skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, better that unions have a few people that make lots of money? Unions help ensure job security, you're covering your own hide here. People in poverty don't have their foot in the door, and increasing the expense of a hire decreases the desire of a company to take the risk.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of CEO pay, but it's not relevant. How does that thinking go? Take the money CEO's are making and give it to the impoverished? And what shall they do for that money? Pump gas? There arn't enough gas stations, there's not enough menial labor, and there's more than enough machines.

As cruel as it sounds, are workers not a commodity? Is their rarity of skills not a prize with a price tag? What do you say to the companies looking for people in very high supply? You have to buy at high prices? response: "OK, Then never mind"

I don't know what the solution is, but what is there to do that is worth the money right now?
"As a broad generalization, I would say dynamic declaration is occasionally worth the tradeoff, but dynamic invocation is almost never worthwhile." <-- huh? What does this even mean?

This entire post is silly.

1. Not being able to grep for code has nothing to do with being DRY.

2. Being able to grep for something doesn't make it correct. Nor does it make it less maintainable if you don't used named functions.

Moving on...
>I hate to ignore the actual content, but this is not from OkCupi Labs, nor is it OkC Lab data, it's from Ravel App.

From the page: "Ravel is built with love by OkCupid Labs in San Francisco, CA"
I think maybe you missed the parent comment?
Totally agree. Demand better. Have your metaprogramming and be able to know where 'getPosition' was dynamically generated.
How the U.S. forces Net firms to cooperate on surveillance
But what about language pattern, vocabulary and dialects? What about university names or degrees if it makes companies favor those over others that are self taught. One can put this into an absurd chain of arguments...
>Because it isn't internally consistent.

Example?

>Neither the absence of finite resources nor the absence of capitalism are consistent features of the economy in Star Trek.

It is in the earth economy. Other cultures still have money, but humans do not.

>This is rather emphatically not a consistent feature of the economy of Star Trek.

Well, obviously you can't just go be a star ship captain because so many want to do this. But you certainly don't have to flip burgers at McDonald's. You can pursue any dream and it will only be your talents that decide, not your financial situation.
A few people were upset that I called it a failure after 4 months. You're right, 4 months is nothing compared to most other startups or software businesses.

Let me clarify that I'm calling it a failure not because I wasn't rich in 4 months. Instead, it's a failure to me because I lost interest in what it did and who it was for, and I had no intention of ever working on it again.
Am I the only one that feels the logo now reads as: Mailchimys?
I'd translate it as: All I actually care about is getting to sit in this chair from 9-to-5 until retirement.
Browser user agent string alone is quite accurate identification [1]. Just add IP/country data on top of that..
Google Supports Medical Marijuana? It Appears To Be The Case.
I'm replying with someone who was challenging the general assertion that the spying might actually be good.
There is an implicit big assumption there, that HR actually determines who is screened in and/or hired. It's typically the hiring manager who does.
If You Want Tinder for Android, You'll Have To Beg For It
Ah you're very right, my bad.
Free to play monetization tricks
I made a gist to show how to install it on the newest Ubuntu release: https://gist.github.com/kaspergrubbe/5792356

There is too many moving parts for my taste, but the web-interface is the worst.
Head hunter or "recruitment agent"?

As in a specialist looking for top notch talent or just a cv mover?

Mostly because I have never met one of the former ;-)
it's also got way more speculative bullshit and tired innuendo (and much less raw data) than the okcupid posts.
how does the cpu usage compare to vorbis? (and then to mp3?) i assume the variable bitrate uses less cpu, or?

(b/c i just have to have 40 tabs open, steam, and a mp3 player at all times)
I had the same problem. I switched to DDG and Firefox when the PRISM story broke but ended up using !g on so many queries I made Google my default again. I find Google much better when I'm searching for API docs, StackOverflow Q's etc.
I agree. The 'm' is nicer, but the 'p' is not as nice.
I've never heard a claim that Chrome sends more data than Chromium. Do you have a link?
I think the situation is crazy but the story is entirely plausible.

