skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great tip: HR is just matching technical words they don't understand as a filter. They also do this for titles. So they might be looking for a "Project Director" but think you are a poor fit because your last title was "Founder". And for past employers. You may have done marketing at Intel. They will see Intel and think you were an engineer. Etc.

Also, peer interviews are very important and often the least thought through. Try to connect to your potential co-workers. That is where qualified candidate usually stall.
<sarcasm>What an actual topic for hacker news community! I bet this topic will go to top 3!</sarcasm>
I have to say I REALLY like what you did with the inputs. That action is really cool. I thought the spec said that buttons with just text and no background or borders were discouraged as they looked too unactionable?
Micro connected display
Boop Lets You Send Self-Destructing Animated Messages
I agree that my concern may be misplaced and everything could work out fine. I'd categorize myself as "cautiously optimistic" about these laws still, but wanted to bring this up since I don't see much discussion about it.

Additionally, I almost brought this up in my original post, but decided against it, but "lawful content" is another phrase I commonly see in the same discussions. IANAL, but my understanding is that unlawful != illegal. "Lawful" means the subject is specifically addressed and permitted by law, and "unlawful" is anything else. So traffic can be legal, but not lawful.

My biggest fear is that we in the tech community will rally behind a net neutrality law which sounds good in theory, but ends up a nightmare in practice. Phrases like "ISPs will not be able to filter lawful content" are nowhere close to "ISPs will not be able to filter traffic". I'd much prefer the latter in a net neutrality law.
Dual core Cubietruck (Cubieboard3) is a good alternative (cons: pins are 'non-standard', i.e. they are placed too close to each other).
But quad core (US made) UDOO is better choice for you, if you are in US, since you'll pay less for shipping. Plus, it has Arduino on board.(cons: 1gb RAM, no VGA output).
Both models sport reg size HDMI ports and both .
A simple way to edit Host: header so that it doesn't necessarily match the url host part used to get to the site.
Debugging name based virtual hosts configs via editing host files is a huge pain point for me.
First, if you believe in policing and the justice system at all, you think it's a good thing when the right person is punished for a crime, even if it's a small punishment for a small crime.

I think it's silly to have such a black and white view. Whether it's a good thing or not depends on the actual situation, that is, if it's actually likely to have a positive effect on people's lives.

That doesn't mean the cops shouldn't have arrested him - it's their job to uphold the law - but I don't think much was gained by having him arrested, no.

Second, it prevents the wrong person from being treated as the problem. Without immediate hard evidence that video gives police, both men could easily treated be treated the same. They could all spend a couple of nights in jail. That's a good win.

Well, sure, we can invent hypothetical scenarios to justify anything. But if imprisoning everyone when the situation is not clear is a method frequently employed by the local police, I'd argue that you have a different problem to fix.
Light theme please.
I'm not going to ignore your opinion as a result of your not being American; I'd say that foreign perspective is very useful in such discussions.

I do however take issue with the ad hominem attack on the President. It's not necessary, nor constructive, to lay down a blanket criticism like "[he's] an utmost failure."

The "surveillance state" does exist, but it's a global phenomenon. In the US, at least, it's something that we're actively fighting, and the government is not shutting down dissenting opinions. The same cannot be said for countries like China, where the government's control depends heavily on the citizenry not questioning it.
Yeah - the general FCC structure is in place, but it sounds like the regulatory structure/principle is still being worked out. I suspect that it will be just another political football for a very long time, though...
He still has 2 years to work on legacy and narcissism[1], he still has the Executive Order power which he's shown a keen interest in using, "net neutrality" is low-hanging fruit for him to boost his popularity, and there's still enough tacit supporters in Congress to get supporting legislation thru. There's going to be a whole lotta bills reaching his desk that he won't like; now's the time to start trying to drive the agenda & process toward maximizing favorable ones so he doesn't end up with the "roadblock" label.

[1] - you don't get to that level of power without substantial self-confidence and the desire for general adulation.
check out the wandboard for a lot more horespower:

Quad core Cortex-A9, 2GB ddr3, 2 mSD slots, HDMI, SATA port, and all the bells and whistles.

http://www.wandboard.org/
At the federal level more so than state/local.

The feds have had free access to everything for a long time, what you're likely to see after utility conversion is the local cops demanding access to all ebay/CL traffic for an entire city to track down stolen property fences or similar actions. Give me a list of everyone in my district who ever bought lockpicks or lockpicking stuff.
Quoting the FAQ also makes for some boring reading.
The very strong competition in (for example) Germany was enabled/created by strong regulation.

