skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"for no more work than it took to read a blog."

But it shows you are willing to read blogs to further your knowledge. Presumably even voluntarily. Would you really say that is just a weak signal, especially in a profession that changes as quickly as IT?
Does anybody know of studies correlating eye movement with mouse position? All these tools sort of pretend to be revealing eye movement but I find that I personally keep the mouse cursor in one position, scroll and only hover a link if I have already decided to click it..

It's obviously still valuable data, but just not quite the mind reading super tool that it pretends to be.
My browser crashed as well.
"Because it's really important for the kids to know who makes the most money each week."

Rik - The People's Poet
The Science of Geoengineering
This is something completely different.
You know, I guess that speaks well of the independence and low level of corruption of the judiciary.
Related podcast: http://freakonomics.com/2014/05/01/the-perfect-crime-a-new-f...
The technology gaps are going to take forever to close for two reasons. First, because the web as an app platform is a disorganized pile of bad hacks, which makes every fix harder. Second, the great point you made about how the web is bound by waiting for standards, then waiting for widespread compliance with those standards. This guarantees it's always far behind. And the pile of crap is only growing, making it more and more appealing to just leave the web behind for anything that makes it easier to get nice results.
This caused a hangup for me as well. I find HERE to be better than gmaps. shrug I'm not sure which features the author is unfamiliar with or prefers. Accuracy, real-time features (traffic, food/gas, landmarks, speed limits), turn-by-turn, etc. If anything, I find the interactive parts like moving around the map, zooming, etc. to be better in HERE.
Watching the video, it was odd that he had absolutely nothing to say about potential uses of AI when asked that question. I'm assuming it was either a question so out of left-field that he just wasn't prepared or interested in discussing it and distracting from Tesla/SpaceX, or that he has lots of ideas he doesn't want to make public yet.

More understandable that he repeatedly says he doesn't know how to stop unfriendly AI, but there is always this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...
So, anything else to add? The 1 page site is short on details.
Ah for a second I thought this is it, we're all doomed. Still a pretty cool demonstration though.
This might be an interesting idea for a vim plugin too, need to teach myself vim-script first...
In Defense of JavaScript Crypto
@facepalm I would much rather hire someone who reads in-depts books that those shallow blogs. Too much time spend on blogs and discussion forums is not that great thing.
It provides a narrow legal shield if in the case you get popped by the FEDs for owning or distributing copywritten material.

"But Feds, I paid for this copy, just stripped the DRM off of it."
Security of credit card industry is built not on hard computer security principles but on auditing and ability to point fingers. This breaks with enough levels of indirection and gift cards add such additional level of indirection.

Also gift cards have secondary (and probably more important) use for thieves. Giftcard is legitimately looking magstripe card that in many cases gets processed in same way as card payment, so you can just write stolen magstripe data onto giftcard and get something that does not raise suspicion (store clerk is not going to verify that card number matches or event that payment method matches).
How lovely, a pixel guy greeting :)

A tip: due the nature of the service, an "about us" page might help earn an initial trust
This is really neat, and it will probably be very useful to some people, but it sets off some very loud warning bells in my head. Is s/o really for copypasta mining? Sometimes, I guess... but still.
That's just a handwavy reply (look up the research). I know the kind of research, and it is very hard to separate the ideologically motivated one from the worthwhile ones.

"Just hire good professional people, surely?"

So why have any hiring process at all, if it doesn't matter who works for/with you?

Some people realize they spend most of their waking hours at work, so they want to get along with the people they work with.
From how I interpret the Stingray, it is executing a MITM attack. These types of devices are sometimes refereed to as IMSI-catchers, and sit in between the users phone, and the real network towers. [1]

My concern is what exactly is being contained, and collected. The cell phone companies are already collecting the same data, but I would assume that with the Stingray it makes getting access to that data much faster versus having to request it from the cell phone network companies. The article mentions what they are collecting with the Stringray, "When mobile phones—and other wireless communication devices—connect to the stingray, the device can see and record their unique ID numbers and traffic data, as well as information that points to the device’s location. By moving the stingray around, authorities can triangulate the device’s location with greater precision than they can using data obtained from a fixed tower location." This technology could very well advance, and allow them in the future to collect much more maybe. Gathering location seems to be the biggest reasoning behind using the Stingray.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
That doesn't seem to affect my argument: the high-end power infrastructure and cooling still dwarf the usual equipment costs.
Node would be overkill for a project like this, though. It's a lot to install, manage, compile, etc. just for a simple, relatively static dashboard that just collects basic stats, especially if your package manager doesn't have v8 and node in its repos.

