skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outlook, Mail, and Gmail aren't Free Software. The FSF post isn't short sighted, it's principled.
"Longer term, however, we expect that the performance and feature gap between the Web Player and WebGL will become much more narrow, and we expect that browser vendors will make the Web Player obsolete by dropping support for plug-ins, at which point WebGL will become the prime solution for targeting the web with Unity." --http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/29/on-the-future-of-web-pub...

"Today’s browsers are speedier, safer, and more capable than their ancestors. Meanwhile, NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity. Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support over the coming year." --http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-f...

Unity's expectation is that WebGL will replace the need for the Web Player at all, so I wouldn't expect to ever see it for Linux. Linux users will be supported via WebGL.
"Slowly but surely, religion’s historical monopoly on the human mind is breaking apart."

I'm currently reading a book[1] by theologian/philosopher David Bentley Hart that shames to ground sentences like this. Also the idea that modernity is somehow superior to previous ages in regard to tolerance and reason. Nothing further from the truth.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Delusions-Christian-Revolution...
> does it

How? Especially if they've never learned the language/framework? This "Paul Bunyan" fairy tale of the "just do it!" hacker who can solve any problem no matter the odds just doesn't exist in real life.
But then doesn't that mean that it's also easier to put a cache in front of those overused switches and solve the problem much more easily?

I guess the core issue here is that, from a customer's point of view, the ISP is selling me inet access, regardless of where the data actually goes, so it is the ISP's responsibility to keep their end of the bargain (to provide inet access). As a customer I should not care how is their topology planned, what kind of equipment they use, etc.

So basically the ISP though that they could offer T amount of bandwidth, advertised it as U (with U > T) because most customer won't use even close to U, and now that more and more users are actually using U amount of bandwidth (or closer to it) the ISP's infrastructure is suffering because they simply where not prepared for it, i.e. they oversold their capacity.

OT: By the way, why downvote the parent? I really thought downvoting is for when the post is off-topic or offensive or something... but more and more I see HN modders downvote because they disagree... really? so you make the post go into an ureadable color (grey) just because you disagree? I don't think it's supposed to be that way, is it?
I had to read that about five times to understand it :)
Reading "had not" and "would not" on the fifth attempt did the trick.
The major problems with the book fall into 3 major categories:

A) He implies (but never proves) that HFT market makers use low latency connections, to buy shares ahead of other market participants, to sell back to them risk free. This is not how HFT market making works. HFT market makers are pricing on all the exchanges at the same time. So what they are doing is not buying something and selling it back to you risk free, but changing the price of their own offering to reflect new demand.

B) That any of this is secret or requires insider information. It is all available on public websites, including governmental agency ones (for instance all "exotic" order types go through a public approval process). Further, in the book the only proof of ill gotten proprietary information being used for profit was from the supposed "heroes" of the story.

C) That HFT is a large force that abuses it's power to take advantage of buy side participants who have "Main streets" best interest at heart. In fact, HFT firms are the small guys bringing efficiency at the cost of the powerful entrenched buy side middle men.
The example [listen] link points to a .mid file which some browser setups don't know how to handle (for instance, my Chromium simply downloads the file whenever I click the link, then downloads it again when I click the file in the bottom download bar).

Please offer an example audio rendering in a media format which is more generally supported, thank you.
Particularly for a community (hackers) that value openness and transparency above pretty much all else

Yeah, keep telling yourself that. The hacker community as a whole "values openness" when it suits them. 90% of the time, it's tribal Homo sapiens pattern matching the markers of their own tribe while imitating the outward appearance of the 10% that truly matters.

Valuing truth over your own ego is a majority stance and a minority capability around here.
Buh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system
Could you please consider posting videos of the talk? A local group on software engineering did a talk I could not attend but I am interested.
Nope, in fact we're still giving them money for new projects. http://www.cgi.com/en/media-announcement
A list of privacy software packages for major platforms
I liked your extension very much! What I like most is that thinking of your posture becomes automatic. That's the tough part in learning any skill, and for posture this might be the only practical way to remind yourself.

You get to hack your subconscious.
There's a difference between talks for invenstors/entrepreneurs, and talks about fixing a massive clusterfuck of government spending.

Especially when the narrative people want to spin is "Gee golly whiz look at those Silicon Valley folks saving the day!".

Anything else is CYOA, and it'd be nice if people could actually rise to the occasion and be honest and precise.

