skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ex coworkers. Last time I got a job traditionally and walked in cold to a job where I didn't know anyone there was in 1994 or 1995 don't remember exactly. Ever since then its all been "Yeah (fill in the blank) who worked with you at (fill in the blank) mentioned your name and the work you did with (fill in the blank) so I figured I'd give you a call and ..."

I predict I'd be freaked out to walk into a new job and not know anyone. I haven't done that in twenty years. I think I'd be lonely for awhile? I have some respect for people who do that, its gotta be very stressful.

Even noobs can kind of apply this via school classmates and to a much more limited extent physical meatspace users group meetings. Locally a makerspace is slowly bootstrapping itself and once its further along, I'll join and meet some interesting people soon (the pioneers of the group only meet while I'm busy at work, so occasional mailing list interaction is possible, although not in person).

One hardware job interview a long time ago involved pulling circuit boards of stuff I designed and built at home out of my suit pockets during the interview. The HR lady was stunned, and I was also stunned to hear that she was stunned. Admittedly I was bringing analog to a digital gunfight but still... they're looking for a hardware dude, and I got interviewed because I know a guy, but none of the guys you selected by yourselves personally own a soldering iron, and you're hiring for a HARDWARE guy? If HR screws up that badly, which happens often enough, if you can find any way at all to get in, you'll basically be the only candidate. There are probably ways for HR to do this with software, maybe HR ends up only providing java candidates but they actually need a Ruby guy and you're a Ruby guy and via an old friend you get interviewed, well, I guess you win.
Then, I'll have to finish my PhD and show the world how it's done. :-)

The essence of the card is that it contains a fixed, small amount of content that can be linked to and reused at different contexts, not that you 'always' have to interact with it in a fixed "3x4 inches" format. If you try out the Smallest Federated Wiki below, you can drag-and-drop cards within a page, but the page doesn't seem to built from cards (although it is). Pages can be created by composing cards and giving them lightweight styles (such as removing the visual frames around them, or showing them in list formats).

If it helps you, this is how I picture a system programmable by the end user through cards:

- The structure is roughly like in the 10/GUI concept demo:[1]

* Information is organized in non-overlapping plaques.

* Plaques can be shown folded (cards), unfolded (pages) or minimized (links).

* Plaques are hyper-linked; clicking on links open related plaques like in the Smallest Federated Wiki. [2]

- Users can create new cards (this is what's missing in current card-based systems, which are read-only):

* Creating a card's structure is like creating a dialog in a traditional visual GUI builder, by composing small elements in a larger layout.

* The card's behavior is programmed with the interactive comic-strip operations that Bret Victor demoed recently in the "Stop Drawing Dead Fish" demo. [3]

Does such system make sense? Can you picture it?

--

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/10gui-multi-touch-interface/13104/

[2] http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors/hsi.fed.wiki.org/h...

[3] http://vimeo.com/64895205
Please, no ads on HN.
And what does

<main role="main">

buy us?
Nokia's interim CEO addresses the 'next 150 years'
It would also be nice to implement LZMA2 support to content encoding in the browsers, which is much better than GZip.

Firefox started doing it, I think.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/LZMA2_Compression
Google security exec: 'Passwords are dead'
"-(BOOL)isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive;" or how Apple keeps secrets
Debian and Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger
> Because porn sites don't exploit anyone

The one's you visit may do, but don't tar the whole industry with the same broad brush.
I feel like the title is little misleading or maybe I'm just bias and I immediately thought that he got a developer job when he is "just" a social media/helpdesk kind a person, which is a job that needs to be done of course, but there are a lot more qualified people to do it than there are engineers
YouTube indecisive over rebrand 
When Google acquired YouTube back in 2006, most people expected to see a rebrand to pull the video sharing site closer to its parent company’s corporate style. That anticipated rebrand may finally be on the cards 7 years later as YouTube rolled out updates to its apps at the end of August, featuring a swanky new logo. Strange then, that the new branding has thus far failed to appear on YouTube’s web sites.
My internet sucks!
You're talking about talking to the government, but you'd need a clear agenda if you want to partake in such an endeavor. So what will the main talking points be and do you have something clear and actionable in mind?
Yes. I should have added an additional statement that these games actually promote themselves as clones.

