skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no magic word, just say it confidently. And just hint at it, more can come out later. Mystery helps.

Though I think sprindrifts suggestions are better. If they're truly Iinterested in knowing they'll ask again later and you can respond seriously.
You can reduce the noise a lot by damping the echos. Even putting a towel under your keyboard will make it a lot quieter.
ALPS hasn't made their keyswitches for a long time, but Matias [1] has put a slight variant back into production.
(ALPS switches are probably best known from the Apple Extended and other Apple keyboards of that era.)

[1] http://matias.ca/
HA! Yeah, that's what I used to use.
Makes sense to me, then again I know NT inside out...

It's NT's syscall translation layer, CPU mode switching backend and entry point front end. It was originally used to run 16-bit apps on 32-bit platforms but is now WOW64 so is to run 32-bit apps on 64-bit machines.

Basically it's a very light weight virtualisation layer.

And it works well. My circa 1996 RPN calculator I wrote in VC++ works perfectly on 2013 x64 machine.
Check out GoboLinux's file system structure:

http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=at_a_glance
Now go and fire of "rm -rf ..". Now we're talking fun.
How Writers and Book Authors Can Avoid Common Copyright & IP Pitfalls in 4 Steps
Google engineer stalked teens
Honestly any woman is lucky to find a decent guy who has this kind of work. Mainly, because you'll have a lot more freedom and probably be able to spend more time with her than 9-5 slaves.

If they don't bite, then it's their loss. Good luck man.
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Old Spice Guy, or The Most Interesting Man In the World also works.

"I don't have many customers, but the ones I do, are satisfied."
Indeed. I think people worked out that metadata indexing over the top is probably better.
I was buying it up until "WOW, nature is beautiful".
Show HN: racut - geo-located social networking
This is a terrible analysis that fails to understand why veronica mars was so successful.

As discussed here when the VM kickstarter succeeded, there was a very loyal fanbase to the series and there hadn't been a new show or movie in years (since 2007). There was a ton of latent demand for a product.

If I were doing this analysis, I'd try to separate established brands from new concepts. Bell's project to a great extent was driven by the brand and Braff's project leveraged Garden State. Since Spike Lee's project was entirely driven by his name, I'd look at his with a different lens

The best part of this article is the quote "Judging a trend from 3 data points isn’t the wisest thing to do"
What is a magic number, and why is it bad?
Well, as he said, “Spin doctoring is no substitute for substance.”.
Being Pampered
We're on hacker news... I think the analogy with pretty much any entry level (or non-entry level) tech job is pretty obvious.
Is Y Combinator Violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?
He's almost certainly done something illegal.

http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.asp...
But even /opt/local/bin (a construct I’ve never seen…) is just one letter longer than ‘Program Files’ – so at least they got the "not too long" bit right.
That's really what it is. 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows are running in what is essentially an emulation layer. It's a fairly thin layer now, but remember that the original 64-bit Windows ran on Itanium. The original Itanium had an embedded (slow) x86 chip for compatibility. I'm not sure if WoW ever used it, but certainly the WoW for Itanium 2 didn't, since it was dropped for that processor.
also, there's the weird and confusing details / thread from yesterday where dropbox seem to be relying on security through obscurity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286674
What are you talking about psychology is awesome i am quite interested in the field however HR's use of psychology by just ticking boxes is not correct.
They don't understand it so they are unable to apply it without ticking boxes.
That form is completely useless in London for example where about 50% of the population is a non native English speaker.
If I'm not mistaken, LastPass keeps both a local and cloud version of your password. When you're having trouble connecting to LastPass's servers, LastPass still functions. I think it's just that if the password changed on another device since the last time it synced locally, you'll still have the old one.

So I'm pretty sure that you'd have to lose basically every device it's on and have LastPass's cloud deleted to lose them all.
I am glad you wrote because I used the K800 for only 2 weeks. (I bought and returned a K800 because of a consideration that is relevant to only a tiny fraction of users.)

