skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Also, as that bug suggests, we don't actually do any normalisation at all yet.)
Right, that explains why we hear about this exact scenario playing out all the time... oh wait.
Oops! You're right, I had that initialism wrong. I've corrected it to DPMS.

Also, I will concede that it wouldn't be cheap to add the features I want, but I'd nevertheless pay a small premium to see them happen.
Rankban I believe is the way that HN will put highly ranked people down at the bottom of the page for a longer period of time in the comments, to encourage people to read the other comments despite the highly ranked people likely being insightful. After some number of points or time they'll get ranked fairly based on the comment but it's a way to get insightful comments from new people.

Slowban i'm not sure, but maybe just rate limiting the comments that they can post?
Here's Tesla's (obviously much more expensive and with less DIY cred) center console concept: http://shop.teslamotors.com/collections/model-s/products/pre... .
I suspect the rising popularity of dual airbags helped the demise of the middle front seat.
"Backed down" in this context seems to mean "went away politely without answering any questions". Leading with verification and diatribing afterwards leaves you with some documentation, or a strong implication that they're a troll. She just went in the wrong order, which is honestly understandable but leaves us with an unverifiable story.
why are they 'aesthetically ugly'? do you mean they don't have windows with glossed borders?
I interviewed for amazon a few months ago. While the first round went fairly well, I was badly prepared for the second round and I didn't get through. And in hindsight, I was not ready to relocate to South Africa (it was for the capetown office).

Anyway, coming to my point. We were talking about the job and the company, when the interviewer mentioned that the company has this policy of saving money and not paying top rung salaries to their employees. This wasn't an issue for me (coming from an even smaller startup, it is still a step up for me), but its relevant to your question.

I think you can try interviewing with them and see where it goes.
There is a better way to visualize it.

Do click on the link:
http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7033047

Unfortunately, this chart is arranged badly. But you can glean the information by comparing columns.

First huge difference: N > S (biggest of all!)
Next difference: T > F (more pronounced amongst Ns)
Next difference: I > E (more pronounced amongst NTs)

Note that there is almost no difference along the J/P axis.
Try Glassdoor for reviews, interview, and salaries to get idea. Ten years of relevant Java experience will net you about $150K in Seattle area. There is no harm in pursuing further, worst case scenario, you turn Amazon down due to lower comp. What group has been approaching you from Amazon? I am currently in middle of interview process with AWS for non-development role.
That is a false statement. Please try understand copyright law when making statements about it.

Copyright impose restrictions, and GPL gives permission where you do not have any. If you get sued for copyright infringement, its your job to waive the GPL as your permission to distribute. The legal permission granted in the GPL is what protect your distribution, and without it, anything requiring copyright permission is illegal.

Words have meanings indeed, and the word restrictions is thus wrong, plain and simple. The GPL provide permission under a set of requirements. This is true for any software license, including BSD/MIT.

So the obviously false claims are yours here, Im sorry to tell you. If you don't want to be granted permission under the license, all you need to do is stop infringing the copyright of the author. That and possible pay compensation for any current act of infringement.
Right. That's one reason I'd never make a purchase from a site that requires a money order.
There is already a demo for the Rift where you are placed in a virtual cinema complex (multiple screens, a patron walks past, the dorky carpet, etc). From the main hall, you can enter a cinema to watch an existing movie or choose one from your hard drive to play. It enables you to choose whichever seat you want which is a funny gimmick.
They purchased other industry at least, through stocks.
Looking at movies from the 80's and even the 90's it's kind of painful to see the perception of technology. Not because the technology is obsolete today and that in some way is hilariously funny, but because you can feel the hubris at that time as people thought of them self as being at the forefront.

Now I used to think that we the humanity grown out of that hubris. That our kids will never be able to mock us because of the old technology we once perceived as cutting edge, simply because we gotten more distanced to our self no longer perceiving our self as being on the forefront in a world that's always changing.

