skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the first thing?
Whats the next thing?
Whats the next thing?

That's the process of thinking i usually take. First, i'm gonna need a project. Then I'm going to need to instantiate a database. Then I have to create the controlling class. then I need to create the initialization. etc.

For the juniors, it helps a lot to have things more bullet point. they should be able to fill in the more minute details on their own, but do get fairly verbose. Break the work into a small logical scope, and then bullet point what needs to happen for it to be completed. And always explain why.

For the mid-level, be more general about it and have them define the tasks that will be completed. This is to give them more say in the process, enable checks & balances, and trains them to write tasks for juniors and mid-level developers when they are one day senior devs. And that's really what your goal should be.

Everything you work on is a means to make everyone below you better. If you know how to solve a problem, let someone else take a crack at it. If they get it wrong, or need some help along the way, you've already got an answer.

And of course, code reviews are an important feedback loop. But always let them maintain ownership. Its their baby. don't fix their code for them unless its more or less an emergency. Mistakes they make can often be reflected back as a failure of process, and not of themselves.
Oh El Eee, like the names of its constituent letters.

But then I've never heard it pronounced, only ever read it. So maybe "Olay" was the normal pronunciation.
Cincinnati startup named fastest growing in Ohio
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8758654
So clearly Rust is ready for tiling window managers. When will Rust be ready for the web (at least to the level of where Go is right now) ?
Sure, let's go down that road. At the end of the day every software that runs does the same thing: flip bits back and forth.
Here is an email I received from phpbbhelp.org:
> Hello everyone,
>
> On September 9th, an attacker was able to gain unauthorized access to the server hosting phpbbhelp.org. This remained unnoticed until late yesterday. The individual (might be individuals) responsible is the same one taking credit for the Tapatalk, phpBB.com, and Ars Technica breaches.
>
> A keylogger was added to the login page, and if your username is on the following list, the plaintext password you used on phpbbhelp.org is likely in their hands.
> List: [removed]
> We have to assume that the database was likewise dumped and that everyone's email addresses and hashed passwords are likewise in the wild.
>
> Please change any password that you may have used on phpbbhelp.org since September.
>
> If I have any further information, I will provide it. USF will remain offline until after we have restored phpBB.com and I have some time to go through it.
>
>
>
> - Yuriy Rusko

I'm would assume the same thing was done on the phpbb.com servers.
It's for natural gas, not oil. It's a huge liquefaction facility for LNG.
How do the salaries compare to Silicon Valley?
Tons of online resources. Books are all a bit dense. The ones I'll suggest are bit hard to get into, I'm a huge fan of The Art of Computer Programming Vol 1-3 all a master piece, but very very dense, very very mathy and challenging even if you've taken college level discrete mathematics courses. But a HUGE amount of the field is contained within them, and the information density is staggering. Donald Knuth's writing is just absolutely brilliant and pointed in places.

Simply searching on Amazon, "Your language of choice" + Algorithms/Data Structures I.E.: "Javascript Algorithsm", "Ruby Data Structures", "Java Algorithms", etc.. Will likely pull up a few options, check reviews, find something in your price range and read it.

A lot of it is self study. Just be willing to explore docs, watch videos, a lot of reading, try things out on your own.
Here's ALLLLL the signup credits for new startups in one list. $$$
If you hire someone that's a borderline con-man and lose $100 million dollars without making the most basic attempts of vetting him for the position, that's not an honest mistake.
There are tons of books on Data Structures, a lot of them are super interesting too. You can Google data structures and algorithm books, and you will get a crazy amount. I have a good amount because I just finished the class in school. One of the books I like is Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition. There's also a lot of college's that have the course and all of their assignments are online if you wanted to do them. They are super interesting, like binary search trees are cool, hash tables and the hash functions, linked list, graphs and the algorithms that go along with them. Are so interesting and once you know them they can lead to so much stuff, its exciting.
AngularJS: From Prototyping to Functional Code
How Skype Used AI to Build Its New Language Translator
The reason to be bought by Yahoo is for the cash, not to be part of Yahoo. And what are the successes for such acquisitions?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/a-brief-history-of-yahoo-buying-...
So, I'm kind of ambivalent about this thread so far, but it sounds like you have thought about this a bit. What sort of moral framework do you find preferable over the 'out-of-touch white middle class' one?
I am not entirely sure about this.

While I don't have personal experience, from what I've read, IE on Mac was a fair bit different from IE on Windows. IE 5 for Mac, released in 2000, used something called the Tasman engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_%28layout_engine%29

> At the time of its release, Tasman was seen as the layout engine with the best support for web standards such as HTML and CSS.

Also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac#Inter...:

> The Macintosh Edition introduced a new rendering engine called Tasman that was designed to be more compliant with emerging W3C standards such as HTML 4.0, CSS Level 1, DOM Level 1, and ECMAScript.

