skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Double jeopardy applies to the same act, not the same crime. You cannot be tried for the same act twice if the case is fully resolved (i.e., it ends with a plea or a verdict or an appeals court renders a decision that "prejudice" shall apply.)

This is why prosecutors always overcharge: if they undercharge, they are foreclosed from seeking a conviction on the more serious charges once the case is resolved (whether they win or lose).
Glad someone else remembers this well. Every time I read some self-righteous, mid-20-something blogger ranting like they are Michael Jordan, I remind myself of when the first bubble blew-up and there WEREN'T jobs or opportunities for a lot of really talented/smart people.
I noticed that also. A customer asked me to install HipChat yesterday morning and later in the day I installed Mountain Lion. The icons ended up close together on my dock, and I did a double take this morning.
Yep, didn't mean to imply otherwise.

It does vary a lot between disciplines, though. There are a lot of successful people in support roles: technology, "back office" (operations, settlements, legal), human resources, etc., from many backgrounds.

Sales, research, trading, transactional M&A, wealth management and capital markets desks have a higher percentage of Ivy/prep school folks, especially for folks in the ~VP - younger MD range.

Re: try-hard-ism: For example, Goldman derivatives trading struck me at one point as being made up of the lacrosse team captains from each Ivy.

A lot of the older folks are "Brooklyn smart" whereas the younger folks are mostly "MIT smart" or "MBA smart".

I had an interview with a private equity firm who told me re: their analyst program: "We hire only 24 year olds who went to private school, then an Ivy, then did a two-year program at a top tier investment bank. We find that if everyone we hire is the same person, it's easy for them to work together, and for us to work with them. We took a risk one time and hired someone with a different profile once, and it didn't work out." (Basically verbatim.)
When tests are just not the best tool to assert
Mixergy has a very... fluffy feel as a website. It reads like it's going to sell you a PDF document that will change your life in 5 quick steps.

But once you get into the actual interviews there is real substance. Andrew is an excellent interviewer - I just think he needs to rebrand the site.
You mean they're updating Safari with a patch created by Google engineers months ago to fix the issue:
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142
Also what about deployments/bug fixes? Seems if you need to make changes to the html fragments you'd have to do a full app deploys every time. Versus making changes to specific JS file and uploading it.

Personally that's why i like this whole shift to single page apps. Just as we've decoupled certain aspects of the server-side development, we can do the same with the UI.
Double jeopardy specifically only bars a person from being charged for the same (allegedly criminal) act multiple times in the same jurisdiction.

In other words, a person can be charged in federal and states courts separately for the exact same acts.
>"Office runs into tens of millions of lines of code." I am aware of that - my father doesn't give a shit. He wants "to download Office"

Unquestioningly bend to the capricious whims and desires of non-technical users, a winning strategy for any tech business.

Last month a user told me I should add full-fledged accounting and payroll management to my niche software so he doesn't have to buy QuickBooks. Better get cracking!
Congratulations Matt, Haraka is a great project it would be awesome if it takes over PostFix and SendMail one day.
Depends on role. In sales / trading / research there is way more demand for jobs than supply, and a lot of talented unemployed people floating around out there.

For example, here in SF, one PM told me that he was going to interview one candidate per day for 30 days and then make a decision. For a junior trader / analyst position. Granted this is a C-list at best town for finance, but that struck me as indicative of a huge imbalance.
jQueryIsAwesome, you must not know what an ES5 shim is. It is a cross-browser solution.

https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim

Especially when you note that JavaScript is not just run in browsers these days, and that most server-side deployments do implement ES5 features, it makes very little sense for modern tutorials to avoid ES5 features unless they are trying to demonstrate drop-in snippets with no library dependencies. It seems clear that the author is not shy about including other libraries with his code.
Freaking amazing, I've been utilizing MVC heavily to develop HTML5 games. Mainly borrowing ideas from Android and iPhone development with their layout engines and staying out of the way as much as possible.
Cutting Pageload Time by 50%
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First off, thank you for the well thought out response.

I was far too vague with my question. I did not mean a general purpose rules engine as in the middleware piece. What I'm thinking about is better described as a rules based system, but far more complex than anything I've written in the past. Just to add complexity, a few domain experts will have the ability to modify and implement rules.

My inclination is towards a language with a small syntactic footprint and not a lot of tribute towards system stuff like memory management. So I was leaning towards Clojure but JS is a great thought. Other languages I wondered about were Prolog and Scala.

