skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the much more common singular they.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage
I think the thing in the OP's article that many folks can identify with is the "chain yanking" that goes on in many interview processes.

I don't think we'd be having this much discussion if the original article went along the lines of:

"I interviewed at Google recently. I had a phone screen and then several technical interviews on-site. Everybody was nice and I thought I did well, but they communicated to me a few days after I returned home that I did not get the job".

I totally agree, that is the norm. Getting a clear signal about someone in an interview setting is difficult, and most of the time if interviewers are on the fence they may just pass.

What gets me is places where there is a lack of communication, lots of foot dragging, and/or lots of time wasted by the candidate. I've not interviewed at Google, but I've gotten this treatment elsewhere coming out of college. Being on the other side of the fence now doing interviews for a few years I just don't see the reasoning for letting this happen, it's unprofessional.
There are multiple shades from green to red.
There shouldn't have been people who thought they were getting something for nothing.
I'd argue SpaceX is very likely getting into the lobbyist game, too. The major difference is that the United Launch Alliance consists of big defense players whose collective clout and spending on political donations and lobbying makes SpaceX look like a joke.

Also, the top military contractors have been convicted on numerous occasions of deliberately defrauding taxpayers without losing contracts over this behavior. This can only continue to happen if they're being protected by powerful people. The military procurement industry is a notoriously corrupt circle which rewards the largest and most inept, as the Joint Strike Fighter proves.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/fraudu...
What good is "integrating" acquisitions? Users don't care about your org chart.

Amazon could clone Twitch fairly easily (bandwidth is the limiting factor and Amazon happens to have gobs of it), but they still bought the Twitch brand. It would be a ridiculous waste to throw that in the trash.
I'm a Windows user (go on, press the down arrow) and I don't care about app design. Give me military ship grey windows, text menus and a way to hide all icons. Windows 2000 was for me the apogee of 2D design.
IMO Wikipedia-esque redirects seem to be a perfectly valid, respectful, non-confusing way of handling cases such as this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_manning
Ask HN: Whatever happened to the 3-strike ISP piracy scheme?
I remember the start date for the 3-strike anti-piracy program that ISPs were supposedly going to implement. (maybe it was 4, 5, or more strikes?) That date went by and I haven't heard anything about it since. Did the ISPs come to realize it did nothing to help them and that is would only upset their customers?
I suspect the company is AWOL. Their first level of support is through http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vLine , but there have been no questions answered since at least May. Their twitter feed dropped off a cliff in November 2013. https://twitter.com/vlineinc

Try using someone else for your next big thing.
Yeah this is kind of lazy...... Maybe just use something other than your bank password?
I agree. I hate how certain programs (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite) feel the need to re-invent UX paradigms in every new version. I 99% don't care how an app looks if it's useful.
Probably. If nightly base-load power becomes as demanded as daily base-load, then the price would equalize and neither day nor night would be cheaper. However, some level of incentive would still need to be kept, otherwise the spike of car charging would just be shifted to 1800-2000, when everyone gets home and plugs in.

And really, the aluminum smelters was just one example. As the nightly price equalized with the daily price, all electricity would begin getting more expensive, and everything else with it. Much as, in current times, increases in oil price can increase the price of everything.
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Ask HN: How does one break into journalism?
Journalism seems to be an ever-increasingly competitive field to enter. So, I ask the HN community, how would a recent college graduate without a journalism degree and relevant work experience work towards getting a job as a news reporter?
That abstract was the most convoluted way possible of saying: "because they want dumb people".
> ... Why?

In order to demonstrate how you would use the site if you found something. Were you expecting a different reason?

It's a good idea.
Helping people and getting $ for it. I can't wait till those get big and I find phone or keys.
>> All software should be free

Fixed that for you,
yours RMS ;-)
Ask HN: Why “Ops”?
There seems to be a trend of calling everything "ops". In some tech places DevOps is what used to be called "Ops", and "Ops" now means managing the startup's office, ordering meals, etc. Today I see "TalentOps" [1].

Where this trend is headed? How did it get started? Why was SysAdmin called "ops" in the first place?

1: http://www.meetup.com/The-SF-TalentOps-Meetup/
I did. One of the other 2 jobs turned out to be completely opposite of what the job offer advertised (consulting instead of R&D), so I lost interest. The other could have been interesting, but they took their time to get back to me and I did not want to lose the Bloomberg offer by waiting too long.
Just one more comment:

Have you read this: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/14/bitly-lessons-lear... ?
I thought people would want to remove the desktop notifications, but not the numbers on the icon. We may need to rethink the settings.
Paul Graham used to say it is good to apply early, as the partners would review your application with less hurry.