UberBlox

"Im making a kinda of Minecraft Clone"

https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/605337

Manic Digger

"an open source clone of minecraft"

https://github.com/henon/manic_digger

I made a mistake with FortressCraft. After reading the Wiki apparently there was a dispute between themselves and Minecraft.
"from Kashmir to Louisiana to Minas Gerais"

Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state that I live, what a coincidence. I wonder if the author choose randomly...
WAI-ARIA support is abysmal, not only does it vary between screen readers but also between various browsers using the same screen reader.
Anonymous Commemorate 911 by Bringing down over a Dozen Israeli Websites
Dating coworkers / ex-coworkers? My wife and I worked together although by the time we were seriously dating we both had moved in to other jobs.

Another option is the obvious getting set up blind date style.

The coworker thing seems to work very well if everyone involved can keep drama out of the workplace, which is pretty easy if its actually ex- coworkers not current coworkers. The "set up by friends" thing seems to work only slightly better than "met at a bar".
Cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:akihaba...
TFA says it is 1/3 female.
In Amsterdam, there's almost no houses with garages. Put bluntly, this is why Amsterdam will never be anything like SV.
The nightmare of divs makes it hard to find the end div unless someone is disciplined enough to indent the code consistently OR if comments are inserted at the end of divs as in

<div class="header">
...
</div> <!-- header-->

Using semantic tags makes it much easier to see the structure.
Another great post, Daniel... keep 'em coming!
Zapier brings more than 200 web services to Google Glass
One could argue that at least mass-surveilance would be much more difficult to pull off... But I am afraid that the governments would start cooperating (in 1984 style).
What if there was a way server-side to look at the CSS and HTML and strip out the elements that won't ever be visible on a specific client device? A bit of HTML and CSS parsing, as well as knowledge about the client, and voila: less HTML (and CSS?) to the device!

This way as a developer you still have one HTML page, but smaller devices don't ever get non-visible DOM elements.
- entry points in education systems using dutch influencers.
- Cheap resources like specialised Housing
- Facilitate talent coming into the country with more information on how to set yourself up and who to talk to.
- Small enterprise and startup awareness campaigns

These kinds of ideas
"Seriously: McKinsey? WTF do they know about starting your own company?"

Eh.. I don't know, maybe they've been consulting and guiding startups since before you were born?

They've even written an excellent book on starting a business called "Starting Up" (http://www.scribd.com/doc/4505824/Mckinsey-Starting-Up-Busin...)

Anyway, I don't think that the problem with Dutch startups is ambition. It is lack of action taking. If I look at people with awesome and ambitious ideas, they almost never go out and persue it full time. They also almost never try to find a cofounder. If they do, usually it's a group of friends that go at it part time.

So perhaps what we need to convince people of is that it's not so risky to stop what you're doing for a year and pursue a startup idea full time. The Netherlands is actually a very startup friendly country, people just don't know it. They don't know about tax advantages and subsidies available to entrepreneurs. Banks make it seem like getting money is hard.

BTW how did you manage to write a blog post about startup culture in Amsterdam without mentioning Bubbleconf? (http://www.bubbleconf.com)
this is quite interesting.

so i had no credentials or experience when i got my first tech job. although my experience was at a AAA game dev. i became a rendering programmer which is generally considered to be a specialised role as well... this was down to a combination of personal connections, having a rock solid demo and knowing my stuff inside and out.

my experience there was that oxford graduates with 5 years + experience ranged in quality from 'gifted hard worker' to 'dead weight' with a heavy leaning towards the 'dead weight' end. literally you could have replaced some of these people with large rocks and it would have saved the company money.