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that back while IE for Windows was giving web developers prematurely grey hair, IE for Mac was a much nicer browser and much more comfortable to support as a development target. I think it ended up getting less time/thought/effort from Microsoft eventually. Also, Safari was released in 2003 (beta in January, default browser in OS X 10.3 Panther, in October).
>probably consumes the least fossil fuels per tonne

I don't believe that the commenter to whom you're replying is referring to the use of fossil fuels to transport the ship (which I believe has to be towed.) They seem to be referring to the fact that it is for processing fossil fuels. It's about production, not consumption.
That's absolutely not true. People live better across the world today than they lived 50 or even 20 years ago. I read statistics somewhere that people in some obscure African country today (can't recall the name) have a living standards of Finland of 20 years ago.

Think about this: the major health issue nowadays across the world is obesity, not hunger.
What makes you think that it isn't already?
Marvel: Free mobile and web prototyping for everyone. No coding required
The Surprising Ways Your Breath Connects You to the Entire Planet
Webster's:

"Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary." [1]

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Firefox allows multiple profiles to be in use at once (in different windows). You need to pass the -no-remote flag when you start up the other profiles, or else the new firefox process just signals to the original to open a new window and then closes itself.
And their Linux VMs are cheaper than Windows.

Another minor outage though, I think. They recently changed the permissions on /mnt, which contains the temp disk. Now various services that were using that for temp space fail to start. Easy enough to fix by chmod on start but still...
"Measuring everything on the scale to a gram yields much better and consistent results than wondering if your dish will fail..."

It really depends on the recipe. Some cookbooks, for example, recommend that measurements be as accurate as possible for baking. However, I doubt the majority of the worlds population use scales to measure ingredients when they cook. In fact, great cuisines from around the world have developed perfectly well without the use of scales for measuring ingredients. Can you honestly say 250g of chopped carrots is preferable to two medium-sized carrots, chopped?
I guess humans (and many other animals, but especially apes) have specifically evolved to be extremely good at discerning apples and oranges. To an alien they might look the same color and also taste just the same and have the same scent.
Much closer than the US is...
I really do support your last statement (even if you made it as a joke).

OP stated s/he comes from an OOP background, and expanding into FP is a big step into expanding the ways you think about programming, and gives you new tools to solve problems with.

My job is still OOP, but the experience I've gained learning FP has helped me a lot to come up with different solutions I may have never thought up before.
How Fast Are the TIE Fighters in Star Wars VII?
> So maybe "Olay" was the normal pronunciation.

It was.

I assume you also say SQL as 'ess que ell' as opposed to 'sequel.' Probably a generational thing.
I wonder if these numbers could be improved by considering an oxygen-helium atmosphere rather than an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. I'm not sure how feasible this would be in a large enclosed space, my initial concern would be the development of pockets of high helium and low oxygen concentration but perhaps a simple ventilation system could keep the air mixed at an acceptable ratio. I believe oxygen-helium was considered for the Apollo missions but not used.

According to some quick calculations a mixture of 22% oxygen and 78% helium would have a gas density of 0.423 kg/m3 at 20 deg C. I used (density1vol1 + density2vol2) / (vol1 + vol2) with density1 = 1.331 and density2 = 0.1664 and a total volume of 1000m3.

The fact that Venus' gravitation is only 90% of Earth's and further (though slightly) modified due to the height of 50 km above the surface would mean that the gravitational attraction would be somewhere around 8.722 m/s2 which is about 88.9% Earth standard.

A Venusian (Venerian?) habitat also has the benefit of less disastrous consequences of developing a small leak in the wall of the habitat since the pressure differential would not be so great though an all out failure of atmospheric containment would unfortunately not be at all survivable even if protective equipment were being worn at the time. The only chance would be immediate activation of the ascent vehicle. Although I would be curious to know if the entire habitat could be constructed in such a way as to remain a rigid shape once it had been deployed, possibly in the form of a Hybrid Airship or Dynastat[1] This could allow a longer grace period on evacuation should it be necessary and might have added benefits to maneuverability during the mission. Take off and landing concerns could be ignored since there would be none other than the initial mid-descent inflation and fuel capacity would only be limited by the available sunlight.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_airship#Dynastats
Is that actually true, though (especially w.r.t. Forward Secrecy)? Don't both parties generate separate halves of a symmetric key independently, preventing any one party from forcing the use of a particular key on a new session?
I'm confused. :)

What does what I said have to do with Ayn Rand?

I'm also curious about how Ayn Rand and Plato were thrown into the same group. I remember well that Plato went on and on about his Utopia of the State controlling the lives of everyone, people going to college until they're 32 and so on. Those two are pretty much opposites. And Plato was a titan of human thought? He misunderstood everything Socrates was about and it took us Aristotle being born to somewhat set us back on track. Maybe whoever said that is really into geometry of solids.

