skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Video is so bloody inefficient for anything other than how-to. Video is lazy journalism for those unwilling to subject themselves to the rigors of concision or clarity demanded by the written word. When the video/text ratio of a site rises, I stop visiting.
Just curious if the HR manager took the psychometric evaluation?
There was one in the video, but I don't see it on the hardware page. Also, why is the stand $130?

Edit: I see that is the retail price from http://hecklerdesign.com/product/windfall-for-ipad/
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Yes, but did you noticed a pattern where God leaves most stuff to humans to do?

Even some miracles are not miracles (ie: Jericho wall destruction, God explained what people had to do, but if you pay attention, it was a matter of physics, not supernatural power).
Yes.

It would probably be better to say "just a particle and not a also a wave".
A proper coding keyboard would have the numbers A-F next to the numpad.
I suspect the tests I had at 9 were age-specific, but I've still kept in the same percentile.

What was interesting to me was tests a couple years ago - the questions were sometimes things like

"I'll say a number, you repeat it back to me with the digits reversed".

They kept going until you couldn't do it anymore. I think I conked out around 9 or 10 digits.

"Give me as many names as you can in 10 seconds" (something like that).

"Spot the differences between these two pictures".

I'm wondering in what ways questions like these can be (or are) culturally biased? I can think of ways myself, but curious as to what others think.
Or simply have more than 16GB of stuff that you want to have at hand.
Other great examples are the bodybuilders of the 50s like Steve Reeves, when aesthetic standards were a bit different (broad shoulders / thin waist, eg. look for the 'vacuum pose'.)
Perhaps Apple are launching a new technology/device/API called "Startup" on Sept 10? ;-)

This could be a defensive filing in preparation for one more thing...
Chicago? Last time I checked, that city is within the jurisdiction of the United States and not immune to national security gag letters.

No thanks.

Swiss based Wuala.com is a much better solution.
I am co-owner of a company that make children games.

When people ask what I do, I say: "I make children games."
I interviewed for Sybase here in Portugal, and the process took about 3-4 months as well, after which I dropped out of it before getting an answer. The interviews didn't take a full day, though, just a couple of hours each.
One thing regarding resolution/screen size:

I think as of now, the Rentina MBPs are the only systems (besides mobile) that handle high PPI screens properly.

Whenever you have small screen and high resolution paired together, on most desktops/laptops, you get incredibly tiny everything -- and suddenly you have to strain your eyes a lot to see things (which is something I'd rather not do).

Density independence[1] for desktop OSes is a serious yet-unresolved issue, and without it I don't see ultra-high PPI desktops/laptops becoming common.

I personally prefer lower PPIs (on desktops) than most people. The 13-inch MBA's ~127 PPI is almost pushing it, for me. On the other hand, I love high PPI screens on mobile, as the text looks much sharper and crisper.

[1] https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_suppor... (this section on the Android doc summarizes the "why" for density independence perfectly)
Same misconception as the author.

You didn't want to make games for children. You wanted to make money making games for children. That's fine - it's just not really what "do whatever makes you happy" is about.
I've seen a lot of people recommend Lastpass lately, but couldn't the government force Lastpass to create a backdoor for them to get the passwords before they are encrypted?

I'd also worry about a catastrophic event of Lastpass losing those passwords somehow, and then remaining locked out of many websites.

And what about Bittorent Sync with an old PC as an alternative? They even have an iOS app now.
I've been traveling around the world working 20-40 hours a week on my side projects (startups) for extremely little money. I actually haven't spent a dime in the last 1.5 months.

How do I do it? I spend an additional 10-15 hours working wherever I'm living in exchange for a room and all of my food. It's called WWOOFing, you've probably heard of it. The nice thing is, I get to focus on whatever it is I want without worrying about bills. Sure, it's not for everyone, but I couldn't be happier with how I get to spend my time.

