skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's a real effect: entry level positions start at lower purchasing power then they did in the past, many requiring FREE unpaid internships. This coupled with anemic raises that do not match up with those in the past, mean companies do not reward the young to stay. This occurred before the 08 crash as well.

Yes, it is more visible what's going on in associates lives, however, real wages for young workers are declining in absolute purchasing power.

The lack of high responsibility positions opening up from lack of top of the workforce people retiring is not helping this issue any.
Yep - Elon talked about this about an hour ago in the post-splashdown press conference and said the future dragon will be able to do precision soft landings where there is little atmosphere or no atmosphere, so we can deliver payloads to other bodies in the Solar System. I love how he also said it's how spaceships simply should do a landing. (He didn't quite say that's how God and Heinlein would have wanted it, but same idea.)
I grubbed last night in Chicago. It can be hit or miss but last night was great. I think it's better with a smaller group of people who have a specific interest.
Agreed--in many of these cases, people need education about how to properly use display faces.
unless they taper a la MBA.
I feel like a complete putz for not getting the Sun-Solaris relation until RIGHT NOW.
The article sums it up. To keep certain people you have to make a compelling reason for them to stay, else they will chase the dream of being their own boss. This is an evolution of Gen-X, to Gen-Whatever, coinciding with the ease of starting up a tech company (low cost barrier). It's only going to increase, look at kickstarter.

I need a share in a company, more than just benefits, and I need to believe in what they are doing...not just creating more and more re-skinned sites and crud like that. I also need more freedom. Do I sound demanding? Maybe, but the fact is I can demand this expectation right now. Because I could easily go start my own freelance dev shop if I wanted too...
What is the 'scary' part? The fact that the government seized your stiff (privacy) or that your stuff disappeared (possession)?
Why can't a piece of paper be folded more than “n” times?
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My first open source S^3 app on Nokia Store-Brahma: Screen capture “reinvented”.
You also get that with games where people felt shafted for one reason or another -- Mass Effect 3's ending, Portal 2's weak alternate reality game, and Diablo 3's launch day server issues.
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Glad to hear it's working for you. Thanks again for your feedback :)
That's the way it's set up at Waterloo, with soft-eng in Engineering, and CompSci in the Math Faculty. That being said, in Computer Science we have some classes on bash scripting and C++, which I think are valuable, but not as fun as functional programming or compilers. Still more fun than our very dry formal logic class, which is sad, because I like formal logic.
Degrees don't matter so much. Can you learn? Are you smart? Can you ship good code (given enough training)? Real programming skills comes through experience and domain knowledge. I am less interested in the educational background of developers that I've hired than I am of their future growth potential which has more to do with personality than IQ.
Between Meteor and 10gen (which makes MongoDB, which Meteor uses heavily), $50M was just invested. If both companies use their money wisely this could pack a powerful punch!
I picked 1 meal per day because its larger than their current volume in either NYC or SF and a milestone they should probably hit before getting to 100 meals per day per city.

I agree that it COULD be 100 meals per day per city, but I have no indication that the market is interested or would support that.

I want to guess what their business is worth right now, not some hypothetical future projection.

You have moved more than 10 people to lunch for one location. Have you done that on a sustained (daily) basis for 50 locations? Because that's what my numbers are saying, and that's a bleak scenario.

I am not saying the investment is bad. I'm saying "please show me how this investment is good". There are a lot of ways it MIGHT be good, like:

1. yelp has been secretly wanting to buy something like this for 100m.
2. there is evidence that they can fill 50 tables a night in kalamazoo michigan

I just don't have that data, so from what I've seen I can't tell that it's awesome.

I want it to be awesome. Show me.
Such items are important to web developers and they can use them to justify looking at one or other technology. Or perhaps attempt at least benchmarking and have them as one of the guides in configuring and setting up services. Comes to mind why is Redis can be better then mongodb and in what configuration.

As well in discussion about this and that these can be of help too.

Adding misaligned memory penalties such as on word boundary and page boundary can enhance such document. This might be a good cheatsheet if one inclined to research and make one.
I very much regret that I have only one upvote to give for this comment, because every API company should be doing that. (Most of the very successful ones do already, but since many API companies start with two hackers and a couple of boxes of ramen, you can greatly increase your chance of success by taking this comment and executing on it.)
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Probably because the vast majority of the "programming" field as it stands today barely exercises computer science knowledge. Linked list optimizations, heaps, that stuff isn't even on the radar of most devs hacking on a startup, frankly, because the language hides it away. And they are not inferior programmers if they can execute on their knowledge, are they?

I hate that, to most folks who are into CS, CS is a yardstick for how much value a hacker will develop. "Can't optimize this from O(n^2) to O(n)? I have no idea how you keep your job." There is far more to the value produced by a hacker than the typical interview questions, and this elitist attitude out of most compsci folks is obnoxious.