It could happen in a good way. We've all met absurdly bright young hackers whose resumes haven't yet caught up with their talents. Or even proto-hackers; there are several people I've encouraged to get into the field because they obviously had the right inclinations and a background that would make them great. Maybe this hiring manager saw a lot of raw talent they thought they could put to work. I know a couple of people who ended up managers very young and were great at it.

Or it could happen in a bad way. We can all think of people we're working with and said, "How in the world did they get that job?" Idiocy, venality, lust, nepotism, or even reasonable mistakes. And let's not forget the "B players hire C players" phenomenon.

Either way, I am not shocked at all that things like that happen.
Research has shown metabolism doesn't have the affect on weight loss as many believe it to have. Case in point, weight loss can be achieved eating 1 big meal a day vs. 6 smaller meals a day (where the latter is often hyped b/c it "revs" your metabolism). Your body adjusts.

The true formula for weight loss is simple and well understood: consume less calories than your body requires. When you create a caloric deficit, you'll drop weight, certainly. Focusing on metabolism is a red herring.

What's more, is that your body doesn't care how the deficit is achieved. I'm eating fast food, sweets, and consuming diet soda more often then when I was a "healthy" eater ... you wouldn't guess that I've since dropped 30 lbs. All while getting stronger, and only eating 1 - 2 meals a day. Who cares what my metabolism is, or what I'm eating? The bottom line is that I'm consuming amounts that adhere to a caloric deficit, so I'm leaning down.

So for weight loss, how much you eat will always trump what you eat. Consuming more calories than your body needs will always lead to weight gain, even if they're "clean" calories that come from lean meats and veggies.

I'd encourage you to read Eat Stop Eat: http://www.eatstopeat.com/ (warning, the site looks spammy, but you won't be dissatisfied w/the book)

It's a great read on intermittent fasting that presents a lot of research that debunks metabolism and other hype factors the fitness industry relies on to complicate how simple weight loss really is.
Crowdfunding tools should belong to the crowd? I'd like to hear more rationale on that statement.
No one is locking them out of protesting in general. Just our protest.
The primary point of the article is that dog photos lead to more 'introductions' between two users, while cat photos lead to more threaded messages - which likely lead to more in person meet ups.
Would the quotas be proportional to the applicant pool's huge gender gaps? Only ~20% of CS graduates are women.
N = 1, but whenever I've hired, I've definitely noticed cover letters, or lack thereof. Not bothering with a cover letter tells the hiring manager that you are just shotgunning resumes out there and didn't spend too much time thinking about the company fit.

In fact, so few people seem to write cover letters these days -- let alone compelling ones -- that they can be a strategic differentiator in their own right.
I thought it was quite good, comparing tho most company statements I see. They even used the word apologize. Most companies do not use such wording as it might imply admission of guilt. That's why you see regret instead of apologize in a lot of company issued statements...
Stupid questions:

1) Would a plugin such as Disconnect.me stop this from happening? (Yes, I am aware of the irony...)

2) What's the best way for a non-technical person to monitor traffic to ensure that plugins are not "phoning home"?
Various groups may have decided that, and may even be right in some cases but there are plenty of valid reasons to bring up the Nazis for base line comparisons.
"third-party cloud-storage providers would face intense price pressure"

…or it could go the other way and they would be able to offer "eternal cumulative storage" for a low fee. This tech will be big and expensive before it's small and ubiquitous. There may be a first mover advantage to being able to afford the early models.
>To their detriment.

In a world where sexism is still a huge problem, it seems that forcing students into a monosexual environment would only contribute to stunting their social development even more. Compare, for example, the relative incidence of sexism in a heavily male field like programming or philosophy with the amount of sexism in a gender-integrated field like biology.

