skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started in IT field (support/sysadmin), I was advised that I should hold my positions for 2-5 years, and avoid job-hopping, cause it looks bad on the resume.

Fast forward 6 years, I quit my job, why? I started in tech support. I've worked night shifts, weekends, crazy schedules when someone was a on a leave or vacation. No compensation for it, crappy salary, little or no bonuses, night time work and weekend work was not paid according to the law in my country (no-one to complain about it, unfortunately). I kept working there because there was no better offer available, the team I worked in was made of great people, there was some promotion plans for me, and I had a loan to pay off.
I got promoted. OK, so now I'm a sysadmin, better salary, but still no compensation for working over-time, doing half-month rotation on-call standby if something brakes (and it did), etc. Please mind that the better salary was not a good one, just better.
Anyways, one of my fellow sysadmins gets called into active service (obligatory in my country), and I get stuck with constant on-call duty, same salary and again, little or no bonuses. This is where I start looking for options, and I after getting accepted at few other places, I decide to stay where I am, why? Better tech, more complicated work, challenging, etc.
A year later I discover that no social service, pension plans and med-care payments were made by my company for me or other people for the last 5 or 6 years ( in my country, the company pays for it, and it isn't quite easy for you to check that on a monthly bases), and I get net income, so I actually don't care about my gross income. I raise hell, and after a few clashes with local and upper management I decide to get the hell out of there.

So, in the end, my two cents are: Loyalty, to the company, friends, team at work, family, girlfriends, etc. has to be something that is deserved on their part, not expected from day one. Dedication and commitment should not be confused with it.

Anyways, I'm now freelancing, and working towards my degree in soft. engineering.
Other problem is though, A380's cost a lot but probably get built at a decent rate. If someone had say caused a software bug in say new horizons, that could mean no pluto mission for a decade if not longer. So no loss of life but certainly a big loss.
I am not sure I would like to be vulnerable to the whims of Microsoft.
They are neither Air apps nor Flash movies so are irrelevant to what Adobe are showing off here. This is about the performance of the Flash/Air runtimes, not the Flash CS5 cross-compiler.

Apples != Oranges.
Because ... what? Games are on the same level of "seriousity" as spam sites?
The Mac beta is finally available for users in Europe, I'm currently downloading the 3 GB file, I'm assuming the latest patches are already included because the filesize is significantly larger then on Windows.
Aggregating the top stories shared on facebook
What Goes Up Must Come Down
Like you don't go to a pub to have a few beers with your friends, but exchange a few tweets and FG status update comments...
This is what Flash can do in 2008
Consumer debt is not your friend
The steam iron
> A lot of us are likely to have enjoyed games for long enough

If you enjoyed a game which requires a Facebook login, you are doing it wrong.
Doesn't Opera's mobile browser do something like that? The requests go through an Opera proxy which optimizes images.
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Kind of an elitist asshole I think. Good Grades, Bad Grades, who cares?!?!, just take care of yourself, if your grades are good, great!, if your grades are bad, try harder, if you're already trying hard, then try something else which better matches your abilities, We ALL have talents.

The following pissed me off:

"Sure, poor grades can be an indicator of a creative mind but they can also indicate laziness, inability to concentrate, lack of knowledge and skill, inability to complete tasks, poor interpersonal skills etc. Good grades can sometimes mean slavish obedience (rarely), but are more likely to indicate, superior knowledge, better study skills, adaptability, great teamwork skills, quicker mind etc."
Doesn't HTML5 already support offline storage out of the box?
I think the more intuitive and simple the game is, the less amount of "tutorials" you will need. And if your game is as simple and intuitive as Mario, you don't need a tutorial at all.

For more complex games, such as WoW, you obviously need another approach. The tell - show - try you describe sounds like a good way of doing that.
The problem is that most of those sites are not interesting from an aesthetic point of view.

And that is the problem with SM IMHO. It talks about functionality and business and trends and optimization but uses only eye candy to prove it's point.

Don't get me wrong. I am all for good looking design, but it's quite obvious that unless you are able to sell your style. Style isn't part of what ultimately makes a business successful.
Apple unlikely to change SDK to fend off antitrust inquiry, says expert
(both of you) have a point, of course.