I have owned three K750s though. The K750 is a lot more likely to break than a good mechanical keyboard is, and the (silicone membranes in the) keyswitches get mushy a lot faster than mechanical keyswitches do, with the result that even though the acquisition cost is a half or a third of a good mechanical keyboard, the total cost of ownership is not any lower than with a mechanical keyboard, but I prefer them because their durability is within reason, they're very thin (short in the vertical dimension) and they're more "convenient" (specifically, they're wireless, and I can pick one up with one hand).

The tactile experience is almost as good as with a mechanical board. 90 or 95% as good, in my experience.
The Staggering Power Of NSA Systems Administrators
I'm happy that you haven't had this problem (although without a screen I'm not surprised you get multiple days use from a single charge.) Unfortunately, lots of people are not so fortunate, and I'm one of them. There are a number of known, reported, acknowledged bugs that might or might not be fixed in the latest patch update to 4.3 that cause "Android OS" (actually a partial wakelock held in the kernel) to stop the phone from going into deep sleep and draining the battery. For example, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=52034 is one such bug. There are others (I don't use a wireless charger).

Until whatever byzantine download scheduler deigns to push the patch to 4.3 to my phone, it's basically unusable.
As if Oracle has a history in doing anything at all clever or interesting....
:) - Point of Sale - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale
Twitter CSS #FAIL?
I like it! I suppose I am a tad disappointed that it's a distribution in its own right. But they deserve credit for taking a decent first step.
I appreciate the difficulty of trying to run a business without this information being available to you.

Once you start juggling the vast amount of data that needs to be stored, fetched, calculated and referenced to provide a report, it becomes a lot more than "why dont you just". And thats before scaling the system to the non-fail-whale standard that we run our infrastructure at.

But it is coming very soon. In fact, it's already available to PoS customers.

As I mentioned, feel free to ping me to talk more about this. I would love to have more input.
Videodrome is the best movie ever made about Facebook.
Unless you've tilted your keyboard down (away from you), you shouldn't wrest your wrists while you're typing. If the tips of your fingers are above your wrists, you'll get a lot of strain.
It does vary from map to map although it is optimized for insurance maps (or any map made mostly with clearly delineated polygons). We've included a config file that you would modify to suit the maps you are working with. The current process takes advantage of preexisting features in mapping tools and adds feature detection (e.g. polygon is/isn't a building) and concave hulls.

We do welcome input and merge requests to improve the tool!
Give yourself a title, like CEO or Director, of the company. Don't call yourself an entrepreneur, just a simple, but nice title.

You don't need to defend something that definitely works for you. Be proud, but not arrogant.
Me too, but I'm not their target audience. I'd imagine the people who are likely to be interested in it won't read it that way.
I use Wuala, but only because I think I can trust more Swiss than US based software company.

That being said, it's all about trust, since both are closed source and there's only trust that's left to the users.

I wish there existed an ubiquitous open source alternative.
I'm against discrimination and all, but isn't the decision to invest freely based on anything they want? I like the cut of his jib, or those shoes are cool, you're in? This isn't a job, it's an investment of money in a company. I could be way off base though. Opinions?
I have a triple foot pedal (from an old dictaphone) but never use it.
I just use Truecrypt volumes within Dropbox for anything I'd really care about losing. I guess it's an extra step, but I find I just like Dropbox better than the competition. And things I really care about (tax returns, for instance) I find I access rarely and always on a PC.
I wonder why the interviewee is an Ex-Microsoftie. Did Microsoft realize that they had to replace him, or did he retire? Probably the latter...
You missed `/bin/`, `/sbin/`, `/usr/bin/`, `/usr/sbin/` and the same in `/usr/local`. Luckily there are some efforts to clean this up: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
As mentioned by the others posts, Julia-IPython ("IJulia") support is available. While this is very new, the fundamentals are solid enough that several people are planning to use it for courses this fall.

