skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, Netflix has a killer edge within their industry that every other company in the world wishes they had in their own. They should keep doing exactly what the fuck they're doing, and not listen to what anybody else thinks. The peanut gallery has been wrong about them every inch of the way.

But seriously, why on earth would you adopt your losing competitors' business model when you're the new hotness?
as an intern, you're almost functionally useless to your desk. You're not really adding anything, you're not really doing anything, you're just one more warm body.

The article makes it sound as if the interns could just play FarmVille all night, as long as they’re at their desk. A lot of people would be doing that anyways at home. Is that a correct assessment?
If you have seen what constitutes a "masters" degree for teachers you wouldn't be surprised. Honors high school courses are more rigorous. This is not an exaggeration. My wife has taken several "masters" level teaching courses. They were easier than all of the intro level classes at our undergraduate college.

The flaw is this: We need a certain number of teachers. Teachers are required to get a masters degree or they stop getting raises. So teaching colleges make it easy for anybody to get teaching masters degrees.
I really dig AI algorithms like...

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html

Simplicity is beautiful.
Ask HN: Would you guys be interested in Yelp with Twitter?
Hi Guys,
Wanted to check if you guys would be interested in something like a real time feed of all the available dishes around you? So you have an option to find the possible places where we can have lunch / dinner?
Local anecdote: my last N interviews have gone from HR contact to phone interview to phone interview to take home project to (being flown out for) in person interview to ... rejection.

I'm getting worried I'm actually incompetent now.
again, it's not inconceivable that they understand this as well, and have some sort of rate limiting system in place. do you have a problem with google docs converting your office files?
NB: Old Potrero is cask strength and pretty "hot."
Hmm, but then why do you need an account?

And yeah, I see what you mean, but if you don't have access to the source, you don't know what they're making you install. I'm a huge FLOSS advocate, but in this specific instance it's more my paranoia talking. I believe I can trust them now, but how many clients will they need to have before the NSA blackmails them?

It's still a step forward, somewhat, but I find it hard to believe that there could be a successful product based on putting the user in full control (which is needed for real security).
Yes, Finland is a great country to live in. Also Sweden, Norway and Denmark. But people start loosing interest the moment you mention taxation.

This things don't come cheap and in the US is hard to sell the idea of "high taxes = better quality of life".
I was thinking of something that will explain, maybe step-by-step, the implementation of various algorithms (like these, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm), so that I could understand the logic behind them.
LOL -- I feel ya bud.
maybe I'm being pessimistic, she got into an good school that I respect, she just - deserves more.

EDIT: I guess I could be more specific.

In the state of california, there is the Cal State system and the UC system, the UC system is considered to be the "top tier" system, and the CS system is widely considered to be "slightly less than". She got into a CS engineering program, that I happen to think creates a substantial number of engineers that are superior to some of the UCs, but that may or may not be the appraisal of people who hire her down the line, especially as we move towards a more credentialed system, or if the system gets flooded with less competent engineers and candidate selection trends toward the superficial.
I'm not getting anything on the page linked to in this article: http://net.ipcalf.com/

On Chrome I get nothing, on Firefox, I get a printed out shell command.
I wonder what is the attack scenario that the RSA signature of the microcode is supposed to protect? An attacker flashing a microcode that introduces specially-crafted bugs in certain instructions, in order to create backdoors?
Your points are valid, but the deal might make sense just for the syndication rights to Breaking Bad and Mad Men in the future, possibly as exclusives.
It is possible but DropBox doesn't exactly have a good record on security.
I have to agree- though maybe some of it can be attributed to naiveté. A couple red flags include his characterization of intelligence (it aint that simple!) and how he mixes up depression and apathy with being dumb.
Joyus acquires Kingmaker: struggle to tackle a $15B opportunity
So, if I understand this correctly, there will be no more direct access to the DOM via C++, and JavaScript will be the only language for fine grained, fast DOM access. I'm not entirely happy about that, although I do understand the benefits of the new multi-process architecture.
Reasonable solution -- there are also some that can be connected to one's smartphone.
Something like this http://bigocheatsheet.com , but more detailed.
Apple from design centric to profit centric
A [blank] programmer
America's Top Hackers - The Geeks On The Frontlines
> Walking dead seems to be tapering off fans, turning from less of a zombie show to more of a drama ( each episode is 95% talk, 5% zombies ).

I'm sorry to derail, but I am so sick of this being considered as a "problem" with the show. The show is about human beings facing their inevitable demise. Even the title "The Walking Dead" is a play on words, referring to the survivors, rather than the zombies themselves. The show, the novel are both dramas first, and zombie stories second, where the zombie story is simply a backdrop to the very human drama of coping with one's own death and the death of loved ones.

