skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in that meaning, it still doesn't make sense. Say there was an abstracted twitter standard defined in an RFC, and a library was provided for interacting with it. There is no Twitter(tm), just implementations of the twitter RFC.

Even then, I need to know what the names of the properties are that I have to provide to the fantasy-land-compliant-whatever. Being an expert in fantasy land doesn't tell me that "message" is the property that contains the body of the twitter-compliant message. I still need an api.
Yeah, this. There is ageism out there, and it happens younger in tech than in other industries, but it's far less of an issue than all other forms of hiring discrimination I can think of.

I've been a part of hundreds of interviews for dozens of engineering positions at a variety of companies and organizations. While I have witnessed clear-cut ageism with qualified older candidates, it's with the distinct minority of older candidates, and typically only with borderline ones. Compare to even the most qualified female candidates, where there's almost always a strong undercurrent of sexism, or non-Asian minority candidates, where there's almost always a strong undercurrent of racism^.

So I won't deny that ageism is a problem but - in the case of white dudes - it's the jolt of a sudden uphill at the end of a couple decades of easy slightly downhill coast. Compared to continuous vertical climb that women and non-Asian minorities have to put up with in engineering, it's a pretty modest problem that the affected have both ample time and opportunity to prepare for.

^- The tech industry isn't, at least in my experiences, blatantly racist/sexist these days. Anecdotally, women and minorities have an easier time making it through HR/recruiter screening. It's a more subtle and pernicious effect in tech interviews, where correct answers are overscrutinized for flaws and even marginally incorrect answers are blown out of proportion. Never seen this with older (white/Asian, male) candidates.
The 805 is by far the worst freeway in SD. During any commuting time, you are bound to crawl.
It's how they make money, but it is sad from an OSS developer perspective. At least they didn't offer it and then remove it like TypeSafe did with their Slick/MSSQL driver.

I've written a thing about this kind of business model: http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
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Just chiming in to say Diablo on a CRT looks damn good, played it on one back in 2012 and as a kid back when it was released. Very immersive. On your typical LCD screen? Yech. The difference in quality of experience is huge.

Diablo on a CRT looks better and feels better than Diablo 2 on any monitor imho, and is on par with Diablo 3's visuals (and still has a better feeling of physicality, unlike D3 where bodies are clipping left and right).
That's the wrong direction. You can use v2 code with that sentence in the license in a v3 codebase, not vice-versa (unless you upgrade your codebase to v3 entirely, but since GPLv2 was explicitly mentioned that probably is not an option for whatever reason).
while gpl does spread. It also protect the owner. With a more permissive license a bigger player can steal your work, user base and make it proparitary closed source. Why do u think M chose MIT instead of GPL ?
I'm the wrong audience to try and slow-sell this to, but I appreciate the try.
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It's up, it should have caching? Guess that isn't working right for them. lol
IMO, this problem is mostly a factor of the consolidation of finance.

The roll up of banking makes it impossible for smaller enterprises to get traditional capital. We moved away from the old, boom/bust distributed banking model towards a weird form of command economy with a cartel of mega-banks, which are really just proxies for the government.

People blame technology for the post-recession economy, but I think the billions/trillions of capital the flooded the market never made it into the economy. No wonder little is happening outside of businesses that work with a venture model.
How many milligrams of caffeine per pea-sized serving is there? People who really like caffeine also really want to know how much they're getting. "Medium" cup of coffee could be anywhere from like 30mg to 80mg.
Yeah, the incentives on wall street hugely promote risks. You'll get paid a huge bonus if your bet pays off. And then downsides are limited to just losing your job, in which case you just go get a new one.
I can imagine plenty of valid reasons for not being able to ship a brand new product outside of the US. The author didn't promise anyone that at least 6% or more of the global population could immediately order this product or anything.

In any case, most of HN probably lives in the US.
Building UI in a Functional setting
> the Macintosh was going to feature user-friendly interfaces; a screen that could handle multiple fonts (that is, bitmapped screens); graphics capabilities; and a graphical input device.

