skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a very loose comparison, as even "trained" doctors have huge differences in skill levels. I personally ignore all formal programming education below a PhD in programming as IMHO programming is a discipline which needs self motivation and individual thought for anyone to excel at it. Teaching it to someone only goes so far.
Also, surprisingly, after being exposed to things like this over and over again, people in CS community still underestimate the capabilities of technology.
Is there a reason both aren't registered at the same time? i.e., why does it matter which one I point to in a url/link/script/etc.?
I've seen similar devices in a pizza joint. Does anyone know why they are so big and ugly?
This was a weekend hack but I'll take the compliment!
The issue is primarily cost. This stuff costs more per server at small scale. Maybe some colocation hosts are running such a large margin that they cost savings is thrown away, but others aren't.

Colocation is a great solution (in fact, the solution) to the scale issue.
I think he is not angry at the package manager, he is angry that the package manager failed, and he had to use the terminal to fix it.

And it IS not acceptable, I use Fedora myself, and every time this happened I got REALLY, REALLY upset, if I am using a GUI package manager, why the hell I should need to use console to fix it when it breaks? Why there is no option on the GUI to do that?

Also I had a machine that I had to install a kernel module to put sound on it... Linux still have some serious issues with some hardware (mostly audio and radio-based communications, I've heard printers are problematic too, but it is years that I don't own a printer)
>>If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with some emulation layer so people can run a touch app on the desktop (in like a sandbox window)

Emulation layers don't work; if your operating system needs to emulate needed applications no one is going to use it.
Microsoft already has a touch optimized OS: Windows Phone, just port it to tablets. Easy. Done. Of course then it has to compete with iOS and Android on its merits and not because it has Office and can interface with the windows ecosystem and can kinda run desktop applications.
How does Windows 8 kill PC gaming exactly? Games run just the same as they do on any other version of Windows.
Webflow is hiring. Incredible team and product: http://jobs.webflow.com/
Designer here. Great feedback- will work on this soon ;)
The solution is for more people to build games simply for the love of building games. For example see Dwarf Fortress.
There's a couple job posts here that have been mistakenly hellbanned (invisible to everyone except the submitter, who doesn't realize they're being blocked). These are the affected submitters: you can read their posts from last month's "Who's Hiring", they're mostly the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=infer (Infer, Inc., machine learning)

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dirtyb1t (Cigital, security)

(Is there any way to report this sort of thing privately?)
To counter your anecdotes, here are some more anecdotes:

- Windows XP - Power went out at a critical stage of updates. Completely hosed the system, and wasted hours of my life having to rebuild (including rebooting multiple times to get updates installed again after the recovery).

- Windows 7 - Cable giving my router IP addresses. Called ISP tech support... they had me manually plug the cable in and type cryptic commands at a DOS prompt. Is that unacceptible too?

Also, I'm really baffled as to how the network going down could kill a Fedora update. The downloads happen before any significant filesystem modification in every version that I have ever used (certainly any recent one). I guess maybe some third party package does something weird during a POSTINSTALL script? I dunno.
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This was a great read .. A very considered document.
Because the kid in the basement down the street you're competing with -- the one you don't even know exists until it's way too late -- is effective, competent, and passionate.
Designer here. The responsiveness is being worked on (alpha release).

Curious about the clicking to expand msgs comment- this standard UI behavior in Gmail as well!
None of them are. There are a gazillion of these on the web. They are just webrtc demo + other things like "oh look you can also chat" or "oh your room has a nice name". And so on.

Now not to say that it is bad thing. It is great. It is what Google wanted (well they want people to use the web more and use Microsoft and iOS only products less).

So you as a developer know that underneath the wiring is really simple and basic but hey if users like it and it works out for them. One of these products might win.
Congrats on surviving AML.

I have a few oncologist friends. I think that their point of view is that once you go to see them, getting a CT or 50 is the least of your problems. So, if they even think there is something wrong, you're getting a CT. The risk of having a problem now is much worse than the remote risk of something else going wrong in the future. If you survive this bout, who cares about the extra radiation exposure.

Being able to worry about that later is a good problem to have.
Conceptually that was more or less what they were trying to do with Windows 8 - provide affordances optimized for each input method. For example, with touch you use swipe/flick gestures to pan back and forth, with mouse a scrollbar appears and you use that. With mouse some commands have small controls that appear when you hover over an item, with touch those controls are on a bar at the bottom of the screen. And so on.

What made it different from what Ubuntu is doing (as I understand it) is a couple of additional problems they were trying to solve:

First, you're probably thinking about "hybrid" devices in terms of having a tablet that you use with touch exclusively for X hours, and then attaching a mouse and keyboard, having it become a "PC" and using it with those inputs exclusively for X hours. In this usage model it's OK to have pretty stark changes between modes because you don't mode switch very often.

