skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being overly generous here by calling it 'fluff'. I'd call it 'lies'.

I'm like you. A couple of months ago I screened a candidate who listed 'Object-oriented Javascript' in second place on his list of skills. I asked him a really tough, brutal question to test this limits of his knowledge on this:

"How do you do object orientation in JavaScript?"

Blank look. Silence. Okay, let's help him out: "Well, JavaScript doesn't give you a 'class' keyword or an 'inherits' keyword. So how would we write OO code?"

"... To be honest, I've only ever done it in jQuery." he said.

"Oh right, okay. I've never done it in jQuery. How does it work in jQuery?" I asked. Silence again. No hire.

I have no idea why people expect this stuff to pay off. It wasn't a front-end job; OO JS wasn't a job requirement and wasn't listed on the job ad. Why put it so high up on your CV if you don't know anything about it? Why put it on there at all?
Did you own a previous Kindle before your Paperwhite?

I got a chance to try one earlier this month, and compare it to my 3rd gen Kindle Keyboard. The backlight was nice, but I had a few problems with it.

The lack of physical buttons for page changing and the menus drove me nuts. If I'm holding a Paperwhite in my left hand, then to change to a new page I have to move my thumb out far enough, tap, and them bring my thumb "back in" so it doesn't cover the page. I found this to be rather annoying, having the buttons on both sides was so much easier.

The other problem I had was font rendering. The Paperwhite was supposed to have a sharper screen than my 3G, but I couldn't notice a difference in text. I'm guessing it's only obvious on pictures. But I did notice that fonts looked noticeably worse. There were little blobs where it looked like things weren't being kerned correctly. I could compare it directly to the same page on my old Kindle and see the difference. I found it quite distracting.

Other than that they made some small changes I didn't like. The fact that you just have to 'know' where on the screen to touch for certain things was a little odd. I kept accidentally turning the page when I wanted to bring up the menu. I really liked that it could estimate I'd be done with the chapter I was reading in 15 minutes, but I missed having the progress bar available.

I could probably survive the lack of physical buttons, but the font rendering issues really annoyed me. I'll happily keep my Kindle.
> What about the qualifications you had in order to be hired by the dream company?

Qualifications (and really, all the stuff you mention) simply punch you a ticket to the race. But those things don't give you victory, and you often don't even know or get a chance to compete on many of the other factors that get you chosen (consciously or unconsciously).

E.g. the 'hot girl', if you're 5'8" and she prefers a guy who is 6'2", good luck "working hard" to overcome that. The same applies in reverse, how many girls have been rejected because they are flat-chested or have the 'wrong' hair color?

How many otherwise qualified candidates have been rejected because they didn't have the right 'intangibles'? How many people have screwed up networking because they ordered the wrong kind of drink? How many pitches have gone awry because a carefully-rehearsed presentation team had the pitchman get sick in the hotel? Sure, you could wear an anti-microbial mask to try to prevent that, but at some point luck will track you down.

Operational Risk Management isn't about eliminating chance, it's about mitigating it. But in the end you're still crossing your fingers, and that applies everywhere in life.
Better, Wikipedia a former Qwest (US West/Mountain States T&T, Northwestern Bell, Pacific Northwest Bell) CEO, Joseph Nacchio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Qwest
>would we really want to pay to jail that many more inmates

This implies you have any choice in the matter.

Its starkly obvious these days the actual relationship between the US "citizenry" and their government.
The design makes that sentence non-obvious to be the primary description. Additionally the sentence is difficult to scan.
Not impossible, although right now our engineering is entirely in one office so that wouldn't be our preference. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested and I can ask around about making this work.
"The future" also has half the power, speed and features too.

Also, it obviously doesn't "just work" for you because you couldn't even use Google Docs in your place of business.
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And to be able to use it, you'll need to buy the next Nexus phone! Or wait till your OEM releases its crapware loaded version in 6-12 months (or never, actually).

