skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think the issue is about what Github "cares" about, you missed the point entirely.

The point is that those who have the free time and opportunity to contribute to OSS projects are more likely to be of some means. Given the economic realities of this country, those with some means are statistically speaking far more likely to be white males than anything else (which is confirmed by the data).

The conversation that has been occurring recently is about how having a Github profile is now becoming a de-facto must-have because hiring managers are increasingly seeing it as a shortcut filter.

It's great that you would hire someone based on code put up anywhere on the net, but that's not what people are commenting about. People are saying that Github should not become mandatory, for many reasons, among them because you're limiting your pool of candidates to those with some means.
The Relationship Between Promotion and Performance: Pageviews Above Replacement
JS1K was fun.

have a look at my entry: http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1430

which is a stripped down version of this:
http://jsexperiments.herokuapp.com/sph/
Dude should've brought a condom.
I guess this a testament to the power of source code translation, but it's a very impractical hack overall.
I use Dropbox as a glorified email attachment sharing system without installing the desktop client; this is perfect for me because there is no way in the web interface to find large files.
yeah, my thought process had some pretty complicated failure systems. The thing is, with magnetic suspension, you can "catch" the thing using it's own energy. With a good and fast enough controller, you could catch the thing where it is and flood the tube with air to slow it down. since all you're doing is dissipating energy, you can use it to soften the crash.

In terms of energy density, you can just *keep increasing the speed can't you?
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A storage power plant on the seabed
You're an asshole.

Correction: you're a rich asshole.
Heh this is awesome. Anything that avoids a round-trip to server usually is much easier to implement quickly in admin forms that use PaaS app servers...
I will add a better metric than simply the stars this week end. Do you think of something you really want to have for a metric?
I don't think most of us are capable of committing tortuous infringement at a level to make it comparable with Google. Nor are we capable of extracting the value in that to make it financially profitable to do.

Personally I'd rather the law be altered explicitly rather than allowing ad-hoc alterations to accommodate massive corporations.
There are also plenty of cards that use DDR3, without the G. GDDR5-using cards are much faster than them.
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Show HN: Make your single page app crawlable by Google with a simple redirect.
Nails every OkCupid cliche.

Not HN material though.
I have no idea what that means...

I do. My wife got two tablets yesterday: an iPad rMini (upgrade from iPad 1, thanks Target for the $200 trade-in), and a Kindle (thanks Amazon for the limited-release offer) for $29. Purpose? about the same as a magazine: light reading, news, advertising. Considering that magazines today run a newsstand price of about $5, yeah we're on a trajectory for selling tablets dirt-cheap as dedicated disposable pre-packaged content viewers.
Anecdote here. I feel the same: when I had a job that was 30% coding, I did personal coding on the side. Now that I have a job that is 90% coding, I don't. I only have so much energy for coding, and by the time I get home, although I still have fun ideas that I'd like to do, I just don't have the energy to start writing anymore code. If I forced myself to code continuously, the overall quality of all my code would drop a lot. It's fun, yes, but it's also just too mentally taxing.

I recognize if I was planning to go on the market, though, I'd need to force myself to write some "on the side" code so I'd have a recent portfolio to show. I think it's just part of the expectation, the same way I would have to take time to write cover letters, etc.
And it seems to work even better submerged:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-storage-power-seabed.html
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> I think that's GDDR5 which is something different (and roughly comparable to [edit: DDR3]).

GDDR5 is based on DDR3, but I wouldn't call it comparable to it. It has a completely redesigned physical interface, with a lot of cool innovations and ideas that make it faster and better. Some of those innovations return to the main memory types with DDR4.
Recruiter here. I've seen GitHub used in interviews where the interviewer may look at the code before the interview, and then bring up the repo during the interview to discuss it. This is usually to challenge why certain decisions were made, what could have been done differently, etc.

It isn't much different than how a conversation would go after a live coding exercise to review the work, with the exception that the candidate in the case of a prior GitHub work will have had the advantage to clean things up and perhaps has gone through several iterations already.
this must truly be for the public good. I doubt Google can profit off the data from millions of books of well-written, gramatically correct writers of the english language.
Once Taiwan and Korea got rich and developed enough, they both ditched their dictatorships. I think the same thing will happen in China; it's just taking awhile because the country is huge.
it could also rain in your pond and give you free energy.
Which means time.
The solution would involve some kind of communication and perhaps a way of electing a 'leader'. I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible...
> US security officials demand that their bosses - not just the president, but members of Congress, diplomats, policymakers and military officers - take such precautions when travelling abroad because it is widely acknowledged that their hosts often have no qualms about snooping on their guests.

