skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Griping about an optional feature? Really?

Circles have great utility for me for two reasons.

1. Like Twitter lists (which I use, thanks Tweetdeck), I want to see information from certain groups of people for different things.

2. I want to disseminate different types of information to different groups of people.

If you don't find either of these use-cases compelling, there is nothing stopping you from ignoring them completely.

I will never ever ever trust an algorithm to get this right, except for the most trivial cases, and if the case is that trivial, I will default to public.

I think ultimately the problem is that these features are trying to replicate offline social context, but only getting halfway there. I've written more about this: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/11670022371/intimacy-is-perfo...
The iDevice emphasis is a big turnoff for me. I'd have been more inclined to try it out if it only had a web mode, rather than touting its Mac and iPhone integration.

Hard to explain why. It almost feels like an elitist snub, or something.
Well, I'm not convinced it's fair to say that Apple software is worse on Windows. I don't know anyone who's tried Safari on Windows (so maybe it is worse than on a Mac, but I wouldn't know) and while iTunes is certainly absolutely terrible on Windows, from what my Mac owning friends tell me it is just as bad on Macs.
Mobile Web Browser Market Share
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I'm still trying to get my head around the Plan9 utilities :)
Ouch, each to his own but not for me!

Combination of tiny screen , having to reach out and touch the screen rather than just put a hand on the mouse and the latency involved in using a remote machine would make this a nightmare for me!

Judging by the photo of the setup on the desk I would assume you have to lean quite far forward in order to see the screen (unless you have very good eyesight) and I have enough backpain as it is.

Using any graphical tools at all (unless there is an ipad version) must be a major pain on this setup!

I find working on a laptop bad enough but when I really need to be portable and can't take my dual monitors with me the combination of internet hosted source control + IMAP email + dropbox means that I can grab my laptop and just walk out the door without worrying about where my files are
so I'm not really sure what advantages you get from this setup.

Of course if your happy with your setup then that's totally cool, what worries me more is if the desktop market dissapears and it becomes necessary for everyone to use a setup like this, it would feel like a massive step backwards to me. I'm just too used to being able to lie back on my chair, have my keyboard within easy reach and clearly see everything I need to see right in front of me in big readable text.

As an aside I also don't really like widescreen monitors for doing work , especially programming as vertical screen estate is much more useful than horizontal when trying to look at allot of code and figure out where the bug is. But it seems almost impossible now to get a large square monitor that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I imagine the problem is that an iOS gmail client just isn't that high of a priority for Google. And why should it be?

In contrast, Android's gmail client is one of Android's biggest draws, and has never in my two years of using Android had a bad release. Instead it just keeps getting better.
Yep. But "control-a" is a muscle reflex, and using anything else will make a certain set of users (at least emacs users) much happier.
Depends on the meaning of "pioneer" I guess. Certainly Doom was the first real shareware hit that matched sales numbers with commercial titles.
I only see the issue in Chrome and IE < 9. (Fresh install of Windows 7 via boot camp. No ClearType tweaks.)

Typekit does provide samples of how the fonts render in various browser/OS combinations: https://typekit.com/fonts/calluna
(Click "Browser Samples" tab.)

It's definitely a limitation of @font-face and something I should have accounted for in the design. Apologies for poor legibility.
Option-click on the Time Machine menu to verify backups. Sleep well.
Optional? I don't think so. Google Circle _is_ the main feature. That's everything Google+ is about.
Hmm, I wonder if the poles would get hit less often than the tropics due to the distribution of asteroids being more or less in the ecliptic, or whether that's not sufficiently significant. Probably not -- I don't know of any latitude-dependent distribution of lunar craters.
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Is there a commenting and voting feature in this app?
The sad part is that regardless of whether it's copper or gold, the economics of mining asteroids still doesn't work out.
And yet I still have to explicitly click the 'Mark all notifications as read' button after reading, and closing a pull request on github...

Edit: That probably came across more snarky than I intended. The point was that this is easily said, but hard to do right.
But you don't need to use every Circle - you can dump everyone you know in one Circle and leave it at that.

