skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do some work on Elance as a writer. The only item in my "portfolio" on Elance is a short 500 word piece on why looking at portfolios is worthless. A few reasons:

1)There is some portfolio fraud. Every once in awhile a job listing pops up from somebody who says they are looking to be a freelance writer and need samples for their portfolio. It probably happens even more often but I usually filter out listings from India, etc.

2)At least on the writing side, most Elance clients forbid you to use the work you do for them in your portfolio. This means the work you see is usually work they polished specifically for the portfolio and is not indicative of their normal work.

5 star ratings are a dime a dozen on Elance. At least on the writing side the convention is that anything less than 5 is a serious knock on them. If a person is merely competent then you usually don't leave feedback at all.

And please don't take the advice of the person saying to ask the proposal writer to put a keyword in the proposal. A lot of good people take that as an insult. Do what you do and only look at proposals that address the requirements. That is what my portfolio piece says people should do instead. Look at the strength of the proposal and not the portfolio.

By the way, if you are ever looking for a writer for any of your websites feel free to contact me at the email in my profile.
This shows that blog spam is worse than useless, it actively contorts the real news itself. It's always better to link to the original source itself, but those tend not to have the catchy headlines that the blogspam articles provide.
This presentation looks like it's going to be on another level.. even for Apple standards.
Most reporters are lazy or pressed for time or both and don't fact-check. This has been a problem for some time. Many articles are also generated by software or thrown together by minimum wage workers to generate clicks. This has also been a problem for some time.

As a consumer of news, you always have to keep that in the back of your mind when you read news.
Sequencing Ashkenazi reference genomes illuminates Jewish and European origins
> and because the actual cost of processing each transaction is ~$25-40

Where did you get that quote from?
Thanks. I guess I really do not need to take a look at Clojure, no matter what excuse I put forward.
How can I watch this on windows if I don't have Quicktime installed?
Don't you ever lose focus for a moment? I do. Especially with 35 tabs open.
> "if they could be getting the same for less elsewhere"

Maybe it's because they can't get the same for less elsewhere
>just said that sleeping in a van for 6 month is the worse thing to do,nobody can to tell me with a straight face that one should do that,especially in winter.

Once again, as I've written in my other post, known a bunch of people who did it, some very willingly and rationally. Far from "the worst thing in the world." Why don't you talk to some of these people and ask them their experiences. Perhaps not your cup of tea but don't speak about everyone.
Do people use their metro cards only on the subway? How common is that? The one thing to keep in mind is that a metro card acts as payment for all of these modes of public transportation:

MTA Staten Island Railway
MTA Bus Company
All PATH stations
JFK-AirTrain
Westchester Bee Line Buses
Roosevelt Island Tram
NICE Bus (Nassau Inter-County Express)

You can't really say that the MTA is out to steal money from you or hiding how to optimize your top ups, because not all of these cost an even $2.50, and MTA doesn't even set prices on all of these. Maybe you can write it off as paying for convenience, but the 5% bonus adds up since cards can last over a year. You only really have to worry about the amount on your card the last time you top up.

Even if you only take the subway, if you put at least $50 on the card, you're playing with house money including the bonus. A group of tourists can easily reach this over a four day weekend.
Turnover is high. During my previous 6 months in India, I lost 2 pants, and pair #3 is dying. (My semi-girlfriend is telling me to replace it while I'm in NY.)

The backpack contains only a laptop, phone and tablet. I don't have massive amounts of data - I don't photograph every meal as some people do. When my stuff breaks, I pay a lot of money to fix/replace it.

Legal documents are stored with my parents in the US, except of course the passport.

I have no allergies and need no medication. The only tool I own is a leatherman multitool - I rarely need it, and it's good enough when I do. I don't use paper.
Linux From Scratch [1] is the de-facto standard in building a Linux system from the ground up, with more detail in CLFS [2]. You can look at Buildroot [3] as a model for embedded systems. SLAX [4] is a bootable embedded distro with tons of friendly documentation, and is a derivative of Slackware that also uses buildroot/busybox.

[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ [2] http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ [3] http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ [4] http://www.slax.org/
But what are we describing then. I like to see org, HTML, asciidoc, and XML as taking any data, in a very moronic basic sense, and annotating it or reshaping it for different kinds of parsers to accept.

Am I missing the mark somehow in your comment?
Ok then. With that and since they've almost certainly designed a device and worked out the logistics just in case I'm quite willing to believe they could get a number of boosted fission devices assembled in less than a month.
Apple.com/ has been redirecting to apple.com/live for about ~20 hours now. They're very confident about what's about to be presented.
A large part of the reason we have so few women in STEM is because of the toxic work culture that surrounds it. We also lose graduates once people decide they have better things to do than deal with sexist assholes all day.

