skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't mind me asking, where would one begin searching for employment at a company such as the one you used to work at?
This is a terrible headline. The cost of the phone isn't 4 dollars. It's 4 dollars more than the iPhone.
From the Branch of a Falling Tree, or Post-Mortem: The AWS Outage
Agreed. The comparison is not really valid..
If you have enough upload bandwidth to send HD and they have enough download bandwidth to receive HD, at least they'll be able to see you in HD.

As for if they have enough bandwidth for HD, there's only one way to find out :)
Thanks. I mostly use the bumps on F and J for that. I guess I do look down when my hands are way off and not finding the right bumps right away; the light from the screen seems adequate then. shrug
Element 115 one step closer to periodic table
Hiding JSON-formatted data in the DOM with CSP enabled
I think that the promise of future "cargo" in some form makes a difference in how the cult participants behave and on the personality types of those who choose to join, both leaders and followers. I think there is more involved than just the logical fallacy itself.

I have been thinking about cargo cults a fair bit recently in a (non IT) area.
> There are plenty of cases in which the company just needs to have a policy that it's an unacceptable risk.

Sure, but HR generally shouldn't be setting that policy, and whoever is setting that policy is logically making the decision, HR is gathering an input to that decision (a potentially decisive input, but that's because of decision criteria set outside of HR.)
Try the "spiritual sequel" Hotel Dusk. The pen and chalk dusk puzzle made me want to throw the DS to the wall when I figured it out.

It uses the DS's physicality and it's minor features. They not only implemented the real solution, they also implemented the most obvious one (that doesn't work).
From a guy immersed in IPv6 daily: no, it hasn't hit that sweet point of end user adoption, yet. Consumer ISPs are way behind -- at least in the US.
Although in some cases being able to assume low latency and use the appropriate changes is appropriate. Rsync is used quite a bit to sync data on servers within the same datacenter, or even cabinet/switch.
A fresh perspective on nailing the software engineering interview
Your hands and forearms should be hitting the keyboard at an angle, due to the way your elbows hang outside your shoulders. Don't bend the wrists to make your hands go perfectly vertical; that's a major RSI concern.

At that angle, the U/J/M and I/K/Comma rows, etc., should line up pretty well with the bending of your fingers. Same with E/S/Z and R/D/X. But Q/A/Z (how most people type) requires a completely unnatural bend!
I usually type around that speed. The chiclet buttons are a bit awkward but I'm already used to it - if you're looking for a laptop for long typing sessions I think you might have an issue with it. But most of the time I have an external ergonomic keyboard attached when I do longer sessions. That said, I've owned a few netbooks/laptops and none of them were good for much typing, plus I got RSI from them and avoid it since.
I'm curious. Googling reveals that these posts are fairly common. The funny thing is that there aren't any photos of women in stereotypically male poses. Is that because there aren't any such poses or because no one feels a need to try it out? I'd like to see if those look as ridiculous.
A few days after they posted they were considering it, they said they decided not to and will be continuing operations to US citizens with an added disclaimer.
I am assuming this is a serious comment.

The answer is no, the 3DS is significantly different on the inside (processor, RAM, NAND) than a DS (or DSi).

The IPL is also significantly better (and is even OS-like). And there's a store.

Nb: I work for Nintendo.
Remember that a year or two ago all of the public instructions for installing nodejs were of the form.

sudo wget http://example.com/node/install.sh | sh

so it's not like it's only newbies who blindly run scripts as root.
I think if you haven't worked in a 'real' professional job for several years (your first job) then it can be harder to understand the psychology behind the test implicitly. Or if you just worked in small businesses with very low amounts of politics.
Maybe in raw materials. ;)
Separate keyboard (a Kinesis) on legs slightly bent. I'll prop up the laptop keyboard (like right now) for brief typing, but I agree that'd suck for serious work.

I am not an ergonomics authority.
These aren't really candid photos, as I understand it; you take a photo of yourself, and you prepare yourself for it.
There's a "button" on the end of the rod. If you slide the pipe fully over and depress the button, your mouse will continue to travel horizontally.
> One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

This is at least stereotypically true of some sub-cultures:
http://i.imgur.com/Tow30.gif
Yeah, no kidding.

I got an opportunity to buy (10) USB BE's at 0.11BTC per and even had enough coin purchased at well under $100, and I'm still worried about break-even. Even if I make my money back, I know in the back of my mind the opportunity cost of selling the miners now makes mining with them a theoretical loss. They'll make great mementos of the early ASIC's anyway.

People are getting rich quick (not a good thing) off of selling hardware to quick-to-decide geeks that like the idea of btc, and making money from a terminal line. I'll be the first to admit that I'm one of those geeks.
This. Twitter is atrocious for this crap.
Could you be a bit more specific when you say Kigali is "safe"?

