skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read that I imagined LinkedIn is refering to the groovy programming language http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Of course... that doesn't make a lot of sense for a personality trait either... It makes as much sense as describing someone as C++. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here.
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I've seen "Common sense" and similar jokes as endorsed skills
Then again, if the representative can do their job and make a truly compelling pitch, maybe he'll buy their product. I think it's unfair to assume that his interest in every tele-marketed product is absolutely nothing.
Colossal Cave versus The Great Underground Empire?

Hurkle versus Mugwump versus Wumpus for the trifecta?
My point was about Apache's default document root.
Yeah, I just ignore them.
A nitpick:

AutoLisp is far less powerful than elisp - e.g. AutoLisp has no macros. It also ceased being enhanced many years ago, while elisp rolls ever onward to the point where it now includes lexical scoping.

A remark because writing my nitpick got me going:

The degree to which Emacs is an OS depends on a person's definition of OS - if it is the primary means of interacting with the computer from the user's chair then Emacs looks more like an OS. On the other hand, if we start from a more formal stance, then it looks less like one.

Pretty pictures aside, how much more or less of an OS is Emacs than Chrome, and if different, in what fundamental ways?

How different is Chrome running on a VM on a Linux box from Emacs running on the same box?
> writing one OS in Lisp seems like a fairly unrealistic, slightly weird dream.

It's not - it actually was done[1]. There were OSes written in other high-level languages, like Smalltalk and Forth (which may not be "high-level", but at least it's higher level than C).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
I wouldn't imagine having two or more images would make much of a difference until you start reaching the max # of TCP connections per host, since these images would download in parallel. Would still be interesting to see results for.
This is actually related to the OP. They were concerned that being free might signal the wrong things to top talent.
Only one question: does this exist in the US?
Snapchat names, aliases and phone numbers obtainable via API
Entrepreneurship has become too fashionable
Futurism discussion on Reddit r/Futurology
The developer mailing list can digitally sign their messages with PGP, and all the recipients can add that PGP key to their whitelist. Whitelisted senders don't have to pay or do proof-of-work.
This accurately describes the majority of the systems that I've worked on during my career.
Thanks for your feedback, this kind in particular is very helpful and valuable.

We have a video explanation and walk-through of shipbuilder in the works which should help communicate more clearly about what ShipBuilder is and what it can do for you.

I have a few additional questions if you wouldn't mind helping me improve this aspect of Shipbuilder:

1. Have you used Heroku before?

2. Are you confused about the purpose of ShipBuilder?
(i.e. "what does Shipbuilder do?")

3. Are you confused about how to setup the ShipBuilder
server/nodes/load-balancer?

4. Are you confused about how the client works?

Finally, please feel free to contact me personally; I'd love the opportunity to answer questions or help you (or anyone) get started with ShipBuilder.

contact info: #shipbuilder on irc.freenode.net or jay [at) jaytaylor do.t com
Heh, the answer here is friends with suitcases. You can buy some electronics here, Samsung and LG have a big presence, but it is at a premium. We are an Apple shop and all MBPs were bought in the states by us or friends.

That might sound like a bad thing but it is actually one of my favorite things about living here. You are just completely separated and freed from the crazed consumer culture of the States, just because none of it is available. And you don't realize how much that frees your head space (or at least mine) until you experience it. It is a fantastic place to just get work done because there is very little to distract you, in every respect really.

Coffee is pretty great if you buy the good stuff, though really the very best gets bought up and exported.
I need to offer an alternative point of view.

It's a great set, but it's not as legendary as people seem to want to make it out to be. I think there is an element of "you had to be there" that is missing in an audio recording, and people genuinely want to feel what Louis C.K. did when he first shared news of the performance with his followers.

As someone who is an avid consumer of standup (old and new), and a huge Louis C.K. fan my expectations were set too high, and I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I could've because I was expecting something legendary and timeless.
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Sometimes getting voted on is not enough. Posted a Show HN for BitBalloon yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6285205). Got up-votes enough to go on the front-page, but a few minutes after it hit front-page, it suddenly got booted way down to page 3, and that was the end of it.

Still got some more votes, but nothing could bring it up above #50.

Here's a screen of the ranking weirdness: http://hn-voting-weirdness.bitballoon.com/

Don't know what it got penalized for...
A question I have whenever I see this come up: do people who say this generally do their own personal code audit of the open-source tools they use? How can you trust anybody else to do it for you? Do you compile all of the code on your own? Can you trust your compiler? How far do you go with this line of questioning?

It seems to me that for many people, using an open-source tool does more to provide peace-of-mind than actual security assurances.
This is exactly why I didn't buy an N7 when I was looking a while back - I wanted an older model but not the original, which I understand had major issues. No way to differentiate without lots of reasearch.

