skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's fight both of our "anecdata" with actual data.

http://www.reference.com/motif/sports/average-commute-in-mil...

The average commute in miles for Americans is 16 miles and 26 minutes for one way. That's 32 miles and 52 minutes for a round trip every day.

Let's assume we decide we want to get the "Average" American biking to work instead. We have to figure out how we can convince people who spend an hour on the road everyday to spend 8 hours on the road biking instead, or give up their houses and pay more for smaller accommodations closer to their work to shorten the distance.
I think they were bought by someone (an UA or PL company I believe) and many of the core people left (or were let go). But don't quote me on this, I've just read in a random discussion as you do now.
i dont get it...why not just switch your dns to cloudflare or a similiar service and run under their protection?
Ask HN: What are the ways to utilize 6 months to land a job at Google/Facebook?
I completed my undergrad in May 2014. Being passionate about web designing, apart from designing College Tech-Fest websites haven't done any great projects so far. Not really a great GPA, Not well versed with the DS/Algorithms, really poor at Topcoder,Codeforces Hackathons. Undertook two Coursera courses, thought of like, i have done great after getting 90% and distinction in both of them but going through them once again after 6 months feels like I just mugged up those things and somehow managed to get those results just to show off. So Even Online courses just doesn't help me. To simply describe about me in one line, I'm a complete noob at everything,and i feel dejected.

Now coming to terms of technical background.. good at Cpp, Python, Javascript.. Not really a pro again, Just syntax, few library functions, no projects again.

What to focus on..? To get a good job..?? I am just going through all the possibilities/ways i have right at the moment. I would like to discuss these things with you people and please suggest me what would be the better choice. I love each of them

Option 1: Get good at Coding Competitions/Hackathons. Facebook HackerCup, Google Code Jam, Codesprints are the three things that will help me in getting my resume noticed by Top Companies. I am poor at DS/Algorithms, Gonna learn them

Option 2: Get really good at Web Designing, Design a portfolio of all my designs, blog about my design projects. Do Freelancing to earn few bucks, Build the resume. Then search for all the open FrontEnd positions.

Option 3: Learn Python, Javascript. Get good at them. ( I love both the languages). Learn Frameworks like Nodejs, Django and again repeat option 2, now i'm in backend too.

Option 4: Learn a Language, Do projects, Do open source, Wait for an oppurtunity

Google?Facebook? Yeah.. It doesn't matter if it is impossible or really a challenging task.
Aim High,Set the bar even higher..
we measure from Los Angeles, Dallas and New York

This is completely meaningless and borderline malicious (are they affiliated with one of the services that comes out on top?).

Real performance monitoring companies such as Cedexis, Gomez or Keynote measure from hundreds of locations, with a special focus on the 'Last Mile'.

The two metrics people tend to care most about (last mile and mobile performance in specific areas) are entirely unrelated to whatever ping-time a handful of vservers report.
The story of one man's 13 year journey to build a computer game
This is an incredible story of perseverance and dedication. Adam Butcher spent 13 years of his life building a computer game, he has just finished it.

Here is his story - http://www.getinspired365.com/20140623 or direct YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0
No I was absolutely not planning on adding real accounts. But people went ahead and wrote me emails asking for the feature:

Example: "Good job for a draft website. Personally I'm playing in different leagues and I'd really appreciate to have an account to avoid multiple input and multiple links ..."

This is what made me think it was a real need in the community, which was clearly wrong.
I think Quora really wanted to be a private Q&A site, which imo is a legitimate choice in the space of possible communities. But then their results wouldn't get indexed on Google, and my guess is they decided that they needed organic search to get enough traffic to hit their revenue targets. So they have this grudgingly-sort-of-open results page so it gets indexed.
Pinegrow 1.15 Release discount to celebrate
http://www.getinspired365.com/20140623 or direct YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0
Well I somehow expected a better score for your top user. But many games scores were totally unexpected.
Sorry for England by the way.
This is great! Well done. And not just from the Google Apps alternative perspective, the user interface is different. People might debate some of the major differences; but the infinite or continuous calendar scrolling feature along with the toolbar at the bottom makes navigating your calendar(s) easy. It feels more natural than Google’s … The syncing was easy to set up too; and will make transitioning off of Google a breeze.
I say old chap, I'm afraid you are being rather anglo-centric and what not. I have it on good authority they have weather in the heathen lands to the Far East. Why the Japanese built an 'Earth Simulator' with 10TB of RAM back in the last century.