Thanks, but I'll stick with iphone/iOS, at least I can update it. (iPhone 4 from 2010 running iOS 6).
> I speculate publishers will hate this.

It seems publishers have to opt in (e.g., see comment by keltex below). (I suppose they could still hate the pressure to allow it?) Also, it seems they could make additional money with zero marginal costs.
What's the best hardware TOTP token to get?
I prefer printed books, but I frequently am reading on the subway, the train, the airport, etc, and so the portability of ebooks is a huge advantage. I'm definitely excited about being able to both pick up a printed copy of a book for leisurely reading at home and have my entire library in my pocket when I have to go fly somewhere.
While there is no post limit, please be respectable and do not submit so many posts that the front page is full of your submissions.

All but 9 of the submissions on the front page are from ACN.
"For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases" is difficult to parse. It reads like list(4) instead of statement, list(3). It sounds as if you don't need to purchase print editions to get certain qualifying books cheaply on kindle.

I'm glad you found it clear and straightforward but a glance through the comments here shows that several other people were also confused.
Free or discounted ebooks to replace past paper purchases -- with the name Matchbook it rings a bit too Fahrenheit 451.

Was there not a less creepy name available?
Wow thanks for that. I have Google voice account for forever and never thought about this.

Edit: This also connects every other account to my Google account, so I should only worry the Google account.
You can't due to publisher relationships.
Looks great!

Do you happen to know whether jooq runs with DB2 v10? I see it supports DB2 v9.7.
Why don't they make the 'Papergold' or 'Paperpale?'

An e-ink reader is supposed to be easy on your eyes, yet a stark white background honestly creates just as much stress as reading against a screen. And High-Contrast mode is even worse for most people.
Because it artificially reduces the talent pool they're drawing from. They might wind up hiring someone less competent who was better at signalling or making concessions to someone who wasn't as far ahead of the pack as they thought based on interview performance. Time and opportunity cost also factor in, of course.
Too hard to read the text! :P
I haven't checked out Arch's wiki, but the FreeBSD handbook is a similar thing. It's so well documented I use it to compensate for other documentation.
How my tech obsession is affecting my baby son's brain
I'm sure the statue of limitations would apply to many of these crimes, so you can't be convicted of downloading Game of Thrones in 20 years.
I doubt that losing a child has ever been less than awful no matter how many you have.
"IF YOU DON'T WRITE IT, THEY WON'T COME."

A rare example of words that do belong in CAPS. :-)

My one comment on the original note... I think an article that is written with the intention of being well done might be monetizable as a side effect, but I don't think the other is true. It's very hard for a low-value post with poor monetization to be voted up.
About #3, DerbyJS [1] seems to precisely address this, while keeping concepts used by Angular / Ember / etc., like declarative events.

It seems like a huge step for me, I don’t understand why it’s not more popular on HN.

[1] http://derbyjs.com/#introduction
Well, two things...

First, our ZFS storage arrays have read-only snapshots (7 dailies by default, or any arbitrary day/week/month by request). No charge for them, or their space, unless you do a custom retention setup.

Second, we support "pull" backups ... that is, instead of rsyncing (or wahtever) to us, we can set up a cron job on our end and pull from you, using an SSH key. That way an attacker on your system has no ability to log into your rsync.net account, nor do they even know it exists unless they watch all the network connections and put two and two together...

So we'll make it work for you ...
I think he means the primary link, not the footer links.

Here:

http://www.hersheys.com/kitkat.aspx

(A dreadful site by the way.)
This is a really really good point. What can be done, though?
At some point just buying a MacBook Air makes more sense than either. Just have 2 gadgets and deal with it.
Agreed.

For those who missed it before, from a previous discussion on Authy:

> You're correct - there are serious security concerns with Authy's product, which were pointed out on an earlier HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4916983

>Personally, I'd be concerned with trusting my credentials with any company unless all members of the leadership team (yes, including "nontech" people) are incredibly familiar with basic security terminology and practices.

