skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People who think judging performance is hard have a broken development methodology or no technical chops.

And this is exactly why I asked the question. Here you have judged me, since I said judging performance was hard, on both my development methodology and technical chops. Yet you know nothing about me at all.

The problem of evaluation is an important one, and one I'm always interested in reading more on. Unfortunately the strategy of taking one's self as a gold standard isn't exactly what I was looking for. It does seem obvious that being an expert in your domain is a necessary trait to be able to evaluate others, but it's not at all obvious that it is a sufficient trait.

The idea of multi-source feedback seems intuitively good, despite the conflicting research on it. That more input will expose biases or inaccuracies is a decent hypothesis. On the other hand, judgment from a single person seems highly error prone. Whatever faults that one person has will never be exposed and reviews seem almost guaranteed to have bias.

In the end, I'm left with no idea why you so quickly discard the reports of your peers.
"puritanical" is an adjective, not a noun. :)

I also noticed that you referred to an "addict gene" as a 19th century notion, but the term "gene" wasn't coined until the 20th century.

In any case, no I wasn't aware of a 19th century Sweden based on strict religious ideas. Could you tell me more? My understanding is that the state was working to suppress Pietism in the Lutheran church, and persist with rationalism.

Pietism and Puritanism are similar, and Pietism is a forerunner to the modern evangelical movement in the US, which is why I didn't think that 1800s Sweden had those same sorts of strict religious ideas about one's daily life.

Rather, there were strict religious laws, yes, but they were strict in asserting how Lutheranism was the official church and that there is no other church. Quoting Wikipedia:

In order to curb Pietism several Royal Decrees and Acts of Parliament were proclaimed in the 18th century, which forbid Swedish citizens to practice any religion besides mandatory Lutheran Sunday Mass attendance and daily family devotions. Without the presence of a Lutheran clergyman public religious gatherings were forbidden. It remained illegal until 1860 for Lutheran Swedes to convert to another confession or religion. From then, and unto 1951, it was legal to leave the Church of Sweden for the purpose of becoming a member of another officially recognised religious denomination.

I'm interested in Swedish history, though I don't know all that much about it, so I look forward to your explanation.
Video Games Taught Me To Grind
What happened to the original HN submission of the vice article?
Quora Signals It’s Favoring Search Ads For Eventual Monetization
Symfony has had that functionality since 1.1, and all it requires is a one line yaml change.
My little contribution to the Linux ate my RAM problem
How will the Next Bay Area Quake Impact Silicon Valley?
Lavabit — The Government’s Response
Such defeatist thinking, it won't get you far in life :)
j/k
This makes sense if you believe that the organizations you support are already optimized to turn money into impact. It is often the case with young organizations that bringing exceptional talent to the team is more important than getting an incremental dollar.
Hey, Mozilla! We're fighting the good fight!
http://careers.mozilla.com

Edit: Fixed the link
Beside the point, but the graphics are a little hard to read because they don't range from strong approve to strong disapprove. The first graph is:

Strong approve
Approve
Strong disapprove
Disapprove
Neutral

It would make much more sense in the spectrum from negative to positive. It would also look like a bell curve on that particular graph.

Strong approve
Approve
Neutral
Disapprove
Strong disapprove

This happened to the other graphs in this article too.
Any source for that? I searched and didn't find anything about permits being needed to own weighing scales.
Is nicotine carcinogenic by itself? I didn't research the subject (I don't smoke) but always assumed the most dangers with cigarettes are from the burning byproducts.
What will happen with V8 engine and Node.js?
https://www.dartlang.org/#get-started
Support Groups for families with autistic children
Support Groups for families with autistic children is now available to Hacker News readers.
It was news to me that retirement accounts are protected against judgment. Looks like it's not a complete shelter, but good enough for purposes of current foreclosure [1].

Of course, living in a non-recourse state is probably the best move, as you can't be held liable (your real estate secures your mortgage).