This idea of separating students by gender to increase performance is really treating them like little test-taking machines: students, by and large, do not choose to take gender-segregated courses unless their parents require it of them. They're human beings. They have a fundamental right to develop in a natural social environment. And, like it or not, schools provide a large proportion of a child's social interaction, which isn't going to change anytime soon.

But most importantly, any improvements are highly controversial and tend to disappear once researchers attempt to correct for confounding.

"The Pseudoscience of Single-sex Schooling", Halpern et al, Science 2011: http://womenstudies.wisc.edu/documents/ScienceSingle-sex09-2...

The most successful school systems in the world, in Northern Europe and East Asia, are all coeducational. There are also a whole lot of interventions that don't require such drastic measures. Cracked of all publications wrote a surprisingly well-researched article on the subject:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19254_5-surprisingly-easy-way...

Using a microphone and turning on the lights is a far less severe encroachment on students' freedom than, well, segregation. Seriously.
> Side note: Do any brands really advertise their diet soda as a method of weight loss?

Well, it's called diet soda for a reason.
At some point you do have the phone screen though.
Can you issue a chargeback if the publisher does not provide you with working software?
Happy thought for the day: toxoplasma gondii can be transmitted via cat feces, and is associated with promiscuity and schizophrenia, among other things.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764421/
Shooting in SF at 888 Brannan. Stay indoors.
The amazing story of IVF: 35 years and five million babies later
Someone needs to send Judge Otis D. after Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz, & Menlik, LLP.

Ref: http://www.popehat.com/2013/05/06/does-prenda-believe-in-no-...
Would you care to detail your process some and/or link to some books/articles about this process for someone who has no experience with any of this?

I'm interested in both the theory and the practice of marketing and sales, for many things, but especially for SaaS.
If it were me, I'd set a strict, cast-iron, no excuses 50% for the first, say, 50 years. After that things might have calmed down a bit.

Demand will drive supply, if needs be. Lack of demand has certainly driven it down.
For what it's worth, I'm indeed annoyed at how much front page content has been about the NSA recently, but that issue will eventually blow over. We've been fighting about racism ever since the Three-Fifths Clause was included in the Constitution, over two hundred years ago.
Common Lisp was designed for development of large/complex applications ('applications' really means here software that is used in production) with good performance.

For example this CAD system from PTC is based on 6+ million lines of Common Lisp code and under development for two decades:

http://www.ptc.com/product/creo/direct
Dogs also take more time to take care of than cats, which means their owners are less likely the type to go out on dates all the time. I barely know any single men who own dogs, unless they live with their parents, or are involved already. I don't think it directly has anything to do with having a cat or a dog in your photo..
Only on HackerNews...
It rings true for me too; along the same lines as those that buy an amp to drive $50 phones or buy Dre's Beats. A change in sounds doesn't necessarily mean an improvement. There's a noticeable difference; I paid big bucks; it must be better!

This is not to say the OP is a hack. I appreciated the article and work very much. But as others have shown in this thread, with the right framing, there are flaws in the "improvement!" To me, the article needs patio11 A-B treatment to convince me the masses are giving a crap.
Ha! Alternatively this could become a clumsy, comedic and highly detectable performance enhancing device on the next Tour de France
I was more interested in what you would post under your "HighKarmaAccount" but sadly that user is not recognized.
I think he was being somewhat flippant. He's really saying: we think it should be easy to crowdfund something, so we're open-sourcing our own crowdfunding software.
They have added nothing of the sort, as far as I can determine. A bitcoin site added M-Pesa as an option for payment. If there is any official affiliation, I'd like to see the proof. No mention of bitcoins or Kipochi appears on http://www.mpesa.in/

You may as well say that 2/3 of Americans have a Paypal account because they have a credit card.

I've seen several articles now that heavily imply that this is an official M-Pesa service, which smells a bit scummy to me, if not outright scammy.

