skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good feedback, thank you.

Although I'm not sure it's about creating meaningful connections between engineers and "recruiters," Although I guess it depends who the recruiter is in the company. Sometimes it's the CTO or engineering manager - but sometimes the initial story-telling (aka company pitch) is delegated to a traditional recruiter (which normally isn't as effective with engineers).

I'd prefer to see traditional recruiters go the way of the Tyrannosaurus.

If you want to hire the best team as an engineering manager it's typically best not to delegate the job to someone else.
In 1999, I think there was a lot more effort going into the stories explaining "Why This Time Is Different."

There were a few cautionary stories back then, but most of the tech press and most of the mainstream press was full of hype. There was a cottage industry back then creating stories explaining how the Internet was going to let the economy grow and grow and make us all rich. I still see those stories, but it seems like many more people want to be The Guy Who Spotted the Bubble rather than the Pied Piper
In person, it looks so different.

Most of my friends (including myself) were making fun of the gold one, but once we saw it in person, it soon became our top choice.
Gold iPhone is best. best. best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-RetY7fGo
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 45
Yes it does. A bank needs $1.1 billion to lend $1 billion, or they're out of compliance with Federal Reserve regulations.

The interesting part is that once they lend the $1 billion, and it's spent on aircraft (etc) and ends up in the bank accounts of Boeing and its contractors and its employees and the raw materials companies... then there's $1.1 billion in the original bank's accounts and $1 billion in all the Boeing accounts and there you go, they've turned $1.1 billion into $2.1 billion. And Boeing-etc's banks' can loan out up to about $909 million with it, and so on and so forth. Which may be what you're thinking of.

Now, the bank can borrow some or all of that $1.1 billion. And sometimes they can borrow that from the Fed. But the Fed isn't too big on that, and in non-2008esque-crisis situations tries to discourage it.
> suddenly understanding the attraction of living in SF/SV

Don't get your hopes up. I've had drunken engineers come up to me in a bar (Bourbon & Branch, no less) -- slurring words -- times I was sure they wanted to hit on my girlfriend or start a fight for some reason, where after a few seconds of direct eye contact, they pull out their phone and say "heeey maan, want to try my app?"
Is there some superior anti-theft mechanism to IOS7 beyond the 'Lock iPhone' and 'Find my iPhone' features that wasn't there before?
haha! I love it.
tl;dr Demand != bubble

Demand is a linear function of Leverage, and today comes by the Fed. CDO and mortage backed securities; Public Investors; The Fed. Its not a difference in kind that matters. Bubbles are caused by excess liquidity.
I don't, but if I type in "desktop" or "laptop" or "tablet" I get Amazon and Best Buy as the top organic results (admittedly, with very prominent sponsored links). "Computer" is probably less common as a search from shoppers.
Robot pilots.

Like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2324358/Welco...
It's just the easiest to discuss. Everyone can have an opinion on color, even if they're not technical. Personally, after playing with it for a bit, I think the camera is the most exciting asepct of the device, but it's not nearly as entertaining (or easy, or contentious) of a subject
Time is a dimension: Composite photos of Singapore
So, would calling it a "friendly, white team" be merely an observation and only a problem for PC people who were seriously uncomfortable about their own race?
Why should a small company use the cloud for everything instead of a dedicated server or VPS?

Most small companies aren't going to benefit from the elasticity that the cloud provides. The administrative overhead will be similar on each except in the case of the cloud you need to worry about the persistence of data either via EBS, replication or having an acceptable loss level.
You claimed more than that. You said it would be easy to enter "and differentiate themselves like Samsung has" (emphasis mine). That most certainly is not easy. There are multiple big players that have tried that exact strategy and failed or been reduced to marginless commodities.

Just found this money quote from Elop:

For Elop, it was all about standing out from the crowd, and he admitted that Nokia couldn't do that with Android.
"The single most important word is 'differentiation,' " he said. "Entering the [Android] environment late, we knew we would have a hard time differentiating."