However, they really wanted to enable a usage model where "touch plus mouse plus keyboard" became more like "mouse plus keyboard" in that you can constantly switch between inputs without really thinking about it, or even use them simultaneously. For this model to work whatever optimizations are done for different inputs need to be less intrusive and more localized - generally more about hiding/showing certain controls than completely changing the layout.

Second, there was a feeling that even for large displays and mouse/keyboard the desktop windowing model felt too heavy and required too much manual window management, at least for some (more casual) use cases. So they were hoping the model developed for tablets could double as a solution to the "Windows feels like too much work" problem on the desktop, especially for home PCs used for entertainment and communication.

To me the recent rumors sound like they're continuing the same general philosophy (of having a common UI with optimizations for each input method), but maybe deprioritizing the above two goals somewhat, which would leave them freer to make more drastic per-input-method optimizations.
Meh. I think you are seeing more in the vocal minority than anything else. For myself, ubuntu has been fine and remains the distribution of choice.

I will confess I have considered toying with arch. I do build quite a few things from source, already. Still, I have found very little to fault ubuntu for. (And, really, I just want a high res laptop. Which I will quickly put ubuntu on.)
Hmm well is that because you are a developer and just fixed it or because that should be what one would expect users to do. If it is the later then it is a failure because as soon as something doesn't work, and if it requires people to "keep trying again" until is randomly does, you'll lose the majority of customers to competitors.
What about great games that have completely optional IAP? I'm currently playing through Bad Piggies (by Rovio), and the IAPs are only there to make the levels easier (which defeats the whole purpose of the game IMO, but nobody is forcing you). I'm OK with other people paying if they want to get to the end faster, as it has no impact on my way of playing.
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In our case? Call it ~6 hours, over the course of several (potentially discontiguous) days, offsite and at the candidate's leisure.

Work sample testing has been extremely powerful for us. In particular: it has enabled us to screen candidates for aptitude instead of experience, and the result has been a series of hires with no prior experience in our (very specialized) field who have completely blown us the fuck away, like the former line-of-biz insurance company .NET guy who, a month or so in, looked at Rails for the first time and found a serious security hole (which now has a CVE), or the other line-of-biz .NET guy who now runs our crypto review board and co-wrote our crypto challenges, or the math major we hired out of college who ripped through the MSP430 CTF in a couple days (and also has a Rails CVE).

We picked up a guy who had done a couple months of Android development after college, and then moved to what I think (from his resume) was a devops job --- I never asked him in the whole course of our hiring process what that job was about, so I don't know. Six months later, he implemented a CRI elliptic curve DSA exploit that involved BKZ lattice reduction and an FFT filter step. The lattice reduction steps on that attack took something like SIX HOURS to run, and when they finished, you still had to get the FFT step working to figure out if you got the BKZ step right.† Months later and I'm blown away just thinking about how he could have gotten that working. In case you're wondering, he kicks ass on the more boring parts of our work too.

Some other things to know about that guy:

* No prior crypto experience

* No prior software security experience

* Less than 2.5 years dev experience across both jobs

* From flyover country

* Physically uncomfortable during the interview (something noted by interviewers on his feedback)

How compelling do you think his "greatest achievement so far" story would have been? We weren't dumb enough to ask, so we'll have to guess.

Before we did work-sample testing, overcommunication about hiring process, demoted the importance of phone screens, and standardized face-to-face testing, we never would have hired these people. Any process that filters outs Seans, Alexes, Peters, and Ryans over things like "passion" or "what is your greatest achievement" is a stupid fucking process. But there it is, enshrined as the default process for our whole industry. And here's a thread full of people arguing on its behalf.

Yes, I think someone is going to make a lot of money correcting that market inefficiency.

† If you're wondering, number of other people on our team who could have helped him debug lattice reduction C++ code: zero.
One of these days, you guys are going to figure out how to make this argument without resorting to "In the grim darkness of the far future, blackmail will totally happen. This will be incredibly new and no one will have figured out it happens until it's too late!"

Blackmail has been happening regularly for the past four thousand years, ever since we noticed that politics is a thing. These "nightmare scenarios" are like Socrates talking about how people won't understand each other anymore because everything's being written down, or how people say the Internet is making us stupid because filter bubble or what not. You guys keep going on about how, if you don't stop things now, it'll be bad down the road. This is blind idiocy. The nightmare scenario already showed up a thousand years ago. You need to figure out how to respond to it, rather than trying to prevent it.