But right now I feel like we're back in the hubris of the 80's. We will tell our kids about the time when every one was supposed to have a 3d printer at home. The material was super expensive, the material didn't hold up to anything, and who is going to have time to manufacture stuff at home when we don't even make our own food any more? And our kids will laugh at us for ever getting so out of touch with reality.
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I think they are getting ahead of themselves, especially with drones, and autonomous cars. Also that company "personal" that they list, I looked at the site and they run an auto-fill app for online "personal info" forms. Chrome already does that... doesn't it? I liked their "Faraday Zones" I thought that was a cool concept. Will it happen, I don't know.
Anyone know, is a Windows machine required for the step of applying the mentioned firmware fix to this monitor?
Nope! The monitor "boots" and patches from a file on a USB key. It's fairly painless.
It's accurate measure for the supply side of the markets. If that number reaches 0% then there isn't any available workforce and wages rise sky high.
Michal Migurski speaking at Urban Airship
As long as all cars involved in a crash are insured, then the insurance companies can split the cost equally. If any additional liability can be pinned on one car or another, or one manufacturer or another, then they can pay additional costs proportional to that liability. In any case, the number of deaths, claims, and the cost of insurance will be much lower than it is today so likely few will have any complaints.
I think that's been a common complaint/question, and IIRC, Elon said they're going to have some kind of rack option
This is the future of gaming. I wonder if it uses some sort gyroscope to track position like the iPhone does.
Oh god. It's Perl. And no need to drag it through the mud here. It's pretty much the only language that gets Unicode right. It has nothing in common with the abject misery that is PHP. Perl came out in '87. Erlang came out in '86. I don't know what you're high on, other than trends and trendwhores.

Clojure isn't new. Not to take a dig at Rich Hickey, but everything he is doing with immutable objects was done more than a decade ago by the likes of Henry Baker (http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/home.html). Of course, everything that has ever been tried at all has been tried in some variant of Lisp/Scheme at one point in time.
Poll: Does your office have a pet?
Serious question: There's been a heated debate in the BugHerd office the last couple of days about getting a cat for the office. They've even set about creating a @BugHerdCat twitter account with which to taunt me.

I'm personally against it for a bunch of reasons, but the team (in all seriousness) are quite adamant that a pet for the office would be great for the team and the office in general. About half the team are cat lovers, the other half are either indifferent or dog lovers.

Aside from all the obvious difficulties associated with having a pet, I'm genuinely curious if this is a common thing for startups/businesses in general? Does your office have a pet?
We have a cat
We have a dog
We have a fish
We have some other animal
No, it's a dumb idea
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Seriously, none of the companies mentioned by name are particularly innovative or ahead of the curve (e.g. WeChat, which has tons of competitors with similar feature sets, user numbers, and prospects).

I can't really see any reason to mention them at all unless there's a bit of back-scratchin' going on...

[Moreover, given the generally random nature of the other "predictions" (some are just stupid, and are no way going to happen, and others are just repeating common wisdom) and I wonder if the purpose of the entire list is to push those companies....]
Ah, yes it would have helped for you to mention iMessage up front.

As a heavy user of iMessage (and sometimes text when the network falls back to it) I've never encountered this. I had a 4S for a long time, and now message regularly with several 4 and 4S users, and I've never seen this, nor heard complaints about it from my contacts... sorry if that isn't helpful but at least I can tell you it's not happening to everyone.

Knowing the people I message with, fwiw, we keep our OS versions up to date, and nobody is jailbroken... I'm not saying you are any different, just reporting what I know.
That would be a deal breaker, but lenovo and asus make nearly identical IPS displays.
Thanks. Good suggestions.
You are right, theres a risk and challenge to solve. I was suggesting oft not the complete profile and learnable auto updating profile information but only the most basics one Name, Age, Sex, Location, Email Address. Only these basics which are required to use a website or a app. I agree, security will be the key here. I am hopeful in future, someone will come up with a solution, till then the bitter pill :)
Glad you're also excited!

You can currently use the app on your desktop browser using the same url (https://app.workshopcafe.com) and get the same feature set as you get on your phone (Except for things that require a phone like calling or texting in orders). No need to switch from your laptop!
A persistently missing name is often a sign that the concepts haven't been fully worked out yet. In you guys' case that could be exciting. It could mean that what you're doing is newer and more emergent than you've yet realized. If so, your job is not to name the thing, but to follow it as it emerges and let it teach you what it is. Names come almost as a corollary. Until they do, lack of official names for the core concepts (what could be more core than "student" and "school"?) is an asset, not a liability.

You probably already have a laboratory running natural experiments in this area: the conversations of the people in your groups. If they lack official language for what they're doing, they have no choice but to make something up. Those can be good creative conditions. If I were you, I might try to get them to tell me what the names are, by listening closely to the words they use in conversation and to which formulations feel easiest and most alive. This often works better when people aren't consciously trying to come up with names but do it spontaneously when talking about something else.

