skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't know what the author's real motives were (Was it really to beat on the theme that 'Americans are ignorant?), but I personally think this is a good exercise to humble yourself - 'My country/city is not as important as I think it is'.

Defensive much? For one it proves they are quite ignorant on geography. Britain might not be as important, but it's as well known a country as they come. They would fair even worse with other European cities -- "You're from Austria? I love Kangaroos!"

Heck, a few of the people I've asked for information didn't know large-ish cities 50-70 miles across a state line from them. Like living in Grand Island and having never heard of Wichita or Topeka.

Now, I can understand why that is: you can live all your life in Oklahoma or Oregon without ever caring about what happens in New Mexico or Idaho, much less about Britain or Japan. You just know what you have to know to get by in your own life -- and you might be very knowledgable in your field and even active in local politics etc. After all each state is the size of a large or small country in Europe itself.

What's troubling is that this lack of geographical knowledge means a total lack of interest and knowledge about world affairs -- that's how the only affairs that matter to the population are the ones that have been spoonfed to them by the media, and in the specific way they have been spoonfed to them.

In Europe, geographical skills are more or less taken for granted. And caring about world affairs is very much mainstream, including going out of your way to learn about them, not just what happens to be the discussion of the month on TV/intertubes.
That was one of the first languages covered by this site.
We ended up hiring several people from outside the U.S. Their resumes were pretty much impeccable.
I thought the fake delays were so the programmer could cash in on doing optimisations at a later date.
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It's interesting to see Birmingham in 8th place given that it's the 2nd largest city in the United Kingdom. It would be weird if you saw a similar list of American cities and Los Angeles came that far down.
note that this is just my personal opinion (and is in contrast to what seems to be the consensus), but i tend to believe that firms are more efficient in investing excess capital, to drive long-term growth, than shareholders, who have largely become about maximizing short-term profitability (and often at the expense of long-term growth).

and while i'd agree that firms often overpay in the hope of realizing ‘synergies’ that rarely exist, an acquisition is at least an investment in something tangible (ip, product lines, people, ...), which at least has the potential to generate value.. and while it may fail to do so (or do so sufficiently as to offset the costs involved), i view it as a better use of funds than direct returns to shareholders in the hopes (from a macro view) that they are able to efficiently reinvest in value-generating activities.

edit: just want to add that i realize that if one views a firm’s primary function as to maximize returns to shareholders (as many do, a fair view), then m&a, with its high probability of not paying-off, would be considered less favourable than a direct transfer like a dividend. i however tend to view a firm’s function more along the lines of ensuring its long-term survival and growth (which, in-turn, and ideally, should generate significant returns to shareholders, and drive innovation).
This has been one of my favorite questions when interviewing candidates for jobs. The beauty of this question is that you can branch out and go deep into any of the several technologies that power the web - "how does the browser know it has to contact your server" or "how does your browser know how to display content" is a great filter for good devs. Best part about this question - it can be quite educative even for bad candidates.
Unless you are quite unusual, 4-5 hours sleep per day/night is low enough to be bad for your long term health.

see http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/white-papers/how-much... for details.
in the US, Hersheys controls the branding for KitKat, not Nestle
I ended up disabling the gates as I just wanted to look at it for a bit

HELLORUN.Game.prototype.onGate = function() {}
Sounds familiar. Is it by any chance created by the same guys with whom Paul Graham and Harj Taggar made public office hours at Startup School 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9vPAlb_0 [the intended part starts at 25:05]?
I think it would help a lot if the 'no' in Tomonotomo were accentuated with a different colour or so. Then it would be easier to see that it are in fact 3 (Japanese) words strung together. I think that would make it a lot better to remember.
Leaving a Tip: A Custom in Need of Changing?
I know lots of immigrants with excellent grammar and spelling. A few who even bother to get someone else to check their resume for that stuff.
I was working at a Parisian dating startup about two or three years ago, we had that friends of friends kind of vibe (it was actually called that) and it didn't prevent us from failing.

More men than women on those websites, the few women you get don't engage anyone for some reason so you usually end up having to buy cheap leads on silly marketing platforms and fake all the figures (men/women ratio, number of users, etc). Good luck though.
Maybe, but I'd worry that they're only suggesting that because the appcache can be a pain to work with.

localStorage is synchronous, and so putting huge amounts of data in there can delay page load.
You're definitely right on the second part. Personally, I'd just go with "Tomono" -- keeps the idea (the name is Japanese for "Friends of Friends", and "Tomono" is just the "of Friends" part), but makes it much easier to remember and to type.
I just tend to tune out whatever is on the sidebar of a website as it tends to be ads or other things I probably don't care enough to read. As for the "by Stacy", well it is rather small and gray. Of course I have a feeling the poster of the comment that sparked this little flame-war didn't read the article.
WADA doesn't handle testing for any sport - it's all done by the national agencies.

