skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. If you want to know what a revolution looks like, look at the middle east. It's incredibly violent, most people are deprived of luxuries and often essentials as well, and there's no guarantees that the good guys will win or even survive.

Meanwhile people underuse the democratic avenues available. No, not street protest but the boring incrementalism of consensus, local politics.
> I've had no luck convincing him to buy a new computerized one so he can accept credit cards

You can still accept credit cards without a new register. It's just a different machine. They don't have to be integrated.

Almost every single doctor's office accepts credit card and exactly NONE of them have a register.

The way it works is you charge the card on a separate machine, type in the total, have them sign and put the slip somewhere and press "paid with credit" on the register if it is computerized or if it isn't then just ignore the register for that transaction.
Mysterious 'magic island' appears on Saturn's moon Titan
A beginner's guide to funemployment
You can compile it for Linux now that it is open-source, I believe people have made binaries too, e.g: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/install-atom-text-editor-in-u...
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> The web status quo sucks at a technical level (...)

I know you mean that it sucks when viewed from the perspective of an application developer, and I agree with you. However, on a technical merit perspective, the web is much more evolved, and much more a technical feat, than either Android or iOS.

Android and iOS are a reiteration of what has been done cyclically through times, ever since the first OS got written. A set of libraries and associated APIs on top of a constrained set of hardware.

The web is, as an application platform, a set of APIs. That's it. There's no defined hardware, no defined set of libraries. Guess what? Designing the API alone is much more difficult, a lot harder to get right, and much more of a technical feat.

On one side, some libraries got written and then documented. On the other, everything is defined conceptually (well, not really; if done like this it would be really impossible instead of just difficult, but the point stands).
The Stasi were active in East Germany, which was essentially a Soviet puppet state, after the end of WWII, so Godwin's law doesn't really apply here (since the Stasi specifically and the leadership of East Germany in general were neither Hitler nor Nazis).
Show HN: Animated video I made for my app Brainbean
This isn't anything new but an event such as a pregnancy causes a big change in someone's behaviour, off and online. Target has already done it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
I am. I was heavily using Sublime but switched over for a trial period to see if I liked it. Overall I'm quite happy with it; it's incredibly snappy for me (almost as snappy as Sublime) but it's start-up time is a bit slower.

So for now I'll probably keep using it but on some larger files it can become slower much quicker than Sublime or others. Fortunately I practically never work with large files so it's not that big of a deal.
Definitely an improvement but at the end, as someone who reviewed countless resumes I find it shallow.

By the time i finish reading about your experience I should want to know more. Or at least know enough to take you into consideration.

Since you don't have the traditional "worked at X for Y time and made Z" experience you really want to tell a story here.

For example, the first two items have a lot of redundancy and can be combined and speak about how you built a bank application using all of those technologies. If you can put a link to github repositories of these projects thats even better.

Some of the stuff listed is very basic, and thats ok since you don't have the experience yet. But why even put it? Use those precious lines to expand on meaningful stuff you've done and proud to show off. The line about Tor Isolation Proxy is great, the one about CLI Books management is tiresome.

Is there a particular internship you're targeting? Do you have a side project you can work on in case that doesn't work out, or as additional experience towards a related internship?
Would love to get your thoughts on whether this was 1) Executed well, and 2) Effective at capturing the interest of those most likely to download the app
This model has had some success in the pharma business, but that business is uniquely about just getting to the doctor and passing out info. I'm somewhat skeptical of this idea in any business that requires real, motivated salesmanship.
> the atmosphere and temperature differences "caused or brought about" the transmission.

Sometimes I wonder if the subtleties of English are worth the effort and frustrations of dealing with it day to day.
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It's funny, really. Even poor white men are treated this way. People judge by appearances. People want to be around people that are like them. They want a 'tribe', not diversity. It's human nature.
Indeed, but the mount the projector and receiver on must be constantly calibrating movements and adjusting smoothly.

In achievement terms this is almost all software (once you take putting stuff in space for granted).

Think of proving it to work in theory, ground based prototypes etc.

Error detection is also interesting (though mostly solved but with many options available). High bandwidth laser comms have been around for a while. Originally developed for the financial industry for intra city comms.
Well you can get Joel's posts as a book: http://www.amazon.com/Joel-Software-Occasionally-Developers-...

You are right about forums. Although I have the impression many of the people who are very frequent writers on HN are also very good developers. So at least it's not necessarily a negative signal.
80% off topic, but wind related question I've been wondering about for a while.

Why don't power companies attach wind turbines to high voltage powerline towers? They already own the land and already have the structure built, plus the wiring. Would that make any sense?