I feel as though the great thing about this project is its drop-in-ness (which is difficult to provide without PHP) and its flexibility; for example, I can put this on a server behind Apache, running PHP, and set up LDAP authentication to restrict access to it. With Node, that's a huge amount more work for little to no gain (since I would probably just put it behind Apache anyway).

Just my two cents, but as much as I find PHP distasteful, it really does feel like the best tool for the niche the tool currently serves.

A simple Python version that could serve out JSON data and a nice frontend that could collect and display it all (in groups) would be a nice way of having essentially a live munin graph. That would be cool.
Yep. I'd decline and not get the job. I know that already [hint: I don't drink].

It is quite amazing how many people are completely oblivious to their own biases.
The saddest part about that is that opera was the first browser I knew of that allowed changing the default search engine in the first place, about 13 years ago.
You can see my app too: http://PlaysZone.com uses the same single page concept with server side rendering for the first loaded page. The other pages loads some json with ajax.
I did a bit of research a few years ago as part of my masters. Here are the references I have:

http://stc-access.org/wp-content/uploads/cooke_mouse_eye_tra...

TLDR: 'eye movement matched mouse movement 69% of the time'

There's also a paper in here starting page 33 of the PDF http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/proceedi...
Aye: good experience breads opportunities to gain good experience.

Though depending where you are starting from and trying to head to, there are ways that you can try to short-circuit this. If trying to move sideways into a technical role from another (or something else entirely) for instance then taking professional certifications in your own time can be useful for proving to a potential new employer that you really know+understand the skill that you believe you might have. The trick is finding something that actually means something to your target, which can be a black art (in the Microsoft ecosystem for instance the MCSA and MCSE qualifications can mean a lot to some, but little to others, and sometimes nothing without some commercial experience to back it up).

> overconfidence

I don't think this is about promoting overconfidence, more avoiding the underconfidence that comes from misjudging how capable other people are relative to yourself.
I'm not certain what version of Google Maps you've been using, but the last few versions have been absolute shit. Why do they keep changing it? If anything, I feel with each new release Google breaks maps further.

Constant re-routing, providing incorrect directions to trails or anything outside city areas, asking me to try out new features while I'm fucking driving and trying to watch the road at the same time. Just awful. I'm willing to try something different simply to punish the Google Maps team which can seem to do nothing but mangle their code base each release.
DDoS attacks like this wouldn't be so easy if governments actively fixed backdoors in hardware and software instead of creating and stockpiling them. Much harder to build a botnet if there are fewer vulnerable systems to recruit via exploits.
> No, it means built with a modern stack (MEAN instead of LAMP). It means real-time events (notifications, messages, etc...), github integration, optional redis back-end, karma and rep system.

I hope this comment gets picked up by @shit_hn_says.
As I understand it that is SOP for undercover work - and a much more sensible idea.
Is there a browser extension for that?
Go is less useful on older systems, since you have to go out and get the Go compiler/etc. and compile them yourself before you can compile anything else, whereas you can expect that all systems (not just recent ones) have a C compiler installed.
I don't understand what issue you are saying you are engaged with.

I do think the people replying to you saying "You can so bike" are engaging in relatively pointless activism (for one thing, 10 miles really is plenty far to try to build into every day). But that also isn't really the issue at hand.

All the article really says is that 1 designer thinks that bike lanes that 'feel safe' will get more people using them (and then a few characteristics are explored). I sort of think that shouldn't be a controversy.

This article is about adding setbacks and curbs and bike specific signals and you are engaging in 'paint lane markings all over creation'.
My drug dealer made me sign a NDA :/ cant tell you anything cops, sorry !
Is there a sample I can view without registering? A video perhaps? I often use http://mouseflow.com for my clients in the first week after launch (note: mouseflow has major issues for responsive designs).
Cloud Computing to be embraced by the Catholic Church
"That is specifically the cult of personality referred to."

But you are merely doing the same thing, except that you revere the author of the article more than the PayPal founder. Why should the article writer be more right than the PayPal founder?
Volume button != power button. Nobody ever hammers on the power button repeatedly.
This might interest you - http://www.itnews.com.au/News/362462,hacker-uses-bots-to-top...
No idea at all why you're downvoted. I came to erlang after spending years working on a C++, actor model, message passing codebase. Unsurprisingly (although it was to me at the time) I felt quite at home.

The difficulty came from the new syntax and Erlang-style control flow. And as you say, those are entirely a matter of familiarity. I still find python to be more readable and writable, but by no means does that imply Erlang is not understandable.
Show HN: Tweetstorm builder
I guess the name comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize , btw the little book "Longitude" http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Dava-Sobel-ebook/dp/B003WUYE... is a fantastic read about that topic
This is short on details but nothing like this exists today that I'm aware of. I read HN for stuff like this!

