skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry that I did not paint a real-world picture with sufficient tears to satisfy you. My comment was not directed at the way the would "should be"... but rather at the way the world "is", if you want to maximize the effectiveness of your faceless resume on a pile of them.

Besides, I didn't say that you have to "hide" your identity or opinions on the job. Just that it's dumb to mix your personal identity with your professional identity in materials that fall solely in the latter realm (e.g. resumes, TECHNICAL blogs, etc).

A significant portion of my colleagues over the years have been Sikh, and another significant portion have been non-heterosexual. Who cares? We work in one of the most diverse fields on the planet. However, if your blog about Node.js is hosted on "sikh-time.com", or if you list "homosexual" as the mission statement on your LinkedIn profile, then you are not "refusing to hide". You're just being flaky. It's not the identity that's the issue, is the signal you're sending about boundaries and judgement.

EDIT: Hmm... reading your comment more carefully, you may have had the impression that I'm turned off by seeing outward appearances of religion during a face-to-face interview. That could be an issue for certain religions, such as Sikhs or Hasidic Jews, where outward appearance is a part of it. However, to clarify... I was not talking about a face-to-face interview, but rather the faceless materials such as resumes and technical blogs that are seen prior to that stage. Again, the issue is not so much the identity as it is the judgment. Moreover, if you share your politics or sexual orientation during a face-to-face interview, then you're definitely doing it wrong.
British Airways World Traveller Plus is pretty good - much better than BA economy and without the silly cost of real business class:

http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/travel-class...

[Edit: I did a check on a random flight from LHR <-> SFO and Premium economy was about twice economy and about half of business.]
Twitter reportedly nixes plan to secure messages from snooping
I think you are confusing your nomenclature. The term "list" does not necessarily imply that it is a linked list.
I guess you got unlucky with your studies and your professors. Glad to hear, that you learned to like learning.
An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not. True Story
Detecting a Surveillance State – RF Exfiltration
I'm typing this on the top spec Yoga 2 Pro, it's amazing. The main complaints from reviewers were as follows;
- yellow tint on screen
- Flimsy hinge
- low battery life
- backlight bleed

I'll address them in order.
1. there was a marked discoloration when i saw pictures on the forums, and i almost returned it due to bing scared. When i got it, nothing. Absolutely nothing, though it looked a bit over saturated, which i kinda like on a non-workstation device.

2. The flimsy hinge is not a problem, end of story. Its stiffer than a MBA or MBP,m and only wobbles significantly if you tap it real hard.

3. Battery life is a problem, but if you're like me, i use it in multiple short spurts, coupled with a few long ones. It lasts all day, and while i do wish for a bit more, as for waht it is, it's good. Not great, but good.

4. No backlight bleed, nuff' said.

Furthermore i have found myself using the touchscreen far more than i anticipated. It's hands down, IMHO, the best laptop availible today thats an ultraportable. Go get one.
"Identify skills quickly" thats exactly what this tool does not do.

It identifies the most needy/desperate engineers.

Anyway, I for sure would not sign up for such a thing, it tells me the recruitment agency or potential employee views software engineering as "typing code skills", like hacker-typer.com. In my opinion a software engineer works more closely to the business and requirements elicitation than just implementation.
The article is about air speed and explaining it with fuel efficiency.
I don't think a 10% bump in cruising speed matters all that much in the total door to door time though.
25 years ago, I was programming in C, Scheme, Common Lisp and Prolog (some Pascal, too, but I don't think that has aged as well).

Drop me of 25 years ago into today's coding environment, everything is just a lot easier. Java is intentionally designed to be as close to C syntax as possible, but much easier to get right (garbage collection!). For a class project, we implemented an object system in Scheme, so I understood OO concepts, again much easier today when it's already baked into a language. Ruby, Python and Javascript don't have much beyond what was in Scheme and CL back then in terms of concepts, just maps the same concepts to an Algol syntax. Prolog concepts show up in various languages from time to time (pattern matching in functional languages seems to match the part of my brain I remember using when writing Prolog).

Source code management, IDEs, continuous integration, all things that just make a developer's life easier than back then.

So, no, frankly, I honestly don't think the me of 25 years ago would have much trouble getting up to speed and being productive writing code today. What the me of today offers over the me of 25 years ago is skills for thinking about big picture design and architecture, building software as part of a team, understanding requirements, estimation and planning. The technology part, though, certainly isn't harder to understand today than it was back then.
Did their SATA interface not support staggered spinups? Almost all do.
I don't actually know. I guess I'm not your target audience.

