skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This led me to view the page source and zoom out to see what the clusterfuck at the top was. Hah.
Nice easter egg OP.
It's human nature to want physical closeness why would you mask that?

To me it looks like their awkwardly standing there like look where we are.

I detest posed pictures I like them to look as natural as possible.

Best way to get that is to catch people when they don't notice their getting their picture taken.
@gitchat on twitter for now.
Oh, it's definitely a practical choice, agreed. But it seems to completely go against the minimalist escapist travel ideal that is romanticised in the article.
That's just false. Apple rejects things without reason just 'cause. Quality is the catch all they use to reject apps arbitrarily.
Love it! I'll use this when I come to London next time!
Have two profiles - one for your projects portfolio, another - to contribute to OSS.
What happens at the restaurant?
I would have found them a hell of a lot quicker.

There are two ways to read this: (1) as a marker; (2) as a filter. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the interplay. My guess is that there is some game theory on signalling at play on both sides here.
The low interchange fee would appear to make these programs more viable in Europe, not less. The interchange fee is an operating cost that US banks cannot avoid. If they're giving me 1% back, and they're paying 1.65%, that's a net cost of 2.65% Take the same program in Europe, where transaction fees are < 1%, and the maximum cost to the bank is 2%; probably less.

The prevalence of these programs in the US would have to be attributed to some other factor(s). I'd posit that it is due to the American obsession with credit, and the intense pressure for growth in the US financial industry.
Nothing new. There's a picture of the inside of one of these tents[1] and Wikipedia covers them[2].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12810675

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...
Very cool hack!

I've had CSS animations go out of sync before in Safari, so I presume this wouldn't be a very accurate timer in the long run...
All set! Can't believe I forgot that one.
You win the prize! :) Was hoping someone would find that. It looks awesome in Sublime text edit in the preview panel on the top right.
If something has a well-defined shipping date then pre-orders are allowed. This is one reason why you can buy tickets to events well in advance.
I'm pretty sure Apple removing an app from the store has no effect on installations already on people's devices.

This may have changed with iOS 7's auto updates.
Show HN: Open-source email helpdesk
We've tried systems like OSTicket, OTRS etc, but never found anything to our liking. Most systems were cluttered, slow or too advanced. Brimir is simple but usefull.
Is he a dev?
First four? That's two-thirds of the Bank Identification Number ( BIN ), offers no security at all. After all the bank's logo is plastered over the card and reverse BIN lookup is easy.

What an odd thing to capture.
Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia
Indeed. Dijkstra was frequently wrong, especially when he made grand sweeping statements.
GOTO is a good example, 'GOTO considered harmful' is practically biblical law amongst many programmers, but it's worth remembering that he made that statement in the context of an argument with Donald Knuth. Knuth won: (http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pd...)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070927094626/http://pplab.snu.a...
See also http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131 about goto
http://web.archive.org/web/20051128093253/http://kerneltrap....
You say "change the world."

Change can be for the worse as well, you realize?

And your claim about the Judge deciding this differently because it was Google rather than Aaron Swartz Jr. All plaintiffs are supposed to be equal under the law, so whether it's Google or LoneCoder the ruled result should be the same.

Starting to understand how the world got to be as f'd up as it is reading these HN comments...
Soviet particle accelerator control panel, 1968
Startups: Don't Live Scared
Hm, "signing up" by providing read-only OAuth access to my GitHub account is... fascinating. :-)

Very clever way to make signups easy, relevant to the interest you're trying to gauge, and gather far more information about me than just my e-mail address (eg. my activity level on GitHub, the type of projects I'm involved in).
Unless you have your CV on github..
We've tried systems like OSTicket, OTRS etc, but never found anything to our liking. Most systems were cluttered, slow or too advanced. Brimir is simple but usefull.
If they end up hating each other, they can crop the other person out.
It's genuinely very straightforward. If you don't have much of an online presence (github, twitter, blog, etc) then the only way I'm likely to find you is if a mutual contact tells me about you. Now, referrals are one of the best sources of excellent people and I'm not knocking that.

If you're constantly tweeting/blogging good quality content about an area of technology that is relevant to my business then of course I'm going to take notice. That, however, doesn't necessarily make you a better candidate by default, it just means you were easier to find.
Should the U.N. ban "killer robots"?
Designer Gets Creative With His Resume, Makes a Game Out of It
""OSS as a hiring filter biases your selection process toward white men"... not sure what to say."

I hope one day we will be able to distil the ultimate rule: "being smart and proactive is discriminatory".
They have, in the UK when you have your first appointment with the midwife they encourage you to consider it as an option. If you decide to do this you will then be assigned an experienced midwife who will attend the birth at your house, will monitor the situation for complications and will have an ambulance on standby at the first hint that things are not progressing normally. Also, if there is any hint of complications at all during the pregnancy you will be strongly recommended to have a birth in the hospital.
http://www.theinquirer.net/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/
I think it's an aesthetic choice - seeing as she's a writer, she probably thought about the whole series of pictures before departing.

