skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or Hangout / Skype / GTM for standup.

We have standups and occasional pairing done remotely (via tmux/wemux). We've been doing this for at least a year and a half now.

Seems like DHH is late to the party. What he says are currently competitive advantages for the companies that already practice it. But I suppose, the bulk of workplaces still have yet to try this out.
if there were talk of how and why github is down, that would be interesting.
Breakthrough in photonics could allow for faster and faster electronics
So do users. Keeping several dozen tabs open indefinitely decreases the stability of every browser. Computers have resource limitations. 95% of websites have bookmarkable links; use them.
Its time for a distributed oauth with different provider.
Amongst other reasons, I chose to publish the book through LeanPub precisely so that if anyone every feels like they regret buying the book, there is an avenue for them to get a no-questions-asked refund. Check the web site for the specific terms.

You don't have to justify anything to me or anyone else: If you personally feel uncomfortable, I personally want you to get your money back. You can always change your mind and buy it again if that's what you want to do.
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On the engineering side, we are primarily a Python shop, although we use the Hadoop ecosystem extensively so there is some Java and we're playing around with Scala. We are a small company of about 15 who are easy-going and super fun to be around.

We're hiring for a couple positions right now, including:

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I read your link, but I'm having difficulty seeing the connection in my comment. I didn't make an ad hominem attack, and tried to offer a constructive criticism (that an animated image takes more time to process for information).

There's plenty of ways to keep the image and make it quicker to process though, like putting the answer in the title, or adding text over the image.

I do however think your response to my comment is in fact more in line with what the post you linked to is complaining about. IE, you replied with an insult and didn't offer anything constructive.
Why use big words when grandiloquent locutions suffice?
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I've already done that. I was just wondering if this could be used as an alternative. Since it can't be... what's the purpose of this library?
The new performance API is in Chrome mainline
Not to mention quietly setting up a public profile page in your name that starts showing up among top results when people search for you. Creepy is right.
Isn't there a thing as overbrushing?
I thought agile was supposed to be a preference for useful flexibility, rather than a fixed set of practices?

The canonical remote collaboration tools are IRC and mailing lists.

There are various sites that allow some sort of remote pair programming, I'm not sure if it's just screen sharing plus audio chat or if there's more structure to it.

At work we have conference calls, often with presenter-to-group screen sharing. (We use cisco webex, does anyone know an open alternative?)

For larger meetings we've been experimenting with videoconferencing between meeting rooms in different cities. Since being on video is annoying, maybe this would be an alternative to stand-up meetings? (I'm pretty sure whatever we use for this is proprietary as well, what's a good open alternative?)

The point of many Agile practices is to increase communication. How can you best capture the ease of walking 2 cubes over to have a chat with your coworker? If everyone's remote you don't have as good a natural indication of how busy or available everyone is. If you build something to provide that indication, the boss can monitor it and it will stop working right.

If people are talking in the next cube over, I can ignore it or jump in if I hear something interesting or that I can help with. But in some cases the discussions are things that wouldn't be discussed where certain other people might be able to overhear. How do you capture when communications should be available to some part of the group without interrupting them (so no acknowledgement needed from the recipient), but hidden from some other part of the group? And without requiring the people initiating the communications to explicitly bother to set this up? This is naturally baked in to physical-world interactions, is it useful enough to try to duplicate?

I've heard suggestions of a "virtual office" for voice chat, where you have a grid layout with cubes or conference rooms or whatnot and people have locations on that grid and can hear eachother (or not) based on how close they are. Is there anything that actually does this? Is it useful (or if it doesn't exist, would it be useful to have or is it just gimmicky)?

From what I understand, electronic text-based communications tend to be archived for a long time for legal reasons. How far does this apply to voice communications, and does VoIP vs telephones make a difference? How far does this affect what is or isn't said? I know at work, some conversations only happen in person or over the phone rather than IM or email. How important is this effect, and how does it impact getting work done?
I run e-commerce for a fairly large apparel manufacturer and wholesaler on the low end and have worked for other manufacturers. All manufacturers are looking to cut out the middleman, or at least replace it with a cheaper middleman like Amazon.
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I highly recommend reading Mike Bostock's tutorials:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Tutorials

Especially, the first four: Introduction, Three Little Circles, Thinking with Joins, How Selections Work.

These articles explain the basic concepts of d3.

Then learn by doing is the best way to go. For example, http://vida.io/explore
While your point is reasonable, particularly to modern style, I think your Hamlet example is far more "Show, don't tell" than any useful demonstration of preference for brevity.
Ants have no momentum, to a first approximation. It's not at all clear their algorithm would scale.
Would you mind providing some contact information?
I don't get it, heroku is not a github plugin, I don't see how providing a clone url on a different domain would make you unfocused. But it's your business, so good luck anyway.
During "normal" periods where there are no choke points because there is no traffic these "smart" people do not have a problem staying in the "right" lane. However, when the traffic starts growing up almost everybody, except them, go into what looks like a queue, one car at a time, waiting for their turn to move forward/leave the road they start passing everybody on the "wrong" lane and merging at the end.

