skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I refrained from calling them by name and would like to keep it that way, but I can say that it's one of the largest / most popular German hosting companies. (It's probably easy to figure it out via a whois lookup, actually.)

Over the course of a couple of years, their service was good and I didn't run into any major problems besides this one. The cutoff was a real bummer (especially with a concept like Impetus), but I have to give them a little credit: seconds after my angry call, the site went back up.
Correct. There was a population of animals that at some stage started to approximate what we would call human.
In those 1-2% cases, you can print a boarding pass, just like you do now.
You might be correct about the reasoning. But those records are likely to work against if a suit ever hit full speed, because those scores could easily support the plaintiffs. "Gee, everyone over 55 ever hired has a 75%+ score. But your 25-54s range wildly from 56% and up."

Once the company asserts this defense, the plaintiffs ask for demographic details on every employee in the company, and what the scores were at time of hiring.
I endorsed an old project manager for "Music" because he was a terrible project manager, but a great musician. Though, it was more of a career recommendation than a joke
The Wikipedia article talks a lot about correlation between performance in different subjects in school.

I've also read that two of the strongest predictors of performance in school are your parents' performance in school, and (after controlling for that) your parents' income.

Do studies of general intelligence usually control for the impact of parents' education and income?
You should look into it. It will help you. You don't have to use it, just understand it's a tool available to you. Not trying to insult any one—just give them a framework for learning.
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Because you're patenting a concrete implementation.
The labels are not parallel [0].

Something like ("Your flight" and "Your name") OR ("Flight number" and "Passenger Name") would be more grammatically consistent.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar)
We only upload files that are at least two seconds long to prevent exactly this problem.
The icon for aisle seat looks like a stack of people sitting on each other's lap. No need to clutter the pass with new icons (that user will need to learn to identify and understand) when the word 'Aisle' is sufficient enough.
I agree that people are treated as mathematical entities. And I even said that was fine if that's not all you do. The mathematician's solution to the problem of overpopulation is just to shoot people until you get below the required number.

You are also wrong about the main goals of a public company, and wrong again about how to get there. Those are central dogmas of the MBA worldview, but they're just dogmas.

A great example is cars. American car companies minimized costs and focused on profits. Toyota maximized user value and minimized waste in creating that value. Toyota has been kicking the asses of American car makers for decades. Even when Toyota teaches American car-makers their secrets, they can't adapt, because those and other items of dogma make it impossible to change: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/n...
This is such a great idea. I love how much you've worked to ensure it takes the least number of taps possible to send feedback.

One suggestion: show a meter or light or any kind of feedback that the user is being loud enough. I suspect your #1 problem with bad user-submitted feedback will be "couldn't really hear anything".
Apple's Passbook works from the lock screen without having to unlock the phone itself. The pass shows up when your within close proximity to the airport.
As jlarocco and others point out, based on astronomical evidence, we know that C60 buckyballs are plenty strong enough to rotate at a much higher speed than this macroscopic experiment:

For example, "Hydrogenated fullerenes and the anomalous microwave
emission of the dark cloud LDN 1622" (www.iac.es/folleto/research/preprints/files/PP06009.ps ) says:

> The recent detection of anomalous microwave emission (5–60 GHz) in LDN 1622 by Casassus et al. can be explained as the result of electric dipole radiation from hydrogenated fullerenes. The bulk of the emission (10–30 GHz) appears to be associated with 60–80 carbon atoms fulleranes with a degree of hydrogenation of C:H ≈ 3:1. ...

> The emissivity of fulleranes with more than 240 atoms are already two orders of magnitude smaller than that of the C60 hydride and peaks at a frequency of ∼3 GHz, far below the frequencies relevant to the anomalous emission detected in the cloud.

It looks like C240 should be able to handle 1GHz rotational speeds without a problem.
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I know that technically blimps make little sense except in fringe applications. But they're majestic, and I like that.
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You need the stub for seat assignment once on the plane as it is far more convenient. It is also used on some stopovers - for example SQ1 stops in HKG on the way to SIN. All passengers have to leave the plane while it is refueled, and you have to keep the stub with you to get back on again.
Right. And your last sentence shows that you are thinking of people as humans, not abstract mathematical entities who it ok to offend.
Sure, as long as the people that know you run the interview and don't share the results with anyone that doesn't it's fine...
I was recently looking into some prebuilt libs for emoji support on web. One of them had a sprite, the other used data URI's in all of the background-image:url() parts of their core CSS. The sprite was crunched down to about 500k after some optimization tweaks (pngout, etc.) the data uri version could not be optimized, it's CSS file weight in at over 5MB.

