skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a script on the page that embeds the Rap Genius article with annotations (a new feature they just debuted), which I'm assuming you're not seeing because you have javascript turned off. The content is on Rap Genius so anyone can add annotations to it. Notice that the linked website (gambletron2000.com) is also a side project of the Rap Genius Engineering team.

All of that aside, I'm not really a hundred percent sure you can call a website's "about" page blogspam...
I agree. Due to the lack of throttling, I had to write a script that paused Google Drive any time I was using the computer - just to have network and CPU resources to do simple things like browse the web (and this was on a fairly recent, fast machine). I tried to make it work... I really did.
Ask HN: Is the Developer Shortage a Myth?
It seems to be a common refrain that there is a shortage of developers in the US right now.

However, data suggests that there are more technical workers entering the workforce than there are jobs being created. Moreover, some startups are seeing 50+ applications for each position. In practice, it seems like there aren't enough jobs to go around.

In your experience, is this shortage real, or is it just fantasy imagined by the media or by companies? If you have hired recently, how difficult was it to find workers? If you have sought employment recently, how hard was it to get hired as a developer?

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-bogus-high-tech-worker-sho/

http://open.bufferapp.com/hiring-at-buffer-in-february-2024-applicants-3-offers-made
> Make it easier for people to get around without driving, and there will be less drunk driving.

So... add more car services? What!? Grade-separated rapid transit (ideally with platform screen doors), aggressive congestion charging, parking maximums, and general Copenhagenization - these are actual solutions, not more cars.
The topic is about GPA, not choice of college.

Where is your evidence that "a 3.25 GPA from XYZ college, is more impressive than person Q who got 3.75 from ABC college"?

As we all know now from Moneyball, long-held views can be wildly ungrounded in reality, so why should I believe "those who have interviewed several years worth of interns and entry-level hires" are any better at judging competence than, say, professional baseball scouts in the pre-Moneyball era choosing someone based on how sexy his girlfriend looked?

Or any better than orchestras before the introduction of blind auditions in the 1970s/1980s. Before then, female musicians were 5% of the top orchestras. By 1997 (see 'Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians') they were 25%.

Or any better than the hiring practices where the only difference in a resume was a "white" name vs. a "black" name. The resumes with a black name required more attempts to get a callback (see http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html )

Unfounded unconscious bias pervades everything. Why should I assume that there's no unfounded bias in your observation, given that all attempts at quantifying what you believe to be true have failed to find a long-term predictor of success?

Also, there are plenty of jobs where one doesn't need to know much about the underlying science in order to be successful. Programming is not unique in that regard. One can be an excellent chef without knowing "rigorous" food chemistry, an excellent athlete without a degree in sports medicine or biology, an excellent writer without a degree in English, an excellent musician without knowing much about pressure waves, an excellent CEO without a business degree or training in economics.
Good that Google is offering courses for people with no knowledge of stats, journalist should be prepared to handle all the open data that is being released. Reminds me of the case of Irene Choge a journalist who attended a Google sponsored Bootcamp and later discovered flaws in certain schools in Kenya. source: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/03/open-data-has-little-value-if/
Shouldn't they rather be paying their users to upload their data for data-mining, analysis and whatever else Google wants to do with it?
Will do, I'll just resend what I sent to careers. Thanks!
If there is a choice - it is better to place your bet with the company whose main business line depends on the service you are using. Google has a long history of dropping services, because it can. It does not matter to Google that 10k people or 100k people find that particular service useful. Google is not about to drop search and search related ads any time soon - storage services it could drop tomorrow and not care less.
Agreed, all of these features prevent me from using DO beyond weekend projects. But these features are all on their to-do list. They are tackling them with the most requested features first. BTW, they just added Private Networking in NY2 (maybe more by now).
And if the slowest they can find is not slow enough, they will insert a delay.

It used to be that when you ordered something with free shipping, they shipped it fairly quickly, so how long it took you to get it mostly depended on the speed of the carrier. I would often get free shipped items in one or two days if they came from the Amazon warehouse in my city.

Then they changed that. If I ordered something with free shipping that was going to ship from the warehouse in my city, they would wait several days before shipping it, and then the carrier would deliver it in one or two days, just ensuring that the item would not arrive earlier than the advertised arrival window.
Yes. Driver identified as "Rashad Charjuan Owens, 21."
What Happens in One Minute Around the World?
yes, it's clear that they do save lives. maybe you should say "i'm not certain" instead of "it's not clear". and also maybe grow up some common sense.
Yeah I actually have seen US corruption a couple times. Unprofessional treatment at the border multiple times, unprofessional police officers during routine road stops, I worked for a company that needed their supercontractor to pay off a Senator to get a contract, etc.
Except that the NSA has, by its own admission, been gathering metadata without warrant, for some time, so it's not private, by any reasonable standard of the concept. There are degrees of privacy, but arguably once the data has been removed from the context you shared it in, it's not private - the "moment of exposure" is a crucial concept here.
"Maybe there’s a slight tendency for teams in the 10-20% range to win at a slightly higher rate than expected (and consequently teams in the 80-90% range to lose more than expected), but the difference is pretty small, and given the number of observations and parameters, it would not be surprising if this deviation occurred completely randomly."