I'm in the middle of brewing up a blog post about this, so feel free to get in touch if you're interested in more about this.

PS: Here is where I currently am (Norway): http://www.flickr.com/photos/reustle/9465059825/lightbox/
Great job trying to do something to help the situation, but unfortunately simply wanting to help is not a substitute for market research: very basic research would have shown you that many ethical pay-for games for children exist on iOS and Android, however you don't hear about them and they're hard to find because nobody buys them. It looks like you researched the (few) successes, but not the (many, many) failures.

The reason most consumers will know about the games that let children buy IAPs is because these games make a lot of money, which gives them large advertising budgets which lets them quickly climb the sales charts. You also see the big conglomerate ones because of advertising. As anybody involved in the Apple or Play store will tell you, most of the money goes to the top apps, and being a top app for any decent length of time requires heavy advertising: either paid or viral. You won't get viral advertising for an ethical children's game.

I honestly don't believe it's even possible to succeed with a quality children's game and make livable money off app store purchases from an unknown developer. Your best bet is to fund it from outside of the app store using something like Kickstarter which will hopefully drum up some support in addition to cash flow. Another option may be to sell it somehow in brick and mortar children's stores at the same kind of prices physical children's games are sold, possibly by including your game on some cheap hardware as a complete package. Either way, good luck, and keep looking for novel business ideas to keep it going!
The hands?
Honestly, how many of you decided to see/buy Power 20 application after reading of this article? ;)
I picked up the Spigen SGP Steinheil Dual for the same reasons. I actually only use the back protector but it's great. Although, while I haven't had issues with my phone slipping off tables, I don't think I can really attribute that to the protector. I find I can still slide my phone across surfaces as if it were a hockey puck on ice.

http://www.spigen.com/brands/google/google-nexus-4-screen-pr...
I was thinking of semi-humanoid industrial robots, like this (prototype) model from ABB: http://www.abb.com/cawp/abbzh254/fcfbdad9a72cfe08c1257862006...
That depends on who is suing you, and where they file.

I remember a decision from a few years ago that said something to the effect that any activity that involved transmission of data through the US could be interpreted as having happened in the US, even if the computers, their owners, and operators all resided outside the US.
Weather widget on android is really nice, and requires 0-clicks.
"So Good They Can't Ignore You" does a good job of covering this - http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...
In Verner Vinge's "Deepness in the Sky" there's a [Human] culture with a filled position called "Director of Human Resources". In the context of that book, that title and position has about as happy undertones as if you were to watch 'The Matrix' and then hear Chevron's advertisement blurb: "Human Energy".
Why don't you just keep it simple ?

You: I run my own business

Girl: hmm what kind of business ? (or she might just stop here)

You: Online business to sell $XYZ

Girl: Oh cool. <She asks another question about the business>

You: Well yea its kinda complicated. So what were you saying about that tilapia ?
There are two things driving policies like this.

First, personal interviews can be poor predictors of future hire performance. People will often hire someone who resonates on a personal level, or who is otherwise charismatic, rather than for the right skillset. Standardized tests, administered correctly, are one way of reducing the variability.

And variability is pain. Your HR and hiring people are likely being judged just the way everyone else is. Hiring, or forcing dev teams to interview, a lot of low-quality candidates without an effective screen is a good way to find yourself being replaced.

The second is that, as people are fond of saying, the standard you walk past is the standard you accept. This is the source of a lot of foolish "musts"––candidates must have a certain GPA, or only go to a certain school, or they have to hit a certain percentage on some tests. Having standards is all well and good until you find a case that doesn't fit your profile and you either get flexible or look foolish.

Being flexible means that other hires complain that you're lowering your standards, and no one likes hearing that either.

