skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be highly unusual. But it doesn't matter that much to me if it's true. We were simply talking about different thing when saying "seed". No harm done.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seedcapital.asp
On the one hand, I agree that the idea of needing to engage with blogs and conferences in order to succeed as an engineer is way oversold. The whole point of engineering, after all, is to create artifacts that speak for themselves.

On the other hand, I think I might know "why we think that": If hiring is the hardest and most important problem facing most companies, which people keep telling me it is, then it pays to hire with an eye toward further hiring. You might therefore put a premium on hiring people who engage with others via writing and conferences, not because these are necessarily the best widget designers, sprocket debuggers, or gadget platers, but because you expect these people are more likely to go out into the world and be noticed by the great designers, debuggers and platers who you'll want to hire next.

Obviously this can be overdone, and if you feed this process back on itself you'll end up with a one-dimensional clique of a company - in part because blog posts and developer conferences are a very narrow and biased sample of the universe of competent and potentially-competent people. But it shouldn't be surprising that companies think that "always be advertising" is a characteristic of a "top engineer": The problems of hiring are at the top of management's mind, and are probably the only thing at the top of upper management's mind - in my experience, the CEO could not care less about the glitches in the firewall-configuration system, but she interviews half a dozen candidates every day. Every all-hands meeting is filled with exhortations to blog more, shake more hands, hand out more cards, meet more people.
Trickle lists - Know todo lists & GTD. But do you know Trickle Lists?
See my question above. You don't need your 2.7 to tell you anything. If you've got a license you can simply install the 3, import the settings and use the same license.
Their paid version is. At this point, the community version seems to be Python only.
I agree it's not great, and annoying in theory.

But if you use file-per-table, I've never actually had a problem in practice, since in production, most tables tend to only grow. And even if you remove half the rows of a large table, you're probably expecting that space to be reclaimed eventually.

If, on the other hand, you do a big restructuring where you're deleting 90% of your rows in one big swoop... then it's probably actually easier and faster to just create a new table and copy the 10% valid rows into it, then drop the old table, and rename. All space reclaimed.

It's definitely something annoying to have to keep in mind, and it's why I prefer to use MyISAM when doing big data manipulation on my local dev machine (everything's faster without transactions too). But using InnoDB in production, I've found the never-shrinking-table-files to be a nonissue.

Curious if anyone else has had different experiences.
HTML was a new thing then. Despite how simple it seems now, it was a black art then. I was also around for those times and this is pretty similar. The warning signs to me are when people "not in the industry" want to become involved. IE, in the 90s bubble, accountants were looking to become IT Professionals with MCSE certifications because the job market was so hot. Now people who had no interest in starting a business or technology are starting companies left and right. It will be a different type of bubble, but it's definitely a bubble.
No. JetBrains has a different product for Javascript and/or HTML development: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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20% is light. I'd say 30% is the norm and higher, as the market gets hotter.

It's hard to say. Independent recruiters vs. agency recruiters have different deals and earning potential, overhead and the like. Good, independent recruiters make a lot of money.

Are you thinking about the cost of hiring a recruiter vs. the cost of using a 3rd party? Recruiting has to be a core competency of a growing company. And the network of existing employees is the best place to look for new talent. I know it's a time sync and pain in the @ss, but it's super important that you get hiring right.

If you are going to use a recruiter, you need very clear expectations in terms of what skills, experience, requirements you are looking for and stick to them. Also, do everything in as timely of a manner as possible. You should also note, recruiters have best customers also. If you don't have very specific and unique requirements, you can assume the 'best' candidates you'll get are the ones better customers have passed on (doesn't mean they aren't right for your company, but just an FYI).

Lastly, very few recruiters have strong networks they've cultivated. Most of the time, they are just more ambitious / aggressive pounding the pavement and social media.
Practice Fusion raises $70 Million Series D
I'm not saying it was the NSA...but it was the NSA.
The Awful Gmail Sidebar
However, a spokesman for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots warned of the temptation to use them in warfare.

I had no idea such an organization existed. The future is now, I guess.
Now that's what I call upcycling.
This was big for me when I was applying for jobs earlier this year. Teams that had a blog, updated it reasonably often talking about their recent challenges they overcame or fun projects went a long ways in making me want to work with them. The careers page is nice, but talking don't really present the culture and specific work that gets done in a very good way.

There's a couple companies that come to mind that I feel like do a pretty good job with this - Tumblr (look at some of the intern reports from this summer and the rest of the staff blog), and Etsy's Code as Craft blog go a long ways in making their engineer teams attractive.
The firm added that the flight attained 7Gs of acceleration but was capable
of carrying out manoeuvres at 9Gs - something that might cause physical problems
for a pilot.