Anyone care to throw me a bone? What did I miss? Why did I make Ayn Rand roll in her grave?
Yahoo has never been about search! They've always been a portal. They're a content company. A tabloid. They should focus on that first, services like Mail, Pipes, BOSS etc second.
The greatness of Cuban health care system is an urban myth, just like Jackalope.
> I'm a solo junior dev, what should i focus on?

Beyond technologies-- Focus on building a solid consulting practice, client management, how to prospect & pitch new business. Recommend reading Alan Weiss, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260218.Million_Dollar_Con...
Considering Cyberdog was the only thing Apple had at the time, that's not surprising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
Meta: It's rather hilarious how quickly mainstream society has latched onto the ridiculous idea that Internet Points actually mean anything.

So you got a bad review somewhere? Look it up and resolve with the customer.
World’s Fastest Monster Truck Gets 264 Feet per Gallon
>The difference is that Jobs was an asshole, everything I've ever heard about Mayer is that she's probably a psychopath.

Replying to an email with a smiley emoticon because you ruined someone's career when all the person did was exactly what their fucking job expects them to do is kind of a psychopathic thing to do.

Also, starting and running a wage-fixing ring that inflicts the most damage upon those upon which you rely the most to make you wealthy is also kind of a psychopathic thing to do.
Status for at least one of the CVEs in Debian is here: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8133 (currently unfixed)
Seems it's far from being mature enough to use in production - from a couple of sources including: http://arewewebyet.com/
Well done, this is very cool!
Where do you get your data from? I would like to use the data in a different type of visualization.
Ask HN: Why do real estate brokers in NYC make $1,000+ / hr?
Let's do some simple math to show how brokers in NYC are raking in disproportionate amounts of cash, at the expense of tenants and landlords. I will explain why the economics of this market is very broken, & if there were any industry ripe for disruption, this would be it.

The numbers:

Avg apt rental in NYC = $4,000/mo or $48,000/yr. source: Elliman, 2014.

Broker fee ranges from 1 month rent to 15% of full year = $4,000-$7,200 (paid by renter)

Time to photograph: 1 hr

Time to list on Zillow / Craigslist: 1 hr

Time to show to 9 prospects: 3 hrs (20 mins per showing)

Time to process paperwork (lease + credit check): 1 hour

Total hours invested: 6

Total earned per hour @ 12% commission: $6912/6 = $1,152.00.

Now you may say that any renter that chooses to use a broker is doing so as a luxury, as there are many no-fee buildings / listings on the market. Not necessarily so. If a desired unit is in a condo/coop vs. a rental building, it is often held by broker, & paying the fee is required to get in the door. Remember that in NYC, renter pays the commission. The owner is often inclined to hire a broker as it appears as if the work to rent it is done at no cost to him/her. However, renters will look at the total cost of rent + brokerage fees, when making a decision, just as shoppers look at the cost of item + s&h + tax when making a purchasing decision. If the owner were to list it themselves, or hire someone at $X/hr, it will likely yield a higher rent since the renter does not have to incur the expense of the broker. Back to the "no-fee" scenario. These landlords know that since the renter is saving the broker fee, that savings, or some portion of it can be baked into the rent. Similar to how free s&h is often not really 'free', as it inflates the total cost of the goods sold.

My argument is that a better model is to compensate the agent hourly vs. commission. Even at a handsome $50-$100/hr for the labor, it would result in higher rent for landlord, lower rent for the renter, & a healthy profit for the agent.

Make sense? Is there something I am missing? Let's discuss.
Did you read the article? It is producing gas, not oil. It is much easier to move gas from Australia to China than from North America.
Nice work Jesse & team!
"Nothing flies over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch them".
I agree, and am reminded of the quote from Thomas Watson (IBM) on this:

“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”
Valid correction. I've edited it in. But it did originally say FAA, not NTSB.
http://www.wired.com/2010/04/cuban-health-lessons/

"Despite a 50-year trade embargo by the United States and a post-Soviet collapse in international support, the impoverished nation has developed a world-class health care system. Average life expectancy is 77.5 years, compared to 78.1 years in the United States, and infant and child mortality rates match or beat our own. There’s one doctor for every 170 people, more than twice the per-capita U.S. average.

Not everything is perfect in Cuba. There are shortages of medicines, and the best care is reserved for elites. But it’s still a powerful feat. “In Cuba, a little over $300 per person is spent on health care each year. In the U.S., we’re spending over $7,000 per person,” said Drain, co-author of Caring for the World and an essay published April 29 in Science. “They’re able to achieve great health outcomes on a modest budget.”"
Exactly.

