skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 unusual ways to decrease shopping cart abandonment
For ecommerce store owners as well as software sales sites. These are great ways to increase sales through reducing cart abandonment.
The Ask The Headhunter guy says this is the very best way to get hired: demonstrate to the hiring manager that you can do the job (and the author is modest, there was a lot more that was good about his prose than that he'd "used proper spelling and grammar", although I'm sure the promptness was critical).

it's better than any set of "credentials", which are a poor proxy for demonstrating this.

It's one reason lots of us test programmers on both simple coding (FizzBuzz or hopefully a bit harder, I also put some code with errors on the white board), and then, at least in my case, work through a design problem with them. All proxies for showing they can do the job.
Of course not, but bringing the gender equality into discussion is pointless. Teenagers find any reason for bullying. I was bullied for having a lazy eye and enjoying baroque music back when everyone my was hooked up on Smooth Criminal. My cousin had her share of it because she played the drums (how unthinkable for a woman!)

My parents tried all they could to shelter me behind regulations, and even they -- a colonel and an elementary school teacher -- failed and eventually admitted I have to stand up for myself if everything else fails. I stood up to (and beaten the crap out of) bullies and even stood up to teachers if I had to.

The people who don't care about the rules are the people against which bullied and harassed teenagers have no one to count on other than themselves.
Actually, I think OkCupid would be a good candidate for gradual engagement. Letting you browse profiles before creating an account could make it easier to see what sort of people are on the site, what sort of work you'll have to do to write a profile, and generally set your expectations for what it's like to have an account there.
Oh brother. We care about legitimate privacy issues but now you are suggesting that becoming the equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church on these matters will somehow be effective.

It won't.

The adolescent libertarian smell combined with semi-hysterical, semi-supported outrage on this issue is rapidly beginning to stink.
This was posted on Hacker News a while back, I'm sure there where interesting comments: http://peoplemov.in/

Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133098

The rankings for migrant destinations are:

USA
42,788,029

RUSSIAN FED.
12,270,388

GERMANY
10,758,061

SAUDI ARABIA
7,288,900

CANADA
7,202,340

UNITED KINGDOM
6,955,738

SPAIN
6,900,547

FRANCE
6,684,842

AUSTRALIA
5,522,408

INDIA
5,436,012

Data is sourced from the World Bank
Your point is correct, though I think it's more like hundreds of pitches a week if you count written ones.
I haven't studied this law either, but look at what happened to David Miranda who was in a situation very similar to the one I proposed - he was transporting information but didn't know what he was carrying (and given the people involved, the hard drives were probably encrypted).

He was detained for 9 hours and threatened with arrest during that time, but this was under terrorism laws, not encryption laws. And ultimately he was let go (sans equipment).
I also found it odd.

The 5c for $200 seems better than the 5s with 16GB. At least to me, the extra storage makes the 5C more appealing.
Maybe change the title then?
"On the other hand, U.S. News put more weight on ACT and SAT scores, which are correlated by family income."

Nit pick - but I didn't like this line because of how irrelevant it was. They shouldn't throw around words like 'correlates' if they don't understand them. Knowledge also correlates with income - whoopdydoo.
That I can understand, but it's "approximate" info on a banknote that probably has a couple of fingerprints. Even if the store had a video-camera, it's gonna be a bit tough to figure out exactly who gave a given $20 bill to the cashier. And since this person is using cash and not a creditcard, all they got is a (usually bad-quality) store-cam of someone that they think is the one who handed a given $20 bill to the cashier... meh, that's pretty fuzzy. Even if I told the FBI that I'm going to the mall and I will spend a $20 bill this Saturday, I think it would still be exceedingly difficult to find the exact bill unless they were tailing me the whole time. In which case I've already been located & identified by the FBI as a person-of-interest within their physical reach, so I'm already as good as dead.
Yeah I remember this as well. Specs per price at the time blew everyone away. Corners were still cut though (I'm looking at you camera and battery life).
They undoubtedly have the fingerprints of any American they care to (hell, they got mine during 4th grade when a police officer came to our school to "teach us about fingerprinting"). However iPhones are of course used throughout the world...

Even ignoring the specific issue of fingerprints, which I am not convinced is a major concern, the widespread use gives numerous other reasons for pause.
Q&A about Fingerprint Scanning
Apple was added to the PRISM program in 2010 iirc, and PRISM is a program designed for one purpose: surreptitious data collection.
Honestly, to effectively market this technology in today's waters, they have to say that it's kept local.

If they send out 8 bytes of your fingerprint data hidden in every picture you take (so your fingerprint can be regenerated by looking at your first 500 pictures) I doubt anyone will ever find it.
"The government can't grant immunity for that." ... come on.

