skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually am interested in seeing resumes that list more than just languages. E.g. if I see something like this

Linux (GNU textutils, LDAP, ...)
C/C++ (STL, Boost, gdb Archer, Cint)
Emacs/Elisp (Org-mode, ESS, IPython, Haskell-mode)
Python (Numpy, Scipy, rpy2, Matplotlib, Django)
R (ggplot2, rgl, etc.)
...

I'm more confident that they actually know the stack of technologies related to that language.

I'm not saying it's worth it to kitchen sink it, but rather that if all they're using is the most vanilla editor and environment, then they probably haven't learned the importance of tools.
When was your grandfather born? He and his generation may very well have been eating what today is labeled "organic food".

Factory farming is a relatively new phenomenon that has swept the country in only recently, and with phenomenal speed.

>> In the 1930s, 24 percent of the American population worked in agriculture compared
to 1.5 percent in 2002; in 1940, each farm worker supplied 11 consumers, whereas in 2002, each worker supplied 90 consumers.[23]

>> The number of farms has also decreased, and their ownership is more concentrated. In the U.S., four companies produce 81 percent of cows, 73 percent of sheep, 57 percent of pigs and 50 percent of chickens.[24] In 1967, there were one million pig farms in America; as of 2002, there were 114,000,[25] with 80 million pigs (out of 95 million) killed each year on factory farms as of 2002, according to the U.S. National Pork Producers Council.[23]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming

And that wiki article is missing a lot of information that's mentioned in Pollan's book and the film Food Inc.
There's ChiSec for security people. Also, IIRC, tptacek is organizing a 'security for pentesters class'
The value of the 'stolen goods' here is easy to peg - it would have cost $.08 per page to obtain it legally. Whether or not the item is "worth" the price charged is not a matter for the court to decide.

But in another way you're right - piracy is closer to counterfeit than theft. The original item is still available to its rightful owner to sell, although the copy arguably dilutes its value.

(An old roommate of mine got busted by the FBI for large-scale piracy, so I'm more familiar with it than I want to be.)
Bill Waterson's Calvin & Hobbes poem introduced "defenestration" to me when I was young young young: "The monster, in his consternation,
Demonstater defenestration". Its such a great word, and he was such a brilliant person, and a great inspiration. (sorry, completely off topic)
"... Presumption of guilt? ..."

From what I've read here they (fbi) are doing simple background checks and want to talk. An interview/Talk doesn't imply a presumption of guilt. Having said that the fact that the "pacer" usage may have been excessive & someone has complained means anyone with excessive usage is going to be looked at.

There is no black and white here but shades of grey. The records probably should be in public hands. The means used so far might be illegal. The tussle is "public access" vs "payment" and the action taken is making the right waves to hightlight the need for the former ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html
>Did anyone else think this one had a little more interpretative language, though? "sweethearts" "nails in coffins" or "schizophrenia of people’s racial attitudes" all seem to distract from letting the figures speak for themselves, and given the explosive potential in the figures I guess the less editorial comment the better.

Agreed. I have alternative interpretations. "sweetheart" -> "desperate," "shitty" (used to describe white guys who don't answer) -> "in a position to be choosy." Naturally, the more replies you get, the more picky you'll be.
While this is an interesting analysis, I don't think you should be labeled "racist" if you aren't attracted to people of races other than your own.
The problem is a vast number of people don't bother with the consideration stage.

(I attribute that to trash media personally; but that is a vague thought I haven't considered it too much)

EDIT: pop psychology. most people are massively influenced by society. Society "on average" would probably judge such a statement as containing racist overtones. Gut jumps in because racism is an issue that we attach strong emotions too (rightly). It takes a strong Head to overcome emotions like that.
Put a '-f' in your shell script, to force the overwrite
I had to make some minor changes to get it to build under Ubuntu 9.10 with Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2. I pushed them to a GitHub fork here:

http://github.com/mbrubeck/c-repl
The rules of the market change quite infrequently and even your algorithms will be quite poor at predicting market panics and other changes that deviate drastically from the rules. Such predictions still require a holistic approach that only well trained humans are capable of. If you think I've helped make your case then good for you. I was simply trying to clarify my stance on the issue and at no point was I trying to be correct or incorrect.
I'm in Baltimore area and in Philly and NY areas often enough. I too have similar aspirations to make it out to the bay area eventually with gf. I was just in Lake Tahoe area (and SF) for climbing last week.
Well there we go... hate to say it but I feel bad to have cut Larry some slack back in the submission last week.

Anyone with 10 minutes, wikipedia, the US copyright/trademark website and a bit of thought could have worked out they had no real claim on the name.

Having minor experience in a similar matter I emailed Larry with some info I found useful at the time... I wish I hadn't now, and that sucks.
Ask HN: Best practices for community-edited site
I'm brainstorming an idea for a site that relies on contributions and edits from the internet community for content.