Is it safe for me to move to as a woman? Is it safe for me to bring my wife and kids? These things are often relative.
Would you invest in a CEO whom you had to interrupt every 10-15 seconds because you literally could not understand what he was saying? Since the CEO is the one responsible for communicating with VCs, investors, big customers, potential acquirers, this is a serious concern.

PG has already clarified that he's not talking about someone saying "zee" instead of "the". And YC has funded many non-native English speaking teams before.
I almost agree. I personally though NEED the trackpoint. I agree on that getting of everything else including numpad and windows keys is what will make a good keyboard.
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But not free, and thus they aren't truly FOSS...

> In countries where patents on software algorithms are upheld, vendors and commercial users of products that use H.264/AVC are expected to pay patent licensing royalties for the patented technology that their products use. [...] All other royalties remain in place, such as royalties for products that decode and encode H.264 video.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Controversies

edit: s/free/not free/
I was referring to linking in the video, but you make a good point about wanting to link to videos made after the fact.

While piggybacking may be an option for garnering initial views, using it for this purpose encourages response spam. Using good 'ol search optimization should really be the first option for content creators looking to get off the ground.
The 3DS is within a few mm in dimensions of the DS Lite.

What would a "DS Lite-style" 3DS look like?
It's not particularly difficult to devise a personality exam that way - in the best case scenario, the candidate cannot game the test, and in the worst case scenario, they game it but the proctor is fully aware of the gaming, so you simply reject the test (or the candidate).

Instead of trying to get rid of questions that are gameable, the psychometrists design the test with statistical consistency - things as obscure as, say, what color the candidate answers in a multiple choice question out of orange, yellow, blue and red can be used to correlate with other questions (not literally, but to a candidate it would be equally obscure and seemingly innocuous as a question). If a candidate answers one question in what they perceive to be the societal ideal, this will be exposed in other questions where it's not possible to cross-consistently game the question unless you've read and thoroughly understand a manual of psychology or psychometry.

Tests designed this way allow for a certain amount of "gaming" by candidates before it crosses a statistical threshold, at which point it essentially tells the proctor, "The answers are so inconsistent that the candidate wasn't being honest." and you have to throw out the whole test (which in the context of hiring, means rejecting the candidate).

The reason why this works is because while people will answer "Would you consider yourself hard working?" with "Always" or some other unrealistically gamed superlative, they won't realize that other questions that are seemingly unrelated are highly correlated with that quality - if you answer yes to one and no to another, you probably lied on the transparent one, with high confidence.

Tests like this[1] have been around for so long that they consistently get better, though there are some valid criticisms of them being easier for non-minorities (for a variety of reasons). They are used in clinical and professional contexts, and while the quality personality tests will theoretically be consistent across multiple-test takings (in other words, results are relatively immutable), in practice you should probably avoid giving one individual a lot of exposure to the same exact test twice.

Hope that helps.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personali...
Adding 2 handed gestures to applications
> their role is to get resumes in front of the real decision makers

I worked for a while for Company A, which was founded by a team that included senior engineers and senior management from larger company B, licensed technology from B, did critical contract work for B, and at one point was supposed to become the primary manufacturer of B's products.

Company A shut down. My resumé went into company B's HR department, never to be heard from again. Eventually I had to pull a string that led to B's senior management. Suddenly an interview process was setup.

I get there, and the first words out of the HR drone's mouth when we sat down, with a deeply confused look on her face, were "What's Company A?". She'd just suffered severe whiplash when a directive from on high had told her that she would be setting up an interview for a candidate she'd ignored. She wasn't new, she'd been there over two years.

Everyone involved in my hiring except her knew what A was, who I was, and why I was there. The interview process was little more than a check for whether I annoyed the hell out of the people I'd have to work with or not. I was being handed to B on a silver platter, a pre-vetted, pre-trained, instantly-productive candidate. The most senior technical person who interviewed me walked into the room, sat down, and said "I really don't have anything to ask you".

If you insist on using recruiters, do not put them in HR. Embed them with the departments they're hiring for, where they might actually learn something about the work the company does and what it needs.
A New Virus Is Using Facebook To Steal Passwords
So, you want a gameboy advance?
1. sleek devices are more generally-appealing in the store/advertisements
2. it's easier to effect a rugged case on a sleek phone than a sleek case on a rugged phone.
3. oleophobic-style coatings cut down on finger-smear
I can certainly see how being an Oracle puppet would make it hard to trust his coverage of the Oracle/Google spat. I don't see how it affects his take on the contents of the NZ bill, particularly since the text of the bill is available and no one has countered his assertions!