I'm all for encouraging more women getting into STEM, but this needs to be a two-pronged approach. Without dramatic improvements to tech culture encouraging more women to study tech is mostly pointless.

FWIW, my engineering class was ~85% male. My working environments have been consistently 95%+ male. The industry is doing considerably worse than academia.
A friend and ex-cow-orker of mine had a nice little space in the ceiling tiles in one of CMU's machine rooms (probably late 1970s). He had a bed, a microwave oven and some other creature comforts.
Interactive 3D graphing on the web, with IPython
Working at early-stage as a new grad
Agreed.

Plus all of the places running it incorrectly are well known for being tabloids. Engadget used to be respectable years ago, but not really now, and The Register, DailyTech, Gizmodo/Lifehacker (same company, Gawker Media) are all pure tabloids of the worst kind.

But in general Tech' is full of garbage news sites. They just seem to make more money since they can attract more views for spurious stories.
Small point, but the MTA vending machines are not 20 years old. They are among the newest most usable touchscreen devices I've encountered. Bright sensitive screens with large touch targets.
Thanks for the great feedback! Some other users mentioned confusion about "Done Reordering" as well so I'm looking into ways to make that easier to find. I like the idea for changing the color of the left side menu.

Additional sections are in the pipeline behind bug fixes and improving DOCX support.

I agree with pressing ENTER to add the skill and I believe it can use the same mechanism as is currently being used for capturing TAB. I'll look into adding that soon.

Lastly, versioned resumes are a killer feature requested by a few others that I'm hoping to add in the future.
You're at the wrong event then.
Also, who cares what field she says she's in? She's clearly making a lot of money on her books, why doesn't isn't she considered primarily an author? I don't think it's a problem that there aren't enough women who say that they are programmers. I think the issue is gender bias in the workplace seemingly causing a lack of women in technology rolls.
Build a SPAM filter with a SVM and R
I believe you are proceeding about the job hunt in the wrong way. Don't go through the online process.

Find an employee who is already at the company you are interested in. This is one place where linkedin shines, but if you are interested in SV startups, try angellist. Contact them. Ask your questions. If there is further interest, ask for an intro to the hiring manager.

Don't play the game.

For more: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/basics1.htm
TCP and UDP is all you need. (And the UDP can actually be quite broken, just not completely)

We've created weave networks spanning hosts on EC2, GCE and local data centres.
Use VLC, give it the livestream URI (inspect element on the QT inset).
Wow, they're going all out for this one. Lots of new things they haven't done in past keynotes. Can't wait to see what they show off.
See medium.
I did something stupid with the timezones and fixed it this morning. I'll be pushing a patch out with a few other fixes very soon.
How many readers of the actual article on Register, Engadget, BGR, DailyTech etc. are going to be reading this correction?
Even if you are indoors most of the day, the weather outside can make a huge difference on your mood.

It also encourages getting up and taking walks every now and then, which has various benefits (both mental and physical).

I lived in Seattle for six years. The environment is gorgeous. Lots of trails for hiking, ton of greenery... the thing is though, the weather made me not want to go out. And that can be horribly depressing.
Some Javascript developers would love to have support for first class continuations, but the Javascript engines would need to implement several changes to make them practical.
It's a nice coincidence that I was trying to find something like this, I was originally going to use nginx+lua to do this job. However, zimg doesn't let us use a custom short url, so to make a website like imgur it would require nginx frontend, which defeats the purpose of using it over nginx+lua in my situation - does zimg's ability to use LUA allow us to get a key from redis which gets the SHA1 of the original image to then use the image storage?

Also, does Zimg provide a way to expire images if they haven't been used in 1 year - and if there isn't enough storage for anymore images, it deletes the last accessed image to create room (I know this can be done in nginx, maybe nginx is still the solution I need)?

Great project!
Yes, it was "already established" that hair caused drag.

That is why this study was so surprising. They found that hair decreased drag.
They've been using a '301 MOVED PERMANENTLY' redirect, meaning they are extra serious about this.
government pay is terrible (for us software types)

government contracts are another story...
As a CTO, I imagine you're legally responsible for all sorts of stuff. Having your name on corporate documents and such, there is all sorts of responsibility for things!
Typically the financial institute is responsible for any fraudulent charges on their customers' credit cards. The cardholders of the affected cards would probably have a hard time justifying that they were negatively affected by the breach.
DOCX exporting is available right now but it's still very limited. A lot of users have reported issues with it today. But a big goal of mine for this month is to improve DOCX exporting to the point where it works for ~95% of resumes built on the site.
Use any iOS device if you have one. Or use one of the streams on Twitch... http://www.twitch.tv/search?query=apple+event#stq=apple event&stp=1
It's incredibly difficult to fire someone in a large company, not to mention you basically just have to "hit your numbers". As an example if you go work for a company like SAP or Oracle, you can literally coast along on a 9-5 (sometime unpaid overtime can happen) and make $80k+. The real problem usually ends up being the ability to get in (depending on role).