There is a big difference between having a bitmapped screen and graphical input on one hand, and having a Starlike WIMP user interface on the other. This sounds like it was written by someone who has never seen anything else.
That's a good point. There's bad code. And then there's that's not how I would do it code. Too often, in public the latter gets treated like the former. When you're still open to learning this is confusing. That is, do I suck? Or is that feedback coming from an asshole?
I never had any problem finding serious gigs on freelancer.com. Advertise your rate (in my case 70-100$/h depending on the technology), without bowing down to the $10/h bids. Just the fact that you can write a grammatically correct sentence in your bid, with a few questions showing that you know what the problem is about, is enough to get you a solid gig. If people don't hire you because you are too expensive / think they can get away with a cheaper bid, you don't want to work for them. Now, there are obviously a lot of great programmers living in places with lower living costs, but they are already buried in projects anyway. I usually find a good "day" gig in about 1-2 h on freelancer. Do two or three of those, with clients who turn out to be solid, intelligent and paying promptly, and you most probably found a reliable pipeline of work.
Ask HN: Why aren't their taxes in the country the patent is held?
Indeed, I haven't found a Bay Area IPA that's in the same league as Alpine.
Yeah I have a feeling we'll be seeing this silly face quite a bit in toy stores soon.
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VR’s Big Surprise: 3-D Worlds Have Little Appeal
"...The blind forces of urbanization, flowing along the lines of least resistance, show no aptitude for creating an urban and industrial pattern that will be stable, self-sustaining, and self-renewing. On the contrary, as congestion thickens and expansion widens, both the urban and the rural landscape undergo defacement and degradation, while the unprofitable investments in the remedies…serve only to promote more of the blight and disorder they seek to palliate." (Mumford)
You must be pretty unhappy with Apple for such a thing to be the breaking point, or audio on your computer via headphones is super important to you?

I only use it for conferencing. I use my phone for music, etc.

Of course I could never be an audiophile, I have some hearing loss, so I have some built in tolerance to quality deficiencies simply because I couldn't discern them anyway.

I'm actually afraid to use the audio jack on my MBPr. It grabs the adapter so hard I'm afraid something in the jack will break. This happened on my last MBP where the jack got stuck in audio mode due to some crappy little mechanical switch getting stuck or breaking in the jack.
Thanks man! I'll fix that.
Have you read some of his other stuff? Like the legendary Alameda-Weekawken Burrito Tunnel?
> As Calhoun saw it, the repression they had suffered at the hands of their superiors had resulted in deviant, creative, and thus adaptive behaviour.

Could it also be that the group was simply different, and suffered because it was different/non-dominant, but it was not the suffering that made them different to begin with? And getting away from the main group allowed them to do those things?

I would posit a utopia where there is such a thing as "dominant group" is not a utopia, after all.

Remember these guys? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/no-time-for-bullie...

Groups of people interested in esoteric things who just want to be left alone... sounds familiar.
> Uh, isn't that "move" enforcement of the results of multilateral negotiation (the EU and its rules)?

Well in that case, shouldn't it actually be Ireland that got fined instead of retroactively taxing Apple?
> It means making it easier for consumers to move their data from one company to another

I think this would be absolutely brilliant. The ability to readily move data from one service provider to another would provide a much-needed boost for competition in the digital space.

I don't know how common it is, but at least in Finland one can move their mortgage from one bank to another if they get a better deal elsewhere [1]. Or, one can move their mobile phone subscription and keep the old number. I find these kinds of service transfer entitlements essential for efficient competition.

[1] Or technically: one can always pay their Euribor bound mortgage off without extra cost, and take a new mortgage from another bank.
I was just reading the Wikipedia page on Linked timestamping yesterday. Though I don't know that this is what Galois & Guardtime are doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping
>The world’s first caffeinated toothpaste

I mean, it's not the first, is it?

Here's a kid who had the same idea last year:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-teen-entr...

Here's one from 2008: http://buzztoothpaste.blogspot.co.uk/
Limited lifespan of Habitable Zones around other stars
If it's exposed through JMX, would it also be visible via something like jvisualvm?
Truly, "NEET" is a mental health issue in almost every case; when you look at it carefully it seems like a terrible way to live. Being utterly disconnected from your peers and potential social contacts is just not good for the human animal.
What made it possible to track down the RNG function was that the Computer History Museum has a big archive of Alto code [1]. By searching that site with Google, I found the random number source code. Of course figuring out the code is a bit of a challenge since it's in BCPL or Nova assembly.

Hopefully as part of our Alto restoration we'll be able to add more old Alto disks to the online archive. Maybe the disk labeled "Alan Demo" will have an exciting long-lost Alan Kay demo on it :-)

[1] http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org
OskarS is agreeing with the parent comment.

"I think this critique is just plain wrong on its face" is a critique of the article.
Yes! The only reason several projects I worked on used Java was due to its ability to run on several platforms (especially Linux). .Net is a very solid framework with C# being absolutely awesome and, in my opinion, far better than Java.

I'm excited I may be able to play with C# again in the very, very near future.
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If I understand it right a lot corp tax avoidance is moving patents to subsidiaries in low tax nations. Seems like if I have a US patent and I license it to someone it should be considered US income. Am I missing something?
I thought the last tech bubble also brought us caffeinated toothpaste.
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Alt+D will have the same functionality as CTRL+L with less finger strain.
Have you considered that it might not be a command? Human communication is much more nuanced than just the words on their own would indicate.

