skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO many companies do not hire "underqualified" people (ie people who do not exactly match the job description) because they're afraid to hire, train and lose employees. They fail to account for the opportunity cost of lost profits due to "waiting longer" for the right hire. I'd rather have a profitable employee after 1-3 months of training than to search for 6 months .
Fair point, but I care a lot more about an objective assessment of the current state of the conference than pegging someone as a hypocrite. People who try too hard to avoid hypocrisy never do anything interesting.
its depends on my interest and i have freedom to use whatever i want to use if a thing is not working properly.
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Ha! Nice to see you here : )

The except clause is in the "dropbox_auth_finish" view. That might be personal paranoia, but I'm sure that every single timeI think "It's OK to put a `except:` here", it eventually comes back to bite me (without exception ;) )!

I do understand the motivation to keep it minimal (and I think the Flask boilerplate is indeed well understood), but putting together the sample without the Dropbox SDK imports (specifically without an IDE) might end up being a bit more bothersome than optimal : )

Just personal opinion, of course!
With the exception of the last one, every instance of "their" in your post should have been "there." I say this not to be a pedant, but because it made your otherwise good post difficult to read.
> Going from "doctors who have X machine order X procedure more often" to "doctors treat patients like an ATM machine" is a huge leap.

I recall what a nurse once told me, that she was glad she doesn't have private insurance, because that can easily mean they put "tubes into every hole" even when there is no point in doing so (this was in the context of terminal cancer, mind you). That was in Germany, and not in some crappy backwater hospital either.

> There are bad apples in every bunch

Actually it's "a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch". So instead of blaming "fearmongering crap", maybe blame the bad apples, instead of just accepting them as given. Not that you don't have a point at all; trust is really required. But not blind trust, and not naiveté; those are just as unhelpful as unfounded distrust would be. As they say, nature abhors a vacuum.
Thats a good point, I have known a number of startup companies that have many "open positions" listed not because they're hiring but because of how it appeared to potential VCs . They want to appear to be a growing, valid, healthy company ...
I've been reading The Economist for well over thirty years. In England I think it's clearly identified as a paper of the right. (Correct me if I'm mistaken.)

The only reason it might not be seen as right wing in the US, is that the right wing here is so batsh*t crazy: Banning abortion and birth control, blaming gay people for earthquakes, carrying assault rifles around in public, genuinely believing that the world is 6000 years old - these are not part of educated discourse in the rest of the OECD.
TC Disrupt is a microcosm of the dilution of the term "disrupt".
i... wat
Pretty slick infographic
Twitter pulls a Facebook, fills your stream with photos and videos
One reason I am not a devfs fan is because I'm a mknod(1) user. For example, FreeBSD has one of those famous "_________ is deprecated" bold warnings regarding mknod.

It is not deprecated in my usage. I use it all the time.

I do not rely on /dev/null.

I make my own null character devices as I need them.
One major oversight that you fail to address in you hypothetical free market scenario is that supply is still constrained. In a truly free market, anyone can set up shop and try to market and sell their services. If I buy a TV that craps out in two days, I either get it fixed by warranty or I go online and write a bad review which hopefully contributes to the demise of the company. If I get a bad surgery from a poorly trained doctor I die. That is why we have the FDA etc, and that is why doctors are rigorously vetted and trained through the med school/residency process, and I think most people would agree that that is a good thing.

Another issue I have is your mention of 'charity'. Almost anytime this gets used in a political/economic discussion, it is used to dismiss a whole class of problems that the author does not want to deal with in their argument. In this particular case you mention that if you cannot afford a 'free market' doctor/treatment, then you can turn to charity to provide the funds. Of course we all know that charity will never come close to providing for the entirety of society, so you are left with a situation where almost everyone except those who can afford treatment are forced to go without it. And of course the typical libertarian response is "tough luck" or "work harder". But here is the thing, health, similar to environmental issues has strong public effects. There are a number of diseases and illnesses that, if left untreated in a large portion of the population, can have devastating impacts on society. A healthy population is a necessity of a first world economy and relying on charity to ensure positive, society level outcomes is absurd and ignores reality.

