skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I can say on the flip side I've been involved with hiring decisions where the interviewee did not nail every single answer, but we hired anyhow.

It should be pointed out that I structure the interviews to try to avoid that case anyhow. If your interviewee nails everything, it either means that you've got a class-A programmer, or your interview difficulty tops out too soon. I've become a big believer in gradated interviews. I've got a pretty good SQL series that starts out where the answer is literally "SELECT * FROM some_table" (though I find it occasionally trips people up to simply omit the where clause) and goes up from there on this little two-table schema. I've got some good HTML generation series that starts out with a simple "can you dump out a table from a 2D array or equivalent structure?" (since I try to do language-agnostic interviews) and go up through "do you know about escaping" and "can you handle optional parameters" and so on. Over time I've been selecting for the series that produce more gradation.
“In the current economic context, all companies are looking for cost-effective I.T. solutions, and systems based on open-source software are increasingly emerging as viable alternatives to proprietary solutions,” said the European Commission’s competition chief, Neelie Kroes, in a recent statement. “The commission has to ensure that such alternatives would continue to be available.”

Well ma'am, I've got good news and bad news for you. The good news: MySQL will continue to be available, regardless of what you do. The bad news: MySQL will continue to be available regardless of what you do.
2009: The Year the Cloud Was Seeded
The meme idea is interesting, but it has been discussed elsewhere in more depth with less intention of starting a flamewar (Mr. Dawkins is a consumate troll). If you've already heard of that idea, I don't see what this adds. If you haven't, there are better sources.

I note that Mr. Dawkins does not compare language to a "virus" though he admits it as memetic, saving the words with harsher connotations for his ultimate target. He then takes a one-sided view, accentuates the bad, ignores the good, focuses on the least reasonable religious people he can find, and calls it a day. On the internet, we call this "flaming". But hey, at least he didn't bring up Hitler.

Bach? The University? Keeping alive European scholarship during the dark ages? Providing a center for community cohesion and services to the disadvantaged? Not mentioned, of course.

I would even be willing to bet that our beloved secular modern egalitarianism owes its root to Christian philosophy, but that is speculation.

No dispassionate exposition on the concept of memes, this. Mr. Dawkins clearly has an axe to grind.
They seem to have a pretty nice API (http://docs.wordnik.com/api), including:

* Definitions from the The Century Dictionary
* Frequency data reflecting occurrences in our alpha API corpus
* Example sentences for words
* An autocomplete service
* Access to our Word of the Day
"Vidi, vici, veni"

Classical brilliance.
It looks like Bing.
it's unlikely that they contain any classified info if they were sitting around at the guy's house

You'd hope that, but it wouldn't be the first time a contractor was careless about such matters.
You'll never get what you want.
Will your talk be recorded? I'd be interested in seeing it.
Looks like all of the other crap search engines by Yahoo, MSN, etc.

Why anyone would want to copy those other crap search engine layouts is beyond me. Too much clutter. KISS. (Keep it simple...)
Code versioning and unit testing are the only two things I wished I had known from the start (though I still avoid them, god knows why).
"Any performance problem can be solved by caching, if you do it right."

Terje Mathiesen, or a follower of his? His axiom is that all optimization, or at least almost all of it, is an exercise in caching.
Like i've suggested before, Add a significant bottom margin to the footer. there's no reason it should be squished up like that. otherwise, looking great :)
I get no more than 10 legit emails a day (both work and personal) and sometimes it feels like no more than 10 legit emails a week. If it's that important, folks know to either call me, IM me, or catch me on Twitter--or risk "Ohh, I didn't see that..."
Hackerspace raided in Sweden
The Fall and Rise of Media
Thanks Daemmerung! The project is very interesting. I hope it can support the Iphone soon :)
Some don't. Others are very willing to make extremely bold truth claims near constantly.
Islamic finance prohibits interest rate lending because of the Koran's condemnation of usury. What bank can achieve a profit under those circumstances? Especially in 24-36 months!?
Ask HN:  How do you register domains for non-technical clients?
Our site plans on issuing subdomains for free (xxxxx.mysite.com), and also the buy-in opportunity to choose a domain name and have it point to the subdomain via a CNAME. The site is geared to a non-technical demographic, so ease-of-use is a necessity, hence this question.

Are there any API's, reseller accounts, etc, that you've used to accomplish this?
1. He starts by giving us a loose, abstract definition of malicious DNA (virus): "``Legitimate'' host DNA is just DNA that aspires to pass into the next generation via the orthodox route of sperm or egg. ``Outlaw'' or parasitic DNA is just DNA that looks to a quicker, less cooperative route to the future, via a squeezed droplet or a smear of blood, rather than via a sperm or egg. "

2. He then tries to establish a connection to computer viruses. This is is aid of constructing 'virus' as an abstract concept that can exist outside of it's physical form as a piece of DNA. He points out some characteristics of computer viruses.

