skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Productivity problem because of degrees of freedom.

Hard to do without graphics, and once you introduce graphics, you end up with endless non-productive futzing by non-graphics artists trying to be amateur graphics artists with move this one pixel over to get an artistic look or whatever other graphical effect. Unfortunately the user isn't a graphics artist and is theoretically hired to write code or memos or reviews, so they're both working way out of their core competency AND usually not any good at graphics arts. And if you don't allow hours of futzing, a competitor will, and you'll be destroyed in the marketplace. People like futzing even if its by definition totally anti-productive, which isn't all that weird given the popularity of the open plan office and so on.

Nothing is ever new in IT. In the early years of desktop publishing, productivity suffered dramatically because a simple memo meeting notice which took 10 minutes on typewriter and xerox, now took at least 3 hours of font selection (at least 6 different fonts and sizes per page) and endless clip art and at least 10 revisions to get it "just right".
This is the one that I have: http://www.headsetexperts.com/clarity_601_p/601.htm

I've had mine for years; I'm surprised they're still making it - I've gotten used to the 'cult of the new' lifestyle that seems so prevalent. :)
Yes.

And it de-duplicates as well.
Polls have been showing majority support since at least 2011, and recent polls have it nearly at 60% supported nationally. The largest effect is the dying off of older homophobes, as youth support is well north of 70%. Opposing gay marriage is a losing issue by any measure, and in another couple of decades we'll look back on these years with the same shame as we do when we discuss black and minority suffrage in the '60s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marr...
The solution is incredibly simple: believe what you want, marry who you love (so long as there's consent all round), and let others do the same.

The entire issue is that this was an attempt to promote a belief likely grounded in religion into a law denying others a basic right. That cannot be permitted.
could isn't enough to spend £250 on a 40% return in a year on such a low value.

If you have £250 floating around then £100 difference over a year on your heating bill isn't likely a major issue either.

It doesn't make sense, even as an early adopter.

It makes an interesting purchase for the shiny squad with a disposable income but that's about it.
False classified information might actually work against the analyst who has access to it.

The same piece of info, if public, will have to stand on its own, without the bias introduced by restricted access / multiple levels of filtering / the attached opinions of people wearing suits.
See my post below for a response. There are two different kinds of political issues and it's entirely rational to treat them separately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515083
I was having the same thought, at what point/how do you factor in the, "if I make this predication, which is contrary to my boss's expectations, will I still have a job". Surely there is a huge amount of pressure on "rowing in the same direction" towards a predetermined group think (which is terrible, of course).
Sorry, I don't see how the argument falls apart. Can you point out the specific step that fails? I can see how it would fall apart if the goal was to deprive certain people of their right to vote, but that seems to be different from what you're saying.
GitHub courseware for teaching GitHub classes
This Economist post[0] addresses some of the many comments about statistical outliers:

> The big surprise has been the support for the unabashedly elitist “super-forecaster” hypothesis. The top 2% of forecasters in Year 1 showed that there is more than luck at play. If it were just luck, the “supers” would regress to the mean: yesterday’s champs would be today’s chumps. But they actually got better. When we randomly assigned “supers” into elite teams, they blew the lid off IARPA’s performance goals. They beat the unweighted average (wisdom-of-overall-crowd) by 65%; beat the best algorithms of four competitor institutions by 35-60%; and beat two prediction markets by 20-35%

[0]http://www.economist.com/news/21589145-how-sort-best-rest-wh...
I'm confused ... is it (declared) stable? or is this a beta?
SVN has PHP bindings, git doesn't. No matter what you think of PHP or SVN, it's difficult to argue that there is no single use case which wouldn't be affected by this (I myself have recently had to choose SVN for a project for this very reason).
Life Is Not a Spectator Sport
This. And while learning is important, I really am getting tired of the bullshit line about everyone needing open-source side projects (and this is coming from a guy who enjoys side projects). How many other professionals need side projects for legitimization? My mechanical engineering friends build stuff too, but no one's expecting them to bring in a home-made contraption for their interviews.
An ISP employee here. We did nothing particular to support SCTP, so I got curious whenever it works. Just ran a pair of socat's (sctp-listen:12345 and sctp:example.org:12345) and it worked perfectly.

In our setup, NAT's done on a GNU/Linux machines in a simplest possible way, almost like `iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/8 -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE` (we offer dynamic globally-routeable IPv4 addresses first, but when our pools are drained, we have no choice but do NAT for v4). So, it seems, almost every ISP who uses software routers (they're stable, performant and cheap) should be SCTP-friendly.