Look, I lean libertarian on many issues, but there are certain aspects of society that are just not suited to a free market. I want to be able to go to a restaurant without being terrified of catching TB from the waiter or getting salmonella poisoning from the food. I don't want industrial companies polluting the ocean and rivers that I surf and fish in. The free market can be very powerful, but it is also fairly dumb, it cannot recognize when it is doing more collective harm than good. I don't see why so many libertarians think in terms of all or nothing. Compromise shouldn't be such a dirty word in today's political discussions, it's a sad state of affairs.
Many of these are already unicode characters. Do the fonts of these icon sets use the corresponding characters?
yes and the cheeky buggers what to be paid as well!
We're enacting these changes at the moment. Thanks!
At a previous company, we had a competitor who we were trying quite hard to beat to market with a particular feature, and it was (half-jokingly, and not by me) suggested that we send them false reports of subtle but deadly bugs to occupy their time. So.
As a founder of another startup (octocall.com) choosing to host our database with another company (postgres, hosted with Heroku) the decision is a simple one: You trade infrastructure management complexity for a monthly fee. Especially when you're starting out, the team is small, and time is much more expensive than whatever your database provider is charging you per month.

It's a great trade-off for most early-stage companies, because managing databases is hard. I'd rather leave it to the experts who specialize only in managing databases. You and your product team have a thousand and one other things to think about other than managing your database. Your provider may end up making mistakes, but that's part of the risk you take.

Security breaches are a mess for everyone involved, and we're in relatively new territory here in the Infrastructure As A Service space. Overall, I have little doubt that IAAS overall is a good thing. As an industry, we'll learn and improve on how to deal with all things "security", but we're clearly not there yet.
(Correct me if I'm mistaken.)

The problem with this classification is that the concept of left and right varies from country to country.

In many European countries, most parties could probably fit in the Democratic party.
I can confirm, I've heard this from drivers as well.

As an anecdote, the one time I left a 1-star review, the next day I had a 20-min wait to get a car. Not sure if it was bad luck or I was getting penalized for leaving a bad review...
Thanks. I appreciate being overly cautious when it comes to security rather than under cautious. And this has made us realize that we should have a unique profile for each service.
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We share the story and our motivation to build a new open-source CMS.
Those are not mutually exclusive :)

dotCloud is quite stable and mature, so running and maintaining it at the quality standards of our customers (including support, 24/7 ops, bug fixes, etc.) requires surprisingly little resources. Little enough that we can "devote the vast majority of our resources towards growing Docker" while continuing to offer a quality product.

My argument to support this is that we have actually been doing this for 6 months, and so far there hasn't been any kind of exodus - in fact we have many more paid customers than we had 6 months ago :)

I think this is one of the reasons the public PaaS market is difficult: at the end of the day, past the excitement of developing a new app, people will pay for a reliable service that doesn't get in their way - not for the bells and whistles. It is very difficult to differentiate a paas on features.
I was an embedded contractor for 8 years. It was a huge majority of EEs writing the production code at every company I worked with. I probably worked closely with about 300 engineers in that time, and fewer than 20 of them had Computer Science backgrounds. This was especially true in aerospace/defense, where I very well might have been the only CS guy in the (large) building.

And, no, most weren't "EEs who are talented at writing software" :)
The benefit of a plugin to verify assets is that it can work with other things besides the crypto lib. As your sibling comment mentions an attacker could deliver other JS that just traces your input or something different. Well, a user could ask a plugin to say "Hey, track the JS on this page. Alert me if any of it changes, any of it is removed, or any new JS is added." After an alert, the user can see a diff, decide to trust the new set of JS (maybe it was just a jquery update), try and run the old set instead, or don't run anything. A cool plugin could even connect with a repository of peer-reviewed changes so that non-technical users can still safely use it, so they might see "This change to blah.js has been marked as OK by X respectable users (see reasons)" or "It's a trap! Foobar.com has been compromised by (feds|anonymous|gary)."
The thing that keeps me on Linux (mostly), is the ability to use alt+drag (I actually re-bind this to Win+drag) to move and resize windows without having to move my mouse to the title bar, or to the thin edges of the windows.

I can just use alt+left drag to move my window, a large target, anywhere I want it to, and likewise to resize it.

It's really annoying for me when I have to use a Windows VM (for example), and not be able to do this.
I disagree, whereas it is well-known that sections of the media has a bias which colours it's coverage, it is never explicitly declared and it also tends towards the dogmatic. I would be interested to see an example where this isn't the case.
But I think data scientist, the way it's used today in the job market, is definitely a term for a person who works with real data using software tools and computers through a statistical lens (or a statistician who's comfortable munging data for their analysis).

There's simply no term for someone who works with lots and lots of data (not necessarily "big data", I don't like that work) through a more general kind of lens that may or may not involve a statistical approach. When the term "data scientist" first really started to float around I got excited thinking it was describing the latter, when it just ended up describing the former.

i.e. A data scientist role is more likely to answer a question like "What percent of people in the White House visitor logs show up in the past 24 months of Reuters News reporting?"

vs.

"Get me a list of people on the White House visitor logs who've shown up in the past 24 months of Reuters News reporting and build a relationship graph from both the news reports and the visitor logs and merge them."

