skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But the end result was disheartening: Mr. Wells was told, he said, that company policy required him to have at least two years of experience in the field before he could be hired.

The interesting bit here is that it's a transparent, obvious lie. If it were the truth, he wouldn't have gotten the interview in the first place.

I mean, his lack of experience undoubtedly hurt him, but if you get the interview, (and if a 'high level recruiter' meets you in person, it's an interview.) nothing that is on your resume disqualifies you.
Note to web services businesses: give your users the option to have a local account, and give them an option to change from one 3rd party authenticator to another or to a local account.
It's just so they can brag about having more "active users" than Twitter/Facebook/whatever.
Does anyone know how Ray Kurzweil is faring with his 150 supplements a day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Health_and_aging
I have a few clients on it and they like it. I don't use webmail myself, though.
Indeed. New objectives should have been set. The shuttles, while a marvelous achievement of engineering, were ruined by the politics around them - so many different mission profiles they were designed to do that nothing was left that could be done practically. And yes - going to LEO is not nearly as inspirational as going where no one has gone before.
That sounds more like a main project rather than a side project. My side projects are just things that I want to experiment with or that are based upon ideas or technologies I just wanted to screw around with at some stage. They could become my main project one day but that's not really the goal otherwise it'd be my main project already..
Colorado ATV Tours
aspencanyon.com--My friend recently hosted a mountain wedding and as part of the festivities, offered guests to take part in some Colorado ATV tours. I jumped on the opportunity and my only response is WOW. Colorado ATV tours allowed us to explore some of the 150 miles of trails nestled deep within the Arapaho National Forest; trails that we would have otherwise missed had we not had access to Colorado ATV tours. The tours were facilitated through Aspen Canyon Dude Ranch and the tour guides were knowledgeable and were tuned into my desire to experience an adventure filled day. We frolicked among snow-capped mountains, burrowed deep into mountain forests, and witnessed a bevy of wildlife in its natural habitat. I will definitely be back!
Not sure where you're going with this so I'll avoid the obvious snarky counter-examples...but are you arguing that if someone designates something as a secret, it is absolutely wrong to uncover it?
I gave up finding the part of your ToU where I can see what rights I have on commisioned work (if I request an image).
Judge 'Troubled' by DOJ Position in Drone Strike Case
Check out RailsCasts [1] by Ryan Bates. I learned RoR through the Ruby on Rails Tutorial [2] by Michael Hartl (highly recommend it). I then used RailsCasts to teach me specific things about practically everything. There are over 400 screencasts so that should keep you busy for a while. My general workflow would be to plan the feature out, watch the RailsCasts episode, and then implement the feature.

Hope this helps.

[1] http://railscasts.com/

[2] http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
How does this solution measure up to hosting your own Owncloud or alike? Any upsides / downsides? I'm wondering because many non-technical people need a dead simple solution for this if you want to substitute Dropbox.
If supplementation did nothing, we wouldn't be dosing up with tons of anti-depressants (neuro-transmitter modulation supplements). I agree about isolates, or what people traditionally call vitamins. But for genetic deficiencies for neurological problems, supplements can be awesome. Personally, I take 5-HTP, GABA and NAC daily and really feel the difference. See for yourself. Keep in mind therapeutic doses of supplements can be rather large. You need Dr. supervision to make sure you aren't damaging your liver/kidneys.
Well, we do already spend more than the UK on providing health insurance (divided by total population), but we're just providing it to seniors and poor people.

The problem is the morass of laws we've accumulated around healthcare over the years for various reasons that now interact in complex ways that nobody foresaw. Like the law designed to make Medicare or Medicaid (I forget which) drugs cheaper that ended up making it illegal to give free birth control to college students.

We also have the laws from when people believed that competition increased costs and so tried to ban competition between hospitals. Or the committee that sets doctor's reimbursement rates for Medicare procedures based on the *$%@# labor theory of value. And the laws designed to prevent people from overcharging Medicare that means that everybody has to worry about those rates across the industry. Or the way that the makeup of that committee means that primary care physicians gets shafted.

