skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a project planning meeting with the lead/manager and it was the first time I heard 'resources' being used for engineers as well as for hardware equipment. It did sound weird for a second, but it was not annoying/irritating.

However, it makes you realize you are only a "resource" and
you can be replaced by a different or multiple "resource" if you quit or if needed.
Windows 8 to feature stripped-down kernel, built-in virtualization
Great post & congratulations on finding a great job!

He found me in a social channel; engaged me in that channel

I've had similar, albeit much less impressive, experiences here on HN and slowly people & organisations are starting to realise the importance of maintaining a credible online profile.
> I'm not doing it wrong by writing sites that aren't IE6 compatible. I'm deliberately deciding their business isn't worth the extra engineering or testing cost.

That was the whole point of the article. Don't drop IE6 support because all the cool kids say you should, or because yourfavouritewebsite.com has; actually look at your browser stats and other metrics and make an informed decision.

From the second paragraph in the article:

> The browser support of your website must be directly correlated with your target audience.

Browser support should be based on research and business realities, not developer whim.
It's not odd; sponsors pick what level they feel they can commit to in terms of marketing support (booth space, banners, etc) and how much internal support they have for the conference or the community (in this case, Python and PyCon).

Microsoft has been an amazing PyCon sponsor for years, and they continue to support the PSF both financially, and by supplying Python core developers with free, unlimited MSDN accounts to help with windows support.

So, don't take a sponsor level as a specific note about how much cash they do, or do not have - a lot goes into a company's choice about sponsorship.
I know that, I said Android keyboard, not browser. I'm typing this on a vanila Android phone, and the level of pain I had to go through just to type the text above is ridiculous. This is not even alpha quality, it's pathetic.
Just from glancing at the first page, there does not seem to be a diveristy of sources there.
He probably means running red lights. Maybe they call it "shooting the light" in the UK?
Perhaps, but if this test is accurate, Chrome has also gotten far, far worse in recent versions. I find that surprising.
I'm much aware of their recent release schedule changes, I just hope that they are not sacrificing stability for increased version release. Firefox used to be about testing and stability rather than who has the bigger version number.

4 was an insult to me, crashing all the time and so slow, pathetic in the terms of a browser, I would have rather used IE for a couple of months whilst that was released and that's saying something
> "This requirement changes nothing for the vast majority of the people."

How can you be so certain when we don't have the amended text?
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IE6 - Holding Us All Down
That was my biggest gripe with it too. They just "sell" it as being the second coming. It's great, but when you choose to ignore everything else, it comes across as being dishonest. Maybe it's my lizard brain speaking, but I automatically distrust everything else said just because of that stance.
Someone broke it;

"The requested URL /blog/the-man-you-want-to-be-does-not-matter/swizec/2071 was not found on this server."
3g connectivity - No Data Plan
Google is really leading the pack when it comes to their transparency regarding user data. This plus the Google Dashboard means basically anything Google knows about me is shown at one glance and I can opt out at the click of a button.

They need to link to these preferences from the Dashboard (but I bet they're scared out of their minds that everyone will opt out...)
The same problem exists in 14 on Lion
Your brain might be able to skim faster when it has visible markers to use. I often use lines/paragraph breaks as these markers (on top of punctuation). It's easier to get lost in really long text lines than it is in short ones.
Past and future performance do correlate in many cases, but "Google and Microsoft do it" has never been a valid argument for the correctness of anything. I hear that in Imperial China one had to pass a classical literature exam to get civil service jobs. There is a great deal of arbitrary convention in the things done by big companies, this is not evidence of optimality.

When people are at a loss for how to make a hiring decision and they have a giant pile of applications in front of them, they are liable to just choose whatever filter is available. It might not be any better than reading tea leaves, but at least the decision gets made. This is rational behavior when the cost of devising or applying a better criterion is high, but it doesn't mean the resulting criterion is the best thing possible.
I was under the impression that Opera Mobile connected directly to the requested site and Opera Mini passed through Opera's proxy servers. Am I wrong about this?
Has anyone actually used this successfully? How long does it take to take effect? The site looks like it is supposed to remove you from junk mail lists, not background check sites/public records sites.
Microsoft is Platinum(now?).
We run a web content monitoring service, every media organisation changes their articles as they get new info. No reference is ever made to these changes. It's actually really interesting seeing how stories get updated.
Is Facebook about to get Fawked?
Win Target Gift Cards: How many Bullseyes can you Pongr?
Here are the details for the first Pongr SPOTTED AT TARGET contest. Between now and midnight on Friday, August 12, take as many pictures of the Target dog as you can and email or picture-text them to target@pongr.com. To count in the standings, you must add the hashtag #Bullseye to each entry. Each picture must be of a different location in the store, and putting yourself or family/friends in some shots is highly encouraged.
very cool

I too have the default appearing 25-34 age but my interests are spot on.
At one of my jobs about 2 years ago I regularly used to work remotely once twice a week. Until now the most I have worked remotely in one stretch is 1 week.

