skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm home with our daughter semi-regularly, and I use the "babysitting" line, albeit somewhat ironically, as every day is babysitting in this context to a greater or lesser extent. Still, my wife's coworkers express surprise that I'm at home alone with the kid and am not calling her every five minutes. You definitely do get a different reaction as a guy alone with kids.
Hmm, I liked that adapter. The newer ones don't disconnect if you pull laterally.
The latest version is not 20 years old... it was on 3D0 in 1995 if I remember correctly. So 17 years old :)
Quora, you fucked up.
You think they could've done a slight pivot and called it "Metron" or "MetroX" or "Metronium" or something that at least captured the flavor of the original.

Can you imagine people in a store asking for this thing by "name"?
> It's because D3D is still reasonably quick (although not as quick as OpenGL)

While I believe that OpenGL is better for everyone if only because it's an open standard, I think that one article noting a difference between the two APIs should not lead to the conclusion that "OpenGL is faster than D3D, full stop".
I don't quite get how he can still see BBM as a big differentiator. All its "unique" features are available on WhatsApp which is cross platform and growing rapidly (and also already has a huge userbase, especially outside the US). People also hate having to remember a 10(?) digit number for an IM service, WhatsApp solition with the phone number is very elegant
I recently had an experience that dovetails with this article.

This summer, I moved my family over to London for two months. I intended to work while there, but I was having RSI issues. So instead, I spent two months full time with my kids, the oldest one being a girl of almost 4.

This transition from work to family time was reluctant, but in retrospect was the best thing that happened to me this year. My relationship with my oldest daughter developed and deepened... we are now so much closer than before, she's matured so much since I've been able to focus on her development.

And I was never aware that this deeper relationship was a possibility, and that I was neglecting it in favor of work.
Just a note: published May 1, 2012
I am reminded of Carol Channing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y7dJrGnEYI&feature=relat...

On the other hand, I don't think we can write off social forces. Starting in school we punish little boys from being "pussies" for doing the kinds of things that make good parents. It continues into the workplace: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/men/11/2/140/ If every time you do something people treat you worse, you are likely to stop doing that thing even if it might otherwise make us happier.

The best way to change that is to become aware of the dynamic, notice when it is happening, resist and point it out to the people around us. It is a combination of just making these choices ourselves, despite the downsides, and making sure other people don't get to unconsciously punish us for choosing non-traditional paths to happiness. They may still punish us, but they will have to confront their own bigotry to do so.
As well as societal norms, it's not too surprising that the Cub Scouts would be surprised by it. The Boy Scouts ban anyone who's gay. Part of their policies are in the past.
Since when does swearing preclude civility?

EDIT: Rather, I thought society like HN had mostly moved past such silly problems with words who hurt nobody.
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I'd love to see you post the numbers. I think that there are limits to what it reasonable. If tomorrow the government decided that, say, in a year, I need to hand-over half the value of my assets as a new tax I can probably assure you that my assets would evaporate in a year. In other words, they'd get zero.

I'd like to see our government --at all levels-- be far more responsible with our money and our future than they have been in the last fifty years.
No, I meant locality. I was more thinking the Hardy article.
OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys...
Where are the quotes from the notifications from Google? Where is the independent verification? Where is the attempt by the author to "reach out to Google" (I just re-read the article -- they didn't do what you assume they did)? Literally all this is is an author using a few quotes from one source to rehash a meme and get clicks. And everyone here has jumped on it and pushes it to the top of YC. And I'm sick of this kind of discourse.
How many months of expenses do you have saved?
Is that what it's called? I thought it was Jordan's rule.
he actually doesn't even have an undergraduate degree - - http://randfishkin.com/blog/about
I assume that the lightness of the connection has to do with the fact that the 'perfect balance' Pogue describes depends on the weight of the computer to counterbalance the break-away point of the magnet. New new 11-inch Air's are so insanely light that the old magnet could drag them all over the room (almost hang from it), thus defeating the break-away purpose.