3. He then suggests that religious memes are viruses, that they exhibit virus characteristics etc.

*This is still analogy, not evidence. But this is clearly not fluff. Being contrarian, provocative or the like is not necessarily bad.

Like I said, I am not 100% satisfied with everything. I think that he hasn't defined for themes the same distinction between code/malicious code, DNA/Malicious DNA. The whole section dealing with that is not good enough. I am not at all convinced that all memes are not viruses

But if that is your reason for objecting to this article being on HN, that's not good enough. That's a reason to remain unconvinced, not a reason to dismiss.

This is an interesting approach to an interesting question (flammable or not) written by the person most qualified to argue it.
As a westerner with extremely limited exposure to asian languages, I'm not sure if I would do any better. I found a website where I can listen to (I hope) a native speaker say "seven" in Chinese. The way I would say it would be similar to the English word "tea."
I agree. I think he did a bad job at the end there. What this article needs is a good test for viral equivalent to the sperm/egg one for biological viruses.

Any ideas?
I switched from slicehost to Linode after this year's Rails Rumble. It was seamless and I've had great performance. The one time I had to contact tech support, my issue was resolved in 7 minutes.
-Highly recommend BERT and Ernie, cool technology and a good message (from one of the GitHub founders)

-MongoDB talk is a great intro and the auto-sharding information was news to me.

-Introducing EDD is a talk mostly about A/B testing and making it more core to the development process. Very interesting stuff.

- NoSQL was a good intro do various non-sql databases.

- Polishing Ruby Gems - essential if you are a ruby developer, points out lots of issues with how developers are handling gems.

- Worst. Ideas. Ever - Great fun.
But you can't deny the fact that burning those chemicals releases gasses into the atmosphere which lead to a runaway greenhouse effect. That's no good for Earth's environment if life is to survive nearly as well as it did 10 years ago.
I'm confused -- are they saying that the Earth is cooling or is the temperature increasing??
We're planning to use eNom for this:

http://www.enom.com/resellers/overview_api.asp

The testing we've done so far, as we continue to build our service (pre-launch), has found the API capable of everything we need it to do, from domain checking and registration to e-mail forwarding address creation.

Would love to chat, as I suspect we'll be dealing with some similar issues (e.g. how to walk non-technical customers through transfering an existing domain name). You don't have any contact info in your HN about section, but feel free to send an e-mail to the address listed in mine.
The left fold: 2009-11-29: Java 7, Haskell 2010, plus experience reports
Morris Rosenthal's blog: http://www.fonerbooks.com/

Book - "Print-On-Demand Book Publishing": http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972380132/

Excellent resources, and Morris is very generous with his experience and advice. Highly recommended.
Here's the section in question: http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/outliers_excerpt3.html

Personally, I find it incredibly strange for someone to criticize an author for mispronouncing a single syllable word from a language he presumably doesn't know while reading an excerpt of a book he didn't write. He doesn't claim expertise and acknowledges his sources, who are experts, and he explicitly states that these are their arguments. What's the problem?
Harvard ignored warnings about investments
"ITER on the other hand has an 85+% chance of working (net energy gain)"

That is "working" only under an irrelevant definition of the word. The test of a commercial power system is not whether it can produce a net energy gain, but whether it can produce large amounts of energy at prices which compare favorably to coal and nuclear. Having a zillion hamsters run on wheels all day might well qualify as "working" in the sense of producing net energy, but we don't use it for a reason.

"and only costs the US ~1billion."

Although technically true, this is a gross misrepresentation of the actual cost, which is enormous.

"ITER was originally expected to cost approximately €5bn, but the rising price of raw materials and changes to the initial design may see that amount double." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

"All fusion devices ... need extensive containment and decommissioning costs."

Evidence? Lead is very cheap.

"The only way you can build a 20 million$ fusion reactor is by avoiding actually producing significant amounts of fusion."

Evidence?
Rabbit Vibrator
The value is defined by your test results. The tests generate scores that are roughly normally distributed up to about an IQ of 130 (two standard deviations), but then have many more people at high IQs than a bell curve would predict.