US ISPs have managed to fend off regulation and thus removed competition, resulting in monopolies or at most duopolies in most areas.

Competition and regulation are not opposites.
I'm neither American nor British, though, I'm from continental Europe.
Yes, British Telecom is forced to lease out the lines so that other companies can act as ADSL based ISPs.

However, if you want cable into your house you only have one option: Virgin Media. Since they paid for and created all the cable in the first place.
Compare the Bush-era level of surveillance intrusiveness with the Obama-era level.

You'll find that what Bush started, Obama has drastically developed, distributed, and expanded.

Under Bush we had increasing levels of surveillance which were undesirable, but the veneer that it was still all about terrorism could at least be believed. Now, we know it's targeted specifically at us for the purposes of exploitation and domination of us.
He implies a nice middle road: don't automatically fall back to SMS, but inform the user that the recipient cannot be reached on iMessage and SMS must be enabled if you want to talk to them.
And most recently he was an MD at a VC firm that invests in early stage internet companies: http://www.core-capital.com/portfolio.aspx.

It's pretty disingenuous to note his lobbying for cable companies in the 1970's and 1980's, before they even entered the Internet service business, while ignoring that his most recent connections are to Internet companies that ride on the infrastructure built by the telecoms.

Also, CTIA represents wireless carriers, which are under a different regulatory umbrella than telcos or cable. To the extent you can infer bias from Wheeler's work, the strongest inference is in favor of a bias towards Internet companies, not a bias towards telcos. Of course, I wouldn't characterize him as biased, but rather as someone with experience with the "full stack."
"My take is the devs doing these ports just aren't doing their best to optimize these releases for Linux and/or OpenGL."

Pretty much. Platforms with 1% of a user base don't get priority over one with 90%. Especially when a significant number of those 1% users also have access to the 90% platform.

Linux is only remotely worth it if you're a small indie and want to get into humble bundle. Aside from that there is no financial incentive to support Linux. Lots of devs jumped on the linux train due to the promise of SteamOS but those efforts appear to have been largely wasted.
Right, this is the press release/announcement:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-model-a-plus-on-sale...

Aside from the price drop, what's the educational benefit? Were kids asking for more GPIO and other uSD options?

(Not trying to be a wet blanket, I love dev/eval boards and have been using them for a long time. But my teeth still grind when we all brag about the educational benefits of the RPi but the only results we see in the real world are robots and XBMC clients)
Can someone please explain why this is useful? (Just curious. I’m sure it is useful, I just can't see how ^^)
You know you can do this with the CSS inspector in Chrome, without any extension, right?
A really small thing that would be immensely useful to me would be a quick way to to copy or save as plain text a full HTTP request & response, with a little bit of nice formatting to make it human readable. I often find myself passing this data along to API developers via email or chat to debug issues.

I can always just copy and paste directly from the request inspection dialog, but that loses all of the useful formatting, making it hard to parse, or requiring me to go in and add line breaks if I want to be nice to my fellow developers.

Small, but it's the sort of detail that makes for a nice, easy experience.
An extremely common misconception. Human nature does not mean that our behavior is permanent, set in stone, fixed. Our biological bugs are not our humanity, nor are our biological advantages. We are quite greater than our biology, and we've proven again and again that we are capable of improving upon it.

I'll just throw the whole institution of "education" out there as an example.
Angelina Fabbro introduced this tool on a Web developer conference in Hungary [1] a couple of days ago. Here is a short summary as far as I can recall:

- a couple of decades ago alert() was used by pretty much everybody for debugging, even her :) [2]

- most of the developers use(d|s) Chrome for web development

- this is the first serious dedicated tool for web developers which is not just a browser plugin

you don't have to close a million tabs during development

- they worked together with the Firebug team, there will be no duplicate functionality in the plugin and the browser

- seamless Firebug integration. You can switch between Firebug and default theme, it will not break your workflow

- NOT a new browser which you have to support, same engine as in Firefox, nothing new or special about it

- multiple profiles

- developer friendly default settings like enabled experimental CSS features, etc.

