skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if you're trying for a mediocre job at a mediocre firm (most graduates and entry level folk) it makes it hard. You have to change the conversation away from empty buzzwords and back you your core talents, and you have to have confidence in yourself to do that successfully. There are lots of factors working against the folk in that field, large supply of average/mediocre candidates who are clueless about basic econ and accustomed to being taken advantage of.
How naive can this guy possibly be?
Are More Intelligent People More Likely to be Alcoholics? (2011)
> Big data is a million times 100 million rows.

[citation needed]

This whole thread is pointless. There is no definition of Big data.
Total fluff piece. Word of mouth marketing? Just sounds like PR to me. And yes, depending on your product, it helps to have a personality behind it—that's just called having a brand.
House GOP in disarray on immigration
>> Which part is unacceptable

Pretending it's a non-issue and not addressing concerns AND then using an overseas helpdesk service, such that now not only are analytics being sent to the US, but actual communication between a UK citizen and the UK government.

But particularly the latter half.

>> I think that before Snowden most people, myself included, would have thought not using google analytics for the above reasons was paranoia.

Most people haven't been paying much attention then.

>>Now, I think that all digital data should be treated as public and until we change the law to have a public / private demarcation, we need to accept it and deal.

Cool, if that's your attitude to this. Some of us would prefer to prevent our government being complicit wherever possible. They may already be in breech of various regulations and I do intend to be in contact with the ICO soon.
So your solution is to add more functions, like php7_htmlspecialchars(), php7_htmlentities(), etc. whenever a function needs to be deprecated, just like PHP historically added functions like mysql_escape_string(), mysql_real_escape_string(), etc.? I don't think that will help the language and its ecosystem at all. I can almost see the tutorials in my mind: "If you upgrade to PHP 8 and your function call suddenly starts spewing errors, just use php7_function and your problem is solved!" Then 3 years later: "just use php8_function!"

Anyway, my point was that static analysis, which an upgrade script needs to perform, has serious limitations when it comes to dynamic features. Callable variables are a good example of this. What if there are 100 places in your codebase where a variable is callable, but only one of them is ever going to contain a deprecated function? Static analysis can't tell which one it is, because at runtime, the variables might come from anywhere: user input, a database, a command-line argument, or the phase of the moon. The only bulletproof solution is to convert them all to php7_varcall(), even the 99 variables that don't need upgrading. But then your code just becomes unreadable, and therefore even more unmaintainable than before.
I won't comment on the feasibility of your suggestion, but you're proposing to use technology to solve a political problem.
You keep saying "analog" when I suspect you mean "disc" or "physical copy"? You're talking about a discrete physical item (thus digital by definition) which has a game stored in digital format...

I fear that I sound like the language police, but really, your comment was already fairly complex before I had to puzzle over what you meant by "analog" and "all-digital" as if this device had a coaxial output to a CRT TV.
The original (non-Infoqd) article's conclusion page http://aphyr.com/posts/286-call-me-maybe-final-thoughts was quite nice.
> Google still ask puzzles: they just don't ask brainteasers.

Isn't the only difference between "brainteasers", "puzzles", and real engineering challenges, just the usefulness of the result?

I get what you are saying though. Asking someone challenges rooted in technology seems so much more useful and natural than something involving ping pong balls and Lake Michigan.
To compete with Lightning, it looks like you have to submit content 1-4 times per day. Most submissions only get a few points.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Lightning
Is it sad that my first thought before reading the article was the film with Sharon Stone?

I think it might be more interpreted as "staying vital, keeps people alive"
Unfortunately true. I'd hate to tell everyone with money in mtgox that it is time for a bank run, but...
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Lightning - Click on comments. There are plenty.
Just FYI, I made 6 bank withdrawals in Euro two months ago, and I still have only received 3 of them. They've used up all their goodwill with me.
crowdfund a new political party with pro bill of rights, anti-corporatist smaller government platform

specific prohibitions for fourth amendment abuses

better whistle blower protecting legislation

supporting constitutional amendments for all of the following; ending corporate personhood, enacting real campaign finance reform, restoring Glass Steagall)

breaking up all too big to fail corporations

when enough money or risk to life is involved making it a capital offense/ treason to: supply false testimony to congress or government regulators, etc, or to disseminate false information to the public or business (eg LIBOR distortions), or to unnecessarily make classified any such information

smaller, better government through 'government as a service' Govt 2.0 ideas (see g.g. Lessig), testing legislators on content of bills before they can vote on them, line item vetoes

This party would recruit its candidates (not accept those who nominate themselves) through a computerized equivalent of the way honeybees choose a new nest (see Sealey Honeybee Democracy). Candidates would have to have a track record of volunteer service and a minimum history of published political writing addressing actual legislation - (likely drawing heavily on bloggers and academics).
It's not only science education; what I see here in the US (and I am saying that as a practicing Catholic from Europe) is a problem with people's faith. They think it's under assault and in need of defense, they think God's word isn't strong enough to hold its own in the world, and that's where these weird arguments in favour of creationism comes from. I think they have crossed the line into blasphemy.