Then again I don't need to pull such stunts in order to install (any) userland software on my phone.
This sure is impressing, but nobody said Flash doesn't have some good features. The question is about whether anybody who wants to can implement a player for this page.
Women clothing trends for spring and summer 2010
Fashion is an ever-changing process and for women it is changing everyday even in every minute. Especially Indian women change their clothing trends in every occasion.
This looks more like local cache management for Ajax calls (probably using HTML5)
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Hey, this is REALLY neat! Thank you.
http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/ru/files/2008/04/bunker....

and

http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/ru/files/2009/02/hero.sw... (press space to rotate)
I think WoW has to do that because it's a very complicated interface with roots in the text-based MUDs of old (for example the combat log). I don't consider it an example of good UI/tutorial design.

Valve's Portal is how game tutorials should be done in my opinion. It introduces an unfamiliar game element (the wormhole gun) gradually: first you walk through pre-made wormholes, then you get to shoot one of the two wormhole entrances, and only then both of them. Even when you have the full portal gun, you get taught the various tricks (like accelerating by falling into a portal) one at a time. None of this is explained by a wall of text, rather, the level design itself suggests the only possible solution. This is all done so subtly that it hardly feels like a tutorial at all. In fact, for the player, the levels just get gradually harder and require you to combine more and more of the skills and tricks you've figured out earlier.

It works brilliantly, and makes for a much stronger experience than any of the text or voice based game tutorials I've seen so far.
Ask HN: Your all time favorites, three pieces of music?
Hello there HN'ers,

Everbody that meant something in my life has influenced my taste in music somehow, either by introducing me to stuff I had never heard before or by making me listen again to music that I knew about but did not find interesting, and making me look at it with new eyes (or, better, hear it with new ears).

What are your favorite pieces of music?

I promise I'll go and hunt them up and I'll listen to them without prejudice. Popular, classical, jazz, anything goes, as long as it is really special to you.

To kick it off, here are mine:

Pat Metheny, The Dream of the Return

October Project, Ariel

Ralph Towner, The Silence of a Candle
The point is that we enjoyed games from before Facebook existed, and this is a parody of some of the ways some elements of game design have gotten worse.

If you don't like games, why not just comment in other threads? I don't shit all over threads about a Twitter app I don't care about with "lol web 2.0 another twitter app gj guys". I will admit I was tempted when there was a rash of weight-loss posts, though. ;-)
I think those screens were more a remark on the way that every new game seems to sign you up to a shitty social network that nobody cares about.
Good work ethic. But so what about the projects that never seem to finish? You know, the ones that can be done in 6 months and end up taking 5+ years.

I am working on a project right now(in healthcare) that I thought I could finish in a year's time. After every meeting, I think to myself that I'd be lucky if I can finish it in a decade because of bureaucracy and incompetence. What then? I am not going to stay until the project is done, I am mortal after all!
Not respecting dvorak keyboard layout, even in 2008?
It's just plain displacement mapping. It's a very simple (and old), but versatile technique allowing a large amount of effects to be done. The first time I saw this was in 93 or 94, rendered in real time in 256*256 in 25 fps, on an Amiga running a 14mhz 68020 processor. THAT was impressive to me, but seeing this 15 years later in 15-20 fps in Flash on a 2ghz machine just isn't.
nice try, newspaper executive
I wouldn't be able to stomach that situation, but I wonder if the hypothetical author is just much more mentally sane than I am. Maybe the story is really about sanity.
Agreed. However, it does become your life when you work 16 hours a day. Simply because you really don't have any life left to live. Except if you consider sleeping time to be a vacation.
Agreed.

Related: playing through Portal with the developer commentary on is really interesting. For anyone who's interested in this stuff, it's a must-listen.
A bit drastic, but it's a start ;)

Seriously, even the author wrote that only as 'bait', but there is a subtle point to it, which is that at a gut level these people must know that they are acting against our common best interest by exploiting legal loopholes. As long as we commend lawyers on exploiting the letter of the law while raping its spirit there will be no end to this.

In the end it boils down to the fact that words are inadequate vehicles to express concepts in, we can do all we want, thoughts and concepts are fluid entities, they can not be expressed in words without losing something. It's like digitization always is a 'lossy' process.

So by using piles of words ('legalese') we can try to limit the number of gaps and the size of the gaps between the intention and the description of the intention, given enough time there will always be new holes found.

It's the basis of biblical interpretation and it is the basis of the enormous increase in legislation and jurisprudence, and why we need things like a supreme court.

The patent system is old by technological standards, it has become a liability and it stifles innovation more than that it promotes it.

If we have to go back to a world without disclosure and of trade secrets then so be it, I predict that that in the longer term will also be found 'wanting' as loopholes in those constructs will be discovered, but in the short to mid term (say another century?) we're better off without them.
Philips sells a system to 'rights holders' and to organizations like the RIAA, BUMA and GEMA, that works along these lines, but iirc their sample length is 15 seconds.