And apparently the Indians launch their own weather satellites into space. Gosh.
With gcc and clang being written in C++, Symbian, BeOS, Genode, Mac OS X IO Kit, Windows 8+ DDK support and WinRT, among many other examples, better accept the computing world is slowly leaving C behind.
I was curious about the use of Redis as a permanent data store, too. Is this a common use case for people? I've only used it for a data cache, where the actual values are backed by a relational data store and some logic that calculates expensive numbers.
"to avoid multiple input and multiple links"

You could avoid multiple input and multiple links with cookies. That wouldn't require a login.

Users might not even know what a cookie is, so they don't ask for one and instead they say the simplest thing that comes to mind: an account. They don't know what the options are in technology. They barely know what they need, and they most definitely don't know what they want.

People do not know what they want. They barely know what
they need, but they definitely do not know what they
want. They're conditioned by the limited imagination of
what is possible.

- Massimo Vignelli
Where I live, if get caught, I would get a suspended prison sentence for that. Not worth it in my case.
Akamai vs. Incapsula – Nice Comparison with Charts
Yes, I realise that. I live in the Netherlands; which means I have had german language lessons at secondary school.

I came up with blitztracker because everybody knows the word blitz and the word tracker. Easier to write and still keeps the german touch :-)
> To be specific, BEFORE there's an earthquake. Otherwise it wouldn't be very useful :)

To be even more specific, after the earthquake has been detected, but hopefully before the seismic waves reach their location. Otherwise it would be magic ;)
Ha! I'm even of the opinion that most urban environments should actively work to dissuade automobiles except for delivery vehicles and taxis. They should be walkable, public transport and biking meccas. So I sympathize that they aren't. But the discussion is also about "why don't more people bike to work" and the consensus seems to be "we need more bike lanes!" and I'm simply pointing out that that won't solve the issue.
My problem is that I'm not willing to go on coding death marches any longer. I also question decisions by management instead of forging ahead toward absolute failure.
I feel more screwed with TTY with fancy graphics apps, than native and better OS integrated experiences.
Well show me some data then. Like I said, it seems like the majority of people live within a reasonable radius of work to make cycling feasible. I'm not saying it's easy, and there are plenty of people it doesn't work for, but I seriously doubt it's 80% of people.
This is so true! When trying to make a better UX you should always observe your users, not (just) listen to them.
I was expecting trite problems, but only one of them (flight) was, the others are real, and difficult.

Although two of them (water, food) are not problems in discovery but in execution. Enough money or attention? Problem solved. This means there will be no one to award the prize to. Plus food is actually just a subset of water.

That leaves 3, and all of them are medical, which is interesting if you are thinking about what to learn in school.

(Flight is silly to include because if you want to stop pollution (of all types) stop China from burning coal, you can eliminate flight completely and it wouldn't make a dent.)
An alternative to LinkedIn
Thank you all for your valuable comments and advice. I decided to tone it down a little, I'll have diet coke (my other craving) instead in the evening. But I don't exclude smoking occasionally at parties. Don't want to make resolutions I can not keep.
Sadly some cities are loath to release their data. I more or less begged Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus to let me make an app showing nothing more than the real-time arrival data they already had on signs (but only in the very busiest and most touristed areas) and they blew me off repeatedly. They have been claiming they will add this for 6 years. Meanwhile this data is available for every other bus operator (LA Metro, Culver City bus, etc.) in the area.
What if their taste in music or people changes, as their non-work social circle evolves? Do they become less desirable employees?
I live in England but I'm French. But yes it's a bit sad now here everybody just lost interest and went back to drinking tea.
A lot of these default passwords on non-consumer devices aren't user admin accounts but tech support accounts. So #1 and #3 don't work, because the user doesn't get the password.

But there is also a 4th option, the user somehow enables the support account.
Yes. When my main motivation for programming was to get the high that comes from long stretches of time spent in intense absorption, my programming time seemed to be less productive than it is now.
Absolutely. I'm surprised that having to work around no 'div' is seen as painful compared to writing the rest of the game using 3D in assembly !

Learning on 6502/Z80 meant most everything was from first principles, and although I'd hate to regress so far today (head would hurt) it really was a great way to start.
Okay, but think about what you're comparing. Other things equal, 100 kloc of dense code is harder to understand than 100 kloc of verbose code, naturally. But that's not the relevant comparison. The relevant comparison is maybe 50 kloc of dense code to 100 kloc of verbose code.
Your post was excellent, I was just considering the same. Creating a real account instead of just using the shared secret. But now it seems it isn't worth of doing. - Thanks!
What I hate even more than registering? Sites which can't be properly accessed and evaluated before registering. Hacker News should redirect all non logged in users to this login page from all pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/newslogin?whence=news This is site X, we're really cool, register now. Exactly same rule applies to all of those crappy mobile apps. I want to know what it is all about well enough, before installing it, or I won't install it at all.
Is it not the case that Norway and dark places have a far higher suicide rate?