By the way, maybe you shouldn't be down on "school" for what you're doing. It's true that people have a lot of preconceptions about school. But it's also true that your usage is historically deep. "School" didn't originally mean "child processing factory" or whatever it is now. Here's what Etymonline has for it [1]:

"place of instruction," Old English scol, from Latin schola "intermission of work, leisure for learning; learned conversation, debate; lecture; meeting place for teachers and students, place of instruction; disciples of a teacher, body of followers, sect," from Greek skhole "spare time, leisure, rest ease; idleness; that in which leisure is employed; learned discussion;"

That seems pretty close to what you're doing. Historical meanings often have resonance and sometimes make comebacks. I wouldn't relinquish this one if I were you. Imagine if you are part of a resurgence of the original meaning of schools. How cool would that be?!

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=school

p.s. You might consider "mentor" for what your web site calls "resident", and then "resident" instead of "student"...I think "resident" could go either way.
I live in California (SF). They allow me to see "in network" doctors (which, in general, is quite silly).
A tiling window manager would blow your mind. Anyone whose productivity is improved by using tmux should really try out something like i3 or xmonad or awesomewm.

I use i3: http://i3wm.org/

My vim-like config: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/dotfiles/blob/master/i3/config
No mention of virtual reality (not augmented reality) or cryptocurrencies? Those would be my picks for 2014.
IHaskell Notebook
One of my favorite Biblical verses. I took the liberty of copying it out:

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor wealth to the discerning nor favor to men of ability; for time and chance overtake them all.
'in addition to employing who Sell calls the "best crypto people," Sell said that individual messages are bound to their intended device. "Even in 20 years or 100 years, if the NSA miraculously breaks these [encryption] equations, they still wouldn't be able to read these messages."'
uhh, right. And of course this awesome uncrackable crypto relies on private keys stored on teenagers iphones.
I've always found the profusion of infix operators in Haskell to be heinously confusing, and seriously degrades readability and usability of libraries.limits on the o
I do all these things in a terminal. I used not to. But once I started doing things the CLI-way, I never looked back and have yet to discover a tool offering even half the productivity gained from keeping my fingers firmly planted on the home row.
However, if you are locked into using an environment where doing the things you've said requires mousing or multiple windows with tons of resolution, then you have my sympathies.
> When your country hits the oil jackpot, your job is to convert the oil money to real industry. You don't splurge on mega-hotels, distribute the money frivolously, etc. You need to use it to create the basis for a non-oil-dependent economy.

In many cases, building mega-hotels is preparing for a post-oil future by establishing yourself as a tourism center. Witness Dubai, which basically has run out of oil but sustains its economy nonetheless.

Abu Dhabi, also in the Emirates, has followed the Norwegian model by building up a massive sovereign wealth fund which can replace/stabilize oil revenue indefinitely. Their fund is the second largest in the world, despite having a substantially smaller population (it works out to about $1.4 million per citizen).
The middle front seat is alive and well in pickups.
Not crazy at all. I have been dreaming on working on something similar even before watson was announced (though i was just a Freshmen back then). And was hellishly jealous of that team. So I can totally understand your motivations for this.

Do hit me up if you'd welcome help with this. Email is in HN profile
Well no, basically our audience is mostly made up of kids in school. That's the main problem.
If there was only one unmapped city it would be considered rare yet there would still be thousands and thousands of people who could share your anecdote. Adding yours to this thread (albeit without any information about it) brings the number to 2 - for all I know there could be hundreds of them, but there could also only be those 2.
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Fuck Your Government
It doesn't matter what government demands your obedience - but this is mainly to the nazis in the USA.

Washington D.C. should be wiped off the face of the earth. All the politicians from the white house to the DOJ to the military to the congress to the fuckers wearing that blue uniform should be repeatedly stabbed in the face while their nutsacks burnt off with a blowtorch.

After their families are sold into sex slavery and their dogs are taken out back to be shot their names should be obviated from recorded human history. These evil pieces of fucking shit don't deserve any remembrance - they are nothing less than evil incarnate.

These sacks of pure unadulterated fuck should never terror the human race again. Their nazi flag waving practices done.

Go back to work, pay your taxes, just keep in mind that I didn't:

* steal your work output for 4 months out of the year every fucking year
* senselessly murder your generation 1/2 the world around then murder a much larger % of non-us resident folk
* relentlessly spy on you and then repeatedly lie about it
* proclaim you my slave even though government is a human institution - FUCK YOU

in short - fuck your government and fuck you if you support it - I ain't your bitch!
Precisely. There's an engineering trade off between processing power, display size, resolution, brightness, and battery life. I don't think battery life has ever been the feature that sells gadgets.

