skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem in most recruiting, as I've said here before, is that the big fees in contingency recruiting models give recruiters incentives to cheat/lie/etc. Fees of 30 - 50K might get people to do things they wouldn't do for 10 - 20K.

You also need to look at risk. In contingency recruiting, 100% of the risk is on the recruiter. Company pays nothing until a hire is made, so companies can engage all the contingency firms they want and most will be doing free labor - spreading the word about the company, drumming up interest - it's free PR for the company. I could find 10 perfect candidates and spend many hours, but not make a dime if none get hired or if the company changes direction.

In fully retained recruiting, all the risk is on the company. The company will pay money out and may get mixed results. My model tries to split the risk a bit, with small upfront fees and small back-end fees (all flat fee and unrelated to salary).

Negotiating with a couple recruiters to pay them some money up front with additional back-end payout for performance may yield better results for companies that complain about contingency firms. Recruiters will appreciate you reducing their risk, and by removing the risk a company should be able to negotiate a lower fee.
> Youtube can't simply just take down videos that are legal and fully owned by their willing uploader.

Why do you think YouTube isn't allowed to arbitrarily take down videos?
Now apply your line of reasoning back to the elderly. It feels weird to say the words when you're pointing them at a higher-status group.
> That would be an insult to him. Standard Oil did some of the shadiest anti-competitive stuff that resulted in many of the laws to protect against monopolies today.

That was my first thought as well. I went to Wikipedia to make sure I wasn't missing something, and they paint him in a much more neutral light. I suspect the man, company and time period are complex enough that without a very comprehensive book (or a good professor), that simple statements about how good or bad he was will fail to capture the nuance of it all.
VersionPress is a combination of hooks, own text format and custom PHP code that manages Git and makes it all work together. VersionPress extracts information from the database, stores is in a format that is suitable for diffing and merging and versions that in a Git repository. So we do not version control db files themselves but rather the information inside the database. Sorry if you find the term "database versioning" technically incorrect, we just had to call it something simple that would still be relatively close to the technical truth.

I'll prepare a blog post on how VersionPress attacks the versioning problem technically.
I worked with Spatch to make Switchboard, and will be around to answer any questions.

Our motivation in building and continuing to build Switchboard is to make it easier for developers to process emails. Looking forward to more ideas!
Did you just... show me text on a webpage slower than I can read it...
Backed to help support Dave continue his work on Font Awesome since it is the most popular library on BootstrapCDN. Good luck!
Refactoring Python Tornado Coroutines
> eating "hamburgers" where the buns are made from two deep fried chicken breasts

There is a burger joint in Santa Cruz, CA (aptly named "Burger.") that has a menu item called "The Snooki" which is a chili burger that uses two grilled cheese sandwiches as the bun. They have some other interesting items but that one just screams "heart attack."
Indeed. Also, I thought for sure that 8.3 file name creation was off by default starting in either Win8 or Win7. Maybe it depends on whether you upgraded from an older version or which SKU you install?
Exactly. My (terribly made) point is I am not throwing out all of my preconceptions. :)
In the US the guarantee period is usually much less, and fees are paid relatively quickly. 90 day guarantee (sometimes prorated) and 90 day net is pretty normal, and you might even see 30 day net.
Final post on JavaScript crypto
Isn't this kinda like the patent troll concept?
In Scientology one of the ways to do this was to address the person's views on "help". Is it okay for others to help you? Have you ever helped anyone else? What if your car broke down by the road, would you refuse help to get it back running? If it was a friend or family member who offered to help?

It doesn't take long to make people see that we trust people to help us all the time, often with big, important things, often without thinking about it. Once someone is open to the idea of help in general, it's not a huge leap to show them that the organization is there to help them, and that it's okay to accept the help. Challenging someone's views on control is sometimes required as well, done in a similar manner.

A follow-up tactic is to find someone's "ruin". Everyone's got something they will trigger on. Health, depression, family, money, career, whatever. It's usually very easy to get people to volunteer this, sometimes you can just do a cold read of someone and know right away without even talking about it, it's the same thing a fortune teller does. So, you offer to help them with their ruin.

There's nothing magical about it, and it works on everyone if skillfully applied, even if they have their guard up in advance and have heard all kinds of awful things about you. You aren't forcing people to do anything, you're not being dishonest or tricking them. Everything is above-board. The hard sell comes later, when a deeper level trust has been established over time.
Youtube doesn't have a "EULA" they have a "TOS", and if the uploaded content is legal and doesn't infringe on copyright it stays up.

Any allegations to the contrary would require proof on your part.
Youtube can't simply just take down videos that are legal and fully owned by their willing uploader.

Well, of course they can. Read the terms of service.
True, but OP is on-target here. I've got two boys who were rabid Minecraft players, and although I'm not a (current) Java developer I can confirm that the modding process is a horror.