You even have this phenomenon of Cleanflix, this Mormon endeavour of beeping out rude words in Hollywood movies, because they are seen a threat to their worldview. This is for the same reason; they have weak faith.
Your GPA doesn't mean anything useful
Natural Light Cloaking
Right, so because we haven't got a full and complete legal framework and associated consensus driven moral framework in this area, we should just relax and give up on the whole idea?

We already have data protection frameworks in the UK and at the EU level. I would like to see them adhered to in spirit, and I would also like to know that someone involved in the gov.uk has at least given this a moment's thought.
I'm not sure but apparently a user's total karma is not exact, according to a comment pg made a while back.
No. Many countries there are doing quite OK or even good (Poland, for instance). The stuff going down in Hungary threatens the entire European Project.
The FizzBuzz Paradox
Here's a video of a fish being cloaked: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6kslerc5rpyek38/ChenS1.mov
What a pile of bullying bullshit. If someone is skilled, they are skilled completely apart from whether they are constantly advertising themselves and putting other people down as worse than them.
How do you pronounce "NeDB"?
I also made one of our apps free for a day. It was also 1st in the nav category in the US, and many, many other countries.

People shouldn't misinterpret this bump. It's largely because there are a billion robots monitoring prices, and you get a bunch of marketing from these robots when you shift from paid to free. And there are "journalists" who watch the bots and add to the clamor. And there are people who will never pay, but will take a free app.

I don't think going free translates to sales later, though it can be useful for reviews. It was also problematic for us because our app hit servers, and was not self-contained.

Another time, Amazon made another of our apps the free Android app of the day. This resulted in 120K downloads in a day, but only scant residual sales, most of which came from an Amazon accounting error.
As a brit my experience is that "read" is used exclusively by oxbridgers and contestants on university challenge.
Draft your code
About half my highest-karma comments have been pithy dismissals, humorous asides, planting flags on hot-button nontechnical posts, etc. -- insubstantial stuff.

14 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646078

6 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633037

I'm not saying karma is worthless, but high-karma comments are skewed by jackpots obtained from fluff.
And the funny thing is that the main things that make these demos possible are:

1) They finally said "ok, you can just update pixels directly like a 1980s computer".

2) Computers are fast enough to run Javascript at decent frame rates now.
I don't know but the instructions to the Cambodian police included "Don't turn off his computers!"
You were bitching about the use of the word 'free city-provided service' as if people didn't realize that meant 'tax-based'. There is no reason to do that. It's arguing that a term everyone already understands is misleading. Just treat it like an idiom or something and stop being a distraction from the actual topic of discussion.
And the point I'm making (which you seem to miss) is that the value of taking this step has actually risen. Prior to PRISM, if Google did this, it would incur similar risks/costs but only a limited number of people would care. Post-PRISM, when it's a national issue, the PR benefit for it has risen tenfold, while none of the other prior benefits have decreased. Regardless of how they're prioritizing stakeholders, the overall balance of risk/reward has changed drastically, so it doesn't tell you much about which stakeholders were prioritized.
The how is replacing ... volunteered ^_^ 3rd party supernodes with company provided ones. There were indeed good business reasons to do this as the Skype item Forbes linked to says, but it also obviously gives Skype complete control.
Crackers gonna crack...

But seriously, anyone who has been a blackhat would understand this. A target with tax info would be a great hack, if only to say you did it.
I may need to choose another name, you're not the first one to ask this :) I pronounce it letter-by-letter as it is an acronym for "Node Embedded DataBase"
Yes, and it's the same with CDs / DVDs. That's why the information is stored redundantly, to be able to losslessly read all data in the presence of a limited amount of scratches.
Ask HN: What sites do you use to find inspiring iPad interfaces
Hi everyone,

I've been struggling to find iPad dedicated sites that bring together beautiful and interesting designs / UI / UX for iPad.