This is a well known phenomena [1] that manifests in almost all prediction markets. People tend to overestimate the likelihood of likely events, and underestimate the chance of a rare events. If you're patient (and, importantly, trading fees are low enough) then it is usually possible to profit from these "sure thing" positions over many event

1. Just one of the many links you find in google on the subject: http://journal.sjdm.org/9729b/jdm9729b.html
It is in all of their new data centers (NY2, AMS2, Singapore 1).
Do you happen to remember the number of this pattern in the book? I read A Pattern Language by flipping to random pages, and following various trails of references, but I don't think I've come across this one yet...
Just got an invite (thanks @speg !)

Sent one to headcanon so I have 1 left.
I disagree. Most opinions that state "I already knew this, and you should too" are banal and do not lead to interesting discussion. And the moderation system of this site is set up to promote interesting discussion.
I wasn't just in Santiago, I hit Valparaiso, Pichilemu, some small towns I cannot remember near the mountains and the sea.
Only at max use, I'd imagine average actual applied rates are still a good 5-6 times higher.
Nations Chasing Harvard Merge Colleges to Ascend Rankings
Austinite here.

This is a terribly sad, sad day out here. Your comment, while partially true, is not really appreciated.

That said, you can't really be "surprised" by the enormous amounts of DUIs around here (even by our elected officials). I don't mean to be insensitive, but this is not an isolated incident.

This is a city that practically endorses party behavior, and has absolutely miserable public transportation options and a sprawling suburb area. It's a lethal combination that is getting worse and worse.

Sadly, we deal with on a weekly basis -- driving around here at night is not safe -- and there's no true solution in near sight.

Not happy.
Sent email as well
I was looking at multitail yesterday. The problem that I'm trying to solve is I follow multiple files using 'find /var/log -type f -mtime -1 | xargs tail -F' while I'm troubleshooting something, and then need to re-assemble them into one stanza per file rather than the sequential output from tail. I've been doing this manually in a text editor; does anyone have a better solution?
I'm in IT but I am also a CFA charter holder (Chartered Financial Analyst). I disagree wholeheartedly on your assertions on whole life. I have only seen whole life be an appropriate investment vehicle for very wealthy families that are doing estate planning. There may be other times where whole life is appropriate but I don't know what they are. In almost all circumstances someone would be better off buying term insurance and doing their own low-fee investing somewhere like Vanguard or Fidelity. They've made it so simple with Target Retirement funds.
Wow, you guys actually redesigned your website!

(University of Bath CS grad here.)
I currently use digitalocean for my blog, but I was recently pointed towards this article which concerns me greatly: https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/digital-ocean...

If I cannot have freedom of speech on my blog, I will have to find a new provider that respects my freedom.
Shortage of good, mature developers
Sobriety checkpoints have actually been legal in Texas for about 3 years, see http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OPINIONS/HTMLOPINIONINFO.A....

The original distinction, in Texas, was between arresting someone for driving drunk and arresting them for another crime discovered during a sobriety checkpoint. The first was legal, the second was not. However, in Lujan, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals ruled that the latter was acceptable.
I'm not a betting man but if I had to put $1 on which service (Dropbox or Google Drive) would disappear first I'd bet Dropbox.
> The Trello API is well-written, has no bugs, and is totally rock solid.

The no bugs claim indicates to me this wasn't written by a technical person. Or at least, not very technical.
Acces? What about foxpro!

Is a big shame that MS get rid of Visual FoxPro. I still dream of build something like that.

What make VFP far-far-far better than Acces? Powerfull data/dbase language (instead of basic basic), You can code triggers/stored procedures/views, etc with the fox language itself (same for reports, forms, menus, etc= Everything is Fox and fox only).

Good enough to build full complex apps. Decent wizards.

Probable the only good thing that acces have instead of fox is better looking GUIS and better form builder..
> Right. . . hence the sentence on the end about needing to use buffer space to handle the things that Agile never promised it could handle in the first place.

A schedule can only have so much pad. My assertion is that Agile is useless to these projects because it can't handle these things.

> I'd point out that the same problem exists for every other software development methodology I've ever tried. The difference is that when they do slip deadlines, it tends to be a whole lot more surprising (and therefore damaging to the schedules of other teams) because their feedback mechanisms tend to result in poorer-quality progress tracking.