The decision was pretty easy to make after that discovery.
Also, the information for the passenger on board is on the part that you don't have on board.
Sure, yes. All those examples (ozyman, iodine, etc.) tunnel arbitrary traffic over DNS, whereas yours is more traffic-efficient in essentially being a static file server via DNS, I suppose?
The author of sqlmap added DNS exfiltration for blind SQL injection last year. Really creative technique (DNS stack doubled the size of sqlmap code-base).

Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.3047.pdf

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/stamparm/dns-exfiltration-using-sq...
The end game for the Origin bundle seems to have been "get a bunch of people to install Origin", which I suspect they were very successful at.

EA didn't get any money directly from the bundle sales.
Yes. BART is always an option. But depending on where you wanted to go and what you wanted to do... BART is not conveniently located to everything.
What's the point of leaving the name on there twice?
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Awesome! Congrats!
Hope this means native client apps soon ;)

Kato rules.
The article is Slashdotted, I cannot load it. Let me explain something.

Walmart follows 'classical management' of negative reinforcement and cutting expenses down to the bone including salaries, benefits, and other stuff. They are willing to pay executives millions while letting most employees work for slave wages with little to no benefits to cut down on costs as much as possible.

Costco follows 'participatory management' in which management gets involved with the employees and empowers them to make their own decisions. Executives are not paid millions and their salaries are based on how well the company does to encourage growth. Employees are paid more so they will be more productive and with good benefits to take care of health problems and family problems so they don't interfere with work. If the company is losing money, they do job cost analysis to see what products and services cost more to support than the revenue they bring in, and then quality is improved on those services and products and if it cannot then those products and services get cut instead of the people and new products and services replace them.

Steve Jobs did this with Apple, cut out products and services that didn't bring in enough revenue to justify keeping them, cut his own salary as the iCEO, improved the quality of products and services or come up with new ones to replace them. Walmart and other 'classic management' companies just don't understand how to do that so they take it out on the employees instead.
Forgive me for not understanding, if btfs is cheap for copying files why do they want to use --in-place?
"Inalienable" is quite an idealistic and American word in this context. Nevertheless, the US federal constitution is written with some assumptions, and a "sense," That is, it is addressed to the government, from the people and the states, which predate the existence federal government, and which can undo the federal government through a constitutional convention. The ninth and tenth Amendments spell out the assumption that rights are not granted by the government, but powers are delegated to the federal government. Rights are open-ended. Powers are enumerated. This is an elegant way of making the constitution future-proof (so beware of people who start a sentence with "The Framers never had...").

Copyright and patents are a notable exception to the above. They are an explicitly granted monopoly, through an explicitly enumerated power of the federal government. The "property" part appears nowhere in the constitution and is a tendentious word added later, like "pro-life."
They are reassuring from a systemic design perspective, or from the perspective of someone who is accused but innocent.

But in the individual case of an obviously guilty person going free, it is legitimately maddening.
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Good suggestion- that may be worth adding.

Anecdotally, though, we've been using this ourselves for a while without seeing that. People seem to get that they should speak clearly.
Ludum Dare attracts game press media, if you make something neat and do a bit of seed promotion on the blog you'll get attention.
Perhaps as an experiment try "enter the first character of your post/comment". That would kill any remote human captcha solvers (since they don't actually know the post content), and likely require some rewriting of the spamming software, assuming that is automated.

Of course, this is not a long term perfect solution against motivated adversaries, but it's a way to see how the current spammers work.

Another:
Add a keydown handler to your message-textarea and log (to a hidden form field) how many key presses are being used per post. If the spam software is setting the content field programmatically, you then know how to detect them.
I've been proven wrong before, but I'm very skeptical that something which requires the user to speak at the phone will convert well.
If you're relying on linkedin to actually get a good job (except maybe for people just getting there first entry level job) then you need all the help you can get...
The person behind "Got milk?", apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Silverstein
Pretty neat to see a rouge map of iOS knowledge drawn up like this. Makes you realize you know more than you think. It's interesting when you compare all of this against someone who is first learning to develop for iOS (or anything software related). You gain an appreciation for all the hurdles a newbie coming to the field has that an experienced developer takes for granted.
http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/10/selecting-tal...