>The downside seems to be that you now have to show that your system will reliably terminate if it receives SIGTERM.

That's not a problem unless it's followed by a SIGKILL (like from an init system).
You complained about Jobs stealing money from Woz. It's true, and it was a slimy move. I'm simply pointing out that the thousands of dollars stolen were monetarily ameliorated by the wealth created by Apple Computer.

And Apple computer wouldn't have happened without Jobs. Get past your hatred of the man as a person -- he was a driving force and made shit happen. Art != Artist.
Love it.

Quick feedback: the initial page load was noticeably slow. I see 4MB, 2.6MG of those are background images. I don't understand why they keep changing when I look at results.

In the 'filter carriers' I can't click on the carrier names, only the checkboxes. When changing filters and the backend needs a second I would expect some kind of loading indicator.

Above the search results I see currently a quote by Andy Walhol. Is that relevant?

The duration line looks like a slider and I tried to move it (yes, I doesn't make sense to move it, but I tend to click on everything shiny).
For a while, it was the best web browser, period, on any platform (including Solaris and HP-UX). Netscape kinda blew.
I agree that Jobs doesn't deserve credit for Pixar's success. He acquired them for technology that he intended to use elsewhere, and he supposedly looked at them like a burden until all of a sudden Toy Story blew up.
If the article got the overall picture of the financials right, then, yes, she's on her way out.

The run up to the Alibaba IPO was her window of opportunity to create new growth businesses within Yahoo. Since apparently those initiatives have failed to yield significant revenue or profit growth, she's done.

I think if those initiatives had paid off, we wouldn't be reading about her personal flaws and missteps, but about her managerial brilliance.

I was also disappointed in her comparing herself to Jobs taking 5 years to launch iPod. Yes, that was a home run for Apple, but the first thing Jobs did was shore up the existing Mac business and get it growing again, providing the needed stability to launch new initiatives.

Again, assuming the article has the gist of the story correct, she largely ignored the parts of Yahoo producing much of the current revenue to focus on new initiatives.

In general, comparing yourself to Steve Jobs is probably a mistake for any executive. It's like a rookie NBA player comparing himself to Michael Jordan. You're almost guaranteed to come off badly in the comparison.
Caribbean countries are typical areas that lost their economic identity and are now basically overpopulated. The reasons people moved (or rather were dragged) there, are no more; and they would probably do fine if only they could go back to pre-1500 population levels (or thereabout) and just live off tourism. But they can't, so they will keep struggling to find new economic identities.

The Cuban revolution could ignore this for 30 years, because of their ties with the USSR and emphasis on redistribution of existing resources; and then the old problems came back once the USSR crumbled. Now they are trying to build an economic identity around healthcare and education, and without the embargo (which stops technology from entering the country) they might actually succeed in ways that will hopefully inspire other islands.
And if a service can reach out to the Internet, it knows my IP can tell where I am. And if it suddenly cuts out after being on a known IP, then maybe I'm going through a local tunnel.

That's what I meant by you have to get really creative to think how this could possibly be impacting. If you have a sandbox, you have to choose which permissions you're going to ask for carefully, to avoid overloading users.

Android made a bad decision by making phone apps needing permission to know if the phone is active, then compounded that by tying it into device ID and who you're calling.
They're not giving you $0.60, they're completing the transaction of you giving them $2.40. Socially it's not the same.
Gags and Novelties
Occupy goes to TechCrunch Disrupt
luciferin makes the jellyfish glow, by creating the photon that gets transferred to (and illuminates) the GFP.
Cuomo to Ban Fracking in New York State, Citing Health Risks
The Google search team actually has 3 weekly meetings with the deals team. The deals team keeps them apprised of potential deals they are working on, and then the search team tunes the weekly algorithm updates to either boost or penalize the various companies, whatever the deal team wants. Sometimes they are boosting on Monday, but by Friday they are penalizing. Things move fast in the deals team!

Sometimes overall search quality suffers, but of course the deals team is the #1 priority in the company. I honestly don't know how they get away with this from a monopoly perspective!!!

Edit:

OK, people aren't getting this. This is a joke. Google does not do this. I never worked on Google search, but those people were insanely serious about worrying about search quality and isolating themselves from other teams. The claims in this joke are also ridiculous, I thought the fact this was a joke was obvious, but I was wrong.

Sorry for the confusion. I will label all jokes in the future.
Coolpad hides secret backdoor on its Android devices
While business plans may help you revise your idea, I would recommend against working on it. Just build your product and get it out there and iterate from there. You can accomplish so much with so little. But you have to start first. And nobody did anything great without starting it. :-)
Query strings should be more reliable, hashes can be lost for example when using an URL shortener. Also URLs should generally be kept to under ~2000 characters, so depending on how many filters you have you might want to take the preset approach.