skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt that all sorts of stuff slips through the cracks in all sorts of ways. I've certainly had really problematic hires. My issue is I'm trying to square "you have problematic female hires? I bet you just have bad hiring practices" with "our employees sometimes beat their wives". I'm not even saying you're wrong on the narrow point-- maybe the article's author is really bad at hiring women-- but I'm not sure you're in a great position to judge the effects of hiring process quality. Maybe figure that stuff out at hiring time is just hard, for both her and for you?
Oops. CA not CN, CA is the postcode for California and the TLD for Canada. Good to see some pressure applied to the NZ gov but I think Dotcom muddles things.
There are a couple of projects which try to make that really easy by allowing you to georeference a map by matching some common places:

http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
http://www.georeferencer.org/
http://maps.nypl.org/warper/

If you want a desktop app (handy with e.g. massive high-res scans) there's a fairly polished QGIS plugin: https://www.qgis.org/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/plugins_geo...

Once you've georeferenced something it's a fairly straight-forward process to either export as KMZ for Google Earth, etc. or export tiles which can be used with something like LeafletJS. I've used a master -> QGIS -> GeoTIFF -> gdal2tiles -> mbutil path with fairly low hassle.

I used this awhile back on http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2589/ and it was pretty interesting to see how the 1827 map was fairly accurate for the western part of the Russian empire but got significantly inaccurate as you headed to the northern or eastern frontiers.
Ask HN: what to do if an app you use gets abandoned?
I've been using an iOS app called MiniHack[0] to interact with Hacker News on the go; it's the only app I've found that lets you comment/vote/etc. However, I've encountered some bugs, and have tried to contact the app developer via the support email listed on their website 42mini.co, but the emails bounce back. Similarly their twitter feed has not been updated for quite a while. I tried WHOIS on the website, but their contact info is private; I've sent an email through their privacy provider and we'll see if that goes anywhere. I've tried a web search for the name of the developer (Cai GuongShao), but can't locate any other website or contact info for them.

Any other ideas or suggestions? How have you dealt with similar situations? Thanks!

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id631108846?ls=1&mt=8
I agree. It drives me nuts not to understand the stack I'm using. But sadly, our lower level tools are not good enough. We need higher level tools or a significant fraction of applications and tools will simply not exist for the foreseeable future.

It should be possible though, to bring at least some of that convenience to shallower stacks. Those tools are not as good as they could be. Static compilation instead of VMs (but still with a REPL), Type inference instead of full-on dynamic typing, libraries instead of frameworks, etc.
Bitcoin bank entices mom and pop with insurance, fraud checks and no fees
Me too.

Does anyone have good, digitally available, books recommendations?
Yeah, but still it's a skill game for the most part, except some particular versions like Mario Kart 64 which IMO is piss poor.

That's why Diddy Kong Racing was such a massive success. The truly good party racing game for the N64.
Android user sues Apple for not delivering texts after she ditched her iPhone
True, they meant OCPD tendencies which is easy to confuse with OCD given the overlapping terminology. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt.
I doubt it... this seems like a really good fit for Google. I expect that the app will go away, but I'd be surprised if the tech isn't integrated into the Google Now app or something like that.
Uh...one character: $
Both of those enjoy positively enormous amounts of funding, both via commercial and social means.

Glowing plants, by contrast, get virtually none. Even with this half million, the amounts are unfair to compare. Further, there's immense potential here. Many people around the world - in the billions - cannot afford night time illumination. This is essentially free for most of us, but is immensely costly without our advanced power infrastructure (including astonishing power reliability and stability).

What if all those people could have a plant light their home, even just a little, just enough to walk about safely? Without the awful smoke of oil and wood, and for only the cost of the water to feed it?

THAT is easily, undeniably worth half a million dollars. Don't be silly derailing something of such worth with shortsighted and irrelevant comparisons.
Interview process at startups, never had the pleasure, but keep in mind that they are new by definition. It's arguable that many large corporations don't have a good interview process. Imagine a limited funded startup. The amount of time to train a person to be a good interviewer, coming up with relavent questions, calibrating what a typical answer actually is vs. the answers you think you'll get.

If the company is rapidly growing then they may require employees who never been an interviewer to become interviewers (hopefully some shadowing and training is involved).
‘Killer Robots’ on the Run
We need a lot more work to get it bright enough to illuminate other object to the naked eye, but we are working on that! DNA isn't like code where you write it and are confident about how it works. We have to test a lot of different designs to see which works best which is a long slow process of incremental improvement.
It's controversially legal, at best, and probably isn't legal at all, at least in the US.

