skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they're using different sugar? Cane or beet sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
Who is the designer? Did you outsource this part to a freelancer?
I came here to say this too. Basically your only hope is to understand the ephemeral nature of software, and place your long-term bets on standard formats with the understanding that no digital application and workflow will survive more than a decade. Even dealing with just data you have to be prepared to convert and modernize. Digital media is new, and its lossless nature has fooled people into thinking it's permanent, but without careful planning to refresh both physical media and formats, it's far more volatile than historical media such as books.
I'm no expert either. Honestly, I was just guessing. I observed that Apple was sticking with 1 GB of RAM for the third iPhone model in a row, and figured there must be a good reason. But maybe they're just being cheap because they think it doesn't matter.
I've known many violators of this "rule", male and female, on both sides of the equation. It's profoundly insulting to all parties concerned -- especially those on the younger side, but well into adulthood (i.e. in their mid-20s or above). Who presumably, according this "rule", must be too naive, or too needy, to appreciate the fact that their older partners must be "creeps."
> This isn't scientific, but if I don't have another philosophy to go off of... (emphasis added).

That's all right as far as it goes, but you need to consistently remember that what you're doing is not science, it's philosophy.
Failed at what?
Why billionaires are launching into space
In this case, being able to Google how to fix a slightly-misconfigured Apache and Tomcat counts as passing the test with flying colours. Becoming a Google-Certified [whatever] Engineer at the drop of a hat is something we regard as a serious positive in a sysadmin. Open book tests are never easy.
From experience a pla cup with less than 100% infill will "drink" it's liquid into its interior and have to hope like hell that it hasn't been drinking milk or a substance that rots similarly.
This is Intro to Systems homework at UChicago (the course is heavily based on CMU's equivalent.) You're given a personalized binary that asks for a series of passwords to complete each level. If you get a password wrong, it phones home to a server run by the professor and decrements your grade.

The point is to teach you to reason about assembly using GDB. You can pretty trivially set a breakpoint at the phoning-home routine so that you never actually lose any points; then it's just a question of thinking and reading hard enough before the deadline arrives.

Levels range from very simple string comparison, to arithmetic, to pretty weird tricks.

It was about the most memorable homework assignment I've ever done.
And for minute-by-minute information:

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_8/from_date:0,report...
All About That Brace (all about That Bass Parody) the Woodlands TX – HILARIOUS
ES6 Generators Slide
Fwiw, speedypups dev(s), I had trouble running this on my motorola xoom tablet. The loading screen appears, "the loading..." bobble letter animation runs, the little monster in the left gapes, however, the game has been loading for twelve minutes with no end in sight.
I don't know if anyone else noticed this during the Dotcom / Mega / NZ Internet Party broadcast when Assange was on, but I got the impression he looked sick. He looked hagard and sick.

If I was really pissed at Assange, and I had the power of the state behind me, I'd do a quasi-Alexander Litvinenko on him.

Drill through the walls and pump something nasty into the embassy until he got so sick he would have to leave of his own volution to visit the hospital, or die.

Nasty cough that. Of course this [1] Russian propaganda 'news source' is talking crap, but he must be starting to wonder about his health stuck in that little box room.

Or maybe he just has a cold and I have an overly active and vivid imagination.

[1] http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/05-01-2012/120158-so...
UDT: Breaking the data transfer bottleneck
Introducing Armchair: An App Review Manager in Swift
Show HN: Find All SHA-1 SSL Certs by Domain
I have 5 younger siblings (ranging from early teens to early 20s [8th grade on]), and everyone in my family has a smartphone so here are some scattered thoughts.

