skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blah! I just did some abstract reasoning tests and i had an excellent score. Now, the tests on the net might be crap... Bu who says the tests HR uses aren't?

People aren't even able to make a good estimate of how long a project will take, or if it will even get finished. So how can they determine which kind of people are a right fit to work on those projects?
This is beyond ridiculous - you can't tell a person's personality & potential culture fit based on a few questions.
Thanks. I was starting to think I was the only one. Nice to get some confirmation I'm not crazy.
Technical people also look for "signals" or "red flags" during interview. They ask themselves questions like, if the candidate is a good fit for the team, if I want to work with him, etc.

HR people are not necessarily better in identifying these "signals". They might emphasize on "signals" that are not a big issue for technical people. Some technical people could be a little quirky. As long as it is not serious, it is not a big deal.
What kind of hard drive is inside a Western Digital external product?
This is true, and does provide some anonymity, but there are several situations, at least in the US, in which you can basically be considered guilty until proven innocent where the burden is on you to prove that everything is legal (tax evasion and asset forfeiture). If you can be linked with either side of the mixing service, the fact that nobody can tell where the money went (or came from), might not protect you.

For example, suppose your standard of living suddenly improves and you start buying cool expensive toys, but you don't report increased income with the IRS. As I understand it, the IRS can audit you and ask you to prove to them where the money came from.

Similarly, if you get stopped with a large pile of "anonymous" cash in your car, you may be asked to prove that the cash was obtained legitimately, and they may hold the cash until you can prove otherwise.
Mozilla too has fought against H.264 since the beginning. They'll be thrilled that Google is taking this new step towards VP8.

Also, it really doesn't take much brain to figure out why H.264 is dangerous:

1) no open-source software can ship with H.264 (so Firefox cannot ship with H.264, unless it fallbacks to the OS's codecs, which they now do, or if they cut a deal with MPEG LA). Also, Mozilla is lucky because they do make money and they could cut a deal, but most open-source projects don't have sponsors with pockets that big.

2) MPEG LA is not a real standards body, not like ISO. They are some firm in Denver. Those patents may be reasonably licensed (RAND) right now, but they can change those terms whenever they wish to do so. The only companies protected are those that had contributions in that pool (e.g. Apple, Microsoft)

3) See what happened with the GIF format and the LZW patent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Uni...

And most importantly for people that care about the web - the web needs to stay open, where "open" in this case really doesn't mean open for companies and organizations with pockets full of millions of dollars.
I disagree with your definitions. Rights, though abstract, are real. This is why atrocities outside the reach of law (murder in international water, war crimes, genocide) are clearly wrong.

Laws are nothing but codified decisions from government. Sometimes they define the specifics of how natural rights are balanced against each other. However, laws sometimes violate rights, such as the now-repealed Jim Crow laws in the American South. Furthermore, the term "legal rights" can also be a misnomer for government-guaranteed privileges such as the "right" to government-provided benefits or (in my opinion) intellectual property "rights".
Text sender surely, not text recipient? [No matter how the bleeding original headline reads]
Americans want to be fat

You're making nonsense statements apparently dictated by your ideology. The average American is confronted by a variety of choices and often windups making choices which results in them being fat.

Of course they are unhappy with the result and don't want to be fat in any non-cockeyed sense of 'want'.

But of course such desires don't matter unless there is a concrete policy to prevent such things.

With a little more sophistication, one might spin out the point that Americans democratically and collectively decided that having the option of cheap and dubious junk food is more important than remaining thin and fit. Sure but that argument hinges on American democracy not having been fully captured by various corporations which benefit from these short-sighted and unhealthy policies.
Heh - good cheeses and wines are already expensive in the US compared to here.
I think it's insulting at best to compare Mayer to Sarah Palin.
Yep, the whole point of texting is that it's passive/asynchronous and doesn't demand an immediate response.
good points here.. one tangential and very undeveloped thought I had was w selfie/expirations and how it fills in the gaps of real life activity. you should go live in the 3d world and taking precious time away to brag about things on FB et al is maybe not where we should be.. but as a quick gesture for the in between times, maybe there are products for this moments of nothingness.
I'm having a serious 'now why didn't I think of that?' moment here. Brilliant :)
docker is pretty awesome, at my company we share auxilary server around with docker (message queue system) and it's pretty RAD. I can't wait until they made it rock-solid enough to run systems in production with it.
Despite being textual in nature SMS has by social convention turned into a synchronous protocol. Common scenarios:

* A bunch of people are driving separately to an event. One of them is severely late. It is likely that the late person will receive an SMS to ask where they are.

* Use as a pager replacement makes it odd to send a text at a weird time (especially for on-call employees, for instance). An on-call nurse I know was annoyed after a group text conversation occurred at a late hour.
True, I suppose that once they have recouped their fixed costs and development/production costs, this would be the case.