“No qualms” indeed.
Can we expect an integration with HipChat/Campfire for notifications ?
There's a lot of art out there.
Drastic performance difference due to branch prediction.
Is that Matt of Haraka fame?
When you say 'Screening based on a GitHub account', I think it's important to differentiate whether we are screening out those that don't have activity or moving those that do to the front of the line. There is a difference, and I think that difference is somewhat key to the author's article.
Would you fly in every random person you date? You don't even know you like her?

They would have to be way past the dating stage before I would consider flying them in even if it's free.

Women are known to go on dates with guys they don't like just because hey they get a free meal. So the best way to find out if she actually is interested in you and not the perks is by not giving them out in the beginning.

If they're a girlfriend or just a friend with benefits that's different.
Yea I feel you on that but on Heroku I feel like "Every service I add is a per dyno credit card charge that is about to be multiplied by the number of hours in a month". :(

I prefer the Amazon model because you can stick these all on one server & as long as CPU isn't pegged at 100% you're good. I agree tho I'd rather not spend the time figuring it out. For now I only use it for RDS & for services not available on Heroku (some Adobe streaming server stuff).
This post is horribly misguided to the point of being malicious.

Nobody is using Github as their only hiring filter.

On the other hand, Github is just about the best generic indicator of useful contributions of a coder back to society: visible code that someone else found useful. If someone wants to provide whomever is interested with more custom evidence of their work, that's great, and there is a way to link to your homepage for that. But Github stats do not lie, and the constrained profile format is a feature, not a bug.
Thank you for that link. I was one of the 160,000+ students in Sebastian and Peter's AI class, and it was a blast. It motivated me to sign up for natural language processing at Coursera, another really fun class. The start of the NLP class was delayed, during which time I ended up taking Sebastian's robotic car class, so I'm somewhat familiar by now with his style and personality.

Maybe it's my perspective as a largely self-taught professional, but I always saw Udacity, Coursera, and others simply as continuing education. It was a little strange to see all of the coverage they've gotten as disruptive, threatening to upend higher education. Sebastian fed into this when he gave up tenure at Stanford. He's a type-A personality, a rock star. He can make you an expert in Bayesian probability in one week, write a particle filter "in just five lines of C code!", and truly believes that "now you too can program a robotic car!"

The magic of Udacity was that it bridged the gap between self study and filling a seat in a classroom. Besides the skillfully edited videos, there was value in the grades and the deadlines (in part because it kept the discussion forums in sync), and I think it was a mistake to make all of the classes self paced. Peter said in an interview, "In our online class, we give deadlines. Because if you can watch a lecture online anytime, you can watch it ... tomorrow." The paid enrollment is partly about making money, of course, but it's also about restoring a bit of the external motivation that grades and deadlines used to provide.
I actually would like this if the caller put in an 'offer' of the amount of time (not mandatory 15s, or hangup...just a guestimate). But, I probably only use/like this if it was available without a separate app.
I second that, it is one thing to actively look to enter a conversation but one must be prepared to politely move one. Time is valuable and knowing when/how to exit is an important part of any effective strategy.
There's a TED talk about a Plumber fixing his own Heart (Aorta)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-qHrhrTktc
Pump mercury [or a safer dense liquid]?

If you still want a weight system then have a vessel as a weight and fill/empty it at the top/bottom of the drop and use a counterweight to return the vessel. Then you only need a small pump instead.
Seriously, give me a link to a store and I'll buy one. Temporal's design is remarkably similar to what I had sketched out in my head.

Then, I can hook up whatever weird renewable stuff I can find/build and spread the usage out.
His theory is based in the premise that most GitHub (and FOSS) contributions are made by hobbyists in their free time. This is a common misconception of the FOSS economy.

Open source is not about donation, it is about cooperation and cooperation makes economical sense for a lot of business. Yes, there are the free-riders, but they are the copycats, we are the ones setting the pace.

Startups tend to be pushing the envelope, people from all genders from all over the world are being PAID to fix bugs and implement new features during the business hours, not over weekends. I do, I'm Brazilian and not white by north American standards, so this whole "github bias" thing is BS based on a naive assumption.
So many ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BjrHpZwRFo
There are tons of exciting features for My Yoga Pro (http://bit.ly/1hLlIDp)! I can't wait to get started and challenge myself. I'm really looking forward to being able to measure how far I've come!!!
Even though you're kidding...

1. 30 seconds would give you enough time for a bit of back and forth, while still being refreshingly brief.

1.1 Or, make it just under a minute, as you'd otherwise be throwing away the fraction of the minute not used.

2. Block the caller from calling again for x minutes, set by the receiver.
China Announces Change To One-Child Policy
I found it interesting that the OA OA concluded that it biased to white men. I concluded something a little different.