The test in this case wasn't correctly administered, as columbo pointed out elsewhere, and I agree that hiring managers shouldn't have a veto over technical hires. But this is the sort of human-dynamics problem that can't be solved by firing entire departments. If you don't address the problem head-on it'll just come back next year in a different form.
Do the highest-paying job that you hate the least.
The Art and Science of the ReTweet; or ReTweeting with a Twist
RequestHN: Automatic Git Commit Names
I would love an extension to Git that takes commit hashes and generates / picks a random comical sentence-case name instead.

E.g. 'commit b24068df769197804e4349230af84703be4ab699' might become 'commit FunkyYellowDonkey'.

This would make it much easier for the end-user to quickly compare commit revisions.

Does anyone know of a Git plugin that does this? I would write it myself when/if I have the time.
And asset sales, and the search and surveillance act, and...
100 subs is all you need to live stream with Youtube
This would be analogous in some respects to a feature in GitHub - when creating a new repository, it offers a random funky name to use.
I'm not entirely sure what your alluding to. My guess is that your claiming they took your idea and ran with it, which irks me.

All I will say is that its a bit unreasonable to assume that Shopify didn't have this in the game plan since going public. With Square slowly moving into Shopify's territory this is a fairly expected movement for Shopify.
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I've sung the praises of Shopify on multiple occasions, here and in real life and to various clients. Their products and services just continue to get better and better, across the board.

Excellent work, Shopify!
> Companies should lose

I don't know how you feel about silly software patents being used to extort money from companies, because trolls know it will be cheaper to settle than to fight.

The same thing can and does happen with labor law.

Obviously some claims have merit and deserve to be heard by a court and get some reasonable relief.

At the same time, just as there are "patent trolls", there are "employment law trolls".
"I also wouldn't be surprised if many of the tests contain an element of uncorrected racial/cultural bias, and the psychometric industry has been exploiting the inability of the government to enforce the law (Employment Equity Act), which makes discriminatory testing illegal."

Bingo! The way it actually works is you organize everything with the assumption that applicants will fail 20% of tests. A different failure mode each time, but the odds are excellent if you give an applicant ten tests, and they fail 1 in 5, every applicant will fail at least one. Then you remove all the undesirables (skin color, sexuality, that kind of thing) and declare the fact that the bosses nephew being the only guy to fail the 360 interview with the janitor turns out to be not relevant, so lets hire him.

In the original article the only reason the 1% test result mattered In That Particular Case is the HR person didn't like that asian's nationality, or race, or religion, or something like that. Guarantee if I was the candidate it would be swept under the rug (unless the HR lady hates me because of my race, politics, religion, of course)
AFAIK registration isn't required on infoq, and I'm watching it right now.
Second that - for people who make the ethical/moral reason for limiting or abstaining from eating/using animal products, this is quite troubling. Seems like food companies could strike a reasonable middle ground by labeling foods as "containing animal products" whenever they do without giving away any trade secrets.
Don't forget Code ®, Application © and Program ™
I’m now thinking of getting the Nexus 4 as a device to learn Android programming instead of the Nexus 7. Since I’m blind I actually prefer a smaller screen since there’s less blank space in between icons and it’s easier to keep track of where things are. Is it possible to use the Nexus 4 without a cell plan? I assume this would just involve putting in a deactivated sim. Is there any prior experience to guess at how long Google will support both the Nexus 4 and the new Nexus 7 with Android updates? If the Nexus 4 may only get one more update but the Nexus 7 will get 3 that would change my decision.
The rationale here was that they still wanted to allow patents of machines and devices and they had to draw the line somewhere since software these days is embedded in almost everything. I think New Zealand has a very good set of laws in place and has shown remarkable courage to pass this anti-software-patent legislation. Unfortunately, their legislation to support government surveillance and software backdoors is really terrible.
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I'm part of the team at NYPL Labs that's been working on these historical geospatial projects for the past few years (The Vectorizer is the work of our own @MGA), and that's EXACTLY what we've been working toward. For almost 4 years, we've had staff and volunteers going over scans of geo-rectified (stitching and stretching a raster image so it aligns with geospatial coordinates) historical insurance maps of NYC meticulously extracting the information on there. Namely we go after the outlines of buildings to capture the amazingly detailed datapoints these maps had about every building in the city all the way back to the first half of the 19th century.