I'm using Gumroad, Mailchimp and Wordpress pretty often, and (for me) it's not really problematic or time consuming. That's why your solution is not worth so much to me. But that's just me... once more, best wishes with the project ;)
Sigh. I would hope that you were not confusing my statements to mean that I don't think jQuery can be used badly (by the way, having seen jQuery used poorly is no justification for your tests) or that I don't understand the security hole presented. I want people to take responsibility for how they use tools like jQuery and I think your tests are an unfair and blatantly misleading representation of jQuery as a library.
States to probe Comcast plan to buy Time Warner Cable
CreativeMarket was a site/service I thought I would never need to use, and so couldn't judge how well they would do. I eventually let my early credit expire.

But then I needed a background, and a some textures, and so on. I came back across their site, and it was so slick and well done, I had to restrain myself from hunting down for other things to buy as well.

It's a fantastic idea with wonderful execution that can change even a skeptic's mind - congrats to the team!
I wonder how viable this would be for someone who wants to actually scam Spotify? For example, I'm assuming that with only minimal investment one could produce and submit a series of silent audio tracks. Then one could produce a field of virtualized instances of Spotify and a fleet of bots to "listen" to those tracks. But how expensive would all of that be? And at what scale would the operation be necessary to produce an actual profit, if it could happen at all?

According to this article [1] the artist makes about $.004 per play. So, 250 plays comes out to about a dollar and thus 25,000,000 plays comes out to $100,000 which I would consider to be a pretty good outcome for such a quickly baked scam. But that comes out to 7.5 million hours of streaming at 30 seconds per play, and there are what...9000 or so hours in a year? So over 800 years to make $100,000 (pre-tax).

Now I suppose it could be ramped up. What if we had 100,000 bots that each streamed a clip for 30 seconds and they ran around the clock. If we play one clip for 30 seconds 100,000 times, simultaneously then we get to 100000/250=$400 worth of plays. So then we could make out 100,000 in about 75 hours. But how expensive would it be to run that many bots all at the same time?

Someone please check my math and my assumptions, I'm sure I did something wrong here.

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keatin...

[edit 1]: also we need to count the hours planning and spinning up the bots in our value calculation..right?
Solving riddles with Prolog and ES6 generators
When I first read Ubik I though their economy is unrealistic. How do the appliances and doors that charge for usage make sense?

It makes an interesting replacement for the warranty in the item contract. Pay the toll, and the item is kept constantly serviced. The protagonist's attack on the door also makes sense since it is considered a breach of contract.
Type.new() – creating JavaScript objects
The problem seems to be that there actually haven't been any damages. Not a single person has been negatively affected by these targeted ads and nobody has had their personal information actually read. They have no chance with this lawsuit.
To me at least being an "expat" is a choice, being an immigrant is a necessity. That's how I choose to define those terms at least, but of course the line is blurry.
Is "needy" exercise equipment a thing? That could be a cool product. Or, instead of the bike needing attention, how about the bike feeds/walks/plays with a cute dog. If you don't use it you have an app of your dog begging you to exercise.

We'll put a social aspect in there too. If you sign up with a friend, your pet will start asking for food from your friend if you don't exercise enough (to your embarrassment).
This is mind expanding. It makes me think of a system of ownership based on usage and care. Free bike, but if you don't use it or maintain it then it gets transferred to the next person. Only make toast one day a week? Then you get the thing on the day that your usage indicates. Tying this to how much the object is used by peers is a great way to answer the question of "how often should the bike be cleaned or how often should someone use their toaster?". The idea leads to less waste and more utility for everyone.

It's not particularly useful to personify machines by giving them emotional states. The toasters in question aren't "needy", they are efficient. The real innovation here is giving an object the ability to take action independently. If I'm not actively toasting then no amount of analytics or notifications are going to get me to pay more attention to it. Just handle it for me, sell it, upgrade it, downgrade it, replace it with a juicer. Giving me information about my usage is creating more work. Taking action for me is doing me a favor.

This whole thing reminds me of Autonomous Corporations [1]. It's generally better when things take care of themselves. The Internet of Things combined with intelligent decision making could lead to societies where people have more time and get more benefit from everything around them. The first and most difficult step is to get our things communicating with each other. Then we can focus on getting them to act on our behalf instead of just sitting unused.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Autonomous_Corporation
Splice videos on iPhone
There's only one company that manufactures anything like an i7. While I suspect that's mainly because making high end CPUs is really hard, I don't know how confident we can be that CPU patents haven't stifled innovation.
And now we see that this isn't just a problem with software. Who knew?

e: Apparently everyone thinks I'm confusing a trademark with a copyright or a patent, but I'm not. We just got done with several weeks of people screaming their heads off about King's attempt to trademark the word "Candy".

