skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a reasonable answer to his question along the lines of "I am proven; I worked for X years on these Y projects". I'm not sure why so many startup people seem to think that non-startup experience is worthless. It limits the points of view and types of problem-solving experience you have available in your company if you're only willing to hire people who fit into a limited bucket like that.
The NRA pretty much never wants to settle 2nd Amendment issues at the Supreme Court for the same reason, you never really know which way the dice will roll.

(Beyond that, it's much more lucrative for the NSA to have the doubt and controversy persist, because there will always be pro-2nd people who see the NRA as their best shot at grouping together to fight for their 2nd Amendment rights. That was my main motivation when I belonged to the NRA. "It's a profit deal.")
I'm part of the team that helped build the app and we're trying to figure out how to make it even more useful for people. What do you like/dislike? What feature or additional information would you want to see?
I knowwww! It's Readability's fault. I've opened a ticket and they've actually been very responsive about fixing it. Something to do with SSL.

For now, you can just select the text you want to Spritz.
Akka 2.3.0 Major Release
No I paid for those satellites with my tax contribution and they are for public use.
Compares Apache Hbase and Apache Cassandra. Also compares MongoDB with Couchbase. I know essentially nothing about any of these and I think it makes a good point. (I do have a certificate in GIS, which is database stuff, and also worked had a job that involved accessing multiple databases, so not entirely alien. But I don't code these things.)

Edit: Oh, and, not surprisingly, they are singing the praises of their product. I don't have an issue with that. I kind of expected it. But, hey, believe in your product or do something else, you know?
Ask HN: My boss lowered my salary to make me more motivated
I work 9 hrs every day in the office and another 2 at home and my boss calls me in to say I'm not working hard enough and he's lowering my pay "to motivate me". I have a triple role in the company and am close to the product design / dev / roadmap decision making.<p>I feel humiliated and angry at the same time, and am in need of any advice on how to approach this.
Awesome! I won't lie, it's my favorite movie too (perhaps there is a support group for us somewhere?). I also got a kick out of transformers prime. The megatron-starscream interactions were always hilarious.

SPOILER BELOW

And as someone who recently built a 4x8 table with a full sheet of plywood to build legos with my 4 year old son, I got a huge kick out of the end of the lego movie. It had some surprisingly dark scenes, but I didn't notice the product placement - but then again, legos were/are my favorite toy.
When it comes down to it, I trust the supreme court more than I trust prosecutors.

Right now, the decision of if linking is speech that can be prosecuted is being decided by prosecutors.

And, if scotus rules that it isn't protected I'd like to know that so we can fight to change the laws to make it protected. And so I can follow their clear tests to keep myself out of prison.

I find prosecutorial discretion to usually be a far worse form of tyrany than clear case law, even if I disagree with it.

Tyranny thrives in the opaque discretion of buerocrats.
I completely agree that TDD originally meant that, and still does. The problem is too many developers don't bother to learn what TDD really means and immediately think of it as a testing methodology because the first word is "test". Maybe changing the language can change the focus to where it was supposed to be from the beginning.
Ask HN: Has anyone received their atom.io beta invite yet? Thoughts?
Is it good? Have you already extended it?
Haters gonna hate, but they clearly have no clue what they're talking about.
Exactly, many lessons are written to be defended from assault, not to be inviting. A castle, while romantic, is not as comfortable as a hotel.

(My personal mission is to find/share the aha! moments that actually make the details click. Why do we force everyone to laboriously discover them for themselves? Can't want talk about the underlying insights directly?)
To be fair, having the comma on the same indentation as the enclosing function call doesn't follow the standard multiline list formatting in comma-last JS.
Sure, it can be accomplished in a variety of ways: swapping a migrated replica; breaking big schema changes into multiple incremental migrations that minimize the amount of time the database is locked and back-filling data; or spinning up an entirely new cluster, migrating everything, and then switching traffic over from the old cluster to the new cluster at the load balancer. Any number of these techniques can be mixed and matched to accomplish minimal and/or zero downtime depending on your constraints. [1] The most important thing is making sure your application code is able to operate with multiple schema versions.

I used to have a presentation from Facebook where they spoke about their zero-downtime migration process, but I can't find it, so this SO post [2] will do. Of course, there's a bunch more information out there to read up on.

[1] https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/2013/08/06/zero-downtime-mig...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6740856/how-do-big-compan...
So, here's the deal.

I don't think it is fair to expect you to talk about your old company's codebase in an interview--I'd love to have that conversation, but I understand if you wouldn't feel comfortable doing so.

So, I can ask you questions in person, and get some response. Maybe you interview well, and you can answer things easily; maybe because you know your shit, maybe because you crammed with "Crack the Coding Interview"-like books, maybe because you have inside information on what'll come up in the interview.

