skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bower manages is downloading dependencies at a specific version and putting them in a folder. It does not wire/unwire them into my index.html. At this point I have to do that by hand. There are a lot of ways my project could be laid out. I might only want d3.js on my dashboard page, I might have a layout template where all of my html imports reside. I might want the files all concatenated together and downloaded in the browser as a single main.js. In it's current incarnation it's still a package manager... it makes packages available at a path. It's just not as useful as it could be if it were a bit more specific about project structure.
In the video he said those discs last 50 years, but that you can get them up to 1000 years.
It was nice while it (briefly) lasted.

RIP Moto line et al.
At 1:55 he says "FRID'd", he meant RFID'd, right?
Put things in perspective? Because other societies and governments are equally horrible, Communism isn't so bad? What kind of argument is this? I can point to a lot more examples.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_leap_forward
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_revolution
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_spring
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_rouge

There are many more of course, too numerous to put here. Mass starvation and death is not the exclusive domain of communism for sure, but communist societies of the past sure seem to have been prone to it. The "Communist" countries today that aren't complete shit-holes (like China and Vietnam) are the ones that have moved away from strict command economies and allowed markets to form.

As for Holodomor, I was just pointing that out because we're talking about Ukraine here. Whether through malicious intent or incompetence and mismanagement, Stalin's regime was still responsible for countless needless deaths.
Right. Much as food production is an alternative to exporting water, aluminum (or fertilizer) productions are alternatives to exporting energy.

You'll typically find aluminium smelters where electricity is cheap. E.g., the Pacific Northwest / Western Canada, where ample hydroelectric resources exist.
I could read that two ways and I'm not sure which you intended.

1.) That no matter how cheap we make things, it does no good if the production of those goods causes some to be so much poorer (even down to zero) that they still cannot afford it.

If that's what you meant, then we are in agreement.

2.) That we need to make things cheaper however we can, so that the poorest can afford it.

If that was your point, then well, that's the paradox. Some are poor (or poorer) because of the measures taken to produce cheap goods.

I think you meant 1.) but wasn't sure.
Ask HN: What do you call someone who has 20 apps released but can't code?
I wrote my first 3 Android apps and they sucked plus took a long time. So I switched gears to mockups, photoshop and outsourcing code. I have about 20 apps now, but I am not sure what yo call myself.<p>Is this a marketable skill within a company? What further training/degrees/etc. should I pursue?
Interesting, but you'd need a large corpus of pictures to compare - not quite as quick as reading EXIF data.
You know, Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have access to the metadata. And location. And facial recognition.

Seems like there's a simple ML classifier here to id phones with a sudden ownership change...

These companies could provide value back to their users for all the data they're hoovering up.
I have never heard of John Kay, but think it's normally a bad sign when someone believes that a very famous person they have never met or spoken to is talking directly to them through the media. It indicates that he is either a) crazy or b) so full of himself that believes that Bill Gates read his obscure book, and was so disturbed by its content that he decided to launch a worldwide PR campaign against the ideas contained in it. Either way, this is an interesting PR strategy.
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I don't like their indent guidelines, 2 spaces just feels incredibly "cramped" to me with Java. I understand it with an 80 or 100 col line limit (I also tend to 120, but 100's okay), but really, that's the only thing. I personally agree with most of this and we have warnings generated on commit (thanks Sonar!) if people don't follow some of these because they just lead to too many issues down the line that are really easy to accidentally skip over.

I wouldn't imagine it would be too hard to get an IDE auto-formatter to follow all of this (it's more or less what I use with mine, anyways).
I think that is a fair criticism of Google Glass. But I'm worried about my privacy in regards to governments, not fellow citizens. In fact, I think wearable computing like Google Glass could be a game changer in keeping governments accountable. It could be really convenient in recording what you believe to be police misconduct here in the States (instead of blatantly fumbling for your mobile). Or, provided it is affordable, it could be powerful tool to be handed out to people in the Sudan.
London had the IRA.
Ubiquitous surveillance in london is more socially acceptable than the very real possibility of being exploded by a terrorist.
> by keeping doing things that keeping them poor, like getting further down in debt, not acquiring new skills, not being productive and not expressing their creativity.

That's because they don't have the choice, or the chance, to do not do things. At least for the poor people in 3rd world countries. If they don't spend their entire day working for scraps, they (or more likely their children) could die the next day.
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Is it a signal that ARM based handset business (and technology) is peaked?)
It's not surprising to see this post from Lob; the first time I heard of them was actually at HackDuke, and then again at HackVirginia. I think they do an excellent job sponsoring hackathons, and the advice here reflects that.