I've got to say, this is very much a complaint that doesn't appear to have a good solution. Beyond any sort of simple AI that groups based on last name, school or employer (like Facebook does, I guess), there's not much to go on when it comes to automatically creating Circles.
IOS 5.0.1 Beta Released – Coming To Fix Battery Life Issue
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Facebook founder unveils 'modern way of working'
agreed. and if you do any sort of embedded work, you must know C and C++. If history is any predictor of the future, chips will continue to get smaller and the "embedded" development world, I think, will proliforate and demand coders to know C and C++ at least for the next several years until fancy tools/compilers argue things like Java and C# code bloat doesn't matter because a 4Gig embedded system will be the norm... ahem..
Sure, back then it was the only editor available on an MS-DOS installation (was it 3.3 or 4.01?) to the poor soul needing to tweak his CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
Thanks so much for sharing this. Fantastic. I had no idea Hicks is colorblind.
Circle management is optional. If you want to use it like Twitter, you can. Just dump everyone in one Circle and spray your content indiscriminately to everyone in it.
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I want to work with smart people on a great team making awesome software!
Hi, I'm Ulises and I'm a full-stack junior web developer with a background in film and motion graphics, looking to join a great team of smart people making awesome software. You can find my resume at ulisesrmzroche.github.com/resume and my email is ulisesrmzroche_at_me.com.

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration!
Really nice site and cover design.

This stuff is so much more credible when it's self-exemplifying.
Colleges measure success wrong: skills mean more than a piece of paper
Zynga Jukebox Eases HTML5 Audio Woes, Launches on GitHub
A quick-and-dirty way I've seen a friend do it is to compress the images into h.264 and then extract the motion vectors. It's not the optimal algorithm but it does a pretty serviceable job and you're building off a large body of previous image tracking work.
I suspect the effect of this is that the most attractive 10% of female users would get an even higher percentage of all male-to-female messages.
"Just do it already"

Er. "Fuck you asshole".

Not the response you were going for I expect, but nonetheless my automatic response.
I much prefer Flow by Metalab (http://getflow.com). It's virtually the same product only much more fleshed out including a Mac app, an iOS app and more. I tried Asana several months ago but Flow is just miles ahead of where Asansa is today. Not to mention constant iteration in all of their apps (web, Mac, and iOS). Big A+ for the Metalab team.
Wow, talk about strawmen:

> for a large, complex application a good GC will be more
> efficient than a zillion pieces of hand-tuned, randomly
> micro-optimized storage management

vs:

> Note that I said a good garbage collector. Don't blame
> the concept of GC just because you've never seen a good
> GC that interfaces well with your favorite language.

Ok, so we're comparing 'state of the art GC' to 'zillion pieces of hand-tuned, randomly micro-optimized storage management'. Astoundingly, we come to the conclusion that GC Is Awesome and MOAR Efficient.
Please don't let the Indian government anywhere near the Internet. On my one visit to India I saw at first hand the infinite gulf that exists between the great, charming and interesting people of India and their idiotic government officials.

Several hundred of us spent about four hours queuing (standing in lines) in a stiflingly hot airport hall (over 40C), just to be allowed to leave and embark. At the head of each consecutive queue of several hundred people presided one of these officials with yet another poor quality paper form to be filled in, serving no logical purpose that I could discern apart from providing employment for these idiots. When I slowly worked my way to the head of the first queue, the official asked me (politely) to borrow my pencil, as he had nothing to fill the paperwork with!

They did not seem to think that there was anything at all unusual about any of this, presumably putting all travellers through this unnecessary hell. The very idea of controlling the Internet, which would necessarily end up this way, is the stuff of nightmares.

I am only relaying my personal experience, not having any particular wish to single out the Indian government for criticism. Unfortunately most governments share much the same motivation and 'efficiency' to various degrees. It is just one of the blessings of India that it makes one comprehend essential principles with greater depth and clarity than before.
The title is alarming: "Why we dropped out of Yale to start a dating website"

But the first paragraph is less concerning: "... taking time off from school to build and grow our company"

Yale is generous in terms of granting leaves of absence, so the knowledge that you're not actually dropping out really changes my view of your decision (for the better). You'd be crazy to drop out of Yale for an idea with no traction. To take a semester, or possibly a year, for the same? That's a much less drastic proposition.
Same here on SO. Any question I might be able to answer tends to be flooded with good responses before I see it too.

SF and SU are another matter though. Mostly the answers I need are already there, but questions that I can give useful answers to pop up regularly and there don't seem to be quite as massive a population capable of chiming in (and willing to chime in) on each.

On all three sites it is worth having a browse of the recent and hot questions when you have a quiet moment as other people's questions and the responses, even in areas you consider yourself knowledgeable in, can be enlightening. I often stumble upon something I've wondered but not thought as far as trying/researching/asking, and occasionally I find a discussion that tells me I've been going about something-or-other a long way round.
Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.
a SQL DSL and an ORM aren't really the same thing IMHO. ORMs are about linking objects in memory to database rows, whereas the SQL DSL is just about a thin layer over the rendering of a SQL string, not unlike how you could compose a DOM object of an XML or HTML document and get a string out of it.