But I never got a good answer to a doubt: I submitted my application just now, just because. But I am in a particular good period for user grownth (first customer two weeks ago, and now things are happening). I will have considerably more traction in October (including a reliable growth rate, as it would be at least passed 2 months).

The question: if I update my application on October 14 with the updated traction numbers, will it make a difference?
Will someone actually see it or my application will already be judged and decided and that's it?
I hope this doesn't come off as snarky. Perhaps the author is making a point about the owners of electric cars not being particularly "green" because of their huge houses.
"like us on facebook to continue reading"
'army' to highlight the the massive problems really wasn't all the army's doing. Elected politicians, unelected public servants, media informing the public spectacularly badly and so on really can't be laid at the door of the armed forces. Whatever the armed forces did wrong they should have to answer for individually and in terms of institutional reform (as we all should in all our walks of life) but not those wrongs they really had no power to put right.
Can we please keep repeating that Manning was inspired to do what he believed to be the right thing by Elie Wiesel and specifically referenced this video:
http://vimeo.com/5081720
in his irc discussions with Adrian Lamo that got him arrested and jailed. Manning was looking at people being rounded up for their scholarly political views. That's a fact, not conjecture. It has a wow factor. If you aren't willing to accept being a part of that as he wasn't and believe that the institution you love is in dire need of serious reform, what can you do? What will you do?
Criticizing Manning or Snowden or Greenwald or Poitras or Drake or for that matter Assange but spending no energy at all on the required institutional reforms or being critical of the evil that does kill unjustly and unnecessarily doesn't seem like a particularly courageous answer. Reform is hard, PR much easier if you're in power and can get away with that. I don't think they can or will because now the dust settles people can be a bit more confident who had done the wrong thing.
"We tortured some folk..." Gotta start somewhere.
I agree with you, but $40 a month seems so steep for a news site. Do their customers just not know how many free news sites there are out there?
Mobile usage and the Napa earthquake
From my reading of this, the company wants to prevent themselves from being used to distribute pirate content. That is assuming they are set up similar to dropbox, where you can email out a URL leading to a file on your online backup copy. (Note, I'm not making a judgement on if they are in the right or not -- just an observation).
I don't have a Facebook page and I'd rather not use my Google account. Is there a way for me to read that answer without creating one?
Reminds of of this later and somewhat funnier article about the "one weird trick" ads:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/how_...

They reached the same conclusion and in that case, I can believe it's correct because those ads cost money, so must bring in more revenue, or they'd have stopped a long time ago.

In the case of 419 scams, a large proportion of the scammers may not be that sophisticated. It's entirely possible they really are just as dumb and incapable of spelling as a naive layperson would assume. The fact that "scam baiting" is a thing provides some evidence of that, although it's likely that many of those reports are fake as well.
"née" isn't a pronoun; it's used to identify someone's birth name as distinct from her current name, as in "Hillary Clinton, née Rodham". A French-to-English dictionary says it literally means "born". (And when conjugated with a male noun, in French it would be "né".)
Probably because people are paying more for not having to deal with restoring their stuff.

Maybe it's much harder to get a new phone to be like your original, so you'd rather pay more to get it back as is.

On the other hand, maybe, getting a new laptop is more desirable than getting an old one back (if you have backups or don't care about what you had).
There's a parody vice twitter that parody's exactly that.

https://twitter.com/Vice_Is_Hip
Wasn't there a recent study published on HN that concluded container-in-VM was really bad idea performance and security-wise, and that VM-in-container was really good?
Don't see any levers in the article lol I have no clue of what u saying sorry

I definitely think the aspiration for natural language programming has only made things better and something we all look forward to
VirtualBox is a bigger threat
Neither jail nor Solaris Zones ran on Linux, or had branding.
Are off-peak incentives only being introduced now in the US market? Here we've had it for decades; you can have a plan under which electricity is cheaper at night and on Sundays, and slightly more expensive otherwise.

Since washing machines are one of the biggest consumption devices in our house, and we spend most of the day out anyway, it saves us some money. We just need to program the machines to wash at night.
There's an important correlation vs causation distinction in there:

> People are more likely to be home in the morning and evening; EV owners may be especially likely to use more power at those times because they have bigger homes as well as bigger amenities

In other words, it's important to note that this is by no means an "all (other) things being equal" comparison to start with.
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Natural selection often creates a relationship between predator and prey that looks red in tooth and claw -- bears and salmon, wolves and elk, etc.. No one will argue that the wolf represents an advantage to any individual elk, but to the elk genotype, the argument can be made that the wolf confers an advantage.

It's the same with governments and people -- history proves that relationship red in tooth and claw as well. The surviving elk outrun the wolves, and the surviving people stay one step ahead of predatory governments.