being able to demo skills is valuable and should be expected during hiring imo, but sadly many employers have not grasped this in their interview and selection process. on the other hand in small high pressure teams avoiding bad hires is super important...

imo this is the genius of the test you were given - unlike almost every single examination and course work in academia, it puts you into a real world situation and demands a solution without warning (knowing when your exam is) support (lecturers) or cheat sheets (textbooks).
Nope. I visited there once (some of my father's cousins emigrated to Brazil 40 years ago) and did recently receive an email from a reader in Belo Horizonte.
Are there any plans for a chapter on the new major stuff in ECMAScript 6? I believe the target date for the finalization of the spec is still around December? Which is not that far away... time to start shopping for xmas gifts :S
Some of the characters you used are not allowed by many password systems. This decreases the entropy quite a bit, but still not enough to make your point invalid.
> which is much better than GZip.

For one value of "better": better compression ratio.

LZMA is also much more expensive than GZip (2x CPU when decompressing, 3x to 6x when decompressing) and uses 2 to 100 times the working memory (when decompressing, the compression is worse). GZip also has more or less constant working memory where LZMA2's depends on compression settings.

LZMA2's use case is thus a bit restricted, mostly pre-compressed static assets (ideally not used on mobile devices)
I know they disagree with this, but the fact remains that it's very challenging to make money off open source software. Few companies are able to sustain such a business model, particularly if the target market is consumers with no interest in retaining consulting services.
Here is my trick for this: I use an individual email address for each signup I do, in the form of <signupdomain.com>@mydomain.com. By that way, when I get spam, I don't only know the spams source, but I can block it with only one click by blacklisting the specific receiver email address.
Source is http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0068-f-en.php
Even if they have a warrant, they can't read a well-encrypted email. What do they do then?
Security Flaw Shows Tor Anonymity Network Dominated By Botnet Traffic
ECMAScript 6 is out of scope for now, since even when the spec is released, it'll take a while for it to become practical to actually program in.
Open source beehives
So, in the case of Ghost being non-profit, this is just some kind of statement about how dedicated they are. Because I don't see what this brings to the open-source project itself (for instance, anybody can fork it and do whatever they want; the fact the original author is non-profit does not change anything).
GCC's optimiser does some crazy shit sometimes including removing necessary code in -O3. Perhaps some of that crazy could be related?

As for using FreeBSD 4.1 off a CD in your closet, I recently set up an NT4 machine with SP2 (requirement!) that was to be used entirely offline. Surprisngly it booted and works fine on a brand new Intel chipset H61 based machine with an SSD in it (graphics are stuck at 800x600x16 but that's a requirement too).
It was probably about 1 year equivalent full time.
So far there has been 1 bubbleconf.
They put you in prison until you hand over the keys. In the UK this is under RIPA. In the US there's probably some law they can kludge to fit - contempt of court or some-such.
For something like Readability, you don't want to keep the navigation. The whole point is to get just the content, and make it readable.
Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend
I just came here to say thank you. I tried dozens of methods to learn how to program (I'm a marketer) and all of them start with "ok just type this and see what happens." I love the approach of breaking everything down to the essentials and helping me understand the fundamentals. I don't have much cash, but I'll contribute what I can.
Yes, and in 2 weeks there will have been 2, what's your point? :)
For the not-so-old and forgetful amongst us, Intel did this until 2006 as well (StrongARM, XScale)...

Have fab, produce ARM is the reality these days.
I have 0 knowledge in business world and how things work but wasn't Jobs basically Apple itself? Even if he does not have single-handedly vote percentage to make things reality for Apple, his reputation is not enough to force things?
Founders who protest such competitions are the same types who ask potential employee's to sign onerous NDAs.

Honestly, almost nothing about running a business should be secret. Because that's not where your success comes from. It's all in execution and building a great product/culture. You can openly share all your plans and still see others fail to copy them.
Honestly, I think this is HN material. You built something awesome, that at least should inspire others here to get cranking on some of their own, "crazy" ideas.