Where I'm from it's commonly meant as shorthand for "cheer up, it's not that bad" or "try to keep your chin up". Both of which actually indicate that the speaker cares about their colleague.
No it is evasion. CRA have launched an investigation.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cra-launches-re...
IMO building classic websites is a solved problem, while building web apps isn't.

Classic websites have CMS, things like Wordpress, and a ton of MVC frameworks that have been tweaked over the last decade, like Rails, Django, ASP.NET MVC, etc. When it wasn't a solved problem, a new one like this was popping up in the news every other week.

Now, that that's done, people are trying to do other things, like complex web apps...and so that's where the brain time is being spent.
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True, but they often run into the nearest stationary object because they're texting, or eating, or putting on makeup (an ex-gf of mine caused TWO accidents that way), or arguing with a passenger, or speeding, or driving tired after a long day of work, or driving after having a few beers but I'm totally fine I swear I'm cool to drive home, etc...

You're absolutely right that there are risks. But honestly, I suspect drunk drivers alone cause more fatal accidents than autonomous cars ever could.
> Configure Searches to periodically run against a variety of data sources. You can define a custom pipeline of Filters to manipulate any generated Alerts and forward them to multiple Targets.

When I read this I thought it was some sort of scraping service or something, a bit like IFTTT where you can hook things together
What a hunk of shit
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That might be their marketing message, but I think you'd be hard pressed to tell me how, exactly, Apple products are in any way more luxurious than other products on the market. Higher quality in some cases maybe, but I don't know about luxury.

That said, it doesn't challenge the argument that at any price point, be it $100 or $10,000, you'll get better sound from hard wired cans. Is that not party of the luxury equation?
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Because Apple didn't pay the tax it owed to Ireland, Ireland should pay something? To whom, Apple? What could justify that?
There's another dimension that I think you're missing, which is having sensible levels of abstraction.

A good, easy to understand codebase is one that has a minimal number of components that interact with each other in a well-organized and easty-to-understand manner. Those components, in turn, should each be made of a minimal number of sub-components that interact with each other in a clear, well-organized manner. And on down until you hit bedrock. Doing this is essential because it sets up boundaries that limit the amount of code and interactions that you need to juggle in your head at any one moment.

A programmer who doesn't understand this will produce horrible, tangled, tightly-coupled code regardless of whether they're doing it with a boiling soup of global variables or a boiling soup composed together from tiny "well-factored" classes that all implement interfaces containing only a single CQRS-compliant method.

I'd submit that there's another level of programmer, let's call it the SubGenius programmer (because the term tickles me) who thinks that levels 1, 2 and 3 programmers all share a sloppy work ethos and need to spend more time stepping back to keep an eye on how the forest looks instead of obsessing about trees all the time.
Didn't he say something about how it's just a job for regular expressions ;-)
Sure, let's call it "scientific", but let's not imagine this will ever be "complete".

Here's another question: what's a "complete" catalogue of behavior? What are the "correct" responses to behavior?

These things don't exist; your attempt to produce a complete theory describing them is a doomed effort. Science is a liminal enterprise. Wriggle your little forearms in frustration all you like, you'll never have a "complete" understanding.
a few ux things:

- background image could be a little more crisp for big screens and retina

- white text at the bottom doesn't indicate what is clickable and the "Site Design © 2016 Jabari Holloway" is much to prominent for something that adds little value to the site

- blue buttons look very bootstrappy, I'd use the outline versions (there is a button-outline for bootstrap, no?) to keep the weightless look fitting the theme of the site.

- some subtle shadow on the floating text in the color for the "black" in the picture would add readability, fading away really close stars (just 1-2px at 50% opacity can to wonders and is hardly noticeable as a shadow)

- the about screen needs a big button for [come on in and have a look], the close button is counter-intuitive and hard to find here.

- the reddish text in the about me looks a bit off, I'd stick to black, white and your highlight color blue

- I'm personally not a big fan of half-transparent backgrounds.

- I like the paging on the stories, but once you scroll the back button is gone, it should be always visible

- I would consider always showing all menu points, make achievements and stories visually different, but keep them on screen.

- I like animations to be very quick, so I don't have to wait for them to "use" the site. The growing glow to make the text readable is much too slow for my taste. Maybe use "ease-out" to quickly grow to size and still have a smooth stop.

- a fancy suggestion: show all achievements and stories, but connect each group like star constellation and have "Stories" and "Achievements" as the constellations names ( http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~jeffery/astro/constellation/con... )

- when scrolling down on stories, the bottom menu moves up the page, guess that's not supposed to happen.
I'll let you know once I play with the new drop for .NET Core.
Graylog is awesome!. I have developed few plugins for Graylog too. I miss the console-like interface of Papertrail to view logs in Graylog.
I had a similar experience with MS employees for an issue on a third party SQL driver using it with Azure SQL... very courteous, professional, and was included on some internal email chains to keep me informed. It did take a couple days, but the effort was very nice to say the least.