Would anyone have some to share? Curious to see what everyone is using.
Thanks!
Currency of the future. I've also been waiting on my second withdrawal forever.
Yahoo Officially Acquires Tumblr
The best way to withdraw money from mtgox is to post a sell ad on bitcointalk.org in the currency you wish to withdraw, set your price about 3-5% above daily average (as long as that is at or below the cost to buy coins immediately) then sell the coins to someone for a bank transfer in your local currency, saves having to wait weeks for your money.
You're lucky! On my old Core 2 Duo, the animation takes 40-60% CPU (nothing when idle). But this is a lot better than flash which frequently takes 100% of a core for even relatively trivial redering (videos and such), and stays high even when idle. My GPU sucks, so I think mostly everything is software rendered anyway.

Also, Flash is a pain to get working on *BSD and is no longer supported on Linux, which is reason enough to move to JS.

HTML5 isn't necessarily about lower CPU, it's about openness, cross-platform compatibility and integrating with other browser elements, all of which Flash completely fails at.

Also it's a pretty neat animation and works without plugins, provided your system OpenGL version is recent enough.
The Mistake That Cost My Company $1.5 Million
The absolute best people I know at "algorithms" are either CS theoreticians or straight-up mathematicians. They can program, perhaps even better than average coder, but they don't have quite the same whole-system view as a systems person or professional software engineer.

If you're solving problems that require algorithmic ingenuity, you absolutely want these people. And if you can pair them with a good engineer who can integrate their algorithm into a non-trivial system, that's when the magic happens.
His article doesn't really follow through on anything.

He says he wanted to experiment on how to make a successful app in the app store. He theorizes that "making a story" behind your product is most important.

He neither explains how he "made a story", nor does he attempt to explain why his app became successful. Doesn't he have any insight into why switching to 'free' had such a large impact?
I too cut the Adobe cord a long time ago. I'm on Windows and started using Paint.NET a few years ago and have found that it meets all my needs.
I don't think that is true. The rocks of the Canadian Rockies were made that way, and then they were raised by tectonic activity to form mountains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Rocky_Mountains:

"The rocks making up the mountains were formed before the mountains were raised. [...]
The Rocky Mountains took shape during an intense period of plate tectonic activity."

Sediment (from the Latin sedere=to sit") doesn't move up a hill to turn it into a mountain. The wind may blow it up a bit to form dunes, but there is no way it forms anything resembling a mountain. I am not a geologist, though, so educate me.
Some days, I am above it. Others, I am working it. And sometimes the meaning I attach catches me unaware.

A few months ago, I was dead dog down. Two projects had gone to shit, an out of town trip got cancelled, and I was enduring some wanton meanness along one vector of my social life. I was having a particularly bad day. And as stupid as it sounds, seeing a bump in points at the end of the day was hugely positive. All the other shit was bigger and more important. But in the moment, those few points had more value...and then I realized how much I love my family and friends and karma points faded back to normal.

Karma scores embody whatever meaning we attach to them. For me, that meaning varies over time.
Video: An overview of ECMAScript 6
This may only tell you if you came late to the party or if there's no party overall.

Note: That is, in a very simplistic way to see it.
Right, and this is the market rejecting these terms.

The current standard terms of consumption for console games includes the ability to give your copy to someone else. There is neither a legal nor social contract that these games be paid for per-consumption.

What we saw is Microsoft trying to change that. The market has responded clearly and unambiguously.

So no one (short of the pirates) has violated any terms, legal or social.
This is not saying that adopting a faster gait speed will cause you to live longer. It's saying that a person's gait speed is a good indicator of how much longer they're likely to live. To me, it seems likelier that there's a common factor which causes both slower gait speed and death, so how fast you try to walk isn't the important factor.
Karma is social validation. It's a sign that others are reading what your write and find value or agree with it, and why would we be posting observations and information if not for others to read?

Of course, karma is not a particularly precise way of determining what others think of you, but then again, that's fairly common as far as methods of social validation go.
It's basically the top .1% of apps on iOS - the top 1000 overall or so - that make around $1000/day.

There are close to 1,000,000 apps - 9,999,000 support one person or less.
Cool! I would be curious to learn what will be the conversion rate from visitors to sign ups for the alerts, if you're willing to share that after some time :)
Jitsi does use Jingle with ZRTP :)
The Once-Off Startup
What I don't understand is why people are always going for peace in protests and keep them peaceful, even when it does not make sense. This government in Bulgaria is most obviously corrupt and from the little written here, it's not the "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" violence averse kind of corruption which people end up justifying someway in their heads. If the government has known criminal ties and elections are being rigged and they are brazen about this, then the populace should ready for violent protests. You can start off peaceful and see if that works, but be very very prepared to fight back vigorously when riot police start smashing faces in indiscriminately. People who rule by force most likely need to be removed by force.
From what I can make out, this won't work under cluster, right? You won't get new data written from one worker in another. It also has no locking so you can easily corrupt the database if you access it from multiple programs at once (or with cluster).
> The only difference is that the N.S.A. does it for intelligence, and Silicon Valley does it to make money.

