skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a slight tangent, but. . .a few years ago I interviewed (internally) for a dev/mgr position for the group I was currently working in (not team lead - I was already a team lead). I would still be coding at least 50% of the time. I was already reporting to the hiring manager and was physically located in close proximity to him, so he saw me frequently throughout the day.

For the interview, I dressed as I always did - and we were not a suit type of place. At the start of the interview, he told me he was disappointed that I had not dressed up. I was stunned but did not respond and the interview proceeded.

I got the job and after a couple of weeks, I asked him why he wanted me to dress up for the interview. I asked if it was simply because he wanted to know if I could dress appropriately for the customer. He replied that was'nt it; he just though it would show appropriate respect for him and the position.

I though "this is reason # 102 why I really didn't want to move up the chain closer to you".
One alternative, for a site that earns money based on page views, would be to charge a very small subscription fee for its RSS feed. I would certainly pay that for some of the feeds I subscribe to.
Some of the positives of this system of justice do still remain - Personally, I would still approach a UK police officer in the street to ask for help without fear[1], whereas I don't think I'd ever go and ask for help from a US cop except in the direst of circumstances (mainly because of their reputation, and that they are all armed).

That said, your criticisms of the current force are definitely valid ones, and I would like to see them addressed by a political movement to restore these principles in full to British policing.

[1] with a few exceptions - not armed officers at airports, or police officers at protests whether or not in riot gear.
Android Bound Service: IPC with Messenger
InoReader, I tried like 10 alternatives to GR and InoReader clicked.
When they say "casual atmosphere", you should think about people taking time off work to drive their kids to baseball practice. Not potheads arriving at 12PM at work.
Are you a lark or an owl? It really is genetic.
Yeah the issue is in recovery. As a general rule, when I've attempted to implement something like this, I run into the issue of "if I can recover, they can force me to" :( would be seriously interested in a solution if you come up with one!
Mozilla has Emscripten. I don't think they're really JS only.
Ah, didn't know about RQ. Thanks!
Abuse of authority only comes from the public sector (aka as government). In the private sector you get a complaint and you're fired.

Private defense and private security is the future.
Auth with JSON Web Tokens
Apparently not powerful enough to convince the programmer that mixing Python and HTML is a bad idea.
I love how Chad puts the disclaimer at the bottom stating that he believes all of this note is probably obvious, but the hard part is actually practicing it.

That is so very true.

If I try and think about everyone who I know, whom I would describe as 'successful', empathy is probably the most common attribute that they all have. Meaning that within a few seconds of talking to them, I can actually get the feeling that they care about what I am saying and what I am doing. Most don't try and guide me in a particular way, they simply try to see if I know where I am headed on my journey.

Kudos to Chad for putting together this post!
OT: Honey developers (a popular Chrome extension ~ 700k user) was approached by malware companies and are doing AMA on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vjj51/i_am_one_of_the...
I guess we can green house gas like rockstars now.
Good thing he doesn't need to get a PCI audit. I wish we could get away with only a CC number and expiry date and email.
Another big plus in Empathy: Mindfulness meditation.

If you want to, use the Neurosky Mindwave Mobile headset. It's around 100$ and uses EEG to detect whether you are focused (in mindfulness mediation, called "attention"). I even think it can tell if you are experiencing empathy: Neurosky's "meditation" score seems to tilt whenever you think about anything really cute. Everything within limits of course...

Anyway, mindfulness meditation has been shown to at least appear to increase empathy. I've felt the difference too. It's way easier to "do" empathy once you have the mental muscle to stop judging and just observe. This has been shown in research as well.
Didn't find any link at the site. Here is the speech( I think it is the one the article is referring to): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4MKm2uFqVQ
Is there a way for a user to protect it self against control changes in such extension companies?
Remembering SOPA/PIPA
The first thing authoritarian states do is take the guns.
Technology and jobs: Coming to an office near you
ORMs are only trusted if the SQL they create seems sane when compared to how you'd write the SQL manually. After six years with Hibernate and SQLAlchemy (via TurboGears), I still turn on SQL statement logging to check what's being sent for each transaction.
Couldn't agree more. (Self-promo alert) In fact, I even gave a lightning talk about the science of empathy and why it's so powerful. Video here: http://www.databoxdigital.com/2013/07/01/science-of-empathy/
Chrome 32 vs. Windows
I mention that very research in the talk I posted in a comment on the parent thread. (Had already submitted before seeing your comments.) It's fascinating stuff.
I believe the biggest problem by far is a lack of VC money in Europe. In the US, it seems like you can show up at a VC with nothing more than an idea written on a bar tab and a pot-smoking coder and you get tens of thousands of VC money (obviously exaggerated).

In the EU "startup scene", if such a thing exists, the only chance to get meaningful amounts of money is if you take loans on something (your house, car, whatever) or clone a US-proved concept/site/technology.