It's always interesting to see what apps they have pinned or what they use the most (snapchat, instagram, twitter). Generally with tech-related stuff I'm the most knowledgeable and up-to-date family member, but I completely miss the train when it comes to social apps sometimes. I think this is because I'm older, geographically isolated from young people, and grew up without a cellphone at all. I definitely had a phase where I was obsessed with joining things ASAP (remember Pownce?), but I feel like I've been done with that part of my connected life for a few years. I use instagram, but don't follow anyone except immediate family members or close friends, I have 0 exposure to the super popular "celebrity" accounts because I rarely use or search for hashtags. I still don't use Snapchat, and recently one of my brothers was shocked that I didn't use Venmo.

A particular thing that I've found really odd is that I have trouble getting a text response from my siblings, even though I know they have their phones on them and are constantly snapchatting, or whatever. I text a lot, but maybe get one response for every 5-10 texts I send.

I think the one extremely consistent app in my family is Spotify, although it's fairly rare for any of us to use its social functions. From my parents down through all the kids, everyone uses Spotify quite a bit.

The younger siblings don't seem to care about or understand data limits as much. To them, the internet is everywhere, what do you mean it's not free?
How to Hack Yourself a Class
RAILSVIEW.COM is FOR SALE
"SELL RUBY ON RAILS THEME AT YOUR OWN PRICE"
https://flippa.com/3262182-sell-ruby-on-rails-theme-at-your-own-price
As a candidate, I'd much rather they ask; I find that companies that don't ask for code are almost by definition unlikely to ask the right questions. If you must screen candidates for skillset, the less you have to rely on a proxy for that skillset the better off you are. As an employer, I find code samples irreplaceable, and I'm comfortable screening out candidates who decline to take the challenge out of principle or limited time.
Is there anything comparable to Yahoo's BOSS Search API? Does DuckDuckGo still use it?
Show HN: An Uncertainty Calculator
Days Since It Rained
Really great apps just downloaded them all. I've picked up turkish from my wife but it's still great to get more practice. Only suggestion is the right-ward swipe on cards to dismiss them as well-known should trigger earlier - I find myself having to swipe further than I feel I need to in order to dismiss the card. Otherwise great work & thanks for sharing
For those interested in animal intelligence, I recommend watching "A Murder of Crows", a short documentary about crow intelligence that's available free online. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/in...

Crows are one of the only other animals that can make and use tools. In fact, crows probably spend more time building their tools than any other animal than humans; they carefully clip the limbs from a tree branch, whittle it down, and fashion it into an effective hook. The documentary also shows some intelligence tests in which crows perform almost as well as human children.
When you conclude the <category> has <trait> you are implicitly assuming that the elements of that category are somewhat representative.

If you only saw some pigeons sitting an the wire it would be better to conclude that pigeons sit on wires because the assumption that those pigeons are representative of pigeons is much more reasonable than assuming that those pigeons are representative of birds.

For a more contrived example I could do a study and conclude that liquids are poisonous. Technically true but extremely misleading.
It is open source, and we changed the frontpage to make it more clear.

Regarding structr.org/structr.com, I agree. We will make structr.com the commercial site in the future while turning structr.org into a site for the community.

And on the sales pitch: It's somewhat intended as we need some commercial customers from time to time, not being backed by big investors.
> Unfortunately, as science becomes the hegemonic source of authority in our world, pseudo-science becomes the preferred language for demagoguery and bullshit.

Very well put.
Yes. In general I still don't think it's fair play to not admit when confronted, but the fact that the prankee was also a pranker, and ultimately said "well played" and characterized the earlier denial as "OP and gf played it cool" means that OP was just calibrated to the prankee's expectations.
Buddha seems to bring tranquility to Oakland neighborhood
you don't need an app for this, you need to read more books. Not about expanding your vocabulary, but just quality fiction novels. That's how native english speakers broaden their vocabulary and your ability is clearly far enough along that most books will be within your grasp. From what you wrote your vocabulary is fine, it's the nuaces of grammar where your English would be improved by reading copiously.
I would go with yes. It's much easier language to learn and understand as a beginner. The hardest part is learning all the iOS libraries to be honest.
I did all the UX design myself then passed it to the very talented Yoshini who made it pretty.

yoshinig.com
Hi, author here, I just want to say that if you happen to know more correct uncertainty propagation for scientific functions, please submit a pull request.