And the fact that we allow so few schools to teach medicine means that they can charge an arm and a leg, which means that those poor shafted PCPs need the kickbacks they get for assigning specialist care in order to pay off their student loans and malpractice insurance.

And I could go on.

And now we have this system that's incomprehensibly complex. So Congress has no way of figuring how to fix it on their own. There are people who've spent years figuring out how all of this works, but that's their job and if the system was actually fixed their job would be gone and that understanding they spent years acquiring would be useless.

Which isn't to say that this is entirely hopeless. There have been some efforts at the hospital level like Kaiser Permanente's to ameliorate the perverse incentives in the system and capture some of the value unlocked by that. And there are some laws that could be changes or repealed (like the one against hospital competition) without really breaking anything. So I think that gradual reform might be possible, but it's going to be a long road that doesn't particularly involve the issues that people tend to talk about around healthcare.
https://twitter.com/search?q=apple%20password%20reset&src=ty...
Ahh yes! I've been playing around with this idea forever - so glad someone's taking it to kickstarter. Backed!
Er... no. We would have a better chance of deflecting the asteroid if our technology is sufficiently advanced. Therefore, technological progress is objectively superior for survival.
Does Apple have to pay Microsoft for the ability to access FAT partitions?

Apple & MS have a cross-licensing agreement dating back to 1997 that has been renewed at once (and probably more than once). FAT patents are presumably included under this.
I am using Owncloud, super easy to install[1]. I have a non-us/eu vps storage solution, despite reading others having problem with it, its working great for me.

[1] http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/05/16/host-your-own-dropbox-li...
99 little bugs in the code
Somali women are dressed in all-over black covers, and as a consequence, there is even something called "the Swedish disease" among Somali immigrants to Scandinavia. It's autism and there is a suspected link with vitamin D deficiency.

http://www.thelocal.se/32862/20110328/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=vitamin-d-a...
A number of languages have listcomps that can do this, and which are actually more useful for this than CL's LOOP macro, but the thing I meant to point at was the APPENDING bit. I guess (loop for x in xs append (loop for y in (f x) collect y)) is awfully similar to [y for x in xs for y in f(x)], though.
Speaking of Solaris. What happened to it. Is Oracle still selling it, there was an open source project around the released code for a while.

It seemed I stopped hearing about since Oracle acquisition.

Why would anyone currently pick it (if it was available) instead of picking Linux or FreeBSD?
Congrats on the new job.

Have you tried Geeklist https://geekli.st ?
Part of the reason that the military is able to do a relatively good job providing healthcare is that they can do a lot of sensible cost-saving things that are illegal in most places. Like using nurse-practitioners instead of MDs where appropriate.
http://koi.io/p/-1

Nice. Stored XSS everywhere as well - this is 2013, why are sites still effected by BASIC security issues like this? I would never trust any of my details with a site as poorly coded as this, sorry.
Are people looking at bitTorrent Sync? (http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html) I'm uing it on a laptop, a server and my android devices. It works great. Seemless.
isn't this a nice example of healthy, unbiased skepticism?

lmao. "agendas".
>If you don't get a job a year or so after graduation in your major field, you probably never will.

This is not my perception at all.

I got my job without a degree by being willing to work for pay I was qualified for while doing a job that I wasn't qualified for, but that I was able to 'figure out' well enough.

If you are willing to work for retail wages, the standards go way down, and there are more employers than you think who want to hire programmers for little more than retail wages.