Source: I worked as a support consultant working for SAP and the amount of 9-5'rs who just skated by was shocking. I got paid well.
I still have hope :)
[Off-Topic]: The 12:44 pic might as well be a Starbucks ad (8:44 PDT)
The weather in the Bay Area is essentially perfect. The scenery is beautiful, and you can see the ocean, the desert, magnificent forests and the mountains all in the same day. It doesn't get too hot, it doesn't get too cold, it rains only for a few months out of the year, and it never gets very humid. Living in the Bay Area makes you spoiled and lazy because it is too comfortable. As the piece [1] by Mary Schmich (and again by Baz Luhrmann) says, "Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft."

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su...
Soon, but not this event!
Actually, there was no category theory at the ML workshop. And the particular complaints you made were based on misunderstanding Andreas' joke, and on being annoyed that FP people are playful while being an "elite ghetto". The particular example of someone who makes a joke, Simon Peyton-Jones, has spent the last several years pushing computing into every elementary school in the UK.
I'm secretly hoping for some extra-wacky 30th anniversary Macintosh, kind of like what Jony Ive created for the 20th.

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

It's a little sad that the Mac hit 30 this year and all it got was a special web page to commemorate the event.
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What I learned from failing at my first Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Freelancers are good for menial design jobs but not for complicated scalable architectures, or apps. They just don't care enough about your idea to put their best in it. You only work 20-22 hours a week you have all the time in the world to develop a great product on the side.
With the Schiller X1, cyclist becomes seafarer
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I'm not sure, but you can try these (should work on Android): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming#Supported_p...

Here's a test stream http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopgear1.html
Even on Solaris, ZFS doesn't have a great reputation for performance.
Thanks! LinkedIn importing is done within the app, which is also why some users were running into issues with it yesterday - so many unique profiles to import (: I've made a few patches yesterday, looking to make some more today.
Run for Congress...

No accountability, don't really have to do anything, high salary, no real job requirements except age and citizenship, not a lot of work expectations, and if you are an incumbent your re-election rates are 90% for House and 91% for Senators.

Perfect fit.
I remember that too. Very impressive, it was.
This does sound the best so far :)
By and large I have concluded that except in extraordinary situations that job doesn't exist. Sure a lot of people will look at job from the outside, not knowing what it entails, and make statements/generalizations about it requiring no work to pull down some big salary, but having been on both sides of that window my experience was that it was an illusion.

That said, at an abundant salary and a young age, you can go the mr money moustache route. Save your way into an early retirement. That is probably the easiest thing to do, then any money you make from working is just 'bonus' and you can take jobs that pay less, don't challenge you much, and are perhaps less stressful. I expect you will get bored though.

The situations where you can get a sinecure (the name for the job type your looking for) is when you are in a relationship with the ownership and simply your presence is valuable enough to justify your salary. Some very large names in a field for example can get by with just having their name on the employee list as their 'value' to the company. You can also find spots in companies which are actually covers for a differently funded activity. An acquaintance of mine worked at a restaurant which was used to launder cash from some criminal group. There wasn't a lot of business so they didn't have to do a lot of work, but they got paid anyway. Granted it was at a much much lower wage but I expect there are larger companies with similar alternate agendas.
Any chance we can keep all Apple discussion on HN contained in this thread?
Gruber has a spot on wrap-up: http://daringfireball.net/2014/09/prelude
A few (about 3) years ago, the company where I was (in Europe) did make money doing hosting over housed space.

We did hosting (dedicated and virtualized servers), managed services, and re-housing, this is, rent again the racks/power/IPs which we did rent on different providers.

If I'm true, I think it did work very well because the company did get very big projects, because the company management did have great agreements and contacts with high environments (local government, local banks, football teams, newspapers, etc).

That is, I as a technical person, do not see myself starting from zero the same AND getting the local customers we did use to get. And much less global customers.

I can assure the systems part of the project budgets, did make great money. Even more profitable on maintenance status. The worse on the company was sometimes, the development team's estimation and execution balance.
Wall Street is going to be disappointed if there's no Singularity.
Target does this, and now most recently Safeway Grocery stores do too. Others as well.

It really bothers me because you have no way to verify they are only checking your age, and not looking at other information and/or storing information about you.

Everything necessary to steal someone's identity is in those barcodes, and with retail stores not treating sensitive data like Credit Card data properly (and resultingly leaking said data), I take great issue with them now wanting to scan my driver's license.
In that case, readline was not a loadable module. A comparison that does use loadable modules is the FSF's GCC project. The FSF resisted implementing support for loadable modules in GCC for a long time under the belief that it would allow the use of GPL-incompatible modules. It was not until LLVM made it a moot point because GCC itself could be replaced entirely non-copyleft code that GCC gained support for this. Linux kernel module support analogously permits loading modules that are under GPL-incompatible licenses.