I read somewhere that SJ set the bar for iPad battery life at ~10 hours, and I think that set consumer expectations across the industry. Think of the iPad 3: it got thicker and heavier, in order to maintain battery life when faced with the retina screen.

My hypothesis: For each device category, there is an "accepted" battery life that new devices must meet. Beyond that, what sells better: a 15% boost in speed or in battery life?

When people stop using performance benchmarks and start using battery life, then companies may take notice. Until then, resign yourself to 1-2 days of battery on a smartphone.
I saw the Omni when it was announced, but I was never convinced of it's potential. A few things about it bother me:

1) Strafing is extremely unnatural. It involves standing still in the center, lifting one leg to the edge, and "swiping" it down towards the center. It's a very impractical move for any type of game where strafing is strategic.

2) Backwards motion is extremely difficult. Try to find a video of someone doing it effectively. It's rarely shown because it's not easy to do. This removes this movement as well from any game where backwards movement is strategic.

3) http://i.imgur.com/tsccO4H.jpg Not trying to be mean, but the visual of an adult using the Omni looks very much like a baby using a walker. I believe this limits the Omni to a product you'll only want to use by yourself, when nobody is around, because it looks silly.

4) The current version looks flimsy. Maybe they've beefed up the structure of the thing, but any video that I've watched has shown serious strain on the upright portions of the Omni itself.

5) The fact that you have to wear special shoes, and perform a procedure to get the Omni within reaching distance of a keyboard/mouse, and lock yourself in to the mechanism... seems like quite a bit of overhead to play a game essentially handicapped in terms of movement.

My prediction is that some people are going to be excited about Omni, buy it, try it a few times, and realize how limiting it is in actual gameplay, how limited they are in using their computer, the fact that they look silly to others, and the overhead involved in getting dressed and locked, and realize it isn't worth it. They'll push it to the side to collect dust, or try to sell it on craigslist.
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Australians on average work 1855 hours a year, or 38.6 hours a week if you assume they work 48 weeks a year.... US workers are second, averaging 1835 hours a year, followed by Japan (1821) and New Zealand (1817). Finland (1730) led the table in Western Europe, followed by the much-maligned British workers, who put in 1708 hours a year - three hours a week less than Australians.[1]

Hmm. Stereotypes, hey?

[1] http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/give-us-a-break-austr...
The shipping was there first; it has been one of the most important industries in Norway since the late 1700s.
Well thank god it was something normal and mundane like chemicals instead of evil sorcerous nuclear I keep hearing about.
For me, just turning my attention (and my head) to a second monitor is too much. I greatly prefer multiple workspaces/virtual desktops to multiple screens. I'm fine with completely switching contexts when the cost of context switching is 0.
It’s who you hardly know that counts
When I worked in Stockholm, I had a few colleagues who preferred to take a large portion of their generous (32 day) annual holiday in february or so and go someplace warm. Working through the summer is not unpleasant: the pace is slower, the office is quiet, the evenings are long, and you could still have a week or two off.
It turns out "pull" templating matches the mental model of most people much better, is easier to understand, and is in particular useful for ye olde typical website.

And for that I found I was happier using a streaming parser and writing event handlers to grab data as it went by and formatting as needed in my handler code.

XSLT might be a good fit if your logic depends on whole-document handling. For example, you need to know how many foo elements there are in order to generate a TOC. Or something where you're explicitly working of irregularities and optional data so you need to have the whole XML doc at hand and apply your transformations "all at once" so to speak.
No; I like the idea, but its impractical.

Maybe if we were in a different location
Hey, no worries!

There is a time and place for everything.

I am not criticizing your writing style. I just found it odd to find one like it at the top of HN is all.
Even worse, whether government activity is labelled 'intervention' does not follow any sound logical pattern in practice.

To make it painfully obvious: When was the last time you heard somebody characterize the existence of limited liability companies as 'intervention'? Who out there consistently calls copyright law an 'intervention'?

It would be possible to use the term 'intervention' consistently. In actual practice, it is (typically) only used as a rhetorical device to support the speaker's preconceived political position. That causes the term to become loaded.
My Android phone opens my garage door when I approach my house on my motorcycle.
You and me both. Not that I'm complaining. :)
What's the birthplace? I always heard that about the town I grew up in, but I figured every place along the route just said that.
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