skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having tried to drink from the firehose in the past, I can say that I have never once had a recruiter lead actually result in a job offer. It's one gigantic catch-22. The companies themselves aren't great at hiring, or they wouldn't need to use recruiters doing semi-random searches on linkedin. If you yourself were any good at interviewing, you wouldn't need to rely on the recruiters either. You're an unqualified lead that can't get a job on his own, which to a hiring manager screams "high risk hire." So you start the interview process in the negative column and have to really shine to get a job offer. But, if you were any good an shining in an interview, you wouldn't need the recruiter in the first place. The whole thing becomes a high stress waste of time.
Which just reinforces what a shell game all of it really is.
2FA doesn't normally send a password though, does it? Isn't it typically a one-time key?

The risk here is someone could intercept and set/reset that password, but the end user would immediately know that as they would be unable to set a password or login.
I rolled my eyes at the title after watching "Linux Sucks 2014" last night. I was pleasantly surprised to see an example comparison of init files.
If I remember correctly (been a while since I studied this stuff), the line leading to homo sapiens diverged before the Chimpanzee/Bonobo divergence. I've read a few things to the effect that humans show both chimp-like and bonobo-like solutions to conflict depending on the context.
If you cared about you job at IBM, you would have long left. They have been downsizing for ages.
As soon as you realise you won't. This will give your customer a bit of leeway in managing expectations, preparing alternatives or what have you.
Java Tutorial Through Katas
Saying you're a CTO of a company just came across as useful background information to me, but I guess different people have different interpretations.
For a second there, I thought it would be about a Command and Control Bot, and was really intrigued ....
Just shocked to see it, even on HN.
When small data pretend to be “Big Data”
It's nice, but too hard ...or too unforgiving. A little mistake early on means all your citizens but handful will die 60min later.

City building games like the Settler 2, Anno 1602 or Caesar III are more fun.
Ooh, yes!! I've actually been writing a little something like this myself, but way more incomplete and so on.

If you think either function or array is a type in Javascript, you have more to learn. (For example.)
Could you expand on effects which preserve extensionality some more? I'm fairly sure I understand it, but I've never quite follows what Harper's "benign effects" meant in detail and I'd like to see how it all connects.
From Wikiepdia:

>It has been hypothesized that bonobos are able to live a more peaceful lifestyle in part because of an abundance of nutritious vegetation in their natural habitat, allowing them to travel and forage in large parties.

So I suppose take away the need for competion for resources and the selective pressure for aggression reduces or dissapears.
We have the opposite problem where I work: everyone is in their 40s, kids, mortgage, etc. We cannot get kids to stay here even though we recruit them, they leave after a short while.

There's good and bad, of course, we have an exceptionally experienced staff but eventually we'll all retire. There may be a problem where we don't get fresh perspectives on our work but I'm not really convinced that's true. Maybe more of a problem in social/mobile/web but in product development it's probably not as much of an issue.
I would love to see a "practical" CBPV language.
Is it a bird, is it a plane?
I knew a very smart guy who got a job like this. After a couple of years he threw it away and moved to Brazil, after teaching himself Portuguese by hanging out in soccer forums and IRC channels. He teaches English now.
I thought it was clever; it might have even been the reason I clicked the HN link.

And I kinda doubt there will be confusion over whether you put together a rails plugin to facilitate paying money for airtime of a band's song.
MailChimp has blocked my newsletter. Help
MailChimp's 'abuse detection system’, Omnivore, highlighted my account and it’s since been reviewed by MailChimp's compliance team. I can no longer send my weekly newsletter!

I’m working on www.pillowtalk.io where I collate links from across the web to help couples have a better sex life. I’m not a scammer or spammer and everyone one of my readers have double opted in. The newsletter isn’t full of links to porn sites.. We mostly link to a variety of blogs, Reddit, Youtube, Amazon and Love Honey.

The newsletter is about sex, but it doesn’t include explicit material. Every week I reference one sex toy, and to be fair their ToS forbids “Adult novelty items or references.”

Quite simply, Mail Chimp can totally do what they want, but their ToS hasn't have been put into place because of someone like me… they’re there for spammers trying to hit hundreds of thousands of users with pornography or viagra links!!!

Has anyone negotiated with Mail Chimp after having been blocked before?
Does anyone here work at Mail Chimp and can enlighten me as to the process?

From your experience, will all hosted email systems have a problem with my newsletter?
If I have to move, would you recommend anyone specifically?

I’m a product guy and not an experienced developer. I’d prefer not to run my own mail server (yet..)