Both require the data munging part of grabbing the visitor log, grabbing the news reports and finding the names in the reports (controlling for various data quality issues). But the "data scientist" approach is to then jump from that onto a statistical answer, while the second approach is to build a social network that might be used for other purposes. These are very different kinds of approaches, with different kinds of outcomes.

It's frustrating that a person in the second kind of approach doesn't have a name, "data scientist" would have been perfect, but the field seems to have gone a different direction with the term.
Will we now have to get out of the habit of pulling our phones out to check the time?
Thanks for the feedback! We've already played around a LOT with those and there's not much we can do about that. The point of the tiles it to show popularity (more popular = bigger).

If you don't like the grid view, you can always switch to the list view (which actually has more sifting functionality) by clicking on the tab near the top.
> That captures half of the bugs (too few arguments), for a large overhead (an extra line for almost every argument in every function).

You don't have to check every every arg to check the count is correct if that's something you're concerned about. Nor does checking args are undefined require a line per since you could check them all with a single assert.

If you're the type who has constant bugs from wrong arg counts, use another language that better suits your programming style, but it's not a problem everyone has.

And Dijkstra despised OO, and came from a much different time, I don't much care for many of his opinions. Alan Kay is more my style.
Can't wait for Firefox 150!
'Classically liberal' is a gesture of self-congratulation, not a useful descriptor.
I don't see the connection. What does spamming our diplomatic contacts with RIAA propaganda do for us? Look at the Wikileaks diplomatic cables. They are full of "spam diplomacy." You are imagining a trade-off where none exists.
Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
Interestingly, there isn't a robots.txt
When I was about ten years old, virtual desktops were the most proximate cause of my switch to Unix (addiction to using Solaris-based UltraSPARC workstations in the university lab nearby). I just thought they were so cool.

Have only run Linux on the desktop ever since. I'm 27.
No, this doesn't work, because the user still needs to validate the DOM every time the page loads.
The original comment was about being able to roll back, not the ability to run things in parallel. With PostgreSQL, I can start a transaction in which I'm going to perform five separate "alter table" commands; if one of these fails (maybe because I change the type of a field in a way that is incompatible with some of the data, or maybe because this is some kind of "migration" that came with a project and it has a bug: maybe it tries to rename a column, but there's a typo in the name) the entire migration will roll back atomically.
Mail.app has been buggy since its NEXTSTEP days. Especially with multiple accounts. I have to admit I haven't tried it recently, the older versions were just too awful to forgive.
If I wanted to strip the audio into a big wav or mp3 file, how would that be done?
Oh, I misunderstood "very large." :-) The actual code sample has a more detailed list of exceptions that it handles, but the code was a bit long.
There's a reason none of the economist articles have writing credits. It's because nobody would normally care what a 20something hipster thinks about markets and politics, and believe they are receiving wisdom from experienced economists and analysts but if you walk into their offices it's just kids having a lark, trolling away.
True X-Mouse Gizmo provides middle click paste in Windows as well as focus follows mouse.

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
I think you missed this bit:

Toyota claimed the 2005 Camry's main CPU had error detecting and correcting (EDAC) RAM. It didn't.

Unintentional RTOS task shutdown was heavily investigated as a potential source of the UA. As single bits in memory control each task, corruption due to HW or SW faults will suspend needed tasks or start unwanted ones. Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.

In other words, they used non-error-correcting memory, and the investigation found a code path that would lead to the observed behaviour if a single bit flips.
Any significantly awful bug can usually be described as oh shit.
Thank you Economist for saying this!

I really hate when people shove others into right or left categories - that's as dumb as it gets. Like it's impossible to have different opinions on different things, or what?
Impressive, though I suspect if a device survives the first few minutes (with the "disassemble and totally dry before powering back on" procedure) then there probably isn't much reason it shouldn't last much longer.
+1 for Virtual Desktops and key mappings for each.

I do 3x3, mapped to <ctr>+<alt>+[1-9] on the keypad.
...and if you can hide it behind a little "Look everybody, KITTENS!" all the better!
Seriously, the orbit visualizations are pretty cool: http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=KOI-351...
This is beside the point, as bbx was saying that he preferred Gmail's UI over something new; the new thing living in a browser wouldn't really affect that :)
Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
Not to argue about its target audience, but the Economist is a multi platform publication at this point. Not only that but and audio version also comes default with the IOS app (i listen to it everyday on way to work).
London has been using The Knowledge for 150 years, it's a solved problem.
In fact, it probably does. Also, Gmail IMAP has an IMAP extension to allow using Gmail's full search syntax if desired (https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap_extensions).
$24 Bitcoin investment brings Norwegian man fortune
A lot of this rhymes with online dating, and for similar reasons. Asymmetric information, skewed ratios, the paradox of choice ... very similar dynamics.
Since Google dropped Jabber server federation, open XMPP are less useful.