I'm doing it as a learning exercise, an attempt at keeping my skills from rusting, and because my day job is boring. If it can be monetized, that's a bonus.
Both D.E. Shaw and Goldman are happy to interview you once you've authenticated by working at another firm first. And both of them are pretty fair once you get the interview IMO.
not really a flag... i guess they look at something like this for "window"

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/113/9/d/Old_Window_by...
That's the problem with the Hipchat logo to begin with, it's rather generic. No big deal, the world keeps turning.
What Users Are Searching For Locally
DHH,

Thanks for the reply. Look forward to using Basecamp NEXT (we use all the 37 signals products here) and seeing the evolution of your process as you continue.

--
Matt
And because its subjective its not important? Because its subjective you cannot criticize it? A good product is not made from cut and dry rules and usability testing. Taste is involved.
A minor warning: I installed Mountain Lion yesterday on my 1+ year MacBook Pro (core 2 duo, not i5 or i7) and Air Play doesn't seem to work - no icon on menu bar. This makes sense because i5 has some instructions for better video compression. Hopefully older Macs will be supported as the software is tweaked. Otherwise, I like Mountain Lion.
Haha that's a fantastic page.
Interestingly that logo accurately represents the way "Windows" worked in Windows 1.0. It didn't have overlapping windows. So the lines within the windows represent the dividers of the UI between the window areas. You could make one window bigger by moving a divider over, making all the windows on the other side of that divider smaller. There was no concept of windows being in front of or behind each other (like there was on the mac from the beginning. Microsoft obviously started on windows late compared to the mac, and was quite behind at the 1.0 release.)
The fake journal trend
You're not the only one with this viewpoint.

Here's some of what I do during the week:

Monday: go to a classical concert or opera. And it's free as I live near IU.

Tuesday: go to contradance, and an awesome Scottish bar afterwards.

Wednesday: can do multiple things: contradance, hackerspace (only 1 in Indiana), or heavy rapier fencing. And they're all at the same time.

Thursday: Renaissance dance or musician for dancers (I do both).

Friday: was in jazz quartet that fell apart. Looking for group who's willing for a C-Mel player. (note: it's a key of c saxophone that was made back in '27. Conn quit production in '34.)

Saturday: I work on my projects and hackeries that interest me. That ranges from arduino work all the way to lapidary and silversmithing to woodworking and bladesmithing to glassworking.

Sunday: more fighter practice, blended with calligraphy, illumination, leatherworking, and other completely random stuffs.

Note that I also work a crappy 3rd shift job ('be glad you have a job', they say). So many things that occur when I would sleep are unavailable to me.

I perhaps watch an hour of tv a week, maybe more. And it's always watched via bittorrent.
I think it's more like it's the low-friction way to go. Most enterprises do not have as their core mission the production of documents. Dealing with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. is a requirement but it's not their core business mission. Spending time identifying, installing, and managing a hodgepodge of other software to do what Office does has no return on investment. Specifying the standard complement of software for an employee PC becomes a 2-second exercise: Office. Done. Now I can think about something that might add value to what we do as a business.
That's a pretty poor justification. If Google were serious about protecting users from this loophole thy wouldn't exploit it.
If you are compiling for PPC architectures, why are Snow Leopard/Lion of any concern? This is just a pointless whine about nothing in particular. If we all shared your attitude to the advancement of technology, we'd all still be using punch cards. The PowerPC platform is dead. They announced it's death at least 7 years ago. Move on.
I'm not disagreeing with you on the "lots of businesses use Office" point. It's true, and there's no getting around it.

The point of the article (also of my comment) wasn't "Nobody ever needs Office again" or "nobody uses Office anymore." That's silly, of course it's used. And it's not a bad product.

So a lot of businesses use Office. Great, we've established that point. But more to TFA's point: a lot of folks can get by fine without Office. You and I already knew we could avoid it. But now, folks who used to rely on Office are buying iPads and Macs (for instance) and getting productive things done without Office, whereas before they might not have realized they could do that.
Minwin didn't ship on its own, but was really an artifact of their efforts to make the components in the kernel less dependent on each other, while developing Windows Vista. I'm not sure how successful their efforts were, seeing as even "Server Core", supposedly the most minimal Windows Server edition possible, still mandates a GUI.

I recall reading an article which talked about the kernel team assigning level numbers to every kernel component, giving the GUI a high level processor scheduling and such a low level, and trying to reduce the dependency between the different levels. Minwin was merely a Windows kernel that has none of the higher level components, but the problem with it is that they didn't manage to completely modularize the kernel so that if you would add some new components they would require a slew of other components.

Still, they've managed to make Internet Explorer optional, but I'm not sure what other benefits the modularization of Windows Vista's kernel has brought.
Microsoft Comic Chat, first released 13 August 1996, even crazier UI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

First demo January 1996: http://kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/ComicChatVideo.shtml
You're completely missing the enterprise side of the equation, which is still a booming part of MSFTs business right now. And they are still a goliath in Enterprise (Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, etc).

