skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. I just received this email as a Stubs member of AMC Theaters. The link embedded in the email goes to: https://ipo.loyal3.com/amc
On what planet is there a tradition of paying for the time spent in an interview? The writer of the article knew it was an interview, and presumably knew approximately how long the interview would be.
This is neoliberalism 101, you don't even have to bring up "military-industrial complex". The state is increasingly working with industry (pseudo-privatization), in return the industry increasingly influences state policy. The system keeps working as long as contracts keep going to a small group of big companies (the only ones capable of "working the system") and as long as the big companies can keep influencing politics.

It's simple math considering the "state" is just a collection of politicians easily influenced by fear-driven populism, media, money, nepotism, and their old private school friends. And on the other side there are extremely powerful billion-dollar defense contractors.
"The cost of TSA (direct and indirect through delays, etc.) is immense"

I hate debating based on speculative estimates..
That said, El Al seems to put sky marshalls on every single flight.
I would throw in a dime that this would be a more (cost)effective and reliable solution compared to current screening implementations.
I bought mine refurbished for 1300 euros, which is comparable to the price of similarly specced PCs (and about the average salary of most European countries).

Even if it was three times this price, what has that to do with its ability to play games ?
I've never seen anyone charging an electric car from a standard NEMA 5-15 receptacle. So maybe that was what you were talking about, but it's certainly not what "we're talking about".

I don't think I've ever seen one of those receptacles made available for public use in parking garages. Presumably it's something from a colder climate than where I live. Note that the incident we're discussing happened in Georgia, where such things are not needed.
Three strikes all have to be separate convictions. Stealing one gallon of milk from three different stores is not three strikes.
In my opinion, this will only take off if installing everything is easier than installing Windows + Steam + drivers. If Valve can give you an image to download that has the OS, the drivers, Steam, Firefox, and all the basic codecs you need to use a computer for gaming and common things like browsing the web, reading email, watching video and listening to music, this has a chance.
Show HN: if Android Studio, why Mirror?
5 Best Practice Mentalities to Get Over
You're saying they're no different than Oracle?
Thanks for posting the article. Enjoyed the past few months..! @Nivo0o0
Node.js in production: Reflections on three years of riding the unicorn.
Or in this case you could divert the funds used in prosecution to secured covers for the outlets. Same outcome, no further use of the resource, with a reduced cost to everyone involved.
A definition of sexism : "behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex"

Is there a stereotype that women are the toy/reward for a man doing a good job? Then that picture conforms to the definition of sexism given above.

Its not about voting or your view vs mine or feminism. Its about statistics and trends.

I don't know anything about common denominators, but if there is a trend toward reducing women in print media to objects, then it's worth trying to counter that trend somehow.

I look forward to the day that nobody thinks twice about silly pictures, because they are set in a balanced culture of healthy representations in the media, fair hiring and reward based on skills.

Are we there? I'd rather ask a woman trying to get ahead in business, than a guy tired of the discussion. In fact I don't think the average guy knows squat about where we are in this cultural evolution, as comments above make quite clear.
This is not about revenge for me.

> "Do you really believe 10/15/20/25 years in this case would make a difference?"

And do you think 10 days in prison is going to make a difference?

To answer your question, yes, I believe serious consequences for prosecutorial misconduct will make a difference. Making the sentence for malicious prosecution comparable to the sentence suffered by the victim is simply a guideline that I personally would find reasonable.

EDIT: I should have said "I would find reasonable in this particular case, i.e., that of prosecutorial misconduct". I agree that talionic justice (eye-for-an-eye) leads to gross dysfunctional if put to general use. But I'm not convinced that makes it inappropriate in all cases.
Acquire 10.15 Bitcoins and hope that the 2013 Wedbush Report [1] will be correct.

[1] $98,500 per BTC http://www.scribd.com/doc/188644617/Bitcoin-Intrinsic-Value-...
No dispute here, I was just pointing out that OS X not only stems from Unix (as does, say, FreeBSD), but the "is-a" property also stems from the Open Group actually putting a stamp on it.

This isn't to say OS X is "more of a Unix" than FreeBSD. It means simply what is says, without any other implication: the group that is allowed to say "yeah, this is unix" said that about OS X.
I had to look up the definition of a kill-fee http://freelancewrite.about.com/od/glossary/g/KillFee.htm
Evernote is one of those products that has rabid, fierce, loyal fans. It is one of those things.

