skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was not campain aimed to make Edge. It was marketing and publicity stunt by Canonical to have some data to feed to vendors which supply them with stuff to make Ubuntu phone. It was something like prototype car to show off at exhibition, just to draw attention. They make numbers bigger because that is the main reason behind this campain. Now they have some point of reference, and they can show to suppliers that they are serious. Even if it was 15.000 Edges they know that they have audience. Besides IndieGoGo made couple of dollars on those pledged money as samstokes wrote, put couple of mils (specially not yours) in bank and get the percents, nice.
I agree about MBTI - until I understood that I was allowed to have a personality preference for perceiving over judging (preferring to live in the moment than plan ahead in detail) I was stressing myself worrying about why I was so rubbish at planning, rather than trying to find a career where it was less important! (the only careers I've come up with so far are stock exchange trading and politics - if anyone has any others I'd be interested to hear. I like coding, especially in sprints, but I am absolutely terrible at estimating how long it will take me to write things.)

I find that every time I take an IQ test I get a higher score - I presumed because I'm learning what sort of questions IQ tests ask and how to answer them faster - so when required I just quote the first ever test I took as my IQ (which was a very unscientific one, unfortunately, by answering questions along with a TV program. I also had a score bump for age, because I was only 16.) I was, at the time, delighted that I got higher than my maths teacher! remember too, though, that IQ is heavily biased towards people with a "western" education.

IQ isn't very important though, once you get above 130 - the differences don't correlate to greater performance in any real test cases. The difference in performance at those levels is to do with attitude, experience, vocabulary (outside of technical fields I've studied/worked in, mine is awful), and all sorts of soft factors.

(apologies if I'm wrong, but I assume that anyone with karma on hacker news is IQ >= 130 or so.)
Which by the way is the same process you go through for college admissions.
"We're sorry, we can't admit you"
"Why?"
"This email was sent by an automated system. For questions, please send an email to admissions@uni.edu"
OR
"Congratulations, you've been admitted"
"Nice, but I'd like to know for what"
"Well, we decided that way. You're in, why do you care?"
There's not floating point stuff going on, that's why it works. :)

a and b are ints, so a/b is truncated (rounded down) before applying *b.
drop me a support email on the site and we can have a chat, there are a few interesting things we could talk about.
I had a small video on my channel a while ago which originally procured a few thousand hits but when someone made a much more popular video response (made popular due to virality through reddit/digg) my viewings for that video shot up due to, as you described, "reverse click-through".
That's one good looking website. And you can skip all registrations, go straight for the meat, which is also great. Are those templates all your own design?

Unfortunately, the preview doesn't work for me. Do you have some problems or is it a matter of only half-filling the form?

BTW What's "Pincode" in the contacts section? Zip/postal code?

EDIT: No, got it. You need to click save on each section. Unfortunately it doesn't handle non-ascii characters.
> Does the CEO have time to analyze optimal organization designs?

Optimal for what? I do think the CEO or someone similar needs to figure out what you want from the organization and design it. HR may have input but it is just input.

HR can do the market calibration research. That's a good role for them. Initial fit? That should be the team or team manager. Background checks? Either HR or an administrative assistant somewhere.

Without HR, that work should fall upon the team manager and maybe some assistance somewhere. It can be done though.

Bottom line, yes, there is a role for HR, I think. No, I don't think it is a big role.
Obama administration asks court to force NYT reporter to reveal source
Yep, this. My wife refuses to use it. It's a form of inverted snobbery and a symptom of the UK's class culture.
What about markdown? As long as the service is new, I would be scared of having my CV depended on your app. Yes, I know LaTeX, I also know it's a pain to set up if you are applying "non standard" formatting.

By the way, I don't know where are you from, but this tool looks cool enough for Nordic countries. In particular, you could target easily carrier centers in Danish universities (http://bss.au.dk/knowledge-exchange/career-centre/). These centers offer free advice for students' CV. I see this service being advised or even used there (like the students upload his CV on the system and gets help virtually).
So it looks like NYTimes is down.
And here I thought my company was one of the few doing it in SA...
I feel a bit insulted that I can't sign up with my own domain. That's a bad move.
The task for an HR person? The scope really depends on your organisations needs and on the quality and qualifications of your HR person. In general: Handle or at least support all tasks that are associated with employees and other people in your company.