Most IQ tests can't even measure above 155 or so, anyway, and they obviously can't measure below 0. So it's a little silly to talk about them being normally distributed.
This article puts most of the blame on Summers for his expansion plans; I've seen other articles put the blame on Meyer and El-Erian for running the endowment like a hedge fund.
I would very much have preferred for this information to come to light via the legal way for exposing it: a FOI request. Unfortunately, there seems to have been a consp^H^H^H^H^H intentionally organized effort to defeat FOI requests. That makes things sort of a catch-22. (I am starting to believe the theory that this archive was prepared for a FOI request, quashed, and then leaked by a whistleblower. The argument that cinched it for me: how the heck did somebody get a random dump of emails and documents with the ratio of work : personal : spam looking like infinity: negligible: negligible? Either our mysterious hacker has OCD or someone was pretty careful when collecting this data.
If we each owned our own business, we would rarely reach the economies of scale that have increased standards of living for the last 200 years.
The Royal Society puts historic papers online
Sell Own Hosting Package Via Reseller Hosting
If you plan to enter the web hosting reseller business, make sure to choose the host with the best uptime guarantee, and hopefully a money back option.
Well put :) I asked the question because server admin is probably the area where we're weakest and I don't want to waste time trying to solve problems that could easily be solved by switching to another hosting provider.
If what you're saying is true, this is truly frightening. It's surreal looking at Google News and what hits the headlines is the drumbeat towards some type of deal at Copenhagen with this scandal hardly being discussed at all. It's difficult to reconcile the almost dismissive attitude of the general media and this scandal.

What perhaps frightens/annoys me the most is thinking that perhaps politically, some of these people are so invested in AGW that any new data is irrelevant so we will end up spending hundreds of billions if not trillions trying to deal with a problem that may end up not even to exist. Personally I think a lot of the changes in technology and energy usage favor reductions in greenhouse emissions and this should happen regardless, but some of these other massive costs...

I guess we'll see in coming days which narrative wins out - that nothing is done and is as irrelevant as the media thinks or the mainstream media begins covering the story grudgingly only because competing forces in governments (ie congressional investigations / investigations) make it impossible not to.
Germany Considers Google Analytics Ban
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Wikipedia: We’re Not Losing Contributors
The first three are so important and so often glossed over. It drives me crazy when I hear classmates look for the easy way out or avoid a problem because it's "hard." There's no professor in the real world and if something's hard, tough luck. It's important to start learning to teach yourself as early as possible and during school is a great time to do it. Learning to independently handle difficult problems is something best done in a nurturing environment, not somewhere like a job where you have more to lose.
The last two companies I've worked at both use GitHub. There are more GitHub vs. self-hosting comparisons (including mine) in this earlier thread, with a focus on security: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936187
Hold on a moment, he never calls any mind-virus (or any virus at all) "evil". In fact he points out that the differences between biological viruses and our genome are really only in the method of propagation each is targetting - viruses are no more "evil" than the genes for blue eyes are. I would also refer you to the part where Dawkins says that a complete genome can be regarded as a massive colony of viruses.

It is clear that declaring viruses (whether of the biological or mind type) as "evil" is to engage in silly anthropomorphism.
Cant see images on opera mobile or teashark.
It is common in Sweden that the police never return computers once they have been raided. If they give it back, it will usually at least take some years, the computers will be old by then.

Ugh. Stuff like this makes me so angry.
Why do we always take the side of consumers, what about producers rights ?
The missing point in the article is the role that OS software has in the Internet Companies. The greater economic impact is the savings and flexibility that has companies to run on a OS platform.

I would like to hear an estimation of how costly would be to run the Internet with only proprietary software.
They do that at my university for one of the project courses (where teams of 5-6 build a single application for one semester). Later on they make teams trade the code with eachother. I'm not there yet so I can't comment much.

My program is computer engineering, not CS, though.
with regards to the decision you have to make about fremium/premium etc there is one thing I think you need to consider that I can't see anybody else here has mentioned.

If a whole family sign up to your site and like it enough to use it they will probably become long term users. After all it would be a pain in the ass for them to try and collectively move to another service.

With this in mind, if you go the premium route, it may be in your interests to consider offering a more substantial sign-up discount - a 21 day free trial wouldn't excite me to try out your product.

Good luck in any case and keep HN up to date with how you guys are doing :)
Jay, do they have a PDF with their API reference available somewhere for download? I've tried to "get started" but they blasted me with pay up and sign up screen without showing a detailed list of all features available via the API.

Thanks.
"Malicious" then, or "malignant", if not "evil.

>"I have just discovered that without her father's consent this sweet, trusting, gullible six-year-old is being sent, for weekly instruction, to a Roman Catholic nun. What chance has she?"

Indeed, what chance has she? Mr. Dawkins speaks as if being a Catholic is equivalent to being dead.

