skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's a language thing on my part, but for me "my follow up" means "my next project after", which doesn't imply any continuation when it comes to the movies' contents. (It's possible I got that wrong but at least you know where I'm coming from)
> * This is a virtual stock exchange using virtual currency. Virtual goods utilized on this site are for entertainment and educational purposes only.

So the favorable interpretation would be that this is a toy exchange... The other possibility being a conveyor of unregistered securities.
The Man Who Would Not Use Facebook For Anything Less Than A Million Dollars
I find Toronto a much easier city to cycle in than San Francisco, but the streetcar tracks are utter murder.
It would be helpful if dependencies like jQuery were visible on the category (tag search result) pages.
The shell by default ignores spaces, you have to specifically force it to acknowledge them by enclosing the name in quotation marks or escaping with a backslash. In that situation, a command line tool should do what it's told, not disobey a direct command. Leave the rubber padded tools for the GUI land.
Agreed! I feel retaining case-sensitivity in file systems in 2013 is basically trolling users. I can think of no practical upside; only the opportunity for annoying jokes and tricks.
Four European startups presenting at The Next Web USA
TBone.js - use graph theory to put ajax requests to sleep
Oh, I'd call them correctly priced.

During the gold rush, eggs were selling for the modern equivalent of $83 each. Cheese was $700 per pound. And this was paid by miners who were making the equivalent of a few hundred bucks per day.

When crazy people want to give you a lot of money, you raise your prices. When they get over their madness, you can always lower them again.
On one hand, cool! On the other hand, uncool, if it encourages more people to have their programs interact with other programs via CLI parsing. We should be using APIs and libraries instead of working around the lack of them.
Lessons Learned After First Year With Startup StackDriver
Not surprising. There's really not much justification for getting worked up over this. They're not sunsetting a critical component of Youtube. This isn't a Google Reader...come on.

4 people in a million? You'd get rid of the feature too. That's what you should do - it might alienate four people, but honestly, your business has to pick and choose which customers to piss off. You really can't please everyone in the world with your decisions, and this frankly wasn't useful to Youtube from a mathematical perspective.

The math pretty much proves it - this was a smart decision. People will adapt and get over it. This is barely news.
I'm a little curious. In order to get calorie count for every dish, don't you have to get the ingredient formulation from the restaurant for every dish on the menu?

And in your definition of restaurants, are you counting multiple restaurants in one franchise as a number in your 410,000 restaurant count?
When they have to defend the very values and purpose of their company, I think it show something's wrong yes.
How are you comparing the two? Snappycam is great but far from perfect, and we haven't seen results from AlgoTrim.
The Six Deadly Sins of Leadership
Sadly Windows 95 did not support Unicode until unicows came out many years later. It sure would have been nice if it had as then perhaps the Win32 API could have been Unicode-only.
Not that it will help you now, but WooCommerce is by far the best free WordPress e-commerce plugin I've used. They charge for extensions, but it's also very easy to extend. I created a custom payment option in just a few hours.
A $1 rear screen protector protects against that and gives it a really great grippy feel on the back. It's so much nicer to hold than having to put a clunky case on it.
That might protect your "data at rest", but communicating with a foreign endpoint makes your "data in motion" even more vulnerable to NSA spying. http://www.zdnet.com/the-lunacy-of-trying-to-avoid-nsa-spyin...
You only need to transmit the key once, and the timeframe for that is anytime between installation and the first request of the NSA.

That is a lot of regular ping message, directory listing, software update that can be overlooked in that period.

As another commenter pointed out that you voluntarily give the password if you use the web UI. Probably the same if you use a mobile client. So there is build-in room for honest mistake in their service definition.

So basically, you still need to trust a third party, and looking at the recent news, they are really out there to get you.

Another thing that nobody is talking about and at the heart of internet. What about all those SSL certificates ?
The key is correct. Remember you are a mindless drone, as such you are not expected to take charge. Them above, they know best.

Anyone remember that case when a prank caller called a McDonalds, telling them that they were management and that they should strip-search a female employee? McDonalds has an employee handbook with all the procedures for the robot, and if you can make it appear that what you ask is in the handbook you have hacked the robot. This is the background to that story. Excellent robots they have at McDonalds.

The reason for this procedure is that they want to pick up people from the streets and train them in a week. This is how you do it.
Ah acryonyms, the death of us all.
SysWOW64 is from the 90s?
Oh, that I didn't fully appreciate. That actually makes it more reasonable. (Not being sarcastic!)