I concluded it biases to: folks who most have the free time and the mindset and the kind of desperateness to be doing it. Or income-increasing ambition. (Like the kind that's strongest when you're unemployed or under-employed.) Therefore, it biases (again, only statistically) to young males around college or high school age. Most likely living in their parent's house, or in a dorm, or perhaps out in their own place but without a spouse, kids, sick family members, or any significant hobbies other than computers. And without a long established work history "out in the real world" and thus lots of fellow coworkers/clients/managers to help keep them fully employed out in that pesky meatspace. And I'm not saying this is a bad thing necessarily. Or that this pattern is universal and without exception. I'm just saying this is the pattern I see in the majority of cases. I didn't sense any inherent pro-white bias, or something pro-male. With avatar icons and code commits and pull requests the Internet truly doesn't know or care whether you're a dog. (Only whether you're a smart enough dog that can interact and deliver.) It was just pro-... a certain set of qualities. If a certain demographic is more likely to have those qualities, then, that demographic will be disproportionately present and active there on GitHub. It's not a conspiracy, just the physics and economics of it.

And there's nothing necessarily wrong with it. But it's important to realize it's at play. And to neither blindly assume that anyone without a GitHub presence, or an active one, or large one, is somehow incompetent/unqualified at software engineering. Or that everybody active on GitHub is a young white male in their parent's basement. Instead, treat each person as an individual. And realize that the entire world hasn't fully converted over to your wonderful new "rule of thumb" about hiring. Yet. And perhaps never will. And that too is not necessarily a bad thing.
A lot of the big distros have transitioned to MariaDB already (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad...). Debian probably will soon as well, which will trickle down into Ubuntu probably.

I think there's plenty of room outside Oracle if they were to ever shut down MySQL. I moved to MariaDB, and it really was a drop-in replacement.
Apple Bumps Coinbase’s Bitcoin App From The App Store, Android App Lives On
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I like it. Almost all the Candy Crush players I know set their clocks forward to instantly get more lives though.
I don't know about that, I think anything conversation-starting and interesting belongs on HN. They did 'hack' the traditional method of traveling by ditching all their 'things' and not having any reservations or plans. Plus, there's a hell of a lot more comments on this post than I see on some 'new js library that does X!'
I disagree completely. It is amazing that you can now encode videos, create screenshots etc without any additional software required.
i'd feel better if Google had asked each owner of the copyrighted material for their permission to scan the book.

It's the copyright owner's choice to be in a program that may increase sales. If he wishes to decrease sales, that is also his choice and should have the right to opt out.

data is extremely valuable. The data of millions of books many of which have been edited by professionals is really priceless for a corporation like Google.

I won't be surprised when Apple, Microsoft and Facebook start their own "platform" to help out the public and help out authors by increasing sales by showing the public their works.
Back in the day I would log onto yahoo chess and beat everyone by simultaneously playing expert mode in windows chess and just mimicking the expert modes moves on yahoo as mine. Good times, never lost.
How can you have a paper wallet to make transactions? That would require the wallet to expose its private key to the recipient so they could generate a transaction. That means the wallet is compromised on first use. Paper wallets really only make sense for two things: carrying an address that others can send payments to; carrying the private key so that you can transfer the full amount into some other address.
Why? MySQL has a well-maintained drop-in replacement outside of Oracle control (MariaDB). It's even mentioned in the article.

(And no one's ever heard of Glassfish, probably the reason why Oracle are dropping it)
Please describe the visualization (relationships you mentioned, how the nodes are colored) in the webpage. It is hard to understand what's going on there.

It would be great if you can make the data public, if possible. You could probably analyze each senator across the years.
I guess, although it makes it a nuisance to back your way out of the page after using the stopwatch a few times.
Do they have a mode for English speakers who want to learn other languages?
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GitHub isn't a CV, but it serves as a portfolio or set of work samples.

This has traditionally been important in hiring people for creative work, though prior to GitHub and similar sites there wasn't necessarily a single particularly good/common way for this to be done in the software development field.
Contiki 2.7 Released
So we took a performance-sensitive embarrasingly-parallel problem and made it run on a slow single-threaded language?