Maybe you interview poorly, and if I ask you to whiteboard something you have a panic attack even though you know it cold. Maybe you are having an off day, or our conversation just flows the wrong way and you don't communicate to me the experience I'm looking for that you already have.

By contrast, if I have your github (or sourceforge, or bitbucket, or whatever), I can infer certain things about you: I know what languages you write in, I know whether you roll things from scratch or make little changes to other people's projects, I know how much you care about code quality and commits, I know what sorts of projects you like to work on in your free time.

In an interview, I can (and will!) ask you about some code that you've written, both good and bad, and I can see how you respond--are you defensive, apologetic, humble, humorous? I can ask questions about specific projects, work through your thought process, and get a much better feel for how you are on a team.

As to your question "What is the difference between experience writing proprietary code and experience writing code that happens to be published on GitHub?"

The difference is that I know for certain you can use git, I know that you aren't hiding behind your team on that project, and I know what lines of code you did and did not write (barring certain corner cases). Proprietary code is also usually pretty fucking dull, honestly: you're usually patching or hacking in some business logic for a legacy app that isn't that great to begin with. If I cared about that, I'd just hire some legions of code monkeys from India and be done with my problem.
There's just general antipathy around acqui-hires. The team gets a nice payday, but existing customers get burned.

I suspect that poisons the well for other startups as those customers become more cautious. I'm also generally uncomfortable with concentrating innovation within a small set of megacorps.
NSS was designed for use in single-user browsers and the API is completely unsuitable for more general, multi-user system-wide deployment.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Library_Init

RedHat has misguidedly chosen to base all of its security infrastructure on NSS, even though NSS was never designed for such a use. It is completely inappropriate for servers, multi-user workstations, etc.
You think the Supreme Court somehow manages to wade through incredibly complex insurance or financial regulation cases but can't understand the relevant features of a hyperlink? Read through Reno v. ACLU, which struck down portions of the Communications Decency Act almost two decades ago (written by Justice Stevens who was at the time 77): http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1557224836887427.... The description of the internet, as it existed in the late 1990's, is pretty cogent for a bunch of people who remember black and white TV.
>> what is the problem that haml is trying to solve exactly

Speaking only from personal experience (and I'm talking about my own bad habits with HTML), I have had plenty of bugs related to mismatched open and close tags in heavily nested HTML code, which would result in time consuming debugging. I've all but eliminated these types of issues by using Haml. I no longer have to worry about accidentally deleting the wrong close tag when de-nesting a block of markup.

Is it a cure-all for everyone? Not at all. But for some people, it's a godsend.
Graceful degradation is important not only for users who don't run JavaScript, but users of screenreaders as well. There's no reason not to have a plain text fallback of your site's content.
I can't remember the last time I bought or sold something on eBay. For any specific thing there is always some channel which is better, and that's the problem.

As for PayPal let's just say I lived through the age of PCI Compliance when PayPal was the most common option if you needed to take credit cards for a small business and that experience will take a long time to live down.
How is this shared throughout the translators?
There's no reason the EFF can't release their amicus brief, even if there's no longer a reason for them to file it. Good arguments should be shared.
The point is the irony. The website is designed to give the impressing that this mock CLI is used for everything, but it can't be seen using w3m/lynx/links from a real CLI.
Recent papers by Susskind and Tao illustrate the long reach of computation
Since this is a "shared base" service, are there any controls in place if a client requests some kind of confidentiality?
I'm pretty certain this is only somewhat true. Most companies I know (including almost all YC companies) would still need a "Yahoo premium" to go to Yahoo.
Nothing is uploaded, it can run offline once the page is loaded.
I agree public street is public info. But it sounds like they're scanning more then public street. At what point does it become private?
1. Parked on a public street in front of my home
2. Parked on private parking lot at my apartment
3. Parked in my driveway
4. Parked in my garage with door open.
5. Parked in my garage but visible through window if you angle the camera just right.
So your website and this comment seem to be highlighting automatic scaling as the major advantage of the system. But I'm not really getting why you think it is worth highlighting. It almost seems like the opposite, with scalability being the weak point.

As far as I can see, your architecture is explicitly limited to a single instance of each app at a time, so there is almost no scope for scaling at all in the first place. The only reason it would probably not be an issue in practice is that the request limits are absurdly low. The story is further weakened by no mention anywhere of what happens when the paid for quota is exceeded -- this seems like a key detail that's completely glossed over.

I can see the point of selling a system like this to less technical users based on an ease of use or the conceptual simplicity of an application as a filesystem. Even if the suggested advantages, such as no need for deploying code and easy copy-paste for starting new projects, make me shudder a bit. But selling on scalability just makes no sense, it almost comes across as snake oil.
> OpenSpritz is in no way affiliated with Spritz Incorporated, the developers of the Spritz reading system.

