skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the encouragement! In some cases there are pretty hard HR filters that look at my LinkedIn and see I only have 1 years as dev and was a pure business guy before that. In others, I truly don't have experience with all the stuff in their stack.

Where possible, I'll avoid the term junior for here on out.
Focus: What is your product going to be awesome at?
In my experience, Cisco generally isn't that kind of manufacturer.
I deal with so many folks trying to scam our search engine every day I can't imagine the hordes at that gate here.

Reddit's response seems to be to take away the cheese in order to make the site less appealing to the rats. Its one strategy.

So far I've found that making it seem to the bad actors that nothing has changed is most effective at keeping them from getting worse. The first time we tried returning a straight error code for a robot search we got to see how fast a robot could send requests (pretty damn fast!) but we can send them the same 10 bogus serps again and again and again and they will chew their robot cud all day.
I love 3D printers, but this to me is pointless. With a chocolate printer people see the printed design, but with this you're putting the printed feature on a tortilla that's about to be rolled up. I think I'll stick with a spoon.
>GPUs that work wonders with linux because they have no feature at all?

That's a little unfair. They might suck at 3-d immersive games, but some of us do not want to play 3-d immersive games, and the GPU integrated into my Core i5 does everything I want it to except perhaps smoothly play 1080p video. (720p playback OTOH works flawlessly.)
Five years from now these will be used for revenue generation by tracking moving violations. All the great things they could do are nice, but in the end it'll be about money.

And that'll just make the inevitable abuse get swept under the rug.
You could gain experience from that.
I am asking "why" and I am a member here. I said that quite clearly. I really don't see where you are getting your first paragraph. I don't really understand this reply at all.

Back to working on my blog post.

Later.
There's no charging for reading on sites that have signed up. It was a voluntary monthly payment for them to try to distribute evenly to publishers based on your use, not a "use Readability on x.com, pay Readability $1 which we'll transfer to x.com" model. If it were the latter, I'd agree with you, but it's nothing like that.
A threat is different? http://www.elsurhoy.com.ar/index.php/component/plugins/syste... I don't think it is very different in this case
Have you used PHP? Spend 5 minutes with it and you'll understand; a very expressive language, simple to learn, massive library of functions, massive number of examples to copy, no framework to learn, no syntactical overhead like in Java, practically everything works with, or has bindings for PHP.

I prefer to work in python, but I don't much care anymore, each language has it's strengths and weakness' but PHP most definitely is good for getting things done "very very quickly"
I love that the Argentinian government was worrying about their (mostly) tongue-in-cheek ranking in the Economist's big-mac index. It makes me feel like they're run by the Bluths from Arrested Development or something.
No problem :) I think you're catching enough flak for your over-50 comments below, so I didn't mention that one ;)

BTW, shallow thought wasn't meant as a derogative. It's what we monkeys do best, after all. It'll result in a different profile of swings, hits, & misses than other approaches, that's all.

(also, the irony that the new yorker article also suggests how we're really good at seeing the faults in others thought processes but not in our own is hi-larious)

Best of luck!
and Google and Amazon fighting over .search...
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How long was the proposed stay? If it is a wedding, a few hundred dollars in the bank for a week or two of travel should be sufficient, but maybe you put 6 months? That would be a red flag as someone looking for work.

As an interesting aside, too much money in the bank is also a red flag. As a DSO (designated school official) for Kaplan, I used to be in charge of I-20 applications for international students coming to the US to study. One doctor from Nigeria (listed by USCIS as a high-risk country) who applied and was rejected provided bank statements showing USD 6.2 million while his mailing address was a farm in Nigeria.
I've spotted The Atlantic going some cheesy things, and as much as I like some of their content, it really dims my opinion of them. For instance, take a look at these two submissions on the same day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074345

-- and --

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074230

These point, respectively, to the following url's. Notice the slight url difference in what is actually the same article.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/what-cou...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/what-cou...
Yes. Maybe they're trying to be cute with the 'donation' angle, "hey, we're not selling....we just require a donation of a fixed amount".
Firstly, very cool. Secondly, why burritos?

From my perspective the form factor of a burrito doesn't mesh with the strengths of 3d printing. It seems like you might be able to get an equally good burrito with mechanized squirt bottles that move in a semi random pattern.

I could definitely see 3d printing being great for a number of food applications - cakes, candies, food sculptures, etc.

Don't want to take away from the effort because its very creative but perhaps fill that sucker up with some different types of food materials.
It appears to be the only type of visa a Jamaican can apply for, whether it be to visit or transit through Canada:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp

It's a remarkably long list of countries that Canada requires a visa for.