I don't recall the exact wording of that law, IMHO it already covers such argument, but if not, it just needs a single sentence amendment. Government certainly can grant immunity against pretty much any civil claims.

They also can pass a law stating "Any and all contracts between Apple and 'gareim' shall be considered null and void.", though they probably won't do that - but adding an exception to the laws regulating advertising truthfulness is trivial. In fact, they could simply revoke those laws and then noone could bring any class actions for 'being sold a product on a lie'; class actions as such were only made possible by specific regulations and congress could eliminate the whole concept of class action suits if they wished to.
I now don't have to know how to set up an OpenVPN service. I can just use jpetazzo's. There's a benefit in Docker as a distribution platform (many companies are doing this right now) that is pretty compelling.
Thanks for your feedback!

Agreed, the approach is far from perfect.

1. Process supervision is kept very simple, because there are many other tutorials and demos out there using Supervisor and other systems. I'd love to know what is inherently wrong with using `while true` and hanging on logs. Personally, replacing Supervisor (or monit, or god, or $yourfavoriteprocessmonitor) with 3 lines of shell script is fine with me, especially as the focus is to show that Docker can now run OpenVPN.

2. Handle multiple log streams: indeed! I considered running two separate containers, and the only reason why I didn't do it is to simplify the setup process. I also explored the other option (using two separate containers for TCP and UDP connections), and it works almost the same; it looks like:

docker run openvpn genkeys
docker run -volumes-from $CID openvpn tcp
docker run -volumes-from $CID openvpn udp
docker run -volumes-from $CID openvpn serveconfig

Hopefully, the way the project is laid out makes it fairly trivial for someone to change it to run each openvpn process in its own container.

3. Here again, it's a (not-so-good) trade-off. In many cases, you need something simple and straightforward to move the configuration file to the device, e.g. when the device is a phone or tablet. Downloading a combined file over HTTPS is the simplest solution I found (even if in the Android case, it is slightly crippled by the Download Manager bug). It uses SSL to prevent eavesdropping. It protects against a system which would passively record e.g. WiFi traffic. It doesn't protect against a system which would actively detect such a transfer, and immediately initiate the same transfer, before you have the opportunity to stop the `serveconfig` container. I considered adding some HTTP basic auth, but that would have required a "real" HTTP server in `serveconfig` (or to hack further with socat, but I'm already quite ashamed of the current hack, TBH).

I agree that the setup can be greatly improved (what can't?), but I disagree with "there must be better way in every step". This is certainly not the setup that you want if you have a large number of clients, or if you are in an extremely compromised network (then again, it's only a concern during key exchange), but I don't see why it can't be acceptable for 99% of the personal users out there.
20% is hardly tiny.
It was also superbly nuanced. Empathized with both the customer and the problems this was causing him, and didn't imply the whole company was out to lunch.
Web Design: Client Requests Through The Years
It's terrible security practice, but the average person reuses fingerprints. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Which seems like the more likely covert NSA spy device? The iPhone fingerprint sensor that Apple prominently mentioned in a product launch or the hidden ATM fingerprint sensor that your bank says isn't there?
> Sure. And that problem is bullying. It has absolutely nothing to do with women in technology. Saying "imaginary problem X is totally real because real problem Y is real" is not logical.

The problem is not bullying alone, though that is part of the problem. Something can be both bullying and sexism at the same time. Bullies will frequently reach for the strongest ammunition they can get, whether it's racist, sexist, homophobic, or any of a number of other ways to hurt their victims.

Just because it's bullying doesn't mean that it's automatically not sexism as well.

> http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/BrainwashingInNorw...

Really? A video series called "BranwashingInNorway" about how there are a few people in Norway who are too politically correct to admit that there are some sex-linked behavioral differences?

Did you have any particular evidence for your actual claim that that once it's no longer taboo women don't want to cross traditional gender lines any more that you wanted me to look at, or am I supposed to trawl through the whole four and a half hours?

How about an actual reliable citation in an academic paper, rather than someone who's just trying to demonstrate that there are a few Norwegian academics who are a little too PC for their own good.

> Why don't you need evidence to back up the claim that women are avoiding certain professions because of sexism?

I do. There is plenty of evidence. For instance, the original post that this whole thread is about, though you choose not to believe it, or somehow are trying to classify it as not sexism. But there's plenty more as well:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070503012914/http://headrush.ty...

This is a woman who was terrorized from showing up at tech conferences due to threats of rape and murder.

Or how about this, a compilation of several sexual harassment issues that explain why Valerie Aurora, a Linux Kernel developer, no longer goes to certain hacker cons:

https://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-hara...

But OK, maybe you'd rather have statistics than anecdotes. How about this study which shows that women are more likely to leave fields which are more heavily male dominated:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w15853.pdf

That, of course, doesn't address harassment directly, but the general sense of unease that being in a small minority can give you, which can drive you out of the field.

