skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The copy is ok. You could tinkle with a little bit and do some AB testing. Do a google search on Buffer AB testing, they have some awesome advice on their blog.

Pricing, looks different. Usually, it's cheapest (on the left) with most expensive package (on the right). I wasn't sure if you did this to be different? With pricing, you might want to add in 'time', for example live chat 24 hours, if you can offer this, it will make your value proposition stronger. The States and Australia are on different time schedules.

I'd also offer a free account, whereby founders of startups can 'do' live chat with their customers. Realistically, they are the people that should be doing live chat, as it's their customers. They need to know what's going on. You could even consider charging for this ($10-20 per month).

If you want me to take a look at your copy more seriously, email me at lukejamesfitzpatrick@gmail.com on the weekend, and I'll see if I can come up with anything better.
Ask HN: Am I approaching CS Education the right way?
I run ktbyte, and we teach kids in small groups (usually 4-8 students). We also do the MOOC thing, via pre-recorded courses and problem sets that run Java via our servers.

Should we be trying to compete with MOOCs? We're pretty much the only self-guided Java course online right now, and Java is taught in US High Schools.

However, I'm trying to resist the urge to invest a lot of resources into automated teaching tools. I feel like the small group model is very traditional, but it works well.
Almost everything you say is blatantly incorrect with the possible exception nothing.
You should make a blog post about that.
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OkCupid has (or had, at least, haven't visited in a while) a pretty decent approach to ad blockers. They detect that you block ads and (after explaining that ads are a big part of the revenue of their service, for which you currently pay nada ...) offer you an option to pay a small sum not to have to see ads (or you can turn ads back on).
4 Reasons to Look Beyond the Applicant Tracking System
Russian buys Watson's Nobel price and plans to return it
No. The whole is 4 or 5 weeks.
Congressional budget makes room for big bank bailouts once more
You're not wrong - it's a terrible clickbait headline.
Stanbol could definitely be used as part of a system like this. In fact, that sort of thing is a big part of how we're using it at Fogbeam, although aimed at assorted knowledge workers in an enterprise setting, and not at journalists specifically.
Why don't you take two weeks off just to see how you feel when you'll be back ?

And I hope you don't have a family.
> Instead of a flat list of file names for each directory, you store the file names in a trie, so that files with a shared prefix in their name have a shared ancestor node in the trie.

But then, if they behave like directories, and the software treats them like directories, aren't you effectively implementing directories in everything but name? (I mean, of course current software doesn't actually treat directory names this way; but it seems like changing the data structure is going a long way to maintain a directory-less fiction.)
anyway we can get an open sourced version of that optimized job for us to play with?
Well, instead of their laptops the two people seen near the pipeline segment could have just brought explosives. That would probably have been just as effective. I guess they just didn't want to bother digging it up.

The notion of any security goes out of the window pretty fast once theres physical access. That goes doubly when you realize that the same Windows 98 running your ATM is controlling pipelines and other safety relevant systems and some middle manager decided to replace local personnel with a serial-port-over-TCP-IP directly connected to the logic controller in charge.
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Lessons learned from blowing an interview
I don't have a blog or anything so I figured I'd share my experiences here on HN. I hope this isn't against any site rules.

I had an interview today. The second interview, which means I would have to write some trivial amount of code in order to prove I didn't just make everything on my resume up.

Let's just say I didn't make a good case for myself. I choked.

Here's a few lessons I learned:

1. Don't write a single line of code until you know what you want your output to look like.

2. Make gratuitous use of your language's print function. Catch your errors sooner rather than later.

3. Narrate your thought process out loud for your interviewer. Maybe they'll have pity on your poor, nervous soul.

4. Oh my god, don't say "shit" when your code doesn't build.

A little backstory.

I had 30 minutes to parse a file and perform some task with the data. I fumbled around for 30 minutes. Highlights include: copy pasting code from my old projects, mumbling "shit" -- which I never do, and just generally acting like a clueless idiot. It was such a bizarre mix of feelings. It started with nervousness, then embarrassment, then frustration, and finally shame.

Anyway, at the end of the process I had code that sort of worked for some imaginary, other task.

What's crazy is, after the call was over, I went back to work, opened up a text editor, and wrote functioning code in less than 10 minutes. It was 12 lines of code. 12 lines of code cost me a job.

But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that I've done the task before...many, many times. Four months ago it was my full time job to do those sorts of things. All that experience was buried under so much dust I guess I couldn't find it within the time period.

Next steps? Time to put my resume out there again. Regardless of all the negative things that happened today, I'm happy that I put myself out there and gave myself a chance to succeed.