I suspect it's an attempt to reduce the number of refugee claims Canada receives -- this is NOT to imply that Mr. Gayle would claim refugee status.

A visa requirement was enacted in 2009 for Mexican nationals to visit Canada to cut down on refugee claims, and they're a NAFTA partner.
It's hard to predict 10 years out, but not too hard to see 5 years ahead. Generally speaking, what's popular now existed in some form 5 years ago.

JavaScript has a monopoly as the only language that runs in browsers. If this were to change, it will take years, not months, for browsers to start supporting another language (or go to a bytecode model). Then it will take more time for developers to start using these new languages and then an ecosystem of tools and libraries to form around this. Then it will take even more time for the "old" language JavaScript to seem obsolete.

JavaScript is currently gaining traction and is the lingua franca of the client-side Internet, which is growing. This is why I predict it will still be strong in 5 years, because it's got a lot of momentum and I only see the trends as increasing (mobile devices are increasing, browsers are becoming even more like operating systems with memory management etc., JavaScript as a language is continually being improved).
Even if it wasn't temporary, it's not like people don't know where to find articles from The Atlantic.
Seems to me Facebook, Reddit, and Google are in the best position to support micropayments since they already have buttons on so many sites.

BTW, am I imagining things or did login happen before commenting was allowed? And did that speed up the HN?
The initial work-function of someone submitting a link is the first filter for if something is good/"worth other people looking at". Taking it away means more stress on the remaining levels of filtering. So if the same things are to get through the sum of all filters, either the remaining levels will need to be more robust to compensate for taking away the first filter, or the first level should just be kept in place.

More abstractly, are there to be no places where people, real humans, can talk with each other without the advertising machines wedging their obnoxious way between us uninvited? Surely you can see there is some value in having such places. If the populous of reddit wants it to be such a place, then spammers are like someone at a party trying to sell watches to everyone rather than conversing. The hosts have asked them to cool it or leave. These particular louts didn't cool it, so the hosts pushed them out the door.
PHP's problem is it's soul. I will make an analogy about this. My analogy will be local, but i will explain it so you can understand.

PHP is my university, Gazi University. It first established in 1926 as a Teacher Training Institute. Nobody knew that there will be a medical school or faculty of fine arts or even a faculty of dentistry. 1926 was the third of our newly established Republic and we needed teachers. So, Teacher Training Institute was born.

Our main campus is very small. Law School or dentistry school is not in the campus. Because, as i said, nobody knew we need them in 1926.

Ruby, C# and many other languages are METU: Middle East Technical University. METU was designed as a university. So, they got a gigantic land in Ankara (capital city of Turkey). They build all their building in there.

Back to the PHP: PHP was born to solve one problem. Just one problem. When they got another problem, they solved it and added the function or implementation in the language. PHP is not designed at desk, it was not "feature-complete" at version 1.0. It's still getting more mature as version numbers increase. For example we get "traits" in 5.4.

PHP is also Windows too (both Microsoft and PHP in a HN comment :) The most un-loved things in this community). Remember the video which a guy installs Windows 1.0 and successfully upgrade it to every version of windows with all his data and programs up to Windows 7? even doom from 1993 works! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14) PHP is like Windows. I know the "parameter order inconsistency" problem too. But you can't solve it after this point of time. You just can't. Like windows, every program should work after the upgrade. There are millions of millions PHP sites. after a "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" they should work.

By the way, sorry for my bad english.
Here's the original thread on HN where I asked if anybody needed design advice:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3548461

It took me 131 days, but I finally came through!
Yeah, it's just too bad that Intel > AMD in terms of chip performance / $ right now.
It's about the ease and cost of use.

Not every local police dept. is going to have on-demand access to a LEO satellite for tracking purposes. These bulky UAVs are the tip of the iceberg. What happens when police can have $20 robotic hummingbirds with 300ft audio/visual range?

The past 40 years have shown the government will always do their best to breach privacy rights to meet their (sometimes noble) ends. Their passion needs to be countered by privacy protections, sad as it may seem.