What are you trying to do? Make me feel bad for having a good laugh at the name when I first looked it up? :)
That's a really cool idea. I think this would work in really dense cities (sf, ny, portland, etc).
Version Control for Data
Building Sales Skills When You're Technical
It should be faster. What is the format?
"Socialists like the present government will never understand a free market, if they want these expensive drugs for free, they have to pay for them somehow."

Can you substantiate your claim that the present government in India is socialist and that they don't understand free markets?

Also, the article does not talk about free drugs?
That's ridiculous. People are less passionate about their jobs today because 1) there are many more unfulfilling, essentially unnecessary jobs and 2) people see more opportunities to switch to new, more interesting work (even if they usually don't take the leap, and even if the opportunity isn't really there). Sometimes people end up in these unfulfilling jobs thinking it's their passion, then have an identity crisis when they realize that they aren't "making a difference" - say, the politics example.

A decent take on the real issue: http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
'Dropping nuclear waste into the sun' is more expensive than most people think. It's a matter of delta-v. From here you can't just drop something down the Sun's gravity well and expect it to fall in. In terms of energy cost it's more like lifting it all the way up there, more or less.
Researcher Controls Colleague's Motions in First Human Brain-To-Brain Interface
Listen, I agree with you on this with things like Google Reader.

But 4 in a million people clicked on the video responses. On a mathematical level, it just wasn't worth it. This isn't a big deal, I don't know why everyone is getting so worked up about it. It's an extremely marginal feature, not a flagship component being eliminated tomorrow without warning.
Good idea. I was thinking of implementing something like where you could filter search results by dependency, but for now simply displaying the dependencies would work. Thanks!
Thank you! I was hoping that I wasn't the only one bothered by this.
The problem is, there isn't anything else kinda similar - Web Components will enable things that are impossible for libs like jQuery Mobile and jQuery UI to do presenting (with any degree of sanity). The Web Component APIs will also allow us to optimize the code paths most important to component development, again, something that will never happen for random UI framework X, Y, or Z.
How to I delete Objectives section? I am in 'Manage Sections' but how do I delete it?
I read the article twice, but failed to find the attack vector. How would you get infected by this, short of running it yourself manually?
I saw this talk at Clojure/West and it was excellent!

I've got it on in the background now while I do some rather mindless tasks. Unfortunately in this version, Rich seems a little tired / low energy in the beginning, but it really picks up in the middle. The bits about instruments and players is especially both illuminating and entertaining.

Overall a great talk, well worth watching.
Have pride and confidence when you speak of being an entrepreneur. Dammit, you're an innovator! A job creator! A creative person! With a variety of skills and challenges! You love what you do! You're a risk taker! You're your own boss! You are in control of your future and you are doing exactly what you want with your life!
> My views reflect Darwin's. Is he scientific enough for you?

An opinion doesn't turn into a scientific proposition because it matches the speculation of someone who also did significant scientific work.

The whole point of science is that it is method, independent of who is doing it.
Well thats just wrong, thats what /srv/http is for, to serve http, but historically websites were served from your home, as then they where known as home (personal) sites, and they're still known as "home sites" in many non-english languages.

Now when you have web applications they can be in /srv as well and the database is usually wrongly put in /var (looking at you mysql) but what you gonna do when you need a system user, just like a users stuff is supposed to be in home so put your database there /home/postgresql/its_datas here, as anyway you need to run the db as its own user.

Makes sense no?
I'm interested in what sort of problems you had with Phusion Passenger. What makes you say it is slow and bloated? We've even had users who switched away from Puma and Unicorn for the exact same reasons you mentioned.

But in our experience the app server is rarely the cause of such problems. Most people who complained about bloat in Unicorn/Puma/Passenger eventually discovered that it was a problem at the application level after all.

We'd be happy to help you with your issues if you can tell us more.
Abundance: We're Becoming Gods and Don't Even Know It
Err on the side of psychopathic. Seriously.

This post sums it up well: http://melbel.hubpages.com/hub/Unicru
You seem proud of the fact that with your $20 pricing you are turning your module into a commodity.

Although I'm sure consumers will cheer you on, I think the typical entrepreneurial thought is that having your product turn into a commodity is a bad thing because there is no money in it.

Do you have a different viewpoint on this?
Rubber padded I do not expect. Retarded I also do not expect.