So HB a good method for generating demand/revenue once you've crossed that point, but not so before.
No, for two reasons.

First, Humble Bundle scales. They can pull together a handful of artists to offer some MP3s, and sell it to the whole world. Groupon has to negotiate with small businesses in every market that they want to have a presence.

Secondly, the nature of the goods on offer is different, in that a restaurant or cafe has considerable marginal costs associated with each sale, whereas a comedian selling MP3s has no marginal costs, and even the Humble Bundle team has almost no marginal costs. The Humble Bundle team spends a few cents on bandwidth for each sale, and the artist only loses hypothetical future sales at a higher price.

(edit: pluralized "business")
I wonder if, using GPS and accelerometer, the Phone can determine it's in the hands of a driver -- and prohibit texting use.

I mean, using the GPS it can see the speed and that it's inside a vehicle. And I would think that holding the steering wheel with the other hand, rotating it to change course etc, might have some kind of signature micro-motions and interactions through GPS/accelerometer, so that it could be determined that not only the phone it's on a car, but that also the driver holds it.
Ah, nice. I always forget Mozilla has an active GH
You mean how you can't see who is online on Hangouts? That is super annoying. I may decide how to contact someone based on their status. Are they idle/offline/busy?
The point is that intellectual property is property in the same way that quarks have "color." It is a relatively novel legal concept compared to physical property. In the US constitution it is completely distinct from other rights: You are assumed to just have rights. Not among the assumed rights are patents and copyright, which are a government granted monopoly.
1) I've tried various terms - seniors, retired folks, etc. I love my audience! And they aren't offended by the term. Young folks, old folks - it's not a negative term here in the midwest.

4) Nope, I've got a great game - several in fact. But now that I do, how do I get more people to know about them.
...you want at least the chance for the operators to make money.

If one is familiar with the apparatus of neoclassical economic theory, one might expect producers to want to maximize producer surplus at the expense of consumer surplus. That's possible to the extent that demand is fairly inelastic, and there are barriers (could be short-term!) to other producers entering the market.
That looks like a great fit for what I'm building. I'll have to see what I can do about modifying it for mobile. Thanks.
> No, because its mathematically impossible for the participants to be driven into bankruptcy.

Well, buying a humble bundle is a potential opportunity cost for each comedian. If someone buys a humble bundle, they are most likely not going to buy whatever show that comedian offered in some other format in addition. Something like a humble bundle could in theory be such an opportunity cost for a comedian that he cannot recoup the production cost of a show because of it.

Or is only the marginal cost of distribution a factor in this idea of "mathematical impossibility"? Is that the only variable that influences a potential bankruptcy?
This reminds me of how direct response companies would send out envelopes with pre-paid postage on them for return mail and people would fill them with pennies so that the companies had to pay a lot more in return postage.

It's funny how clever people can be when they are annoyed by something.
Haha yes, massage therapy definitely isn't a "real" service.
Mrs. Hauge is a great writer. She should write a book, but I guess she's still too busy. Thanks for sharing that link.
> then they'll have to support VP8, too, which is the standard codec for WebRTC.

It's not. There is no mandatory video codec in WebRTC at this point, only mandatory capabilities namely:

> o MUST support at least 10 frames per second (fps) and SHOULD support 30 fps

> o If VP8 is supported, then it MUST support the bilinear and none reconstruction filters

> o OPTIONALLY offer support for additional color spaces

> o MUST support a minimum resolution of 320X240

> o SHOULD support resolutions of 1280x720, 720x480, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, 640 x 360 , 320x240

Source: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cbran-rtcweb-codec-02#secti...
Universities Go in Big for Big Data
HN got a lot bigger since then.
Yeah, it's feeling less and less "humble" these days (imho, of course).
Taking aside misunderstanding of the issue by most people commenting in the article what the judge said (“that a person sending text messages has a duty not to text someone who is driving if the texter knows”).

Texting the driver is actually the safest way to send him a message. It's not that disturbing as a voice call and he can choose to ignore it until it's convenient and safe to read it when he stops.
Nintendo aims at young gamers with new handheld console
There is no natural right to profit from your ideas. Your ability to even try to profit from your ideas is substantially dependent on external factors in your life -- your position in society, your ancestry, the availability of capital and your ability to acquire it, etc.

Do not confuse the right to think with the right to profit from your ideas. You do have a natural right to think about whatever you want, as well as a natural right to communicate your thoughts to others.
Real world tasks produce problems which are best medium for learning process.
This is the only answer that is needed for this question. Everything else are people playing arm chair lawyer.
jdileo: Looks like your account's been dead (improperly, seems to me) for at least 986 days.
You've spelled calendar "calender." It's the same in the blog entry.
Ah, sorry, yes I missed that distinction. Neighboring Uganda is very much not a great place to be for same sex couples. I do not believe Rwanda has any laws against homosexuality, but honestly you don't see it very openly here. It is still very conservative.