The show has gotten worse, but that's because the characters have gotten more bland and the scenarios have gotten more tepid. It has nothing to do with drama:zombie ratio. Would you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes? How fucking stupid.

If this is a major problem to you, then you don't get the show and probably shouldn't be watching it anyway. I'm sure Fox will cook up some nice, bland, predictable zombie-loaded crapfest for you in due time.
My first job out of high school (*with only O levels) was at a r&d organization in the math modeling section.

My first day was a hours instruction on the pdp11/03 then I was told to goto the company library get the book they had on FORTRAN and learn it.
From Russia with PR (RE: Putin's "Plea for Caution"
I officially just scored a -40 Broficiency Quotient on the quiz he linked, so I feel sufficiently geeky still to make the following sarcastic remark:

HEY EVERYONE, STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIKE! /s
As I read it, the whole point of the "HoneyDoc" concept is that any access to the file generates a GET request. In other words it is specially crafted to ensure external resource retrieval.

Understanding the nature of the DropBox access would start with understanding how a "HoneyDoc" does what it claims it does.
From wiki:
"Knight-service was a form of Feudal land tenure under which a knight held a fief or estate of land termed a knight's fee (fee being synonymous with fief) from an overlord conditional on him as tenant performing military service for his overlord."

There still was debt to be paid even by knights. Every year the debt obligation had to be met via service or hard ca$h.

EDIT: changing "lords" by knights in the Middle Ages was common. I.e. for few years a knight served a French king just to serve German Prince for a few years after that. So, it looks like they couldn't have taken their oaths too seriously or there had to be an easy way to have the whole thing cancelled.
>We tend to consider anyone outside the top 20% to be entirely, unredeemably incompetent.

The trouble is, in software, single individuals in that top 20% are capable of doing things in a short time that individuals from the bottom 80% couldn't do in 1000 man years. Software is funny like that, some people can think different kinds of thoughts.

So in a way, for certain values of incompetent, this is actually true.
I've sat in front of enormous piles of resumes, desperately hoping that one candidate in 10 might be able to code fizzbuzz or reverse a linked list. Yes, the candidate pool is awful on average, but this is a survivor effect—the good candidates tend to get hired, and a handful of unqualified candidates keep spamming their resumes.

But as an economist once told me, the market clears. If you're realistic about the market price, you can absolutely hire qualified people. That's practically the definition of "market price." Price signals work; when programmer salaries get ridiculous, plenty of competent people take an interest in programming.

You can save money by offering other benefits, hiring outside Silicon Valley, being better at evaluating candidates than your competitors, not discriminating based on age/gender, or by figuring out how to work with talented remote experts. But you have to make an interesting offer if you want talented people.
Also:

How many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count.

Enough to realize that it's a really stupid idea (for the same reasons everyone else is saying), like a whole lot of other stupid things one does during those years. Like drinking before your midterm, or waking up in bed with someone without being able to remember, for the life of you, how you got there, or why.
I can simply search on google/yelp whenever needed.
Probably I did not understand what you mean by real time feed.
> For me, when I started my company, I went in knowing that if we ran out of money, I could get a nice dev job within a few weeks and not only bounce back, but bounce forward (or at least sideways).

This thinking appears all too prevalent today. Yes, the market is currently hot and experienced, talented engineers can often find new employment in a matter of days or weeks.

But the market is not static and if you assume that you will always be able to find a decent new job in a short amount of time and that your worst case scenario only entails two months of little to no income, you're overestimating the strength of the market and underestimating your risk.

As I've noted before, this type of thinking was common in the first .com boom. Then the market shifted and a lot of talented people went from having six-figure job opportunities on tap to collecting unemployment.

Bottom line: your perceived viability in the current job market is not a true safety net. Cold hard cash is.
Doesn't make sense. Why would they buy it for $4.5 billion or more when they have no interest in positioning on cable tv? What they want is content, they can simply bid for it. If they want their management, the people who select shows to produce, they can simply pluck those people away.
NSA, NSA, and NSA...also...NSA.

THIS NEVER GETS OLD!!!!
You bring up a great point that some people are naturally great fits for startup life and terrible fits for corporations. As the ecosystem improves for startups, fewer and fewer of these types will be forced into corporations which hopefully leads to more productive and happier people overall ("improved overall utility" if you're an economist).
> In the case of foreach, it's simple to be sure, and I'm pretty fine with calling foreach "syntactic sugar".

Yeah, I was responding specifically to the "foreach" and specific things layered on top of foreach, which are fairly straightforward in most popular non-FP languages.

> Even something as simple as function composition breaks down a bit in C.

Quite. No argument there. At least with standard C. (I think Clang and GNU C both have extensions -- but not the same ones -- that make this reasonably straightforward in simple cases, but still much less elegant than, say, Haskell.)
Really none of the major OS's are hard to learn at all. They might approach things differently but let's be honest, operating a phone is something an 8 year old can do (and sometimes better than their parents). If you're having any trouble at all it takes a twenty second google search to fix it.