This is not only rude, but also blocks the other(s) lane(s) bringing traffic to where it wasn't before.

Its almost like say it's ok to pass in front of other people in the theater line.
My bad, I was trying to link to the Lumia 920 advert where they apologized for lying after the fact. Here is a better link: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-06/hardw...

The advert was apparently done by a Microsoft affiliated marketing firm, so it made sense (to me) to include it.

In regards to your second point, Google and others often make mistakes in their adverts. Microsoft creates deliberate lies and seeks to create confusion and falsehood. Much like your post, to be honest. Have you considered a job on Microsoft's marketing department? I believe they are desperately seeking talent.
Re "Character Sets And Collations", VARCHAR means variable length. It does not mean "automatically strip blanks" SQL-92 8.2(3) [1]:

3) The comparison of two character strings is determined as follows:

a) If the length in characters of X is not equal to the length
in characters of Y, then the shorter string is effectively
replaced, for the purposes of comparison, with a copy of
itself that has been extended to the length of the longer
string by concatenation on the right of one or more pad char-
acters, where the pad character is chosen based on CS. If
CS has the NO PAD attribute, then the pad character is an
implementation-dependent character different from any char-
acter in the character set of X and Y that collates less
than any string under CS. Otherwise, the pad character is a
<space>.

b) The result of the comparison of X and Y is given by the col-
lating sequence CS.

c) Depending on the collating sequence, two strings may com-
pare as equal even if they are of different lengths or con-
tain different sequences of characters. When the operations
MAX, MIN, DISTINCT, references to a grouping column, and the
UNION, EXCEPT, and INTERSECT operators refer to character
strings, the specific value selected by these operations from
a set of such equal values is implementation-dependent.

Other implementations:

MSSQL has a padding option for this [2]

Redbrick docs state "A character string stored in a VARCHAR column has exactly the same length as the source string or the expression that generated the string (including trailing blanks). Character strings stored in a VARCHAR column can vary in length" [3]

[1] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

[2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316626

[3] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rbhelp/v6r3/index.j...
> 6000 fields is a 20x80 grid

Huh, how does that work? According to my math, it would be a 20x300 grid, and every single field would have to have an input element on it. That’s pretty darn big.
SpellJS, a bit like Unity for 2D, using Javascript
Do you have a real-world example of a form with 500 inputs?
I have about 20,000 units in Amazon at any given time. The only disadvantage is that the cost is pretty high for non-Amazon fulfillment and shipping - $7 for non branded boxes to start with.
I disagree, if you read through the first paragraph in spite of the strikethrough text you see that the author is talking about user experience. Web designers constantly have to find non-verbal ways of communicating with users because on the web pages with lots of text go unread. He's not talking to an audience of writers, he's talking to an audience of designers & product people.
I'm at work behind a lousy internet connection and a proxy so maybe that's why. I'm going to try at home and see what's happen.

Anyway, not too much of a good first impression for non techies.
... and I hope everyone is aware of both the virtues and the limits of that work.
A great deal of the novelty associated with HN is that the distractions here (80% of the "content") are good idle reading, seem like they could be vaguely related to work, and tend to offer a community of self-validation, catharsis, and commisery.

If you enjoy the valuable content here on HN, it would be wise for you to learn how to recognize the idle reading and ignore those threads entirely, when possible. I know it's harder of late, as the S/N ratio is slowly approaching zero, but you can't really fight against the tide - there are many more people here on HN that don't share your view (myself excluded).

Sorry.
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Persona is what I'm looking at in this space.
Is there other use case demo of personalization you guys want to see?
also → http://otvety.google.ru
I've had basically the same idea as the the article, but for flossing, since I was a kid. You would mold your teeth and then cut slots in the mold between the teeth. You would then string floss through all of the slots and put the whole thing in your mouth. A single bit down would floss all of your teeth at once. A neat idea, but not that practical.
Mass. tech tax repealed after less than 2 months
This was from a few days ago, but I didn't see it on HN (maybe HN search is failing me?), which is surprising considering that there was a fair amount of discussion/outcry here when the tax was first implemented.
The sun will still shine. The grass will still grow. Eventually squabbles among men will be resolved. Life will move on.
4942 Munroe
Feedback welcomed ALittle bookmarks video progress & page scroll position
A Chrome extension is needed to make it work. It allows you to easily come back to work on long articles, lecture videos, even across computers. Please give feedback!
https://login.persona.org/ is always there for you
Back End Engineer
Statwing's users demand larger data, more complex analyses, and faster interaction. We'll need to optimize regression, graph, and dozens of other statistical algorithms to efficiently handle wildly diverse datasets. Those analyses will sit on a robust data-handling system that finishes analyses before our users even know they need them. And Statwing's deep interaction and data exploration needs to feel like it's happening locally even when it's not.

