skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a fairly natural step for Facebook, as increasing app dependency on Facebook for account authorization is a step towards building a platform.
AWS Instance Connectivity issues in US-WEST-2
The currently published worst-case scenarios result in a couple degree centigrade increase until 2100; and in a millenium would turn my hometown into an equivalent of Florida. Granted, Florida itself would likely be a desert after such changes, but civilization would definitely be possible, and it's nowhere comparable to melting lead.
Someone seems to be systematically downvoting posts like this. Just wanted to let you know that I feel your pain - I had an entire Google account shut down without explanation or warning. Lost all access to email, calendar, contacts, etc with no recourse and only a form to fill out that is never answered.

I believe the account was banned for a ToS violation that occurred 2 years prior. But I'll never know, just like I never got any of my data back.
> I have a lot of resumes to scan and this metric works most of the time.

Works in what sense? Does it reliably help you make the best hires? Are you sure? (I hypothesize that it does not, and you might not even know it.)

Yes, every hiring manager has lots of resumes to scan. But I wouldn't consider that a logical justification for establishing an arbitrary criterion that's likely to weed out some of the very best candidates. (As others have stated, there anecdotally appears to be a trend wherein the very best don't bother with LinkedIn.)
Apart from 'sacred rivers' the best known example is probably your mouth - viruses do kill majority bacteria there until you start to adopt non-natural cleaning systems (i.e. toothpaste) and carb overflowing you are actually making thing worse.
>> The worst case scenario for global warming is that it's an extinction-level event and civilization ends.

>I don't buy that. Beginning of a new dark age with a breakdown of civilization and loss of advancements? Yes. Extinction-level event? No.

Extinction-level event is a scientific term which refers to the rate of extinctions and the associated loss of biodiversity, it doesn't necessarily mean that we all die. And if you think there's a meaningful distinction between "civilization ends" and "breakdown of civilization"... wow, okay.
As a talented developer, I expect my hiring manager to look beyond a scummy, spammy social network to do their job. If he or she refuses, that's fine. That's a big red flag, and I can look elsewhere for a better fit.
Yes. \o/

Anything less is control-freak, incumbent cronyism with a mafia protection fee.
Ah, I misread that, didn't see that tiny "not". Yes, he is right :)
Oh absolutely, if it delivers value to you in those ways, by all means use it. I don't think it would help me personally in that regard, but if it did, I might reconsider.

I suspect that LinkedIn is more useful to some people than others. And that's fine. Most products are like that. My comment above was really just arguing against the idea that LinkedIn usage somehow correlates with the quality of a candidate.
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The EU isn't a state, though...
> Having zero online presence would be a reasonable flag

Why?
> I've never heard of any evidence for obesity being among those factors.

I think you mis-typed the wrong word there, but I'm not sure what to substitute it with.
If you look at the lineup of Aroma (the brand the OP chose) rice cookers, you'll see that the author could have bought a simple one-button model just like his old one, but chose not to.

http://www.aroma-housewares.com/kitchen/appliances/products/...

In terms of whether his cooker will last 25 years, I'm not really sure how good Aroma is as a brand, but most of the Asian people I know (I'm Asian too) buy top end Japanese branded rice cookers like Zojirushi and Panasonic (aka National) -- and these cookers last a really long time. When you eat rice daily or almost daily, spending a little more for reliability is a no-brainer.
On average, how often do you think accounts will be banned on the day before a payout, assuming no malintent on Google's part?
If you're going to ask that, you should tell us which studies you used to select the other techniques you use.

(It turns out that there are, tons actually, but software engineering a difficult topic to study and I wouldn't draw any conclusions from them. The vast majority of controlled software engineering studies I've seen are conducted on students using problems of trivial scope. The uncontrolled ones aren't much better. Basic questions like "what do you mean by productivity" have yet to be answered well.)
Or really any school for that matter. In the valley you have schools like Stanford and Berkeley that serve as the initial filters in the talent funnel. Getting into either school is a feat unto its own, so I don't think these school take credit for all of a students success.
Cakebrew, a little free Mac app for Homebrew.
Webflow Symbols: Partials/Includes/Mixins for Designers
Even in cases where you are terminated for no reason, you have recourse for things like unemployment benefits if no valid reason can be provided in court.
Isn't that considered cloaking and a direct violation of Google's Webmaster guidelines?
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355

That's the kind of thing expertsexchange.com was busted for amongst other sites. Or is LinkedIn simply "above the law" because of their search volume?
Damn, this is awesome. I would've loved something like this back in school. I did them manually.
It really depends on your appetite for risk. One of my colleagues has been taking Lariam for about 25 years, and I usually carry two weeks-worth of extra Malarone doses when I travel (might switch to Lariam for my next trip).
This is a huge waste of energy / calculation power, right?

