skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what is a good/correct hiring criterion? I was under the impression that nobody really knows.

And I am not convinced that it is a bad idea to look for "cultural fit". For example I don't dismiss anybody as a programmer who has never heard about Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky, but certainly consider it weird and it's probably at least a minus in my book.
True, of course, but it's also worth remarking that there are huge spatial differences in lightning frequency due to the specific mechanisms causing thunderstorms.

I live in the U.S., and you rarely see t-storms on the Pacific coast here because the nearby Pacific Ocean is cool (due, in turn, to cool water brought down by the clockwise-turning North Pacific Gyre). But t-storms are very common in the Midwest and South due to the presence of warm, moist air there.
Show HN: Most beautiful free weather app with sounds for iPhone
Download for free here http://AppStore.com/beautifulskyfreebestrealweatherapp
Hah, I did the same :) While I still have some phones lying around for dev, I personally use an old Nokia dumbphone. No distractions anymore, plus nearly 4 weeks without need of a recharge!
The efficacy of vitamin D taken from food and supplements is under discussion. It is not clear whether it is as effective as being exposed to sun.
It's not our ignorance that downvotes you, rather the opposite: the knowledge you are not making sense.
I would carry some of my favorite tv series and watch it there and then kill myself in the absence of internet :P
No, not proof by analogy, but explanation by analogy. As Scalzi says in his follow-up, providing proof of endemic sexism is about as necessary by now as providing evidence that gravity exists when tripping over one's shoelaces. The evidence by now is clear enough that to demand evidence in every discussion is a distraction tactic, and not actually useful. Finding evidence is, because of the sheer breadth and extent of the problem, as difficult as using your favorite search engine to look up income stats, harassment at the workplace, unfair hiring practices, etc., such that demanding evidence is pretty much asking someone else to do your work for them.

(I should note that Scalzi did link to another post with more facts, over at http://www.jimchines.com/2012/05/facts-are-cool/, if you still demand that someone else go search for things online for you.)
Is it not the case that Norway and dark places have a far higher suicide rate? I moved from the UK to Spain, took a salary cut, because I value the sun. It it less depressing waking up to sun rather than grey most days. That must have some positive impact on health.
Just describe what you do. Web designer / front-end programmer etc.

Please don't call yourself web architect unless you're involved in W3C standards...
Comparing to the climate science debate implies that you think there is a huge disparity in evidence.

No, my comparison to the climate science debate was more about using a selected study and demanding it has parity with the collection of whatever evidence is on 'the other side'. This is what the author is doing in the conclusion; suggesting that because he's found one or two studies that go against the grain, that the side those studies oppose are equally poorly researched.

Yes, it is difficult to measure, I absolutely agree. But the author could still have made his point without resorting to spin-doctoring. He is suggesting that the line of reasoning is valid and plausible - and it's not, because he's heavily misrepresenting the data in that first case. If that was his point - that some studies heavily misrepresent the data like that - then he should have exposed studies instead of repeating the process as a counterpoint.

In any case, this is a line from his conclusion: the laboratory experiments that experimental exposure to violence causes people to play contrived games in a more aggressive manner couldn’t catch that in the real world, violent movies decrease crime. He's taken this blip from blockbuster opening weekends and taken it as gospel in his rationale. "Because violent people like to go see a movie with everyone else, and they don't do more crimes later on to 'catch up', violent movies do not increase violent behaviour". It's a really naive view of the argument around violent movies and violence in the public, that it only has short-term effects measured in weeks, yet he's using it in his conclusion (not just in his 'case studies').

By "couldn’t catch that in the real world, violent movies decrease crime", the author has clearly taken that faulty interpretation of the study as an overarching truth - even after saying that both sides of the story are 'plausible and intuitive', he's still declared that 'what happens in the real world' is based on the misrepresentation of his study. I don't think the spindoctor-esque misrepresentation was a conscious decision on the author's part, else it would have been highlighted more clearly. I think it was just a mistake.
It would be very useful to brute-force cryptographic codes.
Given the number of yeses - currently zero versus 131 noes - Amazon hopefully has a different target market in mind.
Wonderful little site, and great advice.
Oh, lawd, help me.

Kidding. You ask a legitimate question. This is by no means a comprehensive answer, but...

1. Domain knowledge. I think most of us enjoy the creative and problem solving parts of software engineering. That takes domain knowledge and domain knowledge takes time. You will get an intro to your domain in a year, but mastery? I would bet against it.

2. Working on a hard project from start to finish and sticking around for the lessons learned after. This is just a math problem. You're useless for at least 30 days no matter how good you are. (More like 90 IMO...). So if you start working on a larger project with a new team, and that project takes 6 months, your year is ending rapidly.

3. Mastering truly large code bases. Not everything is a rails app. Some things are just hard. Mastery is difficult to achieve.