This is why, even though I understand CS, grilling me on theoretical CS in your interview is automatic points off and I'll accept the position that actually quizzes on practical. I'm definitely of the mind now, being a self-taught programmer with a working knowledge of compsci, that I will learn things when they're needed to execute (not so they'll sit around in my brain waiting for the manager that Googled hard interview questions to ask).
I actually don't think that's true. My understanding is that on x86, atomic instructions have implicit lock instructions before them. (Or you can make some instructions atomic by putting a lock instruction before them.) Such instructions lock the bus and prevent other cores or SMT threads from accessing memory. In that way, you can safely perform an atomic operation on a value in the cache.

Note that this implies that atomic operations slow down others cores and SMT threads.
We can handle this easily at fastly.com. You can also reach us in #fastly on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions.
Hi,
currently the only way to bookmark a whole page is to hover around the edge, we felt this was the simplest way to allow clipping part of a page and the whole page easily without having to toggle some kind of mode. If you have any ideas on how you would like to change this feature, let us know.

You can add/update and remove tags from clips. What's the error you are seeing (or does it not show an error and just doesn't remove the tag when you refresh the page?) Can you send me info to mark@clipboard.com

Tag categories is something we have discussed and would definitely be a useful feature in the future.

Thanks
Mark.
IANAL or anything even remotely resembling one, but it seems to me that this could be begging for legal trouble if an employee was fired for this. I could be very wrong, but depending on how you go about this it has elements of entrapment, etc. all over it.

EDIT: Also seems like a very minor issue. I'm tempted to think that you're trolling. Perhaps this person wasn't aware it was someone else's? Really, I think a memo reminding everyone that their own food is their own should be enough to clear this up.
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Or one of their current connector engineers left the company or was reassigned to a different role, and they're hiring someone to fill the position that they left.
Huh? What's the problem?
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Ghost Chillies (or any other sufficiently "burn-off-your-mouth" chillies) are the answer. It's not high tech, but you're guaranteed to find the lunch thief (they're the one rolling on the floor), warn them off taking food from the fridge, and not have to put your employees through the "suspicion" deal.

I'm not sure what liability would be like, but technically, they're in the wrong for taking property that's not theirs. How were you to know that someone would eat your SUPER-MEGA-HOT pocket?
Part of the problem is that the name 'Soyuz' is the name for the whole thing, the module on top is called 'Progress' and the current generation, Progress-M [1]. From the wikipedia page (but I've heard this from my Russian space enthusiast friends as well) "The Progress M is essentially the same spacecraft as the Progress, but it features improvements based on the Soyuz T and TM designs. It can spend up to 30 days in autonomous flight and is able to carry 100 kg more. Also, unlike the old Progress crafts, it can return items to Earth. This is accomplished by using the Raduga capsule, which can carry up to 150 kg of cargo." [2]

So in a strict language mapping Falcon-9 -> Soyus, and Dragon -> Progress if we talk about the various parts. And yes, the amount of cargo the Progress-M can return it quite limited compared to Dragon. But my Russian friends tell me that there are variants that are an equivalent to Dragon either available or designed but not deployed. I don't know one way or another and it takes NOTHING away from the huge thing SpaceX has accomplished. I would be hugely proud to be part of a team that has shown such a stunningly good ability to execute against their goals.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress-M

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_%28spacecraft%29
I wasn't permitted to study CS formally (no school would accept me), but I've never found the study itself to be particularly inaccessible. There is a lot of great information out there that anyone can access.

I think people are just apt to become discouraged. There is the prevailing idea that only CS students can learn CS, especially on places like HN, which causes people, who would otherwise be more than capable, to shy away from studying the topic.
I am pretty curious on how they are going to compete against other open source 'realtime web' solutions such as derby.js?

Especially since derby.js is distributed with npm and can be used in conjunction with the thousands of existing node.js libraries. Any node developer can integrate derby.js into his existing web app with a little effort and make it 'realtime'. With meteor, not so easily.
There are a few other fantastic indie bundles going on right now, too:

http://www.indiegala.com/

http://www.indieroyale.com/

http://www.gamemusicbundle.com/

The indie bundle sales are my favorite trend in gaming in a long time.
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You can implement TRRS connectors essentially as thin as you like, if you don't put sides on it. It looks like a U-shaped slot instead of a full sleeve.

That said, probably not effective for a consumer device, since you'd have issues with it staying in place.
More detail here: Jiang Zemin death rumours spark China web crackdown - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14054456

Not a few weeks ago though; appears to be from nearly 10 months back.
Psychonauts is fantastic ( I actually just replayed it a couple weeks ago )

Bastion is quite good, too.
The vast majority of readers are not font snobs. They don't debate the merits of kerning or whitespace balance.

