skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, TIL dual 2GHz, 4GB RAM and 160GB of storage is "reasonably spec-ed". I use half that and i love it, i don't even know what i'd do with more.
God yes. I have friends who work in TV. For them, there is no such thing as "crunch time" - just 14+ hour days 7 days a week. And they get paid and treated like shit.

I don't quite understand the glamour of the business. When I hear stories from my friends it just makes me angry that million dollar salaries are subsidized by such shitty working conditions.
I'm going to agree with you and take it a step further: MySQL vs NoSQL shouldn't even BE a battle. Pick whatever technology or software is right for your application. If you're choosing sides on any other basis, you're losing.
Netflix Lowers Outlook, Citing Disgruntled Customers
There isn't a specific example feed. It used to happen for all unread posts. I don't know if it still happens or not as I don't leave enough posts unread anymore.

The exact behavior was with several hundred unread posts in Reader with the oldest unread being 2-3 months old the oldest posts would slowly disappear. I know it was happening because they would be posts I wanted to read but didn't have time to so I would notice when they disappeared. It is possible they were still in Reader in a read state but I never bothered to check.
Reading code is more difficult then writing code. Understanding a complex system is difficult -- understanding a complex system with poor architecture is nearly impossible.

If anyone is bidding on the work without looking at your code first, that's a good sign they're someone to avoid. If someone had a large project they wanted modified, I'd expect to spend a few hours with the code before agreeing to work. If it was really awful, I'd probably turn down the job.

Very few good programmers are looking for jobs. When you say "bad reference online" it makes me wonder if you're hiring from a site like odesk ... and those sites are generally programmers scraping the bottom. If I drew the wrong conclusion from that comment I apologize.
They should sell it off to Yahoo. That'd be rich.
"Be Remarkable."? He could have picked any positive adjective out of the thesaurus and it would been as useful as that. Weak article.
Didn't cause me any problems Chrome 13.0.782.99 beta, Mac OS X
I used to only use textmate because eclipse/adt was soooo slow. Since adt 12 is out and i have a brand new iMac eclipse is working just fine for me now. That said i still use ant to manually compile my releases.
That is not a bad idea, actually. It could be a way of having time for other things, which could even be an idea to start a company at some point.
Very well done, Google PR team! Almost fooled me;)
Save Tons of Time Using Automator for Mac – Video Tutorial
No. It was not a specific blog. I explained the issue in more detail in child comment of your comments sibling. It has been months if not years since I last noticed it so Google may have fixed it.
"If the situation was different, Google was successful, and released Android before the original iPhone, they would be the one holding the patents to fight off competition."

I believe (some of) the patents HTC got dinged with were granted before Google or HTC were founded (1996 iirc).

Investing more or less, paying attention more or less to mobile or any other kind of patent wouldn't have helped them to not be in violation. Might have helped them to not get challenged, but they would just as surely be in violation. A time machine was required.

I realize this is an over-generalization, but it seems to me that any mobile software company (not just OS, but of any kind) must have a license agreement for basically all the patents from Microsoft, Apple, Motorola, and Nokia at a minimum or they can be assured to be in violation of a patent. It is all but guaranteed. Everyone, including those mentioned, certainly violate each others patents.
It doesn't mean that the author has to do whatever you tell them to.

Right. Likewise, you're not obligated to help people pick things up or hold doors open for people. But you do it because it's a reasonable response. The maintainer had the right to respond how he did, that doesn't mean he should have, if he was interested in building rapport with the community, or improving the product. (This is sort of how companies have the right to provide poor customer service, but may prefer to yield that right even at added costs.) This is about bug reporting etiquette and the fact that being uptight about code sample procedures may be in bounds, but also counterproductive.
Discussion: In-App Purchasing - will greed kill it?
In-App Purchasing is the big topic nowadays, with LodSys suing many people (most recently, Rovio i.e. Angry Birds). However another thing that has been under the radar but still a big issue is Apple claiming 30% cut from all In-App purchases through the App Store.