Figuring out how to scare the sheeple isn't a pissing contest between you and the state.
And ofc Apple, in turn, spent much of its 30-years-of-Macintosh celebration making indirect slams on the Metroisation of Windows and the whole desktop/touch-unification idea http://www.macworld.com/article/2090829/apple-executives-on-... "You don’t want to say the Mac became less good at being a Mac because someone tried to turn it into iOS." etc.
Cardflight is a funded start up wants to hire a software engineer. Ideally with some Java/Android experience.

You can find more info here
https://getcardflight.com/careers
Also feel free to email us:
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Ask HN: Shortage of Microsoft Surface Pros?
I've just checked Canada,US and Australian Microsoft online stores (and local stores in Australia), and it appears you can't get a Surface 2 Pro with anything but the 128gb configuration.

Is it only a short period of time before those sell-out? Did Microsoft build small quantities to prevent another massive write-off? Or are they actually flying off the shelves?

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/html/pbPage.PDPS/productID.286866600

Or is there a Surface 3 coming within the next few months (doubtful)?
That response also works if you replace "passionate" with "can moonwalk".
This looks pretty nice, especially compared to the open source alternatives. I personally care a lot more about non-web-UI clients, but I know a lot of people like web UI, and I love that you seem to care about security pretty deeply.

I just donated. Please continue!
The company is based in NYC - New York
Poisoning the well there. /r/conspiracy, although of generally lackluster quality, does not make this post any less legitimate.

The USA has had a history of intimidating select citizens with operations like COINTELPRO and Operation Mockingbird (suppression and influence of journalism and the media). So, it's not really that large of a jump. Even if it is, it's already been made decades ago.
> It is like adding built-in maps to C++ or Java or C.
It's like adding built-ins to anything. Your point?

If you'd read my comment you'd understand. The point was that adding a new built-in to an almost a 30 year old language is unusual. Adding a new built-in to Dart is probably a lot easier. So not it is not "like adding built-ins to anything".

> > Python set was similar.
> Similar what?

Wild guess but well I don't know the topic we are discussing -- maps to Erlang. And by extension adding a major built-in type to any established language.

> > And there was talk about whether {} should be an empty set or a dict.
Which is relevant how?

It is not. Just making conversation remembering from years back. Sheesh...
I think this story is touching. But it misdiagnoses the real danger facing the US at the present time and misapplies the lesson to be learned, which no doubt is applicable in some parts of the world.

The real danger facing the US at the present time is not of becoming a fascist surveillance state. It's of becoming a corporation, with a vast sea of indentured servants, where the owners of the corporation are a small group of people with wealth beyond one's wildest dreams. This is the dystopian scenario that Orwell would write about if he were alive today. In this future, you will have to be on good terms with the management of the corporation, or you will find yourself in great difficulties. The owners will take pride in the acts of charity and goodwill that they bestow upon you, the poor, and will expect gratitude in return.
Not sure why this is a Tumblog, it should have a proper site. There's probably high demand for discovering reputable games and apps. Most Android sites are becoming bloated with old, outdated apps and info, including the Play Store.
Is this even news? Pick any Wikipedia article at random that has more than one author. It isn't hard to find run on sentences and verb tense mismatches.
> So you're saying that the net positive migration from countries like Sweden to countries like the US is due to the fact that generally only relatively successful people have the ability to immigrate? And that if all classes of society were able to move freely that the net migration would be in the other direction?

Yes.

> Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

I don't. Just a lot of anecdotal evidence from a life spent living in different European countries and U.S. states, talking to people and learning about their lives.

I do think that logic follows that a society with both a high standard of living and high equality would be a more attractive target for a low-income earner than one with a high standard of living but high inequality, but I am unsure if this means that, for example, Americans would actually want to emigrate to Sweden if they didn't know much about it. There are still a lot of misconceptions about what "socialism" means in Europe, how much freedom the U.S. has and Europe doesn't, and so on.

(I think that this is part of the reason that, if true, the U.S. sees more traffic from Europe: The entire Western world grows up with American movies, TV, songs, etc., but many Americans don't know very much about Europe other than that they used to be the HQ of nazis and other socialists. But yes, it's just speculation.)
Teenage boy beatboxing and dancing at the same time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iNYXVvR23Q&client=mv-google&guid=&hl=en&gl=US
that's an extra 0.7% for you. For a population of 300m (about the pop of the usa) that'd be an extra 2.1m people getting cancer.
What If Bacteria Designed Computers?
So, if I can IAP to get an extra 5 moves in a puzzle game, or infinitely replay the same level and get stuck, never playing the game again, that's a sham?

What about currencies/powerups that I can either get via IAP vs social obligation? I'd rather pay than bug my friends.