But they do notice when trendy fonts trend. And comic sans most certainly did trend, and it was that trend -- and not its relative font merit -- that made it so deridden. It is the Croc shoes of the font world. Wow that analogy works really well because while shoe snobs can rail off the problems with the mighty croc (ignoring its benefits), they completely miss the mark on why there is the general anti-croc backlash (hint -- hipsterism. Anti-populism. etc)

This article is dead-on.
RETAILERS ARE GOING MOBILE…BUT STILL MISSING OUT
Yeah, but you can op divert COCOTs or just hack them directly (one of my schools' COCOTs had a flaw where you could make the modem think you were still operating for free after dialing toll-free if you hadn't hung up the phone completely, rendering free unlimited calls)
The elaborate floating crane isn't as Rube Goldberg as it seems. It's pretty similar to the Mars Phoenix mission, but with the engines on the other end. The only real difference is that SpaceX is eliminating the need to pack a parachute by developing engines that can fire reliably and predictably in a supersonic flow. (And Dragon doesn't throw the engines away after landing).

Curiosity isn't required to use the elaborate floating crane, but I'm guessing some feature or requirement of the mission made placing the engines above the craft more appealing than placing them below.
I write code, and subscribe to a lot of newsletters.

When I get an email that provides me with some immediate value, and then pitches me to exchange some money to deliver more value, I'm probably going to open up my wallet.

Peepcode is a great example. I'm not going to spend time checking back to see if there's new content, but I occasionally get emails for them advertising a new screencast. It benefits me ("Hey, I'm partially interested in X, and I can get a good baseline understanding of X for an hour of my time and $Y"), and I know for a fact I'm not the only "hacker" who gets these emails.
I'm going to give it an honest unbiased try over the weekend on a desktop touch screen Sony I have lying around. Im hoping that it's better than the consumer preview.

This is the moment i choose my future platform.
The most blunt approach is not always the best.

People know how to read between the lines.
I just moved as well, hence the idea. I am going to give it a go with my stuff and I will do a Show HN shortly.
I am not a fan of Facebook so don't label me as such.

Google is known for its spectacular flops. The fact that they've used their cash to buy already successful services doesn't make them creative.

I view google as completely unimaginative company. Their search was nice once but right now their search results look like christmas tree so I can't admire them for that either.

Basically, google sucks.
Let's get that list!
The new non-Aero interface is interesting, I find it interesting how they are very delibaretly going in the opposite direction to Apple in their interfaces... Don't like the Calendar app - try Windows 8!
You might not think this is relevant, but I do. Based on what you're describing, here's my guess as to the percent of market wage that you pay your employees: 18. (Just counting cash here, not any other form of compensation incl. equity.)

Am I right? Close? Honest question...
Knowing what it's like to work in a very small/close-knit company, simple notes/memos tend to come off as very passive-aggressive, and cause discord.
I can vouch that this isn't a troll question. Having worked with him for a while, he's asking a good question about how best to keep his company family intact without making everyone feel like jerks about the whole thing.
Only if it's true, though. If you try to sell pulp in a package more suitable for serious litterature, you won't reach readers who are interested in pulp and you will upset people who seek serious books.

I think the real problem you're trying to address is the lack of confidence of programmers into their own writings; their bullshit detector is too sensitive when placed too close to the source.
"If you think the Internet is valuable, then you implicitly think porn is valuable, too".

Porn has to be at least 20% of the Internet, right?
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IPhone 5 to have bigger screen (Rumour)
Small paint bomb - works for ATM's :)

You can make something that blows up when they open the container..
I could imagine that in redneck country.

I always call mine something rude. It seems to effectively stop people trying to connect to it. Security by lack of obscurity.

Currently it's iloveanal
Current hardware may not fully support the Windows 8 touch experience. Why color your experience with old hardware?

More details here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/28/touch-hardware...

I'm personally looking for something like the Ideapad Yoga,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jnrRRAcZc&hd=1

My 5 year old Sony ultraportable still runs well with Windows 8, but have to move on. Might get a Windows RT tablet(maybe Nokia's) along with it, but I barely use the HP Touchpad with Android I have, so that's there.
What is that crooked line in the picture?

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60628000/jpg/_60628685...

Is that from the parachute?
This is slightly off-topic but seeing the soundtracks bundled with purchase reminded me of it. Can you make decent money creating soundtracks for games? Seems like on of the few avenues musicians have left other than non-stop touring.
So I live in western Virginia .... I'm thinking this occasion merits a viewing of Apollo 13 and a trip to the national space museum.

I sincerely hope we can expand our reach into space soon. And hopefully the commercial space industry will further that mission.