Anyone else do something similar? How did you recover?
Are there any reputable sources reporting on this? I don't see how one would include Microsoft and Google as "French publishers" which is a one oddity in that post.

Also other sources including one that would appear to be the source of this reporting doesn't include Microsoft nor Google as parties in these plans:

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/12/08/the-rise-of-adblock-rev...

via: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/12/08/1557249/french-publis...
I got the first part, but the latter half didn't fit for me, that's just an artifact of my accent however, "calm" and "com-" are very different for me :)
Hey - writer of the story here. The goal was to show two brothers, very much two sides of the same coin - born one year apart, raised in the same environment. What choices did they make, how did that lead to different outcomes (or not).

It's a very long story and I don't honestly expect everyone on the internet to read it closely or all the way through. But to be clear, it was the older brother who owned a gun. Law enforcement never produced evidence that Jelani, the younger brother accused of double attempted murder, owned or used a firearm.
> I'm really not sure what advantage the schema DSL in schema.rb has over the ability to express the full schema in its native tongue.

I always end up using the sql format, because sooner or later I do something remotely non-trivial in postgres. But I'll try to answer your implicit question...

schema.rb works just fine for sufficiently simple schema, it's easier to make sense of in version control, and it's backend agnostic, so if someone wants to develop the app on sqlite - that's just fine.

Of course, all these things become a downside when your setup is sufficiently complex - but if you are not using any interesting database features it's fine. In particular, I would almost never recommend developing against a different DB than you are deploying on. Sooner or later you'll be bit by a behavioral difference.
I'm a Rice University alumnus (Hanszen '07), and your sentiment definitely resonates with me. When I took my first programming job, I had two offers come in at the same time: one to stay in Houston and write Java code for pipeline scheduling, the other to head to Austin and work for a small crummy independent company. Houston has so much going for it, and if I had felt like a vibrant tech startup scene were present, I might have stayed. Instead, I left behind my entire friend group and taking a job that paid half of what the energy industry was offering, purely for the sake of better future opportunities.

I know there are some entrepreneurial efforts being made at my alma mater, but overall it feels like a huge missed opportunity. The business school is strongly walled off from the undergrad population, the excellent CS department tends toward the academic side (with rare exceptions like COMP 410/415 [1]), and personally I never saw much of an attempt on the part of the local tech scene to get students integrated. There is the Rice Alliance [2] but it isn't quite the same as an organic grassroots-y scene.

[1] http://www.bandgap.cs.rice.edu/classes/comp410/
[2] http://alliance.rice.edu/
DBs that are consistent until you observe them, a funny thought. In some parallel universe, the DB is still consistent; one could argue.
What about the water in the earth's core?

>>A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-di...
'boiling off' seems like a bit of an oversimplifiction - yes, intuitively, hot water vapor rises - when it's surrounded by cooler denser gases. So I get that if you have a cloud of various atoms and molecules orbiting a sun that is accreting together under gravity, the iron is going to end up at the core of the body that forms, and the light stuff like H2O is going to be a big fuzzy cloud round the outside; but it's not going to 'evaporate' off somewhere else, surely? If the Earth's hot, you wind up with a ball of molten iron, surrounded by a cloud of water vapor (and O2, and N2, and so on). Once the Earth cools, that vapor seems like a good source for liquid water, no need to bring it back from the Oort cloud in comet form. Unless 'boiling off' the water means that it disappears from Earth's orbit altogether... Is the idea that it gets blown out into the outer solar system by the solar wind, or just that the sun gives that cloud of water vapor so much energy that it's able to diffuse out of Earth orbit? Doesn't the same logic apply to the other lighter substances like oxygen, nitrogen, methane... so did they come back from comets too?
I think this is the best youtube compilation of misheard lyrics (there are a lot to choose from).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nVvRwrgsGU

Personal favourite: I got string on my face, the smell of fat chicks just put my spine out of place.
Panspermia has nothing to with where the water came from.
How do you explain the pushback against Uber then?
1 point and front page ?
Ask in advance what people want, balance things based on seniority, past holidays, etc.

Also surely most people will answer their phone in case of an emergency, if nobody abuse it. I remotely fixed bugs in cyber coffees while traveling in Australia years ago. Nowadays you can practically work with only your smartphone on hand.
Might get rough if something like Uroburos or Stuxnet (as in large nationally produced cyberattacks) gets into the wild and does god knows what.
We are and we aren't. elektronjunge chose an example that definitely is inconsistent, but I'm not sure that it's really indicative of Perl in general. IMHO, It's a fairly specific kind o broken, where we can't really fix the behavior because of backwards compatibility, but the documentation is just plain inadequate in this case as well.
Everything looks nice when covered in snow or filmed from far enough away: https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=2...