I don't know about this bill (haven't read it), but something like this needs to come along to protect the people from the government.
Argentina keeps the official rate down because pays interest to USA according to it. If the official rate is low, Argentina pay less, which is great.
I wish more entrepreneurs would be honest about how they're actually doing with other entrepreneurs, so that they could reveal options that haven't been thought of. Forget amongst fellow entrepreneurs though. Even within business partnerships honesty is hard to come by, lest one partner be accused of being a cynic and not having the faith. Still, I think every entrepreneur should have his or her own personal set of trusted advisors just for discussing topics like this.
Here's an idea.. If PHP is so bad.. Don't use it. Simple as that. Let the people who want to use it... There's absolutely very minimal things wrong with the language. Everyone's quick to compare it with Python or Rails or something else saying "PHP does this wrong that Python does right" well, if PHP did everything the same way as Python, Rails, or something else, when what makes it different? Who wants to use a language that doesn't have some severe difference?

It's annoying seeing people waste their breath on arguing why PHP is so bad... Especially when many people/companies have proven PHP is good and can be scaled and used on high trafficked sites, yet 90% of the arguments are how it doesn't scale.

Just because you have used Wordpress or built a quit todo app in PHP that took you 5 minutes and that's the extent of your usage with the language, doesn't make OR break the language.

Quit complaining and let PHP users use PHP, and you continue using whatever the language you use is.

Signed,
A Python, PHP, and Node.js developer.
I enjoy some maintenance, though I don't want to only do only that.

It's quite different from the amazingly rapid pace of fresh empty-text-file blue-sky development.

In the referenced article though, the person was told he was not allowed to do any proactive refactoring and was only permitted reactionary last minute emergency fixes to bug reports (to paraphrase and expand on what he said, but I am fairly sure this is accurate). That... is a very unpleasant and counterproductive set of restrictions.

Without those restrictions, maintenance can be used to gradually convert a giant mud ball mess of hectic changes and poor architectural choices into a robust foundation for future development and a well documented code base that is a joy to work with.

With those restrictions, you're constantly putting out fires with a blanket and a bucket of water, but not allowed to buy a firetruck, pass construction safety codes, or establish a network of fire hydrants.

Back to the person in the referenced post, given that he is currently the sole maintainer of 4 different mudball applications, has written 4 applications there from scratch, and has 2 new apps under development and 5 more scheduled immediately after, and will be responsible for maintaining all 15 apps, he is clearly very talented and will soon completely burn out.

But for him all these details are completely irrelevant anyway. The only important part of his post is this: "My salary is almost equal if not lower then that of a cashier at a supermarket." This is the most important thing he has said and makes the next step he should take clear, and all these details about maintenance unnecessary details.
That's the point. Python is similar to php/js (which is why it's easy to pick up), but in contrast to them it is extremely well designed (imho). You suddenly understand how many of the quirks you have to go through every day coding in php/js are in fact artifacts of these two inconsistent poorly designed (imho) languages rather than programming as a whole.
Hahaha...that's great, Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming. Great times trying to make more and more sophisticated modifications of the game files...either legitly (custom levels, mods) and to use in unsuspecting multiplayer games on MSN Gaming Zone. I remember some members of the modding community ending up becoming serious level designers or game developers.

You could actually make more complicated hacks by making deeper modifications to the weapon/force power scripts. The game had a simple checksum on the client-side script files where it did a rudimentary count on the number of statements (method argument: one statement, pair of parentheses: one statement), and if you had a count identical to the server file, the rest of the contents of your script didn't matter. So you could basically do a lot of stuff as long as you were careful to keep the script file statement count intact: Change the properties of the levels or surfaces, give yourself all sorts of superpowers, freeze or insta-kill opponents, teleport yourself or others, etc etc etc. The scripting language was somewhat C-like and carried over pretty easily to more traditional programming.
Nice to see PHP get some love from polyglots!
So do they see the vote counter going up as well, while for everyone else it remains the same?
It's interesting seeing so many people defending PHP by suggesting that because Facebook use it, it's good enough for anyone. From what I understand, Facebook continue to use PHP because it's heavily embedded in all of their systems, and they continue to develop with it despite other languages being more attractive? ( see http://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-... )
The game mode is called Fort Wars.

Source: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/FortWars
That's surprisingly low. I would have expected more of a long tail of failures approaching 70%. Maybe more people than expected are lowering their target to ensure it's reached.
Thanks, I am also an App/PHPfog user too. ;)
Interesting link, feral.

For anyone else reading, I'd also suggest reading some of the followup posts such as this one: http://www.box2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1800&...
You can't really do that in many FPSs nowadays because you can interact with others even without seeing them; for example on Call of Duty 4 (2007), you can shoot and hit people through most opaque walls, and you get feedback from hits. So if the server were to put fake players behind walls or doors and a player just happened to shoot it, the game would provide false feedback.
The second amendment talks about a well-regulated militia. That doesn't sound like it's intended to be protection against one's own government, but against invading armies.
The Big Mac index as of January:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/01/daily-c...