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57559620-94/nokia-on-the-ed...
"I was still a kid then but in 1998/1999 was there active talk of a bubbles like there is now?"

Yes, and the prevailing counterargument at the time was, "But this time it's different! The fundamentals of everything have changed, because...internet!"

If you look at historical bubbles, and particularly at historical technology bubbles -- the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Bubble, the 1920s Bubble, the bubbles of the mid to late 1800s -- "This time it's different!" has been a pretty consistent pattern of denial. Typically there's a rational basis for the exuberance at first, but this onto this basis is piled a whole lot of speculative investment and fervor, wildly inflating valuations beyond the boundaries of plausible expected return.

Some of that mass irrationality has to do with easy access to capital, and some of it has to do with easy openings to capital markets. The latter is usually required to really kick a bubble into high gear. [So the operative question in this case is: what effect will the opening of private startups to public investment have?]

Are we currently in a bubble? Really, really hard to say. I don't feel qualified to make that judgment. But to answer your question, yes, most bubbles have at least a few naysayers who are bearish on the situation. But their voices tend to get drowned out, especially by those with interests in keeping the bubble going.
> I'm under the impression that Python is not compiled generally.

The direct ancestor to today's IDEs are Smalltalk environments. Smalltalk is about as un-compiled as you can get. This and that are completely orthogonal concerns.

> In what ways could it be helpful?

Navigation across projects (via structural searches or hyperlinking), static analysis (including library- or framework-specific e.g. PyCharm knows some strings have specific meaning in django projects and can check that there's no mismatch), refactorings, documentation, visual debugging, ...

Some of it can be replicated with extensively customized editor and a multitude of external tools, others not really.
That's a great idea regarding the subscription - we didn't think we'd be eligible because we're a game / book hybrid but I'll look into it again.

Regarding the "Parents can't resist" - I ment that in regards to School Apparel as that was their description. 97% of the parents that download our app can resist ;)
Well, I waited outside the Los Gatos store for 36 hours, 1st in line and I got the ONLY gold iphone. People behind me were mad and one lady offered $100 + a 16gb Space Grey to give up the gold iPhone. I declined.

Why did I want one? It is different. It is not the typical white and black that we have come to expect. It really does look nice! A change of pace.
This is actually a pretty good idea. Seamless does have a program that allows selected affiliates to get data dumps from them, you could probably build it based on that.
Why not embrace the fact that YouTube has the best worst comments on the Internet? I'm sure moot has shed a silent tear when witnessing a YouTube troll that surpasses even the best of /b/. There's certainly some kind of postmodern digital street cred to be garnered there so run with it Google! It'll never happen on Google+ that's for sure.
Ask HN: Anonymity (or lack of) on StartPage.com
I would make this short, because I've lost my last submission because of an expired link (my bad)

I've found that the ads (from google) on startpage.com aren't really anonymous, because I found them tied to my country (I've tried the same search from Tor Browser and the ads weren't country sensitive). I understand that the request to get the google ads isnt anonyoums like the search.

So I wonder, Is really useful to have an anonymous search engine if you need Tor in both cases (StartPage vs. Google)?
Is this something important for the most "privacy conscious" out there?
I got the pink iPhone 5c 'cause I like that color and they don't have purple. And it makes good conversation about how pink is "for girls" but that's just society telling you that, I'm a rebel!
http://www.andybarratt.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/imac...
> "Jersey Shore, Kardassians, and the ilk."

I don't think this is an accurate distinction at all. Conspicuous consumption is everywhere, even within techies - you really don't have to reach as far as Jersey Shore and the Kardashians to find people who wear their electronics like jewelry.

Hell, even Uber is conspicuous consumption in a lot of cases. Why roll up to the club in a cab when you can do so in a sleek, black SUV? And we know how popular that is with the technology crowd.