I really, really understand the technical fancy behind this kind of parallel computing projects BUT have to imagine the wast of energy this would cause if really used for a real world calculation jobs compared with a dedicated server farm...

Or did the energy / calc-power realities change significantly lately?
Hmm. Since his post had 12 points, and the only info he could dig up regarding this issue was from "The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ":

"If a post gets 10 flags before it gets 10 points it goes dead automatically, if it doesn’t each flag seems to cause the post to be penalized on its ranking so it will still have effect. After a post has more than 10 points only a moderator can kill it."

He assumed that a moderator killed it since 12 > 10. Just a misunderstanding. Next time I'll have him check with your censors, I mean, moderators or read up on your double-top-secret rules to confirm before before making me look like an a hole.
HN hates LinkedIn because they don't understand it. Look at their financials - almost none (practically speaking) of their revenue comes from advertising.
We're talking about something that was worth less than $200 a a year ago, and $0 5 years ago. So if you believe that BitCoin is following an uneven adoption cycle, where there is a boom period followed by a pullback, which is what has been the case so far, then we're still at the beginning of its adoption curve. Additionally when mainstream markets for trading BitCoin open up - like Second Market's planned BitCoin exchange - you'll see a lot more money flow into BitCoin speculation from actual investment institutions, which could cause buy pressure.

I think probably the most important - and maybe only - indicator of whether BitCoin can actually sustain its price is how many merchants are accepting it as a payment option. If this is still going up (as I believe it is) then BitCoin has a promising future. If it starts declining then I start to worry.
> Since cursor position is not included in OT I'm not sure I follow your example where <p>abcd|ef</p> becomes <p>abc123d|</p> though.

In the OT-less example, I meant that for A,

<p>abcd|ef</p>

, where | is B's cursor, would become

<p>abc123d|</p>

when A inserts '123' at position 3, because it would push any other content to the right, including a cursor, because the cursor must remain between the two letters it was between, regardless of what changes in the surrounding text some distance away.

> This was a tradeoff we made to launch earlier but more core cursor sync support is definitely possible in the future.

Makes sense. Looking forward to see more. :)
LinkedIn bought Rapportive....

Rapportive captures the contact info of every person whose email you open (or who you write to).
I live in SF and I feel something different. The regulations are consistent with versions of SF that most of its citizenry would not like (e.g. like Malibu).
It rather makes you more of a vim user. My vimrc file contains mostly leader mappings and option settings, added mostly with a craze of customising.
The downvotes were probably more about the worth of your comment. Your opinion and some off the cuff percentage aren't really interesting without some sort of accompanying justification or analysis. Why do you think it will make it to the ballot easily, and why specifically 60% odds of passing?
Very cool - always great to hear about people doing well with our Unreserved program! Thank you for sharing with the HN crowd.
Stuff that kills bacteria has to also not kill people.

I saw a TV programme where scientists had a big tray of nutrient gel. They divided the tray into sections. The fist section was normal nutrient gel. The next contained a normal dose of antibiotic. The next section was 10x, the next section was 100x and the final section was 1000x a regular dose. This was far more than humans could tolerate. They stopped at 1000x because that was the limits of solubility - they couldn't disolve more antibiotic into the gel.

Scientists then dropped a bit of e.coli on the normal gel and set their time lapse cameras.

In just a few weeks the bacteria had evolved to live on all sections of the gel.

(This was a BBC 'Horizon' programme called "defeatng the superbugs")
The problem is that Lewis either through misunderstanding, narrative purposes, or due to a conflict of interest is implying "buying/selling ahead of other investors". But that is not what is actually happening in the latency arbitrage case. In the latency arbitrage case a HFT uses trade information from one exchange, to update their own prices on other exchanges.
A supervisor is a person.
Checkout Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/

This and watching English media should get you ready for an immersion experience which is considered by most the best way to learn. If you have the opportunity to speak with native speakers before your departure, do that too!
It should be noted that in most countries 'loser pays' is standard, rather than an exception.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney's_fee#Who_pays

I'd argue this is a sound principle, which reduces the number of abusive/frivolous cases taken to court.
Same here- I wonder what functionality this has over easybib.
This doesn't look like an AdSense alternative. I think most people are looking for something that they can click a button, get a <script> tag they can drop in their page, and earn a few dollars a month to offset the cost of hosting. Your site looks like something catering to large publishers.

p.s. The landing page makes me confused on exactly what it is that your site does.
:) To devil's advocate myself, though:

Where does this logic end? On the extreme end of the spectrum, we can agree that a doctor who skips the disinfectant is categorically a bad hire. But what about less extreme cases? Where do we draw the line? What about a developer who doesn't use version control? Or who doesn't use automated tests? What if they do use those things, but within those genres, they've chosen tools you happen to despise?