Internet Archive's Open Library project[0] was doing something like this, and may still be, though I no longer see information about this program on its website. Participating libraries would ship a book to IA/OL, who would then scan it and pack away the original so no one could have access to it. IA/OL uses Adobe DRM software to make a copy of the work available digitally, either directly or through its partner libraries, though to only one person at a time. I've written about this process within the larger context of ebooks and DRM here: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/the-ebook-ca...

As I understand it, one of the precedents for Open Library's process was an allowance made for transitioning from legacy to supported platforms. If a library had an important work on a Betamax tape, and no one had Betamax players, it would be allowed to transfer that information to a VHS tape or a DVD or some other format that people could use, provided the library makes the original unavailable (IIRC, the library may even be expected to destroy the original), and only circulate the newly formatted copy with the restrictions that applied to the previous copy.

If you're interested in this topic and aren't a lawyer, I recommend Complete Copyright[1] by the American Library Association's Carrie Russell, along with anything by Mary Minnow[2].

[0] http://openlibrary.org/
[1] http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2260 (also available at Amazon, etc.)
[2] http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/
The creation of a monopoly has always resulted in a great impact on the world (possibly because the world wouldn't accept a monopoly that didn't do great things). What that monopoly ends up doing with its power/resources is an entirely different matter.
Those who do not agree please consider this as a work of fiction and just ignore.
Well... I wrote that on my phone one handed while using the other hand to shovel lunch into my face. So I'm part to blame.
If you think about it, tests themselves are really client code for your class interfaces. So TDDing an API is just carrying that metaphor over to services.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-anoth...

Libraries aren't museums. They are for use by people who want to read books.

It took me a while to internalize this other rule: the median resale of used books is zero dollars. Once upon a time each physical copy of a book was a very rare item that represented hours of physical labor. These days it costs money to get rid of old books.

No one is waiting to read my old books.[1] They have sentimental value to me, but when I die the best I can hope for is that my kids get them into the recycle bin instead of the landfill.

[1] (Well, I have some of the original Wild Cards novels which are apparently out-of-print.)
Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature (2012)
Other women snubbed me until I hit it big
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja http://www.manning.com/resig/ has helped me understand some of the more interesting parts of the language (such as functions being first class objects) better.
Do you know which libraries are doing this?
Gets stuck on "Generating game link". Site overload ?
> Proprietary software developers have the advantage of money; free software developers need to make advantages for each other.

This actually confuses 'libre' with 'gratis'.
... Because apart from medicine, no other field pays a market rate. What's the salary at Boeing or Lockheed or a life sciences company or a research lab? It's all creamed off by management, the talent never sees it.

Wall Street does not overpay technical people. It pays fairly. Everyone else underpays.
Is that similar to zerobin (http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin) where server has no knowledge of the content of a message?
I read through a bunch of the comments and it seems like the author was a victim of her own attitude. She talks about how she intended to employ and empower women in her workplace. It sounds like she might have started with a pro-woman bias but it had the negative side effect of creating a more "casual" environment with the women than the men. The men continued to interact with her professionally but the women interacted more casually and therefore took feedback more personally.

I've personally worked in a number of professional environments with men and women and never seen this from any woman that had any sort of professional job. I have seen it among low paid wage jobs, but no more often than the violent or other harassing outbursts from men in those types of jobs.
Cambridge public library does it: http://www.cambridgema.gov/cpl.aspx

edit: not the digitizing part, just the artificially-scarce ebook loan.
That's certainly the common wisdom these days.

But the point the report was making was that HP et al repackaged NYT content and did better with it than the NYT did themselves.

In this case it is explicitly the packaging that matters.
A perfect example of a site that has indication of further content below the fold.
Except for me and my partner (founders, CTO and CEO respectively) all our directors are women. Females represent more than 60% of our company. We never had any of such events happening in the workplace. Immaturity is asexual.

This situation happened months ago in my company:

One female intern came to me, she was almost crying, telling she wanted to quit. She was about to tell me what happened but I only wanted to hear her only after she was a bit calmer. I told her to take the day off, since she had a son, she could use the day to do something more fun. At this point I thought that maybe it was some sort of problem with a phone call. She worked primarily answering calls and giving initial support to users.

After a quick investigation: some employees had a whatsapp group for sharing reddit links, gossip. She asked for an invite and was in the group only as a reader, months later she never reads the group messages and didn't realize the group now became a porn-heaven. Three engineers forgot that she was there made some vulgar comments about her, she discovered. After she confronted them they did some nasty sexual comments about her being in a porn-only whatsapp group.

The three nasty commentators were fired on the spot. Engineers often think code and their github account the is exclusive reason I'm hiring them. They argued about how that was their private, personal activity outside office hours, digging their hole deeper.