Note that I am not associated with the Debian project and therefore I was not involved in the discussion referenced here.
The best part is that if someone said Steve Ballmer wrote the BSOD message, people will believe him because he could cite 10 sources, not knowing that those sources all stemmed from the same incorrect source.
1.) You're assuming that the script was running on a vhost, we don't know.

2.) Even if the script is running in a vhost, if a listening port is specified but not an IP address the SERVER_NAME will be the IP of whatever the interface the http connection came from was.
Twitter adding a Buy Button for its Mobile app
I don't think it's a big deal either, but it's harder to argue that it's not a dark pattern at all. I promise you there is a non-zero number of people who are filling up with cash and throwing their cards away when they reach the error "insufficient funds". At least there is some transparency about the fact that those people are really throwing away $1 because the cards themselves unambiguously cost $1.
It certainly refers to that phrase, but of the two elements of that phrase, "treasure" is used pretty literally ("blood" for "lives" is, I supposed, slightly figurative, since the issue isn't the blood itself.)
That's cool! I'll check it out. I've had one or two other standard themes suggested to me, and I think it could be another killer feature to help make these easier to create.
I'm in a position like that right now. And it is driving me crazy. Sure the pay is good. And the responsibilities are well-defined and reliable.

But the challenge and enjoyment is not there. I find myself working like crazy after hours to carve out a new career while still maintaining the income of the day job.

The balance between stressed-out and challenged can be hard to strike. But I know that for me I need to be challenged to be enjoying my work life.
I see. So if a gay female only looks for other females, are they sexist?
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I get a number of errors when I attempt to do lookups. Company lookup gave me an access denied
Can't wait to see the new iPhone 6, time to change my old iPhone 4 :)
Correct me if I'm wrong. IIRC, there isn't a status code for temporary moved *with a timeout. If you use 307, it means the browser will always still check the original apple.com first, then get redirected to apple.com/live. Using 301 would make browser go to apple.com/live directly which improves response time. When the event is finished, they can do a 301 on apple.com/live back to apple.com to overwrite the rule.
Taking YesGraph in a New Direction
That's not CraftBukkit. That's the API.
> The tests showed that shaving his legs reduced Thomas’s drag by about 7 per cent, allowing him to exert 15 watts less power and still go at the same speed. In theory, that translates to a 79-second advantage over a 40-kilometre time trial that takes about one hour.

Shaving reduces the drag, but the originally study measured the reduction around 0.6 percent while this one found a 7 percent reduction. So, about 10 times bigger than anticipated.
Interesting, are you employed or self-employed?
You may be interested in Phoronix[1] linux review site. When I used to follow it through RSS more diligently, I routinely saw filesystem benchmark shootouts such as this[2]. I'm not sure if there's a more recent one than that, but there are more recent benchmarks of Btrfs and ZFS against prior versions of themselves so you can see improvements (or regressions).

1: http://www.phoronix.com

2: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_313...
IEEE IoT Newsletter – September 2014
Every time you “growth hack” a marketer facepalms
Bugs exist. Report them. Doesn't change the intent of asm.js to be immune to buffer overflows.
Download Odin for Android devices
100% serious. The definition of girl is "A female child".

To refer to females who code as children while at the exact same time NOT doing that for males who code is sexist.
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Seems like step 1 is to become a thought leader in a field respected by all, and then parley that respect into a cushy job at a big company. Sounds ideal once one gets there!

Probably the best way is to look a list of sinecure's (thanks for the word, by the way!) and work backwards from their work history.
Sickeningly me and a few friends each played the Game Cube incarnation of PSO I & II for over 100 hours offline
If you divide the miner rewards by the number of transactions processed in each block it works out to $25-40(usually closer to $40) per transaction that miners are paid.

Though almost all of that cost is spread between everyone holding bitcoin not the person doing the transfer.
> Then how about "wealth"

I explicitly stated that as an alternative, so I'm not sure why you would ask that in response.

> I wouldn't call a tank "treasure".

Since treasure refers to a collection of valuable objects, and a tank, as such, is generally a valuable object, that's true -- one wouldn't usually refer to a tank (or a gold coin, etc.) as "treasure", though one might validly refer to a collection of things that included, among other things, one or more tanks that way.
You know that actually happened in the past?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
This website says that live streaming requires OS X or iOS.

Why would they only allow already-customers to watch their presentation?

Locking out non-customers seems not the best way to get some.
How Not to Use LinkedIn for Business
Why would you ruin a perfectly good browser with JS support? :|
302 is a temporary redirect.
Thanks, that was one of them :)