Also, Evernote is definitely not the kind of company that really needs astroturfers. I think this is just an enthusiastic article.
I wondered why no firms were doing that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6730152
I can imagine a scenario, they would be like 3D printers for houses. You provide the materials (think big legos), and the robots (X-copters may be) assemble everything.
Evernote + Dropbox means that I am basically device/OS/location agnostic for all my information needs, which given that I switch between 3-4 machines (all with different OSs) regularly is absolutely crucial.

That said, some PAINFULLY obvious things which would be hugely benficial for adoption;

- LaTex support built in

- Markdown (either in every note, or allowing you to add 'markdown' boxes, if just for writing code)

And a stretch goal;

- Better PDF/attachment integration. In a perfect world there would be a Dropbox extension which creates an "Evernote" folder in your Dropbox and any attachments are automatically stored in a notebook-hierarchy file-system within that folder. This would autoupdate to reflect what's going on in Evernote.
Organ traffic.
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This is possible.

Robots will certainly bring huge change some day. The problem is that it is definitely going to come before our social structures are ready for it. There's going to be a real hard time adapting to the fact that a very large number of jobs will no longer requires humans to do them.
Yep, green on black, classical nix terminal. :)
Even Matrix uses this colour scheme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U
What do you mean by undoing a merge? I assume you're talking about something more complicated than what I usually do

git reset --hard HEAD~

That just kicks you back to the commit just prior to your current (merge) commit. Are you talking about trying to undo a merge further back in the commit history?
Pre-fabricated, and/or automated construction methods such as Contour Crafting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_crafting http://innovation.uk.msn.com/design/the-3d-printer-that-can-...
> i agree that Google suck at developer tools and docs, absolutely (...) a lot of their tools I consider 'unshippable' they are so bug riddled and unusable

This absolutely mystifies me. Especially after coming in from the iOS development stack, the android sdk's, simulator, et al, are shockingly bad. And it's been YEARS now.
Because the federal three strikes law only applies to serious violent felonies, and only if there are two or more prior federal or state felonies, at least one of which must be a serious violent felony as well and the other of which can be a serious drug crime.

As far as I know, only California has a three strikes law that can apply to non-violent felonies, and I don't know of any three strikes law that applies to convictions on multiple counts for the same conduct.

When you see stuff like "man gets life for possessing an unregistered firearm" (at least outside of California), you need to read the fine print and look for the prior murder or armed robbery convictions.

I disagree with three strikes laws even when structured to only apply to violent felonies, but they're totally irrelevant to this discussion.
> ... equally be unlikely to do anything outside of what he is technically being paid for.

"Technically" being paid for? There is absolutely no reason for anyone to do any commercial work unless being paid for. People are not slaves, they have their own lives and their own free time to do the stuff they want to do. To expect from anyone to work for free and complain when they refuse to is outrageous.

> I'm not saying anyone should work for free, but sometimes you have to help out, whether it's working a bit later or helping during a crunch time.

Yes, in fact that's exactly what you're saying--people should work for free. You're just calling it "helping out". The employee is not there to "help" you (do what? get rich?), they are there to do the job they're contractually being paid to do. If you need more work to be done, then arrange so. If you need free "helping out" feel free to call in your friends and family.
That's a very one-sided metric. There is a large range of definitions of large and complex. The dev process or team size might make it extremely difficult for outsiders to contribute. I can understand why you and others would like to attribute all productivity squarely on skill. In almost all cases, everyone is trying to manipulate the consensus of who's productive and who's not, who made a good hire, who has good employees, etc.
Still, what do the multiple strings mean? I was expecting a single string with a complex waveform, with additional pulls changing that waveform. Instead I have a new string every time I pull.
You could try increase search traffic to your site by trying to position your site in Google for some specific niche keywords. You can use my tool: http://metrics11.com to find right keywords. But you will have to wait for effect some time though and it depends on backlinks your site will gain in the future.
Thanks for pointing that out, I was unaware there was much tactical skill in the attacks. Every news piece I'd seen on the hijackers concentrated mostly on their mistakes leading up to the attacks and how even a marginally competent counter-intelligence effort would have caught them...

More to your point though, I don't think the passengers would have to actually overcome the hijackers, just bottle them up. Whatever they're _not_ good at, surprised scared uncoordinated groups of strangers are pretty good at getting in the way. And there's still the fact that the cockpit door is locked.
One thing that I noticed was when signing up the password is sent across (with the username) in the query string in plain text. After that gets updated I would be very interested in spending more time with this!
White House Petition to End Warrantless Email Search
The outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) says government can read our emails without a warrant. The law was written over 25 years ago, before the services we use today even existed. This petition calls on the Obama Administration to support ECPA reform. The petition needs 100,000 signatures by December 12 to require a response from the White House.
They don't arrest you for plugging in your smartphone in an airport. This is precisely an attempt to prevent it from becoming common. If everyone knows that is not something you do, then you don't need to put up signs.
It's easy to say but at the same time how is your basic understanding of anatomy, psychology, chemistry, law, and a dozen other fields that you have to interact with each day ;)
I completely agree with the blog post writer. I have a job, and if I was to work on some other companies code base while still working for the current one, all kinds of copyright issues ensue (Swiss).