Not only that, but Apple is now starting to enforce a new TOS, which mandates that any item that can be purchased within the App itself must be available for purchase through the App Store at least. This is an artificial monopoly reminiscent of the dominant IE days: a platform with a majority influence imposing an artificial lockdown on developers.

Now the major book publishers are pulling their their apps down, and converting to external app purchasing only (buy through web) as the 30% cut is simply too high for them to deal with. EDIT: apparently the TOS are even worse than I thought... you can't even link to an external url within your app anymore, if it contains a way for you to buy things externally. Amazon has updated their Kindle App to remove the link to the Kindle Store. WTF Apple.

What does HN think? Does In-App purchasing still have a place as it is now? Or will Apple relent and try more competitive pricing to entice people to use it? Or will developers simply shun it forever.
I hate time tracking so I created this a couple of weeks ago:

https://timestreamapp.com

It's not for everyone (takes a different approach), but it might work for you.
As someone who uses Eclipse pretty regularly, what don't you like about it? I'd never really used big IDEs before I got into Java either, so I'm curious.
Oh well, why would you care about long-term strategy if your only intent is just to short sell those MSFT shares quickly.

It's a link-bait. If GOOG can give away almost everything for free to distract their competitors and protect their core revenue (search and ads), then why shouldn't MSFT lose some $$ to get some share of the $40 Billion industry with a projected growth rate of around 10-20%.
A couple boxes I SSH'd into today only had vi. vim is not always included in the standard $OS install.
Finding Customers Ahead of a Startup Launch
How Personality Types Affect Designers
My startup (http://bizen.com) gets a mention in this article :)
When your _this_ low on staff, no amount of scheduling is going to make Johnny 80/hrs a week work any better for the next two years...
Actually, it's M3 _Coupe_: the roof has been cut off by the emergency crew. You can see the bottom parts of the C-pillars in the video on king5.com
Nothing in the link I provided was about orange juice. It discussed wiretapping, linking to sites with potentially violent anti-American content and a variety of other issues.

You've commented repeatedly on this thread about how it's THE LAW and how certain people's brains essentially shut off when evaluating ethics vs legality. Furthermore the tone of your comments make it clear that you have some respect for this sort of non-thinking.

Bringing public stoning into the discussion is a ridiculous straw-man. Isn't the fact that over two million Americans are in prison, and over half of them on non-violent offenses staggering enough already?
Well, that's one hell of a way to find out about what a college acquaintance has been up to for the past year or so.

Congrats, Trevor!
vi(vim) / ant
MySQL people should see the following keynote: Being Your Best Asset and Not Your Worst Enemy - http://confreaks.net/videos/350-gogaruco2010-being-your-best...
Great advice regarding "something isolated and well-defined". I'll contact you off-site
You are probably a pretty good cyclist then. As best I can tell, cyclist's opinions of me as a driver tend to be directly correlated to how far into my lane they ride.

The ones that ride smack-dab in the middle of the lane on a 2-lane highway can be counted on to shake their fist at you any time you don't use the entire other lane for passing.
If you use any Posix environment asside from Linux, you'll find Vi installed by default but not Vim. This includes the BSDs, Solaris, and AIX in my experience. So vanilla Vi still gets use.
The big deal here is a lack of efficiency. Apparently revenue is $2.5 bln and losses are also $2.5 bln. That means with double the revenue (i.e. nearly Google's market share) they'd barely be in the black.

Maybe we're missing something. How much of these billions in losses are not Bing? I mean most of it is surely Bing but Azure and Win 365 are probably substantial investments.
$900 million could buy a lot of politicians, surely.
Sounds like you got ripped off by people who overpromised and underdelivered.

Hire slow, fire quick. Give potential contractors a small job and see how they perform. Don't hire them for the big gigs until they're proven.

