skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubtful. Mozilla has repeatedly gone out of their way to ensure that their services aren't strictly reliant on a centralized source. Firefox Sync allows you to set up your own sync server. Persona allows you to set up your own authentication server. Firefox OS allows you to set up your own first-class app store. Locking down Firefox add-ons in the same manner as Chrome would be highly out-of-character.
I genuinely had no idea Slackware was still going!

Slackware and Debian were my first Linux experiments in the 90's after spending a few years with commercial UNIX. Debian stuck in the end but was replaced with FreeBSD after a couple of years.
Good points. Replication is certainly not painless to setup, and I've had trouble with continuous mode simply failing. I'm sure those warts will be worked out though.

Lucene and Elastic Search go a long way, it is just one more service to configure and maintain. Thats been an annoyance for me. If Lucene could be built right into couchdb that would be a major improvement.

However, that still doesn't let me cherry pick the values I want from a document. When the app is in a dynamic language, the cost of deserialization can add up.

Building some kind of xpath expressions to pull out specific parts of the doc would free up developers from spending as much time writing views, and would likely be much more performant to have that operation take place server-side. Maybe that should be an Elastic Search feature though and not Couch.
People who are more experienced should also able to understand their audience and explain their objections in ways the other person will understand, even if it's just "The last time we did this the business lost $x. Can you explain to me how the situation is different this time?"
One page is more than enough. It's important to remember the purpose of a resume.

The purpose of a resume is not to get you a job. The purpose of a resume is to get you an interview.

To expand on that, as I was once told by a helpful professor, "The purpose of a cover letter is to get them to read your resume. The purpose of your resume is to get an interview. Finally, it is the responsibility of your interview to get you the job."

You will never write a resume so good the interview will just be a formality so stop trying. Focus your resume on exactly what it needs to be to get you that interview. And that should be a single page of beautiful, focused, catered content.
This makes me recall the huge deal one of my advisors at University made of little rules at interview lunches. She insisted that we never dare put salt and pepper on our food before tasting it - because interviewers would be watching to see if we were willing to try new things. What utter garbage. When I go over a resume or interview someone, I'm just doing a candidate assessment of their experience and work ethic. If that's 1 page or 3, or if they assume they like their food salty, I don't really care. I think the article itself gives some good suggestions, but when I come across comments about a page being a hard limit I just don't understand it. I assume I would never want to work for people who judge on such arbitrary and irrelevant criteria - but they seem to be so numerous, I must have already worked for some of them without realizing it...
OSX has seatbelts[1], which is similar to jails. They are just clunky and not documented. Chrome uses them for sandboxing browser processes[2].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

[2] http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox/...
Ain't nothing wrong with being a hippie when you're right.
4 ways how Twitter can keep growing
Japan rejoices.
I think you are close to the mark. There are ways to work in Java/JSP environment that is pretty quick cycle time. But I will say that our experience at PayPal is the code is more terse, less files, npm so much better than maven for managing dependencies, coupled with the fact that our javascript templating allows portability between server & client.

The Shift-Refresh style of programming is hard to overstate how much that creates a different mindset.

And to my point in the talk, the blending of prototyping and production tech stacks is also huge for being able to quickly iterate with users.
It's not your specific opinion here that amuses me, but that there is certainly an anti-twitter-ipo vibe here. Across several stories. I've been a regular here for 5 years or so and I've seen many IPOs come and go and few have been treated with this level of derision.

You're obviously entitled to your own opinion, and certainly IPOs carry much risk. That "insiders" get made liquid is not, IMO, one of them. Somebody who invested in GOOG on day one would've made over 10x on their money today. Somebody who did the same in ZNGA would not. It's obviously very risky, with potential for commensurate reward.

I'm not sure why you think the markets have "failed to deliver the economic growth" over the last 15 years, or that it's somehow their job to "deliver" economic growth. I think us "little guys" who have invested in the market in that time have done very well on balance.

I'm not one for long back and forths, so feel free to have the last word if you'd like it. I replied initially because I'm very much turned-off by the save-people-from-themselves philosophy.

You quoted Buffet, I'll quote Jesse Livermore:
"t was never my thinking that made the big money for me, it always was sitting."

If you think the "little guy" is screwed over by the "big guy", become a buy-and-hold investor. There's little way to be screwed there. Spread your bets out--diversify--and buy and hold. When it comes to trying to time the market or play ER or day trade, you're right, it's hard for a retail investor to make a buck. So buy and hold and let the stock market help you accumulate wealth the way it's done reliably for over a hundred years.
The agents.
Artist dates herself: Self-portraits show woman as male and female
If you start giving them action items based on their objections it changes the value equation for a socio-path.

TG: Which of the previous interns?

