skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the hilarious part of that being that Adobe, even prior to Steve Jobs's "flash sux" response, had begun to wander away from a purely ActionScript model into declarative markup via Flex.

I'm not 100% certain that declarative is wrong for presentational information. It just sucks that HTML + CSS are so messy. I'd even go for something that had a more parsimonious (note: not coupled tho) relationship between presentation/structure.
Feinstein might have paid very handsomely to be on that committee it seems -- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/21/Congress-...
They want my personal password?
> Mr. Krugman himself thinks it's "the best thing by far written on the subject to date"

I'm a big fan of Charles Stross, but it may be worth pointing out that Krugman goes on to say that this is partly because it's the only thing written on the subject to date.

(In particular, he's distinguishing "interstellar finance" as in Neptune's Brood from "interstellar trade" as in his own earlier paper.)
Thats nice and good for you, your users and your business.

However, be cautious to not get the leechers, those users who are rich and still would suck others dry. There are plenty of those in the world. I believe for your service, they still wont do much damage to you, compared to the musicians who really have no money and just want to get by.

But still, be cautious. And dont call it stealing, its something else going on here, its fraud or malice or leeching.
"Trial week" sounds like a pretty blatant attempt to keep the workforce young and dumb.

If you have other things going on in life (home, family), you're not going to roll the dice of getting canned in a week. And burning vacation time at a previous employer is (by my standard) an ethical issue to me. When I leave a gig, I generally give sufficient notice so that my duties can be transitioned in an orderly way. Obviously there are exception (ie. you give notice and get escorted out by company policy)

If your company need to do something like this, do it the Zappos way. Bring someone on and offer a check to leave after a certain period.
If you'd like to experience the future, today, simply look for a job outside SV, NYC, or maybe Austin.

This is part of why the fizzbuzz test sounds so funny away from the coasts. If the supply-demand dynamic is such that you "have to" interview any warm body that applies, you need a fizzbuzz test. If the supply-demand dynamic is such that the entire workforce is ridiculously overeducated and overexperienced for the job, you only need fizzbuzz if you're trying to bottom feed (only offering $12/hr 1099 no benefits, that kind of thing)
2. Is way too late for the millions losing their insurance as of Jan 1.

In theory anyone who had a policy before Obamacare was passed should have been grandfatherd, but HHS wrote regulations so strict, such that if anything changed like deductables, copays, or benefits, their policies are toast (per NBC: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-...).

These people are truly screwed; only something that allows others to calculate or get subsidies calculations would accommodate them, and since those become are direct payments from the Federal government you can understand why it wants a great deal of control over them.
But hold on, didn’t I mention one week is not enough for a candidate to be productive and effective? Yes! And that’s why most places have a three-month probation.

If I had to change jobs, I'd be MUCH more comfortable taking a week's vacation, doing a "trial" week, and then making a decision than I would making the decision and then being subjected to a three-month probationary period.

The trial weeks let's both parties dip their toes in the water. I think for many employees, it reduces their risk quite a bit. If it doesn't work out, you're out a week's vacation. If you're three month probation doesn't work out, you're out of a job altogether.
Yeah, same here. I have no difficulty writing large scale apps in JS because I play to its strengths and manage its weaknesses. These shit-for-brains "experts" can't, and somehow it's all the language's fault.

Here's a clue folks: you're the programmer, it's your job to work out how to programme for your target platform, and if you can't then fuck off and leave it to the professionals.
> Because you don't have to write a lot of boilerplate to tell the language things that it should be able to figure out for itself.

This is exactly my point; compiler can't figure out what kind of data I want, at least not in general. A good example is jQuery $.data() which tries to guess what kind of data you have in your HTML tag attribute. Guess what happens if you have a MongoDB ObjectId (as string), for instance "52259986890d6f24e9000000"? Exactly - it is a floating number. Believe me, it leads to some interesting debugging sessions... :)

I agree with you however that it is beneficial to have a way to set the var to None/null/..., indicating "not initialized". Win some, lose some I guess.
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In case you're interested in the HN community take on this, here's a link to the discussion from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617497
Unless they aren't being upfront about their hiring process (in which case you could argue they are being deceitful), I imagine they number is greater than 5%. If you do not apply because of that requirement, you aren't getting counted.
If they are hiring 66% of people that go through "trial week", it appears as if the decision to hire was already fairly well established before the candidate had to endure trial week. No company would be bragging about a 66% hire rate on all candidates, as that would show you are probably not very selective at all (assuming the applicants represent the industry as a whole).