> (Note that the founder is unclear when PBKDF2 and AES are being used in the product, which is concerning, because they have very different use cases and should be hard to confuse).

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6133648)
I don't see how that answers my question. I did not ask "did you steal this guy's code"... I am curious what your project does differently, when I would choose to use one over the other, and why your project exists.

To provide a example, if someone asks me "how does Cydia compare to Installer", I say that it is based on an industry standard packaging system (as opposed to a one-off proprietary one), has package dependencies, a fast local search feature, installs by default with useful repositories, and is open source. It is not useful to say "Cydia is inspired by Installer but shares no common code".
Well this guarantees my sister isn't getting an Android (she's part of the Nestlé boycott since they continue to push breast milk replacements on people living in poverty)
Google Drive automation through template tags
That doesn't answer the question. it answers how the codebase is related, but it doesn't at all explain how the works compare.
I'm planning to upgrade my old Paperwhite just for the hardware update, Processor and battery basically, I feel my current kindle kinda slow, and the battery dies pretty soon if you're with airplane mode off.
>Seriously if AT&T doing this, there is no reason to believe that other providers do not.

The article says AT&T has the data for any telco that uses AT&T switches. This is a little odd, given that the company currently known as AT&T is not the same company that used to manufacture switches; but, if this has been going on for 26 years, I suppose the government would have insisted it continue across corporate splits and mergers.
> some hillbilly somewhere might not appreciate the many nuances of differing cultural practices

Are you seriously offering that as your reason too? That some hillbilly does it?

I'm done here.
I signed up, but no code yet...
Don't forget H-1Bs!
Show HN: A Google News/Maps mashup - GlocalNews
It's not absolutely awesome, but when you compare the competition, and look at Amazon's generally fantastic customer service, it does come out pretty awesomely for the consumer. Now and then I get riled up that I can't give my finished eBook to someone else, but then I remember I have Calibre and Google so it's not a big deal. (And once, when I had a problem purchasing on Amazon, I just downloaded the book and bought it a couple days later. DRM isn't really a hassle in practise.)

Publishers did it to themselves, being idiotically worried about piracy, instead of pushing for standards and selling directly. They gave Amazon the market out of their own stupidity. So you can't blame Amazon for picking up on that.

Maybe one day Amazon will turn around and act hostile towards customers, but so far, everyone I know has had only excellent experiences (OTOH, my overall Amazon spend is sorta high, so maybe I've got a gold star on my account). Even on the earlier Kindles, they'd overnight me replacements for damage; once they even sent an extra one and were sorta confused when I tried to return it (I hadn't paid for it).
Good point. I sometimes work from home, where I have a very different setup, but the photo on the blog shows me with the laptop stand. So far so good in terms of posture and no injuries or carpal tunnel. I think the frequent breaks really help prevent the injuries we thing are inevitable with a sub optimal ergonomic setup.
I mean a different sub-model (I guess...). Mine is a GT-s5830 instead of a s5830. All of the ROM updates I found made reference to the latter only so, again, I decided to not take any chances while it is my primary phone. By the time I buy a new phone, I'll sure update the old one and see how it goes.
Great move by the GitHub team! Glad to see they went with TOTP rather than SMS-only. As they mentioned on their site, Duo Security's mobile application supports TOTP and we'll have an Octocat logo in soon :)
how about "I sing the Novel Electric"?
Ask HN: Do you use Google Docs for project management?
We use GDocs for project management (PM) because we like the flexibility of the doc, but find it's missing PM specific features. We are thinking of building a Doc-based PM tool (think GDocs with PM features).

If you use GDocs for PM, how? What would you say it's missing? How would you pitch GDocs as a PM tool?
Couldn't agree more.