On one end of the spectrum you enable anyone to edit the page without any controls in place for moderation and for undoing garbage edits. On the other end of the spectrum you don't let anyone edit anything except for their own content (which isn't even collaborative editing).

I'm interesting in the middle ground.

Wikipedia, for example, lets anyone edit most of the pages (some are locked), and there are extensive revision controls in place and tools for limiting and blocking IP addresses.

With DotSpot, you sign up for an account and can then comment on webpages. Other people can edit your comments, after you've granted them permission.

And from what I understand about Mahalo, each page has a single editor that is in charge of its content.

My goal is to make it easy for people to edit and add to the site, but I also want to make it as difficult as possible for someone with 4chan-like resources to cause trouble.

What else is there? Any recommendations?
No it isnt', there are plenty of languages you can program the iphone in. Straight off Apple supports C. Then a lot of people have added support for other languages.

All these have been advertised on here.
Housing costs are not always a necessity. The mean sq. footage of a house in the United State went from 1,655 to 2,215 between 1978 and 2008. Did people develop the necessity for larger and larger houses? Or did they want larger and larger houses?

I'll wager on want over need. American culture is too often focused on coveting what others have, and showing off success through the display of material goods. The one case that can be made for larger houses is the number of persons per household increasing from a mean of 2.67 (1987) to 3.88 (2008). What do you all think?

True, it's harder to cut down the cost after making the mistake of buying more house than can be afforded. Myself and plenty of other Americans instead chose to buy more affordable, if less desirable, houses. For us, a large house is not a necessity. (I live in a 900 sqft condo)

Sources:
[http://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf]
[http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2008/tabA...]
[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/15/us/average-size-of-househo...]
When I began writing small programs on my calculator 10 years ago, I claimed myself a programmer. Now that it became my job, I usely say I'm a developer.
But the truth is I've always considered software development as a kind of crafting activity, where you can build something totally cool starting from a blank page using unlimited resources (well, almost).

When I design and write a complex piece of code I like to imagine it being transposed in a different crafting domain, e.g mechanics. Writing your own software is like building your own car. You design the blueprints, you create each part one after the other (the chassis, the engine, the transmission, ...), then you assemble it and you see how far and fast it can ride. I like to see my numerous projects on my computer as as many pieces of (un)finished robots and gadgets in my workshop.
Well, you could watch the video. Seems to work pretty well.

I hate flash, but compiled flash might just be ok.
Why don't you put a '--double-check-my-command' on yours?
We do this on daz.com, and use a single check on edits, users with more karma check up on users with less, people can not verify edits from within the same class 'A' address as the original edit.

So far so good, in quite a few years of operation not a single deliberate act of vandalism. It's slowly getting larger and more complete.

By opening the floodgates I'm sure the number of edits would explode but so would the spam problem. We're not in a hurry.
I'm not sure I really get this sort of comment. Is a mac really such a hurdle relative time, effort or monetary cost?
Honesty.

I think I have read one utterly honest CV (out of about 100 in the past year) - it was one of the less thrilling ones too.

He's a great employee.

(I know that's not what you were asking - but it strikes me as a useful tip. And yes, I know it does depend on the employer :) sometimes honesty holds you back)
I don't see how anyone's more likely to use a new policy specification language better than they are going to use a toolkit designed for their own web framework.

This can be an http header, so an admin or senior can configure the whitelist once at the server layer and everyone in the org reaps the benefit, even if your development toolkit has problems of its own.

CSP disables <script> tags and all the script element attributes.

I don't do much front-end work, so correct me if I'm way off, but I was under the impression that the only reason to use script elements today was to either load your own scripts or to hack around the same-origin policy to load 3rd party scripts. That use case still works under CSP, as long as the site you're loading from is in the whitelist.
On my four-year-old "Pentium D" workstation, it's not quite instantaneous but close enough for interactive work.
Preparing for the digital afterlife
Apple has approved an iPhone application from Vonage
From daz's FAQ: After several positive edits you will reach a level in which you can also upload pictures, add reviews or even add samples.

Who decides what is a positive edit? I'm assuming you started off with a few people who approved contributions and as the new people earned points, you granted them the ability to decide for future edits, yes?
I doubt if people can build apps on windows "yet" until there is official blessings from Apple itself

application signing and testing on iphone simulator, phone provisioning and developer profile for iphone, debugging, profiling all need a mac, xcode and friends

the machine shown on the video was a mac
You can find an Intel Mac Mini for ~300 on eBay. Its not terribly expensive or hard to get set up.

All I'm saying is that you may still need a Mac if you intend to put your app on the app store (or on your own device if you don't jailbreak). You need a Mac because Apple hasn't released the code for the codesign application; only a binary that runs on OS X only.

