skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and if you look at the http headers, every single one is apache, or apache tomcat.. ( when not akamai ).
where they really using node.js?
Interesting idea. I wonder what the result would be. How likely is it there are still good filters to be created.
If scratch resistance could be greater it would be very useful. My screen on my older phone has some deep scratches from keys in my pocket - something I now avoid - and hard labour. Smashing concrete, heavy lifting etc when you have a phone in your pocket is brutal on phones. Its a terrible environment for a phone, but I try to get stuff done even when on call. I have checked the screen on a builder I know too, and he has scratches too.
Nice in theory, just doesn't work in practice. There are two main problems with company or even divisional stacking:

One, inter-team comparative rankings are essentially meaningless. Imagine you have two teams of roughly equal competence. When asked to rank employees one manager is a bit of a soft touch and gives all his team members good-high rankings. The other is a bit honest and ranks most in the middle, with some low and some high. Some managers might be weak, others lazy, or may simply have a difference understanding of the rankings to other managers. The result is that the group people who get let go are arbitrarily determined by incomparable manager rankings - when you look at it this way, forcing every manager to fire their least effective employee is a blunt, but fairer approach. Of course if you have some magic formula to truly discover the bottom 10% of an entire company...maybe in a call center where everyone can be measured by calls/day...but in a software company what would you do? Measure people by KLOCs? That craziness ended in the 80s (except maybe in IBM). At the end of the day manager rankings (and perhaps peer rankings like MS) are all you have - and as they are essentially incomparable, what else can you do? If you have a better way, you should start a management consulting firm.

Two, when a company is engaging on a total staff reduction, it needs to spread the cuts otherwise it might see entire crucial areas and teams disappear. I think we can all agree here that sales/corporate/IT are generally far less effective employees than engineers, but a company can't just fire its entire sales division. That fact alone, by definition, implies that some more-competent staff will need to be fired while less-competent ones are kept, simply to maintain a necessary skill balance. Firing by team is an effective, if crude way to reach that goal.

I think this is one of those areas where you have to accept there are no easy answers, and the "least worst" solution is the best one.
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FWIW you can choose a one column layout. looks great on tablet/mobile but not so much on a 27" LCD.
You mean, just like the New York Times holds back articles that might offend the Administration; or when the Administration asks them to?
There's just not a lot redeeming about most "pick-up artist" type characters. They practice their craft by relying on automatic human behavior using borrowed stories, magic tricks, or flat-out lies to establish trust.

In my opinion, diluting a relationship down to scientific behaviors and applying that to your relationships is dehumanizing and disingenuous. I don't want to associate with people like that.
That's the attitude!

Personally, I just think it's an interesting story I bore people with at cocktail parties.

I think people who are inclined to "start the Onion" tend to do so anyway; he may have done it on the side, or in a slightly different manner, but he would have done something similar. I don't think I really had any direct affect on his life's fate or karma
Is my understanding of the technology correct that in the most basic sense what you are doing is creating normal maps, diffuse maps etc for a 3D plane?

This tool looks amazing and this will be my first time supporting a project via kickstater!
To be honest, your issue number one is basically how I think the site is supposed to work in the first place. It didn't take very long (even before the Digg influx) for the default subreddits to become just a sea of people where any discussions are both hard to have and difficult to read. However, the site gets infinitely better if you forego any of the default subreddits and you take the time to seek out all your areas of interest, and you cultivate a set of subreddits where the dialog matches your personal style and preferences. I think it's not a bad thing if the community segments, especially if a large portion of the overall community is not people you're interested in interacting with anyway...

I think Reddit has a huge longevity advantage over sites like the aforementioned Digg exactly because of the subreddits. You can consume as much or as little of the community as you want to and carve out an experience that suits your own tastes. With Digg, you either accepted the community as a whole, or you left...
Awesome, thank you for sharing! :)
You would be surprised. Some big companies are so broken that these processes are like a steamroller. If you're in management at one of these places, do not assume that because you are valuable and in a profit center you will be able to buck the trend. Better to just start looking for other opportunities now.

Large companies that use forced ranking: you will reap the fruits of your broken process after a few years.
Very nice, love the simplicity.

One thing I would tweak though: when you punch in the numbers for brightness and vignette (instead of using up/down), the effect doesn't take place until you click somewhere on the page. Would be nice to see it auto update as you write the values.
1.6 is the 5-th root of 10 rounded off. But the 5-th power of the golden ratio is very close to 11, not 10, because 11 is the 5-th Lucas number and L_n = φ^n + (-1/φ)^n.
Create histograms using only JavaScript and HTML5
This is Armenian Radio. Caller asks us, what is difference between capitalism and socialism? We reply, under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, it's just the opposite.
>Users are well known for
typing web addresses into any box
available.