I've emailed our team internally and said "this exists...how do we plug in?"

We shall see.
Marketing Blog Metrics 2014 – Mid-Year Analytics
Ketogenic diet does not “beat chemo for almost all cancers”
This paper does, and also tries to predict where you are looking based on cursor activity, rather than just rely on the cursor's current location:

http://jeffhuang.com/Final_GazeCursor_CHI12.pdf

"But claiming that the cursor approximates the gaze is misguided - as we have shown, this is often not the case depending on time and behavior"

"Therefore, we conclude that whether the subject tracks their gaze closely with their cursor is more likely to stem from personal habits rather than age or gender."
Yeh the data is valuable if used in a meaningful way. You'd still want to A/B test different things you change but our tool would give you a good starting point based on user/visitor behaviour.
That's a zero value argument because psychopaths will mimic whatever criterion you have. So the argument "psychopaths will hack your criterion" is worthless.

And the point in things like musical taste and blogs is that they are not that easy to fake. You have to make a real investment (spend time listening to music, reading,...). That's the point of signaling, which is what muscial taste is.
South of Spain and now considering moving to South of Portugal. I didn't came from a completely 'dark' place like London (Oporto, North of Portugal) but even that small change made significant improvements in my life.
A Sorry State of America.
Cash means having to carry cash, count change, reorganize bills, so on and so forth. Checks mean having to write checks and earning the everlasting (and justified) emnity of everyone behind you in line because you're wasting their time.

Credit cards mean a swipe (debit cards add a PIN, oh noes) and indemnity against the fraud that occasionally blows up.

Cash loses. Checks lose hard.
What sort of issues does mouseflow have for responsive design?
Can't see why this is downvoted.

IMO Gnome used to be significantly better than it is and everytime they break something they break it in the name of userfriendlyness.
I am a developer, several years back, a couple friends and I wrote a loyalty app/saas. The site, allowed a restaurant/shop/bar owner setup a couple types of deals ie "Buy X get Y Free" among others. Each restaurant had a QR code, and when someone would purchase something, the customer would scan it and get a "punch". The owners could track everything via the web. Due to all of us having a 9-5, and this being our first project, we failed, because we didn't realize beforehand that you had to hit the streets every day, and we didn't have the capital to quit our jobs when we figured that out. The only way, to really sell a product like this, was cold calling. Adwords, facebook, etc etc, does not work when trying to reach a small business owner/manager. They are too busy working, to go out randomly searching for stuff. Needless to say, we learned a ton about selling. So, I developed Sales Invaders!. A "sales staff as a service". Things are pretty simple right now, as I'd like to figure out if there is a market for this. If anyone has any specific questions, feel free to ask!
i guess the vim, sublime, etc people that don't know it yet are gonna be happy, because it means that they'll find out about howdoi now:

https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi

pip install howdoi

vim plugin: https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi

one of the emacs plugins: https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi

one of the sublime plugins: https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste
20 Fancy Acronyms Programmers Should Know
> Doesn’t matter – if there’s a discrepancy between what a document says and what implementors do, that document is but a work of fiction.

Yes and no. When there is a de-facto standard that just doesn't happen to match the published standard, yeah, sure. Otherwise, bug compatibility is a terrible idea and should be avoided as much as possible, many security problems have resulted from that.

> This is not a parser.

Well, even worse then. Manually integrating semantics from higher layers into parsing machinery (which it is, never mind the fact that you don't capture any of the syntactic elements within that parsing automaton) is both extremely error prone and gives you terrible maintainability.

edit:

For the fun of it, I just had a look at the "winning entry" (diegoperini). Unsurprisingly, it's broken. It was trivial to find cases that it will reject that you most certainly don't intend to reject. For exactly the reasons pointed out above.
Right. But how many shops operate in a “Cloud environment”, especially when they're offering “Cloud services”? What about S3, etc. What's their incidence response?
No collyw, vBulletin (the reference forum soft) is not FOSS, and it is quite expensive. PHPBB is OS, but like all the BB soft, has been stagnated for a decade [0], in fact the NodeBB devs were PHPBB devs before...

We really need to explore new ways of interaction, and blending old fashioned boards with the new "real-time web" is a nice start. There's nothing bad in trying new things. Discourse, with rails, is another good take...