Having someone, who is not an employee mess around in your codebase before they are hired is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Not worth it, and if you could convince me to come into your office for an interview and this is what awaits me I am leaving in no time.

What happens if you don't hire the guy and sell a 100,000 copies with his work product in there? Do you own the copyrights or have a license to it? Probably not, and if it was me coding then my lawyer would have a field day with you and your company.

So besides the insanity of not hiring a developer like you hire anyone else by references, reputation and limited work sample tests. Do you think you can tell some lawyer, please work on this case for 8 hours and then I will tell you if you get hired is going to go along with this? He will bill you 4000 chf for the pleasure and so would I.

In Europe you have probation periods, i.e. you hire someone and find out that they can't do the work you terminate them on the spot. Is that expensive, relatively yes. But if that happens you already screwed up weeks earlier and it is time to pay the piper.

This entire consult to hire, or whole day interviews just seems unacceptably unproductive and ethically as well as legally questionable.
That is pretty much exactly how I log into sites that I use rarely. I have strong, memorized passwords for the handful of sites I log into frequently. For the rest, I create a good password the first time and don't bother recording it. If I need to log back in in 6 months I just use the password reset feature.
What if successful posts on HackerNews are just luck?
The actual red flag here is that the LD has no sense of software schedules or QA, or is feeling so pressured that he can't make time to prepare a well structured interview session.
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9/11 was different. People cooperated because that was protocol at the time for a plane hijacking. Nobody expected them to use the plane as a weapon with no regard to their own lives. This was an unprecedented attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking

"Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, most hijackings involved the plane landing at a certain destination, followed by the hijackers making negotiable demands. Pilots and flight attendants were trained to adopt the "Common Strategy" tactic, which was approved by the FAA. It taught crew members to comply with the hijackers' demands, get the plane to land safely and then let the security forces handle the situation. Crew members advised passengers to sit quietly in order to increase their chances of survival. They were also trained not to make any 'heroic' moves that could endanger themselves or other people. The FAA realized that the longer a hijacking persisted, the more likely it would end peacefully with the hijackers reaching their goal.[12] The September 11 attacks presented an unprecedented threat because it involved suicide hijackers who could fly an aircraft and use it to delibrately crash the airplane into buildings for the sole purpose to cause massive casualties with no warning, no demands or negotiations, and no regard for human life. The "Common Strategy" approach was not designed to handle suicide hijackings, and the hijackers were able to exploit a weakness in the civil aviation security system. Since then, the "Common Strategy" policy in the USA and the rest of the world to deal with airplane hijackings has no longer been used."

There was also a change in protocol after the Columbine High School massacre. In that attack the two were able to shoot victims while the police were outside setting up a perimeter. Now as a direct result of that attack police actively charge an active shooter, this is called Immediate Action Rapid Deployment. This is said to have saved dozens of lives in Virgina Tech alone.
>Who said otherwise?

Apparently a lot of HN posters. Looking at the siblings, you see the exact circle-jerk I criticized: "Only launching matters. Builders are so much smarter and more talented than maintainers. Code quality is a secondary concern that can be addressed later." And lets be honest, your comment itself did not really hint at any sort of balance -- it was highly insulting to anyone not writing code from scratch. "... tosses to feel better about themselves as they try to feed the family with sloppy seconds." Really? REALLY? That's horribly dismissive to anyone who has to work in an existing code base. Its shamefully dismissive.

> The person who kicked this off declared Notch a terrible programmer because he didn't build a runway in version 0.1 for people years in the future to do exactly what they wanted.

Said poster did not make the claim solely on the lack of mod-ability, but also on things like poor use of OpenGL APIs and extreme duplication of code. Some point between version 0.1 and release, one should take a step back, refactor, and clean up with an eye for maintainability.

Also, the fact that something is version 0.1 is not really an excuse for things like writing code that duplicates functionality. Its entirely possible to write an initial version that has passable code quality -- I've done it many times (and had coworkers comment on how easy it was to maintain). You just have to keep in mind that if you're writing throwaway code, it must be thrown away, and if that's not acceptable that you need to spend a little extra time on a maintaining a minimum level of quality.