[1] http://finance.zacks.com/retirement-account-judgment-proof-5...
Capitalism is a meaningless word. Does it mean currency based markets? Markets in general? The wage/labour model of business? Corporate Law?

Ultimately we as humans coin many words for real experiences. In my experiences, I exchange my services, in exchange for a representation of value, and in turn purchase my necessities with this representation of value (and in this modern era purchase wants as well).

Personally if you want to stick with idealism, I would coin Capitalism as "... an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and capital goods, and the production of goods and services for profit in a market economy."

We don't have that 100%. That's for sure. The government has a large part of of modern means of production. And the true public also has co-operatives, syndicates, mafias, gangs, and non-profits.

We definitely have a market economy though. So I definitely agree with your point. I just think Capitalism is nothing more than an ideal.

Because I enjoy this topic so much, my system classifications are as follows: The West: "Inverted Totalitarianism", EU: "Pre Natal Neo-Feudalism", China: "Party Monarchism". As far as I'm concerned, ideologies are great for discussions, but horrible at describing real things.
Show People
I think https://localbitcoins.com/ it's still one of the safest way to buy bitcoins.
I believe you have misunderstood your parent comment. The question "Do you actually believe suicide can be caused by someone playing dress up?" asks whether suicide can be caused by Richard Branson playing dress up.

The question does not appear to confuse "transgender" and "transvestite", nor does it use "playing dress up" to refer to either.
> There are plenty of weightlifters who have done similar full-liquid diets for years before soylent

Name one competitive weightlifter, powerlifter or bodybuilder that lived primarily on a shake made from powder for years.
Server apparently wasn't ready for HN frontpage load
The only thing we have indicating that this glop is healthy or nutritious is the word of the guy selling it.

Ever heard of caveat emptor?
Google will be handing off this technology to its subsidiary, Gurgle.
This is a neat idea, but a problem I didn't see discussed in the article is that on iOS (at least), LocalStorage is disabled when running in private mode.

There are ways to detect it and work around it obviously but considering this is pitched as a solution for mobile users, it's probably something to consider.
It looks pretty weird on Safari - "html5: Video file not found" on all videos.
He was providing the reason for why the authors would have published the photos (by using Fox News as an example), not defending or justifying their having done so.
"Because YOLO" Oriented Programming
It's right here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720193
Google to auto upgrade Android's new Chrome webview
I would say the first three times were because I enjoyed the movie so much the other ten: I was obsessed with trying to figure out the ending.
How much nicotine do you expect you're coming in contact with? And if it's just nicotine, second-hand airborne nicotine is about the least threatening public safety risk I can imagine.
Steve spoke about Grok earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRO3dNJx5Dw (sadly the video is only worth listening to), and at the end of the talk guesses there would be more public information 1.5 years from then.
That's a stupid reason to flag a story and an abuse of the flag button.
How do I collect all my personal data? (without a being a major pain in the ass)
Theory is one thing, hands-on experimental scientific evidence another, not speaking about a possible route of synthesis and purification of polyaromatic cyclic hydrocarbons.

Does anyone know what problem/model was used for the calculations? I find it strange that there are many details about the hardware, but no information about the problem set in the field of organic solar cells.
Hmm that's really weird - sorry about that. What version of Safari and OSX are you using?
It's okay to be rich -- just pretend you aren't. Don't have a big car, don't have flashy clothes. In France people have a tendency to be suspicious about wealth. If you're rich you probably either got it from your family or you exploited people to get it. I'm painting a caricature here but it's not far from the truth. French people don't really celebrate financial success.

(I'm French)
Why is this generation so obsessed with "documenting" everything instead of actually "doing"?

STOP Documenting. START DO-ing!
Interesting to see that 'flops' has been redefined to 'flop' so that 'flops' now refers to the plural. Also interesting to see that arstechnica hijacks my back button.