OTOH, such users might not be aware that their Amazon searches are collected and data-mined.
Twitter joins the 1 percent; Killer IPO will drive San Francisco more insane
This whole "many people have the same name" thing is absolute garbage. using google search, i can't find a single reference to anybody else who has the same name as me. my name is unique. and yet i have to add a suffix anyways.

and my nickname is pretty unique, i know there's nobody else on google+ using it. and i have a page named 'notatoad', not that i use it for anything. but i have to put a suffix on that too.
Thank you.
The reason I put the resume in a shared text was to hide my name and identity.

For 1, I think it is a good idea, but I do not find the spot to put it. Also, should I write "legally authorized to work during semesters and vacations", or "F-1 Visa OPT/CPT work authorization"?

I did 3, 4, definitely should spend more time to do 2, 5, 6.
(All the items are very pertinent. Thank you.)
> The problem is that it's really, really hard to measure how good your employees are. It's even hard to define what a "good" employee is. Especially, perhaps, in a large company.

At a company level that is absolutely correct. I think it supports the notion of firing by team - if anyone can measure the worth of an employee, it is their direct line manager, who is responsible for giving them work and judging the timeliness and quality of the outcome. However, as this "measure" is essentially incomparable between teams, it can't be effectively extrapolated to form a company wide view of the "bottom 10%". Asking each manager to get rid of their least effective employee both spreads the cuts evenly across skill sets, while ensuring that the measure of employee worth is being made by the most qualified person to do so.

> I wonder how things would look if they went by seniority, and simply fired the last 10% to join

Well, like firing by team, it is just another arbitrary measure. But I think I would rather an arbitrary measure that at least tries to take into account employee worth rather than when they joined.
"According to federal agents, DPR paid an undercover agent to murder me"

How much credibility should one assign to Fed agents in such situations.
You know, IPv6...

I'm getting a false "Your email has been received and it doesn't leak your IP", due to the fact that the web site is only available using IPv4 while I'm connecting to my SMTP server over IPv6. As long as the website only captures IPv4 addresses it really might need to display an inconclusive result in the presence of IPv6 received headers.

Oh, and when the web site do become IPv6 reachable you probably will want to make an explicit attempt to also catch a potential IPv4 address, in the case situation above is the reverse.
I just tested this out of curiosity to see if it showed me anything else other than what I could already easily find out by myself via just sending myself an email and looking at the headers.

It doesn't. What's the purpose then? Is it for people that don't know how to interpret email headers and instead want a simple yes/no answer?
Isn't your email more likely to stay out of spam if it shows your real IP?
A related concept is the "Schelling point" (or focal point) in game theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
I grew up reading Richard Feynman, and was particularly impressed by his dislike for tipping (both giving and receiving), because it matched my thoughts on it.

He was from the US, and I don't think he was being an ass-hole.
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."

-Karl Popper (The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945))

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Nothing surprising. China has too much of financial muscle.
Some people here seem to be seriously confused by anti-SF FUD.

These ad-ware loaded installers are not the default. You have to explicitly opt-in. It provides SF and projects hosted there (a kinda shady) optional way to make money.

The FileZilla installer contains ad-ware because the FileZilla developers chose to add it. It is their attempt to make money. I use SF too but none of my projects come with ad-ware installers.

One should point out that bundling ad-ware is a common way developers of free (as in beer) software make money in the Windows world.. so SF has not cooked up some nefarious new scheme here.
This is a major reason to support NewsCorp, even for those of you whom are liberal Fox-haters. Murdoch has made no secret of his desire to stay as independent as possible this charade, and has made quite clear that he will avoid the Chinese market if that's what it takes.
Seriously, did you read any of the other comments on this thread?

Facebook: "If you select a username or similar identifier for your account or Page, we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe it is appropriate"

Twitter: "We reserve the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, to suspend or terminate users, and to reclaim usernames without liability to you."

Reddit: "Service Provider or third parties may charge you fees for products or services offered for sale through the Website, and/or for access to portions of the Website or the Website as a whole" AND "Provider may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, suspend or terminate the access of and take other action against users, subscribers, registrants and account holders"

Tumblr: "Tumblr reserves the right to refuse registration of, cancel, or modify a Tumblr URL in its sole discretion."