Every project management methodology has these problems, because at some level these problems are political. No methodology is going to overcome that, though some are better than others at dealing with it. The poster I first replied to said, Agile works fine for teams that embrace it. I'm saying such is not the case if you are working in an integrated or "team of teams" environment or if you have an unreasonable customer. Those may not be very common in the pure commercial software world, but they are in the rest of the world that software is trying to eat.
UC Berkeley already has one. My friend Kevin Gorman is the Wikipedian-in-Residence at a university: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/02/25/berkeleys-wikipedi...
As an aside - can anyone comment on the 7 minute workout [1] linked to in the article?

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...
My fireside chat with pg
Yes. As we all know, removing a feature from an existing, still-supported product is exactly the same as discontinuing a product entirely without notice.
The Department of Radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking candidates for a full-time Senior Application Developer. This role is responsible for the support of Web-based Java applications, including development, testing, and deployment of front-end interfaces and backend databases. This is a leadership role in a large NIH-funded project to create open-source, Web-based and desktop software to annotate, store, search, and process biomedical images. This exciting work will enable researchers to discover image-based indicators of disease that will transform medical care. The software developed will become part of a national infrastructure supporting biomedical research, and will have high impact throughout the medical community.

If you have the following skills, please apply! (http://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/job-search?jobId=50667)
* B.S. in Computer Science (or related degree), or equivalent experience
* Expert skill level (5+ years) Java programmer
* Expert skill level (5+ years) server-side Java web development
* Strong experience developing RESTful web services
* JDBC, MySQL
* Tomcat Application Server, Jetty, Apache Web frameworks Linux, virtual machine management (e.g., VMware)
* (DESIRED, not required) Experience with DICOM programming, DICOM databases, and dcm4chee
New class of antibiotics discovered by chemists
Seems like a reasonable summary of positive psychology to me: experiences and people, not things.
Time for a reality check.

Okay, so I like the idea of CoinMD. It's a nice way for people with medical knowledge to get paid for their tips, but so far that's really about it. It's just yet another forum for medical advice, but with a gimmick. It's not even an original gimmick. The whole "integrate Bitcoin into everything" appears to be motivated by more of a cargo cult to appear modern and countercultural than anything rational.

However, it does offer an alternative payment system and in this case it works, so I won't complain about that.

But can we please let go of these childish fantasies that Bitcoin will overthrow all government and usher us into an anarchist utopia of voluntaryism and global human liberation? Those kinds of libertarian/anarchist pipe dreams were excusable during the very beginning of Bitcoin, when the protocol was still being sharpened and everyone was enthusiastic about this new idea.

I don't know what kind of world the author lives in where he thinks people posting textual descriptions of their conditions on the Internet, backed by a digital currency, will revamp the healthcare system into an anarcho-capitalist institution and turn government irrelevant? What bullshit. Do I seriously need to explain that writing about your condition isn't enough to get diagnosed with anything beyond the most rudimentary of advice ("This might be that, but I'm not sure. Go see a doctor and try this herb in the meantime to see if it stops.")?

Bitcoin will not render government irrelevant. You see, the thing is that even if the concept of Bitcoin theoretically can allow financial independence from the state, it's completely meaningless when your ecosystem is a mess. The Bitcoin ecosystem, as we have witnessed so many times, is absolute chaotic mayhem that can ironically only be controlled through state regulation, which many hardcore Bitcoiners are advocating for.

Homeschooling is opting out of the state? Uh, last I checked, homeschooling requires one to be registered with the state, as well as offer vigorous and regular checks with it to ensure you're in line.

The Silk Road isn't any different from your standard drug dealing market, only it's online and just as volatile and unreliable as the physical thing.

Look, Bitcoin is certainly capable of great things, but these here are just naive pipe dreams.
Quote Database
Or find a job at a more agile company.
Ah, I feel silly now! After the first paragraph (which is all that loads), there's a friendly link that says "Read this on NewsGenius." So I really thought that's all there was to the page. I'm using RequestPolicy so it blocked the content from the rapgenius domain from loading, but usually I'm better at noticing when that happens.
That's not like that at all. As far as I understand all answers doctors give are open to the public on the site, so everyone else on the internet, including other doctors, can read them and say if it's a good answer or a bad answer. I imagine if this sites starts issuing bad advice, no one would want to go there. However, as of right now, it appears you are wrong and answers are getting paid for by willing customers.