But it gets complicated by the fact that any sport's governing body sets the rules for testing for approval by WADA, which are then administered by the national federations. But WADA has no real power, except to protest to CAS (the Court of Arbitration in Sport) if they don't like how a sport operates (eg [1]).

And yes, some national bodies are more vigorous than others. Famously, Lance Armstrong moved from Nice (in France) to Spain, where the testing was much more predictable and easy to avoid. Also, there were no criminal sanction for the use of performance enhancing drugs in Spain, whereas there were in France.

[1] http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/747725/fifa-&-wada-agree...
Woman arrested for playing banjo at Syria war protest in Philly
Personally, once the site stopped 500ing on me outright, I certainly didn't pick out her face in the sidebar full of social networking icons, random facebook faces, and navigation links until I went looking for it.

Then again, I didn't pick out the entire sidebar.

I had a hard time finding her name on the page even looking for it. It's not a signature, but tucked away nearer to the top between the blog title and more social networking noise, in light grey text on white background, in a completely separate column from the profile pic.

Perhaps if Facebook like buttons alone didn't out-number her name 4:1 (whether or not you count the comments) it'd be easier to notice these things...
Search for a blogpost about skill management
Hey guys, i hope you can help me. I'm looking for a blogpost/website of a company. The post is about a guy who was working at this company and developed a web-staff-skill-management with twitter bootstrap. With it you could manage the skills of your colleagues.

I hope someone might remember the website.
this is just like hellol.com lol.
The name Nestlé is a byword for baby murder for a significant number of people I know. I was surprised to see Google deliberately associating themselves with them.
Sorry, you're not welcome as a customer.

If you are a member of the oppressing class (in whichever context: from being friends with a school bully to knowing a slave trader) and an oppressed person tells you they are suffering from the actions of that class, it becomes your duty to help stop it.

This hand-washing help-yourself attitude is never acceptable. "What did you do to help free the slaves, daddy?"

"Oh, nothing, the slaves should have done it themselves".
Is "people using their second or third language will make more grammatical errors than people using their primary language" really that controversial of a concept?
Plus less mental burden for everyone. You get to a light, you press the button. No need to wonder if there is going to be a button or not, no need to have to look all around - in case the button was hiding somewhere else.. The button is there..press it.
Feature requests: mutual references, ID checking. See couchsurfing.org for how they implement friends, references, and ID checks. Adds extra degrees of trust.

Another feature request: easy scheduling of events, so as a "first date" you could meet the person along with your mutual friends to help break the ice. I find the traditional 1-on-1 date puts a lot of pressure on people to perform well, vs getting to know each other in a relaxed social setting. I would keep these events private so they're only viewable by the immediate friend matrix, though.

(and definitely fix the boys & girls wordage)
MULTIPLE return values?! My mind is BLOWN. That's awesome. My work is all in Java and there are so many times on my last project where that would have been helpful (I know I can do it by creating a map or an array or something, but that's stupid and extra code that I shouldn't need to write).

I really hope to be able to write Go professionally at some point, it is a really nice language to write in.
Java was fun to play with back in the early days. It was fast, had a VM, garbage collection and was OO. Sadly the fun was gradually removed over the years as a result of design-by-committee and a desire to try to solve some of its core issues.

Fortunately you can still have fun on the JVM, even though I prefer to avoid it these days given its current custodians.
If there is one man that deserves to go trough all that hell, it's Bill Gates.
I love that you built something. But let me be brutally honest, because that's what I would want.

I don't see the value-add. Maybe it's 2x better than e-harmony, but it's not 10x better, like some of the new competitors are.

Take Tinder for example. Dead simple app. See a picture of the a potential date nearby. Vote yes/no. If you both vote yes, it opens up a chat thread much like sms.

Tinder incorporates friends-of-friends in the ranking already. I can see how many friends I have in common with a potential match, and I'm more likely to be shown potential matches with mutual friends.

But Tinder goes a step further. It integrates with Facebook, so that it can match on similar taste in books, movies, entertainment, religion, philosophy, based on likes in the profile. Finally, from a cultural perspective, as a smartphone app it's much more free of stigma.