(Besides, if you are honest on everything, and somebody just hits you out of context, you can defend yourself by providing additional context. None of this is going to matter in 5 years anyways, so might as well set a good example.)
But it also makes sense to define religious groups such that each member of a group considers all other members orthodox. If a third party defines a bunch of people to be in the same religious group, but half of that group thinks the other half are heretical, I think the third party should define the groups in a different way.
Agreed. It is often a race to the bottom against programmers in a third world country with very little living costs, you are often lucky to get $40/hr until you have references and a good portfolio, but it can bring in enough to eat.
The point Verizon is making here is that Netflix has not done due diligence to verify that the specific customer they are showing the "Verizon Sucks!" message to is having connection issues that are provably Verizon's fault.

It seems to me that they're stopping one foot shy of calling Netflix out for libel. It's not libel if it's true, so it might be better for Netflix to only show the message when they can prove that the specific connection is being slowed because of the interconnect (or lack thereof).
At the bottom of this you can find a description of how Netflix at the moment is detecting these problems:
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/06/netflixs-network-cong...

Sounds sufficiently sophisticated.
[edited to be less of an asshole]

I could help you identify comma splices, sentence fragments, incomplete sentences, unnecessary use of ellipses, introductory clauses, and run-on sentences.
Is Verizon actively slowing the connection to Netflix.com itself or is the connection between Verizon and Netflix's provider (Cogent?) simply limited? In other words, are all Cogent customers suffering poor performance with Verizon customers?

Because the former is wrong and demanding more money from a single company hosted on a service provider you have specific peering agreements with is extortion.

The latter however, well, no one said there were unlimited pipes between every transit provider on the planet and if you're someone large like Netflix, sometimes you need to pay for transit on more than one provider to get the performance you need when your own provider can't or won't do so themselves. It has been like that for decades.
The "Under the Hood" link explains the mechanism:
http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/expansion.html
And such behavior is also typical in large enterprises.
That's the best definition of for "full-stack" developer I've seen. There are two big things that set these people apart from their peers:

* Willingness to dive in and figure things out.
* Having a wide enough knowledge base that they know where to and what to look for when they don't know something.

And you can learn the second ...
Being a practical guy, I wonder if banks' accounting systems can cope with negative interest rates.
I would love to! Talk to you soon.
While I can see huge ethical concerns were this project related to the NSA, I don't think you can necessarily force that association here. While I agree with your frustration with the administration, especially with regards to surveillance and civil rights, I also would like to see the ACA do well and lead to a better life for most Americans. I don't think its wrong to want to work on solving this problem (healthcare) while disagreeing with other actions of the government, as the above poster is working on something that will directly help millions of americans. I see improving healthcare as a separate issue from the NSA scandals, and I think that, in refusing to help with fixing healthcare.gov, you are harming millions of poor and needy Americans without actually accomplishing much of anything.
In that case, I think it makes sense to define the groups as "Mormons" and "non-Mormon Christians" or something like that. It doesn't make sense to define a group where half the members of the group think the other half are heretics.
I was looking forward to seeing some feature changes, but I could care less about anything this post raved/complained about. Prepare yourself for some serious bike shedding though.
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I worked for one of the big four global immigration firms and the prevailing wage is very easy to game. Check this out: http://flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx Play around with it and see what you find.

Now, say you're a company and you have multiple locations. You apply for the employee at the cheapest location, then pick a title that will get a lower prevailing wage, and say they are entry level when really they have 5 years of experience. So the prevailing wage determination is skewed. This is what I mean about telling a white lie. Anything that is available to companies that has a monetary reward for telling "white lies" to the government and depends on the companies "being honest" let alone understanding or agreeing with the overarching intent of the legislation -- is going to have the absolute shit abused out of it eventually.

If a Software Engineer gets a higher prevailing wage than a Software Developer (or vice versa) according to the DOL. Which title do you think the employer will pick to apply under? The answer is obvious.
Definitely. I know the NYC iOS meetup has people advertising gigs or looking for work every session, and even more get made just networking in the bars afterwards.
USB is so ubiquitous and without any peer that comes even close to it's market adoption or fulfills the same requirements of cost and H/W manufacturer support. This isn't like when they removed floppy disk drives, the ADB ports or FireWire ports.

Removing USB would be a very, very crazy (and bad) move.
You can both support building a tool to give people healthcare and be against government surveillance. Most people are able to compartmentalize their support or opposition for various government policies and do not see the doing of one thing they don't like as a reason not to support any other thing the government does.
Exercise for Success: How to Keep Going No Matter What
I think it would be better put as "claim", vs. point.

At the bottom of this item you can see in a lot of detail how Netflix is making this judgement: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/06/netflixs-network-cong...