The deal is that you work for shit wages for a while; if you are good, you can then take that experience (remember, your title was 'programmer' or something) and use it to get a real job, as now you have X years experience working as a programmer, even if you got paid absolute shit during that time.
From what I've seen, Owncloud doesn't provide encryption (files are lying in the clear on the server); furthermore I didn't dig much into the web app part, but I wouldn't bet it to be extremely robust security-wise.
What if you happen to share a name with a convicted multi-million dollar Ponzi schemer? It's pretty hard to game Google to ignore all the news reports and .gov pages.
Or you can do:

ack --python PATTERN [DIRECTORY]
That actually sounds just like the third world to me :P
Who's willing to optimize the front-end our 1M pageviews/day website?
Our average DOM processing time doubled in the past year. At least 50% of DOM processing time could be shaved off by optimizing CSS.

We are doing all this wrong, and would like to fix it: http://www.slideshare.net/nzakas/enough-withthejavascriptalready

We're a casual gaming start-up from Amsterdam looking for an experienced front-end developer who can help us solve this as a project. Refer us to the right guy/girl, and we'll pay you a $250 finders fee.
Closed source is a dealbreaker for lots of people.
This is what she is about (Harvard commencement speech): https://youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c
One place where big variations can exist between two programs is in the comments, where vocabulary and grammar aren't as restricted.
I wish I could get Ubuntu on a Haswell CPU in a form factor as slick as Surface Pro, plus a lightweight 1080p 17" monitor. That means I could bring a dual-screen development system with me in my bag that would be lighter than the 17" laptop I currently for coding on the road.
IPv6: The most important tool for social liberation
Hello HN, I have written a short note, but not less than 2000 characters, as to why I think the implementation of IPv6 will lead to complete social liberation. If you can find the time, please read, comment, and criticize my short note.
great idea :-) i m curious how many queries per day could the linode server handle, even if they are non mission critical...
I guess I need to know more about what you want to monitor. We use nagios (host/service up/down notification), ganglia (host metrics like ram/disk/etc), and MRTG for bandwidth etc, and rsyslog with tenshi for log alerting. If you are a sysadmin then you probably want nagios. I would be suspect of new shiny things, nagios is rock solid and is used as an industry standard for monitoring in many open source shops (think universities, HPC clusers, etc).

p.s. I run a sysadmin screencast site @ sysadmincasts.com. I'll try and do a nagios episode in the next couple weeks.
I think this is one of those cases of building a solution for a problem that never existed.

Either that, or you need to explain the business better on your landing page.

What the heck IS a "side project"? And, furthermore, why on earth would I want to buy one?

Is a "side project" the half-cocked proof-of-concept game code I wrote over the weekend?

Is a "side project" a successful open-source project?

Is a "side project" an app?

What are we talking about here?

I'm not trying to rag on you, but I think you need to be more specific, because right now I learn nothing on your homepage that would cause me to want to sign up.
If you take any kind of daily drug for anything then you will probably need some sort of supplement to counteract the deficiencies the drug is creating. If you have electronic devices , like a smartphone, then a melatonin deficiency is created and supplementation of melatonin can be a great benefit.
I feel my browser is 'nude' without Wappalyzer. It does an excellent job of showing the icon for 'this is yet another Wordpress site', 'Drupal', '.net' and 'Magento' (amongst lots of others). This snippet of information is very useful to know if you are wondering 'how did they do that!' when you come across a very good site.

It is also useful for showing what javascript frameworks are in use (although this isn't as at a glance as the main CMS tool).

Beyond those two pieces of information I have no real need to use or fault Wappalyzer. It is simply brilliant.

Slightly off-topic, however, the favourite Chrome extension has to be Hover Zoom: http://hoverzoom.net/ - I find a computer/browser really lacking if it does not have that on it!
That's why milk companies in Sweden (total fucking darkness for 6 months every year) have to enrich milk with less than 1,5% fat with Vitamin D. It's actually a requirement by law.
Maybe crickets and mealworms would be a good diet for prisoners but I'd personally rather eat rice and beans if I was on a limited income.

Maybe have these farms available for very poor countries?

I just don't see the desire to eat crickets and worms.

And forget about a social life or dating once they find out you raise and eat crickets and worms, doesn't matter how good you are at explaining the concept.