I gave up and decided not to spend the hours trying to find the best Android tablet that runs (or can run) stock. Still haven't bought one, despite my interest.
Is this remotely possible? Just interested.
So you can see the keys under low light levels. Not everyone touch-types.
He's definitely right about how most people want a lot of choice but in the end it's going to paralyze you for most use cases. I made this realization a few months ago.

I can't count the number of months I lost trying to research things at levels of the stack that I'm not interested in but were forced to look into to get to the point where I wanted to be.

It's mostly the reason I started to use rails to build document-like web apps/sites because if I have to answer 35 questions and build a platform on top of node/express just to get to the point where I can start solving the problems I want to solve then I'm clearly at the wrong level of the design stack.
Incidentally, this is similar to the free fax numbers (taking advantage of the regulatory fees that are set by the area code)
I'd be willing to pay slightly more in postage in order to eliminate junk mail. The mob (or patent troll industry or insert random undesirables) employs people, too, but you wouldn't argue for its protection solely on that basis. And the fact that it works ignores the fact that it irritates everyone who isn't a junk mailer. There are far more honest ways to advertise.

Not sure what you're trying to say here.
Article author here -- I agree, it would be interesting to see results. One reason for using more than a single image: no navigation timing API in iOS.

iOS may now lag behind Android in handsets shipped -- but it's still a dominant player in web visits on mobile!

Unfortunately that means that for RUM tests I needed to have results that were insensitive to differences of a few ms.

Here's a petition asking Apple to include the navigation timing API in a future iOS release:

http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-please-support-navigat...
Bringing the Shared Economy to the Enterprise
As you have well mentioned, Mexico's entrepreneurship and startup investment scene is in its infancy. A notable barrier between this current state and a more mature ecosystem where capital is flowing in and out of innovative new companies is that we have yet to see big exits "coming out of Mexican soil", as you mentioned to Dave McClure in the comment section. It is something I believe we need to really work hard on, and not as individuals but as a Mexican community. Those of us involved in this line of work know how critical it is to much of our collective success for a Mexican startup to beef up, grow, expand and then be either acquired or go public in the near future. Which is also why I get frustrated when non-constructive criticism, rivalries, egos or lack of collaboration hinder us from getting closer to achieving this critical milestone. Investors are not stupid; they have money for a reason. They are also market-oriented people who are interested to a lesser or greater extent in making a profit. Give them a big profit resulting from a Mexico company, and capital will flood our scene and become abundantly available. Then again, it is a task we should ALL, as individual parts of this growing Mexican community, take to our hearts and one worthy of our serious commitment.
Nor are any available with 2G DRAM, which is a big part of the N4's great interactive performance.

In fact, if you limit the search on that site to 1G phones with Jellybean and 4.6-5" displays, you get a lot of units with prices significantly higher than the new price of the N4. And the ones that are cheaper seem pretty universally inferior (e.g. 480x800 screen, minimal internal flash, etc...)
Thanks. We are contacting a lawyer now. Hopefully not gonna be very expensive for a $100/mo hobby app.
My last career shift was from Google to a 8 person startup. If you have specific questions (sorry too generic for me now) - I'd be happy to answer!
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Hmm, I was unable to do so on Namecheap or Gandi.
Did you actually take credit card Pre-orders? There is a line that actually forking cash over crosses.
> While there are sophisticated methods that can be used to cloud whether a bitcoin is indeed still held by a thief

I'm not sure what the cloud has to do with this. What word did they mean to put there? conclude?
Dead on! The overhead with gzip is very tiny. The size of the payload should also not be a factor in the cached condition.
For now perhaps.. I think the point he was trying to make is that even those areas are changing over time. Who is to say eventually that hardware or a language won't make them redundant? Just look at the leaps and bounds Go is making for example.
Lol so true. Thanks for sharing.
You've got to factor in how funny it almost certainly still is.

After a while that will ebb away and he'll probably do the same cost benefit analysis and go back to hanging up on them.

I bet the first minute is still charged up front though.
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So, and I'm not advocating it, as long as you legalise or conceal the source of the money invested, you can hold money and earn any [capital appreciation against your currency] without your government tax authority knowing that you even have this capital. As long as you divest it when you have changed jurisdiction to somewhere you are willing to pay tax (eg. 0%) on this "income" or wealth you are tax-free? Same as offshore banking with no remittances to your home accounts?
I'm shocked it's not higher. It's much better.
To me, the design is intended to make everyone's life easier - that should be encouraged. From a tech standpoint, as long as the boarding passes are still scannable and easy to read, isn't that all that matters?
I won't question that some psychometric evaluations may reveal something interesting about the person taking it. I have much less confidence in the ability of anybody (HR or otherwise) to accurately map those results to anything related to a hiring decision. I lack ALL confidence that the results of such a test should trump the determination of a group of co-workers who interact with the candidate face to face for a period of time and cover a broad ground of topics.