They don't provide data as to how many interviews they do before the invite, or what percentage of candidates are invited to participate in trial week. I'd imagine that, if this company is truly selective, the percentage of candidates invited to trial week is rather low - well below 50%, probably closer to 10%.

If they are hiring 66% of the candidates that make it through trial week, and only 5% of candidates are rejecting the opportunity for a trial week, then how much value does the trial week actually add? One could argue that the cost of wasting an entire week with the 34% of candidates that you aren't going to hire is substantial (while most here could argue that you could end up getting some great ideas on the process out of that candidate even if you don't hire him/her).

And who is to say that the 34% wouldn't have worked out in the long run? They provide an anecdote about a candidate that didn't handle interview pressure well but did great during trial week. Couldn't at least some percentage of the 34% that are rejected perhaps feel that same pressure in trial week, and could do well when the guise of an audition is no longer present?

But if you have a 66% positive rate on trial week, it seems the main purpose it serves is to just verify what you already know - that you want to hire this person. But it also serves, perhaps, a more important purpose as well.

What I think is the true secret sauce here is the concept related to the willingness of candidates to participate in the process. One of the hiring criteria is a clear interest in the company and a belief in the product. If someone is willing to jump through this kind of hoop at the chance to work for this company, they are either very interested in the company or desperate for any job. That 5% that reject the trial week can be deemed not a fit, due to their unwillingness to jump through this hoop.
Is it impossible to write an article like this without liberal use of swearing? Many of the points in the article are quite reasonable, but with the foul language used in it I cannot bring myself to read it all.

Foul English is far, far worse in my eyes at least than JavaScript.
It's like PowerToys for Gmail.
80%...! Very impressive. What's the cycle count on your battery? My mbp is of a similar vintage, but after 900 or so cycles, the battery is down to 1700mah at "full". But w/ mavericks that's still about 2.5 hrs of runtime (1.75 hrs on Lion).
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In markets where employers have a lot of leverage, some employers do more or less do that. They hire more employees than they really need, then put in stringent screening practices to cut the ones they don't want to keep. There are a lot of crappy employers out there, who can get away with it because many people are not in an economic position to object.

In markets where employees have more leverage and can choose which employers to work for, using the legal right to fire people whenever you want to produce a trial period as a matter of routine is a good way to get a bad reputation. If a company is known for firing 30% of its hires within the first 6 months, many people with options will choose another option. Or at least, they will have to be much more attractive in other ways to make up for it (higher pay, more interesting work, etc.). If that's really the intent, making it officially a trial week up front is a lot more transparent.
There are other ways of dealing with that problem. I get some really thoughtless,knee jerk reviews on Amazon, and they consistently get down-voted. Just a simple meta-rating system is enough to filter out the whiners.

It is apparent that Apple simply doesn't want to hear it.
The subtitles files you can find online are formatted with timestamps to allow the video player to sync the text with the video, so for this purpose it makes perfect sense. Maybe set top boxes could make use of subtitles to allow users to search for a certain point in a video.
Just a heads up, firefox lists the website as a security threat.
Cozy 1.0 - codename Snowden: Your personal cloud
I've added your suggestions to the development roadmap. Would you mind emailing me that spreadsheet over to s@chemical.io and I'll see what I can do? Thanks :)
I think he means running linux using a vm. Possibly with vagrant for dev/testing purposes. As far a I now there isn't a general purpose vm for android/arm.(There are some javascript x86 emulators with linux and probably something else but I don't know how easy it is to use for developmnt). android by default doesn't have even a minimal linux cmdline toolset although you can install it.
yeah. gp (and I recommend everybody :) ) should probably try cracking a few substitution ciphers by hand just to see incredibly well frequency analysis really works.

like you say, a few dozen characters of ciphertext. and you don't even need the full frequency chart, either. just the top few is sufficient (there's a lot of noise as you go down anyway because of Zipf's law). add knowledge of the top-3 bigrams and trigrams, and you're all set.

it's all due to the fact that Shannon discovered, that there's only roughly 1.5 bit of entropy per character in English text. and English is in fact one of the more efficient languages when it comes to this, Dutch or German have even less entropy per character :) I don't know how it compares to Spanish, however. gendered words are basically a type of redundancy checks, so they waste bits in that sense.
Each to their own, but I wouldn't call what the MPAA does "censorship" (to my limited knowledge, that is; I'm not an American).