The "techies" have not rejected this use of their domain, they're just a little peeved that they no longer have monopoly of using technology as bling.
F-16 flies with an empty cockpit
My thought exactly, if they "heard from us" they would hear that we absolutely loathe the new interface and would like them to try to fix it or make something else (I wont say revert, they never will)
You're a little off. The bank can in fact loan $1 billion and only keep $100 million around on hand afterward. And the $1 billion of the loan is, in fact, new money in the economy that didn't exist before.

But the bank still needs to have the $1.1 billion on hand first, so that it can have that $100 million after the billion-dollar check goes out.
If you can't explain in 60 seconds why an engineer should want to come and work at your company, you're dead.
Here's one way to think about it.

You have a Facebook profile, right? That's essentially a special-purpose cloud computer - a cloud information appliance. But, wouldn't it be cool to have an actual personal computer in the sky? Where "Facebook" or whatever would just be... a program on that computer?

You can get a Linux box in the sky, easy. But... that's 15 million lines of code you're wrangling. On a network which makes Helm's Deep look like Mayberry.

So, if it's your home in the cloud, it's not a cute little bungalow in the cloud. It's a giant castle in the cloud guarded by experienced professional elf ninja warriors. And ya know, even experienced professional elf ninja warriors, when they're off duty, like to let their hair down and not be thinking about orcs every other minute.

So if you want the bungalow in the cloud, you need basically a new programming/execution environment, and oh also a new network. So basically a new everything. So, a person could despair, or he could go build a new everything...
Jeez, there is just so much wrong here. "Territory"? This is a mass-market product. Has been from the start. And the techie resentment you're espousing so well is another matter unto itself.
Anyone know of good competitors to youtube?
Usually over 1.5 million impressions a month.
I find it better that they stay out of the stdlib. Having to upgrade all of python just to get a new feature like CONNECT support would be unfortunate.
I'm not asking why reserved words are a bad idea, just opining that I think having 100 single- and double-character symbols might not be the best UI for a language. Why not have just names (neither reserved like keywords nor inscrutable like symbols?)

I don't know, I am similarly annoyed by mathematicians because they usually use single letters for variables. It's a little more excusable for them because math functions are usually very short and have few variables, but still I'd rather use words. But I digress.
That doesn't quite work for us. All our front ends/service and infrastructure nodes are virtual but databases are all dedicated.

This is because no virtualization tech likes handling large nodes (FCAL, 48 cores, 256Gb RAM). We lost 20% throughput by sticking our SQL Server primary and replicas on ESX versus physical when running our trials. That's a big hit when you run 150million queries a day.
Delta told me I “didn’t look disabled enough” to need a service animal
>and completely silent

As is a properly cared-for bicycle, although a human-powered bicycle isn't usually going very quickly.

Whenever someone brings up e-vehicles and their silence, I suggest that they should all make some sort of nominal noise indicating speed. For centuries, we heard wooden wagon wheels creaking and/or hooves clop-clopping on the road. It's time to bring that back, and insure that the pace matches the speed of the vehicle so that pedestrians, even the blind, can intuit speed and direction of travel.

(n.b. we'll have to get rid of loud sound systems in cars that can be heard for blocks - pity.)
TL;DR

A decade old company (founded in 2001) StumbleUpon has made its first acquisition ever since its inception.

Purchased by eBay in 2007 [1] and then sold to its founders in 2009, StumbleUpon has continued to have stable growth over the past few years barring the lay-offs they had at the beginning of this year. [2]

StumbleUpon earns revenue by using native advertising on their platform called Paid Discovery [3]. Ads are not served through traditional means, rather users will sometimes stumble on a paid stumble and fully engage with that page.

This is also a company that was founded by Garrett Camp, founder of Uber and Blackjet. It seems they have a pretty good sense of direction just like Garrett's other startups.

[1] - http://investor.ebay.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=246467

[2] - http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/16/stumbleupon-layoffs-reorgan...