THIS is what needs to change. Europe badly needs VC firms/banks which can readily supply capital!

Edit: also, we (ESPECIALLY Germans, badly burned by the Deutsche Telekom IPO desaster, and now the Prokon scandal) do not have a large stock market. Stock trading here is for the dead rich and banks only, I believe. And without private (stock) capital, no VCs...
The Job That Takes Over Your Life
Well plus also the animals get the antibiotics in a very low dose all the time. If a human takes antibiotics it's in large doses for a week or two. Which one of those situations sounds like a long-term incubator for resistance?
IOS 7 Blurred Backgrounds and Custom Transitions
> Couldn't you just turn the circuit upside down

"surround" in my dictionary means all directions.

Didn't even Dell sell servers with a small amount of explosives so that the disk and memory go boom on unauthorized open? (amount comparable to the amount in in airbag -- yes, your airbag has explosives) At least one of the brand names did, as I recall.
Auto-refreshing Google Chrome on file changes
JavaScript Dependencies & Modules
WWW Foundation & other organisations unite to sign mass surveillance statement
NSA bribed $10 million to Security firm RSA to Backdoor Encryption algorithm
The NSA, in a secret deal of $10 million with the security firm RSA, incorporated a flawed algorithm for generating random numbers into its products, creating a backdoor into encrypted communications
Where is the most important pattern: "Use as least JS as possible [preferring more reliable server-side languages]"?
You can if you use Stripe. Well...you need the CVC number.
Not so much apathy but a lack of any way to change things. We get exactly two choices and both suck (in slightly different ways) plus media that tries to play up differences than don't make any difference. No one wants a revolution which these days is generally an exercise in self destruction. So what can you do to create change? The politicians like Obama know this only too well, the system is designed and supported to make real change unlikely or even impossible. For all we will ever know both parties collude to keep the system in place.
That's basically on of the main reasons why I built getssl.me. I was fed up with the over-complicated process of buying a SSL certificate.

Your variation seems even simpler and more straightforward - congrats on launching and all the best for your project!
Tizen has a native C++ toolchain just like the Android NDK.
We are apathetic, b/c we are tired. It doesn't seem to matter how much we complain or protest anymore, most issues only seem get worse. Fact is, there is almost no accountability to the people any longer. And the powers that be know it. Worse, they have the general population divided so strongly between right and left that it almost seems like a civil war is on the verge of breaking out. Again, the powers that be know it --they actually encourage it so they can use it to do whatever they want. How much longer can we go on this way?

I'm half a mind to say we just end the charade, dissolve the federal government and replace it with a simple joint economic and security treaty between the states.
Risk Analysis for FlowingMail (p2p mail system)
An initial draft of an XML document that lists the risks & requirements for FlowingMail is available. Comments, suggestions, critics and insults are welcome. You can use the issue tracker here https://bitbucket.org/flowingmail/protocol/issues?status=new&status=open (for issues regarding the FlowingMail protocol) or here https://bitbucket.org/flowingmail/riskanalysis/issues?status=new&status=open (for issues regarding the risks & requirements schema)
Chelsea vs Man Utd Live Stream
http://thecodist.com/article/all-i-need-to-know-to-be-a-bett...
That's a terrible article. The little ice age had a large number of causes most of which were local to Europe or at most the Northern Hemisphere.

The main point about the sun quieting down is that it makes inter planetary travel survivable since the largest source of radiation in space close to Earth is the Sun.

This could well be a godsend that lets us start manned missions to the planets without having to wait 50 years for inventing new ways to keep people alive in high radiation environments, e.g. either with increased biological cell repair or physical/magnetic shields. The last time we left Earth's magnetic field we got lucky and missed a flair that could have incapacitated/killed an Apollo mission:

http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/0...
Go Right
A Point of View: Sex and the French
Nokia Lumia 1520 Mini Features Leaked
I tend to wear a clean (buttoned) shirt and "nice jeans", along with a stylish leather jacket.

I've not worn a suit for an interview in 10+ years.

(To be honest I've ruled myself out of positions in the past where where non-customer-facing sysadmins/developers were expected to dress up in suits ever day. (i.e. Banks.))
Python and Flask are great, but the secret ingredient here seems to be Stripe. His goal was payment processing, and Stripe made everything else nearly trivial.
I agree with this article and love it but take it one step further.

I think doing 'what you love' is a failed premise for several reasons.

a>When you turn your passion into a job your passion becomes a job.

b>You only 'think' you love it. Your social circles have conditioned you to love a certain subject. An inner city kid is going to be more likely interested in the NBA and Rapping, than social media and solar power. Just like the average person from the middle east will be more interested in Islam than the average person from the South. (Stereotypes can be proven by statistics.)

c>You will change. As you get older think of all the new things you've fallen in love with. New passions. New interests. And the things you have fallen out of love with. I'm not convinced people are static enough to love 'one thing' for 40 years.