The prescriptivist intervention wasn't in the past century, though, it was in the 18th. It's been traced to a single grammatical treatise—I forget the name but can look it up if there's interest—which argued for singular "he" as the standard. Ironically, the book was written by a woman—how's that for troll fodder?
its very good to see github adding 2FA, but I wish they could also support their Indian users for using it via SMS.

edit : genuinely interested to know why they are not able to support SMS in some countries and mainly India.
I had all of those problems with Google Auth on iOS7. I just installed Authy and it seems to work great. I'd have paid $1-3 for it. I disabled the bluetooth feature though.
Cool… the fog color matching the gate color often makes it difficult to discern which section is the opening.
> Would you pay $30/m to move your resume to top of applicant list?

Maybe, but if I was hiring, why would I use a service that allowed an applicant to do that (unless I can easily identify and disregard the applicants that are placed by payment rather than qualification)? I mean, if it was a fee to move their application to the top of the list for a particular opening, it might be vaguely useful as a screen for motivation or interest level, but paying $30/month to make themselves a "featured applicant" for all applications means that, as a hiring party, the system just became less useful for me. And if hiring parties stop using it (or continue to use it because they can easily disregard the out-of-order listings), the paid premium service isn't useful for job seekers.
I am going to be mad if I find an Amazon tracking cookie that makes you money ever time I buy from Amazon from now on.

Anyways, the blog was an inspiration for me to start my own blog (which I have been putting off) and gave me some ideas for a way for it to fund itself.
I think the absurdity is not lost on some of the people writing the copy for these safety warnings. For example, after Liebeck v. McDonald's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaur...), companies started printing tautological statements like "WARNING: HOT COFFEE IS HOT" on the cups.
Read "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander and then start reading up on the history of civil rights activism and the beginning of the war on drugs
Shout out to the Racine Kringle Company.
In one of the recent Elon Musk articles it mentioned that he reads on his iphone, so the notion isn't that far out. Not that the iphone is exactly tiny...
Amazing to see this reach #4 rank. Good luck with the affiliate profit.
What is this, an e-reader for ANTS?!
Since they don't use TOTP it's not possible to use their two-factor authentication with applications such as Google Authenticator or Authy. What's more, I don't think it even works with third-party Twitter clients (Correct me if I'm wrong), so you have to use Twitter's own apps.
When they rolled it out, it was SMS-only. It still doesn't use TOTP - they've baked something into their mobile app that allows it to function as the second factor, rather than just supporting the same 2FA scheme that everyone else does.
Trello Gold
Oh, OK, I am not in US, so that links lead to Nestlé's KitKat site - http://kitkat.com/ - that explains it.
If it's just a wrapper for the mobile site, why don't I just save a bookmark in my phone's browser? That takes like 1k.
The author at one point says "Thank god the Windows phone failed".
It's one guy's opinion and he probably has limited experience with the WP platform - or just doesn't like it. I wouldn't have chosen to consider the rising market share as a sign of WP 'failing', but that's how the author apparently sees it.

Internet blog posts, specially the kinds written by people in tech that gets shared around on HN tend to have opinionated, often inflexible view on things - as if their understanding and by extension the reality is immutable. This is not entirely bad because it does spur on good discussion. Just don't take everything you read to be encyclopaedic facts and don't be surprised with 'absurdities' of these sort.

And I do agree with you abt WP OS. It has a fine design language, is very pleasant to use and was ahead of its time in embracing flat design accentuated with tasteful transition effects. I can see some iconography and other stuff on iOS 7 screen-grabs that appear to have been inspired by WP8.

A long time iOS user, I recently got lured in by WP8's smooth, no frills stylings and Nokia Lumia's edible designs. WP8 started late, yes. But it's in no way asleep or doomed. Happy so far with it.
One of the things I hate the most about reading books is holding them up while reading. eReaders have solved this problem for me, and now I am a happy camper!
This teaches you nothing about how photography used to work (it works the same damn way). What it is is how things sorta worked before negative scanners and photoshop.

The iPhone has a 8MP sensor, the screen is 0.6MP why would you intentionally handicap yourself like this? So you use it to develop the results and realize the picture looks like shit. So why bother.
I think the difference is explained by the structure of my landing page. The iOS link is most prominent at the top, but the Android link requires some reading.