So I think it's tricky to know which products should be considered mandatory for quality hires.

That being said, I still stand by my comment on LinkedIn. The more debatable examples I gave above are tools that directly affect the quality and efficiency of a developer's work. LinkedIn is not, and that's a pretty big distinction.
Funny, I've seen the argument made that developers target iOS first or sometimes exclusively because you make way more money there then on Android and it's much easier to maintain vs the huge ecosystem that is Andriod. By doing that you're screwing over an even large percentage of people, in this case users, but rarely have I heard anyone here complain nearly as much about it. How is this much different?
Who's Hiring for Node.js
Go: More Unix than Unix
Unnecessary overuse of the word "time" in the first paragraph [5 occurrences]. Please have a re-write on my desk by 09:00 tomorrow.
The Bitcoin price is falling because the Google Trends search volume is going down. That's it. All of the technical analysis and China news is just a mirage that makes a few jolts in the short term.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin&date=today%20...

And it will keep going down until the search volume stops going down, at which point it will stabilize, and then start to go up once again. Of course, this says nothing about whether the recovery will be $7 to $30 or $450 to $4000, but it's a pattern that has been quite consistently highly correlated with Bitcoin price movements in the past and I see no reason why it should not continue to be in the future.

Edit: the turnaround may be quite soon. We can already see that the price has actually moved by pretty much exactly 0% in total over the past 30 days: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/usd
Not as hilariously involved as doing the same thing on the CLI.
This is a horrible idea for app developers. If someone wants to sign up for my app, but doesn't want to create a real user account with an email address and personally identifiable information, then I don't have a real customer relationship or anything of value. So, why even make them log in?

I guess I just don't see the point of requiring a user account if it isn't adding value to either the user or the app creator.

One more reason not to use Facebook as a login mechanism I guess.
You should read 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond.

It's a very interesting book about how the civilised world came to be the way it is, for example, why Europe discovered America, and not vice versa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
> I think it's impractical to test things that use ActiveRecord without testing the database.

I think one of the fundamental, if not really directly addressed, divides between the sides here is over the question of whether domain models "using" (being tightly coupled to) the persistence layer is sensible architecture even outside of consequences for testing.
> IMO the browser vendors should just give in and add setImmediate

Firefox has just shipped native promises, and you can use them to polyfill setImmediate instead ;)

http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/#Promise
I don't know about those specific 900 listings on airbnb, but IIRC SF has an ~8% vacancy rate which tens of thousands of housing units.
I think he said it precisely as he meant it.
When can we see this integrated with 4chan?
Offhand, no - I have one I wrote myself for prototyping but it basically just does callables (though it does support placeholders.) Support for controllers wouldn't be hard to add though.
> This will continue to be the case until the US government takes bitcoin for taxes.

I like how this is only about the US and the world around doesn't exist.
I don't think these bootcamps are going to go away so long as there's pent up demand for developers. I do think there are existing models that work for a particular audience (college educated, analytical/mathematical thinkers?) and those are going to continue serving as more effective alternatives to scouring the web for resources on your own or going back to school.

Some schools might find out that 8 weeks is too short. Others might find it too long. Being that these rapid fire dev ramp-up programs are still pretty new it'll be interesting to see what insights emerge.
Kronos hits $1bil annual revenue
According to this article, there's more to developing into a strong military power than just having a larger economy: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/8a12e8ef7edc

TL;DR:

- Much of the military might that Beijing buys every year gets directed inward and never projects externally.

- Even after decades of expensive rearmament, China is a paper dragon.

- The same demographic wave that has gifted China with an abundance of labor will soon also transform the country into the world’s biggest retirement home.

Edited: Added a few key points.
I never use Facebook Login for sites/apps, not because I don't trust the sites/apps with my FB data but because I don't trust FB with my app usage data.

Now, if I could log into Facebook without giving them access to my data, that would be a killer feature.
Great point. They federal level infrastructure is pretty far from having that capability at the moment. As long as systems like one linked in the article are coming, the only natural response by the state is to establish an large-scale NSA-style hacking and network forensic agency working domestically.

There is no way they'll let digital black markets exist without creating a super-expensive heavy handed machine to attempt to stop it. Whether it is practical or not.
Weird. I completely missed that.
Google splits up Drive with new iOS and Android productivity apps
I saw a documentary in which it was said that another disincentive to antibiotic research is that its very use causes its effectiveness (for the general population) to reduce, due to antibiotic resistance. So that it would eventually stop selling.