Anyway, the real problem from what I've read in the literature is in problems that require network IO, but going back now, most of that seems to predate Amazon's HPC cloud service and even a year ago, some people have found pretty good scaling there: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/content?g=53....
True. Many people appear to use http://brainwallet.org or similar sites though; they don't really understand what hashing functions are, so they trust these sites to securely generate a private key.

Someone should really make an alternative with bcrypt or scrypt.
I am using http://www.gandi.net
Yes. But it's a hell of a lot less carcinogenic than cigarette smoke with all the other byproducts (tar, etc). It, surprisingly, however, may have some beneficial effects as well. The wikipedia article has the relevant sources/details.
I recall reading that it's recommended that you chew gum if you are on Soylent, in order to offset the effects of not chewing.
It's anecdotal, but dispels the idea that my "sample group" was limited to career programmers, which was the point in the parent comment.
Some of us are sensitive to nicotine as well as smoke. Don't be blowing vapor around like it's doing no harm while inside. I'll have a reaction, (starts with tingling lips), then I'll have a polite reaction to tell you to take it outside.

If you need nicotine, use a patch or gum, not a device that may spew shit in the air. If you "vape" take that stuff outside.
Indeed: The 19A0's.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade....
We totally agree. We're all about doing. Check out some of the things people are doing on 100[1]

[1]: https://giveit100.com/projects
Apart from having Latin-like script I don't think there is much similarity between English and Vietnamese.

Either way, isn't Japan also famous for its engineering prowess? I doubt that country with such high engineering competency will lack talent for web development simply because of the language barrier (if there is actually the lack of talent at all). I'm not saying language barrier doesn't exist but if language barrier didn't prevent them from having companies like Konami, Square Enix, Namco, Bandai, Nintendo or Sony then why would it prevents them to have more web developers?

Ruby was created by a Japanese for that matter.
It's quite obvious if you look at the spec. It retains very large amounts of information that is simply not needed merely for executing programs, but is quite useful for compiler backends and tools.

It's quite smart to write a LLVM backend and frontend for a custom (compact) bytecode.
Healthcare Thought Leadership Highlight // drchrono Founders
check, check, no check for me. Where is the link to the data?
Except that now the comments here make no sense at all.
Please do note the authors background and current occupation when evaluating his conclusion regarding the government's STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND "FACTS".
I think open source can be an important tool for socially beneficial projects. Since open source tools are free, they can be accessed by anyone. Since they are open, they can be modified easily to suit local needs. By removing the cost of intellectual property, products leveraging open source software can be cheaper and thus more accessible. In the long term, open source makes it more difficult for companies to develop monopoly positions due to their control over this software and thus helps to prevent the problems that follow.

I think working on open source software within a suitable good cause niche would be a good fit. I can't really think of any examples where you could easily find a paying role, but I'm personally inspired by projects like Open Source Ecology, Open Street Map and Wikipedia. I work in the library world, where I try to use and contribute to open source software whenever possible. It's not revolutionary, but it's okay.
Tiny COMs run Linux and Android on Atmel ARM9 SoCs
Mono-nutrition is known to have negative health effects.

And there is clear evidence of trial-and-error that has resulted in short-term health effects due to initial versions of Soylent. Longer term effects would not have been identified and so remain a very high risk.

From wikipedia:
Modifications to the ingredient list have occurred in response to results incurred in testing, for example: the first version of the formula omitted iron, which caused Rhineheart to report his heart had begun to race.[8] In other early experiments, intentionally induced overdoses of potassium and magnesium gave Rhinehart cardiac arrhythmia and burning sensations.[8] After the early recipe had stabilized, Rhinehart found himself suffering from joint pain due to a sulfur deficiency. Methylsulfonylmethane was added to address this problem
i'm sensitive to volume but i wouldn't have the audacity to ask a loud patron to leave a bar.

i realize it's not a totally fair comparison given possible health implications. but as long as it's legal it seems strange to expect someone to leave a public venue on a stranger's preference.
Inception and Philosophy
They definitely need two kinds of soylent. One, soylent red, with a different formula and more nutrients for the first few days while our bodies adapt, and then regular soylent green.