With regard to Pandas, there is a very nice and rapidly-maturing data frames package: https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFrames.jl
What if you wanted sales by category?
Building a Software Company in Rwanda, 3 Years Later
I agree with others that OP has likely just misidentified what it is makes him happy, but I don't think that what it really was is necessarily money.
Sounds like the author was actually most happy when he was designing his startup. So maybe he needs to focus more on the bit he actually likes - i.e. the creative process of designing web platforms. This may mean getting a salaried job with another company.
You can't plan for user stupidity. The system paths do not have spaces in them.
Scientists confirm existence of new, super-heavy element ‘ununpentium’
Foursquare now available for Windows 8 tablets and computers
Or even if you don't know anything about integer math, you can use repeated subtraction. Or ask for help on finding a multiple and do the rest of the structure yourself. Or keep a counter to 3 and a counter to 5 and reset them when they fill up.

Definitely not a gimmick question about whether you know about modulus.
Agreed. The control they give their theme developers is shamefully woeful. You're actively encouraged to use Javascript as a work-around for their very limited templating sytem. If they were to add querying, or even just a few more options for selecting products (e.g. by type, brand, etc.) then Shopify would be a great contender to other e-commerce stores. Currently it feels they're only focused on things that can bring them more revenue.
OpenCV is used here only for the "has dot/cross" aspect of feature detection (and it is very primitive still). The polygons themselves are more a work of R and GDAL.
I see a pattern - it is the level of quirkiness. I think the more quirky a show the more likely it is to generate major fan loyalty. The show has to be good as a baseline.

Veronica Mars fans are legion, there is even a slight overlap with Joss Whedon (of Buffy, etc fame) as he had a very rare bit-part in one episode. Braff is known for somewhat quirky stuff too, Garden State was offbeat. Spike Lee is very mainstream hollywood nowadays, working with a-list actors and directing some very profitable movies.

So from the perspective that good-quality quirkiness generates fan enthusiasm it makes sense that these three particular projects would draw interest and dollars in the proportions that they did.
If you're trying to separate "face to face" performance and put that in the domain of HR, and "technical test" performance and put that in the domain of the technologists, then you're going to have a bad time. That prospective hire who did great on the face to face isn't going to spend part of every work day chatting with HR...

Between your technical people and your technical management, there should be enough people skills to function coherently and effectively as a team. As such, those people together should have enough people skills to figure out whether a prospective candidate has the people skills to function effectively in the team. If those people see people skills as exclusively the domain of HR, well then you made prior mistakes in hiring that cannot be remedied with further mistakes.

This is exactly the sort of mission confusion that results in HR departments overreaching. If HR sees itself as "the people people" and its role as evaluating candidates for "people skills" and engineering's role as evaluating candidates for "technical skills" that's an unworkable division of labor and will invite improper encroachment from HR into the hiring process.
Since Mueller isn't a lawyer, and his only other credentials are being a paid lobbyist, yeah it matters. Sure a lobbyist might be correct, but why would you trust them for information to begin with?

And looking at his post with a sceptical mind would have you learn his only third party source is a magazine whose tag-line is "Maximising IP value for business".

Even if correct his post is blatant propaganda. In fact, I'd go so far as to question why he chose today to register an account on hacker news. This isn't the first patent related news we've seen.
> I wonder about this. Why can't a person have some criteria to narrow the pool, and from that subset select for love?

Pretty much everyone does (whether they are explicit or not), and pretty much everyone resents potential partners that do, to the extent that they end up getting weeded out by the filters.
For me it is comforting and encouraging to see that Qt survives well enough to make timely point releases. (Not thrilling, but nice.)
Nickel City Ruby Conf
Being a US company, I'm guessing there is no chip and PIN support?
Funny how even bitcoin hardware producers can get caught out by the volatility of everything associated with bitcoin. Tip: Don't price your stock and inventory in btc.
http://bugmenot.com/view/infoq.com
As opposed to windows where the user binaries are not located in a central location, I'd take this any day of the week.