This looks great. I wish you the best with Moonman.
I also got their original Kickstarter package. Love these shirts. Can't wait to pre-order the next round. Doing that today.
But if I'm using a readability tool to access your content, I certainly don't want the navigation to be a part of it.
I think they decided they couldn't make the 5 any cheaper in the short term, so they changed their product cycle.
Wall Street Journal has been predicting lower cost iPhone since 2011
The Coolpix has its pros, sure. But it has an extraordinary con: it's a second device.

Today the feature of not being a second device outweighs almost any other camera feature.

// I love photography, have top of the line Nikon pro gear, but the iPhone 4S ruined my enjoyment of lugging that gear around. This summer I picked up a Sony RX1 which is an astonishing full frame sensor in an amazingly compact body to solve that, figuring I'd be willing to carry something small, and that, frankly, the cost would compel me. But truth is, with the iPhone 4S, pictures of everyday things are "good enough" that the inconvenience of the second device still has me leaving it at home. Convenience is a compelling feature!
Let me put it this way: If the post I responded to didn't conclude that open source doesn't "just work" then using the same logic, my post didn't say it did. All I did was point out that healthy food can be purple, and that "regular" people may benefit from retaining their ability to choose to eat food of more than one color.
This quote is about the late 1980's, after Jobs had been forced out of Apple.
(Full disclosure: I'm a former employee, still have personal servers as a customer.)

Awesome news, still find the service provides more than other UK/EU providers. (I don't use US providers personally mostly because of the added ping times.)

Having things like the cloud firewall & being able to migrate an IP from one server to another _instantly_ just makes life so much easier. Said services being cheaper is only going to make my wallet happier :-)
http://bigv.io/

Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)
On the client side, sure. But a lot of the Harmony features are already present in node 0.11.x unstable. So perhaps the node.js chapter could include bits about it.
First world countries have an equally long history of the same hatred, fear, discrimination and constant warfare. In general terms, it only lessened when a large proportion of the population could move out of poverty and feel reasonably secure about their future.

You don't have to look far to see how easy it is to revert to barbaric and uncivilized behaviour and standards when that sense of safety and security is put at risk.
ZooKeeper vs. Doozer vs. Etcd
Visual Online Marketing Checklist for Startups
If you're going to compare the monetary goals of this campaign to other books, it would probably make more sense to use other programming books as the basis of your comparison.

However, I think this is beside the point anyway for two reasons. First, as the author here is running the campaign himself, it's entirely within his power to set the rules. If one of the tasks isn't raising as much as he expected, he can decide to lower the price. He could also rework the task definition to fit better given the amount raised.

Secondly, I have seen both the first edition of this book, and the companion interactive website, recommended time and time again, here and elsewhere. I would not be surprised if many (if not all) of these goals are hit.

edit: wording fixes
Personally I'd suggest you learn the basics before looking at frameworks. Frameworks will muddy the water and you won't be able to tell why/where magic is happening.
Looks like the campaign is being run by a 3rd party - http://www.gchq.gov.uk/Press/Pages/solve-cyber-secret.aspx
On the importance of automated benchmarks
Nature rejects Krebs's paper, 1937 (2010)
It's worth adding above the fold (ATF) rendering as a technique. It's aim is to deliver pages on mobile within 1 second and requires a fundamental rethink of the way we architect CSS and our reliance on frameworks like Bootstrap. Ilya Grigorik presented the technique at the latest Velocity Conference and Google have now adopted it as recommendation at part of the PageSpeed Insights tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV1nKLWoARQ
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/mobile

I'm currently working on a service in beta to help designers and developer address these issues through monitoring the front-end build of a website over time. Measurement and comparison is the first step in establishing a baseline and then rolling out these techniques and understanding the improvement.

http://speedcurve.com/

I also discovered CDNConnect recently which looks like a great service to help optimize and generate images at a bunch of different sizes and formats like WebP easily.