I have been working on an online / smartphone based food ordering project for about 6 months. This work was getting done on the side along with my day job which required me to be in the office from 9 to 5. I always thought about the day when I would become fully involved with my personal project and leave my day time job. That day came sooner than I was hoping for and it come on the terms of my employer rather than mine because of some budget cuts and project discontinuations. This is my first week working from home on my personal project.

Yesterday I contacted a couple of shared office spaces where I can find a cubicle. I am still debating whether to work from home or to find a shared cubicle and get into the routine of going to office and interacting with other startups that share office space in the same building.

This phase and my personal experience in this phase will help me lay some guidelines on working from home when we actually have employees. So far I feel good. I can work until late in the night and wake up late because I do not have to take a shower and drive to start working in the morning and use my lunch time as shower time. I am feeling that working from home requires better planning and focus than working from office with other employees.

I feel somewhat inexperienced in writing a whole lot on this subject as I am in my first week of working from home but for me there will not be a better time to read other people's comments on this topic.
But IE users were more likely to have believed it!
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I've been working remote for over 5 years now. Some keys are: Have a door on your home office so the family doesn't interrupt. Use IRC, email, IM to maintain communication with your team. Have enough self-discipline to work instead of slack off when you run up against hard problems. Hobbies outside the house so that you don't spend 24 hours a day working.

I personally don't work at coffee shops, I find them too distracting. I love my quiet office where I can concentrate for large blocks of time.

As a company you should be hiring remote developers. It makes it alot easier for you to find good employees when you aren't limiting yourself to only locals, or only those who want to relocate.
I guess I misunderstood the point of your article. Sure, if your IE6 user base is large enough, you pretty much have no way to get around providing support for that browser.
And I agree it is easier to test IE6 compatibility procedurally, after each coded page or measurable milestone, rather than at the very end of the website's development.
Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company
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OR you could get a VPS slice at linode and set it up for yourself, one day of work, but if you're serious about your product, it's well worth it!
The second link is not all rules, it also includes notices. There are certain actions that require a notice be issued to the Federal Register when taken by a government entity. There are probably more notices than rules for a given day.
It should, actually. Unfortunately I can't test this.
Did you submit a bug report? I'd be curious to see what you were doing that caused a problem. I've been using Groovy for > 3 years and haven't hit an issue with named parameters, but I might be using just simplified cases compared to you.
Solid niche + Solid Credentials = Success (OnTargetEnglish.com)
Many threads here on HN deal with folks trying to come up with a niche application/product/service, etc. Well, what you don't see is that there are many non-mainstream sites/niches that are doing pretty well.

Some friends of mine that are not technical in the sense of being developers came up with the idea of a TESOL website. They both teach English for a living and wanted to showcase that knowledge and help teach others.

The result is OnTargetEnglish.com which is growing and according to their recent FB post doing pretty well:

"July turned out to be a big month for OnTargetEnglish.com: Facebook fans hit 1,000, email opt-ins (our list) hit 10,000, and we had our biggest month of sales. We're looking forward to growing the site and expanding what we offer."

So although there are lots of English and language sites out there having a niche and doing it well plus having the credentials (along with lots of hard work) can pay off.

Go get 'em entrepreneurs!
I feel as though thanks to Veyron's blog, many of us have added this to our daily routines.

yes I ordered trading and exchanges on amazon :)
That's a pretty low detail animation, honestly. Not even close to on par with the level of animation that goes in to games.

Frankly, I expect if this tech gets used, it will be used to create static worlds... and everything that moves or animates will be polygonal.
I enjoyed this commenet:

> Code I wrote yesterday. (As opposed to "six months ago," which is how I'd define "crap code.")
Elegant code is code that has a minimum of visual complexity that captures the necessary complexity of the problem.