I'm not a Clojure user but as I have some authority on this subject I can illustrate your query as SQLAlchemy:

select([table.c.col1, table.c.col2,
func.some_function().
over(
partition_by=[table.c.col1, table.c.col2],
order_by=[table.c.col1,table.c.col2])
.label('some_ck')])
.where(<some condition>)
I can't speak to the alpha male problem in the online dating market, but lots of people writing about sexual dynamics and marketplaces have noticed it (see, for a popular account, Neil Strauss's The Game; in academic land, The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality doesn't use the term "alpha male" but describes how many women frequently glom onto a subset of males and pursue them).

Think about it this way: there were probably a handful of guys at your high school or college (probably athletes, although they might've just been unusually social or skilled in some other field) who women disproportionately sought. Most of us have seen this on some level. They're the alpha males and that, in a nutshell, is the alpha male problem.
Bereft of outside research, I was responding to the article, which stated, "Over the past 25 years the total number of students in college has increased by about 50 percent. But the number of students graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (the so-called STEM fields) has remained more or less constant."
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I stopped being interested when I came across the price. I'm running two Intel SS4200's with FreeNAS x64. Cost of each was 129.99 last year (closeout price) + ~30ish bucks for 2GB DDR2 mem (they charge more for last-gen mem) + ~20ish for a usb serial adapter + cabling ==> roughly 180 for a DIY server. Only other things needed are a 4gig flash drive for the OS, and hard drives.

The drives can be swapped without any tools. My only regret was the 2GB ram limit due to the outdated chipset -- it scares me a little that i'm running ZFS with less than the 6GB recommended minimum FreeNAS recommends, but I'd rather use ZFS than worry about RAID bitrot/etc.
I have recently started using a laptop underneath a big honking monitor. It is fantastic. You get a second screen (down low) for stashing things like shells or firebug and looking at the big monitor (up high) forces good posture. Going back and forth feels more natural than looking left-right. Switched away from equal sized dual monitors. Never looking back.
Previous Gallup polls on the subject showed large differences between countries. Americans were more engaged than people in most other countries if I remember correctly.
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Interesting. Here's a ref, for anyone else: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29886/id_Tech_5_Rage_Engi...

It's actually slightly different from that: "if you're going to make a game with id Tech 5 then it needs to be published by Bethesda"
The problem is that you can't have an engineering job without and engineering degree. Being a software engineer and being a software developer are two things. It's like saying you are mechanical engineer if you can use AutoCad. Why would I bother with the degree when I can read the manual.

Engineering is a process by which professionals create and better their surrounding harmoniously with nature and society. Software is also built like this.

However, to suggest that being a code monkey or a WOW tester is an 'engineering position' is a leap you can only make in software. Cause suggesting that someone who took 2 classes of AutoCad can build you a bridge is ludicrous.

You can, however, get a job in entertainment industry without a degree in the said field. And getting a degree in, let's say, singing, does not make you the next Madonna either.

Whereas taking an engineering degree make you an engineer.

And you can't possibly think Apple is successful cause Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class, do you? If so, you're in denial of what it really takes to do what he did.
Genetically engineering something for this specific goal is not a 'hack'. It's very hard and thorough work.
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Yes , exactly.

Whilst I have been so-so on id games since Quake 3 (Actually Quake 3 was excellent but it was just so overshadowed by the jaw-droppingly awesome Unreal Tournament) I have huge amounts of respect for Carmack as a programmer and also for the way id generally do business.

I remember scanning through the source code for the original quake some years ago (not really reading in depth) but I couldn't help but assume my download was borked and I was somehow missing 90% of it , the core of the engine is tiny, I get the same reaction when I look at the Linux kernel.

I've written business systems that are orders or magnitude larger in terms of code than probably all the id games put together but have nowhere near the awesomeness and variety in terms of functionality.

I wonder whether this is just how he programs from the get go or whether he writes something much larger and clunky in the beginning but is just ruthlessly disciplined at rewriting things to make them smaller and more efficient.
Ask HN: Salary Expectations
How much should a recent graduate from a top-tier university expect to earn in a technical role in the Bay Area?

For companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, what base pay, benefits, signing bonus, and relocation should I expect to receive?

For early stage startups with 1 million - 10 million in funding and 2-5 employees, what base pay, equity %, and benefits should I expect?
If you're in the business of making apps, then buying a workstation should be part of the investment cost. (It's a business expense/tax deduction.)