Short answer: no. Longer answer: sort-of, but not recently.

In the mid-20th century, there was a lot of suicide in northern latitudes in the summer, which actually led some to believe that too much light (16-20+ hours per day) was the culprit. Spring and summer have always been the peak seasons for suicide, violent crime, and new mental illness. So why is there less of that in warmer climates? The culprit isn't sunlight (either winter's lack of it, or summer's abundance of it) itself, but alcoholism (which is a contributing factor to a shocking percentage of suicides). Harsh winter climates can contribute to alcoholism-- however, a lack of economic opportunity is more devastating-- which is a chronic problem once developed, and can lead to a summer suicide.

In 2014, the Nordic countries take alcoholism, mental health, and social services very seriously (much moreso than, say, the US) and don't have an unusually high suicide rate. In fact, people in Scandinavia and Canada are, on average, happier, healthier, and less suicidal than Americans.
Are the averages means or medians? I'm guessing means and I am guessing this has skewed the output?
This is very true. I actually tried to make a poll. It worked pretty well I have to say.

http://nospronos.com/en/a-few-questions

But again it was skewed towards the people ready to take time to answser so the answser were mainly very enthusiastic which I know now doesn't represent the majority of the users
Composer.json cheatsheet
Albums that I've listened to a lot. I prefer fast-singing rock bands (Icon For Hire, Flyleaf), anything 'quick' and with a fast tempo but it's important I have the lyrics cemented into my brain. Just pick music that makes you FEEL good and puts you into an excitable mood.

I am also a big fan of game and movie soundtracks. Big, loud orchestral pieces.
Feedly did that and was down anyway. Though im interested what they did to stop it.
Perhaps that's because those overseas journalists who report these things have been put in jail for 7 years. Oh. Overseas free press.
The fundamental argument is that if you hire more similar people, you will get similar results. Are you a billionaire yet? If not, maybe you should hire some different types of people in order to deliver different results.

People with different mindsets will challenge you. They will disagree with your decisions. They will think of different approaches that may be much better than what you are doing. If you let them, they may drastically improve your business.

Are your friends the best fit for the job? What if someone likes different music and whatever but is ten times as effective at that type of position? I would consider the latter far more important. You're hiring people to do a job, not socialize with.
Something that doesn't involve much user interface.

I have been working an a side project recently. The guts of the code is very simple and done already. Getting all the surrounding framework to serve it up as a web page and do input validation is taking forever (mainly because I only get an hour or two at a time to work on it). Its all the "polish" that takes the time. So something command line based would be easier.
Correct, regardless of what redis tries to sell itself as it is not a database I would trust my data with long term. As far as UX goes the demo site was incredibly hard to use, it doesn't lead your eyes trough a path of workflow, not to mention that narrow vertical columns are a highly inefficient way to digest data.
I'm going to use reuse this chart for a presentation. I love it when bloggers really put the effort in making something nice. The chart breaks down technical elements on DDoS protection in a way that is very easy to understand for beginners and students!
No, clearly the underlying mechanism that he describes is good. However, as he admits in the passage I quote, he is so unconvinced by the possibility of ESP that no tests of this sort could ever convince him. The issue isn't just that naive tests of ESP are easily cheated, either, because you can apply the same logic to more stringently controlled tests.

It just seems more honest to me to admit up front in this situation that you cannot be convinced of ESP (give it prior probability of 0) instead of playing these games to essentially shift the "dogmatism" onto the choice of alternative hypotheses and their prior probabilities (which seem chosen to enforce a posterior probability of ESP of ~0.)
I've been wanting this for a while now.
The common argument against this is that this enables cache poisoning attacks where an attacker can craft malicious files with matching hashes.
But I think the security it offers against CDNs turning rogue makes it worthwhile. Here's the draft proposal https://github.com/pwnall/script-digest
It gratifies the average hacker's intellectual curiosity.
The UX can be easily customised (check www.convoe.com) since it is "themable" soft, and the real-time features have a clear use case... or at least it fits perfectly one of my last projects where while researching for boilerplate code I find out about NodeBB
What's more fun is when you've registered for a site then come back and can't find the tiny 'existing users' link to use the account you just signed up for.
How I found bugs in my app :-)
Missed It By Thaaaat Much: Why Chrome OS Athena isn't Chrome OS for Tablets
I preferred Great Big New Tax, which they conveniently introduced themselves.
How does one know that a keyword is a brand or not? If the click through rate is above 30% (people really searched for the term) and there is some normal conversion after clicking (meaning that people really search for the relevant keyword, they do not mistake it with something else), then the keyword is a brand.
Sylius.org – Modern ecommerce for Symfony2
Team members spending too much time on Stack Overflow
Sounds a bit like NRx. Here's a Bell Labs story from Richard Hamming about office doors being open or closed. The metaphor is hopefully clear.