A government agency can use force against you. Facebook can block you from posting pictures of your lunch. Big difference.
Crowdsourced weather forecasting with Google Glass
Which is what happened to my mom and aunt in post-war Eastern Germany, luckily they were able to get away. That's also what I'm concerned about here. I totally understand the allure of big data mining for the purpose of preventing attacks but once you've figured out a good algorithm to pinpoint a specific population it's just a small step to put obstacles in their path.
There's plenty of good people at Balanced, but Stripe's Payout API is very capable and, in my experience, much more elegant to work with. To imply that Stripe is built just for charging cards is no longer true, as you can see in my review of the two APIs:

http://blog.chriswinn.com/working-with-stripe-payouts
Artsy.net has been designed iPad first, for touch and size.
That makes sense, but then maybe capitalize the E. I think that would make more sense orthographically anyway to signify that each letter represents a word.

At first I was trying to think of words that start with "ne-" before I clicked through and realized "E" stood for something on its own :-)
Luckily, everyone with deposits in Mt.Gox can convert them to bitcoins and send them to some other address. This is one of the benefits of Bitcoin.
I see you didn't read the article. The basis for the article is a NYT interview with a SVP at Google, claiming that the brainteasers are not useful (among other things). Surely that is good source? I haven't got a clue if Google actually used these kinds of questions but the interview sure seem to suggest it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

That said, the riddles listed are of course a bit clickbaity but they did not conjure the story out of thin air.
The site is broken. I can't see any animation or anything.

Who even writes ugly code like this:

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> "HN is pretty transparent, I think, but Facebook is more shadowy in this regard."

Don't you mean vice-versa? Facebook is completely obvious, and HN is the one that isn't at all. On Facebook I can easily see if I have 5 'Likes', which 5 people 'Liked' it. On HN, I have no idea why/who/where/etc the up-votes are coming from, or how they are weighted in various ways based on who actually up-voted you. It's the opposite of transparent. It's just a number with an up and down arrow. With Facebook, there is obvious measures by seeing the number of comments (and by who), the number of 'Likes' (and by who), and so forth. Not sure I follow your logic on that, unless you just accidentally reversed your sentence.

EDIT: I was thinking more in terms of "Upvotes/Likes". I see what OP might mean now from the standpoint of Facebook logic on what content you actually see, and that side of things.
Where I come from "spooks" has two meanings, and neither makes sense here as far as I can tell.
Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico
Government to start major investigation of “patent trolls”
Honeycomb : use hbase (hadoop) on mysql
A Case For Immigration Reform: How Beckett Simonon Built A US Co Outside The US
People in design agencies have PS, and can open anything a client sends. Once they have their source material they can work in any environment they like. Adobe makes it convenient to always "color within their lines". One thing that strikes me as ironic, is the notion that you can tell a creative person how to perform some arbitrary creative task. People send all kinds of garbage to design firms (my wife is a creative type at such a firm), including Adobe files but also including every other kind of junk you can imagine.

>Same with MS Office.

Yes, terrible people, we all have worked with them, but we don't want to emulate them.

>Same with expensive 3D software.

Good technique is good technique, skills are skills, a competent person can adapt their workflow to a new method or vehicle. A competent artist can express themselves in more than one medium.

It comes down to this, if you are constrained to a single tool made by a single vendor, you are strictly a technician (in the narrowest sense).
Australia is almost completely metric, people only use imperial occasionally for old recipes and the like, also we often use pounds per square inch for car tire pressure, but weather related pressure is in pascals.

Wikipedia has a surprisingly comprehensive article on Australia's metrication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Australia
Agreed! Framework arguments aside, learn how to use Composer. If you haven't played with namespaces, this is a great way to start learning more about them and using them in your own codebase. It also makes it incredibly easy to work with other packages[1]!

[1] https://packagist.org/
Would be great if it linked to the user's profiles.
Elon Musk on how long he'll stay at Tesla, battery swapping, direct selling, etc
Why pasting as code making it impossible to click on it?
Learn C The Hard Way with Zed Shaw
Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective
It's not supposed to work with cluster and using it with multiple programs that update/remove/insert docs will cause unexpected behaviour, although no data corruption since the datafile is append-only.

But if you need multiple programs to use your DB at once you need a more powerful solution such as MongoDB. The goal of NeDB is to bring DB features to desktop apps or low concurrency webapps, not replace Mongo and the like.