The question is really around what you use your phone for and then choosing an operating system that supports your needs better than the others.
When you adjust American PISA scores for demographics, you see that Americans of all ethnic backgrounds do better than the countries of their ancestors[1]. The mystery of why American schools are so bad disappears when you control for demographics.

This might also explain the mystery of why Finland scores so much higher than Sweden and Norway. There are much higher levels of third world immigration in the latter countries. The school system is not the only difference.

[1] http://www.vdare.com/articles/pisa-scores-show-demography-is...
Social good FTW: Amicus (YC S12) is hiring devs across the stack (NYC)
I was excited to try this out until I saw that it won't work on Linux, and won't work on Windows without installing Apple's Bonjour. What possessed them to do this?

Does anyone know if there is a way to use this on Linux or Windows without installing nagware on my main machine?
gitattributes or autoclrf could do that if not configured properly. I never have that issue when working on personal projects using vim and git.
Rick Perry tours Moto-X factory and then throws his iPhone away (at 2:35)
Point 1 is decidedly a part of American work ethic. Plenty of startups in Europe have sane work hours, for example. Admittedly, the amount of startups that recently became successful here can be counted on a single hand, but that doesn't invalidate the point.

Don't tie local culture to a global term.
For gross incompetence it's not really that hard in either the USA or the UK of course this just means your HR dept has some performance issues it needs to address :-)
Shorter me: "I think Greenwald is annoying but he's doing a good job with this."

Not sure why you'd fix in on "Greenwald is annoying".
> You open to the public, you open yourself up to public criticism.

Yes, but not public control or public voting on policies.

> The fact of the matter is, this sucks, and complaining (loudly) is the way to get it fixed.

You think businesses deserve to be controlled by the loudest voice among its detractors? If that were true, Tesla would be out of business -- it has many quiet fans, and a few loud detractors.
Reading the headline I thought it was going to be "Netflix should buy AMC Theaters". That's an interesting thought...
For somewhat less idealistic blog posts on education, Educationrealist is worth reading:

http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/2012-in-rev...

http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/most-popula...
Link to the company he founded: http://www.cancercommons.org
But the thing is AMC doesn't make content, producers do. And they go wherever the money is. They own some hot properties now but look at any premium channel and you'll see a history of great shows that have eventually gone away. In fact they could just as easily buy HBO or Showtime and get the same effect, good existing properties but also a network of existing users that are willing to pay for content.

I think Netflix should just do way more original content like they already have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distr...
I know a lot of people who don't want to be trash collectors, who also tend to make a fair chunk of change.

A job isn't just a job.
Well, that Myriam dude's going to be upset.
Sony Pictures Television produced Breaking Bad[1], and Mad Men was produced by Lionsgate Television [2](who also produced Orange is the New Black). Netflix doesn't need to buy AMC, they just need to outbid other companies when buying content. Which is exactly what they did for House of Cards, they beat AMC and HBO for the rights[3].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Television#Shows_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionsgate_Television#Production...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28U.S._TV_serie...
We started the Azure integration and got hung up with their Python SDK. We're actively working with the Microsoft guys on it, but I wouldn't expect anything usable for a few months.
Sounds like an industry ripe for disruption then....
I think Bob is hinting at where this evolved from. But that was 20 years ago, we need to look forward now.
> Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die.

Never have, never will.

So as long as you don't die doing something, it's okay?
This incident is tragically comical.
So true, thx for sharing!
Just a guess, but because a big part of the simple approach meant leaving things like DNS and IP Addresses out of the path to making something? You have to use their build, which I'm guessing as some mDNS stuff baked in (yes, it does - http://coder.local) with a pre-arranged name, and without Bonjour installed, a Windows box wouldn't find it.
I HATE FUN TOO LETS NOT HAVE FUN TOGETHER.
Don't hold back, tell him how you really feel.
I think you're really overstating the case for Walking Dead being bad, here. Everyone I know watches it, it's a huge hit. I would agree that it isn't as good as the first season, but it's still better than most shows. I'll be watching when it come back.
I know Ph.D. in computer science who can't write a line of code.
I worked as a technology intern at a large investment bank for one summer, and my salary was a prorated 80k. The IB kids were making about the same (although they worked many, many more hours than we did). This was 2 years ago.