I would say if you are visiting it wouldn't be a problem, definitely wouldn't worry from a safety point of view. If you were planning on moving here then I honestly probably wouldn't recommend it, not because of safety, but just that you would be going against the grain.
Well yes, looking at the link above, I'm actually agreeing with many points from the "strong disagreement" list.
I used to get a weekly hand curated newsletter with "Show HN" projects. No idea where that guy went.

edit: http://www.weekendupdate.me would be great to know why it is halted.
An updated GBA more or less, yes.
Just buy the 3DS and never turn on the 3D. I've got a 3DS XL and aside from the initial config where it asks you to calibrate the 3D I've never turned it back on as it gives me a headache (and makes the screen look fuzzy to boot). It's really easy to disable, just adjust a slider on the side to the minimal position (it locks in that position as well) and you no longer need to worry about the gimmicky 3D effect.

This thing is a failure, it's just a less portable, and less capable version of the 3DS XL. If you buy this thing I'll guarantee you'll kick yourself down the line for either not buying the 3DS (or 3DS XL) or else not waiting for the next proper DS I'm sure Nintendo will be releasing.
The page seems to crash the tab after 40 seconds in Chrome Canary Version 31.0.1602.0 canary - also there's a js error after closing the signup popup.
Patent law needs to be overhauled. It's getting ridiculous. If you are successful you WILL be sued by a troll for infringing their "breathing air" patent.

I don't have advice, only sympathy.
That's my preferred option. I like my data to sit on my computers.
"It’s a good thing that engineers enjoy self-teaching because it’s the only option available currently."

LOL because he says so. I used to participate in the IEEE video conference series in the 90s and they were pretty awesome. And reasonably well attended, although expensive.

As for the lack of mentors the original problem of fire all the old expensive engineers and only hire cheap inexperienced ones means the theoretical mentors will have plenty of time for their mentoring duty; they'll be unemployed. Or the purpose of this is to get them jobs; in which case they'll be mentoring the kids at work instead of at the hackerspace?

A huge part of engineering unfortunately involves some expensive gear. As ham radio guys have known for decades, stuff thats a generation or two old does exactly the same job as cutting edge for about 1/1000th the cost. My POS oscilloscope at home is about two generations out of date, luckily I don't have the skill or other gear to do cutting edge work from the 90s so I'm all good. Thats just EE which is fairly easy to do at home... don't get me started on my previous career plan of ChemEng. Anyway a decent hackerspace Can help, although in my chosen fields of electronics and machining I generally have better gear at home than any hackerspace has (hey, they pay us well in tech, non-computer hardware doesn't depreciate as fast as computer video cards, and I'm not a kid anymore so spend a grand a year on gear and none of it goes obsolete and by the time you're "old" you have quite a basement indeed)

One oddity is the only two engineering classes they mention by name are Android and IOS and those are typically code monkey topics, not say, MechEng or CivEng. I would think theoretical MechEng would be pretty cheap to teach as would CivEng.
> From my list of top startups:

You know, a bunch of those aren't startups anymore, they're just businesses. Once you've found your strategy and are profitable, you're not a startup anymore, you're a business.

Twitter, Square, and Dropbox aren't startups anymore, they've been around for a while and are simply ordinary businesses.
Wouldn't work with most drivers that I know, who usually keep their phones in holders mounted to the center console or front window.
New Software Can Mimic Eye Contact For Video Calls
Has anyone actually substantiated this 'vast majority' of coders who prefer an ergonomic design?
Maria Bamford is excellent too. The "Maria Bamford Show" YouTube series she did a few years back is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07FAAF5582CDD8A6
I'd also observe that the initial companies that took on the purely digital side of things (e.g., Second Life), might have just been too early in a world not yet as digital as it is today. That is, people didn't have enough of a digital life that a service aimed exclusively at it would be of sufficient value. That could change as more of life becomes fully digital. So it's possible that the online/physical thesis is "fighting the last war," so to speak and future companies might not want to pursue that.
I find this post to be a little bit uninformative. Sam is making the argument that the most successful companies are those that bridge the physical and digital world and increase a human's efficiency to complete a task. The startups that do best are those that focus on this.

This seems like a bit of a trivial statement in my mind. Is this not what most startups are trying to do? Solving an inefficiency in the world.

Before the last five years, it has been difficult for PG's definition of startups to focus on the physical world, because of our discomfort with putting parts of our physical world online. Most successful startups up until now have helped build up an infrastructure that has allowed new startups to emerge that tackle physical problems.

I.E. Uber required Apple to develop the iPhone and a lot of startups rely on Heroku and Parse as a service.