Unfortunately, much of the bullshit surrounding the particular psychometric tests used by HR departments has thoroughly debased a discipline that invented cross validation.

Yeah, that's the rub, innit? The times I've worked for companies that did this stuff, and when I've seen results from them, I've seen nothing that leads me to believe in the utility of the tests. Unfortunately I can't recall the specific name-brand of the ones I've been exposed to or I'd criticize them specifically.
The difficulty I have with that article is that I don't know how the jobs in these studies map to engineering or research jobs. I'm thinking of jobs where one has accumulated close to a decade's worth of knowledge before starting.

Related to this, I think it's important to consider that this correlation between g and job performance is conditioned on the fact that the person applied for the job. That sounds trivially true at first, but it means that the applicant felt like they were competent for the job (in the best case; in the worst case, it meant they felt that they had a chance of appearing competent at the job). In other words, what we're saying is, "Of the people who thought they could do the job, the smartest ones tended to do the best."

But if our candidate pool was everyone, I'm skeptical that g would still hold as a good predictor. I think I'm a bright guy, but I'm pretty sure I'd make a terrible nuclear engineer. And with that in mind, we may need to keep the non-g related selection around to prevent such a situation.
I saw a carpenter building a full scale unit at the beginning of OHM2013 in Holland a month ago, though I'm not sure about the innards or whether it was ever finished:
https://ohm2013.nl/wiki/User:OHM2013/Cray1
Unfortunately as far as I can tell it's no longer possible to compile recent Emacs versions statically. Would love to be proven wrong on that point; I could have missed something due to not knowing the first thing about autotools.
There's a specific type of a patent for that too[1]. Unfortunately unless your hypothetical saviour company filed it quite a while back I'm pretty sure there's too much "prior art" for this idea to work.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_method_patent
Given that it's not possible to set the default map app on IOS, I wonder how many of the people that "use Apple Maps weekly" did so by accident.
I am proud of forecast.io for sticking with a 'normal' color palette here, rather than the non-standard purples they have chosen for radar; as a meteorologist the purple radar hurts my brain, but this map is completely cool.

Also there are definitely some quality control issues with the RTMA data, so you can bump into the garbage-in-garbage-out issue with it, but overall, this is a very nice start to something that could ultimately be quite useful.
Great post thanks for sharing!
I recently removed fully 1/3 of my connections. They were older connections that didn't have much bearing on my career as it exists today.
Aesthetics, right, ok.

Anecdotally: I've been programming for over 20 years. I am a fast and accurate typist, but I never learned to touch-type and as a consequence, I need to see my fingers relative to the keys occasionally. I cannot do this in the dark without backlit keys.

You should probably not assume that everyone who uses computers is a touch-typist.
I would pay 40 dollars a year to not get junk mail.
Yeah, the title should be, "Although Google Maps remains a popular iOS app, Apple Maps commands a wide lead over Google Maps in overall usage statistics". Apple Maps still gets me lost on a regular basis in major cities.
The first CSS file on a page is blocking for all modern browsers regardless of JS or no JS.

Exceptions for:

* media queries, which are evaluated, if the CSS is not applicable it isn't downloaded

* disabled stylesheets which are ignored

(edited for formatting)
Ask HN: Idea validation for simple home security system?
I'm moving into a new apartment, solo, and as such, I'm worried about break-ins. Putting extra locks on the door can only do so much if it's a weak door.

I was thinking of a little plastic device that you can stick to your wall. The idea is, when it's enabled and your door opens when you're not there, your phone releases an ungodly alarm sound alerting you of an unwarranted entrance.

Would this be possible? I was thinking you can interface with it via Wi-Fi or bluetooth?

Does a product like this already exist?
The latter. The races perform differently on "fair" cognitive tests.

How do we know the tests are fair? For a given test score, life outcomes like income and criminal conviction rate are the same.
Interestingly, "Murder" is a legitimate skill on LinkedIn. Not practitioners, but criminal lawyers advertising their expertise.

http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/Murder

The related skills sidebar is also hilarious.
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What is the main focus? Is the goal pure strength, mostly mass or a combination of the two? Right now I'm interested in training strength (as opposed to training for size, like body building).
It might not be the best or most efficient way, and you might not be able to access all the features of your hardware but its certainly possible to write an OS kernal in pure C. We even did in our Operating Systems class. We did use exactly one GCC extension to C that made things a lot easier for us, but we could have used setjmp/longjmp instead if that extension hadn't been available. Since the machines that real Lisp OSes were made for were often designed as a Lisp target, I don't see any reason they couldn't be pure Lisp.
Far as I'm concerned you can do pretty much anything FOSS, so it's a perfectly good platform for linux development.
I would use it weekly, but I don't need directions every week.
Unless you have specific reasoning to get the i7+8GB of ram version, I have an i5+4GB and I absolutely love it. No gripes at all about it... well, maybe if Apple would replace the damn LCD screen that has very small bubbles between the LCD and the screen, I'd have 0 issues with it.
I was also impressed but concur that there seems to be significant loss when zoomed out. I'm not sure how they sample for the larger scales, but it seems very inaccurate.
> Just remember that working out is 75% nutrition and 25% lifting. If you don't eat right you wont make gains.