So I don't see the improvement here. It's a good idea, with a growing userbase, but it seems slightly behind the wave, which is defintely going to be location aware mobile dating apps.
Depends. From the point of view of the applicant perhaps N=1 as only one company's hiring was investigated. But from the point of view of someone scanning resumes, N=300 (there were 300 applicants considered).
It's not intuitive at all, but for zooming, you can double-tap-and-hold, then move your finger up and down to zoom in and out (or is it out and in?). That way you don't need two hands to zoom.
We (Intercom) are hiring ops engineers in San Francisco and Dublin:
https://www.intercom.io/jobs/ops

We've lots of interesting things to work on, including:

* Spliting our monolithic rails app in to discrete services

* Redesigning our data storage to handle the next 100x growth

* Improving fault tolerance within the application until there are no single points of failure

* Shrinking the time taken from a push to master until production deployment to less than 10 minutes

* Building tools and processes to help us detect and respond to operational issues quicker

* Increasing visibility in to app performance by working on our graphite or logstash infrastructure

* Designing and rolling out a websocket infrastructure capable of handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections
> The name is awful, sorry. Too hard to pronounce / understand and certainly not worth the trouble since it doesn't convey meaning.

As someone who speaks Japanese and instantly understood what the name meant, I agree. This is an absurd name to use for an American/Western dating site. I can't see myself mentioning this site to my friends.
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I could not seem to find anything about reporting abusive comments in the Guidelines or through some cursory Google searching. How does one go about actually reporting offensive postings[1]? Is it just expected that moderators will eventually find it or is this something unlocked with some higher amount of karma?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327227
We'll release builds on OSX & Linux in the coming days. It'll then be quite easy to hack the default browser. We'll write a doc about it as well!
Introduction to Brainfuck
Wow. Just wow. It feels like it's my birthday, except it's not.

(My birthday is April 1st.)
Indeed. Which makes about as much sense as one encyclopedia publisher suing another for having the same table of contents, except the defendant encyclopedia doesn't have anything but the table of contents and is given away for free with little signs next to each topic saying "hey, you can read about this topic over -> here."

In other words: not at all.
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This^ and I'm only a student; I'll write a program in the evening and by the following morning I'm all, no, no, no!
Just link it to some kind of database like the hard drive manufacturers do.
Technically impressive, but the shoddy F2P kills the game.

If the game is tedious and boring without burning premium currency, you've failed at F2P.
I know. I am at one of those institutions. We practically have a social sciences lab for the Dunning-Kruger effect in place of IT decision makers.
Perhaps they wanted it to work even when offline? It can be a struggle to get basic browser caching to work nicely in online/offline scenarios. As arethuza points out though, that is better addressed using appcache.

I could imagine doing something like this if you wanted to support say es6 modules, and so each file needed to be processed after it was loaded to work in the current browser. In that case, I can imagine wanting to cache a processed one on the client side, although if you control your whole stack, it'd be better to do that work on the server.
Linux-like stat in FreeBSD
Out of interest, what does it mean / reference?
> Nestle paid for product placement of 'kitkat'.

I haven't seen that anywhere. All reports thus far have said that neither side is paying for this.
If this goes through, watch Pitchfork start suing top 40 stations for stealing their curation.
Washington, DC, has many signals that have a countdown. Usually I figure on 3 seconds per lane at a moderate walking pace. Other times I will use my knowledge of how long the don't walk signal lasts before the crossing traffic gets the green light; if I don't know the intersection well, I won't cross on a don't walk.

All this of course assumes that there is traffic on the street I want to cross, which is true for most times of day, most places I walk.

Crossing against or without lights seems to depend very much on culture. In some parts of the US it is unremarkable, in others it is looked down on.
Nobody is "selecting." His point is that if it is highly advantageous to "look at and manipulate things on screens," within the population genes that makes individuals better-adapted for this behaviour will be favourable/selected for. It's just Biology 101.
If that blows your mind, check out Haskell - you can dispatch on type of return value.
defending a sexist assumption by claiming a lack of attention to detail and an unwillingness to read the whole pages feels sub-optimal.
http://www.therubybook.com/
Other interesting details from the results: LMDB's creation time is always faster. LMDB's creation time is linear, Sparkey's is nonlinear. For a 10x larger DB, Sparkey takes more than 10x longer time to create.

Sparkey's lookup performance drops off a cliff at 100M elements. This doesn't seem to be related to raw size because it occurs regardless of compression. LMDB's performance degrades logarithmically, as expected of an O(logN) algorithm.

Hashing is inherently cache-unfriendly, and hashes are inherently wasteful - hash tables only perform well when they're mostly empty. They're completely hopeless when scaling to large datasets.
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My first submission to HN! This one simply teaches operations and discusses some examples. I am planning to make more tutorials for BF that will show more advanced stuff and tricks.