Also, I'm not "defending" him. I don't know if he is or is not a shill, and I don't care. But he made verifiable statements about the content of the bill. All I want to know is, are his statements wrong?
I assume your actual goal is to prevent being burglarized. Security tech is largely reactive. Why not work on proactive security first? It's not about building an impenetrable fortress, it's about not being the easiest mark in your neighborhood.

- Lock your windows and doors at all times.

- Trim back foliage that obscure windows and doors from the sidewalk.

- Ensure you have proper exterior lighting. Shadows = bad.

- Don't leave stuff like tools lying around the outsides of a house. Brooms or longish poles are great for reaching through a cat door and jimmying interior latches and deadbolts open. It's very, very easy with some practice.

- Get a dog that barks. A big dog, a little dog, whatever. Just make sure it barks (proactive alerting & will let the burglar know you aren't the "slowest in the herd").

- Get a (legitimate actual alarm company) yard sign and place it in your yard.

- If you're a gun person, avoid NRA/Glock/I'm a gun-toting bad ass stickers on your vehicles, house, etc. That suddenly makes you a more lucrative target worthy of greater risk.

- Don't leave the boxes for your new plasma TV, Mac, etc out front, visible. Maybe don't have Apple stickers on your car. That lets me know you like to spend money on gadgets that fetch high resale value.

- Get to know your neighbors. Arrange an agreement with a trusted one to keep an eye out for each other when the other is away.

- Case your own property as a burglar would. Pretend you forgot your keys.

Then, after you take care of the preventative, start looking at reactive solutions.

Source: I may or may not have been a miscreant in my youth.
> The statement that the Linux platform is absolutely secure now seems even more illusive.

What now? When did anyone ever claim Linux was "absolutely secure"? Second, how is an attack that depends on the user installing malicious software evidence of a security lapse in the system itself? If you're just going to run anything I tell you to run, I'll give you:

sudo rm -rf /
For the money, I'd prefer a Curta calculator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R...
" but now I actually think positively about Yahoo" I think that may be a bit of a stretch. Sure they are being brought up which is good since they haven't been relevant for years. They still have a long way before I could say I think positively about them as a company or their products.
It can be fun with code like that to see if you can imagine situations where you could argue with a straight face that the code is OK.

public static String HTTP = "http";

An argument for this might be that it allows you to easily change to https by changing that one line, although then the name of the string would be misleading.

public static String COLON = ":";
public static String SLASH = "/";

These are harder. Maybe you don't want ":" and "/" to appear literally because for some reason you grep for ":" and "/" a lot looking for instances that are syntactically significant in your language and you got tired of hitting those characters in URL strings.

All of these potential excuses fall, though, to the objection that all three of those could have been rolled into a single string, with a sensible name like URL_COMMON_PREFIX:

public static String URL_COMMON_PREFIX = "http://";
Mayer chose to pose in a fashion magazine. She wasn't "treated" any way in this case.
Color code is nice here. I appreciate the gathered information.

But I am criticising visualizing using things such as periodic tables (were columns, rows and gaps have a particular meaning) for visualization for which they don't fit. Since it is not the first time I see such.

May point is not to use this particular visualization or not, but to make people thinking for a few seconds before starting visualizing: "Does the structure of this visualization fit the purpose? Or is it more like hammering nails with an iPhone?" (you can != you should).
I want to quash this rumor: Nintendo does not require 3rd parties to use particular features (3D screen, waggle, etc.)
There's a difference between legal rights and natural / human rights. The latter are ideals, the former are what are brought into existence by the application of force.

Intellectual property corresponds (somewhat poorly) to the natural right of being allowed to profit from your ideas.
Only to discover that the code to launch the missiles at the Soviets was set to 00000000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim that does Mobile Media And Data Compression
From the linked article:

> Once you start paying for costs from your wallet instead having a large employer shield you, you really feel the pain of healthcare pricing nightmares, like paying a 1000% markup on a generic Tylenol pill.

While not the only reason, this "shield" that most (i.e., those with insurance) have between themselves and the actual price paid is part of the reason for the out of control costs. The patient will care less about the cost if "_the insurance is paying it_", and as long as the insurance company is profitable, it will not care quite so much either because it is just shuffling around "other peoples money".
This is discussed at length in the article. It was found that having an expiration lets people worry less about getting the photo "right". Also, it's not about having another place to waste time living vicariously. Quite the opposite, as it's becoming a vibrant community where you can actually interact in a surprising way.

That said, it is worth experimenting with the dates and/or ways of saving certain images of yourself for posterity.
1 mbit 1080p could work for many people. It's not beautiful, but it will be more or less sharp (though blocky).
I love rsync. It's also really useful for backing up local files incrementally. It's an easy CLI utility, but there's a GUI as well, called grsync.