I especially encourage companies that sponsor hackathons to offer live customer support; I remember needing to get information that wasn't available online (for a different company) during HackDuke, and just being frustrated that there were no representatives or support offered at 2 a.m.

One thing that they didn't mention in the article, though is offering samples. Lob and Twilio gave away credit to use their services, and that played a huge part in whether or not teams actually used their products.
If methane is being released, it should be burned. Methane is a more potent green house gas than CO2.

As a pinko commie treehugger (aka realist), I'm unenthusiastic about adding any more CO2 to our atmosphere.
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If you just want to keep up to date on interviewing skills, make a habit out of doing interview-style problems. I don't think you need to worry about wearing a suit or writing on a white board. Careercup is a fairly consistent source of interesting interview-style problems; I find myself perusing it sometimes even when I'm not remotely interested in another job, because a fair number of the problems are interesting in and of themselves and simple enough to not take up much of your time.

There are also plenty of other sites, usually with a competitive edge, like HackerRank or TopCoder. Doing problems like these really is not a waste of time even if you're completely content with your job. While a lot of it may seem like algorithmic trivia, you'll internalize it sooner than you might expect, and then you'll start finding real-world uses for some of these tricks and, more generally, your "mental overload" when thinking through a piece of tricky code will gradually go down and down.

Re: interviewing frequently just for practice, that's great if you're in an area with an abundance of tech companies. I think that could be risky if you're in a city with just a few that you'd want to work at, though. You don't want to bomb an interview at the only other company in your city you'd want to work for just because you were rusty and used them for practice.
There are probably more profitable ways to use that data against users rather than for them.
In my view, one thing about any wearable device is that people form an impression of what you're doing with it. That's what makes it socially acceptable or not in the long run.

Earphones / buds / blueteeth don't have unlimited social acceptance. If you're talking to me while wearing headphones, I might ask you to take them off, especially if you're one of my kids. If I see you wearing them while while careening towards me on your bike, I might dive for cover. If I see someone wearing them while communing with nature, I might think they're weird.

If any prediction is possible, I'd guess that Google Glasses will also gain some sort of conditional social acceptance based on what they are capable of being used for.
LUL, thanks for the bug report. I'll take a look!
11. Bring API Keys

So many times I've wanted to use a vendor's API but have been held back because it's a Friday night and I need to have an account vetted by a CSR before I can get an API key (looking at you AT&T). This is nonsensical. If you have a vetting process, I suggest that you create say 5-10 hackathon specific accounts and have the necessary login/API keys to send to competitors. Then rekey/reset the passwords on the account for the next event. You will be loved for the ease of setup and if the project becomes something bigger than a weekend deal, I'm sure teams will have no problem going through the setup process.

12. Don't corrupt the event

I stay away from events with large prizes[1] because there's no way to win unless you use the most APIs/products that the main sponsor(s) have provided. Most of the events I've been to have reasonable prizes and it's hard to argue that the most technically excellent project didn't win. Also at those events, if someone doesn't meet the criteria for the award, it goes unclaimed, as it should be. With large prizes 1st place always seems to be a team that gave a 5 minute long commercial for Sponsor X, Y & Z even if the implementation is poor and/or mostly a Powerpoint. The overall competition is harmed as far as I'm concerned.

(I'm not going to mention names because most of these sponsors are otherwise good Hackathon citizens I support)

Probably the worst example of this was an event I went to with a large prize (10-15K or so) and a film crew on set led by a former G4 TV host. It was apparently some sort of Hackathon Reality Show. Well, in the sprit of "Reality" TV the team they were mostly following, containing some of the main sponsor's employees and some photogenic business types, won (surprise!).

The second worst example was an event with a 20K grand prize which was won by a 12 and 9 year old duo along with a (presumably sponsor provided) professional artist and member of the event staff. Their submission was basically a concept with a lot of nice pictures, a well rehearsed speech, and two very adorable kids. It made the rounds on the usual tech sites and probably was worth every penny the sponsor may or may not have paid. The sponsor also had some corporate rep to help keep the hackathon "on brand." I hadn't seen her at the sponsor's past events and she made some ugly faces at me when I was mentioned I use a competitor's API because the sponsor violated Rule #11.

[1] Typically the events I've been to have had 1st place prizes between $0-$2000 and $20,000+ with little in between. I typically look at a :large prize" as being in the former category.
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Ireland's economy which not too long ago was decimated and has recovered exceptionally well

Well, recovering from a 10% drop isn't really thaaat hard..

ducks
how reliable are these tapes?
Pfft.. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't even paying his Ma proper digg money.
But not in the one linked by this submission to tosdr.
I think what he meant was "It just so happened,"
>I am capable of domestic violence, despite a lot of evidence in my life that suggested I would never do such a thing or even need to worry about that side of myself.