4. Engineering leadership. Even if you don't want to be on a management track, it's important for a seasoned, senior-level engineer to be able to lead/drive a project from start to finish.

...And I suppose you may think "But I do all of those." And maybe you do? Or maybe it's just really hard to see something that you're convinced isn't there.
UK cosmetic surgery stats by location
Some people live and breathe valley culture and others don't. I have met great programmers and just generally smart people on both sides of the fence. It's not the particular cultural understanding that makes them good or bad. It is usually something else. I wouldn't hold it against you if all you did in your spare time was paint portraits but for your day job you were a programmer. In fact that kind of variety in interests is indicative of intelligence whereas idol worshipping is not. Smart people tend to know there are no sacred cows and also tend to come from all walks of life with all sorts of passions and interests.

The point of the article is that superficial matters like dress code are the last thing you should be looking at when trying to hire and that monocultures in general are something to be avoided. You can't do that though if you are only ever hiring people that think, talk, and in general act like you.
Couldn't just turn off all the pointless attention eating notifications and enjoy the useful features?
I'll be waiting to see if any of the exclusive stuff is more than a gimmick, or if it's actually useful.

And then waiting to see when it's available in the UK.
I love ARM, I think it may be my favourite asm family, although MIPS has its aficionados and I'll always have a soft spot for 68000.

x86 is... like someone started with a simple mud hut and tried to turn it into a mansion by successively hot-gluing renovations to it over 30 years. There's really a tiny modernised flat buried somewhere in there which provides all the light and heat and amenities, but there's plasterboard all around it because they're trying to pretend it's really still the same old mud hut with a fancier roof. Truth is, the mud hut fell down decades ago and now it's all glue, duct tape and make-believe.

(I think my analogy got lost somewhere along the way there, but that's kind of my point. Bloody μ-ops.)
Yet another absurdity from Monty Python has turned into reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo
> Nick Stamos has no kids, few hobbies, and even fewer extravagances. He works all the time and is consumed by his company every second he’s away from it.

That of course always helps as entrepreneur. It might also be the hidden reason behind the ageism. I for one would not want to work as hard today as I did when I was younger and did not have a family yet.
Ever heard about traffic? A bike in the center of Copenhagen would beat a car at any day.

And with the car you have a parking problem as well.
No. I don't see why I should move to it.
Read about Singapore's "Park Connector Network." It's more or less what you're describing, and it's already (partially!) implemented.
Let's see

- No cell phone network, so no UMTS/EDGE/LTE connectivity

- No Wifi

- No USB peripherals

On the laptop

- No RS-232

- No Thinwire Ethernet jack

- No modem jack

So, not a very useful thing to have back then, you couldn't connect it to any printer (not that there were a whole lot of consumer-grade printers back then) or storage. You could use it to replace a compute center with the size of its SSD, but then, no way to connect it to any network.
> The goal was to come up with a good regular expression to validate URLs in user input, and not to match any URL that browsers can handle (as per the URL Standard).

WTF? What is "validation" supposed to be good for if it doesn't actually validate what it claims to? Exactly this mentality of making up your own stuff instead of implementing standards is what causes all these interoperability nightmares! If you claim to accept URLs, then accept URLs, all URLs, and reject non-URLs, all non-URLs. There is no reason to do anything else, other than lazyness maybe, and even then you are lying if you claim that you are validating URLs - you are not. If you say you accept a URL, and I paste a URL, your software is broken if it then rejects that URL as invalid.

This does not apply to intentionally selecting only a subset of URLs that are applicable in a given context, of course - if the URL is to be retrieved by an HTTP client, it's perfectly fine to reject non-HTTP URLs, of course, but any kind of "nobody is going to use that anyhow" is not a good reason. In particular, that kind of rejection most certainly is something that should not happen in the parser as that is likely to give inconsistent results as the parser usually works at the wrong level of abstraction.

> The RFC does not reflect reality either (which, ironically, is what you seem to be complaining about).

Well, or reality does not match the RFC?

> If you’re looking for a spec-compliant solution, the spec to follow is http://url.spec.whatwg.org/.

A spec for a formal language that doesn't contain a grammar? The world is getting crazier every day ...

> That doesn’t mean there aren’t any situations in which I need/want to blacklist some technically valid URL constructs.

Yeah, but blocking IPv4 literals of certain address ranges seems like a stupid idea nonetheless. Good software should accept any input that is meaningful to it and that is not a security problem. And as I said above, such rejection most certainly should not happen in the parser.
i vaguely recall LOTR showings with intervals
It is simply not a general purpose language (practically speaking, theoretically of course it is). How many hoops do you need to jump to build a native feel mobile app on major mobile platforms? Scala might be not perfect for this as well, but somehow feels more realistic.
Here [1] is an electric-assist bike I recently purchased which can be configured to:

* Measure one's pedal torque and cadence, thus calculate and display "Human Watts" input to the bike while cycling (update rate = once per crank rev)

* Supply a configurable amount of electric-motor power assistance directly proportional to one's "Human Watts" input -- at selectable, configurable, default power amplification factors of 0x ( assist off ), 1x or 2x.