This is nicely done but i don't think you should use their product name as a part of your own product name, even if its open source.
If you ever had to hunt down a bug for 2 days in an untested code base, you know that testing brings back the fun of coding. Actually, writing tests is fun as well if it is done with the right levels of abstraction, and if you follow the red-green-cycles.
Bitstamp was hacked 2 weeks ago, and only now are users finding out
I don't trust the system at all, which is why I want the system to generate case law which will prevent the system from doing wrong things.

What?
Sure one can corrupt memory on a Lisp Machine. System software like the micro code or the garbage collector can contain bugs.

Something like a buffer overflow was very very rare. This was not a systemic problem like it is in C.
I don't know any details of the transaction - but I'm very excited to see Yahoo picking up this team and their social data visualization tech. Yahoo seems to be testing its boundaries as a content provider in a lot of good ways.
I knew the name sounded familiar, and then I realized why. I've been to these sites listed in twitter profile bios and they all looked so spammy/useless/devoid of content when I visited them.
I WAS going to post that the only reason why I'd probably post a comment on this article was because the web is meant to be integrated.

But it seems they wanted me to sign up for an account first on recode. sigh

I thought LiveFyre was going to handle that.
Hitting back also meant I lost my message.
Very good point - I should probably add in my story - I ended up not wanting to take an APM or AM role that would pay me 30%+ less and was a perceived gigantic step back in my career, so I was on the verge of taking a director of systems engineering role along the lines of what I was doing at the time but at the last minute a really awesome BD opportunity opened up at a friend's company and I took it.

My main point was just to be realistic about your opportunities
And we have nothing. Startups are nowhere to be found on campus colleges, maybe with the exception of Stanford and MIT.

Here in the UK we have a startup job fair called Silicon Milkroundabout [1]. At the moment it's London-based, but it attracts a huge amount of college grads. I suspect they'll soon be moving into doing or taking part in job fairs at Universities around the UK, because they're growing pretty quickly at the moment.

Maybe they also need to start making their way into the US, too.

[1] http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/
It's not dogmatism. Debian just a conservative interpretation of the law the conditions of the GPL. It's fair to point out that Debian's interpretation doesn't seem to be very widely held outside the project, but believing "we should obey the law" doesn't count as dogmatism.
Yes, that's what you got exactly, but I have to admit that this is quite extreme, and you should not expect to download so much from peers every time...
I'm excited by the availability of "what people looked for but didn't find" data in the post-Demand Media era.
The best and most valuable class I took in B-School was my last class, which was on negotiations. Nothing earth shattering but bits of wisdom when assembled together can really change your perspective on how to approach things.

The basic problem is that whether due to culture or nature we tend to approach transactions as zero sum games (aka distributive), ie if I get something you must lose something. Negotiation is about thinking in terms of widening the pie, ie creating a win-win for all (integrative). Even in situations where it can appear there is no win-win, there often is.

Want a better rate? determine the value of what you are bringing to your client, then price your service accordingly. If they balk, then you make your case based on your analysis.

The text we used in class is this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mind-Heart-Negotiator-Edition/dp/0...

I believe it is suitable for pretty much anyone who can read.
> Often I find I spend days or weeks deciphering mathematics in compsci papers only to find the underlying concept is intuitive and plain, but you're forced to learn it bottom up, constructing the authors original genius from the cryptic scrawlings they left in their paper... and you realise a couple of block diagrams and a few short paragraphs could have made the process a lot less frustrating.

You have the benefit of hindsight. Everything is obvious in hindsight. All the research I've done is obvious and straight forward, if only I had known what I know now and would be able to draw a few simple diagrams.

That is, until you realise it's not. In those days and weeks spent deciphering mathematics you are actually learning a lot. I cannot count how many times I've been reading mathematics and struggled for weeks on a concept. Then one day it clicks and it all makes sense. Then I re-read the description again and the answer is clear as day. The answer was always there, I just hadn't learnt enough to appreciate it.

>So many ideas seem closed to mortals because of the nature of mathematics.

I disagree with this statement 100%. No ideas are closed because of mathematics. The ideas are only closed if you are not willing to put in the time.
I've noticed a disturbing trend lately of physicians' office portals connecting silently to credit reporting agencies and using information from there for authentication. While I applaud them for trying to reliably authenticate me when I sign in to get blood test results, it's disconcerting to be faced with questions like this:

Which of the following cars have you NOT owned?
- 1999 Ford Explorer
- 2001 Toyota Tercel
- 2008 Audi
- 1996 Hyundai

Along with a few more questions like that one, it's a dead give-away that my doctor's office is connected to a credit reporting agency. I have seen this happening in other places as well; evidently credit reporting agencies recently got into the business of on-line identification and authentication (I&A).
On Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks in Air
They're closing. It's nice for them, but bad for users.
Carl Icahn gives a great talk as a guest lecturer in Robert Shiller's economic class from 2009: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/15-guest-lecture-by-carl...