From http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html:

"Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most.

But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.'' I don't know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame."
Durable != ACID

You can still create an inconsistent state in Redis easily, even it persists well.
These are valid remarks, but a major factor is the nature of the website. The world cup is hugely popular and will end in a few days. It wouldn't even make sense for most users to sign up for a website that will be used every 4 years. On the other hand, if your site needs users' contribution, and the ability to attribute them to them, registrations are way to go.
In December of 2009, Americanas.com, the e-shop counterpart of Lojas Americanas (one of Brazil's largest retail stores), forgot to renew their domain.

www.americanas.com.br still worked, but the shop is actually called Americanas.com, and losing the domain the company is named after is a bit of a problem.
Actually a meteorologist isn't just massaging the data. Models often have know biases, eg under predicts rain when there is an offshore wind, or doesn't model complex local topography and gets mixing wrong, etc. Forecasters use their local knowledge to tweak the forecast, and achieve significant accuracy gains. But people are expensive, so they are affordable for high impact cases, like aviation weather.
Looking for Swift Developers to assist in course creation (payment)
Previous posting, albeit with only one comment by myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7924533
Florida and North Carolina are #1 and #2 for number of lightning strikes in the US. -- grew up in FL, now live in NC.
I used to be concerned about this, and then I realized: if Amazon revokes my access to the e-books/movies I legally purchased, I will just go download pirated copies. Why do that kind of backups myself when the internet is already doing it for me?
The English from the site itself (not the guest writers) doesn't look too good. If I were a blogger / screencaster, I would feel repelled.
Oh, I didn't realize that. Well, the book is

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
ET Jaynes
2003

I highly suggest buying it or finding it from your library!
Because Fastmail's sole reason to be in business is to deliver robust email services. It's unlikely that they're going to pull out the service from underneath you at some point when email isn't fashionable.

They also have stellar support.
I guess you could try OwnCloud, but I'm unaware of it supports mail in any capacity.
Agreed, and if it was just a blog post with some skewed stats it'd be fine. But it's made worse by the fact that DNS Made Easy are making advertising claims on the back of this [0]. This seems silly to me, because if SolveDNS introduce a Singaporean server next month, then DNS Made Easy will drop down the rankings [1].

[0] http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/press-release/dns-made-easy-conti...

[1] Based upon some tests I just ran from a couple of different Singaporean servers. DNS Made Easy's closest PoP to Singapore is Hong Kong, with approx 35ms RTT. Cloudflare have a PoP in Singapore itself (<1ms RTT). Singapore was just chosen as an example, I'm sure there are many others.
Doesn't it fall under Political? If so isn't it Off-Topic?
> To be specific, BEFORE there's an earthquake.

Yes, it takes a little while for seismic waves to travel from the epicentre to locations a fair distance away. The high speed trains are programmed to start braking as soon as an alert is heard - it's usually enough to shed 100mph or so off the speed before getting in trouble.
You're right. It's linked to what has been said in the top comment I think -users think they know what they want but they have no idea.
You would still be able to attribute a contribution to the visitor of the secret link. What lacks for a longer use is the ability to recover a lost secret url.
Agree completely. I have a team leader and a manger, with junior to intermediate experience in development and zero formal training in management. Frustrating to work for. I guess if we were both to apply for the same job, it would be a case of "well that guy has management experience", and give it to my team leader, despite the fact is is a poor coder, and an even worse manager.
What if the FCC is the wrong agency to handle net neutrality?
Ask HN: Online Communities which use math in quirk ways?
Like a subreddit or forum?

Recently I'm interested to apply programming to maths. But with Project Euler down, the only resource I can think of at the moment is my textbooks, which unfortunately are really suited to programming. So, are there any communities out there that have math problem solving questions, etc?

Thanks

edit: examples like Actuary Tables (https://web.archive.org/web/20121005141734/http://xkcd.com/actuary.py.txt). Thanks again!
He sounds like someone who doesn't want to be annoyed by people calling to make stupid prank phone calls at all hours of the day. I'm also one of those people. So sue me.
This explains the nospronos name then. Sorry, je comprends vite mais il faut m'expliquer longtemps :)*
Finger crossed for the french squad then.
I think that's the point of the poster you're replying to. You examine the merits of someone's argument, not the fact they're one of the paypal founders. That is specifically the cult of personality referred to.

Some people on this site seem to be desperate to fulfill the rituals they think will lead to success. Most of success is pure luck, combined with some preparation and ability to deliver.