NC: Unclear, go find a list of all questions asked by all interns and rank them by frequency. Normalize the list where the most questions is rank 10 and the least rank 1. Then place the new guy on that scale. Let's have that done by Friday, kay?
Asset price inflation is not consumer price inflation. The average person is not seeing any significant level of consumer price inflation.
I kinda expected you to correct me. You can't help yourself can you. :) And that is a good thing. Thanks!

Sorry I was not trying to give the entire recipe for password handling. I was assuming a KDF with lots of iterations. But perhaps you could clear up one thing:

Assuming proper implementation (I know a big assumption) how is bcrypt better than PBKDF2 with lots of iterations using a good hash and salt? At some bcrypt cost and PBKDF2 iteration count wouldn't they be equally secure?
The idea is that the browser would only accept signed certificates, and only those certificates which the signing authority has not revoked. So long as the signing authority is in a trusted list, the user would see no Yes/No option at all. It would simply install, or be rejected outright with an explanation of why.

It would be like limiting web browsing to HTTPS only, except you would not be given the option to click through for unsigned certificates.
http://www.fdic.gov/about/srac/2012/gsifi.pdf

Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions.

"...An efficient path for returning the sound operations of the G-SIFI to the private sector would be provided by exchanging or converting a sufficient amount of the unsecured debt from the original creditors of the failed company [meaning the depositors] into equity [or stock]. In the U.S., the new equity would become capital in one or more newly formed operating entities...the highest layer of surviving bailed-in creditors would become the owners of the resolved firm. In either country, the new equity holders would take on the corresponding risk of being shareholders in a financial institution."

===> Sounds like what happened in Cyprus. They got stock in return for the haircut. No exception is indicated for "insured deposits" in the U.S.

Bloomberg: "...Bank of America’s holding company...held almost $75 trillion of derivatives at the end of June..."

===> I don't know where you get your news, but I'm willing to bet that the sources you trust are not going to be talking about this until your haircut is complete. And when they do, they will probably blame it on "deregulation."
Archive is cmd-ctrl-a
Hunh? I've had an archive option in OS X Mail since (I think) 10.8. Message->Archive. Or Command-control-A. Or there's also a toolbar button to do it (you may need to customize to get it, though, I don't recall if it's there by default).
I took the alternative approach of auto-generating my resume from my code https://plus.google.com/104659641866805928410/posts/UeNDaZhE...
Google "Judy Miller."
Personally I've been trying out AirMail for quite a few versions already, but I always go back to Sparrow. Sparrow seems more mature and faster for daily use.
I think the kind of thing you are doing is the sweet spot for couch. Perhaps over time it will be less so, but I now I think it is pretty unique.
F#'s design was almost completely handled by Don Syme, in MS Research Cambridge. It is highly unlikely some PM jumped in and insisted it must do things.

The OOP part is rather coherent; I'm not sure what's bolted on - any examples? In fact, things like object expressions do parts of OOP even better than Java/C#. Overall the syntax for OOP is rather concise and neat.

Having proper interop with .NET and hence the OOP is ... pretty key to making a successful .NET language. Otherwise you lose one major point of being able to use .NET libraries.
I can assure you that I had to attack multiple fronts. Process is a big part of it (I brought in LeanUX methodology), but I can tell you (and painfully so) that if we had not changed the technology we would not be moving at anywhere near the speed we can now.

Mind you that what you see on the PayPal sites is not all updated. This is a testament to just how deep the technical stack has been.

Other colleagues have been attacking the services layer and they are doing just as much change in that layer as my team has done on the app/frontend layer.
Ask HN: What are some clever/unique ways websites have used CONTESTS for promo?
Past or present. Just wanna look over what's been done before, and/or snatch up some ideas. Thanks.
eh... a little that-guy, you're being.
Not necessarily, if the materials are chosen well you could recycle them. Not necessarily an improvement in terms of total energy use but worth evaluating.
The problem is that IMAP is a crappy protocol. How do you layer tags onto a protocol where that was never envisioned? Where a basic function "move between folders" is an extension and not in the original protocol? IMAP doesn't even guarantee that message IDs are consistent between mailbox listings! (there's a great rant about how terrible both IMAP and all the IMAP servers out there are, can't remember by whom)

I'm just glad Google still support IMAP at all instead of going fully proprietary protocol like they have with calendars, where they gave up on iCal.
Not abrasive - seemed like a fair comment to me.

When you read enough resumes, you'll notice these problems of redundancy and spacing issues. Seeing a document that is long just gives that immediate negative impression that is sometimes hard to overcome, just as you might get if you were reviewing code that seems verbose - it doesn't mean that the code is always horrible, but you can probably determine that some of it is at least unnecessary to perform the task at hand.