And while I'm not a fan of Obama's policies, I do appreciate his decision to increase the role of the private sector in space. Kudos all around !
I may be mistaken but I don't remember being able to keep the template of a word document while editing it in google docs, changing examples anyway, slightly more complex excel files could also not be supported I think.
ok, 32gb ipod touch.
And it quite reasonably _is_ exercise...
I find it mindly amusing that there is super-high confidence that fans of Cat Power will own a cat. Owning a horse comes in at a distant second.
That doesn't sound good at all! I guess they can update themselves automatically. Who vets the plugin ecosystem?
mac os, since os x leopard, isn't just 'unixy', infact it is a 100% POSIX compliant certified UNIX operating system!

gnu/linux is what one would call 'unixy' =)
One of the arguments for this proposal was the protection of trademarked names; however, the registration for protection would not be needed if this change was never implemented. It seems to cause more problems than it solves. I can see what Google might be trying. Perhaps they want to offer free domain names at .google or something similar.

Back to the trademark defense, there are already solutions to protect the trademarks. I obviously would not have gotten away with registering the .google TLD even if I had $185,000 to do it.
I believe that they compensated people for putting up files as well. It's not impossible to have a case where you want the copies of your files put up by some other uploader taken down without wanting your own removed. The fact that one copy was put up without permission does not necessarily mean they all were, though that's probably the case 99% of the time. Of course, depending on how you read the DMCA, they may have been obligated to do that anyhow. We'll have to see how it all plays out in court.
It does support the full experience. Look up Sony vpcj1.
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I am totally naive to these cat and mouse games, but why does not Google just force SSL in China? They would have to turn off the partial searches feature, which has been shown to leak the cleartext, but I think it would totally fix any sort of censorship. Then again, maybe this type of response works better politically.
"Person who takes lunch from the fridge" isn't a protected class as far as I know, and a lot of states are basically "at-will", which means you don't really need a reason to fire anybody at any time.
I almost always give everything to the devs, with maybe a dollar or two to HIB to cover things like hosting, dealing with Steam, etc. If I were going to donate to EFF or Childs Play, I would do that directly, not as a way to self-justify paying less of my money to the developers that put a lot of hard work into the games I'm buying. But hey, working in the gaming industry might make me biased...
Ask HN: Has the Facebook IPO impacted the success of others? 
Roland Jones (MSNBC) writes:
"Facebook’s initial stock offering was supposed to jump start the broader IPO market. It seems to have done the opposite."[1]

Other journalists echo the sentiment. [2]

What does this mean for other hopefuls (Kayak, Square et al)?

Has Facebook really hurt investor sentiment that much that other companies are unlikely to be as successful in raising funds (IPO and other)?

1 http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/31/11993138-facebook-effect-is-sending-a-chill-through-the-ipo-market?lite
2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/facebook-kills-tech-bubble_n_1559101.html
Google moving to all paid Google Product Search listings
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I agree. I'd bail out of my decent, relatively well-paying job and take my chances with the future if I got in on this.
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PETA Targets Celebrity Chef Fans With New 'Silent Scream' Ad Spot
:). Stay tuned for our followup report on worldwide sentiment towards anal versus vaginal intercourse.
I signed up. (I would read Patrick's blog, but I don't use rss, so email is way better for me.)
It's REST-ish. But the highlight I was hinting at is making the API itself be more discoverable. We did it by mapping the API directly to the web UI such that html just becomes the default format type of the API.
Domain experience is VERY valuable in some fields. For some years, I've believed that hybrid degrees or education are the way forward for CS/programming.

Maybe someday we'll see accountants, medical doctors, civil engineers, researchers from all over science with a double major or mixed major (I think those are the correct US terms).

Also, a double degree with business knowledge as well (more general), kind of what programmers turn MBAs do, or the various Management of Technology degrees.
Google warns Chinese users if their search terms will interrupt connection
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Upon actually using it, it's pretty much snip.it but even more difficult to read. I think Snip.it and Pinterest are not very well designed around their primary purpose - content - but posts that can span 900px high of illegible text is pretty bad, especially when you scroll a little bit more and it's just posted again by someone else.

For whatever reason, I just wrote another post about features and ways to distinguish this product from the competition in their other thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4049752).
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Isn't supplying a library for making cheap ports one of the stated goals of wine?
It was so absolutely nice that NUMB3RS hired actual applied math geeks to write the equations that their statistician uses to solve crimes.

If only they had hired a computer geek to write the crap about the Turing test. ;_;
Hi, Grubwithus dev here. We're a very small team of developers doing our best to squash the bugs and build new features. Yesterday was unusual due to increased traffic, but what kind of errors were you getting? We'd don't like errors either :)