> And yes, there is a type of maintenance programmer that I will absolutely disparage. It is the perpetually over-their-heads developer who is always surrounded by purportedly terrible code because it doesn't have a "insert your specific need here" structure.

Said programmers are often interested in improving the quality of the code-base. Your disparagement is misplaced. They are the people that take an unmaintainable mess and mold it into a reliable system. But of course, since the work" is laid in stone in front of you, all of those unknown lands revealed and detours and dead-ends made evident" that's work that anybody can do. And that statement is not horribly dismissing and insulting at all. Right.

I've had more sleepless nights due to "special snowflake" developers than the maintenance programmers you disparage.
What do you guys think about the terms of the deal? Isn't 15% a lot to give out for just 150k?
Though I am not sure that I understood your intention…

I think Google will eventually kill Android from Android+Chrome stack. Just like MS did on DOS for Windows. Chrome on Android is just a temporal form, and there's no reason not to run Chrome directly on the hardware. (why do they stick to PNaCL which never be adopted by competitors?) Actually Chrome was born to do that from first. And since they decided to go Chrome, Android is just an obstacle to interact to hardware from Chrome as an OS.

In my imagination, even on the best scenario, the future of Android is the MS-DOS on Windows. An emulation layer on top of Chrome OS.
I thought the cockpit doors were actually sealed until the plane landed, i.e. the pilots couldn't open them even if they wanted to?
Steam is included in the Linux Mint 16 repositories and you shouldn't have issues installing it from the package manager. Or you can always "apt-get install steam". Like most Linux applications, you are better off installing the application from the package manager instead of from the upstream website.
It's up to you, but mostly, yeah, you write out as much into the shared code area (C#) as possible then, write up/wire up your UI layer using native layout tooling. How far you go to using stuff like iOS storyboards or just doing code-based implementations (C#) is up to you. You have the flexibility.

This yields a massive reduction in time and cost associated with managing multiple code bases while holding onto the native experience.

It's not quite as fluid as html+css, but you don't hear nearly the performance-horror stories.
Surprise, new Rails vulnerabilities
Please use Persona, it's this idea but much more thoroughly thought out and tested.

Here is a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJff23UdNAI

If you have not heard of Persona, or have heard of it but don't see what the big deal is / why it's different to "Login with google", "Login with twitter" etc, then go watch this video. It is a very elegant, decentralised solution to the login problem.
I'm kind of curious, before doing a live coding session or anything like that has anyone used a snippet of code from the codebase and asked the candidate to go through the code and see if the candidate understands it / feels comfortable with their coding style?
Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
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Start a new silkroad
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Fantasypros.com has this feature. They allow you to import 1 team for free, and pay if you want more. You could definitely compete with them, though. Their site has become fairly cluttered. Keep this one simple and focused on injuries is your best bet, imo.
Remember, one plane did. After hearing about what happened to the other three planes, the passengers realized what was going on, and (almost) took back the plane. This was all on the spur of the moment, yet they rose to the occasion. If they had known what was going on slightly earlier than they did, they could have stopped the terrorists getting into the cockpit in the first place, and then they would have saved their plane as well.
I really don't like the fact that they tout using VS to create and publish apps right there on the homepage however you have to purchase the ultimate package at $119 a month in order to do this. you would think that every package would include this feature if its their main advertised feature.
How do you solve first account problem? If this gets used by email hosting, and I am creating my first email ID
New York Paw Reader = Who wants to invest in this startup?
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Nice work.

It seems that you can only search by entering the first name. It will be cool to search with last name only.

For the players pictures, did you think about the potential legal problem?
Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
Exactly. A lot of work is proprietary and confidential. Should you have a side project to show, sure, if you can do that without getting fired, or worse sued. As a salaried employee, In the past, I have signed employment contracts that basically state they own anything I write. I sure I'm not alone.
Pointless minutiae:

Hercules was a video card, not a terminal. The color for monochrome is defined by the monitor, of course. Green phosphor CRTs were quite common in the IBM PC world (starting with IBM's original 5151 monitor I think), but for terminals actually used on Unix machines other colors were more typical. The VT-100 series were blue, I believe; and later DEC terminals went with amber. White was reasonably common. I don't think I ever used a real terminal on a Unix box with a green phosphor.
> I was expecting a single string with a complex waveform, with additional pulls changing that waveform

Actually, that's exactly what you are seeing - by pulling the middle sample down to the bottom every time you click, the "spring-like" pull of the sample to the left and the sample to the right (see the Theory section) trigger additional waves that propagate, reflect on the walls, and interfere with the original one.