Am I missing something?
I believe one can, though it takes intelligent parents who make an effort to do so, and money as to not to be constrained by social norms. Over the last decade of my life, I've been evaluating how my parents raised me, how my generation and the previous two generations were raised, and constantly coming up with solutions based on the opportunities provided by different income levels. While I'm not a sociologist, I believe I could write a book on my observations, reasoning, and conclusions.

Like in Judit Polgár's development; if a child was trained in a subject early on and provided the right opportunities, then "genius" can be developed. When I have kids, my plan won't be to focus extensively on one subject (like chess), but on several subjects, including Esperanto like Judit Polgár was taught.
Portlander here, my doctor recommends that all of his patients take a low-dose vitamin D supplement because a large percentage of them would show subclinical deficiency on blood work if tested, somewhere over 40 percent, with the rate increasing the darker your skin is.
One practical aspect of the same clothes until age 6 is that kids grow so fast you need to re-use clothes. In the 18th and 19th century when having clothes made was much more expensive, and the number of children a family had was high, the re-use would have been essential. Any parent today who has had two kids of one sex and then the third comes along of the other sex finds they have a bunch of boxes of things that they don't want to use.

We sought to keep our baby clothes especially and up to about age 3 clothes as neutral as possible for that reason.
That doesn't necessarily mean Nokia isn't paying a license fee. Also Microsoft is paying Nokia for using its maps, so I'm not sure how far the "freebies" go, on either side.
It's either an unhealthy obsession with Google or just old fashioned astroturf. I have a third theory that since Matt Cutts started commenting here, he brought the SEO types with him, and they don't much care for fluctuating algorithms.

Anyways it's like no one cares about a standard util Google drops it, and somehow social becomes a sin when Google dabbles in it. Any Google bashing item or just expressed feigned outrage often shoots straight to the top of the main page.
underestimated the costs

I could have told them that.

I designed and implemented portable electronic medical records for 5 regional exchanges. Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, ambulances, permanent stays (nursing homes), insurers, labs, etc.

Coordination was tough, because everyone thinks they own the data (and loathe to share) and are often competitors.

It's all about the incentives. The only fix I can think of is single payer, which will compel everyone to play nicely together.

That said...

Simply having the state by state insurance comparison portals seems to be very effective for price competition, better than I could have predicted. So on balance, it looks like the impact of Obamacare / ACA will be really good, if not perfect.
multi cursors ..I too really wish they where part of Netbeans !
The claims for Vitamin D as an exception (without any strong scientific backing) seem to support the parent:

"someone, somewhere at some time was pushing them as an amazing cure"

I've also heard a GP (who I personally respect) say they prescribe Vitamin D as a convenient placebo for common fatigue-type symptoms.
How do you convince a person like me who thinks it's gross to eat insects? Esp. Out of fear they (or the parasites they bring) might "become alive and crawl up to your brain or start a colony inside your bowel".
The EncFS is mounted locally (client-side), so the files aren't decrypted at all on the server-side. You're just syncing fully encrypted files.
What business or marketing strategy am I providing to a client when it's pretty clear he just needs a simple Wordpress set up with a template he's already found? I didn't get the feeling from the post that I was being paid for strategy as much as to wrap my work and call it strategy because it might pay much more.
Despite Horrible Sales, MSFT Goes After iPad With New Surface Ad
Microsoft has released a new Surface RT vs iPad ad where they show some of the advantages that their tablet has over Apple's product. What do you think of it?
What I'm more surprised is that the OEM's aren't using the open source alternative instead.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3OTQ
Helicopter powered by man on bicycle wins $250,000 prize
I can really only think of one good reason to pick another Midwest city over Chicago: tech culture. Many of these startups here in Chicago seem to lack strong technical co-founders.