They probably have lots of other pictures taken spontaneously.
Nice! Very useful, thank you :)
Happycow is very nice and helped me to find incredibly good places to eat even in meat heavy places like Argentina and Paris. I’m always surprised when I talk to owners of vegetarian restaurants and learn that they never heard about it.
It's a nice idea, but this strikes me as a bit of a puff piece for OkCupid. The fact the name of the site is used and not 'an online dating site' makes me question it.

I am somewhat biased though as I am a bitter + twisted undateable who's had bad experiences with online dating. If these people got something positive out of the experience, then awesome :)
New Chrome Feature Tells You Which Tab Is Making Noise
> Browser vendors are free to integrate the VM into their products

No they aren't. Integrating a Google-controlled VM into any software project (for example, Firefox) isn't trivial (you need lots of resources for it) nor is desirable (the technology is driven and controlled by Google).
Google patenting an electronic 'throat tattoo'
I remember this post, with a similar title being posted on HN
in the beginning of August and got about 550 points in 20 hours. :)
ZeroMQ is just sockets
I found the writing middling, the story twee and arrogant and the take-away utterly predictable.

Of the two of us, I am clearly the better fit for HN.
Another immediate signup. Would like to echo @davman's comment about showing the interest count. It would be interesting to watch the needle, so to speak. A +1 for Hubot integration as well.

At any rate, best of luck! Amazing effort.
I might have skipped a crucial detail in their process, but as far as I can tell, not only is it possible to skim, this makes it amazingly easy.
Better to ask, have you been _outside_ America. For I presume, in most countries who adopted CCs fairly recently, the concept of 'offline transaction' is entirely foreign.
True, but what he mentions, and what you can see in the photo is that they forgot about the floor.

Unless the security tent comes with a floral printed, carpeted floor...
Cool link. There are some real gems there. Especially translating dirty words to "clean" ones seams especially dangerous.

Apparently if the sprinter Tyson Gay had been assassinated in 2008 the American Family Association filtered would have translated it to "Tyson Homosexual has been buttbuttinated" (replacing gay->homosexual and ass->butt).
Never mind the failures due to coke and hookers. The big upside to the SV early stage investments is that startups that are responsibly run but don't seem to have a natural route to profitability can probably end up selling the people or tech as assets to someone else in the sector. Investors expect positive returns on some of the "near misses" in their portfolio.

By contrast, if you can't make an operating profit on the Hyperloop having paid all the research and infrastructure costs (either it doesn't reliably work, or is just widely considered too unpleasant to ride on a regular basis) you end up with miles of very visible scrap metal.
There's was not an escapist pursuit, they still wanted to be connected to people.
I think the most dangerous thing here is the branding of research as something new, that Musk has invented. I worked in academic and industrial research for a number of years, and any work that was worth it's salt typically went back to first principles to make its point.

The problem with this is that it's hard and time it's time consuming to do this. Most companies and people don't have the time to go back to first principles for every product they build, and it would not be financially viable to do so if they did. So we compartmentalise and we make assumptions about the outcome based on prior knowledge to assess the risk of the project.

Software development is illustrative of this point. Let's say you are developing a beautiful front end for your product. You use a toolkit, based upon an existing language, which eventually will get interpreted/compiled down through multiple existing systems and run on the processor of your computer.

If I wanted to go back to first principles and make the whole thing faster, do I optimise my code the language, the compiler, the browser, the os stack, the hardware stack, CPU assembly? No, as I'd no longer be a front end developer.

Research is hard, expensive, and by it's nature, high risk. If Musk can sit on his pile of money and do it, great for him, but for most, going back to first principles for everything is not a viable option.
I'm an Indian living in the UK and don't have this figured out yet. What's the difference when you select to pay by credit, if the balance is paid automatically from your account at the end of the month, instead of being debited immediately from your account? Or do you have to manually pay back your balance?
the fancy logo on that site gives me a "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." error in latest FF beta, resulting in a black background. apart from that the site works like a charm, but it's virtually unreadable.
This is an interesting idea (I applaud the effort) -- the devil is in the details.

For starters, if your shop closes their door... you are likely doing it because you ran out of money/time. Why would you go through the effort to package your work as open source code and help users figure it out?

Second, you can't just say "open source". You should specify a license, or at the very least say: "under a license approved by the Open Source Initiative".

Third, what exactly is open sourced? Are their proprietary services you use, did you license these for your users?