I don't immediately dismiss any resumes, but some do. I rarely get one page resumes, but when I do it tends to be a strong candidate - I'd be lying if I didn't notice a correlation between interview success and resume length, at least for candidates of similar career levels.

As I said, resume length just seems to create an immediate negative. 1 or 2 pages doesn't create that feeling, and even 3 can be tolerated. You'd probably be astonished at how many 5 page resumes I get from people with 2 or 3 years of overall industry experience.
While I'm aware of this phenomenon, I fear we will have a new meme I'm our already deafening echo chamber. :(
Is Hungarian notation a workaround for insufficient type systems? (2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic
In that case, the most of continental Europe is "that guy" to most of the US.
One example that comes to my mind is when author Philip Roth attempted to clarify the inspiration for his book The Human Stain. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-...

The wikipedia entry for The Human Stain now contains a reference to the controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Stain#Anatole_Broyard...
I'm primarily using Postbox with Gmail IMAP (http://postbox-inc.com) - full featured and a bit nicer than Thunderbird. I loved Sparrow but found it wasn't powerful enough for multiple business accounts. Search could be a bit nicer as I tend to keep a gmail window open as I often need to reference older emails.
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But the guy above you heard that they are a liberal media organization, and a conservative media organization said that, so it must be true that the NYT are a bunch of pinko liberal hippies.
That, she is. And also stubborn, and short-tempered.
I'd actually prefer Germany, since data privacy is a law there and not spying.
Everyone might like a challenge every now and then so I wish the author best of luck challenging himself to live without using Google services and have more control over his digital life, but the center point of the post shows a big misunderstanding:

> Yes, I may have ticked the box saying “I have read the terms and conditions” [...]. However what I did not (at least intentionally) sign up for was for a large corporation to collect information on my every day life, my interactions, habits, preferences and so on.

That is exactly what one signs up for by accepting those terms and conditions. Like any other legal agreement, it is not possible to accept those "unintentionally". Even if an "agreeable cat" accepts to be tricked to check that box for you!
No, the characterization borders on reality. Reality is absurd; I'll give you that.
How can a newspaper support anything?

Isn't it a number of different journalists, all with different opinions?
They have been more statist than partisan in the recent past. The NYT editorial board is most consistent in its advocacy for additional powers being granted to the federal government.

You might say it is a mouthpiece for the government, but not the political administration; NYT tends to favor the administrative bureaucracy.
The Cerny Method sounds remarkably like the Lean Startup Method, but apparently pre-dates it quite significantly.
The original article says they will continue to support "installs via Enterprise policy", whatever that means exactly.
Original NYT editorial

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/opinion/a-pacific-trade-de...

To summarize: a good trade pact would be good.
This is the problem. We're about to have a pretty annoying meme that can be used endlessly, just like the "guy" forever asking "why."
You raise a great point. Another big challenge we have had is re-educating developers. This has been helped by finding the really sharp engineers internally and hiring new engineers that bring in the right DNA.

I think we are getting to a tipping point, but it is a lot of work obviously.

Technology is not a silver bullet. Nor process. At the end of the day it is about your people. Technology & process can set them free.
Huh.

There's definitely a strong culture of having longer resumes in Australia - my original resume was 3-4 pages long, which I whittled down to 2 when I moved to the US (and could easily get down to 1 now). I think it's a waste of time though, no one actually reads through all that stuff when it's that long. If people need further detail after seeing a one page summary they can ask.

But obviously you just have to deal with whatever people expect. I wonder if the agents are right though, or if it's just what they're used to? I've only ever hired in Australia, only applied for one job while I was there, so I don't have no first hand knowledge of applying for jobs with a shorter resume. I know I definitely appreciated the shorter resumes when I had to look through them though.
>>Details matter, sometimes by a great deal.

Yep. Just because you can't see the consequences of the objections being raised does not necessarily mean they are inconsequential objections.
That is a key point--that no system can ever be secure as long as the host has some way of intercepting messages. The fact is that no matter how secure Levison makes the system, there will always be some way he could intercept messages if he really wanted to, even if it meant modifying the code a bit. And if he can do it, the feds can compel him to do it.
If anyone is interested in the off-hand claim made in the article about ISRO being one of the few organizations to return a satellite to Earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Capsule_Recovery_Experime...

SRE-1 was launched and landed in Jan 2007. It was a small sat with aeroshell and parachute for reentry, with water splashdown.

Reentry has been done by: NASA, ESA, Russia, India, China, Japan, and SpaceX. Reentry is mostly for manned spaceflight, which was the driver behind the SRE mission. ISRO has ambitions in this direction, though the manned program seems to be on the back burner now.