You can't blame *nix for having too much choice. Especially when it's coherent.
MapBox is working on a user-assisted vectorizer for satellite images: http://www.mapbox.com/blog/user-friendly-guided-feature-extr...
Which has nothing to do with who invented it.
Good for you. If you hit the bug, it'll look like http://forums.androidcentral.com/attachments/google-nexus-4/...
The NYTimes is down, again.
Surprising and disappointing that the best methods were only barely over 50% correlation with performance on the job.

What does the algorithmic whiteboard coding tech interview count as? Does it qualify as work sample and brain teaser combined with interview? I suspect it's too far removed from what software engineering is actually like to be a good work sample, and the prior knowledge required to solve algorithm problems doesn't make it a great brain teaser either.
Ask HN: Review my fast domain auction checking tool
Hey guys,

I built domainsafrica.com for a fast and (hopefully) useful interface to search for domains that are on auction across various sites or have expired and can be back ordered.

Hope you guys like it. Let me know how I can make it better

Disclaimer/Warning: this webapp is deemed dangerous for anyone with a propensity to purchase domains they don't need :)
Not that impossible. Maybe they were trying to poach Apple employees. :)
The dropbox guys gave a talk about this at pycon one year but I'm having trouble finding it now. I remember thinking it involved less work than I thought it would.
Yeah I wish it was more common reaction to America based services. Especially for foreigners it's like putting public folder out there on the Internet which is fine for cat pictures but not really something you want any sort of private data on.
One interface might be more shiny than the other or maybe one of the services offer few more GB's what's good is that when there are 100's or 1000's individuals who are in position to read your data at will at any moment.
Amusing, but after looking up on the actual reasons why they came up with this scheme, I'm very impressed by the amount of work that goes into backwards compatibility:

> Batch files ran programs from C:\Windows\System32 with the expectation that the resulting program would match the native OS. These expectations were not explicit, but they were implied by the nature of the activity. If the System32 directory were filled with 32-bit programs, then a batch file that ran the C:\Windows\System32\REG.EXE program to upset a system registry setting would be running the 32-bit version of REG.EXE, which means that it would be updating the 32-bit simulated version of the registry instead of the real 64-bit version. Other types of scripting files (such as REG files) have the same problem.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff955767.aspx

How did Linux handle this problem?
Clickable link - http://www.domainsafrica.com/
The Curious Case Of Workforce Shortage For Design Jobs
> Quote: "Opt-Out – The email must provide easily-accessible, legitimate, and free ways for you to reject future messages from that sender"

Precisely, there is no requirement for an opt out link. It seems hard to argue based on anything you've supplied there that replying to the email isn't covered by this. E.g. "Please reply to this email with the word unsubscribe" meets this guideline.

To quote the relevant section of the act:

"It is unlawful for any person to initiate the transmission to a protected computer of a commercial electronic mail message that does not contain a
functioning return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism, clearly and conspicuously displayed,
that-
(i) a recipient may use to submit, in a manner
specified in the message, a reply electronic mail message or other form of Internet-based communication
requesting not to receive future commercial electronic
mail messages from that sender at the electronic mail
address where the message was received;"

Which explicitly states that providing a reply-to address which the recipient can reply to in order to opt out is sufficient.

The full text of the act is available here: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723041/canspam.pdf

> Absolutely false and universally discouraged -- never reply to a spam e-mail.

Bit of a myth, clicking an unsubscribe link gives the spammer basically the same information, e.g. that it's a valid email address. The spammer ignoring an email which meets this requirement is in exactly the same position as if they ignore an opt out link. Clicking on links in unsolicited emails is if anything far more risky than replying. Yes the link can be copy pasted but 99% of people won't know to do this.