Funny we caught on to the same plan of attack :)
Shii isn't very sane. He was perma-banned from the Awful Forums in 2005 for umm... bad things. Google for shii somethingawful if you want to find the thread. It's definitely not safe for work.
What the author says is sometimes true, but for a very small proportion of the underachievers. A very large proportion of the underachievers, however, will think that they are part of that small proportion.

It is the same with IQ: IQ and cleverness are not always very well correlated, but those with a high IQ will think that there is more correlation than there is while those with a low or average IQ will think that there is less.

Meh. Show me one person who isn't in denial about their abilities in one thing or another, and I'll show you someone who's better at hiding it than you are at detecting it.
I second that thanks - looks very useful.
Yes, those are all good reasons, and as a delighted reader of "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" (http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy... Highly Recommended!) I knew about their leading role as a container port although not that they're now the biggest.

What I'm sort of musing about is why Japan wasn't chosen. If this were the '80s it would be much more likely, but compared to then Japan is now less politically and socially stable, it's been mired in what is now it's second Lost Decade, the government's "active role in fostering business growth" is gone or incompetent at doing that per se and between the economics and demographics I don't know of anyone who I respect who thinks it has a future.

And I suspect the economic center of gravity of east Asia has moved away from Japan and likely in Singapore's direction. Singapore has of course been hit by the Great Recession, but not (as of yet) catastrophically so, so they're suitably hungry.

If the guess that both of us have made that the Singapore government had a hand in this is correct, it's obviously easier to deal with a small city state than a much larger nation.
Yes, for the planning I was involved in where we took the tasks planned to the hours, 4 hours a day of productive coding was the most matching value.
Mac fandom taken too far: Cupidtino, dating site for Mac users
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CL and Clojure are very different Lisps.
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Mozart - Requiem Mass in D Minor

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
Yes - this is an abstraction around that, based on the already existing jQuery.getJSON method.
Licences could kill MPEG-4 (2002)
If everyone bought an iPad your company's product would die, not the iPad.
The hero example is a lot better than the one you posted.
I thought this historical document was appropriate to recent news. Key quotes:

"The licensing structure is putting the technology on a path to become irrelevant in the PC industry" -- RealMedia CEO

and

"Apple immediately rejected the proposed licensing terms, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo."

The article it links to is interesting too,

Apple spurns proposed MPEG-4 licenses:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-835740.html

Of course with the benefit of hindsight we can see how well MPEG-4 part 2 did in the web streaming market. I think it's fair to summarize it as "killed stone dead by VP6".
Agreed - Also worth looking at the other examples est posted lower in the discussion. Those are more interesting.
With HTML5

http://www.benjoffe.com/code/demos/canvascape/textures
Yeah I was thinking that as I scrolled through.. Yeah they're pretty in a "here's 25 cool designs" blog post, but I can't honestly say I would be able to look at these designs for any substantial amount of time, and they certainly wouldn't be acceptable for any kind of SaaS sites.
If you value insights on how others use technology, such as Patrick (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11) occasionally posts, it's worth taking a look at the comments ( http://forums.reghardware.co.uk/forum/1/2010/05/04/grouptest... ).

I particularly like #5 ( Well my dear young chap.... by
Cody http://forums.reghardware.co.uk/post/755522 ).

Personally, I find it a pity that mobile phone makers seem ashamed to make a phone with a readable monochrome screen.
Thoughtful essay that I bet rubs some people the wrong way. I permanently delicio.us bookmarked this, but I am not sure which of my friends and family (if any) I'll send the URL to.
>not very many places want candidates with 5 years experience in pretending to work.

Except as far as any one else was concerned he had 5 years of experience "running the company" and he had the Vice President as a reference to back him up on that. I don't think it would be any harder for him to get a job than if he'd spent those 5 years actually doing his job
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I find that throw-away comment is a revelation to me.

The American education system teaches its bright students to game the system. Then they go to work for Enron or Goldman-Sachs, and game the system.

I've lived my life viewing the world through a peculiarly British narrative. Upper class twits preside over a broken system with perverse incentives. Why doesn't it fail? Partly because of the plucky grammar school boy who grows up to occupy a key technocrat role and who heroically resists the lure of perverse incentives and does the right thing. Partly because of the inherent decency and solidarity of the working class, who will not shaft each other even if the system pays them to.

So the American experience, in which mainstream people are always looking for an angle and a way to game the system, seems quite alien to me. Duh! It is the way they have been brought up.
The supreme court recently had to have emails vs text messages explained to them (and then they still didn't get it).

http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2010/04/19/technical-dif...