Wow, I guess this means they can push the machines to their mechanical limit without worrying about blackouts/redouts/etc. I wonder what kind of crazy maneuvers they can pull off without the biological factor?

Also: I'm not sure how I feel about a $15-18 million target dummy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_...
Sounds familiar to a famous anti-trust case from a few years back.
Looks like that's a picture of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and not even the whole boneyard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and...

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.17089,-110.855184&q=loc:3...
Most cases where you'd need multi-selection you can likely use Refactor in an IntelliJ IDE.
How to make form based authentication in Java
> You probably use Ad blockers too

Nope.

> or try very hard to tell an ad from content.

Not particularly. For the purposes of this discussion? Yes, but not during everyday use. If the ad is what I want, I click it.

> You are a sophisticated user.

Absolute bullocks. Wanting to read the Honda Accord page on honda.com and googling "honda accord" to do it is not sophisticated. Wanting to read about sedans and googling "sedan" is not sophisticated. This is just regular old google usage, exactly how regular users do it.

How many people search for "twitter.com" on google? My guess is "a metric fuckton". That is probably why twitter.com is the first is the first result for "twitter.com". That is almost certainly what they want. If they google "microblogging" then guess what? They probably want the wikipedia page, not a link to twitter. Guess which one they get? That's right, the wikipedia page.

It's not a fucking conspiracy that Google search results tend to be what people are actually looking for.
Nice strawman. Did I claim at any point that g+ is "absolutely not [useful]"? No need to start white-knighting for Google.
Plants vs. Zombies 2 on iOS had quite a successful launch: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/popcap/app/plants-vs-zombies-...
About the only science I have liked/found interesting in the show was the time they bounced a modulated laser off the reflector left on the moon.

So far as funny? Can't get enough of the monkey + cigarette jokes.
I think it a pretty good argument that the voting age should be less than the conscription age by enough that the person conscription has had a chance to participate in the voting that led to the government which is conscripting them. It sets the order of events more in line with a hypothetical ideal social contract to which one agrees by one's actions and then owes such a high price to.
Obligatory mention of Elaine Wherry's recruiter posts:

http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/

http://www.ewherry.com/2012/08/the-best-recruiters-followup/
I don't think that minors can get that much income because their employment is very limited, and they cannot enter into business contracts.
That was my reaction, too. What's the big deal? It's just Gopher with graphics.
Ask HN: Best 1 resource and tool for remote teams?
What one resource (book, guide etc) is the best guide to managing a remote team?

What one piece of software is the best for connecting a remote team?

Thanks.
Note that the graph in this article is confusingly titled. From the paper itself, it is clear that "New Editions from Amazon by Decade" should read "Randomly Selected Editions of Books Available in New Condition from Amazon by Decade." In other words, they didn't simply look at newly-released prints. From the paper:

"The 2317 random editions of new books available on Amazon during the fall of 2012 are charted in Figure 1 below by the decade of the original publication date of the corresponding
title. Both fiction and non-fiction editions are included. Editions of books now in the public domain (those published prior to 1923) constitute 72% of the total (1665/2317), while editions of titles still under copyright constitute 28% (652/2317).

The high percentage of public domain editions is probably driven by two factors. First, public domain books typically have more publishers and more editions per title, since there is no copyright owner to restrain exploitation. Second, Amazon offers as “in stock” multiple new editions of public domain books sold by a growing group of print-on-demand publishers that take advantage of the recent digitization of many old titles."
Everything he said was spot on, he just used a bad example at the end.

At Google, you better believe that when search changes are made - those changes are ran through a test to see if they have a positive or negative effect on revenues and profits - aka Ad clicks. And that test result heavily outweighs any accompanying change to the search result's relevancy score.

Maybe it did not start out like this, but now that Google is a publicly traded company, and now that they own the market, and now that their revenues are still completely dependent on Ad clicks, things work differently. It's not about improving search results, it's about improving revenue numbers.

If you can't see how this business process biases Google's algorithm to produce less-relevant search results on page in favor of the Ads having a higher chance of getting viewed and clicked, you have drank the kool-aid.

Bing is just as good as Google-search for most people, yet most people have made up their minds about the search engine to use. This market behavior allows Google to not be worried about making algorithmic changes that worsen the results in trade for more revenue ... as the users will keep sticking with them... Because this change has no effect on their userbase numbers (current, and growth #s).