- UX improvements for changing config, like switches for features, so you don't have to dig about:config

- support debugging Android, even the iOS simulator or attached device real time

- the dev team is really looking for feedback, they want to make web developers' life easier and put in features based on feedback

- there will be no built in REST API tester tool like Postman REST Client at first, but I was not the first dev who asked for it, so they will consider it for sure

- it will replace the firefox dev channel

- themeable

- much stable than nightly, but you can try out experimental browser features, so it's a good compromise

[1]: http://instagram.com/p/vIiNp_vRXD/

[2]: https://twitter.com/hopefulcyborg/status/530033632636055552
What? The correct behavior here is to realize that the target no longer supports iMessage and return to non-iMessage behavior. This should involve swapping the UI from blue back to green so the user is aware.
An AI powered personal travel assistant
http://nipunbatra.github.io/downloads/files/cv.pdf

LaTeX source here: https://github.com/nipunreddevil/cv
Using ТРСС to study Firebird performance
Nice reference to Prufrock
Is it even reasonable to use a raspberry pi for production? Wouldn't you want to go custom with an electronics manufacturer at some point?
Here's a direct link to the docs on enabling the experimental tracking blocker in Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...
To be fair, the messenger bag is pretty rad. I bought it and it's one of my favorite accessories. For my commute and for travel, it's nearly perfect.
Not quite the "whole" point. It's not so much about accountability as not demanding customers pay more based on content; not being accountable for content is a consequence of not analyzing that content for whatever reason. It's about customers getting the bandwidth they pay for by not throttling the content they're requesting.
I signed up as premium user for using offline notes in my phone, I dont really use rest of the premium features.

I was a free user for a long time. The annual cost is reasonable and I want to show my support to the evernote guys by being a paid customer.
To me, it seems that any building that would have value as a target for terrorism is so thoroughly documented by tourists and official photography that it makes no sense for a terrorist to actually risk their neck ahead of time by visiting the site. All of the necessary planning is likely most easily accomplished with high quality maps, satellite and ground images that are available online. I don't see restricting photography in public as having any deterrent effect on terrorism whatsoever, and the practice strikes me as the product of a completely naive view of modern security.

So I would argue that it's not really a tough choice in many cases. Don't, in the name of terrorism deterrence, harass people for doing things that don't impact the odds of a terrorist attack being carried out. All you end up doing is highlighting to the public the downside of terrorism defense, which ultimately probably lowers its approval of those defensive measures general in the long run.

Terrorism is an enduring threat, and to defend against it in the long run to the extent that is even possible, authorities need the public on their side. Hurting public sentiment for terrorism defensive measures increases the odds of the success of future terrorist plots. It's important only to do so when you get enough return in terms of lowering the probability of the success of future terrorist plots to compensate for the cost.

And this doesn't even take into account other factors outside of terrorism defense. Single factor cost benefit analysis should be enough to dissuade anyone who actually cares about deterring future terrorist attacks from frivolously harassing the public in the name of terrorism deterrence.
I don't really know why you're getting downvoted. That's a great answer to the question.

The article is about how we over-analyze and over-optimize and look for a distinctly obvious purpose in everything in an effort to ensure productivity. I think it's funny that most of the comments here are doing exactly that with the article -- trying to analyze it, refute it, and determine the exact conclusion the author is trying to state. Should we stop being over-productive? Be less productive? Try to find balance? Maybe we should simply continue to pursue productivity, but at least understand what we're doing, rather than pursuing it blindly?

Honestly, it's probably some combination of the above -- and it's probably subjective and dependent on the reader. The author doesn't simply state the conclusion -- because there is no obvious conclusion to the article. It's just a bunch of observations that allow the reader to reach a conclusion him/herself.
AppDirect Acquires Leftronic (YC S10)
Udoo isn't bad, except the creators seem to be far better at making hardware than maintaining a linux distro. I've been banging my head into a wall trying to get a non .deb based disto booting. Their kernels are stuck on 3.10.x and are not even current 3.10.x, they're over 6 months without any changes by the Udoo team. Their U-boot is very old as well and has been pretty customized, but the way they do their git repos makes it difficult to determine what commit they started with and what they have modified (they didn't fork the repo, they started fresh with an "initial upload" of a finished and working u-boot for their custom ubuntu image).

Anyways -- I'm looking into checking out Wandboard now, as it seems most of the distros that have ARM releases now cover this board natively (no hackery required).

http://www.wandboard.org/
> middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be?

Sneakily, except for the reams and reams of writing the National Socialists had written about conquering Russia to use their land as Lebensraum, and how that was the whole point of their war.
One thing that is guaranteed to occur, is that the US Government will regulate the Internet to a greater degree every year that goes by. It's what they do with all segments of the economy, and that regulation has been accelerating for decades. Tech had been largely spared, but the Feds have been increasingly pushing their nose into every area of tech the last decade.