When Stalin signed the non-aggression pact with Hitler, he began a purge of his military. Anyone who had spoken against Hitler beforehand was purged -- shot or sent to Siberia. Then, when Hitler broke the pact and invaded Russia, all those officers who had spoken in Hitler's favor were purged. The survivors were those few who didn't have an opinion, or who didn't dare express it.

The Cultural Revolution in China purged all those bourgeois elitists who had a college degree or who had acquired skills like science and technology, or any significant academic achievement. Now everything has changed and individual Chinese are allowed -- nay, encouraged -- to educate themselves for success, acquire wealth, and grow the economy -- exactly the opposite of the Cultural Revolution outlook. It is a very wise person who avoided any problems during the Cultural Revolution, and who avoid any problems now.

My point? Elk who survive do so by avoiding wolves. People who survive do so by avoiding governments. It's true that wolves improve the genetic stock of elk, just as governments improve the genetic stock of people, and by the same method -- by tearing the weak and sick to pieces.
Also, that avoids the very muckiness this article skips. In particular:

"Local variables can also be stored in registers, but we won't worry about this because registers and usually dedicated to local variables, and by the time our function is called they'll probably be saved on the stack anyway"

Ignoring things that 'usually' or 'probably' do not happen is not a good idea when programming, doubly so when doing systems programming. It is one thing when your application crashes, another when the OS crashes or becomes exploitable due to a bug.

If you want to implement a robust conservative garbage collector you will have to study the calling conventions of the language you write it in, will have to study the source of the compiler, and will have to study the release notes of every OS or compiler upgrade. For example:

- rust moved from segmented stacks to conventional ones. That probably broke any code walking the stack.

- on some systems, locals can get stored below the stack pointer (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_zone_(computing))

(Yes, this example code appears to be broken on x64)
That's not how it works. How many HN stories do you see about jails/zones? How many about Docker?

The ease of use of Docker and the ubiquitousness of Linux make for a disruptive combination.

The 'technically worse, but faster and cheaper' combination Docker offers compared to virtualization is exactly what The innovators dilemma talks about.
It's six strikes and I guess you don't read mainstream tech news. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/six-strikes-enfor... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/heres-what-an-act... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/isps-sent-1-3m-co...
Common Lisp, for sure
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It is an abstract to a paper, not an article in its own right.
So in this instance, is the color indicating how competitive the sites are for the term? in general? It's obviously a ranked list, so presumably they would be in descending order for that term.
Four plus four equals eight.

4 + 4 = 8.

Let there be a function f taking one argument, returning a result that is the argument multiplied by two.

f x = x * 2

Do you see the difference between rhetoric and symbol? The point is, perhaps, more literal than you suspected?
Because Oracle is easier to work with than VMWare? Wait, that doesn't seem right...
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You can click away from the modal to close it.
A daydream of mine is to finally get solar panels on my house and buy a Tesla. My car would run on sunshine!

However, during an unproductive daydream session, I realized that my solar panels would produce electricity during the exact hours that my car would be parked at work. In fact, during peak solar hours, my house uses very little energy at all.

Reverse meter billing would perhaps net out the cost of energy used at night with the energy produced during the day -- but I'm fairly certain by the time I get around to doing all this our utility will have implemented demand-based pricing on electricity, making it fairly cheap to charge your car at night.
I can't help wondering what percentage of the victims of the vanilla "Nigerian scam" over the internet are in developing countries nowadays where lawyers and bankers generally do use free webmail accounts for their correspondence, sending and receiving money via Western Union is quite normal, and requests for funds to bribe an official barely raise an eyebrow.
Bob Ross was a national treasure who dedicated his life to helping others see that it is wonderful to make or create for the sake of it.

Anyone I've met who thinks he's a joke have been illustrators who hadn't yet come to terms with the reality that they were craftspeople and not fine-artists. As if there is some dishonor for being a dedicated and skilled craftsperson. Having a passion for and love for a craft at any skill level is a beautiful thing.
Appending ?share=1 to Quora URLs seems to work for me.
http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-wire-fraud-scams-origina...
Hubspot files IPO paperwork to raise $100M to grow its marketing software biz
Ask HN: As a team, how do you organize your KB/documents?
What kind of tools are you using to store your shared documents & collaborate with your team?

I have a pretty bad experience of using Wikis, which are most of the time out-dated. Trello's lists appears to be too limited. And simple Dropbox/GDrive shared folders' hierarchy lack of homepage/cross-reference/UI.
I know quite a few people who went or were going this year. It's pretty expensive to go. There's the event ticket, but most people also need a plane ticket, as well as special provisions for food and lodging. It can easily be a $2000-$3000 trip. It seems a little hypocritical to have an event that seems to want to have some kind of a hippie/grassroots appeal, yet is so inaccessible to most people.