With this instrumented, pedal-power-amplified bike I've found:

* I won't break a sweat if I keep my "Human Watts" below about 30 to 60 (power assist on or off, doesn't matter)

* Breaking 100 - 150 "Human Watts" for more than a few seconds will break a sweat for me.

* (Off topic ) Efficiency comes out to an excellent 2 to 4 Watt-Hours-electric per mile with my settings and low-power riding style, having gotten over 100 miles on my first, not-yet-fully-depleted battery charge.

It's also possible to configure a throttle power control to deal with hills where my "no sweat" rate of 50 Watts -- even with 2x power assist -- won't make it up a grade.

But I configure the throttle as disabled as I don't have hills like that on my commute. I config pedal power amplification for a cut-in speed of 6 mph and a cutoff speed of 13 mph just right so as to stay dry and safe for me and those around me. Un-assisted cyclists frequently pass me; that's fine.

I stick to what roads on my commute have painted bike lanes. My scariest road encounter (a motorist who crowded me toward the curb with his car, twice) would have been impossible were I riding in a protected bike lane and making the kind of protected right turn this new design affords.

Edits for clarity.

---------------

[1] http://www.ebikes.ca/shop/edgerunner/full-bikes/edgerun-stok...
So how much kilometers is it then? (both for the car trip and the bike trip, depending on the area they can vary).
Btw I don't know where you get the 10mph figure, but assuming it applies to you without trying it is starting off on the wrong foot. Depending on age, fitness etc that can easily be 15mph, including hills.
Yes, it looks beautiful and I love the UI.
If the Amazon phone follows their Kindle line we will see the price rapidly reduce throughout the year, so I'll be interested to see how that changes the poll. Wouldn't change my opinion. I bought a Kindle Fire gen 1 and ended up hardly using it compared to my iPads, so I'm not very curious about the phone, but still interested in how it will affect other people's opinions.
No. I like Nexus phones running stock Android, or phones with good, cheap, solid hardware that can easily be rooted and made to run a custom ROM.

The Fire Phone is neither; out of the box it's about as far away from the Nexus experience as it's possible to get, and even if it's easy to ROM it, the price they're charging makes that impractical. The Fire Phone will live and die by their ability to find a receptive audience for their weird features; I'm not in that group.
These questions are always fun, you don't even need to bring the laptop! One of my favourite (and slightly insane) measures of all around knowledge is what you would do if you suddenly found yourself living in the Roman empire circa 200AD (a question largely inspired by the wonderful book: Lest Darkness Fall). In this case what would you do in 1975 using only the knowledge contained in your brain. I'd probably try to jump start work on internet so that networking would be fully integrated from the start and we wouldn't have these stupid browsers.
I'll have to see it before I totally write it off, but the 3D stuff reminds me of the hype around Nintendo's 3D stuff. Yeah, it was cool, looks great, etc, but ultimately not seamless enough to warrant actually using it long term. And then for the rest of it, it's like picking an Amazon tablet over a regular one, I don't want to be locked into their app store, etc.
Relevant is what people do, not what they say … so let's wait for facts.
My local cinema (although it's part of a chain) still does. It's pretty cool, although it does seem to be more for buying a snack than using the toilet.
Mapping Strategy, Structure and Process to Motivation
This is absolutely amazing indeed! I wonder if the maps of blitzortnung (please change the name! To blitztracker or something.) match with data from commercial/public weather stations like metox:

http://meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur&lightning...

Hard to compare as blitzortnung is realtime. Hmm.
I find google calendar, navigator, and evernote in my pocket more productive than not having them.

Here is the tip, you can disable anything you consider unproductive in the smartphone.
Is there a demo somewhere?
No
1. got 4 inchi,7 inchi ,14 inchi..just for development.
i think other programmer like me. buy for development testing.
its amazing how techcrunch is still respected when they keep posting badly researched articles like this one.

if its a paid article believe they should clearly state it.
Nope.

Looks horrendously expensive and only has average specs, significantly worse than the S5 which will probably be my next phone, and it doesn't have CyanogenMod support, an SD card, or a removable battery; not to mention that as it's amazon it's probably locked down to fuck and exists to sell worthless 'cloud'... I'd rather buy an HTC phone than that, which has all those drawbacks but can still have CyanogenMod installed on it, plus isn't funding Amazon...