He talks about how many of these companies are run by fraternity presidents and their frat brothers. He calls it anti-Darwinian. You have this likable, but dumb, frat president coming in and becoming CEO. He theorizes that people who float to the top in companies are those who pose no threat and take no risks. So you have the dumb frat president will in turn appoint his frat brother, who subsequently is dumber than him and rose in ranks because he poses no threat to anyone, as his successor, and so on.

He seems frustrated that many of these companies have no accountability, they essentially can do whatever they want. And many times, the smartest people don't float to the top as they should.

So I see Carl Icahn coming in and giving these guys a hard time and can't help but think it's a good thing. Good shake em up a bit.

But are activist investors like Carl Icahn actually a good thing? I mean it's great that they introduce a bit of corporate democracy, but does he actually improve the companies he takes a large position in?
Creators confirmed in the comments that is was stitched together from many takes. When I watched it again, cuts became pretty obvious.
This was really fun to work on. The live analytics page is the most extensive use of D3 I've done thus far.
The pitch is easy:

"Xyloexplosives -- like dominos, but made with tongue depressors."
I agree - I vastly preferred Zite to anything else. I have Flipboard, Inside, Prismatic installed, but I use Zite 90% of the time.

http://glui.me/?i=j6drkkursw1qwn9/2014-03-05_10.45.58.png/

I found the Zite learning algorithm worked really well for me (as opposed to Prismatic). I always found the content really relevant + enjoyable to read.
Start looking for a new job, today. Seriously. I know that at first glance you're going to say "but I can't do that right now". Yes. Yes you can. Log into Monster.com, call local contract agencies in your town.

When an employer does something like this given the role you are providing to them they are either dealing with financial issues and taking them out on you (which could mean you might not have a job in the near future anyways), or they simply have no respect for you and what you provide (simply not a healthy environment for anyone to be working in). Another possibility is they're trying to create a hostile environment in order to get you to quit so they don't have to fire you and pay unemployment benefits (if that's relevant in your local).

It may seem scary, but you'll be better off moving to a new job. Start looking now before you're in a worse position.
A lot of companies do this actually. Sure its not perfect, but it gives a good enough estimate.
Awesome that you improved your stack with Redis, thanks for sharing. I'm not sure about what exact feature you are referring to, please could you describe it? Thanks.
I understand that it's difficult, but it should be possible by using individual overlay images for each timezone, rather than just highlighting the whole sector. I suppose one might have to tweak the map projection too. As it is right now, it isn't really that usefull as a tool (it's a neat looking toy in any case though).

Edit: Also, it has "business hours 9-5" on it. 9-5 isn't correct in all countries (Finland 8-4).
Google Glass is not centred as far as I recall, I imagine it'll put quite a bit of strain on your eyes to read any significant volume of text from top-right corner.
Suggestion more than question. I like your Getting Started wiki page, but it would be good [for me] to break those down into individual pages with either screenshots or replicated HTML5 to show each step of the experience. One quick Hello World example on your tour would help me grok what your product actually offers (or how I would use it) better.
Just curious, what browser are you using?
Kickstarter backer here. Funny how critical everyone is as though there is no demand for something like this. Well, over 2000 of us disagreed before iconic was even delivered.

I've used Fontawesome, I've used Entypo, I've used Weblays, I've used the original Iconic. I think that this offering is a step above than all of those, especially in the web category (I use them in mobile too).

The only mistake here is the licensing, which I hope will change. It was not clearly stated during the Kickstarter campaign, and is actually against my expectations (though it appears some in the comments section had discussed this).

IMO, it should be non-tiered and unlimited commercial use.
That aside, wake up, this is useful.
Is there any legal way to make a license plate not easily photographable, perhaps with a bright led?
I am not in a position to view the video and don't expect to be anytime soon. The landing page does not make it clear to me what the use or value is here. I would really like to understand it. I wanted to be an urban planner and have some related training (and experience) and I have a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems that I pursued as part of that. So this appeals to me but you haven't really given me the gotcha as to why I should care and what this will do for me and how it does it.

Would love to have it "sold" to me, so to speak.

Thanks.
I worked at a place where the VP of Engineering threatened to do what you described to 'motivate' people. He also said if he thinks the interns are working better he will lower full time employees salaries. A couple of months later I and some other engineers left. You should look for another job.
They use a contact lens and an eyeglass? That's a nonstarter.

Aside: It is nearly impossible to make a design which uses just a contact lens.