I say this because everybody complains the first days are really hard on their bodies and nerves. So a smooth transition would make it easier to stick to the plan and reduce drop rates.
> They're not sucking down plain water vapor are they? E-cigs have nicotine cartridges for them, it would be silly to believe that the smokers lungs are grabbing all of that nicotine out before they exhale.

Except it's not.

http://www.onlineprnews.com/news/268327-1349236060-new-eciga...

"Those few compounds that were found were at such minuscule levels that toxicology analysis detected no risk (cancer or non-cancer risk) to public health from environmental e-cigarette vapor."

"While secondhand smoke must be eliminated in workplaces and public places, the current data provide no justification for eliminating electronic cigarette use in these places."- Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston University School of Public Health

"For more than 25 years Smokefree Pennsylvania has been advocating indoor smoking bans. Based on the results of this study I see no reason for e-cigarettes to be included in smoking bans." - Bill Godshall of Smokefree Pennsylvania

"The results of this study confirm the findings of my last 4 years of research. E-cigarettes pose no discernible risk to public health." - Dr. Murray Laugesen - Public Health Medicine Specialist, Health New Zealand
Seethe and Grin: My Life Going to Tech Events
Some people on here are probably going to flame this idea because it glorifies someone showing off what they are doing, but I think they are missing the point: this is just a tool to keep yourself accountable (a la the Seinfeld calendar).

Feature suggestion (that is probably already in your pipeline): Add the ability for friends to join groups and do something together for 100 days and keep count of their friends who also keep on doing X for 100 days. If I just stumbled on this site, I would probably say "Cool" and then I would never come back bc I don't have anything right now that I would dedicate 100 days to. It seems like the tricky part for y'all will be to get people to realize that your platform is broad, but they are specific and they can find use in this platform right now.

Oh yeah, Congratulations on launching and good luck!
Etsy.com! We're hiring, and we're turning a great many creative people into small business owners.https://www.etsy.com/careers
Did anyone else find Inception to be basically straightforward (though interesting and enjoyable) with an insignificant binary question at the end?

There certainly may be more depth than I'm seeing, but there wasn't anything that made me need to wonder why anything happened the way it happened. As mentioned in the thread already, Momento's the one that isn't straightforward.

I'm not intentionally trolling---I suppose I probably am missing something. There just wasn't anything obviously confusing on the movie's surface for me.
PG is also mostly nontoxic unless in large doses and isn't known to cause cancer. I don't see any point in it being an active ingredient in Febreze though...
> Italics and capital letters have little or nothing to do with how 'Western' web layouts are generally created, and are far from the only way to create emphasis or hierarchy in text.

They are key to graphic design. Though even in the West, web designers have only been waking up to formal graphic design in the last few years.

> Haven't Google, MS, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, everyone demonstrated that this is the goal of what they're doing?

The real money now is in commerce, and Japan is well-known for being behind in online commerce due to trust issues with plastic money. I guess that leaves them with old model of ads which would explain the 'million-dollar homepage' look.
Google says it is working on automatically updating Android’s WebView
It's a fair point. I guess I should say that most of the coders I know over there have overcome this barrier.
Pretty sure the URL should be: http://careers.mozilla.com
I work at Causes. It sounds like it might fit your criteria. https://www.causes.com/jobs
http://careers.mozilla.org/ you mean...
Zapier co-founder here, we've heard this question a lot and TBH, it is a fairly difficult thing to do. In addition to lots of users using Zapier to dump important data into Google Spreadsheets for safe keeping, I've heard of users having success with https://www.backupify.com/.

Good luck!
I have been working on an ETL domain specific language using Scala for a while now (DataExpress for the curious: http://dataexpress.research.chop.edu) trying to address similar problems to this.

