skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One formula that works is, be a legit programmer/developer/hacker, but be able to communicate with business people on the business level about business problems.

That's what I'm really getting at.

At the end of the day the person who decides to give you money in exchange for your code is a business person who wants to pay you to solve their business problems. Showing them that you understand and have experience solving those problems is as important as proving your mettle to other programmers.

And personally I've always had a much harder time with the business people interviews than the technical interviews. It's something that I have had to really work at, but it's helped me much more than I could've imagined.
I just tried on my Razr M, and no, no undo option based on a long press. Just cut, copy, and select-all. Same on my Nexus 7.

I'd never heard of a shake-undo feature on iOS, but it does sound awesome.
Damn. Maybe it was a CyanogenMod thing...

I'll be honest. I love Android, but little annoyances added up. I now have an iPhone... And am running into little Annoyances all over again. Like how that "a" is capitalised by accident, but is a pain to replace. Or how "Undo" on Archive for email doesn't work properly.

I miss my Nokia N9 :(
Sage already works on the Raspberry Pi, today, and unlike Mathematica, after you use it for a while, you can actually take it apart and see how it works, making it much better for the purpose of "learning, based on free software ideals". Since it's actually, you know, Free Software.
Show HN: My first iPhone game, Devils in Heaven
Given that most educational uses of the Pi won't involved developing things at such a low level as to require detailed specs of the processor and that the OS's for the Pi are all freely available that article would probably be better titled "Why the Pi is unsuitable for educating hardware engineers about ARM."

The $25 price point is more important to the educational use (K-12) then any specs put out about the hardware. I don't need to know any of that to learn Python for instance.
"As to headphones, we have golden rule, if they are on..."

Man I hope that's not the rule here, because when I have headphones on it's to wake me up, not keep the world out; I really don't care if someone disturbs me. Maybe I need an additional indicator...

(open plan office, I like it fine, clearly some here would like more seclusion though)
The source is available at https://github.com/mfkp/morsenode if anybody is interested. Pretty straightforward node app.
Tim & I are planning to spend quite a bit more time on this, what do you other devs want to see in documentation search? Full stack? Multi version? Comments? Examples? IDE integration? What would make your life better?
tactical: calculating the right moves in complex situations. strategical: positional play. making sure the pieces work well together, choosing the right plan and so on
It's actually annoying sometimes! But useful when you need it.
We have been testing with the Pis so it's definitely working!

In fact, we will be providing images for raspberrys (based on the raspbian distro)
This article is missing pdb++[1], which I would argue is much less buggy then ipdb while having essentially all the same features.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdbpp/
Probably a misunderstanding. French press criticize the President 24/7. You can't insult the president or any other official in public, or any other French citizen.

Just like in most other European countries, France lets you say what you want, as long as you don't spread lies or hatred.
I work in an open office with no dividers. Unfortunately for me I don't have selective hearing, so 95% of the time I'm trying to drown out the buzz by wearing over-ear headphones (usually with no music playing). I also spend a lot of time fending off product managers and testers who just refuse to acknowledge the headphone rule and constantly bug me about trivial things that can be put in an email or an IRC message.

The other 5% of the time is great - as other people have already mentioned, it's really easy to listen in to conversations and get an idea of what everybody is up to.
It isn't just him. I do miss undo still. I also still hate the soft buttons - I've hit "back" with my palm and lost what I was doing too many times. I like a lot of things about android, but small things really matter.
> So sometimes I'm wondering how productive Python/Ruby + VIM/Emacs users. Just an honest question really.

As much as a UNIX System V user.
Try this on your computer. $ sudo gem install wedding
It was not a civil judgment but a public one handled by an independant administrative authority with the power to pronounce sanctions (French public law is separate from both criminal and civil law and includes administrative law).

It is not so much about free speech: the two guys have been fined for publishing incorrect information about the financial situation of a bank. It is more about financial regulation than free speech. I'm not so familiar with american law, but I'm pretty sure you got related situations (for example concerning the handling of sensitive financial information, or insider trading, etc.)

Disregarding the question of the reality of what they've been accused of, the fine against Mish is illegal considering the right of defendants to translation and an interpretor has not been respected. This decision will be very probably striken down by any real judge that get her hands on this case.
Amazon debuts first original series 'Alpha House'
This is particularly great for recommending new software for rich ecosystems like Hadoop. This highlighted the usual suspects: Hive, Pig, & Cassandra, but it also found a few Apache Incubation projects automagically:

http://inspectorgit.com/apache+hadoop-common

Found:
Oozie, a 'worfklow' engine for Hadoop (https://github.com/yahoo/oozie)
Netty, high-performance networking on top of Hadoop (https://github.com/netty/netty)
Before your edit, you had one sentence saying you had an issue, then one other sentence saying it's completely unacceptable.