You also speak of their 'downfall' in the past tense, as if it's already happened. They still push 90% of desktop market share, rule enterprise, rule the Office suite business, and have some nifty things going on in the entertainment side (not profitable, but nifty nonetheless).
I'd argue server side performs much faster than client side.
Seattle ranks 4th in startup density, 2nd in valuations
Every LinkedIn profile has a "PDF" button that generates a pretty nice-looking resume representation of the profile.
"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail
And here's Apple's rendition of the Windows logo (used for Boot Camp): http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanchao/127292839/
The Montauk Grifter: How One Con Man Used OkCupid for Fun, Fraud, and Profit
Sony hints that Vita OS might head to smartphones
On just length alone, if this is the beginner's version, would love to see the intermediate/advanced versions ;)

I like the references to Backbone.js and other modern frameworks...the explanation of Backbone's router vs Spine's controller was particularly helpful, mostly because I know Backbone's router is not a controller but hadn't taken the time to see how Spine does it.

I thought the introduction...everything before the actual examples/cases, was a little too long-winded for me. It was interesting to read as an experienced programmer, but I can't imagine a beginner trudging through all of that without seeing a simplified use case to break up the long narrative text. If the audience for this book is beginners, why go into such great detail about the philosophy of patterns (including a discussion of antipatterns) when most beginners are at the level where they probably don't know much OOP or even things like closures?

Otherwise, another fantastic addition to the open-source bookshelf.
In fact, I would rather see someone forgetting about GoF, focusing on the problems that do exist in this different environment (Javascript) and coming up with solutions to those, thus formulating patterns that are really relevant in the context of Javascript.

Because, you know, the pattern is not the solution, but the sum of problem + context + solution.
What company that maintains a company blog wouldn't make a post when they do something as significant as change their logo? It's their own blog, not a press release.
Actually, there are box solutions for corporate portals (which I guess include wiki or other communication/knowledge sharing tools). They're kind of a hot topic. Business are adopting.
Berners-Lee's Original Proposal of the Web
Obviously I do not believe that you should listen to all user requests, in fact I think that most can be ignored. However, I do not think my dad is unlike a lot of our dads/cousins/in-laws/familynontechie. I truly believe that a majority of non technical people would by "Office™ for X" simply because of the first word, and /that/ is when you start to listen to your customers.

Microsoft is not a niche software company. They dump billions down holes every year for completely fruitless projects. They could have easily bought dataviz, called documents to go Office Mobile, and called it a day.
technically, it's not so much of a 'scare' but a fucking pain in the ass we can do without.

good night, and good luck.
I think the question arose from the fact that the old logo looked like it was trying to be both a window and a flag at the same time. The reason for looking like a window was pretty obvious, but the reason for looking like a flag wasn't.
Nathan Myhrvold has certainly made a brilliant business out of patents laws. They simply think of the "ideas" and patent them without having any need to actually implement any of the stuff (there are few things that they do prototype to show off to journalists and avoid getting flagged as clearly a troll). Then they go to all big businesses and ask them to become "subscriber" for their patent pool in order not to get sued in future. The beauty of the business model is not about filling patent law suits for billions of dollars like all other trolls but instead offer a subscription for few million dollars that generates a continuous revenue stream. In essence, they make companies pay annual dues just because they are sitting around and thinking about something!
It's not a press release, it's a blog post, on the company's blog, about why that company is changing its logo. It's not written for journalists in the first place.
Quality seems to be always improving to me. Occasional questionable guest but that's to be expected when you pump out so many interviews. Having random people on there is good I think it exposes everyone to new ideas.

He has really focused on extracting actionable tactics. Check out the courses section. Worth the money I think.

btw as far as I know you can still get every single interview free on itunes.

The only thing I would like to see is a short summary of points/tactics/interesting stuff for each interview. No-one has time to watch them all or read all the transcripts.
The Piracy Threshold
Make that ruined by the federal government at the cost of US taxpayers and future taxpayers.
While you were chatting…A startup revolution was born
BiwaScheme: a Scheme interpreter in JavaScript
Are Electric Cars Worse Than Gas Cars in China?
Google Maps does something to capture the mouse - unless you mean without buttons being held.
That's ridiculous. Essays are already being shoe-horned into the 3-paragraph/introduction/conclusion format and (I believe) it's quite harmful to budding writers.