A significant minority of startups in Chicago just feel like a grind to get an exit and as a developer you're basically given the minimal amount of resources and asked to work the maximum amount of time achieve that goal. All the while some dude (it's usually a dude) is breathing down your neck asking you why isn't their vaguely specified, poorly thought-out product done yet- "Shouldn't this just be a simple 'if' statement?" (An 'if' statement! Of course! Thanks for being my muse, boss.)

You see a lot of entrepreneurs here who come from big consulting groups that don't really "get" tech and barely even grasp startups. They're kinda like tourists - they know there's a ton of opportunity in the sector, they're willing to take the risk to capitalize on it, but there's no real passion for technology. If it all goes bust they'll just go back to their old job at Accenture or wherever and use their brief foray as an entrepreneur as a feather in their cap as they climb the corporate ladder.

The effect of all this is that it tends to drive more technically-minded entrepreneurs or more hardcore dedicated biz types to take their businesses outside the city to places like SF, Austin and NYC. It also prevents us from drawing in people from Wisconsin and Michigan. What we're left with are a bunch of suits trying to bro-it-up with a startup until they finally surrender the last of their adolescence and go back to working for someone else.

and...Whew, rant over. That's the only reason I can think of why you'd do something in Detroit instead of Chicago.
I would think you typically cook them or prepare them in some way, not just pop them alive into your mouth like a bird.
Most of my family members will sooner dump Gmail than create a Google+ account.
So, let's say that you're getting poor grades in pre-med. You're already 30,000 in debt. Is it better to continue in a degree where you have no chance of further advancement (no medical school will take you), drop out and have absolutely no career leads and a pile of debt, or get a second rate degree?

This is the problem -- we've raised the bar for failure so high because of the cost of going to college. We've made it so that college degrees of any kind are a requirement to advance into white collar work. What's the solution when someone can't hack it in STEM?
Shorter commute to West Bloomfield? /s
Roddenberry's Star Trek treated women in particular, and people in general, far better than he did in real life. Holding him up to be some fighter of equality is rather laughable, as was this slide show essay.
The cited article contains phrasing that is designed to be misleading. It says for example, "Seven previous studies had already shown that vitamins increased the risk of cancer and heart disease and shortened lives. Still, in 2012, more than half of all Americans took some form of vitamin supplements. " This makes a direct comparison between people taking any vitamins at all to studies showing that very specific vitamins, under very specific and unusual circumstances such as megadosing and certain preexisting conditions, can cause problems. Well even water can cause problems when megadosed, and yet the fact that most people drink water daily is not relevant to that.

Also, the author of this article, Paul Offit, is has serious credibility and corruption problems beyond writing articles designed to mislead people.

He has previously claimed that it is perfectly safe for children to take "10,000 vaccines at once" (and originally he claimed 100,000 but reduced it when it was questioned). Even understanding the benefits of vaccines, there are trade offs with them and it is certainly not safe to take 10,000 at once. Offit holds a $1.5 million dollar research chair which is funded by Merck. He also sold the right to his future royalties of a vaccine he developed for $182 million, of which he received around $46 million for a rotavirus vaccine. This was interesting since he had previously pushed this vaccine during his job at the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which was a serious conflict of interest that ended up making him quite rich.

Here is an interesting investigative report into Offit's conflicts of interest and hiding of financial relationships.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/cbsnews_investigat...
Good source of protein and fats, and often plentiful in the absence of agriculture. It's mostly a cultural aversion. Eating insects is/was common in hunter-gatherer cultures.
I am going to get down votes for this, but what's the problem with a classic mobile-friendly upload page?
Yup. And there is a great deal of interesting indie motion-picture making- YouTube and Vimeo have essentially torn down the barriers to distribution. Granted, very little of it is 90-120 minutes long, but so what?
Note that Plos One is not exactly the top journal one would publish such "groundbreaking" research. In general I've found university press releases to be little more than propaganda machines, and unreliable sources that do particularly poorly in providing context.
Maybe you have a point. But personally speaking, I am not sure I want my work environment to turn in to highschool