Maybe you need to up your budget, or network to a greater degree to find the right fit.
“Data Furnace” Would Heat Homes While Flipping Bits
Me neither. I was very complacent too and complained about lots of things today. Ah well, I can start tomorrow...
Glad to know that gmail and other google products won't be lost if this happens to you. It's still a ludicrous policy, though; something I'd expect from microsoft of facebook. I'm not sure why google is so hell-bent on enforcing it.
The council should approve it otherwise part of some regulation (code?); it's 'illegal' and the apartment can not be sold (council just won't allow sale). This mean the person needs to pay for council-approved inspectors, lawyers, etc.

/Had unfortunate experience with getting a house and finding 'illegal' additions
Yeah I've only ever dealt with Linux, that would make sense that it exists on other OSs.
Is this just a QR scanner that has a history feature?

Keeping the photo makes sense in theory, but most of the time the code itself takes up the entire photo and so the context (magazine page, advert, etc) is out of the picture.
Here's an article (reg required sorry try bugmenot) that offers developer emails and a lot of behind the scenes details about how awful the situation was at Team Bondi.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-07-05-revealed-th...
Several commenters on this post claim this is an issue of safety:

"The ability to add nicknames/maiden names etc is of no use to people who actually need to keep their identity secret for their own or their family's safety."

"There are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons for someone to need, not just want, to use pseudonym."

I'm sorry, but you don't need to use Google+. And for the love of Peter please don't if you'll endanger yourself or your family.

Wanting to remain anonymous on Google+ is like going to a dinner party and insisting on wearing a mask. Yes, you'll reduce the chance that people will know who you are—but you're also super freakin' creepy. If you don't want to be recognized...stay home or go to another party!

And if you don't want to share your real identity online, I'd recommend not using social networks altogether.
Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com
Many of the good devs I knew have taken exactly that step over the last year. Sure, there are many great people left - but there has been quite an exodus over the last year.

There are non-gaming companies that are great to work for and value developers way more - why _would_ you stay?
Paywall free link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/23/...
"Everyone says" blogs are dead. Maybe they've been replaced by Twitter. But for me, reading blogs is essential: I learn a great deal from them. Many reputable news sources also have RSS feeds. I read from several different locations so I need a web-based tool to be able to keep track of what I have read. I'd be happy to use another tool, but the only decent one I know of is Google Reader.
So he's suing the United States now, eh? Because usually the first person named is the complainant. Getting the simplest and most basic details wrong like this is a reliable indicator that everything which comes afterwards is going to be similarly ill-founded. This is a prime example of the yawning gulf between blogging and proper journalism.

Kindly do not misread that as support for the legal status quo, JSTOR, or anything else.
Life is unfair. Unfortunately, there's not much you can say when these things happen. You just have to remember that any day can be your last, that you can't live life with any regrets. As for his wife, it'll take time to recover from this. Death is a part of life. It'll happen to everyone of us eventually.
Thanks for the details and the explanation. Makes a lot of sense.
As long as Apple doesn't have a monopoly I agree with you. It should be left up to the consumer marketplace to punish or reward this behavior. Thanks to Android there are options.
Think of a black and white image like a surface.

image :: (R, R) -> R
But I do psuedo-code on paper, and that's much the same thing. I'm not saying everyone does so, on paper or elsewhere, but it's just one way that some people think. I would never go as far to say that no one writes code away from a keyboard.

And if you ever are asked to code on a whiteboard ... do it in psuedo code, and see what happens. Maybe the response will help you decide whether you want to work there.
They’re taking an opinionated stance on creating a community. That’s generally a good thing, and in order to provide what they believe is a better experience for the kinds of people who interact with each other based on a conventional “real” name, they are willing to forgo that portion of the market that want to use a handle for some or all of their online interaction.