I'm sure it's an awesome wild party, but now, there are people going there and spending $45K on accomodations, I heard. Building temporary houses with AC and such. Gentrification of the desert?
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I worry about this philosophy.

I write very niche articles that are often the sole resource on the internet for that particular topic/question. Admittedly, Facebook referrals are not even on the charts with regards to user visits since I provide information rather than entertainment.

My aim is to for my visitors to spend as little time on my site as possible by giving them whatever they came for. I may have spent hours digging up a phone number, address, directions, tricks or instructions for a particular department/company/thing, and now I'm sharing it with the world. What was going to take you hours now takes you seconds. It's your reward for doing research before starting something.

I have no desire to become a "portal". Heck, people visiting my site directly (rather than a search engine referral) tend to get confused since it's just a bunch of disconnected articles about unrelated topics. I don't want you to spend more than a minute on my site. My "bounce rate" would make most people cringe. As much as someone clicking a link and then going straight back to where they came from can be a sign of them not finding something they wanted, it can also be a very good sign that they got exactly what they wanted.
What's the min/max on the SEO rating? So far I've seen an 8 and a 10 but it could be out of 100 for all I know.
I'm in on Windows 2000. Active window titles that could be set to bright colors to distinguish the active window from all the others (mine was canary yellow). I miss you Win2k.
Would have been more interested to know how the avg EEV household electricity consumption compares to offset gasoline usage (as energy). My understand is that the efficiency of power plants is so much higher than automobile combustion engines that even if all power plants were gas-powered, EEVs would be an efficiency improvement thermodynamically.

I mean, of course EEV household consume more electricity, and of course they are parked at night...and that happens to be cheap electricity hours.
The last generation to remember life before the internet
Oh, that's simple to answer -- acquire a journalism degree. I say this because many people with journalism degrees as well as experience are unemployed right now, because of big changes in the publishing business brought on by online content and other factors.

As to:

> How does one break into journalism?

My advice is to prepare yourself to go in the front door like everyone else.
Offtopic:

Iceland? Really? They have angry vulcano's!
No. The US has had off-peak pricing for a while. Many appliances have delayed-start buttons so you can set them to run when electricity is cheaper and forget it.
The dart people seem to be focussed on getting it to generate code that is at fast as handwritten JavaScript. If they get there then you won't have to worry about a dart VM in a browser (won't happen in a non Google browser anyway). You still have really rapid development and rich debugging with the dartium browser (like notch) and you can use a dart VM on the server for faster than js performance.
How is $970 million more than $1B?
I'd expect the wealth-corrected data to make the EV owners look even better, since they'd be comparing them against households that use even more electricity than their baseline typical customer.

To be fair to the author, I think that they actually can't do the more detailed comparisons because they just don't know enough about the households in the study. At the end of the page, it explains that they don't even know whether or not the households actually have EVs, they are just guessing based upon their electricity plan. So despite the earlier talk of stats like "53% more likely to have a swimming pool", I suspect that this is gleaned from elsewhere and their dataset contains very little about the customers, and probably not enough to be able to break them down by income or other factors.
1/8 app sux, no audio
Email me: cyrus.farivar [at] arstechnica.com . Serious!
I suppose but then why not take into account gas usage between households?
you're using ocam's razor a little too fine. The abstract actually said they want the "dumbest" of "dumb" people. Since the Nigerian scams are so well-known, only the truly gullibles will fall for their schemes, and those are the ones the scammers want. Their reputations works as a victim filtering system to their advantage.
That doesn't sound like a good idea. Journalism is already one of the college majors with the highest percentage of joblessness after graduation, and you want to compete with those unemployed graduates without the degree or a body of work? Why?
This article only mentions VMware twice in the body, both in passing. The majority of the article is a comparison of KVM and Docker. Many of the points in the article don't apply to VMware at all, or refer to things that are KVM specific limitations which VMware has already overcome.

In fact, the article says "KVM has much higher overhead, higher than 40% in all measured cases." - saying nothing of "VMware-like virtualization" or VMware ESXi at all.

While it's true that containerized "virtualization" traditionally has less overhead than a hypervisor like ESXi, the difference is increasingly small and in most environments negligible, especially considering the added features and flexibility of ESXi vs containers.

From my experience and tests, the performance difference between an app in a container running on bare metal vs the same app running in VMware has been insignificant, so to say that there is a 40% performance penalty is probably disingenuous.
2/16 app sux, no video
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okay sry 3/8
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