The scope can be as narrow as "do background checks on hires, do the math on their desired pay and tell me how much each one would cost and if there's any red flags" or as broad as "do a first phone call and check out if you think that person is a good fit culturally." Handle all associated paperwork, set up interview dates, handle travel and accommodation arrangements for the prospective hire, ... Handle all paperwork associated with employees, sick leave, keep track of holidays, ... Follow changes in applicable law. Organise team building events. I know of an HR department that organises monthly lunches where people of the company get randomly assigned to groups so that they get to know other people working in the same company, not only their team peers. There's a lot of things you can do as HR person. Not everybody needs everything and not every HR person may have the required qualifications for each task, so you probably just have to figure out what exact set of responsibilities right for your place.
Obama's Bluff
The main reason we lag so far behind is that most of us don't have a "Let's do something prone to failure and find out if it will actually work!" mentality. In general we pay too much attention to thoughts and too little to feelings when it comes to business ventures. Add to that a dash of extreme risk avoidance and you've got the perfect recept for a very weak startup culture. Of course, the ones who are the opposite of that get struck down relentlessly by the collective mentality.

These wacko interviewing processes are just another symptom of this. Don't think any comptetent business leader actually believe these scores matter at all. In the end it's just another safeguard against (gasp!) taking a risk.
C25K was like an epiphany for me. I've always hated running and have never been very good at it. But working up incrementally and hitting goals has allowed me to really enjoy running. Great way to bootstrap an exercise routine IMO.
I run a small software company which $BENEFITS_STATEMENT.

You can tailor the benefits to whatever you thing the person you are speaking to values.
Ustream made opensource a ton of new things: YOLO, Daemon, Rokka
I was speaking to a Welsh comp-sci grad who was moving to London to be a programmer, for £19,000 p.a.

There's something mysterious about the low wages for programmers.
'Run a small business' is a great phrase to test.
'The guy'?

Interesting choice of words for Jeff Atwood...
> I've seen a business peddling a "meditation-based program" which claims to cure cancer.

That's more than shocking and depressing -- i's often illegal. If a person makes such a claim within the covers of a book, it's legal, but if he makes the claim as part of an advertisement, promotion or speech, he can be prosecuted for (among other things) practicing medicine without a license.
Can you give us some good, non-awkward-to-say, benefit statement examples?
New Zealand bans some software patents
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I find it ridiculous that in 21st century people still hope that there will be one, easy-to-implement (and preferably instantly working and cheap as well) answer to this question. There are several (at least 20) different (de)motivators and each of us have his own configuration of them. But we still have to listen to the stick or carrot debate. Sigh....
What is missing in the discussion of this and the previous article is some reflection on physiology and why could prolonged sitting possibly be bad for you in the first place. One must know that that there are many processes in the human body that can only be executed efficiently when we move, like for example transfer of lymph or movement of digested food through the intestines (involuntary smooth muscle contractions are also involved in both processes but skeletal muscle contractions make it much more effective). Problems with the gastrointestinal tract, like not visiting the toilet often enough, have been linked to a great amount of diseases, so this is something to be concerned about.

Hence doing sports after 8 hours of sitting will not necessarily counterbalance all the negative effects involved. I am not so sure working standing would be better, either. I think a good practical recommendation that is great in many aspects is to take a short break every 2 hours or so and get just 5 minutes of exercise done, just enough to get the heart beating a bit faster and the blood circulating, it can be just basic stretching or isometric contractions, whatever you are able to easily execute in your office environment. It makes the work day much more productive, too.
Is it worth buying a MacBook Air?
I'm thinking of getting the 13-inch MacBook Air, but I'm not sure if it's worth the investment.

I strongly prefer Linux to OS X (having used a company MBP for about a year), so OS X in itself is not so much of a big deal. But I'm still willing to give it (OS X) another shot, though.

Right now my biggest problem is justifying the value/worth to be gained for the sky-high price tag (for my own peace). With the i7+(8GB RAM) upgrade, and NY tax (~9%), the price hovers close to $1,470.[1]

Is this machine really worth almost $1.5k?

[1] Base price: $1099.
i7 Upgrade: $150.
8GB RAM upgrade (from 4GB): $100.
Total (sans tax): $1349.
9% sales tax: $121.
TOTAL = $1,470
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Letting an Employee Go
Step 3: Grow, and attract some parasitic employees

Step 4: Lose a trivial discrimination / disability / wrongful termination suit because you didn't keep the right paperwork.
> Are there good HR departments?

That depends. Are they staffed by psychologists? If yes, then no. Psychology and psychological testing are losing credibility very rapidly right now:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-...
What happens when you reach e.g. the rightmost position of the rod?

A mouse has "infinite" movement, the rod only has infinite vertical movementent, unless I'm missing something.
Have been wanting to get an API at the local university, but facing similar issues others have mentioned in that guidebook. The administrators spew security concerns, but really they're just worried that students will build better services for each other using access to open data, and thus eventually put them out of a cushy job.
That's not what I meant. I was just replying to parent that was, to me, implying that Google had a huge team working on Go.
It would be ironic if the company that used to be the iconic "two guys in a garage" success story cheapened the word startup.