I'm not claiming that the entire gender disparity in tech is due to harassment, or a poisonous atmosphere, or anything of the sort. What I am claiming is that it happens, it does drive some people out, and it's a bad thing. You seem intent on denying that there's any problem whatsoever.
I don't see anything on that page that says that?
But it doesn't have better battery life. It has very similar battery life to the last one according to Apple's own figures.
Not idiocy, limited experience. The target audience for these rankings is high school seniors and their parents. When you're 17/18 years old you don't have a lot of experience with judging the merits of higher education. This is a major decision that is (generally) only made once & few people will bother switching to another school after enrolling.

Compare this to any other purchasing decision that is made in life. If you buy the wrong cellphone, you've got 30 days to return it and, worst case, you need to wait 2 years before you can upgrade. Even a car, which is a 4-6 year purchase, will be done multiple times so you can learn from the experience. Even houses, with 20-30 loan repayments, can be sold.

The only other things you can do at this age that are as significant are joining the military & having a child. Both of which, arguably, have far more transparent and well understood pros & cons.
I really like the idea of standardizing my services and pricing and it is something I have thought about. However, I charge my clients on a time and materials basis. If they come back 10 times with revisions because they are going back and fourth on a decision I don't want to eat that time.

The bottleneck is what concerns me the most. I would have to hire someone else, pay them a good salary, and train them to do what I do if I don't want to be the bottleneck. Finding a quality person and training them doesn't concern me as much as paying them. My margin % is pretty good but I am not billing out at $100 an hour. So that worries me.
How do I add a voltage other than a 9V battery?

What are the current alternatives to this? I'm looking to build an LED driver (possible IC candidates are Linear LT3477, TI TPS63020 and some other TI / Linear chips). I'd kill for a software that would simulate any chips (or even just a crude approximation of them).
Thanks, but multiple errors- Which line?
You should edit your comment to remove the capital letters. It's against the rules.

Your comment makes a good point, but it's too hysterical.
I like the idea. I find it hard looking for trustworthy reviews of marketing apps. If there was one site which i could trust, then i would definitely find myself coming back for more.

That said, there is only one app being reviewed on the site - the site itself. Maybe you could first seed some content yourself and post reviews of apps you use.

Instead of this being a community driven review site i would prefer reviews from a single person or a small team with public profiles. For any marketing app you will find a 1000 fake online reviews. If you can trust into your site, there is a good opportunity here.
The Name Your Own Price Mac Bundle 3.0 (Charity)
A great one I found out about recently is 'watch'. Periodically calls a command and refreshes the screen with its stdout.
This is why I'll never try feedly.com. What is it? What does it do? Without giving them sign up information, I'll never know.
My guess is that if the sensor works as well as they claim, including 360 degree orientation, it has to store a pretty complete profile of the fingerprint.
I've always said, somebody needs to tell Samsung that they're a market leader. They act like a cheap Chinese knock-off company in spite of their strong position and brand.
That's not the only thing I'm doing on this VM; as I pointed out, I'm consolidating lots of little hacks and projects that are running all over the place in different environments. I put each thing in its own container. Benefits:

- I can shutdown one of those "experiments" without affecting others.
- If I want to migrate one of those things elsewhere (because it turns out to need more resources), it's already "Dockerized" (i.e. trivial to redeploy elsewhere).
- When I remove one of those things, I don't have to worry about leftover packages, dependencies, files, etc. lying around.

Otherwise it would indeed be a poor use of my time :-)
The China event was only "tomorrow" so far as Beijing is 15 hours ahead of California. It was just a live stream of the announcement IIRC.
Jonathan, the title on the actual article is just "iOS7". Where is the "fatal flaw"?
It comes off as petty because you don't like them. It doesn't come off as petty to me - I simply don't think about Samsung, so I don't brood about it either. I can't see any analogy between Samsung and individuals. Whether something is a knockoff or half-baked seems to be your judgment.
It's great! Quite informative
Would you be able to give some examples? I enjoy reading those types of stories.
> Whenever you hear there's a "shortage" of a particular job, that usually just means wages are higher than the employers would like them to be. You can really think of that relationship either way around. e.g. – there's a huge shortage of butlers because they're just way too expensive.

This sentiment comes from the idea that businesses facing a "shortage" can always hire good candidates by just raising their salaries. That is true, but it does not disprove a shortage--it just proves that good employees can be recruited from competitors if the wage is high enough. But if there actually is a shortage, all that does is move the shortage around.

There's also the issue of what is a sustainable salary expense in a given industry. Sure Inova could staff up with top-notch nurses if it paid them all $300k per year. But then how much would they have to charge patients to stay in business?