No idea about Ciscos and alikes, though. None we have does NAT, and given I'm not a Cisco guy I'm not going to reconfigure one just to test things.
I think Github has nothing to do with all this, for two reasons:

First, because only the https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app has been removed. There are plenty of forks of the original popcorn floating around github, some of them with very recent commits (see the network timeline). It seems unlikely that github would remove just that one repo and leave all these others around.

Second, because as noted by some commenters, the website of that fork http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ is also down. But it is not just down: the whole A/CNAME record does not exist anymore! Digging a bit deeper, you can see that the nameservers of that domain are hosted by Cloudfare.

It seems very unlikely to me that Github and Cloudfare would act so well coordinated in taking down an application and its associated resources, yet they completely ignore all those forks.

That makes me think that this is more of a personal issue. Either someone with all the keys got hacked and that's the result, or someone has been intimidated enough (through legal or other means) to shut everything down.

Anyway, time will tell. Don't start migrating all your github repos elsewhere yet ;P
stupid question - what do you consider an abuse of CSS?

Do people abuse javascript? Absolutely! However, I think JS can make the page look much better. Ajax loads are quicker than page refreshes, autocomplete is very useful, reply boxes that are loaded inline on demand, Hiding of parts of the page if the user wants to, (long comment threads...) table headers that scroll with the table, etc, etc. The really crummy thing about JS is it has gotten so much negative attention because of the abuses and that's what people focus on.

I really don't like the move to JS dialogs myself though. I don't think that they are beneficial to the user in many cases. Especially when a video or picture is displayed in a JS dialog.
Bye Blackberry, you won't be missed.
My guess? Upvoted to front by site's authors for traction.
Well, if I order a large Meat Lovers, it is far too easy for somebody else to change it to half a small vegetarian. Then add 15 people, all wanting to screw with eachother, and it is far too easy to stuff up the whole thing.

Perhaps "gaming the system" was not the right choice of words, but I wanted to note that the author of the article seems to go to great lengths to stop this sort of abuse.
VoIP protocols are designed to expect the exact condition described here; i.e., packets out of order and variation in the rate at which packets are received. A buffer is used to account for volatility in network latency. The size of this buffer is one of the more important problems that must be solved when implementing VoIP.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter#Jitter_buffers
And if you don't want some govt to take down a single provider like what happened with Lavabit email vis-a-vis backup, go with a distribute (multi-provider) solution like Tahoe LAFS

https://leastauthority.com/

The proxy is run locally and all encryption happens locally, so it's end-to-end encrypted.
What makes you think he's "against gays"? How do you know he's not gay himself?
So it knows you're in and tells everyone.

No thanks.

That data is pretty valuable to the wrong sort of people.

There is NOTHING good that can come from this product.
Does the trademark have to contain .com?

i.e. I have theword trademarked, but not theword.com
The other thing I would fear is if there's a bug that somehow prevents people from committing, if the SVN team is using SVN, the bug may get in the way of it's own fix. Pretty unlikely, but still - if my software was the platform for it's own bug fixes, I'd be looking for some more diversity in my stack.
> The solution is incredibly simple: believe what you want... and let others do the same.

There's not much point to freedom of religion if you're not allowed to vote according to those beliefs.

> The entire issue is that this was an attempt to promote a belief likely grounded in religion into a law denying others a basic right. That cannot be permitted.

There are many restrictions put in place because they are voted for based of peoples beliefs, including their religious ones. Why can this not be permitted?

How can we know if a law is religiously motivated?

I shouldn't have to say this, but HN quality these days is so poor that I will: I support gay marriage. But people are turning this into a black and white issue. It isn't.

And I don't think people should be punished for voting in a way that meets their moral beliefs, even if those moral beliefs are spiritually grounded.
Adding to the collection of people supporting this as - finally - an awesome April Fools joke. I give them a 10/10 on conception and execution! Remember the reaction to the initial radio broadcast of War of the Worlds (yes, not a 4/1 event, but as close of a parallel situation that I can recall).

Bravo, Apache, nicely done.
How the web was supposed to be.
How about the death penalty? It is a violation of human rights with a clear right and wrong side.

Where is the public outrage over death-penalty supporters in the FOSS world?
Answer this: what kind of job are you looking for?