How does this relate to the monetization issue? Well, from a technical perspective Mojang seems to be phoning it in these days, in terms of Minecraft.

The console and mobile versions seem to be getting regular love while the core PC version has been in near-limbo for most of 2014. The plugin API, promised for well over a year (and I suspect over two) is still nowhere to be seen. Notch, creator of the game, isn't even involved with it anymore beyond the occasional "voice from the mountain" posts such as this. While I'm sure they have some talented people touching the code (e.g. Jeb and Dinnerbone), the focus and drive appear to be missing.

So when I hear about the EULA debacle and the half-assed cloud of confusion and conflicting messages coming from Mojang, I'm not surprised. I like the game, but have no idea if anybody's really steering that ship with a particular destination in mind.
And thanks for the support. I made it clearer in the tagline.
I spend a lot of time with my wife's older relatives, and I have picked up quite a bit of it. The most confusing to me is the positive usage of the word 'anymore', e.g., "It seems I always wear these shoes anymore."
Isn't Vimeo intended for just original content? All the video game "Let's Play"s and such can't be moved over.
FWIW, Sen has agreed with the majority of Piketty's conclusions, though.
I think the difference is between attacks that are currently well-known, and are automatable (attacks that are, effectively, on the cryptosystem itself)--and attacks that boil down to social-engineering/rubber-hose cryptanalysis (attacks that are, effectively, on you.)

Or, to quote cperciva's talk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7883707), "the purpose of cryptography is to force the US government to torture you." If a cryptosystem makes torturing you for the required information easier than attacking the cryptosystem itself, the cryptosystem is "strong enough." Any system for which this isn't true isn't doing its job.
I wonder if Haskell will ever get a package manager like Nix.(?)
I've seen walnut shells used in similar products
Why Google’s “Ridiculous” Looking Car Is Brilliant
What? The MDD is a relatively rarer model that has some sought-after capabilities. :-( Should have put it on ebay to give it a happy home.
Does anybody know of any software which can do this for videos which were already captured?
A good point to start is this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1951556
Font Awesome is great, but am wondering if at this point Dave has already given away too much free milk to now try and sell the cow.
Don't know how I feel about this to be honest.

On one hand, FontAwesome has been a champion worldwide for free, easily usable fonts, shouldn't the creator get some sort of compensation?

On the other hand, will FontAwesome be put away in the shed? Sort of like the Nginx free/elite-turbo-premium offerings.
If you are in the area, I like the atrium in the IBM building (~57/Madison). There are bajillion coffee shops you can easily find, all very crowded.

(or, if you are in NYC a short time, stop working! See NYC)
Correct, the ultra cheap one is OpenVZ (i.e. a container, not a VM). They do have a KVM option that looks like similar prices to DO/etc.
I was hoping they'd have a Radio API so Sonos and others could make a better all around experience.

Maybe I missed it... or maybe it doesn't exist.
It seems to me that this is the startup idea, built on top of this tech.
There was a story on Mac users being shown pricier hotels on Orbitz a while back:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230445860...
Looks fantastic, and I love FA so thank you for that.

Probably too late for this feedback, but the pricing differentials between being a backer and just licensing it when it becomes available were too narrow to entice me to back it. I.e. The $30 savings by backing it now instead of (potentially) buying it outright later this year just wasn't enough savings to convince me to back it. You could read this two ways - lower the backer goal amounts, or increase the licensing costs. I think you could safely do the latter :)
Stop saying they ignored it.

A) The product hasn't even shipped yet. That may be an option or made into one in an early update.

B) There may be a technical limitation to disabling or rebinding it (e.g. without impacting either other buttons, or the behavior of actual keyboard buttons).
Have you surveyed how many WordPress installations are on shared hosting?
I think that much of the success of WordPress is attributable to the fact it can be installed via Fantastico with the click of a button, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 90% of WordPress(.org) installations in the wild are on shared hosting.
The problem is that Git is not installable on shared hosting afaik, so it strikes me as a very weird match for Wordpress.
Hi Smudge, please see the answer above. Thanks.
Font Awesome will see just as much love, if not more than before. The last release, less than a month ago, had 71 new icons. The original Font Awesome isn't going anywhere.
If any Pittsburgh HNers are interested, dwrensha is likely to be giving a presentation regarding his Rust-based Cap'n Proto library sometime in the next few months.

http://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-Code-Supply/
I used an answers file during installation. I followed this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-...

If you use Windows 8, I've heard that doing something like this causes massive problems when updating Windows itself. It's been fine for Windows 7 though.
Disruptive innovation: Is the concept a myth?
Pixel Perfect: The Story of eBoy
Other browser based screen scrapers that are in the space are 80 legs, kiminolabs, Mozenda and OutWit Hub, I'm sure there are more. Last time I checked, import.io was a fairly lightweight browser wrapper.