But more realistically, here's downtown Kiruna today: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#mediaviewer/File:Kiruna...
I've found it handy for storing configuration data.

E.g. user preferences

preferences = {
"notifications": {
"email": true,
"sms": false
},
"stay_signed_in": true,
"editor_plugin": {
"indent_level": 2,
"autosave": false
}
}

It's structured, adhoc, and "less likely" to be queried against. Of course you could implement this in normalized tables, but it's a pain, and I don't see any real value in this case.
It's a bit strange that Alexis Ohanian is listed as an "investor" in the page and also as a "founder" in the footer. I guess the footer isn't intended to mean that he's a founder of Buttercoin, but it sure is easy to misread it that way.
The Friendly Toast isn't right in the heart of Kendall Sq. but it's good for when you're craving diner food. Fun place, friendly staff, and boozy frappes.

As for meetups...what kind of things interest you?
My understanding is that most peer review systems in place at various journals and funding agencies today are already anonymous (except for when people are identified by their well known viewpoints.) If you ask me, the real problem can't be solved with communications technology, the real problem must be solved at the source: The funding agencies need to take the importance of reproduction of results seriously and require their grantees to do a certain amount of rote reproduction work in order to qualify for grants for novel research. Will it slow the pace of things down? Certainly. Will it increase the quality of the science? Certainly.
Increases in either heart rate or blood pressure are major cardiovascular risks. There were a couple drugs that went through the FDA a couple years ago that didn't get approved because they increased blood pressure.

Exercise does increase blood pressure, but it's not associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events. Don't know the details about caffeine, but I would assume the risk isn't that great.
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> How the does that even work?

I think it works like this: As you touch things, some of your skin cells fall off and adhere to the thing you touched. Those cells can give up DNA to an investigator. So it would mean that he touched the gun in question.

When did he touch it? The DNA doesn't say anything about that.
To be fair in most big tech companies people take all of Christmas->NYE off without reporting it as PTO. Unless your manager is literally nazi, marking it as WFH and sending a couple emails a day qualify as doing work.
Ketamine certainly is addictive. I reckon the recreational value of K is seriously weakened by this factor. There are better things to trip on, that don't risk compulsive over consumption.
Personal favourite: (some language factors at play)
Is it Reebok or Nike?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4c54rCJ_k
How Spending $162,301.42 on Clothes Made Me $692,500
It's the result of populism, not government scheming
Just a small suggestion, I'd change '$50' and '$100' to '$50/month' and '$100/month'. There's no mention of it being a recurring charge other than at the bottom of the signup form.
How India's Silicon Valley Became Its Suicide Capital
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll try to make it more clear.
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As investigators followed the trail of the failed alarm system, they found the hackers’ point of entry was an unexpected one: the surveillance cameras themselves.

That's not unexpected for anyone even vaguely familiar with security.

This is not about there cannot be security with physical access. This is about not understanding the possible risk scenario's and mitigating them.

Please note that the US once fed malicious software to USSR spies and this caused a Russian pipeline to blowup.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-software-blew-up-russian-gas...
I love the term lukewarm war.

A real direct war between major powers today would not only lack true sustained support from the people of those nations (currently - though we've seen this change in the past with propaganda and as the bombs start to fly), but it would also come at the cost of never-before-seen destruction of both human life and of infrastructure. Queue that famous Einstein quote.

Essentially the costs of traditional warfare in human life and cultural dollars has grown directly in proportion to the destructiveness of modern weaponry. Running partner to that, the old notion that more destructive weapons mean shorter wars was demonstrated false by the second world war as it raked in casualties on a monthly basis that match those of wars past.

The interests of major powers to control resources and to direct culture and to grow spheres of influence, however, still exist as does a geopolitical chess board.

America has not declared war since the 1940s - but how many wars has it been in? Military actions between nations now exist as "incidents" and "conflicts" rather than wars.

War in the modern era is a game of soft power, a game of proxy, and a game of leverage, influence, stability, reputation, information and economics. The recent leaks (of Manning and Snowden and Assange and others) together make references by both direct reference and by evidence of operations pertaining to economic warfare, network warfare, and psychological warfare are daily practice. It is only those unlucky regions whose stability has been compromised or engineered away that see violent intervention.
Thanks for the talk (Bennett Hoffman) yesterday @ Bitcoin meetup yesterday. Looking forward to the additional features to be rolled out.
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I always misheard Fallout Boy's "Going Down". They say "a loaded God complex, cock it and pull it", but I always heard "loaded gun complex", due to the context of cocking a firearm and then pulling the trigger.
"condemned and depopulated"

That sounds like the opposite of the plan in the article:

When trying to imagine how Kiruna’s move will work, it helps to think of a glacier edging slowly down a valley. The ground covered in a century will be remarkable, but the place won’t change that radically from day to day. The relocation and redevelopment will be a gradual process occurring over several generations. A central tenet of the plan is that all development will be contagious; the new will be built on the edge of the old to prevent the appearance of a break in the city’s whole.