The MPAA issues ratings; it's up to the studio to decide whether to make cuts to a film in order to attain a particular rating. No-one forces the studio to make the cuts (Wikipedia: "The MPAA rating system is a voluntary scheme not enforced by law and films can be exhibited without a rating").

Sure, it might be commercial suicide to issue a film with a particular rating, but the right to free speech != the right to make lots of money.
I'll look into it, thanks for letting me know :)
The cards just look like you're playing some form of single player game (hence the name). If you had a journal to write in, then with some practice, you could pass it off as idly playing the game while thinking of what to write.
Yes, that's called "writing an email client".

Then, we can find some kind of standard protocol between the client and the server so you can use your client with any email provider. We could call it... IMAP!
The opening of Krugman's paper is wonderful (though it has nothing to do with interstellar trade):

"Many critics of conventional economics have argued, with considerable justification, that the assumptions underlying neoclassical theory bear little resemblance to the world we know. These critics have, however, been too quick to assert that this shows that mainstream economics can never be of any use. Recent progress in the technology of space travel, as well as the prospects of the use of space for energy production and colonization (O’Neill 1976) make this assertion doubtful; for they raise the distinct possibility that we may eventually discover or construct a world to which orthodox economic theory applies."
I'm usually a massive fan of what you guys do, but man, I've got to say that you need to use this tool on the pricing page, in particular:

http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/
You are saying you don't think government manipulation would have negative (long term) impacts. That's a separate thing from the government not being able to play games with the currency.

Part of the reason I said 'a few billion' is that several governments can afford to spend that, no problem. If they think they are facing an existential threat (as you seem to believe), it is basically a certainty that they will try it.
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You need to forward this comment to Scott Adams. He is always looking for PHB quotes.
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I agree with both, there are cases that support that. But in general it is a very valuable tool for kids trying to fit in during their pre/early teen years.

Now teaching kids how to properly use technology and social media is another aspect that many non-tech savy parents could use some coaching I think.
If I'd be your boss I'd simply tell you to code like every single bit no matter how small will be used in a space shuttle, airplane or submarine. Forget about trying to be like some Google/Apple guy, just trying not to be the cause of the next Challenger-like disaster shoud be a nice starting point to produce quality code.
Like the redesign! Is it Bootstrap based?

Some feedback: the button hover states could be a bit more intense and some transitions would be nice (e.g. the navigation flyout on smartphones). The navigation button is also missing a cursor: pointer attribute.
Why not wait 10 years until it is 1000% of US tax revenues?
To me, it looks like Microsoft is setting up Lumia to be the consumer brand and Surface to be the professional, pro-sumer brand.
Indeed (author here). Aside from Fibonacci being a worthless benchmark, the Common Lisp code was unoptimized and running on CLISP(!) on Windows(!!). Moreover, it was from an old version of the compiler. The benchmark just sat there for a while as I rewrote it from C++ in Common Lisp, and it was stupid of me to let it hang around for so long.
I don't see the irony.

If I'm Florian Bersier, the creator, and I believe that it's ultimately the users choice to manipulate the the UI--up to and including removing ads--then I can still use those same ads on my site without contradiction as long as I also believe that users have the right to remove those ads as well.

The contradiction, as I see it, would come if he made somehow it impossible for users to remove ads on his site while presenting a product that removes those same ads.
Genius ! I ticked nearly all of the options as I had grown to find the Gmail interface a complete PAIN. Thank you so much
Now that's a really good point. No self-respecting kid will use the same _one-to-many_ platform to communicate with friends and parents. Maybe they'll add some convenient 'Circles' feature, but the association with 'those old people' will remain.
I understand your point, but it IS that simple.
My social network completely uses facebook, I do not.
They invite me to things in person and respect my choice, and if they didn't, they would not be my social network.