I think what people really want out of a career is freedom. Intellectual freedom, freedom to manage their time,prestige, respect, expertise, etc.

I think these are the things one should be pursuing instead of doing 'what you love'.
The set of things that I am planning to buy at walmart is small compared to what would exist at the fulfillment center.
Even if many people felt they could actively do something about it, they are in direct opposition to all of the people who mindlessly undermine their country by spouting rhetoric like "well, we have to give up some privacy if we want to be safe" and have convinced themselves that the government has done nothing against any American and are only interested in "bad guys" (despite the countless documented cases of the government spying on girlfriends, attractive strangers, blackmailing politicians, activists, etc).

There are so many hurdles, well beyond apathy. If there were real meaningful action anyone could take, they would also face the threat of a government that attacks those who criticize it. If that weren't an issue, you would still have to contend not with the apathetic, but with those who enthusiastically accept and promote what is being done in some bizarre sense of self-preservation from a big scary world, because they're deathly afraid that some evil underwear bomber is going to blow them up next time they're on vacation to grandma's house.
Sorry, I was being lazy, presumably because I am from europe.
Ask HN: Best tech for monitoring elderly relatives
My wife's grandmother is 93, fiercely independent and recently had a stroke which means she may not be able to live alone anymore. I'm researching cameras, motion sensors, alert bracelets and monitoring services so see if we can keep her in the house she loves.

Any suggestions and technology that you've successfully used for similar situations?
Entrepreneurs Must Not Confuse Action With Results
I does mention freebies in the patent - that would assume they have a confidence level where they ship something to you before it's bought.
Stock Video Sites
This guy seems like a total piece of shit. He gives little respect to his family or his employees.
It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. Therefore, it is inconsistent to hear something of the Way of Confucius or the Way of the Buddha, and say that this is the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.
YouType Keybaord
YouType is a new application for Android that replaces your device's screen keyboard and allows you to type faster and easier in a way that is always new. YouType is an efficient and fun keyboard that improves user experience thanks to an innovative design.
The combination of a good font, a simplified design and the many studies and user tests that we have done, have contributed to the creation of a keyboard that provides a simple, fun, and better way of typing.
YouType is full of different designs, made to please all users. The beautiful designs go along with great, innovative functions. A swipe function allows you to quickly change the skin of your keyboard simply by swiping your finger across the bottom of the keyboard UI.
YouType is also the first keyboard for Android that allows you, with the Swipe Selection function, to move the cursor by simply dragging your finger over the keyboard UI. You can also move the cursor and make a selection by holding down shift while swiping. Once a selection has been made, a very useful pop-up window will appear on the screen allowing you to copy, cut, or paste the selected text. Lastly, YouType will be the first keyboard to launch a Color-Wheel function which will allow users to customize their keyboard even more by choosing among thousands of colors. New designs and themes will be also available later on this spring.

You can buy YouType on Google Play. There, you will also find YouType - Black which has the same features of the Flat version but a much more elegant and unique style. It also allows you to change the style of your font from Thin to Bold with a simple swipe.
So dell can predict when their parts fail, and charge you for it? I thought the warranty period thing was a myth...
I'd love a shop that only sells things that I would want to buy.
Their annoying UX on Android as well as on the “desktop” and their hijacking of URLs for sharing (enforced redirect) are the reasons I’ve stopped using feedly. This is just another nail in the coffin.

Sadly, stunts like these will drive even more people to publish only excerpt feeds, which is very frustrating for users and further impacts the already declining RSS ecosystem.
All browsers: why can't you display an intermediate font while downloading the custom font-faces?

It just sucks so badly. Most time I'm stuck on a 8 KByte/sec cellphone connection, and I have to wait YEARS just to read text - or press ESC to force display of system fonts.
This is what happens with AMO-hosted Firefox extensions. Whenever the extension author pushes out an update, it first has to go through review as described at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/re...
The withering of mechanisms to effect change follows directly from apathy. Conversely, those mechanisms flourish with the existence of an engaged, informed citizenry.

We have no one to blame for the current state of affairs but ourselves. To attempt to pin the blame on anything else is to fail to accept that responsibility, which is tantamount to failing to recognizing the problem. And of course, if we fail to recognize the problem, nothing will ever change.
Warning flag to anyone who watches this for curiosity: the formula for interest is most certainly not (principle * ROI)
Agreed. This is freakin' magic:

try:
charge = stripe.Charge.create(
amount=int(product.price * 100),
currency='usd',
card=stripe_token,
description=email)
except stripe.CardError, e:
return """..err.."""
print charge
Undercover Googlers Defend Surveillance Valley
It's not stupidity for everyone, it's just that every recourse outside of violence has been captured or gamed by those truly in power in the US. Plus the media has been captured 99.9999 percent.