Explain the validity of:

mkdir " "
mkdir " "
mkdir " "

?

It at least violates the principle of least surprise
What is a feature toggle?
Nor can technology continue to match population growth / Part of the Zeitgeist. The first rumblings of limits were starting to echo about in the 1960s, though the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth wasn't published until 1972.

We've gone way past the Club Of Rome's theoretical limits. Food supply isn't so much a matter of production or distribution anymore, but a matter of politics. I'd say technology is keeping up well with population; a quintessential example being third-world tribesmen owning cell phones.

Undoubtedly, the world of A.D. 2014 will have agreed on the [lowering the birth rate]. / Sadly, not.

Actually the world birth rate is tapering off, to the point that some countries face a population implosion. Japan is in dire risk of actually vanishing from sub-sustainable replacement rates. Russia is promoting reproduction as a national policy goal. It's not a matter of agreement on a goal, it's the human nature of highly developed societies toward insufficient procreation (luxurious living with easy contraception makes the inconveniences of parenthood undesirable and avoidable).
From pg's own "What you can't say"

Every era has its heresies, and if you don't get
imprisoned for them you will at least get in enough
trouble that it becomes a complete distraction.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Support is already under way for slider in Firefox, and the rest of the input elements are in development. Why don't you contribute to the project instead of shooting off crass remarks about what "other people", "those people", or "they", need to do.
It would be cool if you could divert only a fraction of traffic into a particular test. A future feature, perhaps?
"Be who you are, and if women don't like it, they're not a good fit. Bullshit now comes back to haunt you later." These are extremely wise words to live by.
Thank you for your excitement for data channels and willingness to use the bleeding-edge stuff. I'm the author of the RTP-based data channels in Chrome, and I've been working hard to update those to be SCTP-based data channels. We now have SCTP-based data channels in Chrome M30 behind a flag, which will hopefully graduate to "not behind a flag" in M31. I apologize that it's taken so long and that you've had to do so much to work around the RTP-based data channels. Such is the bleeding edge, I suppose.

Also, I think it might be a good idea for readers to update the article with a few notes and fixes. For example:

- SCTP-based data channels don't require messages to be less than 1200 bytes. The RTP-based data channels do. In other words, SCTP-based data channels will break up your message in chunks for you, so you don't have to when using SCTP-based data channels.

- SCTP-based data channels support binary data, so you don't need that base64 encoding when using SCTP-based data channels.

- SCTP-based data channels always do congestion control, so any "flow control" in JS is really just controlling how much data gets buffered by the browser. It's a good idea not to make that grow too large, but it doesn't effect what is sent on the network, unless you let the buffer go empty.

- It is not correct to say "to optimize transfer speeds, unreliability is key". Doing reliability yourself on top of unreliabile mode in JS will not be any faster. In fact, it will probably be slower. What you may want is unordered data, meaning you can get the file chunks out of order. But that won't speed up getting the whole file; it will just speed up getting a particular chunk. If I were you, I would use reliable, but perhaps unordered mode, which SCTP-based data channels support.

- The bandwidth hack for sending more than 30kpbs with RTP-based data channels is probably a bug, and I wouldn't recommend relying on it.

- WebRTC always uses ICE, so it's not accurate to say "ICE or just STUN", it's more like "ICE with TURN or ICE without TURN". Either way, it's still using ICE.
> There is absolutely zero reason why HR/recruiting people should have final say on a candidate.

I can think of one. If they are responsible for doing a criminal background check, and have found serious criminal activity in the prospective employee's past.

That's not to say that some prospective hires can't be rehabilitated; but in certain cases, hiring someone with a criminal background is just too much of a risk, and it's not unreasonable for HR to have a final say on this.

Other than that, yeah, you're right.
Most of the time someone does something really stupid they think they had good reasons for it. It's only the truly dense that continue to believe they have good reasons after the fact.
Android OS is the target of 79% of all malware attacks
I understand why you think that way, but there are reasons HR-related folks get involved in these types of things. Note that I cannot speak for this particular company or their processes, but I can speak generally.

Properly validated psychometric tests are valid predictors of job performance (by which I mean objectively and factually correlated with actual work performance), and a properly constructed work-relevant test will be on the whole will be more valid than subjective judgments from most technical professionals. Of course there will be hits and misses, but the consistent application is the key to its use. If you don't consistently apply it, it becomes worthless.