The ideal candidate:

. Excited about taking responsibility and ownership over big pieces of the product

. Comfortable with efficiently handling and processing relatively large amounts of data.

. Interested in data analysis.

. Very comfortable with Python. Some experience with Clojure is a bonus.

. An extremely talented programmer, skilled in dealing with performance tradeoffs and bottlenecks.

. Deeply concerned with system reliability, code quality, and back end architecture.

. Open to asking for help, taking feedback, collaborating, and generally being a team player.

. Humor. Has a sense of it.
Affordable Health Care Infographic
Oddly enough, it seems fine within a UIWebView...
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I absolutely adore Persona. It's a great protocol, and very easy to implement. If anyone here has a web app, please add Persona to it.

(I'm not affiliated with Persona/Mozilla at all, etc).
This was from a few days ago, but I didn't see it on HN (maybe HN search is failing me?), which is surprising considering that there was a fair amount of discussion/outcry here when the tax was first implemented.
Not bad, but what is with 20 GB traffic limit for dropbox?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en
That is very kind of you, but my comment was slightly tongue in cheek. I usually buy books that I read and learn from, even if I can get them for free from some pirate site.

Your book is excellent and I wouldn't dream of asking for my money back.
http://paste2.org/4OyDJknK -- we've got it in our private github repo, but here's the source as well.
http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_Detail_NoR...

Trademark no: 012180394

http://i.imgur.com/ufStqXq.png
But doing that will require the obscene political step of a vote of no confidence, a recall election, and a complete reform of campaign finance laws.... for which we need the help of politicians.
Looks like it's a side project of errplane or something. On the errplane site, there's a link to anomalous in their nav bar.
No rush to sign up specifically, but at least some states have had a blackout on all pricing info, and people do need to start at least budgeting for next year, and without knowing how much you'll need to pay, it's hard to do that.

Will it matter if I find out today or tomorrow? Probably not. It would have been nice to have had a better functioning website, given that they've known about this for a while and should have an effectively unlimited budget.
Link 1: complains of misleading screen comparison. Microsoft compared diagonal size, but due to aspect ratio differences the screen with the larger diagonal size actually has less area. This could plausibly be called a lie.

Link 2: complains that some of the things shown in the "To the Cloud" ads do not involve storage on a third party server, and says this means they have nothing to do with the cloud. Also complains that the things in the ad that do involve storage on a third party server have been done before, and so somehow it is wrong for Microsoft to say that they do them.

Link 3: Makes no specific claim of Microsoft lying. Just gives a transcript of The Guardian talking to a Microsoft person at CES, and asserts that it must be full of lies because it is from Microsoft. (Which is amusing, because Techrights is just rebranded Boycott Novell, probably the most lie filled tech-related site on the web).

Link 4: same claim as link #1.

Link 5: video does not play.

Link 6: Does not claim that Microsoft is lying. It is just reporting that they did an ad making fun of the competition.

Link 7: Getting an error now, so I can't verify, but I got to it earlier and on a first quick read it looked like it was just complaining about bashing a competitor.

Your links do not really do a good job of supporting your argument.
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SF Dev Labs is looking for experienced Javascript developers to assist with ongoing contract. $125/hr.

If interested, please email team@sfdevlabs.com with portfolio/samples of work.

We also freelance, so who are we?
SF Dev Labs is a full-service node.js shop (design + code) that specializes in mobile-optimized web apps, content publishing and API integrations.

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22nd Sep
A real shocker right?

No doubt the same reason some politicians thought we had enough money to attack Syria.
Why Bigfoot is unlikely only if you know what "unlikely" means
We build it using d3js and real-time meteor web framework. You can click Explore to play with the visualization.
If you'd like to apply to SpaceX go through another recruiter. I applied through Ryan a while back. He was unprofessional and kept getting mixed up with the schedule. In the end I did 6+ hours of phone interviews and a 4 hour coding test. I sent in my results and was completely ignored. No feedback, no response to my inquiries. Honestly one of the most insulting things that's ever happed to me.

Go on Linkedin, SpaceX has several other recruiters available.
I wonder why they chose not to allow commenting on questions (possible on Quora or Stack Exchange).
Allowing comments could help improve existing answers, but I guess it would add more noise.
I think lots of people, on both "sides" of this debate, have predetermined notions and are trying really hard to justify them.
Can you give some examples of projects you have worked on before?
Yah, if you've got that many fields in your form you're doing it wrong and you need psychiatric help.
Thank you, you are 100% correct.
This is pretty spot on.[1] A company like YOOX is doing "E-commerce as a service" for fashion brands stuck in this position: http://www.yooxgroup.com/en/company_profile/the_group.asp (warning - autoplaying video!)

[1]Source - I work directly with a wholesaler who matches almost every description in the article.