These are nice to have for researchers, but the real purpose of collecting this is, just as you note, to unlock the hidden historical geospatial data in textual materials. Once we've got all those names of places, their addresses, their lat/lon coordinates, and their timeframes of existence, we can start to search through texts to find linkages. Old city directories (they're basically books of ghosts) start to show you who lived and worked where [1] (and in the process starts to get you more names you can associate with these places), address matches in historical newspapers start to show you what happened in these places, and the maps start to become this geospatial backbone to traverse across tons of different datasets.

The Vectorizer is so freaking cool for so many reasons, but mostly because it's going to let us actually get through these insurance atlases to collect this data before we all die (one of our favorites is the 1854 William Perris Atlas [2][3] but it took nearly 3 years to actually get through the 64,000+ buildings in Manhattan south of 42nd st) so we can start doing this kind of querying with it. The real geniuses behind all this, our Geospatial Librarian Matt Knutzen and the team at Topomancy, have been working on an experimental gazetteer [4] so that we'll finally have this as a public web service for people to hack on all these places as we collect and conflate them. Give us a few months...

In the meantime, sign up for the Open Historical Maps project listserv [5] that some of the OSM crew is working on (including the geniuses at Topomancy).

Also, this came out of a historical geospatial hack day [5] we threw a few months back, which you should check out if you want to play around with some of our data sources for this kind of work or for building something else out of historical NYC's geospatial footprint.

[1]: http://andrewxhill.github.io/cartodb-examples/scroll-story/b...
[2]: http://maps.nypl.org/warper/layers/861 Tileserver, please forgive me for linking to you
[3]: http://aaronland.info/nypl-perris/ YEAH SHAPEFILES!
[4]: http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013... Schuyler Earle's presentation on their version of historical gazetteer they're building for the Library of Congress at State of The Map US 2013
[5]: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/12/maphack-hacking-nycs-pas...
FWIW, when I used focus more on networking rather than development, I always used the numpad for typing in IP addresses. I found it was much faster to use it rather than moving horizontally across the number keys, but YMMV of course. Disclaimer: have a DAS Model S at work and home...can't really do without it (at least when the alternative is a terrible laptop keyboard)
Are you still getting paid by Oracle?
Yeah that's my concern too - any vendor can be compelled through secret courts to include backdoors in software.
Mongo is much more than a key-value store. Document sub-components and subarrays can be indexed and aggregated against. I don't see how you can do that with hstore.

Yes, I can totally see how Postgres and hstore can run circles around key-value storage.

And by "all that", I would love to know how to use the open-source versions of Postgres or MySQL to have transparently-sharded tables with joins AND have that be in a replicated environment where I can do real-time failover.
Anyone is free to apply for a trademark for "the" or "computer". The applications would be promptly denied - well, promptly for a government bureaucracy.
I initially brought the issue up. I was unhappy with the way some things were organised and (not) part of my sphere of influence plus a set of other open issues. The initial thrust was to renegotiate, to set responsibilities and expectations straight.

We had an initial round of meetings and then the issue slipped with meetings getting pushed out further and further from the other side. So yes, I think that in this position the other person was in charge. In any case, even if I'd be responsible to push the agenda, a good HR department should not let an open (and known) issue slip. Quite, to the contrary, good HR should recognise situations like this before the employee ever feels the need to push for a contract renegotiation.
I'm not a security expert, but from a management standpoint, obfuscation certainly /slows/ (not inhibits) the spread of homebrew Dropbox clients. Homebrew clients have the potential to create lots of customer support issues...

To a _conservative, lean organization_, it's better to constrain customer use cases to known good clients than to handle fallout such as "I lost all my data!" "What rev of client were you running?" "zAxX0r'2 m0D51c|< ph3y3Ldr.0p 0.0.69r."