Aside from higher CTRs, those changes (that return less relevent search results) will also improve the number of searches done and the number of Ads shown by great margins - as the users will keep at it, performing another search in hopes of getting something relevent back . It's a win-win for Google.
The company I work for is going in the opposite direction. I'll be expected to learn PHP soon after spending years developing with .NET. I'd much prefer to be switching to Ruby or Python. Anyway if you want to switch to Ruby on Rails in future you won't have a massive leap. ASP.NET MVC is very similar.
Squishy Robots Could Lead to Cheaper, Safer Medical Devices
Ways You’re Making Your Employees Less Productive
Want press? Leverage your relationships with the press and tech bloggers. Sounds fantastic; but, what if you don't have any relationships with the press?
PyCharm Community Edition does support HTML but does not support JavaScript or CSS. PyCharm Professional Edition does support HTML, JS and CSS (and many dialects thereof).
Sure. There's a lot of whining going on. But aspiring pilots (at least in the EU) basically don't stand a chance. Most Ab-initio's (as they're supposedly called) have student loans in the range of 130-170k and - if they're lucky - en up flying for a low cost carrier.

They get paid per SBH (Scheduled block hour) which lands them - during the first few years, on average - a gross income of €4000. Since most of these pilots are contractors but technically have only one client they'll have to pay for everything themselves (social security, pension, medical insurances, liabilities, income races). Depending on the country your based in this may tax your income by up to 78%.

Not to much to live from, let alone pay for interest on a student loan. And don't even think about repaying that debt.

But like mentioned in earlier comments: flying is like a drug, it's a beautiful job.
> Yet, with dwindling margins and a thriftier consumer base, it's going to take a lot to disrupt this industry.

Although one part of travel is about the physical experience of visiting different places, another major part has to do with connecting people. Here, the real disruption is the internet. I'm not saying flights will ever go away, because we'll always want to move around, but I am saying that we'll feel the need to travel less as connectivity improves.
Of course, I'm sure it could never be an automatic winning strategy, but I think it could have given them a fair chance at market dominance.

Instead of the popular and proven OS with many apps they chose the unpopular and unknown one with just a few. And in the end, what's the advantage of the Windows-only strategy when Microsoft gives licenses to Samsung and HTC to produce phones with the exact same OS? They haven't differentiate themselves at all from the competition, just cornered themselves.
Every bubble I believe gives opportunity to a selected few who can stand out in terms of competition and competence. Definitely there's a lot of people who will make a lot of money and get successful very fast..the billion dollar question is to identify those companies among a 100 others which will fail or do only meagrely well.
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I agree. The main problem with the original idea, IIRC, is that the product is cheap and heavy-- low margins and high shipping costs. The consumer was simply better off getting it at the store.
Skype. Leave a group chat open all the time. Use video conferencing often.

So far as managing - treat them like your own employees (assuming outsourcing here), and over-communicate. Every time there's a hallway discussion, forward the results onto them.
A signed letter allowing us to discuss your private account details that would violate our 'Privacy Policy' and reveal the factors that went into making the decision.
If memory serves, this will install it side-by-side with existing install, whereas doing it in-app upgrades (windows). Could be wrong though.
Yet another QR scanner, but it's not as f***edup as the others
Is there anything really wrong with this? I mean 2 businesses deciding they have a mutual understanding of when to release a product...
As others have pointed out, this is art.

You don't look at art, and ask "Why did you do this??". You simply enjoy it. The artist did it, to do it, and nothing further.

If you can not see this that way, then I am truly sorry.
I suppose they are running out of converted F-4 drones.
It's not bulletproof. Your IP address is extractable from your IP address. StartPage probably requests ads from Google with your search keywords and country your from (found using your IP).

Only services like Tor that uses onion routing method to randomize your origin.
I know I was browsing ads. I said "Google Shopping ads were actually pretty useful". I also didn't say that was the only source I looked at. It just happened to have all of my go-to gear companies in a handy ranked list. Amazon isn't in that list -- I check them manually.

The prices are actually the same whether you get to the vendor through Google shopping ads or not. The company's prices in aggregate are affected by their revenue spent on Google advertising.

Whether I get screwed or not is my problem. I'm saying it was a useful tool to have in my research.
> This is why you never invest more than you are willing to lose.

Absolutely. It can also skew the decision-making process. People investing more than they can afford to lose are not going to be giving helpful advice or making the right decisions for the business.
Astonished.

Reminds me a bit of A+, however. :)
> Boeing suggested that the innovation could ultimately be used to help train pilots, providing an adversary they could practise firing on.

They're not even trying, are they.
Sure, but it makes far more sense than that pangea theory, kinda like ether theory from back then.

The smaller earth -> lighter gravity -> larger insects are able to support their huge body without skeleton, and larger living beings in general

In short it keeps on making more sense the more you think about it.