And, for voice/video, getting them to work through NAT is a pain, while Skype JustWorks™. Plus, it is a really good solution: I can change my connection from WiFi to cable, and the video recovers within a few seconds.

That said, I'd love it if everyone ditched propietary solutions. But, unless you really care about privacy and freedom, it's a hard choice to make.
If you use VMware Player (and/or presumably Workstation) in "Unity" mode, you can alt-left drag to move and resize the virtualized-Windows-windows. Sometimes it gets a little wonky, but it works great 95% of the time.
Mail is buggy with Exchange as well.
I'd like to download the data for offline (non-internet connected) use, will it be made available under an open license or is there some complex contractual stuff preventing it?
> Correct me if I'm mistaken

Some corrections about the US:

- Abortion is legal as is birth control.

- A very few crazy people blame gay people for earthquakes but I'm sure such people exist everywhere.

- Very few people carry assault rifles around in public.

- Very few people believe the world is 6000 years old. Again, I'm sure such people exist everywhere.

Please, stop caricaturing.
To be fair, the osx 10.7.* and 10.8.* versions of Mail.app have been almost flawless for me.
5 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
Daily commute and coursera course completion relationship
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How so? "Classically liberal" is a way of differentiating oneself from the modern definition of liberal and is basically a friendly way of saying "libertarian" without invoking images of Glen Beck.
That's been the same for me in NYC, but the whole taxi setup in NYC feels very "high-security", with only a small window peering through a bullet-resistant barrier between the front and back seats. That makes it feel more like a limo, since the driver is in a quasi-armored compartment separate from you, and it doesn't really encourage a friendly chat. In most other parts of the world a taxi is just a regular car, without internal barriers.

Actually now I'm a bit unsure: what is the regional etiquette on whether a single passenger should sit in the back or the front? When I lived in LA, I usually just sat in front, which nobody ever complained about, but in retrospect maybe that was weird? It's definitely more conducive to smalltalk if you're in the front passenger seat, sitting next to the driver.
I could see a two-track system: Bonded postings that get counted in official statistics, and "informal" postings that amount to wishes. horses, etc.

Bonding agents would drive down the cost of binding to a pretty small amount and/or enable bonding requirements to rise so that it is prohibitive to lie about open positions.
When you are dealing with multiple systems and sub-systems, it's not so easy.
" Since 1982, between 40% and 50% of adults in the United States say they hold the creationist view that 'God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years'. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
IMO, most people hold the described political view of being leftie in social and rightie in economic questions.

If you said most HN readers, or most US-educated engineers from the coasts and/or elite universities, I would agree with you.

Most people in general? I have a hard time believing that.
Different NaCl. djb's NaCl is a crypto library. Google's NaCl is a "native code in the browser" component of Chrome/Chromium.

It's terribly confusing, especially since this article talks about both :)
Looks like a really well put together (and professionally presented) project from a young group. Very interesting.
Yeah, well, my auto shop told me they were going to send me a survey about my visit and that, "anything less than a 10 is failure," so don't discount gaming the stats on the provider end.
Hence the point.
India is going to Mars, but don’t call it a space race
But you're more than happy to accuse Apple of bugs you presume are still in Mail? You realize that exactly the type of reckless casual accusation that is to blame here.

Anecdotally, I use Apple's Mail.app for 5 different accounts containing over 50 GB of email without problems. Last problems I remember having were importing from Leopard to Snow Leopard – since then it's been smooth sailing. Admittedly, I use POP, not IMAP, so I'm not prone to the sort of bugs in the article.
Are you sure there is no backup, either a simpler computer or something else?
I appreciate it, and I have tried this many times. I've found that I just can't effectively do it without being able to focus on one job at a time. Each job would get less than half of me.
Originally by some of his European colleagues.
It's not just the Economist, but western politics generally suffers a from unidimensional "left to right" classifications of the vast, multidimensional world of political viewpoints. It's actually kind of off-putting to see people classified only as being "left" or "right" of others.

For instance, you can easily be in favor of personal liberty, and also want smaller government. Or you can be against abortion rights, and also want welfare programs for the poor. These things are in no way tied together by any philosophical reasoning.
This is one of those cases where the inadequacy of trying to describe our politics on a simple, single left-vs-right axis shines through so starkly. If we used a two-axis system, where one axis is economic and the other social, The Economist would (mostly) fall in the socially-liberal, economically-conservative quadrant.