Even if reinforcements (or adding height) to the tower are required it seems like a good idea.
Better than many more popular weather sites. Why?
I'm running into a paywall. But, I just went to Paris and all the parisians we met (waiters, store owners, etc.) were really nice. I've been going to Paris for quite a few years, and I think the new generation is way more hospitable than the last. Good on them.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'm starting out by working through some stuff on TreeHouse and then will go from there. Looks like it's going to be a great adventure!
I agree. If you haven't sat down with your potential customers yet, we probably aren't for you. If you have visited 5-10 places, can list the questions that get asked over and over, and have your pitch down, but just don't have the resources to hire a staff, then we can help. If you aren't sure what your customers want yet (ie haven't cold-called), we do provide the feedback relevant to a startups needs, but that is not the core offering.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
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Looks like a good way to keep recruiters from blindly using your GitHub homepage.
Employee Perk Startup AnyPerk(YC W12) Raises $3M From Vegas Tech Fund And Others
Why not skip the backend completely and just use nginx + cdn?

(Have nginx proxy_pass to S3 and image_filter the response)

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_image_filter_module.h...
I've noticed that isn't always true. I've sat on the other side of the interview desk, as it were, and one of the things that was always, ALWAYS a red flag, was someone speaking with too much confidence about themselves.

Obviously, yes, an interviewer prefers someone who knows the answers to every question asked. But an honest "I don't know/am not sure, but I think..." is a much, MUCH better answer than trying to bluff. If you're right after prefacing it with that, it's nearly as good as having bluffed correctly (the interviewer knows you didn't know or were not sure, but your knowledge of the tech is sufficiently good for you to deduce what unfamiliar constructs do), and if you're wrong, it counts nowhere nearly as badly against you as if you bluffed incorrectly (as you at least are showing you know and admit to what you don't know).

Now, obviously this is also partly dependent on the level of knowledge needed to answer the question. If you are, say, applying for a Java job and don't know what private means, you're probably not getting the job. But if you're applying for a Java job, and are asked for the difference between soft, weak, and phantom references, and respond "I'm not sure...I know the first two have to do with keeping references to objects that should not prevent garbage collection, like when adding items to a cache or something, but I don't remember the difference between them, I'd need to look that up. And I've never heard of a phantom reference", and then asking about them if there are no follow up questions, is still pretty damn good. And "I don't know; I'd imagine from the name they have to do with referencing an object in a way opaque to the garbage collector?" is also very good. "I don't know" is okay, it just might mean we'd not be willing to hire you on as a senior dev, but if you nail everything else maybe one level below that.
Generation GIF just wants to show you that funny new thing they’ve found online
I think most people consider the phrase "cold-calling" to be calling on the telephone, so that might be confusing some people.
This is a great demo
Nonsense! It's wonderful fun.
They say that, but there's one giant missing ", because..." in that paragraph.

They never explain why they render in 10 sizes (why don't they know which sizes they need), and why is loading one of those sizes on a mobile app not feasible.

It's stated like that and left hanging in the air.

Either their use case is very weird, or they're deliberately vague for some reason only they know about.

Also to clarify why 10 sizes is weird, normally what you'd do is double the width/height of your images with every size (so quadruple the pixels), same as one does with mip-maps. Or with icons.

Let's say the smallest sensible size is 128x128 (minimum needed to discern a product, and easy to downsize from there, won't get much smaller at good quality).

So we have 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, that's 5 sizes. And I'm pretty sure the images they need aren't over 2048x.

So 10 sizes is just pointless.

And with OpenRoss, doing cropping and adding whitespace at the server, producing pointless image duplicates, is senseless. Even the most crippled client-side technique can do the cropping and whitespace for you (yeah, even html).

This screams "we didn't think this through much".
This is really cool. Maybe brand it "Sales as a service"?

Are you offering 100 customers for $1000? Or did I misread?
> That xkcd comic's idea would work if people would use web apps in preference to 'native' apps.

For some apps, I do. Facebook got deleted from my phone when I found it was the consumer of 25% of my daily battery. I now consume Facebook via the browser. Twitter has gone the same route, because their mobile version is way faster than their app. Both live in my home screen, as shortcuts to the web version (i.e. I do use them).

Google for Facebook battery drain, and you'll find out I'm far from alone.
Well I initially said "if somebody doesn't know Joel or Graham, I would probably count it as a minus", not a deal breaker. But why should it not matter to my estimate whether somebody knows that or not. Would you believe somebody who claims they are passionate about physics but have never heard about Einstein (to make an obvious example)? How would you go about probing a candidates enthusiasm and determination?
Tim Cook is setting Apple up for its next big hit
Out of how many programmers in the world, ever? They're basically statistical noise against the backdrop of all coders everywhere.