It's not about your feedbacks content (I agree with you!) it's how you worded it.
AIMP is Winamp's successor.
> How many time did I see "SUSPECTED Al-Quaida member and his family and some of his neighbors were killed in an explosion while a drone coincidentally flew over his house" in the news this month? I lost count.

How does this relate? Bombing someone in a foreign country is not an exercise of legal jurisdiction. It's an exercise of a country's sovereign right to exercise military power abroad.

There are two ways to interact with a country. If you're within its legal jurisdiction, you act through legal process. This is where words like "suspected" versus "guilty" have meaning. The other way is the interactions in the state of nature. This is a state of war.
ha ha ;) of course, I tried running $ rm -rf /
haha awesome idea of a project!
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi
1. I don't believe that everyone needs to go to college.
2. I don't believe college is a day care where students should be coddled. If they can't pass a basic philosophy course, they have no business being in college. That's not to say they are worthless, just that college isn't right for them.
Lamdu - towards the next generation IDE
This is quite funny. I wish RubyGems was really this fast though!
If the guy had published the material on a French server, the analogy might be more apropos.
For me personally it's not much of an issue, it's just not that distracting. I just don't listen, and if someone addresses me directly I tell them I'm busy. I don't use headphones either because I tend to focus too much on the music.

I realize that this isn't viable for everyone, which is why I think we need more rooms for people to have that isolation when they need it.

edit: There certainly are times where I experience a lot of interruptions, and I'm glad for the after-hours when most people have left. But those interruptions are generally pretty necessary, because important things are happening. On the whole I think it is a net positive for teams that work together to be "on the floor" together.
Ctrl+C means copy the text, with optional formatting. It doesn't mean "run a script", and this little trick implies two things: first, that the author is going to assume that anyone who copies text is trying to steal the content without attribution; secondly, that having been corrected in your naughty ways, you'll blithely accept the link he's pasted in there.

It's a web faux-pas, the equivalent of having your whole site in Flash, or trying to disable right-click for fear that someone might steal your precious, precious content.
I started to suspect it with the second canned message. Virtual assistant made it almost certain and the robot sealed the deal.
Irish school's switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster'
Wasn't Raspberry Pi supposed to be free software?
Why does one have to be in a free-bordered country to critique another nation's immigration policies?

As an American, I disagree with American immigration policies, and also disagree with France's. Is my opinion discounted because I'm an American?
this guy makes great youtube-videos. fast way to learn new ideas. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCDOQrpqLqKVcTCKzqarxLg
Fancred "2" Launched Today
Well, those are both bad title, since french justice has nothing to do with it.

"Human blogger fined 8,000 euros by the french assholes for criticizing a bank" is the closest to reality.

"Human blogger fined 8,000 euros by the french independent authority for criticizing a bank" is close enough to reality and politically correct.
Maybe it was the point. ;)
[rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process
Ok, that is actually geekier than the PCB wedding invite I got once. Well done.
In my open office, I currently code next to some project managers, who spend all day on the phone negotiating.

This is a bit bad, but I just wear PPE Ear Defenders all day, on top of in ear headphones. With both of these, I can't hear a thing.

The eerie quiet is great for short bursts of concentration, but it also means I can turn my music up to a normal level without worrying about escaping noise annoying my colleagues.

It looks very nerdy, and people need to email me or wave if they want something (which cuts down interruptions a lot). I take them off about half the time so as to be social, which I guess is like leaving an office door open.

Sort of sad it's necessary though. Hope this helps people with a similar situation.

Ear defenders, buy good ones -> http://goo.gl/NlgnPv
IIRC I don't think it's OAuth. It's (or was when I last looked ~6 months ago) a different API using a session cookie, and yes I'm sure :)
Percent of Chrome page loads that use a CSS property at least once
Neither criminal nor civil!
French has a separate body of law called public law that includes administrative law.

In this case, the fine was pronounced by an independent administrative authority in charge of the regulation of financial markets. No judge was involved in the sentencing.
I think his complaint is it's auto focus only in videos, rather than selective focus.
I also thought it was a joke but it seems to be real. But one way to improve morale in an organization is to make fun of the enemy.
I'm extremely skeptical of your source...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_in_Depth
Has anyone tried pairing a Bluetooth keyboard and pressing Ctrl-Z? I seem to recall this working in the emulator.
I always liked that little linguistic distinction, but it was taken far more seriously decades ago than it is today, when the phrase "a female lawyer" would seem gauche and "a woman lawyer" would be more appropriate. But the adjective sense of the word "woman" is essentially extinct today.

I would infer it more as a sign of pseudoscientific language than as a comparison to animals, and the pseudoscientific tone is appropriate in the context of TFA.
Hey, who doesn't? That's a very valid point. Too bad it's muddled in with other fan-boyish comments that greatly detract from the post's legitimacy. Is this a blog post about adding undo to Android, or nit-picking about things that aren't even issues?