Sounds sufficient to me.
So, this dataset isn't broken down by state (just region), but it looks at what religion Americans say they have (including "None"), how that has changed over time since 1972, and how that differs by region:
https://www.statwing.com/open/datasets/09f43e516bb656df54c54...

Pulled from the General Social Survey, which is an absolute goldmine of interesting stuff like this.
Trustleaf: A platform for friends-and-family loans
The Oslo Børs stock exchange in Norway has a fee that will affect unnecessarily high order activity in the stock market, to prevent high freqiency trading. Here's more info:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b1a73be4-a57b-11e1-a77b-00144...

http://www.oslobors.no/ob_eng/Oslo-Boers/About-us/Press-room...
Another way to describe "liquidity" is inventory risk insurance. Large investors (a term that doesn't actually mean anything) have different time frames for buying and selling their product. If a large participant has to hold onto their portfolio longer than they want this will change the "natural" price they will be willing to accept.

Market makers generally, smooth these time disparities. As long as the smoothing is cheaper than the price disparity then it is a net positive for the "real" participants. How do we determine if this is cheaper? Quite simply, the market! You can trade non-liquid products electronically. The price spread his much higher in those products.
> Another way to view this: Netflix is demanding huge network upgrades without any additional revenue source.

Sounds to me like just another way of rephrasing "ISP Customers are demanding huge network upgrades without any additional revenue source."

Netflix does not send packets to you unless you request them.
Except where the executives view the shareholders as their customers and the end users as the product.
2014 is not any more difficult than 2010. If anything, it's considerably easier.
Every time I read how most professionals out there simply make a living by bluffing and cheating, I die a little inside.
In response to situation (2), I want to first tighten the language - as it stands, I'm not sure if it's even possible. By computers, I think you mean exchanges (for example, Nasdaq, BATS, etc.) So somebody wants to trade 50 shares there. Let's say they want to buy at $10.00, and there's no sell orders on NASDAQ but 50 shares on the offer at BATS.

1) If you were doing this through a broker, and that was the state of the book, then they would just route your order to BATS (if I'm not mistaken that's a legal requirement for brokers).
2) If you instead placed the order to be on Nasdaq-only, that would lock (have buy and sell orders at the same price) the national book, something which is not allowed due to Reg NMS. So Nasdaq could not display that you want to buy at $10.00 anyway, and (I'm not sure how they implement their stuff) either hide your order or display it at another price.

So I'm not sure how exactly you're framing this situation. If the HFT's computer can see that your order exists, it's because it posted. If it posted, it could not have had the limit price that would've locked the book.

I may be misunderstanding what you mean when you say at the end that the "two computers reconciled their orders" - because nothing like that does happen. If they are computers at the same exchange, then no, that's simply not how matching engines work. If at different exchanges, then there is no reconciling, your order would not have posted at the right price, or your broker would have not tried to get you best execution on your order(which they are bound to doing).
The glassy translucency reminds me of Windows Vista's "Glass" theme. Are modern operating systems moving toward a solid, flat design language?
I did like the kerning on the "i" in "While" better in Helvetica Neue than in Lucida Grande. I agree that the thinness is unpleasant.
Scary times when work that's still months away is already getting scrutinized like this.
You're god damn right I feel entitled to my national government looking out for the interests of its current citizens over foreigners.
Even if you've never seen the language/framework, you dive in and learn it in an efficient and effective way, both from the current codebase and other resources.
Bluntly, I would say you need to corporateize it up.

All the advice here is good.

Also, it's cool that you wrote your own framework, but right now, the jobs that map to your skills are Wordpress and Rails jobs. Your framework is an example of your capabilities.

You're a Rails/Wordpress developer, X years of Rails experience, Y years in the computer industry. You have Z academic experience relating to the field.

Your code examples probably should be on github.

Understand that making your representation quirky does you no good unless the hiring manager wants quirky. I've not met one who wants that yet.

You need to be precise, clear, lucid, humble, and confident. Clearly express what you're good at, and don't focus on the weak areas.

For your resume, take a look at Rands' "A Glimpse and a Hook".

Most Rails developers are finding its a VERY hot field, so I would encourage you to introspect as to why that isn't the case with you. Maybe attend Toastmasters or something?

Good luck.
>My own experience is that H1-Bs were cheap consultant fodder, but that was from the late 90's. Hire a bunch of folks from India under H-1B, place them at companies, and pay them lower (non-consultant wages, poor benefits), then collect the difference the higher bill rate.

That's still how the bulk of H-1Bs are used. The majority of them are granted to companies like Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, and several others. For example:

>The two largest H-1B users are Indian-based, Infosys, with 6,298 visas, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), with 6,258. In third place is Cognizant, which is based in New Jersey, but runs large offshore centers. These firms have long dominated the top H-1B list spots.