Edit:
On their blog they explicitly state: "The Kipochi to M-Pesa service is operated by an independent 3rd party company in Kenya and is not directly affiliated with Safaricom the owners of M-Pesa."

http://kipochi.com/blog
I don't know if this is obvious, or if it applies to all kinds of jobs. Something I do is give all candidates an assignment: here is a problem, solve it, and let's discuss it over Skype/Webex/etc.

The best solution typically wins. There is no way to fake talent when an actual job-related problem needs to be solved and then a solution sold to a team of folks.

There are issues with this approach too: somebody else could help the candidate, the presentation style, etc. Picking the right problem to solve is important, as is deciding ahead of time what is the criteria for selection.
Most extensions don't need much access, but this one does price comparisons as you browse. How else would it work unless it knows what you browse? Perhaps using activeTab could work, that might even be something I would use.

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/activeTab.html

At least these extensions are .js files that you can read and that Chrome does tell you what it can access (and lets you see that after they are installed). A lot better than the situation for desktop software.
You don't need DDG for that. Both Firefox and Chrome support adding shortcut keywords for search boxes.

For example, in Firefox all you have to do is to right click on a search box and select "Add Keyword for this Search".

It's much better than DDG because:

1) if you care about privacy, then this is obviously the right way, as you don't have to redirect through a third-party's server

2) you can add shortcuts for whatever you want, without being limited to a fixed set. For instance I type "dex someWord" for getting the definition of words in my native language. I type "word hello" for doing a search on wordnik.com. I type "w definition" for Wikipedia. I type "mvn package" for doing a maven package search. I type "gem library" for doing a RubyGems search.

And yeah, it's easier to add a shortcut that's relevant to you, then it is to read that DDG document you linked to.
If you don't want to be tased . . . .
Agreed. I worked at a company where my CTO said "Well we couldn't seriously consider hiring a woman for this team" after interviewing a female developer. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and it was a pleasure to leave the company shortly thereafter.

It saddens me to know there are people who think the presence of women infringes on their right to make sexist remarks. And that making sexist remarks is such a vital part of their everyday life that hiring women is the unacceptable route.
The actual comparison would be between the Chrome binary size and the Chromium binary size, which is quite small if you exclude embedded graphical resources.
I don't think it's a problem with the 'p'. The join between the 'm' and 'p' is too large. Closing the gap between those two letters would make the join look much less like a 'y'.
Both, really: 'ARPA, was renamed to "DARPA" (for Defense) in March 1972, then renamed "ARPA" again in February 1993, and then renamed "DARPA" again in March 1996.' (Copied from wikipedia.)
> In any case, diet does not and has never meant "lose weight".

It plainly does, whether that usage makes you happy or not: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/diet?s=t
I kind of doubt that this is true. Wouldn't the managers see that she was a female in the interview, and ask why she misrepresented herself or take that opportunity to not hire her?
These companies go to great lengths to avoid US tax jurisdiction, employing an army of accountants and lawyers to avoid giving money to the IRS. Perhaps they could work with the same dedication to avoid giving their users data to the NSA.
But it happened in the "late 90s." One anecdote from 15 years ago is not really of much value today, IMO.
This could be a huge disrupter to the ~$40B African remittance market. "In all of Western Africa...70 per cent of payments are handled by one money transfer operator [1]." I have a hard time believing that stat will hold with the M-pesa network linked up to the Bitcoin network.

[1] http://www.ifad.org/remittances/maps/africa.htm
Human being issues get solved through discussion and examination. Including self-examination. By ragequitting after the first paragraph, you're cheating yourself.

However, this is a specifically a job market issue because as a society we have committed to making hiring reasonably fair.

Also, these biases are not immutable; they change over time. For example, there was a strong anti-Irish bias in the 19th century in the US and England. So I think your "humans are flawed so shut up about injustice" routine is neither correct nor helpful.
Wouldn't that just make the discrimination (conscious or unconscious) happen later? Sooner or later they will find out the gender of the applicant.
"Diet" and "weight loss" are often used interchangeably, sure, but can you think of any instances in which diet Pepsi or diet Coke has been advertised as actually causing weight loss (ie; the product itself is a weight loss supplement)?