As, I'm sure you can tell, this isn't specifically for technical and creative employees, but in general it appears that structured interviews, IQ tests and work samples significantly out perform unstructured interviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33BCEPMGggU
Boarding passes are printed on thermal printers, which are exclusively monochrome. Thermal printing is the perfect technology for ephemeral bits of paper like boarding passes and tickets. The printers are compact, fast and phenomenally reliable, require essentially zero maintenance and have no consumables other than the ticket itself.

This redesign would require full bleed CMYK printing, which is none of those things.

This is a perfect example of why business people tend to ignore designers and regard them as jumped-up decorators. If you're going to suggest that someone changes the way they do business, at least have the courtesy to find out why they do things that way. If you're not trying to solve a real problem, then you're a stylist, not a designer.

As far as airlines are concerned, boarding passes are a solved problem and have been for decades. These supposedly simple changes would cost them millions in equipment upgrades and reduce the reliability and throughput of their ticketing systems, for no obvious gain.
This seems to use base64, DNS is case insensitive so really it should use base32 or some other encoding scheme. However DNS is usually case preserving so it will likely work.

Unless the recursive nameserver in use happens to implement this hack for improved security:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00
Another boring comment shitting on psychology - and theoretically by someone who should know better. It's really tiresome.

cut/pasting from another comment of mine:

by saying that psychological research is itself useless, you're also throwing away things like A/B testing, UX testing (including Apple's much-vaunted usability stuff), research into grief management, team-building research, research into cognitive recovery therapy after acquired brain injury, work looking into ameliorating sexism and racism, perception research for HUDs in fighter aircraft (my honours research), some pain management research, research into dealing with PTSD, research into crowd control and management...

Someone with a PhD in the topic should be well aware of the breadth of the field that is 'psychology', and to say that the only useful thing in the field is psychometric testing just displays your myopia.

Half the stuff that HN talks about is psychology, from A/B testing to building staff relationships. It is far from 'useless', particularly given this audience.

It is ironic in the extreme that the people that shit on psychology do so because they see it as a 'pseudoscience' that 'doesn't observe things properly', yet so very few of them actually see psychology for what it is - instead just falling back on their own narrow stereotype of it.
Hah, very interesting.

On the other hand companies generally put their very best developers on new products and features - i.e. writing those first 1000 lines. While the mediocre devs get to extend and maintain those products/features, by copy paste or what got you.
We made it for our students and figured we could share it with the world.
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1. We are doing ranges for calories.
2. We count each individual location once.
A friend/ex-colleague just added "General Awesomeness" as a skill :)
Why is the fact that it's written in Ruby in any way relevant? It's a tool for Objective-C development, not Ruby development.
Humble also made sense because it was supporting indie games makers. Now, not so much.
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That's not a context switch. Changing to email is a context switch.

Using a mouse, or trackball, or trackpad, is just input. On my laptop, I don't even lift off of home row to 'mouse' -- I just move my thumb.

At my work desktop, I've got one of those apple wireless keyboards and trackpads and it's actually quite ergonomic, except for the staggered keys.

If I were to switch out, I'd probably get a Kinesis Advantage (I once had a QD Ergo Pro) or a TEK or a TypeMatrix thanks to suggestions in this thread. All three have straight-line keys.

The old ergo I had wore out because I think it was a pre-cherry design.
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> their role is to get resumes in front of the real decision makers

For recruiting technical people, it is ideal that the recruiters has relevant technical background. The reality is mostly the opposite. So you never know how many good candidates are filtered out because their resumes are lack of flashy keywords.