And it's not bad enough for the US public to support violence, plus violence would be futile anyway against the military, no matter the number of private firearms. The elite are just waiting for enough automation in society so they can "cull" the masses they consider worthless.
I find we're using "publisher" in a quite broad manner any more.

When I think of a publisher, I think of words on paper. Specifically a newspaper or book. As a publisher, I convey the words to some permanent form (a publication) which is then broadcast in some fashion.

The point here? I own the words. I put my name on them.

But now we're asked to believe that publishing involves some kind of deeper interaction. If I'm a publisher, I guess, I'm supposed to be creating an immersive, interactive (perhaps "sticky" or "addictive") model of content consumption. People who leave my words alone but take away my interaction with consumers are stealing my works.

This just sounds like a playground fight over who gets to be the newspaper delivery boy -- and the reason it's so important isn't because of the content, genre, or authorship of the work in question. Everybody agrees on that. This is important because content creation in 2014 is about a fight for eyeballs. Get them on the page, get them to join an email list, get them involved in the comments sections, get them coming back.

Publishers and publications, at least in the way the words have generally been used, have little to do with anything here. The fight is because everybody's looking to psychologically manipulate the poor schmuck who's reading the publication, not for any loftier reason than that.
Probably a dumb question but it seems as if the thermostat is dumb. Ie all it is is an interface to the hardware.

If your Internet/wifi is spotty (very common)... Does your thermostat not work? Are you stuck being hot or cold?
I think at this point the smartphone OS's that are new Firefox OS, Ubuntu, and Tizen are bascially an attempt to stay relevant in a world where the primary computer is a phone or tablet, not a laptop or desktop.

All three of them exist more because of the companies that built them, than because there is a big gaping hole in the market that they fill. Without a big problem they are solving I think the market as a whole will shrug at their arrival sort of like the Palm Pre.
One solution for your problem could be that the Browser displays the font in the system font and when the costume font is loaded it can change to it.

I think chrome beta on android does that but iam not sure right now
I Assume I am Below Average

Derek Sivers: http://sivers.org/below-average
John Dobson, telescope designer, and open source astronomy advocate, dies at 98
Would it be a good idea to have a ycombinator for the games that need to be made. I imagine that if there existed a really good VR SDK, and distribute on Steam, that the cost of making said games could drop. I know the indie game industry exists now, but the VR industry is going to really need a breakout game and a ycombinator style funding an distribution model might work?
By the way, Pulse News has done this for a long time.

Share something from the Pulse app and it generates a pulse.me link which functions as an URL shortener through a browser, but redirects to their app install page on mobile.
People who speak about things which they know nothing about are the worst kind of fools.
I chose my laptop mainly on the quality and layout of the keyboard. Unlike the OP, I don't travel as much so I had more choices due to the fact I have 17.3" laptop.
If you'd like an opportunity to practice empathic listening, we'd welcome you to join us as a listener at www.7cupsoftea.com/listener. We provide training in active listening and a community of listeners to provide additional feedback and support. We have many people each day that come to us looking for a listening ear.

Another potential positive of empathic caring for another person is an increase in your own personal happiness. It doesn't come directly, but indirectly through helping another person.
European commentators see little to praise in Obama’s NSA changes
I don't know is this a forum for Python promotion?
Miyamoto Musashi 21 rules to live your life:
http://www.1000manifestos.com/miyamoto-musahi-21-rules-to-li...

Obstacle is the way:
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/2013/11/26/the-obsta...
Terrible article, as usual from the BBC when it comes to science.

There was a session at the last AGU meeting about the solar cycle which is more informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIhBEF94YlM

The discussion there contradicts the idea that scientists are suddenly 'baffled' by this. Some groups predicted the current low cycle based on the polar magnetic fields, and it seems like they are being proven right. Also it looks like there might be a ~100 year cycle but obviously we have to wait quite a long time to really say anything certain about that. We have measurements for solar cycles this low in the past, so we know it isn't unprecedented. It just hasn't happened in our lifetimes.
Recent versions of Internet Explorer use placeholder fonts by default.
I wonder if the NSA pays (directly or indirectly) Oracle to slow walk these Java applet vulnerability updates.
one issue I've found with this approach is that clients are now incentivized to use those hours each month regardless of whether they really need them. Inevitably this results in a whole host of disparate small tweaks and changes, which are a pain to deal with.
But how much of twitters tweets are webpage shares? That's the relevant comparison.
What is an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
Agreed, and this is really a sore point.
Would Second Choice Voting[1] help?

[1]: http://www.karlsims.com/second-choice-voting.html
How is the old website minimalistic? While I do agree the new design is confusing and put too much in form over function, the old website is way too cluttered IMO.