Also, this is aimed at undergraduates, so it ignores covariance.
Its not hoop jumping to ask a candidate to directly demonstrate how they would go about doing the actual job they're applying for. If you were interviewing a cook would you hire them having never tasted their work? I doubt it.

The way I do this is the real coding test is only administered to final candidates. That's a bit kinder since only a few people with a serious shot at the position end up having to commit the extra time and since we observe the whole process (and discuss) it doesn't waste tons of our time either. Whiteboard and discussion can reveal a lot but IMO there's nothing so revealing as actually watching someone work.

As an aside I would much rather be interviewed this way than at a whiteboard. At least for me there's a certain amount of my programming skill that's nonverbal and flows easier for me at a keyboard.
I would recommend against buying this app. Here's what will happen, as happens with every bit of Panic software -

1. You'll buy it

2. You'll do a quick test case - yup, it works

3. You'll love it because it works and looks damn good

4. Panic will never enhance the app

5. Panic will rarely, if ever, fix bugs in the app

5a. Panic will release "bug fixes" to reset their poor app store rating without actually fixing any bugs

5b. Panic will give you a craptastic recipe for clam chowder in their update notes

6. Panic will never properly support newer iOS versions or devices

7. Panic will release version 2.0 - MAYBE adding a trinket of functionality and possibly more bugs
Yeah, but one would have to gather that data manually.
Totally crazy tangent but:

I don't understand misogynistic guys who say awful things about how dumb / shallow / whatever women are and then in the next breath talk about their sexual interest in them. I mean... if I thought all those demeaning things about women, I'd have a tough time being sexually interested in one. I'd have to go asexual or gay.
But the book claims to "cover all major improvements between Versions 5 and 11". :-)
How did it identify you as a student? Couldn't you alter the routine to bomb someone else's grade?
I wish software would stop supporting FTP. It's a clear text protocol. Everything is sent in the clear text. Anyone on the wifi hotspot, any one listening at your ISP, all the way to your host knows exactly what you're uploading or downloading.

Someone asked for FTP support for our product and I said no way. We'd support SFTP, but not FTP, and neither really should anyone else. People don't want FTP, they want to transfer their files, but they're lazy and don't understand the security implications and they're going to keep using FTP until software changes.
I'm placing my bets that WebRTC startups are going to usher in Web 3.0
I'm placing my bets that WebRTC startups are going to usher in Web 3.0.

What's your bet?
This is a very tiny sample of all data sent to Mixpanel from iOS devices
Reorganizations?
Hey Amarok, Image Occlusion addon author here. I'd like to meet you in person (can't reply to the comment in which you mentioned me). My email is in my profile.
A faster Rubisco with potential to increase photosynthesis in crops
Though I think targeting FISA laws etc is a better idea and asking Eric Schmidt to leak things like FISA requests was a bad idea, the claims reminded me of the anti poaching scandal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623873

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8156005
It seems like there's a lot that could be done to curtail the use of cell phones in prisons that wouldn't require invasive body-cavity searches. Couldn't you just jam common cell phone transmission frequencies? That'd curtail guard use of cell phones, too, but that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.
I see. That would work I suppose, but at that time I couldn't think of this.
Thanks. I think I can probably get a talk out of that at an upcoming lab group meeting now.
Have a look and see if there are any Regus office buildings in your town/city. They have an inexpensive membership card that lets you make use of their business lounges. The Regus building I tried wasn't amazing but I would imagine they're all different so may be worth looking at?

--Matt @ WFH.io (https://www.wfh.io)
My standard library does not contain any such rule. I therefore consider such a rule to not be common sense/knowledge. Please /define/ what you consider the 'standard' rule to be.