In the end, this a fun and easy argument to make because it requires no actual data about a given industry--just a preconception that businesses are cheap and manipulative. (Which they sometimes are--but again, that doesn't mean there's not a shortage.)
Fair point; but this is not using IPSec. It's using OpenVPN, which relies on TUN/TAP.
Which one is the iphone? It would certainly be easy to have some real gold on it.
You can't teach that.
Don't tell your wife this :)
I'm surprised there are so many radio permutations, and some support many radio bands, while others just a few.
Apple spends almost nothing compared to Samsung's giant advertising dollars anyways. They don't need to, really - Apple's solid reputation lets the media do their ads for them.

Just like how Apple doesn't need to buy billboards at the mall when they have bright, inviting stores of their product to entice you.
The Feds have had my fingerprints for 8 years, because of a foreign adoption. In fact, they have two versions because my first fingerprints "expired" because it took so long for the adoption to happen. So they have an extra $800 from us-- Thanks USA! (tm).

Plus, as others have mentioned below, most conceal carry firearm permits will require it, at least here in Illinois.

So, the govt. already knows that I'm a registered Republican, they have my fingerprints (twice), they know I have a FOID (Firearm ID in Illinois), they know my travel patterns (via airlines, gas stations, etc).

I think the last of my worries is some fingerprint scanner on a smartphone. At least I won't have to type in my PIN to unlock it while driving...
Same boat here. Not exactly keen to start using them for authentication now!
Your definition of "reasonable" really needs a qualifier here.

If you're doing AAA games in 2D, yeah you will use the GPU. But an indie game? You probably don't need it. Especially if you're writing the game without Unity (i.e. straight C++). The costs of setting up and working with 2D in OpenGL is high. I've done it. It's not fun, it's not pretty. It's a bitch, plain and simple. Texture atlases, font rendering, UV coords, texture uploading, vertex buffers, shaders. That's a ton of crap you have to worry with. Just to render simple 2D sprites to a screen. Many people can and do skip it and go straight to SDL or somesuch. It works, and modern CPUs are more than adequate.
Everyone who enters the US has to get their fingerprints scanned (even tourists), it has been that way for many many years.
Yes, but its usually not worth the time to include all parasitics in a model until you get to very high frequency work.

Professional circuit/PCB designers already know roughly what the issues are going to be and can order of magnitude approximate well enough to know if its worth fully modeling or not. For novices, just understanding what the parasitics are is hard enough, much less adding them to a circuit that is often already fairly complicated for them. Most lower frequency stuff that novices will be building should not have an issue with parasitics, but pushin breadboards are just awful and the most common hobbyist op amps have plenty high enough gain-bandwidth-products to bring them into play.
What's the volume on a reasonable sized small batch of chips? How small of an order does it make sense to go down do doing your own chips? If one buys the IP, is it Intel fabbing the chips, or do you have to take the resultant work elsewhere, or is it your option?
The battery life is fine nowadays, it's a mature technology.

They now send out a small pulse a few times a second, and then watch the decay on their own antenna.

A change in the decay rate means another resonant antenna is nearby and stealing its energy - so then they power up fully to check things out.

Apple always says stuff like that until they're ready to unveil what they've been working on.

Bigger screens, Hi-Def displays, etc. - all right out of the same playbook. You can't trust exactly what they say, because they have their own agenda.
will Android platforms move to similar technology or find an easier way through NFC to make mobile payment security relevant
He's pointing out that Nokia's claim of copying them with colors (lol) is weak.
> The amount Samsung has to spend to overcome the "organic" Apple advantage must be rather large.

It is indeed. Samsung spends a roughly-flat 15% of their revenue on advertising. As their cellphone share grows, this spending grows... to obscene levels.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/29/the-cost-of-selling-galaxie...
Why is "launching half-baked products" petty? And why does mankind frown upon it?
Apple does stuff like book so much air freight space from China that they squeeze out other users:

http://www.cultofmac.com/150519/massive-apple-air-freight-de...

Bad for the planet too, and all just to save a couple of weeks on a boat. Buying up ad space seems pretty minor by comparison. I guess minor does go along with "petty". Funny how we're sometimes much more upset about a small slight than a large one.
This seems more focused and less confusing than prominently selling last years’ model (which Apple has previously done).

From a consumer perspective it seem extremely hard to differentiate between different years’ iPhone models. This new clear (also visual) distinction makes it easier and provides more guidance for consumers. It’s a bit more work for Apple (what with them having to make two iPhone models every year) but for the consumer it should be much easier to understand.

The 5C stands out and makes it really clear that Apple has something that costs a bit less than their flagship. Yeah, it’s just the 5 repackaged – but I think it’s really important signalling and should make Apple’s lineup much easier to understand for consumers.

There’s still the 4S to muddy the waters, though. Ah, I guess that’s some Jobs-era legacy mess. Selling a two year old model is really lame and confusing after all :-)