You can use cron to automate them, which is how I backup my linux system nightly. Totally recommend it for server and local backups.
Presumably because it's official confirmation of the feature. The gigaom piece seems more speculative in nature (no official sources).
I don't think there is a way to rollback an image to the previous commit. Is there?
I think the Nexus phones are just developer phones:
They're as performant as the other mid-range offerings and get the updates early.

Being as performant helps Android ecosystem by making the developers to develop apps that work well also in other models than just in the high-end models.

Getting the updates earlier helps developers to prepare their software for the new Android version so that when Samsung and other big players release the new version to their phones, the software is already updated. It's like using beta iOS.

So I don't think that Google's trying to make money, at least directly, with Nexus phones/tablets and instead they're just to help developers and Android ecosystem.
Bitcoin offers privacy as long as you don't cash out or spend it
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PostgreSQL used to allow this via "Time Travel", but it has long since been removed (I think because it was rarely used and supporting it interfered with other optimizations.)
Disclaimer: Vagrant creator/maintainer guy.

It is unfortunate that so many people compare Vagrant and Docker. While there is overlap, Docker is mostly not viable as a dev environment tool alone, so it isn't a fair comparison. The main reason is because you have to be using Linux (and a recent Linux) as your main dev system, and in practice this is very rare. Move beyond indie developers and for all intents and purposes Linux desktops are non-existent (Vagrant is in use by companies like BBC, Expedia, Intuit, etc. and I can tell you most devs don't know how to use Linux let alone run it as their primary dev platform).

BUT, I agree that putting your dev environment in a Docker container is absolutely _amazing_, and there is a KILLER Vagrant/Docker combo.

The killer combo is actually running Vagrant to spin up Docker-ready VMs, then using Docker inside that to develop. This lets people use Docker on Windows, Mac, and Linux. You get the fast iteration time because all your state is actually in a container, so you just docker kill and run as usual.

In fact, an upcoming version of Vagrant is adding Docker as a provisioner, so you can `docker pull` containers down as part of `vagrant up`.

And I published Packer[1] templates to build Docker-ready VirtualBox/VMware/AWS images that are Vagrant-ready: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer-ubuntu-12.04-docker

[1]: www.packer.io
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I never thought I'd hear an American complain about lack of good cheese. You guys have never tasted cheese!

Great project anyway, very inspiring!
New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post Domains hijacked
I had a dream once that I got a job with a San Francisco startup. All of the people there resembled the sort of characters a dimestore novelist would come up with to fit a "hacker" archetype. There was an Asian guy with blue hair and earrings, a girl who was fond of tight-fitting "punky" clothing, etc.

In the dream I left the job because I felt I didn't fit in with them. Thankfully I've managed to get in with more diverse communities of coworkers in real life.
we tend to say okay, you say that, but any empirical evidence that this leads to better decisions? Especially when, as in this article, the only one saying no is the one unable to judge the person's ability to actually do the job?
That book was responsible for me finally achieving my 400 lb deadlift. Great book.
I think most of the newfangled POS vendors will help migrate data across. Maybe not historical sales data, but certainly inventory. I also think it's not long before everyone can search local inventories nearby. Unless one of them dominates from the beginning, I can see many POS + web front ends competing for a long time.
Do you have the freedom to profit from your ideas in the state of nature?
Miniature 'human brain' grown in lab
10 Core Principles of Product Development from Aaron Schildkrout
Here's Steve "Code Complete" McConnell in 2000 on Cargo Cult Software Engineering: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ieeesoftware/eic10.htm
Someone with a better understanding of Bitcoins please correct me here if I'm wrong. But if I understand things correctly, mining is one way (the only way?) to get untraceable Bitcoins because they're created out of thin air by the network. By paying your electricity bill to run a miner, you're effectively converting your local currency into Bitcoins.

As as long as you credit the mining reward to a wallet that has no connection to your real-world finances, and take other safety precautions, those coins would not be traceable to you. So this could be used to launder money through the Bitcoin network. The only evidence that you were doing something would be an abnormally large electricity bill.

Mind you, without this turning into Office Space, I'm sure there's more effective ways to launder money...

But if that's true, then I would expect the supply of mining capacity to settle above the point where it's profitable, because some fraction of miners don't really care about being profitable as long it's a reasonable loss.
Yes, count me in as a Starting Strength lover. Excellent book. Started squatting at 95 lbs. at the end of March, today I'm squatting 200 lbs. (I do other exercises, of course, but just an example of the types of gains can be made with the right knowledge and persistence.)
Red Hat releases new OpenStack cloud certification
Crowdfunded NE-1 Rocket for Fun, Science and Education
My Experiment: A Stanford CS Student Trying to Recruit for Startups
I just call any constants that slip into my code "advanced technology numbers" if someone gives me a hard time about them.