"I started working at a startup last week. Before you ask, no, I don't sell iPads."
This breaks with non-ASCII characters. Hard. The ö in my name becomes "ouml;" – some HTML encoding mangling is present there somewhere which really shouldn't be happening in 2013. There isn't even a reason to even use those entities in HTML. The ß in my street name manages to remove the rest of the street name completely from the output. I'd suggest you should test that data entered on the web site goes through unmangled to LaTeX and then use XeLaTeX to stay clear of Unicode problems (and also for better font support).

Fun facts:

- ö gets mangled, ö (o and U+0308) results in "o?"
- ü doesn't get mangled and survives in the PDF for some reason
- When you return to the page all of ö, ü and ß are replaced by their HTML entities

Date formats could use at least ISO 8601 as well.

You can enter math mode and do fun stuff, but with people not knowing that it's LaTeX underneath this probably just invites fun errors when people use $ to mean $.

I've written my CV in LaTeX 1½ years ago (mostly because I didn't have a good-looking template in Word and was too lazy to build one myself) and I remember that I had to fight hard against moderncv to get it to do the things I wanted. It's not exactly flexible.
Collaboration with Mutti – The number 1 tomato brand in Italy
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Interesting article.

RE: Nuremberg Defence.

Do you really think it would have been smart for the Germans to hire people who wouldn't have followed their orders?

But in a profession environment, yep I'd agree you don't want all people who just follow orders, quite different to work environments where you want people to act more like machines aka call centres, sweat shops, army etc.
IQ numbers vary based on tests, to some degree, so "130" doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. What I'd found is that I was in the same percentile on all tests (took 3 a few years ago) compared to tests from 30 and 20 years ago.

The raw score numbers might have changed up or down slightly, but same percentile in my case.
So you've decided to become a startup CEO.
How a Near-Death Experience in the Jungle Inspired a Blockbuster Zombie Game
This gives me a bad feeling. If the "false signup" is SUCH an issue, it makes me speculate that the end goal is to have my details for some other purpose - like passing on to annoying recruitment companies.
This program is only for customers who have bought the phone via Google Play. It doesn't include orders placed via distribution (as far as I can tell).
They need to be more Lean!
I guess not even LaTeX users can be expected to have any form of typographical training. After all, they usually tell you that LaTeX handles everything automagically far better than you could do on your own ;-)
Simple NodeJs LOG Module
Spain lowered 100 euros too.
Huh, I don't see any archive links on that page, where are they?
Short question: Do you have employees? We do have a handful and the amount of work associated with them [1] is astounding. On average it used to cost me 20% of my time until we hired someone for administrative and HR work. Now, we're a small company and have no need for a full HR position, but that role is taken by a person and I can quite well tell that the more employees we hire, the more we'll move to a dedicated HR position. It's not a "big" role, but it's still an important one. I value that work being taken off me.

[1] paperwork, monthly company events, ...
Did you A/B test those kinds of statements with girls prior to getting married? :-)
Isn't physique, like, orthogonal to fitness? Bodybuilding may be a way to get fit, but working out in general does not require it at all. I think the lesson we all can take from Arnold is the mental effort, strength of will and so on, not necessarily the specific exercises he used to perform.
Show HN: Fast domain auction checking tool
Hey guys,

I built this as a test app to consume the DomCop API. I managed to make it fast enough and with a (hopefully) useful interface for searching for domains that are on auction across various sites or have expired and can be back ordered.

Hope you guys like it. Let me know how I can make it better

Disclaimer/Warning: this webapp is deemed dangerous for anyone with a propensity to purchase domains they don't need :)
Yeah, that's definitely a possible rate. A high end one though. I think contract rates for Python devs average around 500/day ($772 USD). Base salary seems to average at 45-50k.

Also bonuses. Bonuses in London can be 100% of salary or more.

National health insurance is not really free in the UK... but UK contractors pay less tax than US ones generally. German freelancers get paid more, but pay more tax (and get more holidays).

Developers outside of London can earn less, but many prefer it.
Didn't they pull a similar story telling people an attack on them by Cyberbunker impacted the London Internet Exchange, prompting quite some pandemonium?

I remember there being a more somber post after the whole incident by another blog detailing just how little fluctations there were on the alleged day of the incident, and how the numbers didn't stack up.

Cloudflare is tricky, isn't it?
I have two Das Keyboards (the Ultimate edition). Amazing typing experience, and the noise scares away distracting colleagues.
Show HN: Postcard - An Open Source Social Networking Platform for Website Owners
Hi Everyone,

Today I'm proud to announce the upcoming launch of Postcard. You can visit the launch page here - http://www.postcardsocial.net

However, since this is Hacker News, I thought the community might be more interested in my blog entry which explains in detail why the project should be of interest to developers including information about the open API Protocol it will adhere to.