After firing them I had a private talk with every engineer and explained what happened and talked about the event. The reason I did this was to find another employees with the same mindset as the ones who were fired, and I did. They were fired weeks after.

One of the three nasty engineers was a woman, when confronted it was clear to me that she was either a sexist or some sort of misogynist.
Interviewing a candidate well is a separate skill set from knowing how to code well. Most companies who select the interviewers confuse the two types of skills.
15 miles away:

http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/11/26/drone-sets-off-security-...

(near the river too)
I doublechecked with a google search before posting, I missed that one. Thanks for the re-correction, though I wonder what Google's source is. MW for one does not cite injury: http://www.merriam-webster.com/concise/electrocution
It has also been integrated into the iOS Google app
Or host a programming competition to create the best AI to do the scaring/recharging automatically.
Funny, when I hear "Switzerland" I think about how just this morning I heard that the American IRS has finally broken the long standing tradition of Swiss banking privacy, and that CreditSuisse will be paying billions of dollars in fines.
Blade Runner 2 producers invite Harrison Ford to return for sequel
Let's play!

http://www.retichess.com/play/NDUzOC45MDg3a2NNQlNN/30/0
Do not pity us. Would you feel sorry for someone who doesn't work hard to stop being a cruddy developer?

We are not alone.

I'm someone who doesn't naturally get social cues. I don't recognize faces. I was bullied, ostracized, and grew up in an abusive household until I convinced my mother to divorce. While children were being children I was protecting my mother, becoming her key social support by 13. I had to be a man before I hit puberty, never having the luxury to act out, cry, or lament the injustice of my situation. There were starving child soldiers in Africa; I had it pretty good. I was a serious A student and got along with adults.

As a result, I was quietly arrogant and unsympathetic. I shunned social interaction with the children around me whom I perceived to be stupid, emotionally weak, rebellious, attention-craving, and suicidal for no valid reason, instead deciding to wait until they grew up.

They never did.

To my surprise, I did. I finally realized that one of the single most important skills for success in society is the ability to handle people and social situations. A person is not competent or above average without it. At some point, you are going to hit the limit of what one person can do and will have to leverage the competencies of others. They will have some you won't, plus one the most valuable commodity of all: time. It is still possible to be a single person success, like Markus Frind from POF, but it often requires social skills and I don't like the odds.

Had I realized this sooner, I would be much further ahead. Turns out I wasn't so smart. Luckily, I only need a decent foundation; this ability can be bought like any other.

I have invested a ton of effort into addressing this with the help of a couple close friends. Progress can be frustrating. Things can be obvious to others yet when you ask them it turns out they either cannot explain, or don't really understand themselves. Everything Is Obvious examines the difficulty in creating a socially capable AI/robot: "social skills" are in fact a collection of often disparate, complex, illogical, and incongruous data points.

We all have challenges in life. This is one of my greatest. If you share it with me, I understand. It is every person's responsibility to choose to improve themselves and to help those around them who've done the same. We can guide people to this choice, but we cannot make it for them.

If you meet us, give us your patience and compassion as you would to any person who doesn't intuitively grasp something incredibly obvious and fundamental to you. I will do my best to do the same for you, though it might not always come off that way.
Yes, all forms of IP should have a "use it or lose it" mechanism. Work the patent or lose it. Market and enforce the trademark or lose it. Keep the copyrighted work available or lose copyright protection.
Sorry for this buzzkill comment, but this is one reason hanging out with startup founders can be intolerable in some cases.

Now I don't think focusing on recruiting or only going to events in which you are actively recruiting people is wrong, it isn't. You are more than entitled to do everything in your power to help your company succeed, and recruiting is obviously a major part of that. However, go too crazy with it and you start to get into the realm of people who knock on random doors and proselytize their religion.
The title is rendered to a canvas element. Doesn't detect retina display, so that's a pity.

Anyone know what the benefit of rendering text to canvas is? Is it done server-side to protect the font info?
I really hope NYT does something with this research. It contains a lot of valuable information.

A worthwhile read!
Well, selling out American millionaires is one thing, I have a feeling the Swiss would be less willing to sell out private communications to the NSA.
The problem with someone like Xah is that you don't quite know what you're getting yourself into.

Why has he not worked for a decade, and what reassurances are there that he will be able to be productive? There's no chain of trust that would prove that you're not hiring some kind of a ticking timebomb. There's no proof that he's up to speed with any tech since the 90s. There's no proof that he'd not be potentially very quirky and difficult to work with in a team environment. It's a very difficult position to be hired from, and it mostly has to do with the fact that he "let himself go" for a long time.

If you have the option between hiring someone good and "someone potentially good, but also very unpredictable, high-risk and likely to be a long-term project", you'd go with the former every single time, it's a no-brainer.
Its not a drone. Its an RC copter.