Now, this idea may be far from perfect. But comparing it to the existing system while having a blind faith in it is wrong. In our existing system patients don't have many options of checking what their doctor tells them; they are referred to doctors by other doctors and very often have no way of checking on the reputation (% of successful operations this doctor conducted, for instance). The current system is very inflexible and not consumer oriented at all. Consumer interests are sacrificed in the name of their supposed safety, without first giving said consumers options to decide what they actually want and consider safe.
Chromium: An Open-Source Chrome Browser
How sound affects the taste of our food
That would be 100/month, not a year. Looks like Drive and Dropbox actually have identical pricing in this respect.
This, this this, x1000. The bulk of gambling problems in the UK (where gambling is completely legal in almost all its forms) primarily centre around Fixed Odds Betting machines in shops, rather than market based betting. The latter can still cause problems, but they're not as immediate as FOB machines, which are a blight on communities, tbh. I have 8 bookies within a half mile radius of my house, and I can tell you - basically nobody is gambling on the horses.
They were having SERIOUS issues a few months ago. I had been scaling up to around $600/month in droplets, and almost canceled and walked away. The IO was horrible, packet loss was massive and droplets were crashing all the time. Fortunately, they've gotten much better again and I haven't had a single issue in 3 months.

I think they got really popular suddenly and couldn't handle the explosive growth.
For links buried within copy, I agree.

For a list of search results where you know every entry is a hyperlink? Pure visual noise and I'm glad it's gone.
My benchmarks (and real world usage with a database I rough up pretty badly) say you're wrong.

So do most blog posts reviewing DO out there as well. Give it another shot, or document exactly what you did and I'm sure someone will figure out the issue.
hm, do you know this https://hubic.com ?
I know it is still beta but did not see these information on the main site.
Which 40 countries? Estimated pricing?
If few dependencies are your thing, you could try rox? http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer

My package manager tells me it depends on sh, libsm and gtk2. That's not much.
I wonder how many such individuals there are -- maybe we could find out what the correlation is between methodical evidence-driven people and people who feel good!
Maybe - I need to test the performance, but for my application breaking things out into a table is a little slow. In all probability the constraints will be slower, but it's something to try.

At the moment I have all my data in mongo but over time it's fallen out of shape. There's a large chunk of it that just needs to be stores (json field) but it would be nice to constrain some of it.
So how is that NSA reform coming along? Good I hope?
Building Profitable Software: Step 1. How Big Is Your Opportunity?
I see two problems with massive offsite storage such as Google Drive 1 TB.

First, although $120/year may be quite cheap in the world of cloud storage, hardware's cheap. You can buy a 2-TB external hard drive for less than $120. 1-TB drives are going for $60-$70 now.

So why pay rent when you can own? Buy a couple of 1-TB drives every year, copy your stuff onto both, and store one at a relative's house in another city.

Open a port on your home workstation and voila! you have "cloud" access to your data, and you can rsync it to external drives.

Yes, it's not quite as convenient and share-able as Google Drive or Dropbox, and of course the drive stored at your relative's house is not accessible, but at least it's a back-up.

My other concern can be summed up by 3 letters: NSA. There's been no resolution to the problem of unfettered access to people's private data. What's to stop the spooks from demanding my data from Google, all 1000 gigabytes of it, and Google is not even allowed to tell me it happened. No, thanks.
God, and the first answer to this is Uber? What about public transit and denser cities? Ugh.
My new methodology: unlabelled practices that suit me and my team
The thing is "They're also smoother and so more pleasant to ride. " is the only thing on that list that's even remotely inherent to trains over buses. Yet you rarely see people arguing to improve the buses so the other things you mentioned aren't an issue.
What makes you say that it is clear? Could you link the study that you have in mind?
It was a joke. =)
I never found the GUI query tools to be particulary intuitive once you moved beyond single-table queries. GUI or no, you still need to understand basic relational database concepts to be able to set up multi-table joins in queries that actually produce the results you want.
So, do you think that if enough people want to peacefully live without government interference at all (e.g. without a government) they don't deserve to do so and they don't deserve, for example, to be sold a piece of land to completely secede from state?
and spying for free
If you hadn't mentioned I wouldn't have noticed. Guess underlines aren't all that significant an indicator of being a link to me anymore. That or Google's design works as intended.
Ask HN: How do you make sure your employees are staying healthy?
Keeping my employees healthy is a constant worry of mine and now we finally got enough resources to pay them a gym membership. That's not cheap on the company, but my main concern is that they won't use it. I know a lot of companies offer that benefit, so: a- if you are an employer: how do you make sure your team is using it? b- if you are an employee: what does you company do to keep people active?
Well, yeah, it's the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority getting around another branch of government (it's the ELY-keskus that gives out taxi permits, part of the state instead of the city). I agree that there is no way this can be a profitable business now, but if they can get a sufficient user base it could become one.
It's cool that they have a phone number on their website. But how about pricing and contact email as well?
You can always use a credit card as a buffer, and transfer/deposit every 30 days. Or even skip the bank entirely and pay the credit card bill directly through the mail like the ol' days.
I live in the Bay Area and I pay about $800/year for 120KB/s upload (AT&T U-Verse). Certainly no blackjack and hookers included.