As I tweeted, I have no use for “circles” if I can’t be “raganwald" to those people who know me through my writing and “Reg Braithwaite” to those people who know me face to face, but I have zero problem with choosing not to use Google+, so why should I have a problem with Google choosing not to cater to me?
Imagine the waveform of a sound wave - there is an amplitude for each point in time, which you can easily take a FT of. This waveform could also be, say, a vibrating guitar string at a fixed moment in time, in which case the units are amplitude vs. distance, but it is still just a function that you can take a FT transform of (now the "frequency" domain is the inverse of distance rather than the inverse of time, but it still works). An image is just a function of amplitude vs. distance, though there are 2 distance variables since an image is 2-dimensional, but the idea is the same, and the Fourier Transform is still defined for functions of 2 or more variables. In a color jpeg, I believe this is done individually for red, blue, and green, and the point at which you cut off the infinite series of Fourier coefficients determines image quality.

That said, this picture is awesome! I've never seen it done before.
Well, that's what a functioning market where there is competition does. Allow people to pick what they want, and it so happens that what people now want aren't BlackBerries. Both Apple and Google should remember that -- their positions aren't set in stone and to maintain them in the long term they need to avoid resting on their laurels.
Being Libertarian May Cause Autism
"Since the iPhone was a high-end product, it can't be called disruptive."

Do you have a suggestion of what it should be called, then? Sounds disruptive to me.
Set up a trust.
If patents are government-granted monopolies, then why were they interested in buying the Nortel patents?

Why is PageRank patented?
are people complaining about eclipse because it starts up slow ? After initial startup, what are the issues that cause this person to be scared of using an IDE ?
Great link on side projects - "It will remind you why programming is fun." :-)

I've been doing a lot of reading, but since a few weeks back I started working on a side project as a way of learning new technologies. Maybe I should diversify - I've been always interested in financing too.

Volunteering can give more purpose to life and is definitely a good suggestion. Thanks for the suggestions.
At game studios that even have a bonus/profit sharing structure (it's actually very rare, despite what Pachter says), it's typically paid out based on a combination of tenure and your salary. So the new hires who are working their asses off during crunch to avoid getting fired when the inevitable cuts come are going to get the least out of any bonuses that do get paid out.
Technically, Google has almost had that for a while with Larry and Sergey, and then the Trifecta with Eric. Not quite the same, though, obviously...
Silicon Valley: High Salaries, High Costs - Something Social
Zaarly Security Glitch Exposes Private Messages, Phone Numbers
Not for me :-(. I see Einstein no matter what I do. I've never in my life been able to resolve stereograms, either.
Thank you so much for your detailed response.
I had to stop what I was doing to properly read it.
Decision: To move ahead with my Vacation App ( which is at the landing page and collecting emails phase, while I wrap up the last 30%, which is taking the most time). Then to get out there and MARKET MARKET
I think Homebrew has been around for about two years now; it came out during the Mac OS 10.5 era. That means that only last week has it even gone through a second major release of the OS.

MacPorts, formally DarwinPorts, has been around for nine years, and has been post-1.0 for the last six. I am pretty certain that it came out during the Mac OS 10.1 era, and at the time supported down to 10.0.

Given this stark contrast, to compare the compatibility complexity experience of MacPorts to Homebrew with the statement "I've never had a problem" is nothing less than hubris.

Seriously, the history of every package management system (including such stalwarts as RPM, APT, MacPorts, and even rubygems) is the same: they start off with the attitude "why is this so complex" and then get to find out over the next decade exactly why those things are so complex.

Honestly: why does it matter oh so very much to everyone that you have to rebuild a few more packages? Isn't this just a problem of not having binary packages? If so, rather than sit around and build Homebrew, someone should have just contributed some bandwidth back to Fink.
They may give on this in the end, but it still shows the problem of consolidating too much power in one place. I have no problem with FB disabling my account, because it's not a necessity. But if G+ decided it was OK to disable my Gmail because of a change in policy, or a rogue automated profile checker then that's an entirely different story.
He's defending Team Bondi because he's a financial analyst who doesn't actually know much about game development. From a purely monetary perspective, crunch is great, because:

Employees produce more under crunch. Their productivity per hour is lower, but you're still going to get more out of them.