As a sidenote, I'd put Grace Hopper up there instead of DHH, and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomopson seem to be missing. ; )
I've asked that. "On a scale of 1 to 10, how fluent do you feel in X?" And the questions asked get partially tailored to that.

Anyone answering 9 or 10 is in for it.
Apple's website on crack
London buses to tell you how many people are sat upstairs
I think you're missing the premise of the article. It doesn't say don't hire qualified people based on a set of characteristics. The article brings up various examples where people are totally confused about what those signals and characteristics of qualification actually are. Dress code, common taste in music, beer, literature, etc. are definitely not those characteristics.

The article also doesn't say don't hire people you will get along with. You should try to hire such people but a workplace is a professional environment and not an extended family like some places like to paint themselves. First of all such places should be avoided because no workplace is an extended family and second because they are being unprofessional and exploitative if they pain themselves that way. The recent github fiasco is a good examples of what happens when people forget that workplaces are professional environments and github is actually one of the better places where work and life balance is highly valued. So yes if you're hiring a Rails developer then you should look for someone that understands Ruby and Rails but you shouldn't really care if they are a devout follower of the church of DHH because that has no bearing on their ability to do the job.
And it got to the ISS via a Space-X Dragon! Lasers, privately funded spaceships, hello world...too much fun :)
How could you not understand that was sarcastic?
Search job listings for jobs in your area that list python. Doesn't need to be a python shop, as long as they use python somewhere. You can call up or email HR, or better yet hiring managers/decision makers, and ask if they need any contract developers.
Every time I hear about salaries in London it makes me mad. Why is the pay so bad? How is it possible that the value isn't recognized? Are you able to demonstrate the value that you bring, or is it so much an old boys club that dev's are thought of as factory workers?

On a related note - why aren't there more senior software dev's building their own businesses? It seems like you have so little to lose.
I have ideas for products for small businesses and I'm looking for ways to test the waters. Is that something your service would be useful for? Or do you think I already need something built?

By the way, I'm feeling like using your service would be "cheating" since I'm terrified of making cold calls or showing up places myself :-(
That read as a press release a la Paul Graham's "Submarine" article. I've been a member of Second Life for about seven years now, and for all its original promise, its dying. Soooo slowly, but it is. I doubt it will actually fold for many years to come, if ever, but the rosy picture in this release sounds more like a desperate PR move than anything.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I don't know what's going on with the 'reply' button, but I don't seem to be able to reply to your latest comments.

Firstly, "google it", well actually "google scholar" it. Go to the public research body rather than the general internet and spend some time finding some reviews (I mean proper peer-reviewed reviews), look for ones that are highly cited and ~5-10 years old. Then start following up, with standard procedures. This seems an important topic to you, and you're unwilling to follow the modern wisdom - which is completely fine, no criticism from me over that. So I would recommend spending at least a couple of weeks on this, go down to the primary experiments that the reviews draw on and see what the researcher's are really debating with each experiment. Look how the experiments being done have informed recent reviews and why viewpoints are changing. Make sure everything you're reading is peer reviewed, or you will waste a lot of time. Without two years+ in a subject, filtering the bull is hard.

I would also be very careful about whether the researchers are indirectly or directly being paid by the recruitment industry rather than centrally funded, since commercial funding makes the validity of the results more uncertain.

So I'm not saying "Google it". I'm saying do some bare minimum reading on the research corpus.

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Just to go back to the above message. I'm not saying have no hiring process, obviously you need to evaluate the candidate. But for me, once I've checked for egregious personality flaws, they don't need to be my friends. Think of it this way: falling out with friends is terrible and likely to be very destructive to morale on your team - people will take sides and within the space of an hour your company has been ripped apart. Office politics will be much greater, while bad decisions based on emotion - "can't fire him, we had a real heart to heart last night", "let's do this because I like x more than y" are much more likely.

If you're pros, then melodrama becomes much less likely. Furthermore, you know you've been hired to be great at your job rather than because you behave in a certain way. Better motivation to focus on the job rather than the politics.
Be careful LinkedIn......
Very nice. Unfortunately for iCloud sync, you need to provide your Apple iCloud account email and password. Not a very good security practice, but Apple doesn't provide any other way to accomplish this.

Fastmail does use Google authentication to access the Google Calendar.
Look. I'll explain it really simple. He's saying it has to be > 0, because he is unwilling to rule out ESP as a logical possibility. If he assigned it 0, no matter how good the experimental design was, and no matter what the test was, he would be unmovable from this position. 0 is forbidden if you want to accept it as a possibility. This is why he says this. He also is being honest about his appraisal of the general likelihood of ESP. It's very low. He doesn't bother to explain how low because it turns out it's IRRELEVANT.