(Of course, one argument is that none of these mechanics should exist in the first place. But they do.)
40,000 Bell Canada customers' personal information leaked online by hacker group
Smart Shopping for Google Glass
Shop[x] for Glass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BYWQPrerOQ

Shop [x] for Glass enables you to create shopping lists using voice commands, analyzes shopping patterns to provide you with suggested items for your shopping list, and tells you the aisle location of each item in your shopping list!

I would really appreciate feedback to create the ultimate shopping experience for wearable tech (yes, Pebble & Recon Jet support are in the works).
What you're saying doesn't make sense. China buys T-bills to keep the yuan low and exports high, not to do us any favors. If they stopped tomorrow it would probably damage their economy at least as much as ours, and certainly wouldn't make it impossible for the U.S. to pay its obligations: After all, those obligations are something like 99.9% dollar-denominated, and the government owns the printing presses.

Interest rates would likely rise from their current close-to-historic-lows, but that's nothing that would scare the U.S. from defending one of its closest and most important strategic allies.

I'm really curious how you get from "China owns 8% of U.S. government debt" to "The U.S. would have to pause before defending Japan against Chinese territorial aggression."

Japan, by the way, owns 7% of U.S. debt.
It's untestable, because there's no null control. That doesn't mean it's not real.
They might, but Microsoft should be far more proactive in cleaning up this crap. Even apart from the big name trademark infringement, most apps are total and utter junk. It's hilariously bad.

MS should at least have some sort of search filter to say "please only show apps that have been reviewed by a human or two and are not obvious crap".
+1 to parent post. It looks awesome, the fade-in is kinda distracting. It also re-fades the main area when you switch between categories.

To the coders: Nice job on using multiple URLs to allow pages to be viewed without JS enabled. Having to reload each page when it is requested is not trendy, but it's nice to know Mailpile will work on locked-down browsers. Kudos!
How does this handle multi-monitor environments? My workstations have either 4, 5, or 6+ screens at a time.
I prefer no WWW because that makes the domain look shorter and and hence easier to remember.
As an update, I've started with clean patches from sources so it's all in a git repo instead of spread out in brew files and gists.

http://github.com/steakknife/openssh
You could be totally right about that. It's a bit of a tough sell to me to say that Surface will keep them relevant, but it's definitely far more possible and reasonable than them staying relevant sticking to the PC.
>"161719" is absolutely right, it probably won't be Obama, or the next President, or the President after that abuses the surveillance architecture that has been put in place.

You'd be surprised how fast things can go downhill under proper conditions.

In 1984, Sarajevo, which prided itself as being the most cosmopolitan and tolerant of cities in Yugoslavia, was at the top of the world. At the time, Yugoslavia a very advanced and prosperous country with the world's sixth largest army and fifth largest air force (by air assets), and nearly matched the largest economies of the Eastern Block by GDP (Poland and Czechoslovakia). It also enjoyed significantly more political freedom than the Eastern Block, with most citizens able to freely travel to both Western Europe and the Eastern Block countries.

That year, Sarajevo hosted the Winter Olympics, and basked in the admiration of the world. There was little to no talk of "ethnic tensions" or "ancient hatreds", and all three major religions mixed freely, along with a sizable Jewish population dating back to the 1400s. Sarajevo had by far the highest rate of interreligious marriage of any Yugoslav city.

Six years later, Bosnia was in a state of horrific sectarian war, Sarajevo was under siege, and a campaign of religious genocide against the local Muslim population was well underway in the countryside around the city. War refugees brought with them tales of violence unheard of in Europe since the Nazi years. The brutal war lasted for another 3 bloody years, with almost 200,000 dying in Bosnia alone from the violence.

My point is, given the right conditions, things can go downhill from "pretty good" to "god-awful" incredibly fast.
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Get a good Steve back onboard. Rumours of which keep coming up, though generally not with a CEO role. It seems to me that he should either go all in as CEO or sever ties and allow a new person to live without his ever present shadow. http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/microsoft-said-t...
Big thanks to the developers!
Here's the kicker though: everyone who defends this type of spying does so saying it's only to catch 'terrorists'. Even if we accepted the idea that this would be all it ever was used for...it still means every one of us, right now, can be surveilled, locked up on any excuse, and charged with terrorism.

Protest the government peacefully, but in an area they don't like? Terrorist. https://www.aclu.org/national-security/how-usa-patriot-act-r...

Really, break any law? Terrorist. http://wilmington.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/for-pol...

Do anything whatsoever? Terrorist.
http://www.storyleak.com/everyone-now-terrorist-us-governmen...

Really, we're seeing this constant broadening of what can be labelled terrorism, and once you're labelled that, you effectively lose all your rights.

With that, and pervasive surveillance, any act you make to change the government, or to voice your concerns as a citizen, makes you vulnerable to having all of your rights revoked. That's -terrifying-.