The codesign application is - you guessed it - responsible for signing an application's binary to run within the iPhone's sandbox. This usually done automatically by Xcode when you build for the device (for debug or distribution).

Adobe hasn't made it clear how they handle this step yet. They may have reverse engineered codesign itself - so you can develop on Windows. Or they may have just looked at what Xcode does when signing with codesign and duplicated that - in which case, you still need a Mac for at least your final step (submitting to the app store) and should really have a Mac before that step (to test your app on a real device). Especially since you can't use the iPhone Simulator if you use this for your iPhone app.
Automating Drupal Site Rebuilds With Drush
The Unofficial Cool Parent Test
This was a comment to the Okcupid post:

> A lot of dating and who a person would consider for relationships is based on social, cultural and economic considerations, and it’s a simple and unfortunate fact that generally speaking whites are at the higher end of the social and economic spectrums.

I just wanted to call that out in case anyone has been taught that way, but not had a chance to think it through clearly. Becoming successful doesn't make the rest of humanity less successful - it makes them more successful.

It's not a "simple and unfortunate fact" that Vietnamese people immigrating to America revolutionized nail salons and made them affordable to almost all women while making themselves wealthy.

It's not a "simple and unfortunate fact" that many of the greatest American scientists of the last 100 years have been Ashkenazi Jewish.

And so on. It's not unfortunate when one group of people is succeeding - it brings up all of the rest of humanity. One group of people succeeding is not unfortunate; others failing is unfortunate and we can work to rectify that, but never feel guilty about succeeding and prospering.
A link to someones web presence
Shuttling PC Data at the Speed of Light
"... Tom was a motorcycle enthusiast, visiting many different countries on his bike and posting pictures of his travels on his blog. He was also a member of Friends Reunited and probably "a myriad of other sites" 0f which Rawling is unaware. She describes his continuing presence on the web as "eerie", and would like some of the information removed."Normally you get in touch with friends and acquaintances and colleagues and let them know what's happened," she says. "That gives you closure and stops you being contacted in future and asked how you both are. But to my knowledge, there's no way of doing that with the web. ..."

Lots of other problems as well. Paid existing accounts expire, it could also be a way to create new digital identities. A modern day adaption of identity theft used in by the Forsyth character, "The Jackal" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal
Nice - do you know Alex Housley? I've done a little bit of work with him and the Rummble.tv folks.
It is beside the point of what people are looking for when they ask someone, "What do you do?"

Also, FWIW, it conveys for me not passion, but self-infatuation.

Perhaps it's a matter of what to do when someone asks you a basic question. Simply tell them what you think they want to know, or tell them what you want them to hear.
Yes, i know Alex and Andrew, they are both good friends. You did the new Rummble intro right? Amazing work!
Freakonomics: More on "Paying what you wish" as Pricing Strategy
That one doesn't require having a policeman behind everyone's back, at best it means that someone is going to be looking at the most blatant instances of "$product is awesome, best $category evah!!!1!!!" posts and calling around to see if the blogger received compensation or product. I'm not sure but I think an FTC investigation has power of subpoena to get at payment records, etc.

So basically, you need to make sure that if you blog about a product or service you received for free; that you disclose the fact that you received it. The fact that it's backed with a very stiff fine somewhat underscores the seriousness with which the FTC views deceptive marketing tactics.

I hope that the people tasked with enforcing this are allowed the discretion to apply their judgment to individual cases. Because I can see this being missaplied, and I can see considerable confusion. And certainly, no one should be on the hook for $11,000 for saying they like their local pizzeria because they once had a coupon for a free pizza. On the other hand someone who is an authority in their field knowingly promoting sub-standard products because they are getting paid should be held to account for their misrepresentations.
I think it's much ado about nothing. Some smart students couldn't really give two shits about their grade, and then they'll write essays about Debbie Does Dallas (I've been there.) If you're bright and a good writer and you care about how many points you get, then you'll write a technically strong, boring essay about vanilla subject matter and you'll get a high score no matter how dim the grader is.
Do you think Apple would take issue with making Flash controls look identical to their own?
I am not sure. How can I be? There aren't many examples of this existing and something like this would have to be answered empirically. If it is roughly as good as more common structures, then you might have an uphill battle because those other structures have the benefit of other people's experience. To succeed it would probably need to be an advantage of some sort.

In any case it is worthwhile (for society) having as many such experiments happening as possible.

In many senses, you might say that you are searching for a non coercive socialism.
Why Have Tablets Flopped? Here Are Five Reasons
They can't even get Flash to work well on the desktop. Video performance is abysmal. Sure, it's possible that they'll get their act together for the mobile versions, but it seems unlikely. And that is a very good thing.
You can write your own porcelain, if you please. It seems a lot of people would like it, actually.
Agreed. Are all non-bisexuals "sexist"?