Sounds like fun ;)
There's got to be some phrase that describes this. "Travel porn" is the closest I can get to. Wandering through random locales with some meager idea of a lesson learned or an "experience" that might in some way transmogrify your grip on reality. In the end you just end up meeting a lot of strangers and seeing a lot of different places, which doesn't teach you anything other than how to wash your clothes in a sink or how to order a beer when you don't know the language.
I think the difference is that Glassfish is a piece of garbage. Among the few people who have heard of it it has a reputation of being the worst application server you can possibly use.
Ha, I used to be lazy and set the date forward by 1 month, instead of the hour or day. Then one day I realized the iPhone has a max date set in 2055 or something - you can't set your time past that. I wonder if iPhone dates will stop working when we reach 2055??
I think of 0mq as being a really powerful prototyping tool. If you require guarantees or complex topologies, it will save you a good amount of work to get the thing running. I have never gotten low latency from it, but I know that others have with some effort.
Huh, wasn't aware of that. Is it mostly budget cards that aren't really intended for gaming, or do you see it in low-end gaming cards as well?
We have static typing and dynamic typing and duck typing... is there a name for this crap where stuff gets converted willy-nilly without your say-so? Drunk typing?
It is not a distinction without a difference, for the obvious reason that appreciation of land value goes to owners but not leaseholders.
This author has no real deep understanding of current AI research and the what semantic web actually means. Throughout the article, the author not only ignores and reference any authentic websites for defining semantic web, but also trying to make fun of it by unrelated example such as Google's Knowledge Graph.... Comparing semantic web with the Knowledge Graph is like comparing graphs with oranges. Those are completely different beast and for different purposes. This goes to show the understanding of the author and his/her intent. And ironically, everything that the author tried to sell us on are spot on part of semantic web. For example, the Stream data he/she defined is precisely what semantic web is trying to do, is to label and give meaning to a certain data instead of a big chunk of text/binary. The author also mentioned about pushing and pulling, I argue that the way information/data is disseminated has nothing to do with the ontology or the semantics of data.

And there you go, such a shallow article with a very aggressive link title bait, just pathetic.
Ask HN: Looking for python projects to contribute to
Are there any python projects which an intermediate python programmer could contribute to ?
Now that you said I'm connecting the dots with Dale Carnegie's book. I've read it, but I'm still not confident enough to start doing. This two-people tip is very more approachable, in my vision, because will limit the awkward silence when you don't get along with one person.
so that non-devs can do edits via editing, dropbox syncs, push using web UI, and have the magic happen w/o needing devtools everywhere.
I have a decent number of credit cards, but most of them are cards that I opened and just used to hit the minimum spend, claim my signup bonus, and then go back to using my regular credit card that has the best day to day rewards (I also only open cards that waive my annual fee, and cancel any that try to make me pay to keep it open. Keeping them open for free is good for my credit utilization and age). Sometimes, however, a specific card will offer 5x (or something similar) on certain categories for a limited time. If I could give Wallaby detailed information about how I value rewards, it would be nice to just have one card that I carry around.

I pay all my credit cards off monthly, and basically treat them as cash (so I'm not the target consumer of a rewards card, I know).
I ate at their Camden branch once and it was pretty good, but the Holloway Road branch experience was kind of revolting.
Remember, this policy was formed some time after the Great Chinese Famine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine. I'm not agreeing with the way the policy was enforced, but it's an important background context to why it came about. The population numbers were taking off and this famine wasn't that long ago.
Cool idea. I sometimes take it for granted with how easy it may seem to browse the web versus someone who's native tongue is not English.
More like CFAA (unauthorized access). One might avoid certain penalties by staying under $5000 equivalent IAP. Of course this sounds ridiculous, but we live in ridiculous times.
What's intellectually dishonest is pretending that "endorphin fix" constitutes the purpose of human existence, whereas it is just a byproduct. How it is attained matters. In fact, ability to reason about that is what makes humans self-aware.

Besides, "endorphins" are just a roundabout, cowardly (and factually incorrect) way to refer to general human happiness. You're implying that Snapchats of this world make people feel happy and fulfilled. They don't. There are hundreds of these social media start-ups, yet 1 in 10 Americans takes antidepressants. (Which is a diagnosis problem, but it does illustrate how many people feel seriously unhappy.)
> Dividends these days occur, but they are generally a token rather than the primary means of rewarding shareholders.

I would strongly suggest that you visit a site like http://www.dividendchannel.com/. Your statements that "companies mostly don't bother with dividends anymore" and "they are generally a token rather than the primary means of rewarding shareholders" are simply incorrect.
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Hmm, I see. Thanks!
Do not touch that stone – Do not touch that IDE
I initially read this as "GitHub for cats"
There is a proof of concept using gravel instead of water as well.

http://www.energycache.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3nz_kU604s&feature=youtu.be
That's not particularly generalizable to U.S. programs - a good 3/4ths of the PhD programs I applied for expected a Master's before hand.

I'm also not sure how its relevant to what I said?