And, judging from the video, why does this require a drone? Could't a dude in boat achieve the same ends just as easily?
How does searching work ?
So, anyone want to reconcile this with his version of libertarianism?
This looks interesting! Might be worth taking a look at the library we have built to validate the HTTP messages using `curl-trace-parser` (https://github.com/apiaryio/gavel)
Looking forward to the sessions about ART, Game development and what might come in terms of new tooling.
Everyone in the comments here are getting caught up in the examples of Gates, Zuck, etc. But the vast majority of people who are even interested in creating something new are creating an app that riffs off an existing concept and are looking for a (quick) exit. I see this book as an evolution of The Blueprint and the Founders Fund manifesto, where Thiel is calling on people to stop squandering creative energy and build something truly great.
BYU researchers create tiny nano-device in newest gene therapy advance
From the page source:
"We only use GA on our Home and Invite pages to view where traffic is coming from as we prepare for beta. We will be removing GA and all third party sourced scripts from the site afterwards. - Jason"

So far we are still tracked by GA, so IDK...
Here is an interesting perl6 example which works in Rakudo:

$ perl6

> $*PERL<name>;
rakudo

> $*PERL<compiler><ver>;
2014.03.01

> { CONTROL { print 1; $_.resume }; print 2; warn; say 3 }
213

ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192294

For a perl5 Condition System see this implementation - https://metacpan.org/pod/ConditionSystem
This appears to be a PHP wrapper around OpenPGP.js. If the encryption comes from Javascript loaded by browsers from the servers every time they visit the site, the encryption isn't "end to end". It's controlled by the server and can be broken by the server.

Also: the RSA Security logo isn't the logo of the RSA algorithm; it's the logo of the company that sells RSA tokens.
Underpants logo fail.
What I really like about the author's approach is that it really answers the first question: "How can we validate that our API is working as intended?"

Writing your tests from the client's perspective actually gives you that certainty. TDD is a powerful tool, but in my experience its evangelists get into overly academic debates about exactly what a "unit" is and how strictly you should adhere to the red-green-refactor steps.

For a really thoughtful and in-depth approach to API TDD I recommend Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman (http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guide...).
How Brazil is getting prepared to receive foreigners to World Cup 2014
I've just pushed a test fix; if you will please add data-pin-pad-count="true" to a Pin It button that has data-pin-config="beside" you should see whitespace under your pin count.

I'm not pushing this out to everyone until I understand how badly it will break other sites that have already implemented fixes like yours.

Hope this helps!
That's not what "scrolling" generally means. And if your cursor has a decent acceleration curve applied to it, the potentially long distance to the menu won't matter unless the menu is at least one large monitor away.
Pre and post YouTube, there were hundreds if not thousands of patents for "tv/video over the Internet." I wonder if there is such a swarm of patent trolling over VR now?
I haven't read the book you mention, but regarding a book that does cover c99/11, I really enjoyed: 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School

If you are an experienced C programmer you may end up skipping large portions of it.

In my opinion the book is mostly targeted at people that have had some C experience in the past (probably long ago in school) and have since moved on to newer languages. FWIW I read (and enjoyed) the book cover-to-cover, and I mostly do C# in my day to day work.
There are some comments on the SparkFun page suggesting these transmitters are "Part 15" compliant (or at least can be, if only transmitting intermittently): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/8946
You can recreate it. Is it a difficult app to make?
Also, starting with SQLite 3.8.3, you can use WITH RECURSIVE (Common Table Expressions) and do some fancy things all in SQL.
I posted this link elsewhere but it's incredibly relevant:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-anoth...

Lots of people treat libraries like holy places they supposedly value and the books are the holy artifacts. But these people are trying to overrule those who actually use these places. No one's life is made any better by their interference, but they get to be seen "standing up for the books."

(If I were to take the analogy further, it's like the people who only attend church on Easter and Christmas telling the weekly church-goers how to run the church.)
I'm always surprised that people think Huffington Post has any sort of innovative or effective grasp of digital journalism.

Their only innovation, and the core of their value, is realizing that most publishers will not bother to sue them for republishing articles. As such they are able to "publish" (i.e. copy/paste) tremendous amounts of interesting content for almost no cost.

Of course it's not hard for HuffPo to compete against other publishers when HuffPo can use those publishers' content against them for free.
My guess is that those mental models don't provide much comfort to people suffering from depression. Our brains evolved over many years and they require certains things to be present to be able to work at a normal mood elevation. Research suggests that the ability to find meaning or living according to "core values" is a necessity for most of us to escape depression. Whether or not it's logical or rational is irrelevant, it's how our brains work and it's just as important as sunlight, physical movement, and normal Vitamin D levels.