You can hit deadlines more aggressively if you crunch, so you end up paying less salary and benefits since you can fire the team once they're done.

Crunch enables you to hit unrealistic deadlines, so you can avoid investing energy into proper planning and skip hiring competent managers/producers.

Crunch causes developers to leave of their own volition to get away from it, so you don't have to worry about wrongful termination lawsuits, etc.

The developers who do stay, you can easily fire once crunch time has burned them out, and replace with new developers. There's a near-infinite supply of gullible developers who are desperate to 'break into' the game industry, and they'll accept awful pay and work conditions.

The mindset espoused by Pachter and Team Bondi is the 'slash and burn development' people have complained about ( http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35985/Develop_WB_Games_Fr... ). It's singlehandedly responsible for destroying careers, families, and companies.
Lots more information in this link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017367/Disabled-Dmi...
Its a good list but too long to get many responses. Better to get a lot of smaller data bits than a few detailed responses because then there's a self-selectivity problem.

I don't have the time to try to cut it down for you now but I'd strongly recommend you get it down to 3 MAYBE 4 questions
There is without a doubt beauty in problem solving and engineering. I guess I think the article doesn't stress how far we have yet to go.

Festo's SmartBird website proclaims: "With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds – one of the oldest dreams of humankind." That's just sales talk. It's not true. The gull still flies better than SmartBird does.

I stand by my point that "SmartBird" is neither smart (compared to a bird), nor a bird.
Borders is down - 14 sq miles of retail space to go
Writing for Reason may cause statistical illiteracy.
It's official: Time machines won't work
It just works. I think the refactoring and language support may be better too, but that's not why I switched. I switched because eclipse is either too complex to work reliably, or I'm too stupid to understand it. Android, Appengine, maven, all just work great in IntelliJ. Whereas bog standard tomcat+maven was a daily game of potluck in eclipse.
We need to share more and stop trying to make a buck.
Welcome to China+ ! In Japan they're also debating mandatory ID for Internet cafes. They have soft guidelines that no one follows because it's bad for business. Cafes here don't let you just plugin like in Europe. Also comes with tons of manga and passes to online games and seedy paid sites.

The rationale is that IDing prevents crime. However, it's also how a controversial coast guard video was leaked when government was being incompetent as usual.
Use school and get it done. Tons of resources and people to meet
But is there any evidence that either of those strategies are working?
The reason why Google et al want your real name is very simple — to help you connect with friends easier. This isn't a difficult concept.
Why is it nearly impossible for an organization to censor or destroy such a network? How is using fake birds such a big difference from using stationary access points?

Who is going to pay to build such a thing?
While that is unspeakably cool, I am somewhat disheartened by the number of commenters there saying it's "destruction of property", a hazard to others, etc.
This article completely misses why Bing is strategic to MS. And no one is going to pay $11B for a product that is losing nearly $3B/year.
Mozilla building mobile OS to battle Chrome
Going complete opposite of the history feature. Here's a link that describes it better: http://blog.qrganize.com
The Oddball U.S. Privacy Law That's Keeping Netflix Away from Facebook
Exactly, stop catering to the (apparent) animals.
I had a job interview that did almost exactly that, except with Apache Camel. In fact, they chose Apache Camel precisely because it was an API that very few of their applicants had any experience with, and they believed that a software developer should be able to work with a new tool very quickly.

Best, most sensible interview I've ever had.
Trevor won me as a customer when he personally answered and solved my coffeescript problem on stackoverflow.
It's not pretty, I'll tell you that. HN doesn't tell me how low my first comment went (it just appears to be pegged at -4), and my second one is at -2.