team!!

Balanced (https://www.balancedpayments.com) is happy to be working with you as a vendor and a customer :)
This is one of the worst pieces of tech/business journalism I have ever had the misfortune to read. The overwhelming desire to paint Jonathan Mayer as David to the digital advertising industry's Goliath completely distorts the reality of the negotiations and misrepresents how decisions about both code and policy are made at Mozilla. It is insulting to Mozilla, which has been working in good faith on these negotiations from the beginning, and to Mayer, who it patronizingly describes as "just a volunteer who hangs around the offices of Mozilla."

It is also riddled with technical errors that suggest this journalist lacks even the basic understanding of technology that should be a prerequisite for working in this space.

This is all especially frustrating because, for some strange reason, these Business Insider pieces get a lot of traction online. This piece is on the HN front page at the moment, and their last, similarly asinine, piece about the proposal to block 3rd Party Cookies in Firefox has over 3,000 comments on Reddit. [1]

For a more accurate representation of the current state of Mayer's 3rd party cookie blocking patch, read Brendan Eich's recent post [2].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1dy74c/jonathan_...
[2] https://brendaneich.com/2013/05/c-is-for-cookie/
Learn to Code: Head-to-Head - Lynda VS Treehouse
Flight Car's Customer Development Survey
While I was attending a training course in 2001 - I arrived at the Doubletree in Richardson, Texas on a sunday night to discover that the room I had booked, and provided my credit card for - was not available to me. Even worse than a cancellation, as now we had to scramble to find another hotel at 11:00 PM on a sunday night (in richardson, texas)
A quick tutorial on how all this fits together in a single atom:

http://ideonexus.com/2008/10/07/elementary-particles-at-the-...
Aren't Google's ads already served via a first-party cookie?
Did you consider this as a potential business opportunity for yourself?

For a few minutes. It has poor alignment with my skills (I'm a fairly decent developer and can play a security researcher occasionally, but I'm a lot better at selling/marketing software than I am at hardcore framework development) and desired lifestyle (to whit, not wanting to be up at 4 AM in the morning having to work on Rails security issues -- today excepted, apparently). It also wouldn't play well with my plans to dedicate most of my business efforts to AR going forward.

It seems more like someone should be giving you either cash or equity for your roles as both an evangelist and the person who realized this was going to be needed and organized it.

I don't take money for publicity, as a matter of policy. The idea is worth about as much as the tweet it takes to describe it. The only interesting coordination problem is matching up Customer Zero with a company interested in and capable of doing the work, and that would be worth compensation, but for the fact that I was Customer Zero.

I did briefly entertain the notion of banging down a few doors and selling this (on some model like "I'll guarantee you X amount of business, in return I get a payment of $Y0k when I bring it to your door") but, meh, I'm just not that interested in doing enterprise sales for things that I don't own. Heck, I can scarcely be bothered to do it for things that I do.
Probably very few. The site is currently very, very difficult to use on anything smaller than a tablet.
I completely agree. I would not have discovered the joys of hiking and hillwalking if it wasn't for my four years at Durham (and "relatively" easy access to the Lake District).

Overall, my love of the countryside trumps cheap access to live plays/concerts/public transport/museums/etc; that's why I moved out.

My point is just that there are definitely reasons why people would choose to live in the city (reasons I did not fully appreciate until I lived in London)

Swings & roundabouts, as you say :)
Sent to (at least) people who booked with them in the past by email, quoted below.

I added this link because I wanted feedback on whether or not this is good customer development - it's not face-to-face, but it's targeted and probably on a mass scale. Also I posted it as a kudos to FlightCar - I booked with you guys and had a great time.

Email follows below:
--------
Hey there!

Thanks for listing your car with us on your last trip. We're thinking of launching a new program (in addition to our current offering) and wanted to get your thoughts first.

Could you please fill out a quick 4-question survey? http://flightcarsurvey.wufoo.com/forms/flightcar-long-term-p...

We really appreciate your time.

Thanks,

Rujul Zaparde
Co-Founder/CEO
FlightCar
Self-fusing silicone tape would be an adequate solution, I would think, esp. if you wrapped a couple of times.
The premise of this thread is that China is going to solve three giant intractable problems. That might take some time. When they're done, will over 40% of our male prison population still be black?
Pass two callbacks, or make your callback begin with if(err). Which looks suspiciously like a null check.
I live in a house with automated lights, and I ABSOLUTELY HATE THEM.

They turn on when I want them off...

And turn off when I want them on...

It is really, really, really annoying.
Dynamically Scriptable Distributed Components in Lua using DDS
I worked on an integration between Lua and OMG DDS. I think this blog post is quite a nice point of view on the Internet of Things.
E) Firefox holds its ground. Advertisers start finding more invasive ways to track people (flash cookies, user-agent strings, font packages ... "super cookies").
That's my point: physics+biology just aren't conducive to anything close to a comparable increase in travel speed short of teleportation (read "Flash Crowds" as an interesting tangent). As others note, the best tolerable improvement in travel time is lost amid the fixed overhead of embarking/disembarking times getting people to and on the vehicle.

passengers aren't really interested in experiencing much more than 1G accelerations

Assuming continuous 1G acceleration (halfway there, reverse thrust thereafter), NYC-to-London would peak at 1200km/h with travel time of 34 minutes. Ignoring overhead, that's about 1/15th the time for subsonic travel now; an impressive improvement for sure, yet still paltry when comparing computing improvements.

Flipping the original argument and blathering on, consider if computing improvements over 30 years led to just a 72MHz processor as commercial top-of-the line: indeed in general we'd favor cost over speed. Likewise, the cost of a one-way London-NYC flight has plummeted from a quarter of one's annual salary to just a couple days' pay, a drop around two orders of magnitude; availability is also an issue, with comparable flights happening thousands of times daily at relatively amazing convenience, vs limited to a couple hundred per year.
Ford uses robots to stress test their trucks
It's sort of like http://getr.ws/ but bound to a specific application platform.
Although a tetraquark particle is possible, the Z(3900) might also be explained by two weakly bound mesons (two-quark particles)--which would be less interesting and more likely, in my humble opinion.
Motionloft analyzes people and vehicle traffic for commercial and civic purposes
Would love to hear your thoughts on my review.
It would be wonderful if you could sort by ctime in the file list view. Bonus points if the the right aligned relative dates could be printed in rfc3339 format. As it is the right aligned relative dates can be disorienting when you scan down the list looking for what has been changed recently.
I don't know how Go compiler works, but I don't see a problem detecting unused dependencies very early just by walking an AST of current package, since in Go you have to specify package name explicitly in order to use something from it (well, not all the time, but almost all the time).

And even this is probably unnecessary, you only have to process additional unused dependencies in your current package, other packages already did.

Anyway, it's just a technical problem with a few simple solutions.
Worse than O(n) for time complexity? Seems it should be easily doable to transcribe the straight forward iterative solution to a tail recursive one. Something like:

(defun fib-help (a b curX desiredX)
(if (= curX desiredX)
b
(fib-help b (+ a b) (+ curX 1) desiredX)))

(defun fib (x) (fib-help 0 1 1 x))

(No, I don't really know lisp that well... learning.)