I'm going to update the Power 20 site to give equal airtime to iOS and Android.

Android sales have actually recently outpaced iOS sales because I'm able to iterate on the app's name more frequently in Android. I can find out which titles work faster on Android. With iOS, one must submit a new app every time they change the name. Crazy.
Software Delivery via Amazon Docker Workflow
The point could be private prisons and the lobbying $$$$ they funnel to politicians.
That won't happen, because Americans basically don't know what marzipan is.
Excellent! Unless I'm missing it, it would be nice if there were a way to enforce a policy that members of an organizational team must have two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts.
Pressure against individuals:
To put pressure on people to get them to do your bidding. To compel people to turn up evidence on bigger fish or your family members. To compel someone to be a patsy for a different crime. To compel celebrities to come out in support of the security state.

Nationally (or bragging rights):
To look good to other countries when we ask for loans ("we're a secure nation- we could arrest all of these people if we wanted to."). To negotiate with prison-building companies (untapped arrests are potential prisons). To compel additional budgeting for high-tech crime-fighting research and equipment. To inflate one party's credibility pre-election ("we turned up all these bad guys."). As bargaining tokens in international deals ("we'll turn in this bad guy of yours if you buy our $million radar"). To bolster Big Pharma's stance that mass-narcotics are necessary ("look how many people self-medicate with dangerous cannabis, they should be taking prozac instead.").
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes
IIRC, lots of other companies selling telecom use AT&T infrastructure (infrastructure owned by AT&T now, not infrastructure built by a different company called AT&T in the past.) There are a much greater number of companies that you can buy local and long-distance service from than companies that actually operate the physical infrastructure.

I suspect that current infrastructure is the "AT&T switches" that are relevant here.
The Gold is still in beta. When accepted you get two minor features (stickers and solid colour backgrounds).

But 'more importantly??' it allows you to subscribe for $5/month to get more style (stickers, images as board backgrounds, emoji, large attachments, and referral scheme).
Drug Policy as Race Policy
I would just suggest you look at Plex. I feel the same way after being burned out on HTPC projects. But the killer feature still missing on Appletv is streaming media files stored elsewhere on the network, which Plex does beautifully. And still manages to have a gorgeous UI (using Google TV version)
Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux
Just took the survey.
Good catch. I was about to just give up after feeling kind of stupid.
Android hits 1bn total activations, and the next version is called
I thought you were kidding, but then I checked. Indeed, on Google, android.com/kitkat comes up first, then kitkat.com. On DDG and Bing, search results are still all about the snack.
I'm learning Emacs for class, and I was wondering: do you use the same hand to hit the command/meta keys? For example, when I'm doing C-n or C-p, I am currently hitting the command key with my left hand, but the identifier with my right. Is this the normal way, or do most people use one hand to execute a command?
AFAIK system apks are signed with a special key, that gets special privileges.
I've written about this before on HN - it really is a Android vs iOS thing. I have identical apps on both stores both with millions of users. Android consistently generates 1/3 or less revenue as iOS.
Actually, it doesn't look like anything to do with DOJ settlement.

This program is completely voluntary for publisher - they have to sign up for it explicitly, Amazon can't just force their hand.

Also, it's the publisher who sets the price (from the limited set of 2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free).

Source: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne...

Notice that the big US publishers are not yet mentioned as participating.
It's quite readable, not quite pure white actually. Contrast is very much like reading newsprint, and the lighting is also easy on the eyes.
That is really great for you. Here there is not such thing. Go anywhere with public wireless, a hotspot or whatever, connect to their network and try to browse around. Bing, "please choose one of our plans: per hour, day, week or month". Type in your credit card number and you are "free" to go. Of course, you can try a stolen ID and/or credit card combination, but then you are at your own risk.
Great group of startups here in Durham for the 4th session in 2 years. Come on down and join the party!