I am also planning to make some enchantments to BF, like a graphic interface. You can see an example here (It is in Turkish, just press run)
http://enginmercan.com/?p=32
They have those?? goes to check Google Maps
Caring And Feeding Your Home On The Web: Your Existing Website
Getting a Head Start with Front End Generators
the about page says it: tomo no tomo short for tomodachi no tomodachi (friend of friend)
Some products I know need to be given key material in order to work properly (e.g., games or other software). It's relatively easy to control the product then.
Only facebook sign in? That was the end of the experience for me.
Bitcoin 0.8.4 Update Offers Security Improvements
They never used branded or trademarked food names. It's cute and attention getting though.
I think this is what Microsoft is trying to do by buying Nokia. It does fit with the Surface, which seems to have spurred OEMs to do a little better. It's hard for Microsoft to go to an OEM and critique the way they implement Windows without a functional example.
Well, compared to what Australians? They are similarly insular.

A better comparison would be with Europeans.

The things he mentions as extremely insightful stuff people wouldn't know, e.g Zaire, Congo, Republic of the Congo, the civil war there, etc are all quite common knowledge.
Tinder has a rep of being more of a hook-up app (like Grindr) so having a web app may cause people to take this more seriously. This service looks like it uses Facebook to do similar things like matching on profile data.

You're right about Tinder being dead-simple though. This looks like they basically took the Tinder concept and expanded on it for desktop viewing. One of the best parts about Tinder is that it really reduces the friction for people to talk to each other while still not being totally sketchy. That's the problem with most dating sites these days.
A while ago the Android version was replaced by a new app (instead of just an upgrade), allegedly because the team LOST THE SIGNING KEY FOR THE ORIGINAL APP[1].

If there is one team you'd expect not to lose a signing key I would have thought it would be that one!

Everyone makes mistakes, but it's pretty scary to hear this happening too.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/03/22/psa-googles-authenti...
middle-click paste is so plainly useful that I often find myself completely baffled that other windowing environments haven't copied it.
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#GrannyEyed. I'm sure I've heard that before somewhere on the inner net.
This is what the 'flag' link on the comments are for. Along with the downvote link.
"can't be assed" is slang:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/thesaurus.php?term=can't+be+a...

As for "language and written communication is unimportant", the full statement was: "It's not like language and written communication is unimportant...". That seems correct to me.
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I tried a few sites in my day and I'd have to agree that OKC is the best I've tried, even if I didn't have luck with it. It was the most pleasing to use and it seemed like the people were of quality.

I'd like to see a site where an algorithm is used to match interests only, if you match there, then photos can be viewed...or maybe not, but at least rely heavily on the interest metric. Maybe a site for intellectual-leaning people (or however one would want to word that) would also do well, or one that relies on Myers-Briggs (though I know that's not for everyone).
Check this out. It should help put everything together.

http://www.quicksprout.com/the-definitive-guide-to-growth-ha...
Yeah, tracking on-the-job performance would be much more interesting than just looking at whether or not someone got an offer. I hope to be able to do this kind of study in the future with the advent of more data.
Labkeeper.net
"I stumbled upon this snippet while doing research for my thesis, 'Prolonged drug use and its effect on code quality.'" Lol.
I love middle select too, I use it often !
Also can be used to work around copy-paste issues, or quickly copy pasting without formatting !
Exactly. A "startup CEO" for whom email is his most important tool and he's baffled by a change to his client? Switch clients.
Also check the Linux Devices subreddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_devices/
Not hugely active, but most boards from the last year or so will be there.
Don't read too much into those numbers. they were calculated over a total of 5 offers, with a huge selection bias inserted by the pre-screening routine.
I voted that up when I meant to vote it down - how the hell do I fix that?
Right. Why does Google need to paid for this? Any dollar figure would be insignificant, not scaleable and not part of their core business. Selling naming rights to their SDKs?! Are these baseball stadiums?
This reminds me of Skinner's superstitious pigeons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Superstitious_Pig...
Saying Dark Souls is "hardcore" is an euphemism :)

While quite a different experience, Dark Souls is the "gamiest" game I've played in a long time. While environmentally immersive, the game forces you to remember it's a game. You have plan, optimize and exploit. You don't feel bad by being cheap, because the game is also cheap. All my gaming senses were constantly being tested.

Quite the contrast with the recent trend in "immersive" and "cinematic" games. Dark Souls is a game that knows it's a game and expects you to remember that as well.
> The bug in my humble opinion is having separate "selection" and "clipboard" buffers, but I just use a small util in the background to always keep both synchronized.

i actually appreciate this, because somteimes I really do want to copy something, do some other things, and then paste. Can't have the selection buffer overwriting the clipboard buffer.

> By the way, do people really use drag-n-drop on a daily basis? ... while maintaining the mouse button pressed all the while.

Agreed, especially in the age of the trackpad, on which drag and drop is far more difficult.
If a traffic light is dumb (and most are) and the government wants to optimize traffic flow, then a button that disrupts the timing will mess up the traffic flow. An intelligent light controller might be able to include the random changes and still optimize the flow. Sadly very few light controllers are smart enough to do this.