Maybe by some strict definition they are, but not in the ordinary sense we use the term, and to expand its definition to include those sorts of preferences might dilute the moral case against racism and sexism.
Whoops, my bad. You're right, I forgot about the module system of Lua 5.1. Guess I will have to refresh some clusters of memory around here :o)
Interview with Scott Wheeler, co-founder of YC-backed startup Directed Edge
I have to admit I've never poisoned someone to cure their cold.
The intro is in Romanian, but don't worry, the body is in English.
How did Paul Krugman get it so Wrong?
I am afraid this is the predictable consequence of the Fed orchestrated monster credit bubble. These private equity players, through investment banking and other financial intermediaries are able to borrow close to the low Fed-orchestrated rate, while the companies they buy could not access the same cheap money, without which there is no basis for these deals. It was the "Age of the Financier" and every such age ended in mass misery. There is a reason all major religions prohibit usury, and in most traditional societies, making money on money is viewed with discomfort. After all, as the biblical story has it, Jesus chased the money changers from the temple.

The past 25+ years have been a mass redistribution of wealth towards the financial class, discouraging real capital accumulation in favor of playing games with money. This is not a free market at work, as some of these fraudulent "Wall Street Capitalists" would have you believe. Without an ever-accommodating Fed, , they would have been wiped out a long time ago.
About two weeks ago, there was a thread on Krugman's Op-Ed http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803793 in the NYT. This is a response to that op-ed by a fellow economist.
> You can’t merge upstream changes into your local, uncommitted modifications

If you're just hacking around, shouldn't the procedure be to have a branch specifically for that and keep master clean for urgent work?

Confused.
"American culture is too often focused on coveting what others have, and showing off success through the display of material goods."

Agreed, but its not just American culture that does this. The type of conspicuous consumption you refer to was one of the major ideas behind the economist Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. He claims that it is human nature to emulate those of a higher economic class through wasteful spending. Interesting stuff.
Almost: I started reading, and stopped when I got to the sex analogy to see what the comments were saying. I have no intention of going back and reading the rest.

I really hate analogies in general because they always come up short. Of course, the degree of this depends on the one making the analogy... I'm not saying there's isn't such a thing as a good analogy, but they seem to be few and far between. The sexual reproduction vs. idea/execution bit... not a good analogy.
"The only valid objection I see is that there needs to be some process to protect the privacy of the people involved in the case."

There already is: you can file documents under seal or in redacted form. Most courts require you to do so if you're including information such as social security numbers. See, i.e. http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/invitationstocomment/documents/s...

Nothing that's available via PACER couldn't be read by walking down to the courthouse and requesting the physical file.
Yes I did - thanks! I actually did the package for FOWA London 09 as well, which can be partially seen in the Kevin Rose vid. http://vimeo.com/album/132400
The "unfortunate" comment seemed to be directed at the relative inequality, not the fact that whites are "succeeding". I think it's pretty tough to make the case that economic and educational inequality in the United States along racial lines is intrinsically a good thing, particularly given the historical context.

Inequality may be the least-bad outcome given the menu of potential remedies ("Harrison Bergeron" and all that), but it's not a great thing in and of itself. Particularly given the historical and occasional modern-day evidence of straight-up racism (see: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_9_20/ai_10452... ), I think it's reasonable to at least scrutinize situations of high inequality to figure out whether they are, in fact, just caused by some people working harder or being more lucky or what have you, or whether there are actual problems.

On the merits, though, I think OKCupid's matching algorithm (the questions) theoretically accounts for the social, economic and cultural differences - what their data shows ("suggests" is probably more appropriate) is that people react to race even after controlling for the other factors, which is at least interesting.

Edit: just to clarify and follow up - here's my claim: if the relative dominance of Ashkenazi Jews among American scientists, or Vietnamese women among nail-salon entrepreneurs, were the result of, say, discrimination, or government subsidies at others' expense, or some sort of other external factor that made the "competition" unfair, then it would be fair to categorize that inequality as "unfortunate". As far as I'm aware, that's not the case for either of those examples (and in fact is somewhat the opposite). But if it were (and the author of the original comment we're talking about seems to make that assumption about whites being better off on many socioeconomic measures), then calling that inequality "unfortunate" wouldn't be out of line.
It's a _little_ better if you pronouce it Droo-pie.
Running Goes Barefoot
I personally wouldn't suggest that you can get by with great execution on a crappy idea (or crappy execution of a great idea), but given the author's past history, one could easily make the conclusion that it's mostly just sour grapes. And while reading about truth is a good thing, I find it's not worth the read if the truth is wrapped in overblown angst and already-beaten-to-death accusations.
Yes, exactly. It's a tiered system, we started off by giving a few trusted people 'level 2' and little by little it grew.

We didn't want to babysit the thing all the time.