You can read the blog entry here - http://blog.postcardsocial.net/introducing-postcard/

Feedback is welcome and appreciated. I'm actively looking for beta testers and you can sign up on the launch page.
Did you consider using the ATAES instead of the ATSHA? It has onboard authenticated AES (AES-CCM).
Has anyone considered a SCRUM funding model? i.e. Similar to how Patreon's used to fund ongoing deliverables from YouTube artists (among others) the team could have patrons sign up to pay a smaller amount on a fortnightly basis, with the development team announcing their goal for that sprint, then taking funding on delivery. This gives patrons the option to back out further down the project if things go off course/change, thus reducing risk in committing to a failing project, whilst allowing other patrons to sign up down the line as the project starts to look increasingly feasible.
Optionally small awards could be given per pledge, whilst larger rewards (e.g. your own phone) given to those who've given a certain amount by the end of the project / the pledged amounts could be discounted from the resulting phone's price.
‘Natural Flavor’ Comes From A Beaver’s Butt
Some people are hell-bent to kill a deal in order to demonstrate their worth. This happens sometimes with lawyers, and these 'ambitious' deal-killing lawyers are toxic to work with. I hadn't considered it before, but this may be common elsewhere too, such as HRA departments.
After all, they usually tell you that LaTeX handles everything automagically far better than you could do on your own ;-)

I got bit by propaganda too last year.

I am a little nervous at the moment because I am picking up latex again in some weeks after months of not using it and I wonder what has changed and what I have forgotten since then.
The post-lunch dip can also be prevented by having a healthier lunch with less carbs (especially sugar and highly processed carbs). Go for a salad with meat or egg, and whole grain bread if you really need bread. And not more than one piece of bread. This has helped me a lot.
Nice clean design. What do the different colors for the boxes mean?
> Isn't physique, like, orthogonal to fitness?

Not if "physique" means not being obese. If "physique" means "photogenic," then yes -- they're pretty much unrelated.

> Bodybuilding may be a way to get fit, but working out in general does not require it at all.

Very true, and if people thought they had to build up muscle and look like Arnold, it would set the fitness movement back.
Although the primary structure of DNA remains unaltered it is still possible for the environment to alter the traits of offspring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetics
China is more free than the west in some areas, depends what freedom you care about. No democracy but we actually have some Internet (like hackernews).

Anyways, I just want sausage.
Can I assume you have neither spouse nor child? I'd argue that once those things come along you might disagree with your own statement. You could probably rephrase it so I agreed with you, though: "People don't work because they want to support their boss's high standard of living, they work because they want to improve their own."

Is that what you meant?
But so had Apple Corps (owner of Apple Records, the Beatles record label). They came to a financial arrangement and let Apple Computer use it as long as they didn't make anything related to music...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
I think it depends on the organization. I have never worked anywhere where the HR team had such a large role in hiring - that was not part of their mission. They freely acknowledge they were not qualified to do that. In all of my experience - at mid - large- size companies, the HR people did very high-level phone and resume screenings, if that. After that, it was up to the hiring manager and team. I've also heard of those "personality" tests being used as tie-breakers. But never to reject an otherwise highly qualifed - and preferred - candidate.
Any chance of opensourcing this? This could be great as a tool for teams that participate in tenders that have common projects (link against project database).
Then you cant afford the phone surely? Its not cheap, and you are living on a budget, it was pitched as a luxury item pretty much.
The different colors are to represent the different page ranks of the domains. You can check the FAQ for what each color stands for. Basically grey = PR0, blue = PR1 or PR2, orange = PR3, Green = PR4 and Red = PR5+
No shit... it almost reads like a hit-piece on MelbourneIT (damning with faint praise).

But at least they rode in with some knights from the mighty Google and OpenDNS to patch some caching issues and release a State of the Domains address.

Meanwhile the empires of NYT and Twitter were left being ravaged by hordes of Syrian Ninjas and an overseas registrar.
TM is one of the most widely practiced, and among the most widely researched meditation techniques.[7][8][9]
Source: Wikipedia

So it just makes sense to talk about that one. The others ones aren't really researched that well. Which variation would you prefer?
There are lots of guitar competitions hosted on YouTube. The way to enter this competition is by replying to the original video.

Maybe by using the title, description, etc. the competition creator can aggregate them and create a playlist but that's more work for them. Just browsing through the video responses is a much quicker way currently for both the competition creator and participant.
How to completely miss the point but use it as an excuse for some half-assed rant about patents. The repeated ignorant, ill-informed, incorrect amd emotive use of the word 'monopoly' merely betray your naivety.
I wanted to be a scientist and here I am a spreadsheet mason :)
Meh this is kind of an irrelevant complaint in my opinion. It's not like everyone is out to look like Arnold in his prime - 99% of people would be thrilled to look 1/10 as good as he did (and they would look good).