N.B.: This was awful and I am now safely far, far away from the banking industry.
The idea I suppose is that you can't shower if you pull an all-nighter. Many people seem unaware that most (all?) offices have showers somewhere. Try asking the person who bikes to work, they'll know.
melt equal parts syntactic sugar and water...
I have always prided myself on almost never doing my homework in high school. I did enough to get into college with a 2.1 GPA. I think I would have been much better off if I was assigned less homework or if not doing homework did not lower my grades, I would have had a better GPA.
S-exp variant also in stores
Is This The Smartphone From The Future?
Is it a known fact that the fingerprint authentication can't be combined with the standard PIN or complex password feature? It seems like a fingerprint scan that is followed by a password request to unlock the phone would be an easy win.
But AMC doesn't do production. They buy the rights to the shows from production companies. This post makes zero sense.
With 10,000 customers, Freshdesk continues the battle with Zendesk
This exactly. For someone just getting started, it's neat to be able to demystify how the web works. Here's your own little web server, and you can set it up right in your living room or classroom and play around with it to see how it all works.
Agree. Also HN have RSS.
Not even a day from TC and already bullied by scared multinational
Worse is human
I know there are a bunch of JVM's. Just trying to make the point that for most people in most organizations, there's really no choice in the matter, leaving only Oracle's JVM or the OpenJDK - due to the weight of potential compatibility issues, need for retesting, uncertainty about future support/viability, etc. That's a large organization for you, I'm sure it's different at smaller shops and I can envy that.
How about taking a look at some sample pages? I'd be interested in knowing if it's along the lines of what you're looking for.

http://apps.nrbook.com/rollover/index.html
Sounds like a preferential thing then; I prefer to keep everything together.

I've never liked the separate routing config approach. Play Framework uses(d?) it in the 1.x branch and I always found it annoying.

Similarly old-world Servlets were done that way too. You'd put the routing information in an XML file and the container would read it at start up.
Sorry may be I didnt explain it properly.
So lets say you want to go to a restaurant to have a lunch .. And you want to figure out what are the possible options available for you today.In case of a buffet you find out a restaurant and go to that restaurant only to find out the buffet entries are not what you wanted. But instead if the restaurant provide you option with whats special at that restaurant you can filter from that. Think of it like twitter but instead of tweets you get real time menu's on what the restaurants around you have prepared.
Another way to ask the pricing question is to phrase it as follows:

"What do you feel is a fair and reasonable price for this product?"

For some reason using the terms "fair" and "reasonable" in the question helps eliminate the lowball offers you'll get with a generic "what would you pay" question.

(source: have done well over a thousand customer interviews in the past ten years and seen this work very well)
depends on the state in the US. And let's say the HR dept has performance issues. How do you fire someone in HR? They're the ones that know all the rules and all the laws that could get you in trouble. Where I work slid by, managed to can the HR head, but they were only able to do it because 1) she was super-overpaid and there was a budget crunch - which can be a legal problem for nonprofits (overhead) 2) there was a pretty serious SNAFU involving federal funds that happened under her watch, so she could have been in legal trouble herself.

Also, gross incompetence is not necessarily the problem... Death by a thousand cuts.
HoneyDocs is a DropBox competitor?
Wow, that's great. I use another one and it's quite unreliable. Thanks!
In practice, it might have the opposite effect. Currently, 4-digit PINs are (presumably) brute-forceable and the alternative of entering a longer, cryptographically-secure password every time you want to use your phone is impractical, so it doesn't really matter whether you can be legally compelled to divulge your PIN or not.

However, with a fingerprint ID, you can now use a cryptographically strong password to encrypt your phone (which you have to enter on device boot or after 48 hours of the device being idle [1]), while still having the convenience of actually being able to use your phone once it's on via the fingerprint scanner. So I see that as a security win.

Of course, Wired's premise isn't even valid in some countries, e.g. the UK, which have powers to legally compel you to hand over your passwords regardless. For all I know this is true in the US too.

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/11/apples-details-fingerprint-sen...
Ohh I see. Guess I missed it. :)
Nice name. I hope to become a master appcubator!
You absolutely don't have to install the apple Bonjour crap to use this. The only thing that is used for is the automatic .local hostname resolution.

Essentially, the Raspberry Pi has the netatalk package on it which allows it to broadcast it's own .local hostname. This is what makes it possible for a user to simply type "coder.local" into the URL bar in chrome and have the Raspberry Pi's IP address resolved.

So if you leave out the apple bonjour packages, you'll just have to figure out the IP address yourself and use the IP instead of the fancy "coder.local" hostname. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, from scanning your network to just plugging in a HDMI cable and a keyboard to the RPi and doing an "ifconfig".
> Be concerned with the content and only the content. If the article has it, it's legit.

Wrong. Context is everything. You cannot look at data in a vacuum. You need to look at where, why, when and how - especially when it's sensational; i.e. something that may cause someone to take action.
Obama Is Walter White
The $7 Billion Tech Acquisition You Haven't Heard Of
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OCaml 4.01.0
This did not use the Facebook API. It completely circumvents it.