I really enjoy Sam's writing, and I was excited for a post dealing with the advent of hardware startups with the success of 3D-printing. I didn't find this post to be up to par with some of his other posts.
Whether your property is stolen or not, it ought to be yours. The enforcement of a right is not necessary for a right to exist.
This is how Facebook is going to die
From my limited knowledge of Windows: that's highly unlikely. You're much more likely to see Docker start supporting FreeBSD jails with ZFS than you are Windows.

Then again I know nothing of Windows and any containerization technology it may have...
Allow bounties on anything, after the fact
Being Uncomfortable - My 14 Month Travel + Work Trip Around The World
If anyone wants data on whether Humble Bundle is more or less successful, a list of their sales and the amount raised is available here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_bundle#List_of_games_off...
As I'm sure you already know, gay rights have a long, long way to go in the region. If I were gay, it probably wouldn't be at the top of my list :(
I suspect that people will start writing their patent claims like this:

"A method of representing numbers as binary strings in the registers of a CPU, and manipulating those registers such that the output is the representation of the sum of the input numbers."

That is what happened in America when we "banned" math^H^H^H^Hsoftware patents. Software itself is not patentable, but the use of a machine to execute specific software is. So the NZ equivalent of "on a computer" will be "manipulating CPU registers" or some similar nonsense.
Putting it on the same level as religion is questioning/ridiculing the entire premise, though I understand that you did not intend it that way.
I am not an expert on linux, but I always assumed there are less malware first because much more people are using windows - target audience much bigger, second - malware creators wouldn't want to create viruses for the systems they use.
Quote: "To do this they manufactured a microscopic sphere of calcium carbonate only 4 millionths of a metre in diameter."

Calcium carbonate? How disappointing. Maybe they can be persuaded to spin a buckyball instead -- it would tolerate much higher centripetal forces.
Thanks. Funny that we are not even remotely successful with the said app. Monthly sales of $150 range and it is strictly a hobby app since maintenance costs around $10/mo.
MelbourneIT (Registrar) the weak link as Twitter/NYT compromised
Trust in Silicon Valley
Traction and Sustainable Growth – A How-to Guide for Startups
To me, the 'humble' has always been the

1) pay what you want

2) donate part (as much of you want of that) to charities

As long as they keep these I think a bit of diversity and exploration helps grow the space. Maybe some other organizations could get involved as well.
> Lifting weights doesn't burn that many calories, compared to walking, running, etc.

Doesn't increasing your muscle mass increase your metabolism? That is, your body's base calorie burn rate increases when you have more muscle to maintain.
Not sure about a movie, but it was the lede case in a Law & Order SVU episode: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015439/
There are two things to like here: 1) No one like solicitation calls and its nice to see someone stick it to them and 2) he is shifting the economics to be more representative of the costs to all parties. There is a cost to the person being called (being annoyed, interrupted etc) and by charging that cost to the caller only callers who still have a positive return will call. The price to make a call now more accurately represents the resources it consumes to the calls should get both more infrequent and higher quality.
In a similar fashion boot-to-guile : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg0013...
Did you... did you just seriously try to defend the N-Gage? I'm pretty sure the N-Gage is universally considered a laughing stock in gaming circles, right up there with Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana.
That there is, but I'm inclined to suggest this behaviour to be more confusing than simply maintaining name identically to input. :/

Not least this can sometimes result in some odd corner cases.

shrug
> from your tone and the "side" you picked I basically assume you're running iOS and OS X exclusively

Please don't mistake technical pragmatism for ideology. I'm a big supporter of software freedom, most of my work involves codecs like these, and it's almost always on Linux, which is my daily machine. Don't get me started on how fucked up iOS is (both technically and ideologically!).

There's no argument from me that software patents are a plague, and that does make codec distribution tricky. But Google isn't doing this so users can avoid the step of apt-get'ing ffmpeg.
> I was hoping I could find something natural that spun faster ...

A bit unrelated to your comment, but the original experimenters could have spun a buckyball instead of a sphere of calcium carbonate and gotten much, much higher rotational velocities. I hope they think of this.
I guess they're branching out, but it still falls under the umbrella of "creative digital content" - whether it be games, comedy specials, music, etc.

Are the game bundles not relevant to you anymore due to expansion?
Great protection against Recruiters in Silicon Valley!
Road to the Future Paved With Data Literacy
Our only hope at this point is that that company that got a patent on patent trolling will sue all the patent trolls out of business for violating their patent.
Can we have the same solution for email address? Say you have to pay money in order to email me, that might get rid of spam!
Don't you need root to read keystrokes not being sent to you?
I worked with Henry for a while, and I have to say, he really was the best at logging issues.
[ insert Bill Gates $1 to send emails joke ]
Emacs as text editor with hackable presentation and interpreter.
Browsers as hypertext with hackable presentation and interpreter.