Most people underestimate what they're capable of when angry.
Awww, don't change it! At least add a button to put the wonky unloved words back in.
I just put up a blog post covering this and a number of other interesting decimal expansions:

fibonacci:
100000000/99989999=1.000100020003000500080013002100340055...

integers:
1000000/998001=1.002003004005006...

square numbers:
1001000000/997002999=1.004009016025036...

explanations and proofs at:
http://www.joefkelley.com/?p=635
I wonder how they figure that. I wouldn't want to bet on them being ok in 3014.
How about how when people use their smart-phones and the lil camera points at whoever is opposite them? It always kinda weirds me out and I wonder if they're taking a picture. But I think people are more or less okay with it now and 99% of people don't notice and don't mind.
Mockups w/photoshop = information architecture / user interface designer

Managing workers and segmenting tasks = project management

both are available as fields of study and are defined roles in most businesses -
These are very good points, thanks for the feedback. We are planning on putting out a piece for Hackathon organizers as well based on the discussions and feedback we've gotten from other sponsors as well as participants.
Even if Google had to give Motorola away, the deal was good for them. The acquisition spurred a huge quality jump in the Android ecosystem and today Android outsells iOS by a 5-1 margin.
Plot drone flightpaths and camera focus points with an Android tablet
Agree, i don't know why Front-End devs think that just because is the same language everything will apply as the same context. The only reason why node is installed in my machine is that i use some npm packages for my workflow.
Honestly, as long as he's had HIPAA training, there's no difference between an intern making the changes and a 10-year employee doing so.
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Most images uploaded to the Web are not at full resolution -- it would be hard to fingerprint individual pixels.
I think this post, and indeed the OP, has flown over some of our American friends heads ;)
I can see the point don't know if Glass will make it however it used to be EXTREMELY weird to see people with bluetooth headsets and even more odd if people were talking on them in public places "Are you talking to me?" now it's so normal for the most part I don't even notice them.
Companies are TERRIBLE at this. We used a company to do an employee feedback survey. They promised us that the data would be delivered in a 100%, completely anonymized format. We sit down to go over the results and slide number one is "Men were a 100% approval while women were 73%". I'm the only male on my team. How in the world is this anonymous?
This reminds me of reject analysis week as a radiography student. People would be hiding their crap films (film and chemistry people!) up their tops, behind shelves, basically anywhere. Now days the clever ones know how to dick with the server. I have never deleted films for this reason, but have deleted films to keep incidents quiet.. (Boss must not know I got a chunk of steel in my hand prior to a shift in MRI etc)
I believe Glacier is an all-hard-drive solution. Tapes are troublesome because they're not "online" so it's harder to verify data integrity and notice failures.

The drives are spun much slower than a regular drive (I've heard 300rpm) and so they can be crammed into much higher density racks without worrying about heat.

Maybe data is eventually moved to tapes for Glacier; I am privy to no special information.
It sounds extra-ordinary to have 99% hiring rate. However it isn't as an amazing claim as it sounds.

Hack Reactor is the only boot camp to advertise this 99% hiring rate (and they weren't all at Adobe and Google...) and they have a few reasons for it:

1) There's roughly a 1 million deficit of developers in the US right now - If you can set up a website, you can get a job. If you can get a job, you will get a job in the Bay Are at some crummy startup.

2) They don't count people who aren't looking for employment afterwards. In the bay a lot of people have money and ideas but not skills and sense. A good portion of their students are startup wannabes who go on to try and start a company. If you're not directly looking for employment after the class is over, you're not included in the statistics.

3) $17,000 to get in. This cuts out all and any non-invested students. No degree, no diploma, only $17,000 and an ad. Those applying are guaranteed to believe they can succeed.

4) There's an interview process. All boot camps have interviews, however Hack Reactor has probably the strictest there is and their heaviest hitter. The interviewers aren't HR people, they're veteran developers, and they screen out anyone who isn't already employable.

5) They hire students as 'hacker-in-residence'. These are people they deem either fit to teach, or want to train more. Or both. These are now employed, for however short period of time.