Does that hold for strength, or mostly for building muscle? Does training the central nervous system really rely that much on nutrition as opposed to exercising/lifting?
Maybe you want to add something louder than the annoying "door opening chime?"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=door+chime
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There's nothing obscure about middle-click paste. It's been a standard on every UNIX workstation going back to SunOS and IRIX
To me, this is part of Google's long-term strategy.

Today: user signs up with website, website has access to user via email, Google is out-of-the-loop except to serve ads to gmail users only

Future: user signs up with website, website no longer has access to user via email, website has to pay Google to advertise to searchers

This will absolutely have an impact on AdWords and AdSense.
Cloud in this instance is synonymous with obscure.
To be fair, if you are going this route then you should note that the most of the things you describe in the last paragraph of your post are part of the kernel as opposed to the OS. By the way I don't consider Emacs to be an Os, it is just a convenient and advanced (as far as the user programs go) interface to the facilities provided by the OS/kernel along the lines of Shell (in this regard).
I disagree with this sort of extremism. What should not be patentable are basic "way of doing business" patents.

On the other hand, if someone slaves away for years and develops a truly new and unique compression technique, I don't see why that shouldn't be patentable. How is that any different from, say, a steel foundry developing a new unique alloy?
What are the equivalent locations for windows ? Also almost all programs installed via the package manager will use the same paths. If you are installing a package manually, then things get more.. interesting.
Any chance of a Linux client?
Haha, yes or loosing it. I think that having a back up would be much needed. It's really too bad to think that we have gotten to this point. Not to be the paranoid one.
Facing the rising sun: a peaceful post-verdict Ghana
It takes a few days. Even less if you read the specifications. Years seems unreasonably high.
Ask HN: A 50 State Sales Tax Guide/Chart for Internet Transaction Free Under CC
Hey guys, im working on creating an creative commons resource thats free for the public related to all things sales tax. I'm focusing on internet transactions like online retail, software and information products.<p>Just trying to gauge the interest so that I know how much people care about it? Also, to see if anyone cares.<p>Thanks.
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That's right, Tim and I (CodePath founders) are both startup-minded software engineers with backgrounds in product development and web and mobile development stacks.
The cynic would say say branding.

In reality, I think that Big Data contains three dimensions:
- Computational science: Getting the data, cleaning the data and writing code for the stats. This is a combination of database knowledge (SQL & others), scripting (python & others) and statistical programming (R & others).
- Statistics: What does the data mean? What can you infer? What can't you infer?
- Domain knowledge: What are the needs of a consumer products company? Or telecom company? Or financial services company.

A "Big Data" person needs all three. Most computational science programs focus mostly on the first, only a little on the second, and not at all on the third. I'd argue that academic programs should go heavier on the stats, as that's the field that will change the least, and will be the hardest to learn later. You can always learn a scripting language later, and much of the domain knowledge can be picked up outside of school.
Can nothing released by one party beat nothing released by another?

See also how the HP Slate beat the rumored iPad:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/
Hey thanks for mentioning statistic.li!
Upload files to a CMIS repository with JRuby
That is the incidental value in the system. You get to see what people think you do for a living.
I find the irony of the end result -- Impetus died because the players "suffocated" her, not because they neglected her -- fascinating.
Previously:

http://passfail.squarespace.com/

http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p...

Within the next 10 years, boarding passes are going to be obsolete anyways.
I wrote one of the first de/packetizers for VP8 RTP back when the spec was released. My impression was that the codec isn't really designed for network transmission. The probability table for the entire frame is sent up-front, so any loss of that makes the entire frame undecodable, and there's no slicing/IDR or NAL-like layer. It's fairly unworkable without a reliability or error-correction layer on top.

More competition in the codec space is a very good thing, but VP8 is a relatively weak entry IMO.
This article might help clarify: http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/26/job-recruiting-in-silicon-v... we see this as an opportunity to fix talent development and placement in a big way. Put it this way: consider the difference between an "engineering referral" from two experienced engineers who have spent weeks with each carefully selected candidate versus other models today. We have spent quite a bit of time exploring the sustainability of this. All I ask is you reserve judgement, we have a lot of ideas of how we can make this work.
Put a gameboy micro price on it and I'm sold.