I also write web scrapers using Perl and Python, recently have been gravitating towards Python as the code looks more readable. I don't use browser based scrapers because the sites I scrape are usually more complex so it is just easier to write my own code, and they lack functionality and control of the data, and there is the overhead of learning the terminology and how it works.
We also did an experiment with this:
http://imgur.com/tdnympM

The same problem existed. So it is not inertia in this case. However, inertia could also interfere with the gravity vector.
Tesla’s Battery Fire Reduction Patents Can Be Used To Make Safer Cars
For Switchboard's intended task of as-they-arrive email processing, speed is not a huge issue. That being said, there are plans for using more than one IMAP connection to parallelize some requests.

Switchboard is fairly different from context.io. Switchboard is open-source -- being able to keep in control of services accessing emails on your users' behalf is great. Also, Switchboard is intended for processing emails as they arrive using worker processes, as opposed to context.io which appears to be primarily a proxy.
People pay for fonts? That's crazy talk. Especially if it's a symbol font.
You mean, aside from the ones mentioned in the linked article: "natural alternatives like ground almonds, sea salt or oatmeal" (which is, I believe, what was used before microbeads were available).
That's all baseless speculation. In fact in Microsoft's culture decisions like that are almost entirely made by individual contributors working with trios of front-line managers/leads (dev/test/pm).
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a) I don't think this article mentions basic income. So I kind of think that is not relevant to this discussion.

b) I am not for basic income. I don't think completely screwing over the economy helps people at the bottom. I think "basic income" likely would screw over the economy.
Ask HN: As developers are you always looking for a new database solution?
I am wondering if most developers normally just stick with updates to their loved databases. Or if a s developers we moved to a point where performance and reliability are our metrics.
Are you suggesting we turn falling into a specific set of relationships between symbols an entry requirement for the Unicode database, though? How would that look like in practice? I agree you're highlighting a useful difference, but I'm not sure about implications.
Seemed to me that it wasn't particularly meant for internal business comms. Just random comms.
Even within programming, using a word in a way that is completely unconnected to the ways it is used by everybody else is... let's say it's not very useful if your goal is to communicate.
Zero day, today, means unpatched in latest version, at least when applied to vulnerabilities.
Seal pup stows away on kayak
That bit of info you have is just wrong.
We actually did break it up into several parts when making and editing it, but for the "official release" of the document (It's a big-ass test procedure document), they wanted it in one file. And of course there's always some changes you find after you release something.
Hi muxxa, rest assured that we know about this and common LAMP hosting support will certainly come. It's just that to implement the support is relatively time consuming and we don't want to promise for v1 something that we know we will be able to deliver. But don't worry, it is our goal to run everywhere where plain WordPress can so common hosting support is coming.
It's so obvious which people commented without reading the article in this thread.
The application uses IMAP UID/UIDVALIDITY values, typically along with IDLE, to identify new emails in a mailbox. These don't change when an email is read, so marking as read doesn't introduce any race conditions in this case.
Angular Bootstrap's Typeahead directive does this job pretty well, although we've had to do some template overriding and funky directives to get the functionality we needed (e.g. switching the results to a different set by clicking an item in the dropdown). Glad to see more alternatives being made out there. Nice job!
The Space Review: NASA’s big rocket gives Putin a big advantage
How to configure the caps lock key on your keyboard to function as a “mute” key
It worked from Safari but not FF on the proxies network. During the BELvALG game there are lots of trouble again, seems to only get a small portion of the captions and then stops updating. Here is the last of what I was able to get:

{
"id": 4399254,
"channel": 785,
"text": "But at BOQ you can talk to one person",
"date": 1403023783.284,
"cid": 7
}
I use a brand called Bulldog that uses ground up coconut shell's. It feels like it works better...maybe because its not made up of perfect little spheres of plastic?
I can't find a source for it, so I'll just delete it.
Synology NAS Boxes hijacked for Dogecoin Mining Operation
Reminds me of the spirit of Quora's "suggest edit" feature (but with a new twist).

As a person who uses Github / Google Docs for things like this right now, it's a tradeoff between better integration with my existing workflow and a superior editing/collaboration experience. I instantly knew that this service would be a better collaboration experience, yet I find myself hesitating at the idea of yet another standalone service. (I expect a whole slew of integrations to be forthcoming though, considering that's what all of the newer popular productivity tools have done)
(Article is from October 9, 2013)
True, and I think Apple's simulator turned out to be the right move.
For those that like to dig deeper, here is a white paper by Altera on "Implementing FPGA Design with the OpenCL Standard" [PDF] http://www.altera.com/literature/wp/wp-01173-opencl.pdf
Is Youtube actually profitable?
Training My Mind to Find The Next Uber ($17 billion valuation)
In April of 2012, I was watching Morgan Spurlock’s “Day In The Life” episode featuring Tim Ferriss. The camera crew followed Tim around on his daily adventure, and at one point, he hailed a black SUV using Uber...(read more)
It wasn't a statement of fact, it was a wish list that started with "For example"
Actually nix is a pretty awesome package manager for haskell. All my projects now have a default.nix and a shell.nix and I have this little snippet in emacs:

(setq haskell-process-type 'ghci
haskell-process-path-ghci "/home/ben/.nix-profile/bin/nix-shell"
haskell-process-args-ghci '("-I" "." "shell.nix" "--pure" "--command" "cabal configure; cabal repl"))

This drops you into a nix shell with all the dependencies for the project you're working on present.