>> I might be missing something with can-spam though?
> I'll say.

Very much appreciate you taking the time to reply but based on the responses and reading through the site you reference it looks like my original interpretation of can-spam is accurate. If any lawyers out there who've been involved in cases care to weigh in I'd be very interested.

EDIT: Provide the relevant text from the act which confirms that an email reply is a sufficient opt out.
> After reaching an all-time high of 5.15 BTC per share on July 3rd they have dropped 48% to 2.71 BTC per share as of today.

Pardon? Is there a stock market that trades in BTC?
I added some explanation about this - thanks for the feedback
3.5 bitcoin is roughly $450. If you bought one now and started it running in September, you will likely never break-even or make a profit:

http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/a65c154190
And I'll bet this will be flagged to death in 5...
There is ‘room’ in the matrix for additional keys, and various people have experimented with adding switches.
See http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=26579.0
Isn't switching from one closed source backup system to another closed source system overlooking the elephant in the room? These companies are legally required to rat you out when the government comes knocking (some even doing so without demanding a valid warrant, and profiting from LEO requests).

SpiderOak has been saying they "expect to make the SpiderOak client code open source in the not-distant future" [1] for years now, and their code still is not fully open-source. I completely understand their situation and know it's not always possible to fully open up the code, but I'm not able to overlook this deal breaker either.

Encrypt locally using only open source tools, then sync with whichever online backup/sync provider you like. It's the storage version of a 'dumb pipe', maybe we call it 'dumb containers'. Everything else is marketing bullshit which will evaporate once that first official demand for your data arrives.

[1]https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/35/why_isnt_spideroak_op...
But when Kickstarter’s founders have to defend their own platform, a platform that once was nominated idea of the year by TIME, you know something must be rotten in Denmark.

The fuck kind of logic is this? When somebody defends their company, you know something must be wrong? That's some astute analysis there.

Judging a trend from 3 data points isn’t the wisest thing to do, and this descending slope may only be coincidental.

And yet that's what you lead with, huh.
Campaign to name hurricanes after climate change deniers
Odd to say about NPR but isn't this just blogspam? I can't flag otherwise I would.
Unicomp actually got the patent(s) from IBM, and they don't license them to anyone else.
Sometimes, the vocal majority on hn is highly skeptical, going above and beyond the call of "duty" to point out unsupported conclusions, anecdotal evidence, etc. Other times, they grab their pitchforks and attack the enemy (government, management, corporations, patent law) without so much as a glance at the data.

1. Are you certain that all technically qualified candidates will fit in with every company? Do you have data that supports this opinion?

2. Assuming there are some "poor fits", are you certain that the HR department and its tests are unable to accurately detect poor fits? Do you know what the sensitivity and specificity of the tests are?

3. Given that there will be some false positives (incorrectly labeled as "poor fit"), are you certain that losing these false positives harms the company more than hiring the true positives would (because you don't detect them)? Do you have data that supports this opinion, for various objective measures of harm or success?

Consider that these programs may be data-driven, which your anecdote is not, and therefore a) this person might actually be a technically qualified yet poor fit for the company and you just can't tell and b) this person could be an acceptable false positive, and that judging a program due to a specific instance is vacuous. My gut reaction is that, probably, the best hiring program allows several people and departments with various expertise should each have veto power.

Finally, hackers are traditionally anti-authoritarian, and that is both good and bad. Failure to realize that, and to admit that authority may have some value that even you, brilliant computer programmer, can't personally vouch for, is one of the aspects of our community that I would love to see change.
Using it edge on is painful...
Don't get me wrong. I know it makes sense once you know what it is. And the result in terms of compatibility and stability is impressive.

Still, when I first heard the phrase "Windows on Windows" I had a chuckle.

It reminds me that I enjoyed the way x86 apps ran on my old Alpha NT machine. If I recall correctly, the process list included "fx32" beside each.