I suppose, if you want to make this promise, you could publish your entire stack on GitHub and put it under a license that its time-boxed: "If for any reason XXX stops operation, this source is released under the MIT; tell then, you may copy it only for archival purposes". But, in this case, what constitutes as "stopping operations"? What happens in an acquisition where the parent company is interested in some parts of the technology you built?

UPDATE: Edited to directly respond to _their_ effort to make this Guarantee to their users.
70 years ago, women's magazines centered mostly around how women can please men. Today, this is pretty much still the case.
That's a good question actually -- my initial thought was for authenticity, but cost could be another reason.

That said, I was only hypothesizing, so it's very possible that kids would be more problematic than they're worth in such an endeavor, not even counting the increased legal risk.
Yeah...might need to wait for the next couple of versions before it works as slick as in that video.
First thing: The white/black men discrimination issue seems totally out of place, almost ridiculous!

As for the main argument, I think it's flawed. Github (or any other online repo) is an important asset and Open Source contributions matters. Especially if you don't have prior job experience. It's a very good way to show that you can actually write code and you will be hands on from the first week, or day, or hour.
Invented by Mel Brooks in the 60's:
http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cone-of-silen...
Be sure to check out voyeur mode (uncomment the first line of the shader)
I think this article needs to be split in two because it seems to be conflating 2 opinions.

I'm not sure I really understand what the author is trying to say. Is it that OSS encourages a culture of being exploited and that GitHub is inadvertently pushing that culture? Or is it that recruiters don't know how to assess the code they see and this is somehow GitHub's fault? Or is it that working on code on your spare time is really a bad thing? Or maybe it's that only white men create GitHub accounts.
I've been following this project since I got involved in the DoYouYoga 30 Day Challenge, and it's been awesome to see it grow. I backed it for sure and it was incredible to see how many others did the same. I'm super excited to see how it will improve my practice when it launches in the spring.
> the demographic make-up of open source contributors is even more skewed toward white men than the software industry is, which is saying something

What?

> You just get what other people think is useful. Aside from which, GitHub displays a lot of useless stats about how many followers you have, and some completely psychologically manipulative stats about how often you commit and how many days it is since you had a day off.

You get social proof, some measure of conscientiousness, and a crowd-sourced filter. All on one page. That sounds great. I don't see the problem.

Companies want to hire influential workers. It's relevant. So is putting in the work.

And products which people find useful are vastly superior to those that the author finds well engineered. I'm guessing many company owners will share that view.
Living in the UK, I have only 1 debit card, which works just fine. I don't need to build a credit history and credit cards don't offer much in terms of rewards so there's no incentive to live in debt instead of only paying for what I can afford.

What is the problem is all the loyalty cards. I sign up for any loyalty cards even if I don't plan on going back. Design a way for me to have all of them on me, and remind me to use the right one when I'm in the location, and I'm sold. Currently I just leave most at home, leading to under-utilization without careful planning.
The article does not say that conference talks, tweets, books, etc. should be used for hiring decisions and only GitHub should not. It says (right there at the end), that hiring is hard and any shortcut to try and get around that fact is wrong. It just so happens that "don't send us your resume, tell us your GitHub username" just happens to be the shortcut of the moment.

Also, I'd challenge you to find where the article says or even implies that you shouldn't be making stuff because you FEEL like it. Quite the opposite, in fact. You should be making stuff because you feel like it and not because you have some expectation of getting a better offer or being able to show off your GitHub profile at your next interview.

As for the white, male bias...not sure what to tell you. It's real. The statistics don't lie. I'm glad that you have had success as a non-white member of the LGBT community, but as the saying goes: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
One Child policy is not well implemented across China especially in the rural area. People from rural area is also over represented in the military. I don't have any numbers but I'll bet more than half that's in the service still have one or more siblings back home.
@Amadou
you could directly message the authors on their kickstarter page or their contact page, with that issue.

@HN @pg
Is it an ethical requirement, or is there any obligation, that we as submitters have to inform page owners about their site being submitted on HN?
Wouldn't it be very very useful to be able to get some kind of "subscription", that informs page owners about their product/site/idea/blog being posted on HN?
Hey maybe even worth thinking about this as a business-model? I sometimes feel that I should've informed the page owner, about the load that's going to come, before their page get's DDoSSed, bu5 I's impossible to predict that, without the data you have in the HN 'backends'.
We have a loving hut nearby (Brighton, UK), and I can't say that I was particularly taken with the menu. I'm not even sure if I'd class it as food and I'm a champion for veganism!
For a few cherry-picked definitions of better and C++.
That's a great idea, wish we'd thought of it. We'll share the learnings afterwards on @GitChat.
No mention of equity/profit sharing. It's not about pay-check it's about feeling how your efforts improve business you are part of. My recommendation: motivate your developers the way you would motivate your CEO.
All it needs is the word Don't Panic written on it in large, friendly letters.
"Why You Should Never Use MongoDB" is about as quick as it gets. If that's true, there's not much point to reading the rest of the article is there? Don't use Mongo.