“One key strategy is leaving no one behind,” Lindstedt says. “The city needs to connect all current residents during the whole relocation process, rather than creating a new satellite. New parts of the city are placed far enough away from the iron ore extraction to reassure residents long-term, but it has to be close enough to the existing parts to keep the community together.”
do we ban sleeping pills because you can swallow a whole bottle and kill yourself?

Well, here in China, they only supply 3-5 sleeping pills or so after consultation, and you can no longer buy them over the counter. This is precisely because too many people were killing themselves.
My personal favorite isn't quite a mondegreen, but a lyrics shift. I've long swapped "Waking Up is Hard to Do" for the original "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" in Neil Sedaka's song. Years later on NPR's "Wait Wait", he said that he'd rewritten the song with the same words for his grandchildren.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1270438...
cdza has a "History of Misheard Lyrics". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jRICTGmnM

For those unfamiliar with cdza, they film musical experiments, frequently humorous in a distinctive "in studio" style, generally as a single shot.
We had a fascinating bug on EC2 -- we could connect to the instance, but no network traffic made it out. It wasn't security group problems, it was literally a really weird bug in EC2's network that we somehow triggered, the engineer over at Amazon that looked at it was really excited when he came across our case as it was so weird, heh. They fixed it, I can't remember exactly what was done on their end, but it was one of the weirder problems I've attempted to debug. Nothing I tried worked!
Did you say Chile? well, a few years ago my entire city moved 10feet away in 4 minutes. That was an interesting experience too.

http://www.wired.com/2010/03/chile-earthquake-moved-entire-c...
Just to further clarify, the transactions (and therefore transaction conflict detection) are more flexible than simple CAS operations. If transaction A reads key K1, and then writes to key K2, it will be rejected as conflicting if transaction B writes to key K1 and is serialized as happening before transaction K1 is committed (even though no other transaction wrote to key K2).

Every transaction in FoundationDB is submitted as a collection of writes/mutations, but also contains records of all keys read (and the consistent version at which they were read). In this test, the transactions all have empty conflict ranges, and thus cannot conflict with other transactions (but we still have to check!).
> Coming next, Unilever sue makers of televisions that you can switch off / mute during ad breaks.

Your post is a hyperbole, but Spotify's desktop client does this already for free users. If you lower the volume below a certain level on the client while an ad is playing, it will pause the ad until you raise the volume again.
Mandatory vacation is not only a good idea, it is a security feature.

When one employee takes over another's "world" within the company, it is very likely that they will notice if the employee on vacation has been embezzling, defrauding customers, etc. In the financial industry, this is not only good practice, it is a regulatory requirement. People who do not want to take vacation are seen by auditors as highly suspicious because that behavior often indicates a desire to cover up fraud.
Pardon the delayed response! I lost sight of this conversation.

Are you a Christian fundamentalist? Well known examples include the Westbury Baptist Church and the Southern Baptist Convention. If you're not like those people then what you believe is irrelevant to what I'm talking about and I don't understand why you're acting offended.

If you're interested, you can read a bit of exposition on the role of the Christian Right in pushing for increasingly harsh punishment in the US: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2004/11/06/calvinism-capita... . Along related lines, I find myself disgusted by the zeal with which Christian fundamentalists engage in the corporal punishment of children, again with solid support from the Bible: http://zakherys.tripod.com/greven.htm

You're correct that the Bible doesn't advocate imprisonment: It goes further by supporting slavery, which combines the loss of personal liberty with the obligation of enforced labor. And while the penal systems of modern, enlightened countries do tend to aim at resocialization rather than vengeance, prisons in the American Bible Belt have re-introduced conditions strongly reminiscent of Biblical slavery. Coincidence? I think not.
The problem with algorithmic/scraper search methods, is that they only work with existing data. For example, most Google searches gives a list of websites on one side, and some data scraped from Wikipedia on the other. There is not much meaning there. That's because Google's algorithm cannot combine the results into something original, because that would require human creativity. As such, I see the rise of different kinds of search based on what humans create, rather than what computers can scrape. I wrote a (longish) blog post on this problem: http://newslines.org/blog/googles-black-hole/
I knew someone who, years ago, while singing along to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" proclaimed "I wish someone would pillow fight me" instead of "I wish someone up there would find me"
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I love how people looked at electricity as a way to get back to a traditional life style (no crowded industrial areas) but with new opportunities for work.
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