(There are other uses for re-entry: planetary exploration and sample return, mostly. But getting to other planets or getting samples from somewhere interesting tends to be pretty hard. Older spy sats used to re-enter their data payloads, but that's not needed anymore.)
The real reason for flagging is not the supposed criticism, but the level of bias and falsehood in the article.

^^^That has to be a joke.

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"For consumers concerned about fire risk, there should be absolutely zero doubt that it is safer to power a car with a battery than a large tank of highly flammable liquid," Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on a company blog in early October.

The greates example of "the level of bias and falsehood in the article" seems to be this gem. The rest of the posted article is just a news report on the existence of a fire with a link to a picture.[1]

[1] compare: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-28/tesla-says-model-s-... The CNET guy is not guilty of selectively reading safety reports and pushing misleading stats to the public. That language was a quote from Tesla...
Not "certainly." We had an IPO where I work in 2012. People hired very recently before the IPO had a strike price near the offering price.

Moreover, there is a mental dynamic when recruiting. A steadily appreciating stock is a helluva recruiting tool.
The first thing I thought of is, even in a hypothetical world without a Clear() method or any means of adding one, why use a for loop instead of a while loop? And if you are set on a for loop, why not simply set the first count to a variable? It is bad on multiple levels.
I never want a full 'traditional' cover letter as they always tend to be stiff due to the format ("Dear Hiring Manager" and formality), but I'd like a few sentences with the resume submission that say why you are interested in the job, what caught your eye, and maybe a couple sentences on why you think you'd be a fit.
Didn't you ever read Spiderman comics? "To whom much is given, much is expected" -- Uncle Ben
> roamed by amalgamations of insufferable, biased, and often incorrect pedants and paid PR shills

Everyone on the internet is an insufferable, biased, and often incorrect pedant according to at least one other person. Do you think you're the exception?
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Six Questions that Simplify a Complex Age
Child safety in the land of apps
This sounds interesting. If possible, please share an outline of your resume.
This is complete and total bullshit. The NYT did not endorse anything. The editorial in question is here (following the link from the EFF page, lest I be accused of misdirecting people): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/opinion/a-pacific-trade-de...

It discusses the fact of the ongoing negotiations, mentions a variety of potential difficulties, and concludes by defining what it (the NYT board) considers to be the elements of a good agreement.

I'm generally a fan of the EFF but this article is ludicrous scaremongering. How the EFF spun this into an uncritical endorsement and thought it was appropriate to throw around insinuations of 'extraordinary cowardice' absent any evidence whatsoever. Essentially, the EFF is attacking the idea that there even could be such a thing as a good trade deal, equating the NYT's effort to articulate what that would be with an uncritical endorsement. It's fundamentally dishonest and has seriously lowered my opinion of the EFF.
The Netflix prize was a competition for $1M to improve their recommendation algorithm. Check out ChallengePost to see current competitions offered by companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

http://challengepost.com/
I implemented this a while back but considerably more efficiently. I wrote a DNS forwarder that adds the resolved IPs to an ipset. The kernel implements this as a hash table, so lookups are quick. The approach of this project does not scale well.

http://git.zx2c4.com/ipset-dns/about/

I wasn't satisfied with it being standalone and having to forward things to my real resolver, so I went ahead and wrote a patch for DNSMasq that got accepted:

http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/201...

So in your dnsmasq config, just add:

ipset=/whatever.com/myipset

And then you can do the ordinary matches in iptables to adjust packets as you please, using fwmarks if you need to affect routing.

Both tools are included in OpenWRT now as well, if you want to run it on a device.
Maybe Google can offer a new standard? POP & IMAP are pretty ancient protocols so I can see why they may have to introduce protocol modifications.
Can anyone explain why Microsoft is persisting with IE as a separate engine rather than taking Chromium or Firefox and applying IE branding to them?
PS4 is just a PC stuck in one configuration, linked to a popular delivery system.

I don't get what the hype is about.

Yes, it's a pretty good configuration at a reasonable price. But that will only be the case for a few months. PCs will catch up very quickly and will become cheaper, and then much cheaper.

As somebody who loves games, I don't see a reason to buy PS4. I'd rather spend a bit more on a PC, and then upgrade it as I go.

The positive thing I see is the PS4 <-> PC game portability. No longer developers need to have to very different engines and codebases. That's why PS4 is a much better option than XBox One in my eyes.
There isn't one, but only a small percentage of the outraged readers will have bothered to click through and discover this for themselves.
IE 11 adds a pain for developers who now need to support IE 7,8,9,10,11 and quirks modes (see http://habrahabr.ru/post/201172/, use google translate if you don't understand Russian). The basic premise is that all those IE versions use different engines, with different bugs and supported features/workarounds.