And I quote from the article:

> Here's the thing: Typing a password to unlock your phone every time you want to use it is annoying. The root theme of this blogpost is smartphones ideally not wasting one's time, but by typing a password every single time you want to access your phone you're sure wasting a lot of it!

That's why Android phones let you customize a time-out before you have to type the password in to unlock the phone (e.g. when you type your password in, you can set it so you don't have to enter it again for the next X minutes automatically)... So I'm going to agree with the original comment and conclude that this is another case of misrepresenting 'facts'.

Also, regarding point #5 and the inability for him to use his Apple earphones with his Android phone, he clearly hasn't heard of standard TRRS connectors. At minimum, I find the author's titling of this section "External Hardware Incompatibility" - in an article comparing Apple products to others, no less - to be quite humorous. Or maybe this was intended as satire...?
If miss a line like that which is very easy to spot in a diff, which other things end up in your production environement?

And obviously any test covering that line will fail/hang.
> I disagree. Any time someone switches platforms, they will undoubtedly be more prone to identify quirks and missing features in the new platform than everyday users.

Exactly, and this goes both ways. I switched to iPhone a little over a year ago (because apps) and the new car smell lasted about a day before I was annoyed by quirks like lack of a swipe-keyboard, inability to get a piece of information from one app into another app, and bad app switching. I returned it after about a week of frustration.
Salary isn't based on effort, it's based on value created and how difficult it is to find someone else who could create that value.
There are plenty of valid critiques of the industry sponsored research. Sorry that you can only see the opinion of those who are making money from it.
ARMv6 doesn't support hard float, right? Why would you want to do calculations on an Pi?
TLDR;

I turned down 5 million so that I could practically name the investor, get attention for my startup, and still make page 1 of HN.

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I wonder how investors feel about posts like this. If you are an investor, would it change the way you feel about the CEO or the company?
Hope nobody has any issues at the wedding ceremony, and especially nobody wants to take over the project afterwards!

I always love an interactive shell prompt on the net.
Why and how I completely left Windows for Linux
Using words like 'fanboy' is playing the man, not the ball. There's plenty of things to pick apart in there (from someone who's a dedicated user of iOS), but just labelling it as fanboyism isn't an effective way to argue against it.
ha. nice
> The Pi foundation is betraying it's open source roots.

No, it's not betraying it's open source roots. It has none. The Raspberry Pi has been a proprietary environment dressed up in open source clothing from the beginning.

The Raspberry Pi has most of its processor silicon devoted to a chip that you are not allowed to touch -- the ARM6 core is really more of a coprocessor to the GPU, which comes with a big binary blob. OK, you say, forget the GPU, I'll just use the little ARM core. Nope! You can't boot the system at all without the blob.

Then we've got their laughable attempt to pass off a shim that delegates function calls as an open-source driver. Or their support for software patents, with patent-restricted chip features that require separately purchased licences.

The Pi foundation's roots are with Broadcom, a company known very well for its hostility to open source.
By and large, there is a feeling that French politicians are disconnected from both modern realities and their electorate. I think it is, in most instance, correct. Their lack of understanding of technology (the famous "OpenOffice firewall incident", for instance) is partly a result of the lack of renewal of the French political class. Like many people from older generations who grew up without it, they don't necessarily have the ability or the interest in engaging with modern technology.

This certainly does nothing to help with the record level of discontentment the government is experiencing.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the vows are pull requests.
That is freaking awesome :)
Whats with the huge loss in forex ?
It took a while to pass the parental CI
Just pushed a tool that shows you your margins using the MtGox streaming api: https://github.com/tmc/btcmargin
Ask HN: What mailserver can we use?
I've been receiving more and more complains from my client that their mail is being block by apple, microsoft and google. It seems to become a trend to block shared hosting mail server from these big guys and why not? The more they block shared mail server the more people will sign up with microsoft mail, gmail and apple - so it's a win win situation for them.

I would prefer no to move to a public free service - but I understand that shared hosting doesn't provide the best mail server. Going all the way to run your own vps with your own mailserver seems probably a nice way to go about it, yet adds a lot of work and I am not sure I could charge for such a service to my client. It's not really in the culture to pay for mailserver service. What are people using here on HN? Are there reliable mail server service that make sure not to end up on spam listing, by monitoring the usage before it hits a spam cop site?
The same goes for any software
what you see is what... get?

richard stallman is an idiot.
Yeah, that's a common feature. iPhone has it as well.