In this thread, everyone is defending Fluke because this yellow outline is a distinguishing mark on their product, and these multimeters DO look like ripoffs. And you know what, I agree. But how is this any different from what everyone was up at arms about only a few weeks ago?
Thanks, agree.

Part of the reason I applied for this new role, is that I need the kick to get projects to completion. In the last 5 years, I have taken ideas to 85% completion without coding anything myself and then the oDesk/freelancer dev disappears/let me down.

Two months later, a weekend side project is posted here on HN or TC, which has launched successfully and become a funded start-up. Worse thing is, their app is doing EXACTLY what I was 12 months ago, in some cases better and in some, worse.

I am left gutted, demotivated, out of pocket (lucky I have a very understanding wife) and with code I cant understand and complete. It gets worse...100% of these start-ups which i have part complete, go on to get round B/C and or get swallowed. I am in losses close to $20K following my dream of creating a successful product and begging developers to code it.

That thought alone is pushing me to take the second job.
Coding World Championships
Music is the empty space between notes.
Jcabi-xml, a simplified Java parser of XML
How did you deal with your shoulder issues?

I dislocated my shoulder learning to kayak a long time ago, and it popped out about once a year until I got surgery. I spend a good deal of time in the wilderness, and I am hoping I never have to deal with a remote dislocation that won't go back in.
The last intercontinental flight I took, a weighty 6ft6 guy had bought the cheapest seat and expected to get an automatic upgrade on the plane. It's not an exaggeration to say that he literally didn't fit into his seat.

Indeed, he got the upgrade: the premium economy section was otherwise empty. Otherwise, the situation would have been beyond unpleasant for everyone around him.

The cheapest seats are so small that they need to have at least a few with more space for this type of case. If they can sell them to comfort-sensitive people for a higher price, even better.
Absolutely. The gains that could be achieved by flying even twice as fast isn't much compared to the time we could save if we could get to, from and through airports the same way that we move around subway systems: by carrying our own luggage, no check-in, no registration, no reservations, no security, no forced shopping malls, waiting 10 minutes for connections, not several hours.

A 2 hour flight, e.g. from NYC to CHI, is often 6-8 hours with all the surrounding nonsense. Getting from Manhattan to JFK, Newark or even LaGuardia is easily 1-2 hours, waiting in the airport, going through security etc. is another 1-2 hours. Getting through the destination airport from the moment the plane touches down and until you are actually leaving the airport with your luggage is rarely less than an hour. And then the transport into the city is another hour.

With transatlantic flights it's often 14-15 hours or even easily 20 hours if you need a connecting flight in one end, although the connecting flight is "just a one hour flight", because of all the waiting between flights.

Flying is great. Everything around it is terrible.
Not sure I'm okay with the single power supply. I guess if you can do redundant storage across pods it'd be okay. But if that single PSU goes under, you're in for a fun couple of hours.
You sound like you just got a job offer from a hedge fund...
> And go work with C# and you'll pine for nothing.

If that was true, F# wouldn't have happened. (Nor IronRuby/IronPython). Even people who like the .NET platform often pine for something better for the task at hand than C#.
I think they mean HN.
Are you suggesting this is a good custom and should be practised?
Nah. It's neat, but there's no reason for me to go back to it: I just can't imagine ever saying to myself, "You know how I'd like to spend my time? Seeing how people on the internet have answered a random assortment of polls." If I want to know how the general public feels about a specific issue, I'll just google it.
This is a great approach for setting config variables. I also like to enable the user to add custom functionality to the gem by accepting a block that is called with any relevant variables for the user to access.

For example, in Exceptionally[1], the user can add an initializer that looks like:

Exceptionally::Handler.before_render do |message, status, error, params|
# put any code here
end

In the gem, this translates to:

def self.before_render(&block)
&&callback = Proc.new(&block)
end

The gem can then call the user's block and give it access to the same variables the rest of the gem does. This approach is a lot simpler than setting up an entire Middleware stack, as suggested in the blog, and makes more sense for simpler gems.

1: https://github.com/neilgupta/exceptionally
And UPS has a trademark on brown delivery trucks: http://www.ups.com/media/en/trademarks.pdf It's limited in scope and serves to distinguish the brand. Seems reasonable to protect it.
Wow, thanks Sean. That really means a lot to hear.
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I don't see a problem with this. Fluke is a respected brand with a unique appearance. These multimeters really do look like Fluke ripoffs.
> "Trouble is, almost everybody buys the cheapest ticket."

Ding ding ding! That's the trouble: we've gotten people in a state where they're sensitive to the very last dollar in price. People will actually pick the worse ticket just to save $5.