In the comments I’ll include the email they sent me along with a reply that I’m drafting. Does anyone have any improvements? ideas?

Really hope someone here can help!
Darren
Yes that was probably not a very good analogy. I was trying to highlight the fact that we're really good at getting users to do what we want (things, specifically, that hurt them and make us more money). So far, we (the tech industry) have put a lot of effort into tricking them to do what we want, now maybe it's time to trick them for their own benefit, rather than ours.
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I would be wary of posting what I think of IBMs business model here for fear of being sued...
Yes, America has pretty horrifying* leave policies. Most professional jobs in the DC area start with 15-18 days of personal leave (vacation and sick are treated the same) and around 10 national holidays. Jobs that pay hourly frequently don't have any leave at all - if you take a day off, you don't get paid anything.

And maternity/paternity leave is almost non-existent.

All of which leads to people coming to work sick, spreading disease, being miserable, burning out, and spending a fortune paying strangers to watch their babies.

* Horrifying by Western European standards.
>>That's why I don't like 2FA with SMS. How can you trust a password that's send in clear through multiple carrier.

Hmm, maybe websites should allow people to select an "encryption" format for the SMS. Something not too complicated, like a ROT13'ish type of thing:

"We'll txt you the code, but every 3 char should be ignored... or every 4th number should be multipled by 3"
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Hey MailChimper's!

Thanks for the clear communication in the MailChimp Compliance email I have received. The ability to send email from my account has been blocked. I regretfully understand as to why my account has been blocked thus far. Having said that, I have a few questions.

Pillow Talk provide a weekly collection of links from across the web to educate couples on how to have a better sex life. The majority of links I include are from legitimate blogs, Reddit, YouTube, IMDB and Amazon.

We’re not a scammers or spammers and every recipient has has to double opt in to receiving this email. I appreciate that your abuse prevention system Omnivore, has highlighted ‘content, keywords or activity’ that 'indicate the possibility of harmful information being sent through your service’ and I’d love to understand exactly what we’re doing that is inappropriate?

I was attempting to send issue 8 of Pillow Talk last Friday 17th October. I have used Mail Chimp for 7 weeks without any problems. Why now? What exactly has caused Omnivore to highlight us?

Our email is clearly about sex, but we’re not sending thousands of emails selling viagra pills or pornography! I understand why your ToS has been written the way it is, but I can’t imagine it's for small educational mailing lists like ours. I feel we have been bucketed with all the ‘bad guys’, but clearly we’re trying to educate, not spam!

In the last issue, I did include a link to a porn site— for an educational how-to video. I’m very happy not linking to porn sites if this is the issue? Please could you confirm?

It’s a really unfortunate kick in the teeth. I’m at the beginning of building a sexual education platform for the 21st century and already hitting institutional roadblocks and rules which are there to stop the scammers and spammers, not legitimate businesses trying to educate couples!

I please, please, kindly ask you to review your decision. I know you don’t have to at all! But, for everyone suffering from boring sex in the long term relationships, or for all the sexless marriages out there, this is a huge problem for millions. We need to get better at talking and learning about sex and at the moment the scammers, spammers and porn industry are winning because they’re making it difficult for anyone legitimate to make things better! Can you be part of helping stop that, please?
Holvi adds support for IBANs to help transform banking for European SMEs
I don't see how it is better than Amazon reviews.

Reader reviews are okay for the best sellers if you read a lot of reviews (but I find it tends to heavily skew towards those who loved the book, with a handful of haters), but I find it is pretty much worthless when it comes to average books which only have a handful of reviews.

I'm thinking of a more objective system. It could be based on reader reviews but would need to do something like making the review rank the book on a a set of criteria and then figuring out if the reviewer is trustworthy by cross comparison. eHarmony for books.
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I seem to remember the trauma inherent in the environment being identified as a causal factor. I can't remember the details now, but I think some of the individual chimps involved has suffered some childhood trauma due to the recent civil war.

Can anyone else remember reading anything similar? If I'm not mis-remembering, this is another similarity between humans and chimps.
There is a common trope floating around which says that some developers are 10x more productive than others. This has led to a lot of questioning of whether or not that is actually true in practice, what it means, whether it's possible to become a "10x" developer, and so on. The truth is that it's looking at the problem in the wrong way because it relies on the underlying assumption that development is like factory work, and somehow cranking out more code, or whatever measure you want for productivity, is more valuable.