Offhand, yes there are situations that I realize qualify as such (usually the gold digger style scenarios), however I have never heard of an actual logically applicable /rule/ to quantify that emotional sentiment.
Here's a size comparison I posted in another thread, but still relevant:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/LG-G3,App...

Having now used my LG G3 for only a couple of days, I can't imagine using a phone much larger than this.

Dear LG: Please make a slightly smaller version of the G3 with a lower resolution display (for battery life and app compatibility) and you have the perfect android phone.
Did you try to implement your own behaviours? Or processes that aren't behaviours as such but still function correctly in supervision trees and in applications?
I have mixed feelings about this sort of thing.

As an interviewer I've done something like this when needing to hire for a very straightforward job with very little time and an effectively endless supply of candidates.

This addressed the problem of our time crunch, but I doubt it helped the selection process overall.

I think this sort of testing is subject to all the same issues as most any other method of interviewing, but limited to a much smaller sample size.

Basically, it's arguably good for the interviewers and a coin flip for everyone else.

As an interviewee, I haven't encountered a test like this, but I expect my response would almost surely involve questioning the architecture decisions that led to such a problem in the first place.
> If an explanation fit all current observations and predicted future experiments why is it not correct?

http://www.tylervigen.com
Are you hiring security engineers? I would think stuff like this would be expected knowledge in the field.
The point is that you'll only get applicants up to a certain level. Once an applicant has enough skill and knows it, and also values his time, he'll take one look at your 14 hour challenge and laugh.

So in the end you're only hurting yourself because you'll mostly get naive and easily manipulated people who are fine for the lower ranks but absolute poison once they move up. That's if they don't wise up and leave first, costing you time and effort to find and train replacements and scramble to rediscover and distribute the lost knowledge they left with.

But then again, such a long duration challenge is already very telling of the company culture. If you can't respect other peoples' time, then your company is already on shaky footing.
No, I'm arguing the current system is immoral because it is based on theft. You seem to be OK with theft, so it's OK with you. But I have morals and it's not OK with me. Hence it needs to be changed.

Amazingly you think tips are nasty and degrading but you're OK with taxes, when I've spent several paragraphs equating the two.
ScriptingBridge which was a layer to formally connect other languages to OSA is still there (unsure about 10.10), but neglected. It was introduced in 10.5 along with official support for PyObjC and RubyCocoa in that release. Apple also touted being able to do the same from Objective-C.

Other 3rd party language bridges such as LuaCocoa and JSCocoa provided ScriptingBridge support.
Seems like this sort of test should be very effective at finding people who are already reasonably good at the job you're hiring for, but gives you little to no information about how quickly they learn, their willingness to try new things, etc.

Given how fast things change, even if you imagine the person staying for only a year or three, learning abilities are nontrivial.
> Also the thing with Instagram following ratios is frightening. My brother talks all the time about following and then unfollowing people to trick them into follow you, it's all an unnecessary popularity game (I guess I was never one to understand popular people though).

It is interesting and the article touches on a reason Snapchat is so popular is because it gets rid of the whole non-judgmental aspect that occurs in FB/Instagram.
Your Inbox as a To-Do List
iOS 8 Adoption – Live
The maximum dose is quite high, but does the effect also occurs when consuming more sane dosage a day?
X-lab Phaser.io game, just launched
Companies are spending record amounts on buying back their own shares
If I answer without touching the computer, do I pass? :) Google DNS comes in handy!
That is a core primitive in Cloud Haskell but not the only one - you also send and receive data as in Erlang. distributed-process-platform provides Erlang style supervisors, gen_server, etc. It's all there and very much captures the features and spirit of OTP in a powerful static type system.
Considering Apple has been locking down the system with App Store distribution and Gatekeeper (and sandboxing), the attack vector risk will probably be constrained.
You're interpreting "rule" as some type of prescription. Such as "it's a rule to not accept a date after Wednesday night, etc."