[3] - http://www.pagemodo.com/blog/driving-traffic-stumbleupon-pai...
I skipped over the BRICS part, but it doesn't change the equation. Anyway meaningful way you slice it Nokia was "way behind", even if they still had a legacy in a few markets that primarily used dumb phones (or "feature phones").

I couldn't find BRICS-specific numbers or I would post them too, but I'd like to see any reputable source that they had anything close to a 60% marketshare in a non-dumbphone category.

Edit: Found this link for China. Hard to believe the the other countries would swing the shift so dramatically.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/In-China-Android-is-blowing-a...
No Baaz for you.

(Although if you break open a Gold iphone, you can get a Aurak..)
What exactly do you expect to get in your mail? Just install the new version and import the settings from the previous one, and it'll work with your current license.
The Slowest Generation
This has prevented me from using the official Jira python module. I literally just launched something hacky using urllib2 yesterday because of this... :(
I've tried a lot of IDE's for python development in the past and always went back to a basic text editor; the extra features never outweighed the bloat.

But then i found PyCharm and never looked back. I feel i develop at least 50% faster with any serious project; i still use Sublime for the one-off scripts, but everything else i find the introspection, code completion and refactoring just so good its now hard to go without.

Props to Jetbrains, and I look forward to v3 pro! (my 2.7 isn't yet telling me i have an upgrade... i'm hoping this is coming soon!)
Ok, maybe you can explain this to me then. Before iOS7 came out there were a bunch of people saying that Apple had to stop holding users hands as much.
Doesn't mention anything about open source.
Certificate Authorities struggle to comply with Baseline Requirements
No, this is very unlikely. (JetBrains CTO here, by the way.)
Even if no one wanted the gold color, the babble in the press is gold itself. I wonder how much of this was foreseen, or even instigated by the PR flacks.
Mobile Development with Objective-C (for iOS) and Java (for Android). Objective-C has already been mentioned, so I vote for Java. I know I am inviting rants writing Java here, but using Java for Android app development is a lot of fun.
As far as I'm aware you're never actually required to follow it? It's just good manners.
Between AirBnB and Uber
Pete, great advice here.

I definitely will push for this hard as I grow the team at makespace.com

Few examples of successful engineering PR: New Relic, Stripe, Uber. Of course, solving interesting problems is appealing in it self
Wunderlist adds comments feature
Apple is selling the Gold iPhone and having a simultaneous launch in China.

This is not a coincidence, and as you can see[0], it is working.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-24/china-gold-9-millio...
Coveted Restaurant Reservations Without the Groveling
> The internal jetbrains supplied static validation (Pep8 / PyLint) functionality doesn't appear to be vanilla pep8 / pylint.

It's a completely separate system (which also supports quick fixes and suggestions). PyCharm has built-in support for running pep8.py (though not pylint apparently, you'll have to do that yourself)
re: "see our other apps"

You nailed it. Hate that. Thanks for the app tips. :-)
The source code of PyCharm Community Ediion will be added to the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition repository in the coming days.
I feel like you are moving the posts again to support your argument. ... An electrician's job is deeply rooted in the research done by physicist and electrical engineers, so why does it not count?

Moving the posts? The posts for this entire argument start and end with college. You can't argue that college is worth it for a profession if a college doesn't teach the profession to begin with.

So, if one were to become an electrician is college worth it? No. If one were to become a physicist or electrical engineer, that is the question.

Agriculture comes to mind as a university accredited program, and while I'm sure it can be useful, you do not need a degree in agriculture to be a successful farmer.

The degree from universities for agriculture is typically more of an agri-business degree. No, you probably don't need it to farm and be successful. But, once again, to the root of the article, is college worth it to gain some insight into the business of agriculture?

Speaking of electrical engineering, there was an article in a national newspaper a month or two ago about the top jobs (pay wise) for people without degrees, and electrical engineer was near the top of the list. Programming and IT work did not even make the cut at all.