Namely, when doing ETL you don't want to have to map all your tables and relationships into models that an ORM likes to have. IMO, there is such a dearth of tools in this space of "quick and dirty" database work. People are either using highly custom scripts on one end or things like Kettle or commercial analogs for "big serious work" on the other. There's almost no in-between.

Having something at a slightly higher level of abstraction than the database driver itself is really, really nice and makes for cleaner, more readable code. Makes me wonder about my continued work on DataExpress!
How JavaScript closures are garbage collected
The reports so far are that it definitely has an impact on happiness and mental well-being: a positive one.
> It's different than DRM because Snapchat owns the entire system.

That's strange, I'm pretty sure I own my own phone.
Startups: 4 ways Estonia can be more like Israel
I wouldn't mind eating this once and a while when I'm low on time and don't want to drive somewhere or whip something up.

I wouldn't see myself eating this ONLY, cause the video did bring up a good point, eating is also a social thing. Hey babe you want to go back to my place and eat some soylent?
This sounds like scaremongering. PG is in tons of products, including toothpastes, beers and boxed cake mixes.

Also, PG isn't really an "active ingredient", it's usually just a thickener or carrier.
CyanogenMod Installer Release
Yes, but it goes by different names.
If he actually has telekinetic powers, this scene doesn't make sense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYawJGlEh3k

His powers don't work on the flesh-and-blood Bane/Smith. He can't swipe the knife away from Trinity's neck at a distance. He can't easily beat Bane/Smith in a fistfight. The best he gets is to see Smith's machine form after being blinded.

All of his powers shown in the real world are against machines, never flesh-and-blood humans.
Depending on the circumstances, enough for me to notice. I feel the effects before I usually notice the person vaping.
I agree, unless they're older, but I think that's half the point too. Doing something worthwhile with your kids.

That said I'm getting this for me.
I was hoping Dart 1.0 with this quote: "Hey, we are ready to launch and so is Google Chrome with Dart VM!". But no, not going to happen.
How did you seed the site with so many videos?
You're right. It's widespread, but I was certainly wrong with "standardized" part.
Seriously doubt Amazon is using tape.
When one person succeeds we all succeed breaks down when you are pushed to succeed at the expense of everyone else. You are supposed to be working for the good of the whole, not just yourself.

Cooperation and team work are also meritorious, but they are not rewarded or encouraged in this type of merit-based system.
Why your career should peak at 65
I love the concept, and I dig the "no-click" style of watching. Makes for a very nice UX.

I hope there can be some good stories that come from it.. but what happens if someone starts being inconsistent with their project? I wonder how many people will fully complete the 100 days
How Adventure Might Change Your Life
There's nothing to contradict it, either; not all the plot points have to be served up on a nice dinner plate. If it fits nicer than the matrix-within-a-matrix theories, then might as well go with that.
Something to note: Retirement accounts are not shielded from taxing bodies (i.e. the IRS).

Somewhat offtopic: This is why I always recommend people use a Roth IRA as a savings vehicle vs a savings account. Not only can you withdraw the contributions at any time, but its shielded from creditors. Your ability to use a Roth IRA is, of course, subject to income limitations.
So, actually you got -B backwards. n < 128 allows spin-down.
That's one of the big barriers to this actually becoming more than just a thought experiment. Lots of interesting data sources are locked up with either no export capability at all or no way to automate exports. For the power company example, the only way to get that data out is to login to their website and follow a convoluted path to a "download" button which you have to click twice for some reason.
This has to take the cake of most clickbaity headline on HN.
Yeah, but I don't go around farting/burping in peoples faces. So don't blow your e-vape shit in my zone.

It's about common courtesy.
btw Safari version 7.0 (9537.71) on Maverick works perfectly for me
Don't trade global warming for nuclear meltdowns
This is such a cool idea. What's the reasoning behind limiting the video length? Quite a few people appear to get cut off in their videos before they have a chance to document their progress.

This one is good, 60+ days of coding: https://giveit100.com/@joanne
Hence Core Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War).