The key thing to realize is that elegance is necessarily a property of the medium. An elegant solution to a problem written communicated through text will be different than one communicated audibly, as there are different mental facilities available for understanding said code.
It's not my article, though I did submit it to HN.
Or just get bought by Google
I wish this lined up with my spring break! Sadly this is one week before spring break for me.
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I'm afraid I disagree. There's no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time. Read what you need and close the tab when you're done. Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to. You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it. Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something? Baffling.
The importance of doing it wrong
Actually, that's a good point - they are platinum sponsors.
Those famous artists you mention did rise in the end, though, so that shows the process working rather than failing overall.

For every famous artist who struggled and then made it big, there are thousands of artists who were treated the same initially but really were crap. That's because a huge number of people want to be artists and 90% of everything is crap.

Now suppose that you are trying to make money by enabling artists, and it costs $10,000 to give one a try. If you take a chance on everyone, you will go broke because 90% of everything is crap and your few famous artists won't be enough to subsidize the rest.

So how do you filter?
It's getting better.

Though, I'd love it if more people made submissions.
New York takes its engineering talent crunch to the NYSE floor
How Virtuous Is Your Code?
It's not about faith. It's about reality.
Like many others, I'm tempted to go carried away by my enthusiasm and believe in something without much reasoning. Actually I did this in a number of times. It just didn't worked very well for me in the end. Challenging your believes is a good thing. If it has to be about faith, fave faith in your reasoning.
Until a breaker blows in the middle of a show. Oops.
Linux users pay 3x that of Windows users for Humble Indie Bundle 3
Joo: A Smooth Curved Language For the Web
How do you even navigate through 200 tabs?
If you are bragging on your efficiency, then it is relevant when more time and effort is required than was represented. Good for him and all, but reality is reality
As Jesse stated, it's just one of their many sponsorships, of PyCon, of the PSF, and of the Python developers. Probably their biggest sponsorship of Python is the generous donation of over 20 VS Ultimate MSDN subscriptions which they also let us renew for free, in order to keep up support of Python on Windows. If you do the math on what that'd cost for us to buy on our own, it's a hilariously large number.
You mean FRANTIC INC.,(METALLICA)? You'd miss that important distinction if you didn't look closely.
I went to SciPy this year for the first time, and I loved it. I understand that PyCon is a much broader conference, but do many people interested in scientific python show up for this?
I think they aren't calling it voxels because it works differently. I have a feeling that while the data is likely stored in a voxel-like fashion, the way they are reaching in to the data and extracting it is completely different.

If you recall that tech that was shown a few years back of being able to quickly zoom around a ridiculously large image, because you only need to look up the pixels that are going to be on screen, I think they are doing the same thing with the voxel data here. Which does make it new tech, and does make it 'infinite' in that it could probably handle an infinite data set. Hardware can't, but that's a different issue.

However, the problem with their tech will be anything dynamic, as most people have already said.
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So... with a statically type-checked language, most of his errors were null reference errors? Funny, with Python most of my errors were type errors. (And most of my serious problems were with refactoring complex applications as they grew larger. This is why I stick to C#.)
I believe that good code is understandable, consistent, and easy to edit. This is because we basically do three things with code, which correspond to the above: read it, integrate it into projects, and change it/add to it.

If code is written that satisfies these properties AND solves a problem efficiently, then it is elegant for being useful and easy to work with at the same time.
4)"Things in the python world seem to "just work"" that's just a self delusion caused by an emotional reaction not a valid argument

First, there are objective aspects to that perception. For example, Python affords trying stuff immediately through its REPL. When you commit it to “real” code, it just works. Opening an UTF-8 file is just `codecs.open`. Alas, there is Zope/Plone to serve as a counterexample.

Second, emotional reactions do affect how we, human programmers, perform. If I feel nice coding in Python, I am very probably more productive. If I hate XML configuration files, I'll be on my nerves when I write them and might perform poorly.

The relationship between a programmer and code is not (just) a mathematical thing and we really should stop seeing emotion as a cognitive defect and appreciate it as the evolutionary improvement that it indeed is.

(Sorry for ranting. I'm hungry.)
That's good to know, am I still correct in assuming this still comes down to a memory tradeoff, whether you want large textures+polygons, or voxel data to represent a high detail model?
Yeah, the point is to have a specific cookie, in which it is written you do not want to be tracked.
Ah, OK, shift the whole scale I referred to over...Google,Dropbox Diamond and Microsoft platinum.

Wasn't aware of how much support Microsoft provided in general though. Thanks!
Hmm? The DoD would obviously go to Facebook/reddit (maybe HN for selected topics, but we're small); they are not that stupid.
Some read-ahead answers.