It is not so in the case of medicines for BP, diabetes etc.

We may eventually need to have a compulsory hospital stay (or something else) for antibiotic treatment so that a patient treated with an antibiotic does not have any leftover resistant pathogens to transfer to the public.
Yes, that is the problem. However, I know that at least one of them was penalized for using TextLinkAds and stopped advertising with us because they decided to adopt a scorched earth policy in an attempt to have manual penalties removed. They simply tried to remove all possible links to themselves that they had paid for.

I'm afraid the issue is not as black and white as I'd like it to be.

I do not believe that Google would intentionally punish sites for buying legitimate advertising.
Incentive is not the problem with more housing... there is presently a huge demand for housing.
I have heard of tick bites causing an allergy to beef, and I've heard of people having reactions to meat because of a pre-existing allergy to the antibiotics used during production, but I have never heard of someone becoming allergic to an antibiotic due to consumption. That seems rather improbable, if not entirely impossible. Also, I can't imagine any medical professional claiming to possess the ability of pinpointing an instigator for the development of a penicillin allergy, because the cause is unknown.

I hate to be so negatively argumentative, and I especially hate having to defend McDonald's, but I honestly think you are trying to make an association that does not exist based on information that was not factual. Or you're trolling, in which case congratulations are in order for getting me to type all of this.
Using bitcoin for transactions won't help if the merchants immediately sell them (all the buying pressure just got cancelled out). Right now, bitcoin is only held in large quantities for speculation. Speculation, as he notes, has only worked for temporary bubbles.

He says that bitcoin isn't failing, but I don't see how it can succeed. It doesn't make short-term economic sense for individuals to either mine or buy bitcoins, so it seems like the only people buying bitcoin will be those who are either speculating or who simply want it to succeed. That doesn't seem sustainable. Can anyone explain why he is still optimistic about bitcoin?
Hi All, Thanks for your interest in this book! It is a very rough draft, but I welcome comments and suggestions.

The code examples are not quite ready for prime time, but I will release them soon and update the (missing) link in the book.
Mt.Gox is going to liquidate all their bitcoins for the bankruptcy proceedings. So factor that in, and creditors of Mt.Gox (especially bitcoin creditors) will get even less than the value today.
I'd say get ready for a big bubble burst.
Can someone explain how and why I would truly want to link out to another app on someone's phone? I get the whole android intents thing and having a "share" button and letting other services handle some of those things, but in what cases is it super beneficial to link to another app and leave your app?

The only thing I can think of are things like PDF viewers or maybe cross linking your own apps?
Unfortunately, the OP's position is held, in varying forms, by many in this industry. How many have said they won't hire someone without a Github profile? Without Open Source contributions? Without a direct personal network connection? If they spent too long at $BIG_STODGY_COMPANY? I have come to the conclusion that most companies don't give a shit about candidates as long as they are getting enough. Hell, even some companies that bitch and moan about "talent shortages" seem to have their own Pareto principle bullshit getting in their way.
"This spurs occasional bubbles..."

Actually, no. Bubbles have very clear and consistent price patterns which (so far) has not characterized any of the elevations in bitcoin price. One not mentioned in this chart is that for bubbles, the post-mania drop tends to be 2x faster than the rise, which has never been true for any of the bitcoin corrections.

http://www.theeestory.com/files/price_bubble_chart.jpg

It is certainly possible that bitcoin will at some point exhibit the characteristics of a bubble, which may even destroy bitcoin, but it has not so far.
Because, it's a lot easier to just sign up using your Facebook account rather than trying to remember yet another password. But I don't want every little site to know my personal information. It's none of their business. I just want to log in quickly.

Logging in to a site provides more value than just sharing personal information. For me, I rarely, if ever, want a site to know my personal information. That's why I rarely use Facebook login service. Now I will.
Quite true. There's still a shot for someone else to "win" universal login. But it's nearly impossible without tremendous scale.
Indie Phone
the one with the money
You get a sense of increasing exasperation from the Supreme Court with the incredibly pro-patent antics of the Federal Circuit. See the good discussion at SCOTUSblog here: http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/opinion-recap-justices-wan....

One hopes that this series of unanimous reversals will chasten the court, but the past two decades has demonstrated that the federal circuit feels that patent protections can never be strong enough or overly broad.
The statement in that quote is false.

Since this thread is also obviously inappropriate for HN, I'm going to kill it now. The guidelines ask for questions like this to be sent to hn@ycombinator.com.