Oh, and apparently it doesn't have the play store, so it running android is essentially worthless, especially if amazon disabled apk installation in the process of locking you into their services. Fire Phone has to be called that because if you try it, you'll get burnt.
While that is of course fraudulent and would have meant failing the thesis where I studied (education, the softest of soft sciences ;)), a bachelor's thesis has absolutly nothing to do with the scientific field - a bachelor's degree isn't even enough for getting a job in the real world, after all.

Science starts at dissertations.
https://community.nodebb.org/
Is it possible to use this to send metrics to Graphite for example?
I now agree with most of what you say - as you point out we were just looking at different parts of the same thing.

Your aside comment is really interesting. I'm not sure what the solution here is - more accurate systems of measurement lose the tight feedback loop that make online ads so successful, but simpler measurement is wrong. Some sort of combination of the two is the answer, but how that exactly works in practice I have no idea!
On a similar note, I started removing apps which made me waste my time. Facebook was one of those apps for me.
You call it "premature ageing"... but getting some sun like the average human being does isn't premature, it's normal / average / things people that don't really care do.
"For total compensation there seems to be two tiers of companies, the top tech (google, facebook, amazon, etc.) and everyone else" - not really, though, it's the financial sector. We are talking about global picture, right? Or is the discussion focused on just one single country?
Some good points...
That's a paedofile, Shirley. Don't get too close.
Enjoy 2 years of showing it off, then be really bored while my msft stock builds and im waiting for a replacement haha.
Hey all, I've gone ahead and updated the targeting algorithm to reduce the darkness bias described in the article. It has been updated to reflect this, with before and after pictures.
Four Tips to Maximize Conversion Rates on Your Website
I wish I could actually be more supportive of this initiative. After Snowden, I switched to FLOSS software, a dumbphone, and creative commons culture. I had stopped using Google products primarily a couple years earlier, and last summer really solidified me.

I have big issues with Microsoft, Apple and Google. Obviously, there are concerns with Amazon, too, but they aren't as significant for me. They stem mostly from not being able to read anonymously, and from the concern of DRM and the potential issues with Amazon being able to revoke the Kindle books you purchase.

Amazon's basic business model is not focused on surveillance or putting all your data in the cloud or vendor lock in. This is a big plus these days.

Amazon also is in the interesting position of probably being able to disrupt literally all commercial and retail business in the next couple years, which I am personally hugely excited for. It will be interesting to see who the heck buys this, and how they are able to operate without Google, iOS apps, what have you.

Maybe we will soon have a major tech company promoting Open Street Maps. Amazon will be in a position to offer a lot of products that other companies can't. Right now, though, I wouldn't touch the Google Play stack with a 10-foot-pole.
I didnt realize how much I typed so I put it in pastebin. I've never commented here and your comment gave me hope that someone understands me (I'm sure there are a lot of people who do, its likely a miscommunication on my end) This is also an example of my writing when I'm not focused.. really tired right now but this is important so im half there so hopefully its half readable enough to give me maybe a half answer even though I want the full one I will accept any piece of information that makes me a little more closer to being successful in life)

tldr You made me realize stuff from your post and how do you live without flow and also this is more or less for me trying to figure what the hell my problem is and why I'm not good at a lot of aspects that make a successful person, also you don't have to read it because its probably an unrelated issue that sounds like mine but its worth mentioning just in case it is and I rarely find anyone that I can relate to with this sort of stuff so forgive me.. just trying to learn more about myself.

http://pastebin.com/eBNFJaSH
Bad design.

Throws the information at the user and expects attention.
Newsflash- VCs dont usually invest in hackathon companies, yes, they get invited all the time, they get to judge, sometimes angels/incubators might give you an invite, or an interview with a VC as a prize (the most bullshit prize) the cash prices (whatever amount they are are much better than VC money or VC time or etc....) If a VC is there, they're just filling time and seats and meeting some future people, but rarely companies. And I say this as a top 20 finalist on a 400 team nationwide weekend hackathon. VCs don't invest in hackathon companies, the offered prizes as VC money come with many, many caveats. Some angels maybe invest but its doubtful. Though yeah, agreed, it is all about the APIs, baby.
I wish I could find a poll like this for the iPhone in 2007.

It had no carrier subsidies, so was mega expensive. It had no app store, so totally pre the "theres an app for that" phenomena.

Corporate IT departments were unfriendly to it.

And it didn't offer 3G!

Now, I know Apple was able to get away with that because it was inventing the whole category. And that no company, not Apple, nobody, will have the same grace period. (Ask the Palm Pre about that). But I can certainly see some killer UI experiences and awesome integration with Amazon. And honestly I think my wife would consider switching solely for the free photo storage.
It's a fork of Android with major differences and no compatibility with Google Services (which to many people is one of the defining characteristics of Android).

So you are technically correct but not in a particularly interesting way.