>Hira points out that over the last four years, Cognizant has received about 23,000 new H-1B workers with visas valid for up to 6 years, and has a number of workers on L-1s. (L-1 visas are used by multinational firms to transfer employees between countries.) "So, most, if not nearly all, of Cognizant's employees in the US are on some guest-worker visa," said Hira.

From: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247241/Offshore_firm...
Apple in row with startup over HealthKit name
Did you redesign it from scratch or were you able to leverage any existing code?

Were the original developers developing against a (mostly) static spec, or were the terms constantly being changed up until October of last year?

Are there any plans to carry this forward and redesign some of the state exchanges?
I completely fail to understand the "Adherents reported" explanation on the per-county map, which is on the majority of counties.
Philly was a pioneer in this with OpenDataPhilly: http://www.opendataphilly.org/

Some really interesting stuff has been built on this, like this map of property tax deadbeats: http://www.philadelinquency.com/map/delinquent.html
I wonder if people who identify as following no religion are more likely to answer the UK census question than people who follow a religion.
Intel to deliver $399 4K monitors in partnership with Samsung
They are vertically aligned with the arrows, not with buttons.
A bunch of sectors of the economy have grown since the start of the recession. A bunch of others haven't.

Good luck finding any rhyme or reason as to why the ones that grew, grew, and the others didn't.
You say you have been attempting to get a job for the past 3 months. Over the past week, what activities, specifically, have you done to get a job? Have you been to interviews? How many? How did they go? Were there any questions you were unable to answer? Was there any particularly difficult part of the interview?

Did you not attend interviews in the last week? In the alternative, have you lined up interviews? How many?

Did you not line up any interviews in the last week? In the alternative, have you identified people with the authority to hire Ruby on Rails engineers? How many? By what process are you identifying them? After identifying them, what compelling offer are you making them? Since most people with hiring authority are in the toughest market ever for people attempting to hire developers with experience shipping applications, they should be willing to take coffee dates with you.

You will not get most of your leads for coffee dates through your resume. In fact, if you could take your resume off the Internet, that would probably be in your favor. It does not currently suggest that you are going to be a successful candidate for a white collar position. You should not put your resume back on the Internet until it highlights your professional accomplishments. When put your resume back on the Internet, it will be absolutely devoid of errors in spelling, punctuation, word choice, professional tone, and grammar.

You mention that you have previous experience with SEO, social media, and shipping applications. You should be comfortable with discussing specific successes which you have had with this. If you do not have specific successes which you can talk about, do not mention SEO/social media/etc, and instead focus on the fact that you have successfully shipped applications. In the current environment, years of experience with successfully shipping commercial applications makes you substantially more experienced than the bar for junior developers.

If you actually have made people money with SEO and you can also code, you should know that your skill set is white hot right now. You should be contacting people whose businesses would benefit from that combination of skills, tell them how they would benefit in a similar fashion as other people you have worked with by having you implement brief sketch goes here, and then attempting to convince them to hire you.

When you are speaking to people in the industry, do not mention the words "homeless", "inexperienced", "spaghetti", or anything else which suggests that you are desperate for a job. You are not desperate for a job. You are a white collar professional with a skillset which is in incredible demand at the moment. You should carry yourself like that.
What about measuring the state of a qubit?
Barnes and Noble Taps Samsung As Hardware Partner For New NOOK Tablets
No, you are 100% incorrect. CASL applies to any Commercial Email Message SENT to Canadians - server location doesn't matter.

(Sorry for being harsh, but we need to get the correct message out there).

Source: hours spent with our lawyers going over this.

There is big liability here for US companies sending email into Canada (or Canadian firms sending to Canadians).
Beats by Dre Outdoes Nike at its Own (Advertising) Game
What it comes down to is the distinction between "doing it" and doing it right.

Which is what the actual core of the article (the section on "Identifying mastery") was devoted to.
the lean start up was the software itself, not the restaurants. The restaurants were hardly lean... but the software was one programmer and me.

-- nick
The ACA doesn't really have anything to do with the NSA. You're falling victim to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
How do they measure success? If something costs 1000x what it would have in the market and still strives for adequacy it's already proof of failure. If any of us failed so spectacularly we'd go bankrupt and another service would be used (and there would be plenty of choices if regulations/poor law services didn't dissuade people from creating this kind of service).

Now we have people that were productive at companies making services we pay for of our own volition spending time on this thing that doesn't work as a symptom, not a cause. So confused why this is a thing.
I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. Like so many things in life.