It was an Azure team member that spotted the bug and worked with some of the MS SQL guys to resolve the issue.

I can't speak for the larger organization, but will say that the Azure and .Net Core teams have been incredibly open and responsive. And with a huge amount of their devdiv stuff in Github, it doesn't surprise me they'd be one of the largest corporate contributors on Github.
Since this doesn't go well with HTTP/2 so far, we'll have to stick with ModSec for the time being.

> https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi/issues/227
But don't ageism always happened to be reverse? I still roll my eyes when a early 20's try to sells me idea of marketing - and although you can have a lot of good ideas at that age, you still don't have life and work experience that is needed to go trough massive amount of stress or unknown situations. I think it's fine that kids who run new business don't want old folks in there. It's a bit of a return of the balance. If you're too old to get hired, how about starting a new business with other oldies?
Buffering reduces video watch time by ~40%, according to research
I'm not aware of how ITT loan discharge will proceed[1] but they shut down because they didn't want to keep the necessary amount of cash on hand so that if they did shut down they could forgive all the loans their current students were issued.

[1] <https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/announcements/itt/faq>
> You are conflating "philosophizing" with "the modern academic study of philosophy."

For me that's like having sex compared to studying porn, or like walking around the block instead of watching sports. You can belittle it while I enjoy its fruits.
--This works for me on build 1511 for edge... Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I can search for anything as long as its not recognized as a TLD. It appears to have the same functionally as chrome in regards to searching vs. browsing.--

EDIT: Ok, I missed the part where you switched the search to google, now it fails completely, sad.
Dealers in Lightning would seem to contradict Gladwell's account plus the first video with the others being background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOF-j6Nxm04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J33pVRdxWbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614
Who believes that? Maybe the people who believe that sexism is the industry's fault also believe ageism is the victim's fault?
All of the tech jobs are in bland industrial office parks? Protip: Don't literally emulate Silicon Valley by building your tech scene to resemble boring, culture-less suburban Santa Clara County. Don't build it to resemble overpriced, under-serviced urban San Francisco, either. Innovate a better model.
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"Sign up to view more plans"

Except that after I sign up, I still can't view the plans until I set up my billing details. Meh.
... or that you can have a .local domain (added to hosts file) for a local VM, every other browser can hit with no problem but not Edge. The only solution I have found that consistently works is to start Fiddler4 (as described in the 4th comment down by Dave Kennard - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32384571/why-does-micros...). Then it works.
Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
Notwithstanding the authors comments about location, I didn't want the engineers who want to stay in San Diego to miss the opportunity to do so because they were not aware of the great opportunities (companies) that are here. Many of these companies are hiring, and some of the most explosive are downtown:
DOWNTOWN:
MindTouch
Classy
Take Lessons
GoFormz
Underground Elephant
Sweetlabs
ChatMeter
Tap Hunter
Zesty.io
Skysafe

MID-Torrey/Mira Mesa/Solana:
Tealium
iBoss
Seismic
Certona
Nervana (recently purchased by Intel)
Zebit
Ingenu
StackIQ
Slantrange
GovX
SOCI
Peachtree
Zingle
Cordial
AttackIQ
PacketSled

NORTH
Verve Mobile
NTN Buzztime
Luxtera
Source Intelligence
VoxOx

And this is only pure tech companies - not including the cross-over healthcare IT/analytics companies...

Good luck hunting. These companies are hiring UCSD grads.
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You've described it perfectly. Like piecing together a delicate mosaic.
Ireland is the one (accused to be) violating treaties it signed, with the goal of getting an advantage over other signatories, so it is not unlogical that it could be fined in some way for doing so.
Also that time they messed up their auto-billing and stole $7 million from their customers.
In an ideal world, consider providing a standard API (e.g. OpenStack) rather than a provider-specific one.
Well, it really depends on the scale. If you do small sprites then it can be really satisfying.

Pixel art is a niche but it is still alive and I have been considering to investigate up-scaling methods that are more suitable for it.

For example there is a game OpenTTD (https://www.openttd.org) that is based on the pixel art and while attempts have been made to great higher resolution graphics based on the renders then most of these attempts, with some exceptions, have fallen flat. So people play with mixed graphics and such methods could make it more enjoyable if the up scaling of the lower resolution sprites would work better.

You can check out the forum https://www.tt-forums.net/viewforum.php?f=26 and mostly inactive http://www.simuscape.net/simutalk/index.php for examples of custom graphics made for this game (and older hack, TTDPatch).