The truth is actually far more extreme. Some developers are orders of magnitude more productive than others. The work they do is simply that much better and more valuable. This should be unquestionably true as there are several examples of very, very small development teams (sub 5 person sized) who have churned out incredibly valuable products. You can chalk some of that up to luck, especially in the case of games, but not all of it. The fact is, building software well, building software that works, that does something valuable for users, that is free of major defects, that is designed in a way so that it can be maintained and extended easily, and so on, those things are not just about how many lines or function points a developer creates. But those things can add millions or even billions to the value of the end-product, and they can be done just by one person.

Software is not factory work, nor is it strictly just engineering. The most important part of software development is a creative, artistic endeavor. And like all works of creativity the end result has an enormously wide variation in quality and value.

If you're doing very "shallow" software development (e.g. pumping out CRUD apps or CMS backed sites or what-have-you) then years of experience may not do a whole lot for you. If you have the opportunity to take on meatier dev work then experience is more than just learning some tricks and being knowledgeable in the frameworks and toolsets of the day, it's about deep skills. About how build things well, and right. How to communicate effectively. How to write truly self-documenting code. How to wrangle the complexity of the problem space and the implementation space while mediating for the user in a way that makes sense to them. And so on. Some devs in some jobs just keep adding to their skilsets as time goes on.
Wasn't one of the major findings after 9/11 and big complaint that law enforcement wasn't communicating enough and purposefully too siloed?
Often in a startup, we come across a phase where we need to make deals with several parties that can contribute and help us. The better organised the dealing is, faster the growth.
Dealswolf is a sales pipeline designed to help startups keep track, plan and organise their deals with simple Drag n Drop triggers.
We are here to make your sales pipeline simpler!
Yes, my mistake regarding 4-element dyadic train.
Does anyone know of something similar for Paypal?
Show HN: Extensive logging facility for iOS apps: database, Telnet, HTTP server
Is Samsung's newest Chromebook 2 the best value Chromebook you can buy?
I've had no trouble with this: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=nintendo+3ds+usb+c...

I've been charging my 3DS exclusively via USB for at least a year.
Regardless of the name, this is a Rails engine for Stripe integrations put together by the guy who wrote the book on Stripe integrations for Rails. Definitely worth checking out.
Act like what? Why should he conceal his position? This comment makes absolutely no sense. If anything, with this comment, you're projecting your own feelings onto preek's comment and trying to hold him accountable for that.

Being a CTO isn't a bad thing and there's no reason to insist he conceal it because it makes you feel bad.
It seems to me that in your case the relevant part is engineering, the standards are the real thing and programming is there to support them. This is not the case in my experience, where programming involves creating a new web site, a new database schema, a new game. There is little to no engineering on these fields, every day you see a newfangled "architecture" or "framework" or "API". EE is a much more standards driven arena, CS is not, IMO.
Is the Dark Mail Technical Alliance Dead?
Dark Mail[1] isn't the only attempt to secure email exchanges, but it's certainly received some attention, and I and others were curious what it would lead to and how it might help improve email security.

But the website is dead[2] with no DNS, despite the WHOIS[3] showing it was recently updated and won't expire until 2018.

The Kickstarter was updated[4] on August 28, 2014, which was just 2 months ago, despite some backers saying they haven't gotten their code[5].

- Is Dark Mail still a thing, or is it now a dead project?

- If it's still alive, where is a good place to follow the project?

- If it's dead, have any other email encryption efforts absorbed/incorporated its work?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance

[2]: https://www.darkmail.info/

[3]: https://who.is/whois/darkmail.info

[4]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative/posts

[5]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative/comments?cursor=7705576#comment-7705575
You could go to the train station (I've never bought a train ticket online there).
The publishers are taking a far greater proportion of profits leaving authors a far less proportion of the profits with e-books compared with hardcopy books. Amazon is attempting to increase the author's share of profits on e-books while reducing the publisher's share. This is what Krugman is criticizing.

From the article linked below:
$27.99 hardcover generates $5.67 profit to publisher and $4.20 royalty to author

$14.99 agency priced e-book generates $7.87 profit to publisher and $2.62 royalty to author.

Hardcopy: $9.87 total profit: approx 57.8% to publisher

e-book: $10.49 total profit: 75% to publisher

https://web.archive.org/web/20130713080118/http://aardvarkno...
The app code signing process provides some assurance that the app has not been altered.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi...

edit: but only in so much as you trust Apple, as they provide and verify the keys. But... assuming you're using an iphone, this isn't really a new threat vector.
I'm not really sure what attack you are envisioning here. If they have access to your e-mail client, they should be able to just lift your account credentials, allowing them to add a new PGP key to the key ring, then issue all the password resets and, if you want, change the PGP key back.
The History and Future of Everything
Wow, that seems almost unbelievable. Power 8 is able to beat Intel architecture by a factor of 0.3 at the same level of concurrency? Can someone offer an explanation of how/why this happens, but we're not all running Power architecture on our servers?
The fact that people should use good coding style is "more or less objectively true". I'm surprised that is the part you take issue with.