These things combined, Location, Cost, Screening, Being an Employer and Selective population, all add up to being able to boast an honest 99% hiring rate.
And in the end, even if it sounds amazing, again keep in mind that the market is still exploding and anyone who can set up a website and write a few scripts can get a job as a developer right now. It sounds amazing and, honestly, it is.
I'm glad they got rid of the stupid m for mFieldName, it's been infecting all the Android developers.
The Facebook open computer definition for "cold storage":

"where data is stored on disk but almost never read again, like legal data or backups of third copies of data — keep on increasing dramatically, there are huge demands for developing some form of cold storage system with the highest capacity and the lowest cost."

source: http://www.opencompute.org/projects/storage/
This looks more clear. They pretty much got everything back except the tax liability payment plus the valuable patents remained. Not a bad deal. And I think it's a positive move to put the hardware design and manufacturing back to the hardware company to compete in that market sector. The only sad thing is Android's future.
Not the parent, but I managed and eventually helped lead the paid search group at one of the top search agencies. We had clients with 7 figure budgets all the way up to 9 figure budgets (or essentially unlimited as long as we were within certain parameters).

It's a bit scary and heart attack inducing if something goes majorly wrong (like going dark for a day because someone forgot to check the flight dates in the account after you took it over from the previous agency). But like the OP said, it just becomes numbers.

The cool thing is you not only get much better support and escalation paths at Google, but you can test things at a very large scale and get answers VERY quickly. And little things that might not make a huge difference on smaller accounts, suddenly equate to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars difference in total revenue. But again, all things are relative, so %'s might not change much.
Yes, because users would hate so much to be told explicitly that all they need to remember is a password. They much rather have 20 different pieces of information, some combinations of which if they share, people can take over their accounts on various services. </sarcasm>

The problem is not so much that the systems suck, the problem is there's no way for people like me to take on the responsibility and "risk" of just having a simple way to authenticate myself.

For example, in my bank I would opt into having all "suspicious transaction" types of protections turned off, but if I went to my local branch and asked for that, they'd just get confused and think I'm trying to commit fraud.

> it's still better to keep them on board and making money

Maybe better for you, assuming there would be a net loss from turning off the bullshit policy. Definitely not better for customers, as it enables theft, which has the same consequence as forgetting a password.
Seems like you're playing a few roles, but the chief ones would probably be:

Product Manager: You take business goals and turn them into technical requirements, then ensure the product gets built.

Project Manager: You take technical requirements and ensure that your team delivers on those requirements.

User Experience Designer: You create mockups for products which can be implemented by the technical team.

I'd put together a portfolio of your work and send it off to a few companies, as that might be good enough to land you a job.
So since Optimizely basically lets the test run until it "reaches statistical significance" with their Chance to Beat Baseline number, would you say they are doing it wrong?

Methodology here:
https://help.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/articles/200039895-Chan...

I've often run tests that seem to be in the 90%+ chance to beat baseline, but the graphs just didn't look like they were finished or had enough data, so I'd let it run a bit longer. Sure enough, big changes in percent lift, and also big changes in confidence dropping down below 90% (sometimes MUCH lower), and occasionally coming back up.
These numbers are not that surprising for an OLAP cluster. Even though Redshift is really architected to run on spinning disks, SSDs will almost always improve the performance.

On the other hand, the load performance is quite poor. On the 12x dw2.large hardware, a good clustered analytical database engine should be able to easily load 1.2TB in less than 15 minutes while the database tables are online and being queried. That it took well over an hour, and with a very simple data model at that, would argue against it being good for "real-time" even with SSDs. (This is not a surprising result though; Redshift is just a clustered PostgreSQL variant, which does not have the best internals for real-time.)
Many insurance companies (I think that now perhaps all of them in the US, thanks to ObamaCare) have to pay out a certain percent of what they take in to health providers. Thus if they want to increase premiums, and therefore profits, the only way to do it is to increase the cost of care. Preferably, they increase the cost of care for everyone, which drives more people to buy insurance, and means that some other company isn't able to undercut them on premiums by reducing costs. Of course, they als get more float, which insurance companies love. That is the model that health care insurance companies follow, and ObamaCare was a huge gift to helping them out.
You pointed out several good options actually :) . I want to see more of those in my country, some just don't exist (cultural differences), I don't know about that particular place (Queens).
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However, it may negatively impact your chances on an interview.
The saving is in power consumption for cold storage.
The analogy vs. headphones is not relevant.

I agree. It seems like a false analogy to me.

Perhaps a better comparison would be wearing a lavalier/lapel microphone. They have been around for a long time --yet people still find them unnerving and will ask you if it is on if you are wearing one.
Another one is CameraTrace http://www.cameratrace.com bigger database and documented recoveries, used by law enforcement
We're implementing an option to allow our customers to choose full validation of the CloudFlare-to-origin connection. We're trying to balance the needs of those who want the utmost connection security vs. those without the technical ability to setup SSL on their own origin. Completely agree, however, that we should provide an option that will validate the origin connection and fail if it's not high security and properly credentialed.