That said, I could hope for Dropbox to evolve to a more open (ssh-based?) model, though I'm not a security architect :)
Thanks :)

At first it was using LaTeX to produce the PDF, but now it is just HTML/CSS templating, and the pdf rendering is done using wkhtmltopdf.

Actually, handling special characters was one of the reasons to switch to HTML.
I'm surprised that tech companies are like this. Also I assumed everyone just lies, especially since they say honesty is really important. The questions are usually stupid and the "right" answers are not the truth.
Are there any good articles about how people in countries which allow software patents can benefit from this New Zealand body of law, such as incorporating as a New Zealand company and avoiding US jurisdiction for patent lawsuits?
Warhammer versus sword, I'd like to see this happen.
Fiat (credit) came first. As trust in central authorities broke down, barter & convertible currencies came into vogue.

A good book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Debt-The-First-000-Years/dp/1612191290
Oh, like I said, the idea came from not finding quality games on Android at all, while some existed on iOS (like I mentioned, TocaBoca is a powerhouse there).

My associate has a kid, and some of his friends has kids too, and they bought Android tablets, and quickly ran out of games to install.

Only this year TocaBoca started porting their games to Android for example.
So.... What is the name of your company, and which games have you made? I'm always interested in good, ad-free entertainment for the little ones. Especially with a long flight coming up this weekend.
The worst part about companies using Meyers-Briggs (other than the pseudoscience beliefs around it) is that it's easy to manipulate. If you study the test and know what the company is looking for you can easily answer the questions to the the result you want.
Overpower, Empathy, and Cyberarmies.
Some tests may be acceptable as early filters, if you have a lot of candidates for one vacancy. But opinion of a reliable employee after personal contact should overpower any test IMHO. It's just crazy how HR blocked the candidate. Also, if they knew he couldn't be with the company, why they even let him into the competition? Strange rules.
And that bit about "special treatment" was kinda stupid, he already had disadvantage cause of bad English.
By they way, in order to get 1% on any test I think you have to know all the right answers and respond conversely.
eww, but yeah, forgot about that one (probably purposely).
See post by kencochrane. There's a Nova plugin to OpenStack for Docker containers.
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but a startup with no revenue is a joke unless you haven't launched yet

or is Instagram. And as much of a black swan as Instagram was, don't forget that you don't have to be Instagram, you just have to convince a VC that there's non-negligible chance that you might be.
Ugh. I had to take tests like that when I was interviewing right out of college. The whole experience rubbed me the wrong way. I ended up telling them I smoked (they were 100% smoke free and you could be fired for testing positive for nicotine) just to get them to leave me alone as smoking immediately knocked you out of the running.

Not surprisingly, my company has hired several people from them and absolutely no one has a good thing to say about working there.
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Yes. We see your point. Will see if there is an alternative for that. Not sure wether we want to do away with hyphens. They look pretty good. http://www.cvsintellect.com/img/home/sample-resumes/Classic.... we will get back to you on this. thanks.
Personality is so difficult to measure, so it is even more ridiculous that HR has not only come up with an ideal spectrum of personalities that would 'fit' the company, but also adjusted it such that candidates can be scored on %.
It's interesting how you mention Magento when talking about online stores with a high turnover.

I work with ATG, Hybris and IBM WebSphere mainly. These are the biggest players in ecommerce and some of the biggest brands with massive turnovers use these platforms.

Magento is seen as a bit of a joke among big enterprise ecommerce players. The kind of thing will a low entry barrier and with a userbase primarily made up of small retailers.

However, I would love to start my own ecommerce agency and the low barrier to entry could make magento the perfect choice for me. I'm not sure if any retailers actually spend serious money on it though, unlike the 3 big players I previously mentioned.
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If making money is the goal and not the means, of course you're going to stop liking it when the prospects stop looking good.