If the recruiters don't feel hurt, I prefer to screen the resumes by myself. The worse scenario is that you are scheduled for a phone interview. When you look at the resume, it is full of flashy keywords while lack of experience in "serious" projects. I fully understand the candidates are eager to get a job. But after you spent dozens of hours to talk to these unqualified candidates with flashy resumes, it becomes a negative flag. Well, these flashy resumes are a result of the tech-recruiting industry.
That is a great idea... much simpler than I had imagined. I will implement this tomorrow to base off results from today
In many places HR is just a dump for unproductive people that can't be fired.
if you look closely, it only says - "Does X KNOW ABOUT"
It would probably make sense to offer the transcription as a paid service but leave the audio-only as free. If my app was released I would definitely think about using this service! I really like the idea!
My mind went immediately to "what if it was real life", recoiled in horror at the dystopian-ness of it and then returned in fascination:

There are people all over the world dying right now for lack of some small amount of food or medicine. What if you could click a button and send them a nickel to keep them alive a few more minutes? Like World Vision, but in a Philip K. Dick novel.
As someone who is grateful for your research and analysis, thank you, but filing a bug report is going to be WAY more effective, at least for iOS. https://bugreport.apple.com/ will get the ball rolling, even if it's been filed already. The more reports they get, the more likely they'll look at fixing the issue, especially if good use cases are provided.
Does this mean that we can neural network these tiny brains up into a Beowulf Cluster? :) New from Apple, the iBrain Mini. :)

I do like the idea of treating schizophrenia and other mental illnesses with it, maybe repair some brain damage caused by strokes and other things? Remove a brain tumor and replace the damaged tissue with new tissue grown from stem cells?
They could even automatically figure out projects you'd be interested in based on data collected from other backers "people who backed this project also backed" as well as simply using categories you have backed in the past. This is something where I think they'd get quite a few people signed up to a daily or weekly email about new campaigns.

Just the other day I was complaining about this. As someone who tends to back tech and film projects, and lives in Seattle, a film project about the Seattle tech scene went totally under my radar until I had read about the tech company I work for being one of the main backers of it --just hours after the funding period had ended.
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I just added "King of England" to my skills... I'm waiting to see how long it takes somebody to endorse me for that.

In hindsight, I should have added something like "TARDIS Repair" or "n-dimensional Temporal Hypergeography". :-)
Here are some:

http://www.physicschick.com/pole/2012xxxx/psych.txt

By googling those, you can go deeper into the rabbit hole.
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We run a psychometric test on every candidate that walks through the front door. The ones that get hired get their test results in a sit down with HR and the option to share the test results with their colleagues. I don't get to see them unless the hire shares them with me. The purpose of the test and its results is to start the new hire down a road of self-discovery and awareness (if they so choose) that we can leverage into ongoing development and improvement together (again, if they so choose). Its worked brilliantly so far.
That's not as black and white as it seems. An implementation of a compression algorithm is typically a particular library written in a particular computer language. A specification of a compression algorithm is typically described in a specification document such as an RFC. We don't call an RFC an implementation.
A good use of the Raspberry PI. I suppose he can use emulators and make mini versions of the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Apple //e, IBM PC, and of course handheld gaming systems that run classic video game console ROMS on an emulator.
It encodes a 4-byte sequence number in the base64 glop before the 8-byte chunk of data, so all of the DNS labels generated for a file should be unique.
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So we stop trying? The contribution of MySQL to the world of databases is significant.

If your intent is to rebut FUD, then statements like "But just remember that these kids think they’re solving problems that IBM (et al) solved quite literally before they were born in some cases" don't contribute. You're just meeting rhetoric with rhetoric.
> Everything else are people playing arm chair lawyer.

Preemptive rudeness. Classy.
Well done, good idea to offer the service in dosage manually and then identify what needs to be streamlined!
Sorry to hear about your experience. I've felt your pain and it can be terribly discouraging. Couldn't agree more with your thoughts.
First of all, project looks great! Haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I've been impressed with other WebRTC demos, including http://vmux.co which is similar but uses Twitter to authenticate.

My slightly less positive feedback would be, it seems dodgy that it uses personatest.org instead of persona.org (and there's no website at www.personatest.org verifying its legitimacy). Kind of makes me anxious that I'm being phished. Any reason for this? You surely don't want people getting used to entering their Persona credentials at sites other than persona.org.
Thanks. I'd read about the fractal tree indexes, but not the rest. I'll take a look.
Noted and filed! Thank you!
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Not a software company.
Re: Clicking a button to help someone out. This sounds like a project someone I met at a conference this year is working on: http://www.andpeace.com/

It's basically contextual ad-supported donations. Check it out!
Kickstarter is not a pre-order system. It is a patronage system.
Kickstarter really is terrible for actually finding projects to fund. I've only ever found interesting projects through completely external media sources as well. This could be a major competitive advantage for IndieGogo if they were to tackle this problem. I'd be willing to get a targeted newsletter of interesting projects from them.