How is this dismissal overly simplified? What have I failed to take into account?
Instrumenting Om Components
In this case I don't think it matters because it's not offensive. Most people won't even make the connection to the other definition (I didn't know about it until now).

Thanks for making and releasing Payola!
Thanks for this, looks like it's going to be pretty handy.
Right now things are Stripe-specific for expediency, but there's no reason why Payola couldn't be extended to multiple payment providers, as long as they provide the same basic capabilities.
Interesting, thanks. How can you measure the popularity? "Several" doesn't make much of a dent in the Chinese population.
Birth season affects your mood in later life
What if, in a team-based situation, someone is off and half way through a feature. Based on your point above there's now two problems:

* Getting the stuff off the developer's machine because they didn't push their code.

* Even if the code is retrieved, now the commit log is a mess of commits that were based on nothing but arbitrary time lapses. It would be preferable they're a 'story' of the current development process for the feature and atomic in their own right.
I don't understand. Why can't I be angry about Apple artificially limiting what apps can use the service, and also indirectly limiting what apps can do if they use the service?
There's a difference between profit and revenue.
Billions of people. For sure.

This AM electrician comes over, guy in his early 30's (not an old timer) has a new iphone doesn't know how to sync and get the old stuff to the new iphone. Doesn't even know that Apple can help him with that. For computer things relies on his brother in law "the computer guy". Thinks Dell makes great "computers". "Don't they?" he says to me. Doesn't even really understand the difference between Mac OS and Windows. [1]

Point being there are tons of people out there that you could get to do practically anything. And they don't know the difference between one warning dialog box and another. It's just all a mashup to them.

[1] Add: By that I mean isn't aware that there is even a difference more than Coke vs. Pepsi is different.
Why not Cython?
Boxifier Syncs Any Folder Anywhere on Your Drive to Dropbox
Awesome! I'm about a month away from adding Stripe into my app.

Thanks for the work on this.
I've seen warnings about Google certs also, when not connected via VPN.
Reality Fiction
Seems like this is a little bit cleaner than using stripe-ruby + stripe_event + checkout.js. I've never tried stripe-rails.

I get the idea behind making this code async. I've never experienced slowness with Stripe's API, but I'm sure it happens!

One of the pain points for me is keeping all of my Stripe data in sync with my AR models.

Would would be helpful for me would be a generator for a set of ActiveRecord models representing all the stripe data, and have all the webhooks populate those tables(and maybe rake tasks as well to initialize things).
Sharing information have with other agencies within the legal boundaries (warrants generally) and in a transparent way is fine.

What is not fine is:

1) encouraging the police to do illegal mass surveillance of citizens, too, with Stingrays and other methods

2) use information obtained in an illegal way (such as NSA spying on Americans) to do parallel construction by telling cops exactly who to stop at check points because they already know through illegal spying that he committed a crime, and then using that in Court, and saying they find out about his crime at a regular traffic stop.
From what I've seen the biggest issue is that people do it for the money, which I think is likely the primary cause for physical abuse in the system.

I think sexual abuse in the system comes from the targeting of at risk youths, which is why Sweden disturbs me so much. Departmental reviews in England & Wales and Scotland report around 20% allegations of sexual abuse in foster homes, so Sweden having 42% suggest a severe lack of auditing of their carers for histories of abuse.

I think compounding issues are 50% of kids have a serious medical condition, 20% have mental health issues. So the stressors are significantly higher on carers, which in turn is why foster parents are paid so along with child care benefits generally a parent can be home to take care of the children.

The abolition of the orphanage system inundated the foster system, so we went from 1 person caring for 5+ kids to 1 or 2 caring for 1 kid. I don't think the orphanage system was necessarily better, but it would be much easier to eliminate abuses.

Honestly I think putting abusers through court ordered anger management and parenting classes would be far better than putting kids in foster care, because the fact is adoption rates decline with age and far too many kids graduate the system, because teenagers simply don't get adopted.

I think modernising the orphanage system would alleviate some of this issue. If teenagers aren't being adopted take the practical approach where they can be in an orphanage, make friends and have a social worker who's invested in their progress, which would mean the foster system would need lower financial incentives and thereby you would get more kind-hearted people and less people wanting the money.

It's a supply and demand issue essentially, and subsidizing demand always inevitably leads to problems.