I'd like to point out that in my next to last paragraph, I state that I want to use Android. I'm not some Apple "fanboy". I believe that setting the disk encryption password separately from the device's is a valid request and the fact that an App has existed for it since Android v3.0 validates that.
If you want more of a reason to do so, read this: http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/08/changing-androids-disk-...
These huge rounds are crazy, a $5 million exit would be life-changing for most founders.
...or running for political office.
Thanks for the link. It wasn't one that came up when I was searching, but it definitely looks like another solid option. Sticky mode in particular sounds slick.
I hope there are no bugs in wedding :).
"While nearly all of our consumer audio devices share the 3.5mm headphone jack (and have since before I was born), my Apple “earpods” don't function properly with Android phones!"

Welcome to Apple world, where everything interesting is patented so it works only with your iPhone.

"Even my Mac computer can accept remote commands from and utilize the microphone of these (for audio/video calls)."

Guess who makes Macs? Apple.
I tend to find myself relying on debuggers for tracking down bugs in other people's code where I might not have a good grasp of the big picture, but relying more on print statements for debugging my own code.
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-Machine-Traders-Rigging/dp/...

Good book. HFT gives the illusion of liquidity - can dry up real quick and if things go wrong, well, as suggested below, you get the Flesh Crushes ;)
Btcmargin - cli tool to see your live btc margin
Video camera focus, not the photo camera. :)
I replied to a comment by someone describing himself as 23 years old. I have been married longer than that, and thought it not impossible I might know more about marriage than he does. I wished to raise a couple of points; I don't know whether repetition and amplification will help, but here goes:

1. Marriages fail. Over, as the epigram says "Nothing of importance:/Nothing but money, sex, and self-importance."

2. The writer judged that he could not keep a roof over his family's head; he moved to his van, his wife in with a couple of their daughters. In my view, her primary responsibility at that point was to the well-being of the children, and she seems to have made a sensible decision. Do you know that the older daughters could have accommodated two sisters, a mother and a father? If not, on what grounds do you blame her? I really don't see what profitable deals have to do with this.

3. 17 hr/day. Yes, in the job he dreamed of, writing for a sitcom. I've worked with people working 17 to 17 hours a day, half of it cleaning motels and the other half not much more entertaining or glamorous. The two cases do not seem comparable.

4. "A little low ... another man". They had no house, and the wife was long separated when she met someone else, back in Germany.
A lot of folks here are suggesting that Google's status as a primary source of revenue for Mozilla does NOT leave Mozilla beholden to Google's wishes. Without arguing if this is true or not, I'd like to ask a follow-up: are nonprofit/political organizations that receive substantial support from the Koch brothers also NOT beholden to the Koch brothers? Why or why not?
What will happen if I fork this :)
How would I do that with something like django?
I believe this does work.
Love it or hate it, I bet it drives a lot of subscriptions. This is the service they use, btw

http://bounceexchange.com/
Sounds a lot like a place I was at for a bit. My observation was that the noisy people killed productivity for the whole place. Not only because no one else could focus enough to get work done, but also because the noisy ones never really did anything (yes, I checked commit logs). Passing cat video links around, playing music through laptop speakers("your headphones broken, bro?"), bro-style fist bumps because they put a sheen on a button, but no real actual coding.
"People like you are mostly just lip service."
Err, ok? I'd argue that the interviewer's job is to determine that. If the interviewer just wants to banter back and forth on specifics of languages and whatnot, that's fine, but in the big picture I don't find it helpful.

So to use an example, if you want to hire someone to build a deck onto your house, do you quiz the person on Craftsmen hammers, Stanley measuring tapes and Black & Decker saws? I wouldn't. I'd ask what similar projects they've done, what problems they've run into, etc.

Call it lip service, but I think the big picture is more valuable. Specifics of language syntax & conventions is OK, but knowing how to wield the tools is far, far more valuable in my opinion.
Obviously he was talking about Stephen, the person, not Wolfram Research, the company.
After a year of using Samsung Galaxy S 2, I realized that the most common reason that my phone shuts down (i.e. crashes) and restarts is copying to clipboard. After 20 clipboard uses, it just crashes, and Samsung, the biggest and richest Android vendor has refused to fix this issue for almost 2 years!
Trademark law is applicable here.

In general, you can use a trademark to refer to the trademark owner's good or service. That is, you can use the Android robot to refer to Android.
If its use as a medium of exchange continues to spread, it is quite possible that the volatility will go away. Even national fiat currencies have some volatility, but it's vastly subdued due to the sheer amount of people using it as a currency, I believe
Point taken, but that case did also generate huge controversy and a change in the law in an attempt to stop such an oddity occurring again.
We avoid that by having a build step fail if 'import pdb' exists in our codebase. You could do similar for any of these tools. This will then lead to build failures in one's automated build system, and flag pull requests as not-yet-ready to be merged with our master branch.

If one doesn't have an automated test process, then I suspect one has bigger potential errors that could sneak in than an errant pdb breakpoint. I'll just assume that your release / merge process DOES include a test suite that you can add this sort of test to.
That was the funniest HN comment I've seen in months. Nice job.