You can also (especially easy if you're using projectile) run compile with the command nix-shell -I . shell.nix --command "cabal configure; cabal build" and that give you a nice list of type errors in your current project.

Repeatable builds with no cabal hell. In the words of disney: "I'm never going back, the past is in the past!"
FWIW, there's also some weird liability issues with regards to DMCA safe harbor. If you start monitoring some videos, you're then liable for them.
Can't wait to see what's built on this
This is VERY bad news for Indies that are seeing a lot of success through videos that go viral.
I think he is just trying to support his family. ;)
"Broadband" is a well-defined technical term originating from physics. But "broadband internet" (what the OP was referring to) is a vaguely defined marketing term that is often used by ISPs to deceive consumers as to the speed of their connections. The OP is suggesting that that term be repurposed as a clearly (legally) defined one that improves internet access in America without introducing onerous regulations.
will there be an API for this?
Microsoft launches new startup accelerator in Redmond for home automation
I can't wait to see what that's going to look like. Just be careful it doesn't fly off and injure you!
same submission from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935220
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I don't think they are unfinished, just a new art direction. But it seems to have less neutral style that before and that will reduce adaptability to its surroundings.
Absolutely nothing to do with that. Wacom would love to be in the SP3. But weight, thickness, cooling, display quality (and writing feel due to extra layers between the glass and display panel), and battery life all conspired against them. The N-Trig solution trades off some drawing precision (at a degree very few will notice) and the requirement of a battery in the pen for improvements to all of those things. Seems like a no-brainer.

When I was at MS folks were working super closely with Atmel (touch panel vendor for most early Win8/RT tablets) and really pushed the limits of their technology. There was a tight feedback loop there and I personally had found issues which eventually were solved via iterations of back-and-forth with Atmel and with software tweaks to work around hardware limitations.

It may not happen over night, but I suspect they're doing the same thing with N-Trig and pushing them to improve the experience in a way which other PC/tablet vendors never have or would. So don't assume that just because other OEMs haven't cared enough to get the most out of N-Trig's text that Surface doesn't have a shot at doing better.
Thanks for the feedback on the book.

As for your last paragraph: I have been homeless for about 2.5 years. Programs to "help the homeless" mostly really, really suck and a lot of them a) piss away the time of the intended recipients b) require the intended recipients to accept enormous disrespect and c) reinforce a subsistence existence. Many of the programs that look to get poor people off the street require you to first be guilty of something, admit your guilt and then be their property.

I have no doubt that it isn't exactly consciously intentional but those attitudes are in there somewhere or this would be better. (There are some programs that are better than that but the default model is pretty awful, to the point of being actively hostile.)
The thing is font awesome scaled up well, but not down near as nicely. Black Tie seems to scales down nicely, but looks a bit too minimalist (or maybe just chunky) at larger sizes for my taste.

@fortawesome: Could we get some views that show true to size comparisons of the new font at a few different scales. Some overly large images of 4 of the icons just doesn't cut it near as well as seeing things how we would use them!

@fortawesome: See how you have the super large versions of your font's on the font awesome homepage? Make sure the new icons still look good that big!
It's a good article, but has had three major discussions in about the last year:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=What+I+Wish+I+Knew+When+Learning+H...

So I think this one counts as a dupe, even though the content has been augmented.
And even so, they resort to mass suicide only when they come under threat and have no other way out. Marshall Applewhite of Heaven’s Gate, for instance, had a terminal illness.

I'm unaware of Marshall Applewhite having a terminal illness when he convinced 38 of his followers to commit suicide.

He feared he might have cancer but an autopsy revealed he didn't have it, and I'm unaware of any evidence that says that was a motivating factor in the suicides.

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

Medical examiners determined that his fears of cancer had been unfounded, but that he suffered from coronary atherosclerosis.

Most people his age (65) suffer from coronary atherosclerosis and it's not considered a "terminal illness" like pancreatic cancer would be.

http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atherosclerosis-and-coron...

After age 40, about 50% of men and one-third of women can expect to eventually have coronary artery disease.
I'm still putting the finishing touches. Will email everyone when it's ready to use.
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