http://www.cdnconnect.com/
I absolutely loved the first edition, and I will be chipping in. Great work Marijn.
I was honestly a little baffled to come into this thread and discover people were having trouble with semantic HTML. It's not hard to use, you just need to be inventive with your CSS. A page without divs, spans, strongs and bigs should be everyone's goal.
You do know the reason behind why this tends to be the case, right? It's not like indie-developers have the man-power, resources and (sometimes) experience to make a AAA-game.
Cool. I was considering making something like this a few months ago. Didn't know Moonman existed. Now I'll just remove that idea from my list and wait for you to finish it so I can play ;)
Ok, sharing files between third party applications on iOS does not really fit under "just works". It's Apple, is it fixed yet?

What point are you trying to make, that humans are fallible?
better and waaaay more flexible how? genuine question.
I'm not sure about your second point, but after some research it appears you are correct about extensions under limited circumstances. That was not the case for many years after the H1B visa was created.
Apple's problem is that they are only relevant in a handful of countries while competing in a global market. Android is crushing them.
The Perfect Passive Adversary: A Threat Model for the Evaluation of Protocols
For tools which simplify/standarize webpage presentation (e.g., Pocket, Instapaper, Readability) this makes parsing easier.

I'm leaning strongly toward favoring a browser model which just says buggerall to the site's layout and applies a user-specified preference of styling consistently. I'm already pretty much doing this myself via my own CSS mods using Stylebot, and in most cases it makes sites vastly more readable and less distracting.

In particular crap such as Buzzfeed (I call my styling "unbuzzed"):
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/G6pzJBLK...
Networking your Business Successfully
US$100 is a lot of money for a lot of people in other markets.
How is the sequester affecting science in America?
Mimo uses new sensing tech to send biometrics & analytics to your smartphone
...and please put your pants on.
One issue is complexity management. The kind of finite element software that can model fields in microwave-range hardware is, frankly, a PITA at one extreme, and at the other extreme you have minecraft redstone and an ancient computer game from the 80s called Rockys Boots and some .edu softare.

It strikes me as pretty hard to satisfy both extremes. Don't even have to go to extremes. Forget exotic microwave work an just try to have the same software and user interface model both a stereotypical ham radio dude 20M dipole and simultaneously be usable for a kids arduino LED blinker and make a simple flashlight.

I would claim that minecraft redstone is a local maxima and you'd do best to try and extend/mod it. Someone out there probably already has (or should have) a mod to add basic logic gates in redstone, rather than simple plungers which already exist, how about simple robot arm joints in minecraft?
Probably not Playfair since there are repeated digraphs.
I haven't seen these ads anywhere before. REALLY.

And its a good reminder, instead of competing in places where everybody is already competing, while paying high and raising the price for everybody else. Find a new efficient strategy from a different niche.
Yeah I second aidos sentiments. Stay away from frameworks especially jQuery. Check out the first version of this book and CodeAcademy's js course.
I always smile when I hear "non-profit". Last year a US non-profit that dealt with military research was looking to buy from us and asked for a discount because they were a non-profit.

I looked on their website and their annual revenues were in the ballpark of x1000 that of ours. Maybe it's a European view, but I find the idea of a defence non-profit bizarre and the idea we should discount for them on this basis even more so.

By being a non-profit, the main beneficiary is their customers (the DoD I'm guessing) because the pricing doesn't need the usual margin of profit. I'd just be reducing the cost for them, since costs are ultimately just passed on.

My point is, this a boundary case of stretching the ethics of "non-profit" way too far. Yes, non-profit is great for open source, but I would be concerned about using it as a vehicle when large companies are the ones benefiting (which isn't the case with Ghost).
Apple has been planning this for years. If they wanted to make it cheaper they would have.

It is a deliberate move and the key is now to understand why they did it.
What about getting your H-bridges the wrong way around and the smoke hitting the ceiling... the night before your final project is due?