It's hard to comment on the validity of an article without a link. I find it hard to believe that many people could get their foot in the door without a degree. I assume you are remembering incorrectly and the job was electrician since that is typically a top non-degree profession.
Indeed.

We have 6x 42U racks across three datacentres in the UK packed with network hardware, servers, san and other kit.

Stuff doesn't really go wrong that often. Our ops guys probably go there once a quarter. Most of the time, you can manage it remotely. The only main failure point appears to be disks but you can just mail them to the DC and get them to stick it in for a small fee.
You won't get any mail, there is no reason for one. If you license is less than 12 months old, download PyCharm 3, enter your license again and off you go.
It wouldn't keep people from the site, but they would spend less time on it. Not sure if that would decrease their ad views, or increase views because users aren't wasting time reading comments.
I really don't understand how an industry rooted in one of the shallowest, most manicured places on the whole planet can be so sanctimonious about other peoples' lifestyle choices.
Lest, a tiny C++11 unit test helper
There is a saying: if the grocery's attendant is telling you which stock to buy, better run and sale everything.
In Spain I had big discussions with people about how expensive buying a home was (back in 2005), that it wasn't sustainable, and that prices will go down. People stared at me as If I were an idiot. Usually with all the atention and a good portion of the money is going in one direction, there is probably a bubble. I don't think there is one very big right now with startups, maybe a bit with mobile App(excess investments). But planets are aligning to allow a big one, now with the new law. We'll see..
When I saw WeFund, I thought "Kickstarter for penny stocks!" Ugh. If this is being done in a way that hordes of non-qualified investors are actually getting stock, it could well handicap any startups that go that route, because the professional investors they'll need in later, bigger rounds will consider them toxic.

Consider what this does to the cycle... startups good enough to get real angel money will probably be wise enough to not take on a bunch of high-risk unqualified capital, and so they won't be on WeFund at all. This leaves WeFund to the ones that are more idea than startup, not good enough to get in the real capital game. So the likelihood of hits is very low.

So, how much money can be poured into the system this way? Not enough to distort the entire market the way the dotcom boom did, I think. It would take a million thousand-dollar investors to just get a billion, which isn't enough to really kill anything - and $100M or less even less important in the big scheme of things.
If you do hacks then its absolutely ok (for me at least).

(I'm the author of the last comment in your linked thread). The idea is to take a font and modify it by stripping all the hinting info.
That's a fair point. I remember buying 'up' on a road bike for the color I preferred. So you're right there.

Maybe I think it lasts a shorter time because I was almost entirely apathetic towards which color I got this time around. I ended up with black (space grey) because that's what the store had when I got there.
What Is The Origin of Cancer?
For exploratory interactive programming and shorter scripts, not really. For building larger more complicated systems, very much so.

Personally I use both, continuously switching between the two. I play around in ipython/pylab until I've gotten all the algorithms and details worked out, and then use Pycharm to add that code to the larger library or application which those algorithms will be a part of.
Yes, but Hoon would need them. Lisp gets a lot of things for free because it's based on the lambda calculus, which some regard as trivial but I don't.

So, for example, lambda in Hoon is not a primitive but a relatively high-level built-in macro. This means it is part of a larger family of lambda-like things, many of which are (IMHO) quite useful. On the other hand, all these things demand either reserved words, digraphs or Unicode glyphs.
Ah sorry, I shouldn't have said "obviously" -- that was a bit rude of me.
Does it support multi-selection, Sublime style? I just can't use an editor without it anymore.

This is a bit OT, but Komodo got an update some days ago with multi-selection support, which I was quite excited to try. Only to find out their implementation is quite frankly useless.

http://www.activestate.com/blog/2013/09/komodo-8-5-release

'Right-click in the editor and choose "Select --> Multiple Selection --> Add", then use Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click on Mac) to quickly make additional selections.'
We noticed similar delays at our office (a lot fewer people though). Somehow all the test email we sent seem to have ended in the 1.5%. Odd.