There are technical reasons why Xcode is used, the function of the iPhone simulator under Xcode(n.b. it's not an emulator) and the underpinning of iOS & OSX which make mac-only dev a no brainer.

Also, we're not talking about an obscure, hard to acquire platform. The minimum system requirement is a core2duo intel mac (2gb ram), which are very easy to come by on ebay for the tight fisted.
I think the list scope and features differ with respect to the nature of the type of followers. Twitter is a broadcast medium. Thus, Twitter lists are very different than Google+ Circles which are asynchronous sharing vs. asynchronous follow. There are also 2 types of shit work:

1. List Creation

2. List Maintenance

These are two different activities that in different networks require varying attention and utility out of the effort.
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Who's not following you back on Instagram?
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Do you know who any of them are already? Plausible deniability doesn't count for much.
The reason you hire from elite schools has nothing to do with the schools themselves. MIT and Harvard don't have substantially different curricula than anywhere else, and for undergrads it really doesn't matter if you have N Nobel Prize winners. But you want to hire someone who was smart enough to get in to MIT or Harvard.

In terms of hiring people because they went to the same school you went to... I've never seen it, though I wouldn't be surprised if that happens with Ivy Leaguers.
It was IBM's bastardization of ed, the standard text editor, and one of the best computer jokes:

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
eBook? I love them, and... now work producing them, however I wonder if they're the best format for a design book.
I choose not to reward publishers of DRMed works with my money. If some of the open-format stuff is too pricey, well, there's plenty to read off in the free world anyway.
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Dot dereference operator in Perl
Maybe at first, but wouldn't that fix itself over time as the less attractive men realized that they were getting no responses?
Could optimize the data-processing such that it could be done on the device itself? You still need a weather service that you can get radar data from freely.
The projected cost estimate for a crash program with a 50/50 shot of realizing SENS in mice in ten years is $1 billion - meaning achieving robust rejuvenation of old mice.

It is an ongoing and interesting debate as to why funding of aging research by wealthy people is not more extant. See Larry Ellison's not very vocal interest in the field - he puts a fair amount of money into what amounts to a private arm of the NIA, which is to say he's not getting much in the way of progress for his funding. Or look at Paul Glenn's somewhat better aimed funding of ways to slow aging via the establishment of the Glenn Laboratories in a variety of research centers. Or Peter Thiel's $3 million for SENS research a few years back. These things are on a line from worst to best in terms of ways to achieve extended youth and repair aging.

But beyond that, there isn't much going on. When you compare and contrast with the behavior of wealthy people who suffer from a named medical condition, the disparity in action becomes clear. The biggest challenge is not so much the technical side of things - the path to repairing aging is as clear as things ever get in science - but the fact that very few people seem in any way interested in achieving this goal.
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IOS 5.0.1 lets developers to specify files that should remain on device
I'm getting very similar numbers at ticalc.org, which skews hard toward high-school students.
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The framework your professors used was probably meant to teach you fundamentals. Sure, you can teach yourself to glue code together that you found on the Internet and get pretty good at it. The trouble comes when you get to a problem that hasn't been solved already. That's when the fundamentals you learned will kick in and actually help you.
I wonder if "acceptability at work" also would skew those vs ars or the internet at large. My gut would be that much of the IE browsing includes browsing at work.
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Previous discussion on "Cleaning" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3108563
Sadly, I still see the same mentality in websites. I feel if there is no online strategy, then the website might as well be a business card.

Apps are "in fashion" a the moment, businesses think they need one just for presence, developers think they need one for their resume. I've fielded too many requests from companies that are seeking "an app". Naturally I'd quiz them on what they'd like the app to do, and quite often the answer is that they don't know and thought that is what I'd be bringing to the table.

I'm happy that there is a good history of the apple app store rejecting these kinds of trivial, next-to-no function apps.
The images need cropping/resizing, but yes, imagemagick could do it.
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> But I figure I can always convert my salary to the local equivalent when asked what my current salary is.

Same. I make in your salary range, and I figure I will simply grab some COLA calculators when I go job hunting and adjust upwards to correct for the local difference
The Minutiae of Web Interfaces: Realism
DbVis is GREAT and multi-db management tool http://www.dbvis.com/
Raphaeljs polar clock demo (no flash, works even in IE6)
So it looks like they're pre-announcing a developer platform as a way to support the launch of a consumer app (Livestand). But the actual developer bits aren't actually available yet? What?

Why are you wasting my time, Yahoo? Who does this?