And finally, you don't need any "/u/0" after the domain name. See: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds
That must explain this: http://thingsfittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com/
That's not really the point is it? They said they couldn't give me a personalised URL unless I gave them my mobile number. Clearly I could have given them any number. It's the fact they're holding features to ransom that I find utterly disturbing.

Do no evil. Yeah right.
Could anyone point me to a resource that offers a high level explanation of how stuff like this 'works'? I'm happy to spend time parsing the source code but that won't tell me how/why you're able to intercept HTTP requests or w/e is happening. I just want to understand :'((

EDIT Looking for something more complete than a wiki article on ARP spoofing
There's always a bottom 10%. Always. Always. Always.
Yeah ya know, cause people who kill others for how they think, are great examples of Freedom of Thought. Think before you post, buddy.
But it sort of does imply that. Here's the reasoning -- There's a liquid market of a lot of shares trading hands at $40+. Anybody who bought a share at $26 knows he or she can sell today for $40+. To a first approximation, choosing not to sell at $40 has roughly the same effect as choosing to buy at $40. If the price is supported at $40+, that's at least very suggestive evidence that enough buyers could have been found at that price in the first place.
You're wrong.

Women aren't adults who can be held responsible for their own actions and decisions; they're vulnerable children who need to be protected at every turn.

If you (as a man) visit an Apple Store just to look around, and you walk out with a brand new laptop, you're a customer. You made a decision. Yes, Apple works very hard to maximize conversions, but you're an adult, and it's silly to shame and vilify Apple for "manipulating" a "vulnerable" man into buying their products.

However, if you (as a woman) choose to have sex with a man who reads tips about how to increase his chances of having sex, you're a vulnerable victim of manipulation. That mean, bad predator who took advantage of you needs to be shamed!

Western media is overflowing with tips for women to get what they want from men. And that's okay. :)

But if you're a man, don't you dare read tips about how to get what you want from women. That would be misogynist. You don't hate women, do you, mindcrime?
Facebook Grand Strategy
> But the book never stated that the pussy flow was blocked in Denmark, just that there was low quality, masculine pussy.

He sure isn't helping his case. All of the random claims of "socialism" and "left-leaning" don't help, either.

In fact, none of his clarifications actually prove she misquoted him, and each time he quoted his book in that post, it fit exactly with the original review.

From his language (referring to women as "the pussy" instead of as, you know, actual people) to his extreme generalizations of women and cultures, it's apparent the original review was spot-on for both Roosh's book and PUA culture in general.
Excision removes the data.

In other words, you can remember that you forgot, but you can't remember what you forgot.

http://blog.datomic.com/2013/05/excision.html

What you're describing is plain ol retraction. If you retract your credit card number, then someone can just surf back in time to grab it. That's why you'd excise it.
Thats a shame.
The guy is a grade-a warmonger, with a stated mission of shaping public opinion to reach specific political ends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9HpuZm6-g. There is absolutely no reason to support him or NewsCorp. They've already ruined one journal (the WSJ), let's hope they don't grow more. Use adblock when visiting any NewsCorp website please.
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't get it. Why is it a problem whether email leaks IP addresses?

After all, anytime I visit a web site I "leak" my IP address. Is that also a problem?
"In most firms, the top 10% at a given level outperforms the bottom 10% at the level above them." This is a really key point.

This dovetails with another fact of corporate life: over time, the median performance of any level degrades to the worst performer at that level. "I deserve to be promoted to VP. Look at Joe the VP, I'm obviously better than he is."

Any company that isn't regularly clearing out the bottom 10% is fooling itself about both its hiring competence and its management skills.

Any employee who can't get judged to be in the upper 90% of any organization isn't nearly as good as he/she thinks.
Updating to the latest version of chrome fixed this for me as well! Obviously should have been the first thing I tried
MariaDB incorporates Percona XtraDB.
Ask HN: Please evaluate my weekend project - tweets archival service
As you might know, the tweets you can find out today might be not available tomorrow or few days later, so I am building a service to archive tweets for you, as best as I can.

After one year, I still like this idea. So I will implement it this weekend.

Original tweet:
https://twitter.com/wanghq/status/267842185167253505
Mockup:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A7eRDF8CMAAoVqa.png:large
Well you're not the only person in the world. Some people need privacy, some people want privacy, and some don't care because they don't need or want it, and most people don't even know about it.
Clickable links:
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/wanghq/status/267842185167253505 Mockup: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A7eRDF8CMAAoVqa.png:large
Zap.com: Fish protein producer/Internet portal [1998]
Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
That is pretty much correct, except we are creating normal maps, depth maps, and ambient occlusion maps (and anisotropy maps but I haven't talked much about that yet). The diffuse map is something the artist will have to paint.