It seems you are talking about boils down to peer pressure ... how many after school specials about how not to give in do we need?
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Is this really worthy of a HN post? This is a pretty basic attack.
Stanford startup’s new radio can send & receive information on same frequency
Does this mean that the surface pro 2 is a good choice for those of us who don't mind Unity?
As I look at my office bookshelf--which runs from tech stuff to random stuff bought downtown and not taken home, I question "about which they feel passionate". It is certainly reasonable to say that Hennessy and Patterson have a consuming interest in hardware design, but do they feel passionate about it? Would Wright Morris or Anthony Burgess have used "feel passionate" as a reason for writing those volumes of autobiography?
U.K. may punish publication of NSA leaks
Mixing French & English
Recruiter here. Looking for a job while unemployed reduces your leverage and to at least some degree can potentially reduce how attractive you appear to an employer. If you have incredible skills it doesn't matter much, but having no job gives the appearance that no one wants you. If you quit your job without having another one lined up, that can give the impression that you make rash decisions that are perhaps not very wise.

It's best to have a job while looking for one, but depending on who you are it won't always be a huge detriment to be unemployed during a search.
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Adobe will leverage this to their advantage. Instead of offering an offline version for their products because customers, we'll get a "We've ironed out the kinks and are now more secure than ever!" when the issue comes up again.
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My second and third job in IT had a trial period of 6 months, which is quite common here in Sweden.

Some people get to skip this depending on the contract they sign but I'm a high school drop out so I believe that's why I've always had to prove myself.

I find it perfectly acceptable to make sure that an employee knows what they're doing and get feedback from the whole team before 6 months are over.
Good luck! I know it's a big task to change the culture (and I didn't mean to imply I thought it'd be easy). You might like http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/reinventing-discovery/ too.
I am down right impressed. The concept is questionable in current practicality but I think it matters for something that they are trying. We can all agree a pc-comptaible like situation would be very cool.

As a matter of good faith I shall withhold my scepticism and wait until they show concrete details.
Is there RFC3987(IRI check) implementation done in JavaScript?
Enough with the "citation needed". This isn't Wikipedia. People have the right to express an opinion or don't have reference for everything they say.

How would you react if someone told you "citation needed" every time you make a claim?
My very limited and one person experience with online video tutorial sites. Don't read too much in to it, just my experience.

- Lydia: Probably the best in terms of depth and options. But I only tried couple of them.

- TutsPlus: Second best in my opinion. But again, limited experience with only one author.

- Khan Academy: Love the UI, love the gamification, love the concept. But its more for entry level education (for now) and less of high-level, in depth learning. If they can apply the gamification to higher level learning (or just have more higher level content) it would be awesome.

- Treehouse: I have very very limited experience (just the php video series), I felt that it was a bit goofy. Like their target audience is someone who is not computer savvy or 12 year old.

I feel video is probably not the best medium for learning programming related contents. I think video can definitely supplement a text heavy learning, but otherwise I think textbooks are better way to learn programming (maybe its just me).

I would love to know experience from other HN-er's or any other online video tutorial sites they might have tried.
I would suggest ffmpeg as an alternative -- it peels, it slices and it dices. It will definitely convert a range of a video file to gif while adding subtitles, and you won't have to frankenstein things together..
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> Please note that I wrote it's a broken implementation over weak typing, not of weak typing.

But weak typing is a complete red herring, as I noted previously the behaviour of the default sort function is independent from the typing system, you could have a default sort function doing more or less the same thing in a very strict statically typed system.

Haskell's `sort` is defined (more or less) as

sort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]
sort = sortBy compare

it could be (uselessly) defined as

sort :: Show a => [a] -> [a]
sort = sortBy (comparing show)

resulting in the same behaviour you see in javascript.
Funny this popped up. I was just having a chat with a classmate about how he ended up finding his roommates for his shared Brooklyn apartment on Craigslist, and how I would never have the guts to do that.

So are you a vetting service for roommates, like I enter a list of preferences and you give me a list of roommates that have all been vetted (i.e. not serial killers)? Or are you building a platform for anyone looking for a roommate to connect with others? I think you'd find people who'd pay for a vetting-like service, particularly students who are studying abroad out and in the US.

In any case, how are you hoping to acquire users? You're essentially trying to beat out Craigslist. You might want to take the Airbnb approach by posting ads there that redirect to profiles on your site.

In any case, good luck!