This is a good tip. I often just say My interest never leaves education, tool automation, and security.
a) who is "them"? :) don't get me wrong, i respect the anti-marriage attitude, it's a legitimate position. but it's not fair to bring it up when the topic is marriage equality. even if you're against marriage, i think you should support marriage equality - because, if marriage is here, it should at least be fair to all. the fact that you may be against marriage in general does not really matter as much on this particular topic.

b) there is no imperative for Mozilla to have him as the CEO. however, when Mozilla places him as CEO and sticks to it, then it is a potential problem.
You see this often in German job listings, because the job title can intrinsically denote gender. For instance, Developer is "Entwickler" (m) and "Entwicklerin" (f). So employers tend to write something like "Web-Entwickler (m/f)."
Major shakeup to domain names will affect millions 
At the end of last week ICANN, the body responsible for the allocation of domain names online, announced it will be adopting changes to domain name structure first proposed at the Paris conference in October. Those changes center around increased localization of existing domain names.
As a customer of about 2 years now, it is much appreciated. I feel much better doing business with corporations when I get the feeling that they do their business fairly. Tarsnap succeeds at this.
> "Don't try anything cute. You resume should be devoid of personality."

I have to disagree. I got my current job because my resume stood out. It was the only one not written in MS word. The other candidates had equal if not greater experience than me, but I got the job before they even got a response.

If you're going for a programming position where you're not expected to be different, then sure, but if you're going for a development role where you may be full stack, or expected to be different, make sure your resume shows that.

Sell yourself in the 10 seconds you get. A school boy resume isn't going to do that.

And as mh_yam says, don't call yourself a programmer.
The claim made in the headline is not supported by the text that follows, which doesn't provided data on tech employment in any other cities or metros. It'd be better to say "New York's tech scene is thriving" if that's what the data support.
"Most UK heating systems don’t even have thermostats"[1]

I died laughing.

[1] Citation Needed.

Oh, but thank goodness this California-based company is here to save us with their £250 thermostat because we just don't have them and we've been dying for some way to control house temperature all this time.

Oh, wait, B&Q offers me a choice of "Wireless Thermostat | Room Thermostat | Heating Controls | Central Heating Controller | Thermostat | Digital Room Thermostat | Central Heating Programmer | Digital Thermostat (97 products)".

And every house I've ever lived in has had either a central thermostat or per radiator thermostat.

Please, Nest, I'm begging you. Come up with some way to keep the ever present rain from touching our heads. We don't even have umbrellas over here.
The problem here is that we have some people claiming to be against discrimination, yet they in turn have absolutely no problem engaging in such behavior toward Eich.

I make a simple claim: equality before the law, for all persons, is a necessary feature of a free society.

Notice how this says nothing about "tolerance", "discrimination", "diversity", "inclusiveness" nor any of the other frankly pathetic attempts people have tried at the "you're just as bad" argument.

The line is drawn at attempting to create a society in which not all persons are equal before the law. Proposition 8 crossed that line, and I feel free to condemn it and its supporters with all my strength.
Having a portfolio website is necessary to get a job at the place most HN entrepreneurs are interested in running. For better or worse, a portfolio or an active github are almost necessary to land a position at a top-tier company or a startup. If you want to work for a generic business that has grown a software division out of necessity then your basic resume will do just fine.
I wrote this as an investor but I think the concept applies to startup founders too. In my friend Yariv Sadan's words " The corollary for entrepreneurs: work on ideas that seem bad and that have no business model. If your idea is obviously good it's probably too late to build it because that obviousness is predicated on the success of other companies, which have already captured the market."
The tech sector has always been big in NYC, but it's not the same as a Silicon Valley. There's far fewer pure tech companies and a lot more tech services especially around our traditional big industries, finance and media. There's a handful of significant tech shops, but mostly it's consulting, IT and the like. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Since almost everyone on the JIRA knew it was a joke, what were the negative consequences that affected you so deeply?
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There's not much point to freedom of religion if you're not allowed to vote according to those beliefs.

There's not much point to claiming a free society if a religious bloc can vote away everyone else's freedom.
Well, calling it "broken" is maybe a bit harsh - but we have a fairly large top floor "double upper" flat in Edinburgh's New Town that has had some 'interesting' modifications in its history.

Between having to get the agreement of neighbours, planning regulations (it's a listed building), conservation area rules etc. changing anything is a nightmare.

[e.g. Deciding what colour to get our external pipework painted took months...]
"and the sample set is large enough, you would -expect- there to be some outliers who mostly got things right, by pure chance."

According to the article, "In fact, she's so good she's been put on a special team with other super forecasters whose predictions are reportedly 30 percent better than intelligence officers with access to actual classified information."

If they mean that after the team was formed, the predictions are still 30% better, than random chance ceases to be an acceptable explanation. If they mean that the team that they formed was 30% better on the predictions used to grant entrance into the team, then your objection still holds. Unfortunately, I don't think the article makes it clear which is the case.