I think the name "diet soda" needs to go, as it really is misleading, but (and I could be wrong about this) I don't think these companies have ever claimed their products make you shed pounds by simply drinking them.
Then if it isn't recorded properly how can you show that an election has been rigged?
> where the app asks permissions after it is installed (e.g. internet access, local file system access) for each thing it wants to do

iOS does the same for the permissions it supports (access to photo library, contacts, GPS/location, twitter accounts, etc etc), but a lot of things are always allowed (such as internet access). Facebook also lets you deny specific permissions to apps on their platform. I've always wondered why Android and browser extensions don't let you line-veto deny permissions.
It's not about who's the record-holder. It's about the whole concept of a central government seeing that investment in infrastructure benefits the country - and the economy - as a whole. The USA that built this bridge - in the 1950s and 60s - was completely different from today. The USA of today could never build this bridge, or any other large project.
I opted out of facebook, years ago. Now I am seriously considering the possibility to go back because I fear the lack of an idiot FB profile will at some point be a strongly weighted part of the very signal you are mentioning.

So, cat pics for everyone!!!
Which sort of shows what a farce this hullaboo about information sharing is. "Megacorp promises not to share your information with other companies", but Megacorp owns dozens to hundreds of company-like projects anyway.
Clapper's treatment for lying vs Snowden's treatment for telling the truth
>> Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Getting started.

Most of the websites, including Middleman's home, for some reason jump too fast from defining what the project is to "getting started". There needs to be a link to more information about what the project is, tailored to people who are unfamiliar with the space, followed by more information defining what distinguishes the project/product from others in the same space. Once the reader understands what the project is and how it fits what she is trying to do, and why it is more suited to them than others, then comes the Getting Started aspect. If the reader needs to go though the "Getting Started" section and try the product out to figure how it would help them, then the product pitch has not been done right or at all.

In this blog, we see a mention of Jekyll, followed by no words about why someone should not just use Jekyll which is also stated to be the at the core of this movement.

While the answers may be obvious to some people, they are not obvious, and should always be explicitly stated.

The "hello, world" paradigm itself is often misused in my opinion. In a large number of cases, "hello, world" is not a demo program but rather a test to make sure installation went right. I would first like to see a demo of the key aspects of the product, explained on the website, before getting to the hello world.

Ah, it's Friday today. No seriously, the intention of my rant is to either have someone explain to me why product websites are so often like this or try to influence them to change.
There's an omnibar FF plugin that I install immediately on every FF installation.
> People who work with Fancy Hands most certainly don't have capital.

You might be surprised.

One of the wealthiest people I know is the stereotypical "cheapskate tightwad" (and he'll readily admit it). He will do pretty much anything he can to earn an extra dollar and he squanders as much of it away as possible.

He plans to retire before his 40th birthday and I suspect that he will do exactly that and live quite comfortably the rest of his life as well.
Actually that's a really bad comparison.

The binary size may be similar but that doesn't mean the content is. Consider the two cases below to back up my assertion:

000000WE_COME_IN_PEACE000000000000000000
000000WE_COME_IN_PEACE_SHOOT_TO_KILL0000
Both can be effective. Boycotting simply brings about change by proxy, since it can prompt companies to use their legal counsel to lobby for changes. If there is one thing citizens have learned, it's that lobbyists are more effective than citizens because many of those in congress are lazy enough to accept bills written by others and pass it off as their own.

Personally, I think every bill that goes to congress should be written by the congressmen and women and their staff and not by any outside agencies and consultants. Showing that a law was not written by those that were elected should invalidate the law.
I look forward to seeing the results. This story is already off the front page despite clearly deserving to be there from vote counts. Feel free to email me if I can help.