You literally have to believe ESP is the most likely explanation among all the usual alternatives ALREADY in order to think it was ESP after ingesting the data, because the data in this test is not EVIDENCE for ESP, because P(E|sort of works ESP) and P(E|one of the assistants wore glasses and Stewart could see some reflections) or whatever your remotely plausible alternative - all look pretty identical.

It is not evidence, in the sense that you cannot do 500, 37,100, or a 1 million card guessing attempts in this setup with this level of detail and expect it to shift belief of a rational agent. The ratio between the priors of the usual suspects is going to look the same as your ratio of posteriors between all the hypotheses after the test.

In order to convince someone of ESP rationally, you need to demonstrate that it is extremely difficult to cheat under the test conditions, in the sense that P(E|trickery) goes down.

Your alternative theory ISN'T the null hypothesis. It's a garden variety non-magical trickster, which exist in great numbers, whereas nobody has yet seen even a single instance of ESP as it is normally meant.
Abacus (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer in NYC
Care to explain why you deleted the WebRTC and integrated chat part?
Not listed: the next Angry Birds.
The full text of a draft version is out there, actually.

I bought my copy, though. :)
I do drink. A bit. Not much, though, and I'm not the bar type. For me, that would likely kill the interview. Maybe that's for the best; maybe I wouldn't fit with them, and that's a good filter. They're clearly looking for social as well as technical fits, and I wouldn't be that.
Even if PHP is being surpassed by Node and Rails, the typical users of the CMS don't care. Wordpress does what it is supposed to do very well, and the typical (non-technical) end-user just doesn't care (or understand) what technology it is based on.

Now, if you design a "better" (I'm not sure what that means, but you seem to know) CMS, would you be able to take away WP's market share? Probably yes. Does it matter what language the product is written in? Not directly. It only helps you indirectly in that the technology may be able to help you build a better product faster, or allow for new features that aren't easily implemented with PHP.

Why hasn't somebody done this? My personal guess is because it would take a lot of time (=money). Wordpress has gazillions of features and is very polished.
What I find infuriating is how all these companies think they are so unique with their interviewing process then ask the same inane questions. This is worse when the same questions are asked by different people at the same company.

College qualifications or any real qualifications are being dismissed by more and more people but the vacuum that has been left is being filled with crap like 15+ rounds of interviews and/or 12 hour interviews.

The hiring process is currently broken. I think the only fix is to have proper, trusted qualifications (again?).
I find this kind of surprising. First off, I'd figure that NASA would set up a few UHF stations around the world in locations with decent internet access (friendly countries or military bases), and route comms via that. Maybe you don't have total coverage, but at least you don't have to wait an hour before it's back over the US.

Secondly, there many more options available than TDRSS or UHF. Amateur radio enthusiasts frequently make contact with astronauts (2 meter and 70cm bands, IIRC). While that doesn't really solve the blackout problem, I find it hard to imagine that there isn't a lower-frequency radio which could maintain voice contact with the ISS.
Tobacco's original mass market advertising was product placement in movies to associate cigarettes with cool movie stars.
I'm hoping that these devices don't interfere with 911 calls. The Enhanced 911 service uses GPS data from the cellphone (if available) and cell-tower triangulation to locate the caller. If the Stingray device is acting like a tower, and someone calls 911, wouldn't an incorrect (or no) location be reported?
From the man himself:

Good fortune? The fact is
The more that you practise,
The harder you sweat,
The luckier you get.

Ideas? We've had 'em
Since Eve mated Adam,
But take it from me
Execution's the key.

The money? Just pester
A likely investor.
To get what you need
You toady to greed.

The talent? Go sign it!
But first, wine and dine it.
It's tedious work
With a talented jerk.

Good timing? To win it
You gotta be in it.
Just never be late
To quit or cut bait.

Expansion? It's vanity!
Profit is sanity.
Overhead begs
To walk on two legs.

The first step? Just do it
And bluff your way thru' it.
Remember to duck!
God speed...
and good luck!
Is there a precompiled binary for windows somewhere? Why is it only available for Mac? I think this feature is very useful.
Kind of related fun fact, when astronauts take images of Earth they have to rotate the camera while taking the photo to compensate for the ISS moving so quickly. I think there are now computer controlled gimbals that account for that automatically.
Horizontal Hostility among Non-Meat Eaters [pdf]
Driving is convenient when all variables are optimized: when there's lots of free parking, no traffic, no reckless/drunk drivers, good safe roads, gas is cheap, etc etc.

But as we all know, driving in major cities is no longer optimal.

Any city that chooses driving over all other modes of transportation has deliberately decided it is closed for further growth at some point. Once you reach that critical population point, car-dependent life just becomes hell.
How close are we to space-based laser ISPs? I imagine that you squeeze terabits of optical bandwidth into a single mirror "dish"..