That said, there are definitely some mechanisms that could lead an outside group to higher accuracy on these sorts of things. The two biggest are: 1. The insiders are simply that bad, for whatever reason, and random chance can easily beat them, and 2. The failures of the insiders are correlated and overwhelm their theoretically superior information, and I'd especially finger potential ideological biases there, which could affect both information filtering and the analysis. (It is one thing to believe the world should be a certain way as a result of one's ideology... it is quite another to believe the world must already be a certain way as a result of one's ideology, even when one is staring evidence in the face that it is not. One is noble and laudable... the other somewhat less so.)
Hmm. I don't think that saying "Thomas Was Alone" required nearly no art skills is fair at all. If your only definition of "art" is static, visual art that comes across in a screenshot, then sure, but that's not all that there is to art, and it's not even the hardest part of a video game.

Just writing off the polish given to the jump physics, the water, the narration, the small touches like dynamic lighting and rain, and everything else as "not art" doesn't sit right.
Touché :-). But I meant the larger (more liberal) enclaves like the SF South Bay.
But the point here seems to be to use the group average, not to find outliers with good prediction ability per se.
Despite the subtle ad hominem, yes, me too. Absolutely. I'm pro-gay marriage (or, more to the point, given that gay marriage is now legal in Portugal, the fight has moved on, and it'd be more relevant to say that I'm for gay co-adoption).

I think you're missing the bigger point here. There is one topic I definitely care about more than I do about gay marriage: The capacity to even discuss it, and the right to talk about and support that cause if I see fit. And this is very much a case of what's good for the goose is also good for the gander. If you're OK with blocking Eich's ascension to CEO due to his position, it's hard to justify how you'd then be against other people being blocked like this for holding unpopular opinions.

In my experience, stifling debate usually hurts minorities and makes it easier to maintain the status quo, so if you want to further a minority cause, you need to be able to have open discussion, so all in all I'd rather allow people to voice unpopular opinions — in some circles, I'll be the one doing it!
If you think gay marriage is comparable to slavery, you have no sense of proportion.
Assuming the S3 bill is the next day...
Dating website OKCupid tells users to boycott Mozilla over new CEO
In some ways using an object to share parameters between helpers is an alternative to having a function that can have internal helper methods that all have access to the original parameters via the shared enclosed environment. But that doesn't make this "object oriented" and I don't see why that should be a goal in and of itself.
> "Don't bring up your hobbies." : This one really raised my hair. Not everyone is tweeting every part of their life (I certainly don't) so hobbies are a great way to lighten the mood during the interview and assessing the interviewee's personality.

I think it is fluff. Unless you are going to put something strikingly like juggling live swords, it is something I would glaze over. There are other ways to lighten the mood (like small talk) during the interview.

> - "Don't bother mentioning your G.P.A." : I know firms are only interested in your diploma's name, but it can be an advantage to mention you passed summa cum laude whereas another barely made it by coasting and offloading his share of works on others students (which is unfortunately a useful skill in the workplace).

Only if you are close to fresh out of school. If someone has five years of experience and mentions his GPA, I either think he has not updated that portion of his resume (which is OK) or that he still thinks I care about what he did five years ago in an ivory tower (which I really don't).
As others are pointing out, Nest don't seem to understand their target market if they think we don't have thermostats and timers already.

We also have other options that are already available. For example: https://www.hivehome.com/ or http://www.tado.com/gb/ or http://www.scottishpower.co.uk/connect/ or https://www.inspirehomeautomation.co.uk/
That article felt like it ended far too early. I was left with a "is that it?" feeling. Not that I was underwhelmed by the message of the article, but that I couldn't find a message in it. If it had a point beyond "crowdsourcing works", I missed it.
That framework is rather simplistic, isn't it? What conceptual basis to you have for preventing a man from marrying, for example, his own brother? Or for preventing polygamy? Or are you suggesting we should allow those things also?
The right of consenting adults to enter, unfettered, into loving committed relationships is rather fundamental to the way Western society works.

If you think it should be put up for vote, be prepared to put your right up for vote first.
I would say the terms are one sided (at least on this issue). I don't think they are ambiguous.

I don't think it is really a slippery slope either, there would be a bunch of new law needed to make it so that offering a platform for publication carried the obligation to publish things (a lot of it focused on protecting the service provider from liability).
The good thing about github is that it provides a decent UI for browsing a person's contributions over time.
Often a github profile can look busy but when you drill down most of what the person has done is submitted varying versions of their dotfiles.
Ask HN: What accounting software do you use?
Right now we're on Gnucash which works pretty well for us, however I'm thinking about possibly moving to a web based accounting system (just so it is easier to access, etc.).

What are you using for your business and why?
The main point of April Fools is that you fool a lot of people. It's more or less in the name. Of course one should put some thought into possible consequences, but I think this one was quite harmless. (Gullible people becoming angry/shocked/etc. is considered harmless.)
Citation needed. Is there any indication that the suggested type of resume works? Other than when applying for a job with the author, I suppose?