But, let's throw that out of the window for a second because in this particular anecdote I don't think it's relevant. This test they were using seems more like a cultural fit, specifically a person-organization fit test. These tests are less about predicting job performance than they are about predicting organizational commitment and ultimately tenure [1]. Surely we can agree that those things are important too.

But, let's again say that this candidate's aptitude is so impressive that we don't mind an increased statistical chance that his or her tenure may short. The real issue is that legally you are obligated to apply the same set of criteria all of your employees for a given role (not necessarily the exact same position, but comparable positions). If the company is applying cognitive testing, personality testing, drug testing, person-org. fit testing, etc. to one group of applicants, you now cannot fail to adhere to that criteria because it is an invitation for legal liability, however seemingly-spurious.

Having said that, it's important that your selection processes have been validated previously, or at least are in the process of being validated (which provides some protection). I also have a big concern with the linked situation because: 1) it's a cultural-related test, which means the possibility to show cultural-related bias is high and 2) they were unwilling to make language accommodations, which seems unnecessarily rigid when native-level English skills are likely not a core component of the job. Point #1 can be accounted for in some shape or form (at a minimum through a low cutoff score), but Point #2 is more problematic.

Anyway, there is a reason companies adopt "Big Corp" characteristics as the scale. The primary reason is for legal compliance through standardization of process, and the other is that data is supportive of the validity of objective predictors of job success relative to subjective judgments.

I realize I may be opening myself up to some criticism and scorn from HN crowd for seemingly representing "Big Corporate" or acting like a Bob from Office Space, but so be it. Despite what it may seem, there are often smart people using evidenced-based processes driving seemingly asinine HR processes that drive you crazy. And sometimes there aren't, and it's just a big pain in the ass for poor reasons.

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[1] PDF of meta-analytic findings about person-job/org fit: http://nreilly.asp.radford.edu/kristof-brown%20et%20al.pdf
Out-Tridging Tridge by improving rsync
> Not all psychologists see eye-to-eye on the tests issue.

But psychologists don't see eye to eye on anything -- that's one of the obstacles to turning psychology into a science.

> In the case mentioned in the article, even a professional that truly trusts the tests should have taken into consideration:

> 1) make his own assesment and check against the test score,

On the contrary, if psychology were a science, a clinical psychologist administering a standardized test should produce the same high correlation with reality as a clinical doctor administering a standardized test. But this is certainly not the case, and one of the reasons for this discussion is that psychologists are often married to the outcome of a test that isn't a reliable measure of its subject. A psychologist's confidence in a test's unreliable results is an obvious theme in the linked article.

> Carefull when disregarding a whole field based on preconceptions.

Tell that to Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, who recently and reluctantly decided to abandon the DSM, psychiatry and psychology's standard diagnostic manual, on the ground that it's becoming less scientific with each new edition:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-...

My point is that, when a field's opinion leaders disregard a whole field, it's no longer a preconception.

> All fields have different branches and disagreements.

When a medical doctor says you have cancer, it's 99% certain you have cancer. When a psychologist says you have Asperger Syndrome, the reliability of the diagnosis is so unreliable and divorced from reality that the diagnosis has been reluctantly abandoned after an epidemic of phony diagnoses.

The same pattern applies to most other psychological diagnoses and decisions -- they are very subjective. Tom Widiger, who served as head of research for DSM-IV, says "There are lots of studies which show that clinicians diagnose most of their patients with one particular disorder and really don't systematically assess for other disorders. They have a bias in reference to the disorder that they are especially interested in treating and believe that most of their patients have."

> I think it's because of it being a young field ...

Psychology and psychologists have been around making pronouncements since before the U.S. Civil War. That makes psychology one of the oldest fields that has scientific pretensions.

> it's hard to agree on what the standards are to measure good/bad practice.

Yes, true, which is why psychology is now being replaced by neuroscience -- the latter can produce more objective results.
As someone who tried to launch a music service as well, I know how hard they are. Good luck, this looks really nice! Indie music discovery is still an area ripe for improvement IMO :)
Bill Gates: My first 'Ask Me Anything' on Reddit
Hey, SpiderOaker here!

While open-sourcing the desktop client isn't going as fast as we'd like, I'd like to point out that practically all current and future projects are open source on our GitHub (https://github.com/SpiderOak/), including our next-gen encryption system Crypton (which will eventually replace the data structures in the desktop client ANYWAY)
Have a read about how that is a myth.
Seems like the kind of thing that you'd keep in your attic forever.