You might as well be asking for precise guidelines on the right amount of normalization to have in a SQL schema, or which language or editor to choose. You could spend weeks reading articles and blog posts and come away with a really lopsided view of the subject, or just dive in and figure out what works for you.

I found Sarah's analysis trite and one-dimensional. About as useful as "never eat peanuts" with a lot of scare words about allergies. That's great linkbait, interesting to anyone who's never eaten a peanut before, and might even have a thing or two to be learned. Unfortunately, it overstates its point so far that it just isn't useful in the real world.
Error:

failed to fetch user profile (status: 403 data: {"message":"Maximum number of login attempts exceeded","documentation_url":"http://developer.github.com/v3"})
at Strategy.userProfile (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/lib/passport-github/strategy.js:90:28)
at passBackControl (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:105:9)
at IncomingMessage.exports.OAuth2._executeRequest.request.on.callbackCalled (/opt/gitter/landing-app/node_modules/passport-github/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:124:7)
at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:126:20)
at IncomingMessage._emitEnd (http.js:366:10)
at HTTPParser.parserOnMessageComplete [as onMessageComplete] (http.js:149:23)
at CleartextStream.socketOnData [as ondata] (http.js:1472:20)
at CleartextStream.CryptoStream._push (tls.js:544:27)
at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:898:20)
at EncryptedStream.CryptoStream.write (tls.js:285:13)
at Socket.ondata (stream.js:38:26)

Guess it's built with node ;)

After pressing the button again, it gave me the confirmation message.
I have a cousin in Australia that is a midwide - it's the same deal, she started out as an RN before getting her postgrad midwife quals.
> The article does not say that conference talks, tweets, books, etc. should be used for hiring decisions and only GitHub should not. It says (right there at the end), that hiring is hard and any shortcut to try and get around that fact is wrong. It just so happens that "don't send us your resume, tell us your GitHub username" just happens to be the shortcut of the moment.

Actually, Ashe has that on the Hire Me Page.

>As for the white, male bias...not sure what to tell you. It's real. The statistics don't lie. I'm glad that you have had success as a non-white member of the LGBT community, but as the saying goes: the plural of anecdote is not data.

I understand this is a fact, but how this can be used against Github as a resumé or against OSS on your free time, I have a hard time seeing that. It comes off as incredibly stupid.
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I wonder what you could do with some optic fibre woven in...
Fleex, of "Learn English with videos", now lets you learn surfing the web
Even the photos with their old/fuzzy/faded effect reminds me of the style used by TV adverts for online dating.
asking glossy print magazines to shun gloss is too much to ask for, people who pay for it, women who buy it and the advertisers, use the medium. a sufficiently advanced user would just go read it on their website.

These are the same women who make Romantic Comedies popular, you can't complain romcom has too many beautiful people and so less tech/geek stuff
I suspect it does, in fact. If you've got to travel with a rolled up foil-lined rug anyway, might as well make it pretty.
Yeah, but tell that to pretty much everyone who is hiring devs nowadays. Everything is like, "Send us your Github link. Peace out." Uhhh, but I mostly commit to private repos…?
Yes, all the complaints about how you can't tell a story with your github profile seems to completely ignore gh-pages, a phenomenal service that does let you tell a story.

Maybe your github profile isn't a good portfolio by default, but it's an excellent service for creating your portfolio. On top of that, even a poor github profile provides more signal than most CVs I've read.
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We were all newbies once, and newbies have to start somewhere, even if it is not the most "pure" of beginnings. The kind of proof-snobbery you're displaying here likely bears a large part of the blame for driving people away from math in the first place.

Yes, there is more to math than number-crunching, but to claim that number-crunching is not math is to forget the very roots of the discipline. This is where it begins, and it's where people who have been out of practice for a while return. Give it some respect.
The landing page looks really slick. I was wondering, how did you create the design for it?
I'm a programmer and my web design skills are limited to installing bootstrap, and I'm always fascinated, how would you come up with right color/font/layout matching
Great work!
Could you share about what stack/technologies used to build it? Trying to learn how to choose the best platform for each solution.
Enlighten me what exactly will have a good quality tech magazine for women as a content - because everything I could think of is offensive to any woman that has real interest in technology? Tech content is gender neutral. The only thing I have really noticed gender differences is that color and industrial design play a bigger role in purchasing decisions than raw specs but this is very shaky foundation on which to build a magazine.
A perfect headline / product for HN. Very nicely done Rick Rolling.
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I can recommend Logoturn.com, great logos and great support. You can also find very nice domains.
Yes, node node node! :)

Um, thanks for pointing this out, will take a look at it, we may have blown through the rate limit.