And, thanks!
The Epicurean Dealmaker wrote a fantastic post a while back, and I will endorse but not repeat his entirely correct explanation of why IPOs are supposed to price at a discount; just go read it.

http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2013/09/go-ask-alice....
It's all about the linking of one thing to another.

If you browse news.ycombinator.com without ever registering, a site admin viewing access logs doesn't really have any frame of reference for the IP address. It's just a random visitor. They could also see your browser and OS, but that is not even remotely unique or descriptive about you as a person.

On the other hand, if you sign up with a personal e-mail address, a site admin could realize that some "5.5.5.5" IP making unusual requests is also "john.smith@gmail.com", and infer further things about you based on that.

The same goes for if your emails are leaking your IP address unbeknownst to you. So, for example, someone you are emailing will be able to quickly know your country, region, and potentially your city; you may or may not desire that. If you attend a university or are working at a company's premises, they will know what university or what company. If you sent the email from a coffee shop, they will know the shop's company's name and a rough location, and could infer the precise location based on that.

For a personal email like "jim@mit.edu", this isn't a concern, but if you perhaps have an email you use when you want to remain anonymous or semi-anonymous on the internet, often you won't want that kind of information disclosed.

And from a security perspective: if you are hosting some kind of a server from that IP address, it could be scanned or attacked. And whether you are hosting anything or not, the email recipient could try to launch a DDoS attack against you (typically in the form of pure bandwidth saturation).
Sounds good to me; it seems quite believable that major investment banks would use their positions as trusted advisors to encourage IPO'ing companies to use strategies that benefit the bank. That's what happens you use interested parties as your experts.

The press also seems to cover the stock market mostly as a casino, not as a money-raising or social capital-allocation mechanism. So stock rises==good, drops==bad. So the FB IPO "failed," even though the so-called failure mode actually raised Facebook more cash to expand its business than most alternative outcomes would've.
Drudgereport.com, generally a hawkish site, is accessible in China, Nytimes is not. In fact, no conservative websites are blocked.
I don't understand what you're asking. The IPOing company cares about the pop because if it is big, it means they could have gone at a higher price and pocketed more cash. The "optimal" pop is probably around 10-30% given that pricing is difficult and you want to make sure there's a bit of a rise.

Auctions sound good in theory but don't work very well (see Google). You generally want some banks selling the crud out of the offering and committing to the company.
You're making an emotional argument. Let me try. Why are you condemning the single mother whose job has no access to mass transit and who can't afford to live within walking distance, who therefore has to drive a death trap and endanger her life and the lives of her children?

The problem is that we have limited resources. We can't save everyone. And making emotional arguments gets in the way of doing the most good. Why is it better to spend money on nurses to change the bed pans of the mentally ill than to spend it giving opportunities to those who want to go to medical school, who may one day ultimately cure them?
I really want to believe that I will have much better chance if I present it well. I am revising my resume according to the advice given here.

I think it was an excellent choice to change the title from researcher to research programmer.

I have heard database is important, and studying it is now one of the things I am planning to do during the winter. Thanks for the advice. I will get a certificate in either database or system, but after I start working as an intern. The reason is that I need to practice more algorithm to do well on the interview and putting more time developing something or doing coding competition will be more helpful.

Instead of going to meetups/hackathons in my area(I already missed hackathon and I did not find any tech group in meetup in my area that I can go without a car), what do you think of the option of going to Silicon Valley during the winter, taking the expensive cost into account?

Thank you so much for spending your time to give valuable advice.
Except that essay doesn't tell you how to actually make a pencil... it tells you how to make a market where the components of a pencil could be bought.

I think it would be more interesting (well, unless you're an economist) to describe the composition of the various parts of the pencil, how they are formed, and ultimately how the pencil is physically manufactured.

Then again, I also like watching How It's Made.
I don't get these articles. Using Facebook as an example is terrible! Just because Facebook didn't go up on its first day as much as twitter did doesn't mean they left money on the table.

Twitter IPOd at a much much higher price than those traded on private markets before the IPO. Facebook on the other hand went to almost the same price as on private markets. [1]
I don't see "rights for cockroaches" picking up mass support.

This is an animal we purposefully kill by the thousands upon thousands just because they're annoying.