I used to work at an online retailer where part of our job was to market environmentally-friendly, recyclable, easy-to-open (read: no clamshell, no thick plastic) packaging to customers. We did some research into the price premium people are willing to pay for the lack of hassle. The answer was close to zero.

This is a classic race to the bottom, I have no ideas on how to fix it.
Thanks for responding! Our target audience is folks who don't have the technical know-how to get their Gumroad product overlays into their Wordpress themes, and they need a quick, convenient solution to stitch together Gumroad, their Wordpress website, and their email service (Mailchimp, GetResponse, Aweber, and soon others like InfusionSoft). It handles everything in a single motion. Thank you again for the well wishes!!
I would usually never respond to so,ething like this. But.. "programming" isn't just one thing. "Real programming" is pretty specific to your own values as a programmer.

Look around, find out what interests you.. probably look away from the web, because the web is over-caffeinated with a lot of churn that resembles real progress. (Not that there isn't a lot of cool stuff on the web, just that it's a confusing ecosystem to measure yourself against.)

It's an art and a science.. it's not about 80 hour weeks and writing 10,000 libraries a year. Maybe there's something you have to contribute that you only work on for 5-10 hours a week and it takes you 2-3 years to complete it and it still blows our socks off.
Tor hasn't been compromised, the Firefox installation that Tor is shipped with has been exploited before though.
I had this same problem when I first became a developer. The best thing you can do (in my opinion) is get up early rather than stay up late. You'll give your best effort to learning and personal projects that occur before work. You'll also find less of a need to "escape" from family/chill time at the end of the day, since you'll be working on the stuff on your list as soon as you wake up.
Have we reached maximum TV resolution?
> Fuck that noise, it's parasitism

The irony is that you work in advertising which itself is parasitism.
Exactly what software trademarks are you talking about? Linux™? Adobe™ Photoshop™?
The charges were:

Daniel Nolan Devor, 39, of Brunswick, Ga., charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography, distribution of child pornography and receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors
John C. Foster, 44 of Tipp City, Ohio, charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors
Aung Gaw aka Michael Gaw, 25, of Fremont, Calif., charged with receipt of child pornography
Vittorio Francesco Gonzalez-Castillo, 26, of Tucson, Ariz., charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography
Sean Jabbar, 32, of Minneapolis, Minn., charged with receipt of child pornography
Christopher Jamieson, 30, of Douglassville, Ga., charged with receipt of child pornography
Andrew Korpal, 29, of Granger, Ind., charged with receipt of child pornography
Nicholas Saine, 27, of Seattle, Wash., charged with receipt of child pornography
Christopher Schwab, 25 of New Orleans, charged with production of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography
Stanley Zdon, III, 27, of Tuckerton, N.J., charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography
I made the switch from Gmail to Fastmail in December 2013 and have been very happy with it. The speed is incredible and as you said the web client is pretty good. One thing I have noticed, and I just don't know if it's by chance, by my spam folder has been empty since the switch. With my gmail address I was regularly having my spam folder increase by one or two every week.

One other neat thing with Fastmail is they give you the ability to use your storage for more than just email [1]. No to mention it's even accessible via FTP/WebDAV.

[1]https://www.fastmail.fm/help/files.html
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I agree that having to destroy a shipment of perfectly usable multimeters sucks, but this seems like a pretty clear cut case of trademark violation to me. That multimeter really does look like a Fluke multimeter (see https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=fluke+multimeter). It was probably designed that way on purpose, probably because Fluke has a reputation for manufacturing high-quality multimeters, and someone could confuse it with a Fluke multimeter at a glance.
I guess it depends on the airport. Boston is one of the worst I have seen. When I fly through Raleigh/Durham it is magical how much better it is.
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I'm so happy they give these plans for free. I have been trying to get involved with Open Compute for some time and just get no where - with these plans, anyone can get a head start.

Amazing and I hope they continue for a long time!
> Doesnt sound professional,and some people might hate the Movie.

Glad you brought this up...this is a great discussion point! The most important aspect in naming a language/framework/library is the ability to Google it. The second one is being able to remember it. I think BladeRunner does both of those really well (regardless of your personal convictions about "professionalism" and distaste for the movie...)
Man Who Signed Up for Obamacare Now Owes $407,000 in Medical Bills
I just give my laptop or iPad to 2 year old son and it does the same trick!
Is that a problem in any other watch? Left or right wrist, the 12 stays on top. Only the button is on the other side.

Besides that: don't count on it. If you pay close attention, you see that the bottom part of the round screen stays black. Most likely to accommodate the controller for the screen. Upside down will not work for that reason.

In a square watch, it might.
just saw this last night as well

http://gitshots.com/
this is a trademark issue, not a patent issue, although both are handled by USPTO