>"Here we are talking about horizontal transmission, as in measles. Before, the epidemiology was that of vertical transmission, as in Huntington's Chorea."

Mr. Dawkins could not be more clear with his connotation.
What online sources would each of you recommend as better articles on the meme concept and the strengths and weaknesses of that concept?
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Just a quick thought, the holiday season (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas Gifts) is when a lot digital cameras are sold (especially DSLRs this year). You might be able to get some traffic (premium) by writing a blog post on tips on taking family photos, different DSLR settings, poses to try, etc.

This is my thought on how to target consumers who just bought/received a fancy camera and need a way to share the thousands of photos they took. That's the quality traffic you want. There might be other ways to target this group?
He was discussing the phonetic properties of Chinese words. If he'd just missed the tone or if he'd even have gotten remotely close, it wouldn't have been so bad.

The problem is that he decided to include the excerpt in his argument and didn't even bother to listen to the numbers, even when it would have been simple to do so if he wanted.

Edit: I guess the problem is the same as the igon values. He regularly writes with an air of authority about things he doesn't really have much understanding of. He's limited to quoting others' arguments as a journalist would.
This plugin was made to ease Greenscroll certificate installation to WP blog. It is surely helps those Greenscroll supporters who are not fluent in HTML and CSS.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?
Good call... but I don't know that the comparison is fair. Dogma basically ends with an obvious "god is good" message which LOB doesn't.

On the other hand, Dogma does suggest that none of the organized religions we have is correct...
It totally looks like the raids described in "Hacker Crackdown" the operation sundevil(citation needed). Even more like the raid of the illuminates game developers.They raid your office for no reason at all. Cant you sue them in anyway?
LOB could easily be made today.

Maybe without the one scene... (where he wakes up to a crowd of his followers.).
How well is the user interface working for you? With one browser, I get a frozen screen, and with another I get a paywall from that site.
Looks like this is the new domain for wordie.org from a couple years ago. Has the site been run continuously since then or is this a rebirth?
I signed up with Slicehost a few months ago. It was my first experience with VPS hosting and Unix.

As a beginner, Slicehost was really great. The control panel is really straight forward and easy to use, their support is quick and helpful, and their how-to articles are really great for beginners.

To quickly compare the how-to's in a similar category:
http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-hardy
vs
http://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/

So they both have articles for the absolute beginners, but it still seems like Linode slightly favors the more intermediate to advanced users in their how-to's. Purely subjective, but Slicehost's seem a bit easier to read / follow.

That being said, this article was incredibly interesting. Now that I have a bit more experience with VPS's and Unix, I am very tempted to head over to Linode.

I am still developing my web app on Slicehost but I have not seen any performance problems since I have very little traffic. I am now considering setting up the production server over at Linode when I'm ready to go live.

Thanks for the great article.
Programming: Notepad or Visual?
Are open source programmers fools and suckers?
> Erm... what's my day job?

Oh, I'm sorry, I made a silly assumption. From the "Dr." handle, and the FreeBSD contributions, I assumed you were an academic who had a sort of side business going.
No. No. No.

The IQ test was invented by Alfred Binet as a way of identifying people who were having trouble in school because they were mentally slow. For this he came up with a large number of different questions that exercised the brain in various ways, and figured out how well an average kid would do. When he gave the test to a real kid he would take their performance and figure out a "mental age" that they performed at. Their intelligence quotient was then defined as 100 * (mental age) / (physical age).

The development of IQ tests aimed at adults which are defined based on a bell curve was a later innovation. The name was kept simply because it was then well-known.
Brandon Sanderson is a good example.
http://twitter.com/BrandonSandrson/
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/
etc.
SLA's are not useless, they are just useless for commodity hosting.

If (say) the NYSE was negotiating for a host, they would make sure they had an SLA that gave massive damages if the host failed.

But for commodity hosting, the provider writes the contract. There is no way they are going to expose themselves to your losses other than a fixed refund for the time you lost. Not just because of the costs, but because the costs would be a PITA to calculate. If Twitter goes down and alienates its customers, how would you calculate the damage?
Yes, it's on December 11th, and will be recorded and available here: http://www.vimeo.com/user1295234 sometime in mid-December. Thanks for your interest! I'm looking forward to it.
Thank you for your input, I really like the idea of "turning things around."
The doctorate just means that I spent years at a university in the past, not that I'm still at a university. :-)

I am still very academic-minded, and serve my alma mater in a voluntary capacity on a few committees, but Tarsnap is absolutely a real business and is what I spend the vast majority of my time on.