PS: I use a lot of LNMP for 70% of my freelancing projects, but for a forum that needs real-time capabilities Node is a convenient option.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2013/02/discourse/
Demo URL: http://www.startuptabs.com?token=cd159929-8df3-4f2b-bcef-d5d.... So others can see a demo but not seeing anything.
The Strong Rejection
Let me clarify my statement: you should of course ALSO listen to them (but you should take what is said with grain of salt and try to understand the real motives; once you understand that, you can propose other - often better - solutions).

However the real feedback comes from what is not said out loud. Users might dismiss the problems they have as their incompetence, but only you can be the judge of that. If 3 people in a row make the same mistakes, I can guarantee you it is not their incompetence you are seeing... ;) That is why observing the users is so important, much more than just listening to them.
>Coding skills provide great income, stability, mobility and independence.

So why not try to make these skills more accessible to everyone?
Is this for cold-calling, or an actual salesperson that is on the ground? It's a little unclear.
"People with different mindsets will challenge you. They will disagree with your decisions."

Which might significantly slow you down. Maybe there are different times for different approaches.

And if you just want a job done, why would you want to hire somebody who disagrees with you?
> But to get hired in the first place you have to show overconfidence in your knowledge and abilities.

I've had interviewers literally tell me that "Ya, that was a trick question to see if you thought you were god's gift to programming. The fact you didn't rate yourself a 9 or 10 proves that you are sensible."

So I'm not sure that is true.

I think it is a question of being confident enough that you don't second guess yourself yet humble enough that people don't think you have an ego that will cause workplace drama.
Fresh evidence supports Higgs boson discovery
I was thinking the other way around, actually.
"Listen to fellow developers" can be very dangerous too. It's how you end up with programs that have menus nested 4 levels deep and thousands of options that will only be used by the developer who recommended/implemented it and a few other people (at huge cost to the other 99% of users).
I'm guessing that this is way harder than the article makes it sound. The satellite is moving very fast and has to hit an extremely precise target, but adding on another layer of complexity, the atmosphere and temperature differences effect the transmission.
I gave a talk recently which has a premise the importance of flow state. Linking into the middle of it: http://www.slideshare.net/extempore/keynote-lambdaconf2014/1...

I take the position that a slow compiler exacts a cost far beyond the obvious, because it inhibits flow state.
This is one of the (many) refreshing things about Apple. Macbook Pro is Macbook Pro until the next refresh.

That may be more true of Apple than of others, but it's not completely true. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6727/apple-is-using-sandisk-ss...
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
I'm pretty sure "Satoshi Nakamoto" is 2-3 people.
I have nothing against Erlang. Good for erlang if its successful. I wonder why then I see AOL these defensive posts about why Erlang has not been adopted enough
Looks like you have cross domain issues with your client side script.

From Chrome:
Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://seeyourvisitors.appspot.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://www.startuptabs.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.
France Seeks to Shed Reputation for Rudeness to Woo Tourists
I think this is less useful than it looks like.

When editing code, I'm not browsing StackOverflow or switching to StackOverflow so much that the actual Alt+Tab-ing to the browser window is the bottleneck. And when I do Alt+Tab to the browser window, I usually search Google for what I want to achieve, and yes, most of the times I end up on StackOverflow, but sometimes other sites, most notably Wikipedia, can help me better. Periods when I'm on StackOverflow are more of a small research session within a development session. Quick look-ups constitute a smaller fraction of my Google searches, especially when I work in an environment/language I have grokked.

Pasting from the answers I see even less useful. What was the last time you actually pasted verbatim a code snippet from a StackOverflow answer? In 95% of the cases, I read the answer to get an idea and then implement it appropriately in my code. Such copy/paste solutions are most often just hackjobs full of kludges that are worth marginally more than a pile of dog shit.
I used to use Technorati occasionally. For a long time (at least a couple of years), the results of its ranking system have seemed arbitrary and unhelpful, with little relationship to other metrics of site authority.
If anyone wants a bit more detail and color on this story, I recommend "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson. I saw it in a bookstore last year and picked it up. Was quite pleased to get more background on these seminal characters in computing history and was astounded to see much came from this group, prompted by their utter conviction that it was paramount for the US to get hydrogen bombs before the USSR (most of them: the book touches tangentially on that debate).

Also impressed by how much they did with so little. For example, many of the first fusion particle simulations were one-dimensional on a radial axis from the center of the reaction. An infinitesimal sliver of the whole thing: just a serial line of particles.

Edit: George Dyson, not Freeman.
Both. Cold-calling to me, as I am using it on the site, is contacting a business who is not expecting it. Rather than use the phone, or email etc, we are sending someone into the restaurant/bar/dog groomer etc for an in-person interaction, pitching your product/service/app etc.