Argentina was already close to the top, with a Big Mac going for $US4.94, not entirely crazy by any means. (On the other hand, given that you can get a full three-course steak dinner with wine in a nice restaurant for $US20 in Argentina I wonder who is eating these Big Macs). A 25% increase will take it up to something like $6.25, a little above Sweden.

The fact that the official exchange rate is 4.2 pesos to the dollar but Argentinians are willing to give you at least five pesos to the dollar in informal exchanges seems like a pretty bad sign.

The other interesting thing about that Big Mac index is that Argentina is one of the world's largest beef producers. So are Uruguay, Brazil and Australia, all clustered up there in overpriced burger land.
You could be right about these numbers becoming meaningless. But in the meantime, there is a noticeable difference, and that can mean life or death in the jam-packed web dev market that we see today. If cramming as much application logic as possible into the front side continues to shave off milliseconds or even seconds in some cases, then I think that trend will continue.

That said, I hope you're right. A world in which front vs. back end didn't matter with respect to time would be one in which developers were free to reveal far less on the client side, and that would be a victory indeed!
Exactly. Correspondingly, my hope (along with one of the folks below) is that advances in hardware will obliterate any speed difference and enable the back end to be king.

Time will tell.
This is the second app on my list and I am going to try and make something like this on iOS in a few months.

I have thought about some other features too around photos and filtering friends.
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Yes you can get up and running quickly with php, but my comment was mostly about the fact that it is not much slower in other languages (most of the time not slower at all).

And yes I did a lot of PHP but that was 5-6 years ago. I know things have changed a lot since then but the language still has a lot of the same flaws.
moderation. this is something pg understands well and is
also the foundation of hacker news.

This maybe a silly question but is HN moderated in the officially sanctioned sense? I have been here years and not noticed anything other than peer pressure. I would like to know if I am missing something obvious like meta.news
Even if you don't know who it is, knowing that someone is around the other side of the wall is a huge advantage in an FPS game. Also players tend to have their teammates displayed on a map, so the cheat program could take this into account and mark as friend or foe.

Pushing this info to the client early also allows the program to make sure all the required assets are loaded into memory before it has to be rendered.

You could stream sound from the server, but latency might be an issue.
PhoneGap has a remote build service like in this announcement too. I can only say this article is about catching up to others...
Then I would also like to see the government sponsored ones to be banned - guess that might be impossible.

One of the worst examples of that is the so-called Global Fund to fight AIDS etc - actually burring any critics on a scandal where billions of your tax payers' money earmarked for development aid disappeared with some of the worst criminals on this planet - and dozens of millions continue to die from that.

There is no perfect world with social networks - you have to take everything happening there with a "grain of salt"
From the creator's About page:

>The only thing I enjoy more than making cool stuff is making a decent burrito.

Burritob0t is my thesis project as a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), 2012. I made my little bot as a means of exploring my two passions – digital fabrication and good food.

Mexican fast food is emblematic of the assembly line, mass produced era of modern consumables – appropriating the authenticity of the ethnic food sensibility it purports to embody while masquerading as an edible like substance. Because the burrito is a mass market consumable, it lends easily as a way for examining and stimulating discussion on various aspects of the food industry including: how and where our food is grown, methods of production, environmental impact, cultural appropriation and perhaps most importantly – what our food means to us. By parodying the humble burrito’s ingredients and methods of production we can shed light on these exogenous factors and interconnected systems surrounding the simple burrito.
Right right right. I would add this: Ruby could well be considered "passé" someday (history tells us it necessarily will be), and the Rubyists of the future would really bristle at the suggestion that what they're doing is worth less simply because the market says it is.
The comment looked at the relationships of the banned sites and their competitive nature with the other Condé Nast properties, and how they are in fact some of the biggest competitors to these said properties.
> And I do like to waste time dealing with backups

Ha. Best of luck, friend.
Having lots of enthusiasm for the product doesn't mean having lots of enthusiasm for suggesting 50 good names, all of which are already squatted, before finally settling on some unpronounceable nonsense that happens to be available.
The issue in this case isn't (primarily) bandwidth, it's latency. Cell connections have terrible latency, universally, and there are a lot of problems to solve before that stops being true.
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The Cube 2 FPS is designed exactly for that: real-time in-game map editing. It's also FOSS and multi-platform.

http://sauerbraten.org/