An automated system of marking will mean two things:

1. Students will write more essays because they can be marked faster but...
2. The increased quantity will dictate an even more strict "style".
Dating Site That Features Constructive Criticism For Failed Encounters.
I thought this idea was interesting because it illustrates that even in a market as competitive and saturated as online dating, there are still problems that have yet to be addressed.

While all these other companies are focused only on connecting people, this site asked the simple question "why didn't my connection work out?"

Like the idea or not, I think it's a good example of entering a tough market by asking questions that the other guys are missing.
Bootstrapping Design Ch 4: Typography [pdf]
Parent never said "over Skype". And NASA controlled the mars rovers from earth with "nearly five times the speed of home dial-up"; I'm pretty sure you can get more than that from India to the US.
Best iOS tutorial for beginners... in 3 minutes
I sometimes make the joke with my business friends "What type of Office suite are you?". Because all their jobs basically come down to Excel, Word and PowerPoint, or a combination of all three.

Those tools are still used big time in the business world (which is magnificently bigger than this community).
For God's sake, not again.
> Alexander, I think the Law of Demeter is shit and never follow it.

Classic DHH
Obama opens Silicon Valley field office
The whole is "Don't be Evil" history thing is asked too often, frequently around things which probably aren't even borderline but this feels a valid case of calling them on it.

Deliberately exploiting a loophole to circumvent privacy controls is scummy behaviour, the sort of thing you expect from the industry's bottom feeders, not from one of the biggest companies in the game and certainly on that professes some sort of conscience.

You can argue its not really evil but it's hard to say its not another step towards that, and this time it seems hard to suggest that it's contractors or some peripheral part of the company.
FBI’s Looming Server Shutdown Could Leave Chunks of the Internet Dark
Here is why: most of the issues you described when Tusk didn't give in were national and specific to Poland. ACTA is sort of a popular kid on the global political block; emphasis being on global. It's a new kid in school if you will, and one that everyone wants to take a stab at. This is bandwagon politics that caters to scaring the public with a gun, only to apologise and whack them over the head with a stick nevertheless.

You and I probably agree that the outcome is good overall, but be wary of the political song and dance. Stay vigilant is my motto.
The hardware specs are underwhelming, to say the least. This thing is about equivalent to an iPad 1.
I'm very rusty in my Linux ways these days, but isn't it possible to buy an alibaba tablet for a couple of tenners and get linux working on that? This thing looks clunky ...
I agree with this but I also think if you build a startup, you should rely on some content in the initial stages to get the ball rolling.

I also think the dirty little secrets of most web companies is that > 80% of their daily traffic comes from search engines. And you need content to rank in those. Pinterest and Facebook are just exceptions to that rule. That's why it's hard for newcomers to breakthrough - everyone else has a 5-10 year head start establishing themselves in Search engines, and building millions of pages of content. People these days don't like to be "pushed" a website (they're more likely to not trust it too) - they want to find it themselves, either through friends, or search engines, or forums.
I know how you feel, it seems like a big waste. Why wouldn't you just buy them and not get data plans? It's not like you're forced to get ipads with the data plan. Especially if they'll be on wifi most of the time. And if it's for you kids, lets be honest, most of their time will be spent playing games, which a data plan is not necessary for once, they've got the app.

As far as different carriers using different technology, haha, good luck with that. The difference between Verizon or AT&T's cellular technology goes a little bit beyond "a different RF section" But the whole point of LTE is that eventually everybody will be on that standard, then you really shouldn't have to worry much.
Consider that before the printing press was invented, the way most words were produced was by writing them by hand. The next time you're using a pen, ask yourself whether the letters you're writing seem A. pretty convenient to write, or B. difficult to write for logistical or other reasons. If you're leaning toward A, it's no big surprise since the people who developed and evolved it were also using a writing utensil, as with almost every other http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_System. I make no claim about whether it is more or less optimized than other writing systems.

People used chisel's here and there, but that has little bearing.
I made https://jobpoacher.com/ so you can send all of the shitty recruiters (and good ones) to an anonymous email address.
'Commerce' here means something sold in the open market, not something used privately as an aid to market trading. Goldman's trading software was not for sale to others, so it had not been placed into the stream of commerce.
The article states that Forbes is a user of this software. Instead of selling this software to Forbes and other news organizations, they should try selling it to ordinary individuals.

Write some scripts that hook up this program to your favorite search engine. Make a repository of these scripts publicly available and free. These scripts will find and tell you the news in which you are interested. Don't just put some journalists out of work, put entire news organizations out of business.
Do they Have Gmail in Heaven? My Suddenly Strange Thread with Anthony Shadid
I think they won't mind leaving it the way it is for some time. It could be used as a sort of a subconscious metaphor: keyboards/old logo is the thing of the past and touch screen/new logo is "the now".