When it comes to technology, we're pretty much not going to get an intelligent ruling.
So, what they actually have is N cameras focused at different distances, plus a distance-measuring device; then the image they produce is basically a mosaic of the N cameras' images, choosing whichever one is nearest to being in focus.

The clever bit is yet another camera, of a different kind, which somehow determines distance-to-camera at high resolution. Supposedly the key to this is the fact that intensity is proportional to 1/distance^2, but just how they use this (given that different objects will be different in brightness) the article doesn't say.

Fortunately, the lead researcher has a press release at http://individual.utoronto.ca/iizuka/research/OmnifocusVideo... with a bit more detail: they illuminate the scene with two IR sources in turn, one closer than the other, and look at how brightness changes between the two. (So they have C/r^2 and C/(r+k)^2, where k is the known separation between the IR sources, r is the distance to the nearer source, and C is the IR reflectivity; from that they can compute r.) I guess this doesn't work so well with anything that doesn't reflect enough IR.

At present N=2, and their demonstrations all show an image with some "near" and some "far" bits and nothing in between. Presumably they've carefully focused one camera on the "near" and one on the "far".

Using N cameras in this way gets you N times the depth of field, and 1/N as much light into each camera. If instead you make your aperture N times smaller, you again get N times the depth of field, but now 1/N^2 as much light into the camera. So it does seem possible that it might be a win, for applications where you really want as much depth of field as possible, and nothing in your scene is moving much, and everything reflects enough IR.
Do you advise suicide or normalisation for average grade students ?
So, 6 to 8 hours is the optimal range? That's how long I usually sleep, mostly towards 7 hours per night. And no alarm clock. My favourite alarm clock is the Sun, so if I really don't want to risk oversleeping, I open the blinds/curtains/shutters before going to bed.
The truth is scarier than the most outlandish lie.
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Moral relativism is not the answer. By judging people you make certain careers less attractive. People from top colleges are often status-conscious, so the media can influence their decisions by painting Wall Street in a positive or negative light. This can be a good thing when if talent is indeed "wasted" at Wall Street.

> Surely, they know best how to make their own choices

People don't generally make their own choices. People tend to gather 2 or 3 options (4 or 5 if they're from top schools) and then they "decide" by picking one of those options. It's completely baffling, but people are guided by the choices in front of them, not by where they want to go.
Thanks for the info - I'll skip the Googling... :-)

Or maybe there is a lesson in that? Ie you can stomach the most awful situations by letting off steam on another forum?
> Were they resting on their laurels thinking they had won the market?

Absolutely. Microsoft has totally stagnated, and only now are they going "oh crap..." and realizing that the market has moved on. Nobody thinks of Microsoft products as being truly innovative or groundbreaking. It's an unfortunate consequence/abuse of the clout that they've had in the technology space in the past few decades. Grow too big for your own good and blanket the marketplace with mediocre products.
He was being sarcastic. His point was that people should stop being so narrow-minded as to exactly what they expect to see on HN and get away from the sometimes formulaic waves of articles about whatever the buzzword of the day is.

Rather than backseat moderating against topics people think are uninteresting, they should just focus on submitting good quality, interesting articles about whatever could pique the curiosity of the readership.
How does the saying go? I think it's, "The half-life of a CS degree is 7 years." (Yes I know he got his masters in physics in the story.)

Being out of practice, he'd probably have trouble answering interview questions and writing code.
Wooden Half Adder
yes a demo as others would be great !

Until that is done , the rest can use
user : test@test.com
pass : test
To see what it does !

Also when i reorder the list ,it would be nice if the edit wouldnt pop up !
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Freebase has some great info about food and drink: http://www.freebase.com/view/food You may find the following link useful to get a deeper understanding of tagging wrt freebase. http://blog.freebase.com/2009/06/10/common-tag-using-freebas...
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please someone tell me it's fiction, it was soooo funny, I had to take a few breaks while reading it.
I don't think that the patent system is bad by itself. There was a time when it did bring value to the innovator. It served as a series of rules to describe a relatively simple system. The negative thing is that it doesn't scale well. It's in need of a serious overhaul or things will only get worse.
The title is a Shakespeare quote/paraphrase which, amusingly, many lawyers interpret as being a resounding endorsment of the role of lawyers in society:

http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html
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I do not mean that you need to do any of that Semantic* stuff. just extract the tags from freebase if that is all that you care :). But the semantic stuff is indeed food for thought!