Plus the speculation of mass being generated in the core of the Earth is just sexy.
Even if you could install both, it would not fix anything since only one version can be loaded.
Congrats on the launch (even if teh Internets did it for you)!
Does everyone really have such a hard time creating multiple google accounts? Google makes this as accessible as possible, or maybe people don't like Google+ for some other reason? I don't really get it either.
Not for too much longer than it takes for the new iPhone to come out, I think.
I don't think salary has much to with it. Then again, how much are some devs getting paid who have less than 3 years of experience and are scarcely more than experts at "rails scaffold"?

It's not even IPOs or stock price. It's more VC funding and big exits.

As for John Q. Public, that's about to get WAY more interesting, since general solicitation is now a thing.
Thanks! It was a great experience and I'll be sharing what I've learnt with the community in a future post.
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thank god - youtubes comment system is a wreck
Just like my bright white Sony Ericsson that I purchased 6-7 years ago, I'm looking to buy the gold iPhone mostly because it is highly visible in low-light situations.

Waking up, going to sleep, stumbling around in the dark, the gold phone will be a lot easier to locate than my current black one.
Well... The bank could start with half a billion, and lend $450,000 of it. Then whichever bank that gets put into could lend 90% of that again, and so on. After a few times, there's a billion dollars lent from half a billion.
Without a pilot, you could design a pretty radically different jet... good point.

What if we put missiles on our missiles?
There is. If you lose your phone, you can remotely disable it. Your AppleID and password are needed to re-enable the device, or to factory restore it. In other words, short of some software vulnerability, it is not possible to use a stolen iPhone with iOS7 except as a paper-weight. And, although there surely will be some software vulnerabilities, it will definitely increase the bar for profiting from a stolen iPhone.
Is it just me or the font selection option under Windows is rather convoluted?
So if we had to read the above decrement...we’d say:
“luslus dec sigfas cen dec bartis a tis pat sigbar soq
dec soq ketcab pat wutgal tis pel zero a per tislus b
tis pat barhep wutcol tis pel a lus pel b per per b buc
pel b lus pel b per per.”

Absolute brilliance.
I'm guessing he wants you to sign it.
Honestly, if you disagree with this assessment, you're being naive. At minimum, making all searches encrypted is not a benevolent decision in the interests of privacy. Certainly locking down the Keyword Tool to advertisers only is a pretty obvious move, don't you think?

Literally everything Google does, aside from brand reinforcement PR, is centered around eyeballs and ad clicks. The primary vector for this is pushing Google Search everywhere.

I am continually surprised when people don't accept that the profit motive is weighted more heavily by companies than anything else. Even companies they believe "do no evil".
For home users, yes. But in the business world, it's the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Outlook + Exchange. Sure, MS Office has been ported to OSX, but it's more expensive to go with Apple Hardware than commodity PC + MS Windows.

If Microsoft flipped their lid and ported Office to run on common Linux distributions (Debian/Fedora), you'd see a lot more corporations switching.

Microsoft does have their Office365.com, which is a web-based version of Office. I haven't tried it myself, but from what I've heard, a lot of its advanced features rely on Silverlight and using browsers other than IE on Linux or Mac OSX puts you in a sort of basic mode. The advanced mode is very comparable to running the desktop version while the basic mode is akin to the Google Docs editor.
It's python, so it can't handle it either way, but by moving the final "+1" into the function call, it becomes tail-recursive.

return add_r(a+1, b, c+1)
Sorry, but I don't think you should be allowed a fucking pet on a flight, unless you are blind.
I think you're on to something...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetab...
The alternative, as I see it, is to let people add new keywords to the language from inside the language, so there's feature parity again.
Shorting stocks during a bubble is a great way to learn about bounded upside and unbounded downside. I guess in some sense a valuable learning experience is "taking advantage."
I'm not disagreeing with the main point but in fairness html was a new technology at the time and coding websites was something few people knew how to do.

Seems easy now but we've go tools, tutorials and people to learn from now.
" Plants vs. Zombies 2 has launched on Android in China, and it’s outselling the iPhone version of the game six-to-one in that market, according to comments from Gibeau. "

Well, that goes against the narrative.
A sibling mentioned refactoring, but one thing I also use a lot is column-mode editing. It's something you can toggle just like you can in Eclipse, and can be very useful. Not quote as useful as selecting multiple regions to edit, I agree, but still very good.

For me, the killer things in PyCharm are the excellent Python library support, and the fact that it indexes my codebase so that "Where is this defined?" is extremely fast. That is the feature I use all the time which is less convenient to do with many other editors.