1. No, types are feature of language design. It is not a hack. But some hacks were used to implement it.

2. It was developed during my boring boring high school time. It took around two years from idea to current state.

4. It may not contain critical design flaws, because it is pure JavaScript.

5. It may contain some sort of unseen errors, but for me Jooscript just work as expected.

6. Current version is 0.5 alpha 5, next release will be beta. Current syntax not going to be changed any time soon.

7. No, getters and setters not implemented yet.

8. JooScript basics are compatible with IE 6+, Opera and Node.js (of cource until you do not open your app with fancy new descriptors in old browser)

Funny thing is that only latest Firefox passed advanced test based on ECMAScript 5 spec. I wonder who is doing right job, Mozzila or other vendors?
Developing on Android vs iOS
Well, at the risk of further downvotes, I think that's totally irrelevant. No-one is down at the soup kitchen asking what the volunteers have to say about intellectual property reform. It is a complicated topic and the personal altruism of the person making the argument has basically nothing to do with anything.
The idea ain't the hard part. One writer finds out hard it is to create an app
I can't find the link, but I also remember a Puppet Master project where 5 guys could control the online personas of 50 guys and slowly shift the center of the conversation in any direction they wanted.

I am sure that the FedBizOpps would get integrated with Puppet Master.

I am so glad that these psyops tools will only be used against bad guys.
Malls Make Room for Start-Ups
Where is the all the bad PR for craigslist (a la Airbnb) for this story?
There's not much new material beyond the This American Life podcast in this show. It's still interesting to listen to, but be prepared for some repeats in this 20 minute podcast.
Thanks for the feedback! Although my hourly rate might be coming to below minimum wage right now - the idea is that once I've put the work in at the beginning to develop customer relationships, develop a brand, and add more features like automation, the amount of effort I will have output after that will be very minimal. It's like working for minimum wage for a few weeks with the expectation of making way more for the next year after that.
This is the same story as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840062 (which has lots of points and comments), is it not?
I'm curious. Why do you want ads shown to you NOT be targeted?

Unless you're using adblock, you should be seeing a whole bunch of crappy ads for fat-loss solutions, IQ tests, "Which way is this mannequin turning?", etc...

(Disclaimer: I co-founded a company now helping companies target ads. People opting out won't harm me economically, but I'm really trying to understand people's objections).
If Google doesn't know about you, do you really exist?
The (enterprise) cloud identity crisis
Um, I might be missing this, but I don't think we're interpreting this correctly. The contract title is Social Media in Strategic Communication, which implies that they're looking at integrating social into their military communications, not creating DoD Facebook profiles or trying to influence public sentiment on Twitter.
Five lessons learned from working at three startups
I was on Startup Row in Atlanta last year and was able to meet jnoller. He was a great host and it was a fantastic and well-run event. If you're coding in Python, it's worth checking out.

Also, it looks like I will be back this year, not with my startup, but with a company I found at a booth at PyCon 2011. If you're looking for a Python job, I can strongly recommend attending PyCon.
I operate similarly. I have my FF set to open up the previous session on start (though I don't usually close FF). Tend to have 70-100 tabs open always.

I recommend a vertical tab addon (I use Tree Style Tabs) else you'll wear out your scroll wheel on the tab bar :)
13 is a really high version number. One thing I love about chrome is how silent the updates are. Other browsers tend to nag you about downloading the latest version, running an installer, etc..

Chrome updates much more silently + in the background, which is one of the many reasons it's my favorite browser.
Most people would consider a $250k salary as 'making it'. Kudos to you for being brave and building something on your own.
Let me guess: You use Tab Kit/Tree Style Tabs or some similar to make it possible to have some overview while browsing?
I'm sorry, but there's a difference between changing your article for updates and editor required corrections, and changing your article to look as if you never bit the bullet. BBC did exactly the latter, they didn't put an "Update: It has been determined this was a hoax" or "Please forgive our error, we have made a mistake..." anything.

Reading the cached article, and then going back to the original, I think it is fully within your duty to inform your readers that the article has been updated specifically for the reason of clarification and acknowledging a mistake was made, and that new information has come to the fore.

Trying to hide behind that by virtually rewriting the article is just unsavory, and I expect better from the BBC News.

Sorry if it seems like I'm taking a high road here, but I am; retroactive continuity has NO place in journalism.
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I imagine with it being in Santa Clara you're going to get a large number of people from every development niche showing up.

The main reason I didn't go to 2011 is because of how far it was!