What will ultimately happen, is the government will regulate the Internet so tightly, it will become extremely difficult, time consuming, and costly to create a start-up (while the technology cost will continue to fall). This process will not be fought by the existing tech giants, because they will think they benefit from it by limiting competition with artificial barriers. It's the exact same thing that has played out in every other major segment of the economy, and it's exactly what is about to happen to the Internet. These days will be viewed as the unregulated wild west, when you could spend $50 and create a start-up without hardly a concern.
There are many great things in this announcement, but I wonder if "a feature that protects those users that want to be free from invasive tracking without penalizing advertisers and content sites that respect a user’s preferences" will prove to be a Faustian bargain driven by Mozilla's fealty to Google and other major advertisers.

At some point, the goals of advertisers and privacy advocates may conflict in ways that may be difficult to reconcile, especially if advertisers (via Google & many other popular services) retain lots of bargaining power from the outset in the ensuing policy discussions.
Data Engineer in Boston
How to shorten links with Rails and bitly.com API
I am distrusting him to such an extent that I'd even say he calls for open internet so his spying and subversion agencies have a better chance at creating unrest and chaos in other societies.
Huh, I didn't realize that. That's oddly prescient, then.
Ah, that sub-plot from the book that didn't make it into the TV adaptation.
Well, maybe. Has that been measured? I just don't see a great number of guys being drunk enough to punch people over a joke but not too drunk to remember the CCTVs.
The President can nominate candidates for various positions, but these positions must be approved by Congress.

President Obama was inaugurated January 20, 2009. At that time, his Democratic party controlled both houses of Congress decisively[1]. It was not until 2011 that his party lost the house. And in fact, his party still retains the Senate but will lose it in January 2015. But it is only the Senate that approves appointments and his party has controlled it the entire time he has been President. And if you look at the make up of his cabinet, you will see that he has been able to fill it with people that are reviled by the opposing party [2]. To say that he hasn't gotten his way on the vast majority of cabinet appointments just isn't true.

Second, the government itself is made up largely of agencies which are outside of the ability of the democracy to affect. This includes the military

The President is the Commander in Chief of the military. He exercises complete authority over them. [3] All the heads of the other agencies you listed are appointed by the President including the Federal Reserve.

Your comment is typical of the current rhetoric surrounding attempting to "debunk" the thought that the President has substantial power. The fact is the President does have substantial power and saying otherwise is merely attempting to excuse the performance of Obama that so many people are disappointed with.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-chief#United_State...
Availability does not mean availability at any cost. When designing a system at no point should it be considered secure if it fails open.

The issue is that there is little information provided to the user to indicate why there is an issue, but it most certainly should fail closed.
A MitM proxy like Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) would be incredible. Debugging SSL issues is always difficult, and it would be great to have the tools all in one place.

Also, a shout-out to mitmproxy (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy) which I've used on several occasions.
Same in the UK. Debit cards (with Chip+Pin) are pretty much the default
He waited six years to make this rather limp statement of obviousness. And he waited until he was a lame duck President, that just lost the Senate.

Meanwhile, in the passing of those six years the US has continued to fall further behind on fixed broadband speeds and ISP competitiveness.
I want a command-line tool I can invoke from a Makefile, to refresh pages affected by the compile I just did. Existing solutions for doing this are awful and this represents more than half the time between saving and seeing the result on screen for me.
I don't think I fully understand the argument for net neutrality. I try to think about it from a few different perspectives:

Broadband intensive services like Netflix:
I think a problem that they face is that their connection is often slow, not only intentionally, but also because developing infrastructure is expensive. Why would an ISP bother building out the infrastructure if they can't extract a higher value from those that it most benefits (Netflix)? In fact, Netflix thinks it's worth it to pay Comcast directly. If that was not beneficial, I don't see why Netflix would have done so. Sure, they would probably prefer to get that service for free, but it must be mutually beneficial for both parties to go along. If Netflix were not allowed to make sure a deal with a company like Comcast, would that really benefit anyone?

Smaller Websites:
There is the risk that ISPs try extracting a toll but I think it may not be worth it a lot of the time for the ISP. I think this fear is overblown, although I could be wrong.

Consumers that don't use broadband extensive services:
Why should those consumers be subsidizing those that use broadband heavy services?

Consumers using broadband extensive services:
Why should Netflix not be allowed to help subsidize the cost of providing broadband? Why should this fall solely on the individual?

Government:
The obvious concerns of more governmental control of the internet.

I could imagine a scenario where Netflix was not allowed to pay Comcast directly for increased bandwidth. Instead, Netflix would spend that money to lobby politicians to force Comcast to build out their infrastructure. I don't see how that's a better scenario than currently exists.

I think a better solution to very little competition in ISPs would be to decrease the barriers it takes to compete. Further regulation would only increase the barriers.

Netflix paying Comcast:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/after-...

Starting an ISP is Really Hard:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-la...
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