That's not how it's used in "Creepiness Rule". In this case, "rule" is a synonym for "heuristic" or a prevailing generalization[1].

But saying "Creepiness Heuristic" doesn't have that snappy and headline-friendly sound to it that the "Creepiness Rule" does.

[1]See definition #2 at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule
Oh, that's a bit disappointing. I thought Cloud Haskell was focused on developing actor-pattern abstractions like lightweight, concurrent threads and fault tolerance. Serializing functions seems like a real red herring.
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I apologize if my comment was rude or insensitive. It looks really nicely done and I can't wait to try it once the iOS 8 install has finished breaking my phone.
Twitter Fixes Flaw That Allowed Unauthorised Deletion of User Credit Card Info
Thailand was never colonized.
I'm completely with you on the social platforms. I think school provides a certain set of situations where social networks become very important to groups and personal growth. I remember being active in IRC, forums, all manner of instant messaging and chat platforms even MUDs. Now I'm so far removed, and so far from a group think of peers, that those social networks just don't feel relevant.

On text, your absolutely right, text used to be the way to get a hold of the younger crowd, but now I have 9 active chat clients installed, everyone wants to use their own network where there friends or business is. I installed SnapChat, Secret, a few others, poked around, deleted them.
Does this offer the same functionality that SwiftKey offers on Android? SwiftKey has been the best keyboard I've used so far on any phone.
You know that some banks and financial institutions still use FTP - they simply PGP/GPG encrypt the files.
It's cool to see this kind of stuff. I used simulated annealing for my thesis on cellular network optimization back in college. Haven't used any algorithms like this since then, but they have their uses.
I don't really know what to say, they've been updating and supporting Transmit forever.
> Real-life tests are THE best thing to send job candidates

I agree, but only if you're allowed to use references/google/etc and given a reasonable amount of time to accomplish it. I've had a "real-life" test where I wasn't allowed to verify or look up information, or where I'm giving a very short time to execute, and I've always thought those were absurd.

The idea that you would ever have to do something like this in a bomb-diffusing type of scenario with no internet and a ticking clock, would only test if you have already solved the problem before, not whether you could investigate a new problem.
Or even a livecd with no other storage attached.
Some mockups of iOS on an “iPhone nano”
Certainly, as user:psychometry pointed out also.

In this case, as a sysadmin I was pleased to be able to show my chops in a realistic test. And our previous hire was also quite pleased to get a real test. But of course, there is potential to abuse it.
> Please /define/ what you consider the 'standard' rule to be.

youngest_age_you_can_date = f(your_age) = (your_age / 2) + 7

The inverse function applies to find the oldest person you can date without it being creepy.
> the millionaire has access to investment options unavailable to "normal" people and therefore should still be able to grow faster even in proportion.

But the millionaire also needs bigger opportunities. It's much harder for Warren Buffett to find billion dollar opportunities now, than it used to be for him to find million dollar opportunities.
You can totally do that in Cloud Haskell - serializing functions can be useful too but it's not the draw for me.
Yes, you could already do Lua (see LuaCocoa) and other languages like Python (PyObjC), Ruby (RubyCocoa/MacRuby), and even JavaScript (JSCocoa) via ScriptingBridge way back from 10.5.
I agree that no one should be using FTP anymore. However, this is a problem for server admins to solve, not Panic.
wait, can i send zuckerberg whatever messages i want through this? how much would that cost?
Collection of Go articles
The parent was responding to your blanket skepticism of "we won't close the doors", not "everything will stay the same".
Three things that make the experience of developing in Elixir completely different from Erlang: Tooling, libraries, and actual language features (that aren't just skip deep).

Spend 5 minutes developing an app in Elixir and you'll realize why it's not just "only syntactically different" from Erlang.
This was a good confirmation for how much I don't miss high school.
Yeah, this is an open-book test.

Of course, there's tests like user:B5Geek's, where the candidate gets a PC with a slightly-unplugged network cable and has to realise this fact.