A near feather-like connection seems required to balance such a light computer.
Robot stock traders lose $440,000,000 in 45 minutes
or it's the result of institutionalized gender roles.

It used to be 'common knowledge' that women can't be relied on for intense jobs ("They might get hysterical!"), but thanks to a long campaign from the feminist movement, most people know such broad generalisations are false. This is the same as the "men are bad caregivers"
No worries. I really wish HN would give you a grace period in which you can reverse that. :/
Austin passes new rules for short-term rentals ( AirBnb, Homeaway, etc )
Exactly - but also, digital distribution (iOS, Steam) is just one of two keys that has initiated the golden days of indie game development. The other is crowdfunding (Kickstarter).

Today, talented game developers have the means to fund & deliver their projects to the masses. The golden era is upon us.
> the corporate / enterprise angle is being lost entirely in this analysis.

Stay classy, microsoft.
Keep fighting the consumerization of IT and the BYOD movement.
Keep pretending you have a chance against the iPad.
Never give up hope that someday, if you just wish hard enough, it will be 1997 again.
The post has absolutely no mention about the quality of JavaScript. It is arguing that Web technologies are 'good enough' for an extremely large class of problems, and that they have massive advantages due to a lowe barrier to entry and ubiquity.

You might want to argue those points, but this is a complete strawman.
Reply to: All

> "Hey Team, we need to ship the X project because its vital to the company, That means we're going to meet every day at lunch time (we'll provide lunch) to make sure everyone has what they need and are getting stuff done. See ya there."

Thanks Eric. Just to clarify for everyone, as per California State Labor law, you are entitled to a 30 minute lunch break free from work responsibilities. Meetings are not free from work responsibilities, so just so everyone is clear, legally everyone can still take their normal lunch period after this all hands meeting. Any problems run into, email me and I'll put you in contact with my attorney, he's really good at resolving labor law issues. Also, I'm going to have a meeting about whether we should organize a union here, if you're interested the first meeting to discuss this will be right after the first all hands meeting, in the same location in the cafeteria.

Sincerely,

Random Worker
Show HN: Chrome Extension that shows image properties on hover
The old style magsafe adapters is one of the best features of mac laptops. I'm still surprised that other manufacturers haven't followed suit.
It's how I, and many other programmers I've worked with in my age range, got started.
Thanks Peter Chin for a thoughtful piece. I have come across so many friends who grew up in a family where "my dad was never really there". Society seems to put more pressure on males (and increasingly, females) to succeed (and make more money for corporations) than to be good parents.
> I thought the value of gold or silver was always constant

What is the unit in which value is measured? There is no SI unit for value, and it seems unlikely that it would ever be possible to define one - it would basically require very surprising breakthroughs in psychology.

Hence people do the pragmatic thing and measure value in the currency that is predominantly used in their life. They use USD or EUR or whatever as their unit of value.

And in that sense, the value of gold and silver is clearly not constant, as a sibling comment explains.
Some good answers: "Well he trusts me with the credit card, so I trust him. Does you husband trust you with money?"
yeah, i now and then try out m0nad, nobody uses that one -> lets see for how long.
As I recall, fathers are discouraged from seeking primary custody without strong justification (by the advice their divorce lawyers give them, by not being able to afford a divorce lawyer at all, by the fear of losing all access to their kids if they kick up a fuss...) so the cases where they do seek custody are going to be biased towards ones where the mother's abusive or otherwise unfit. The study doesn't seem to investigate whether this is the case.

Also, I'd be interested to see actual methodological details. For instance, it talks about women being unable to get adjustments in payments to which they're entitled. Did they bother to investigate whether men have the same problem? They don't mention it if they do, and anecdotally they do seem to have difficulty getting their payments adjusted down if they lose their job and can no longer afford to pay as much. To be honest, I reckon this study is kind of biased in terms of what questions it actually asks.
Nope, that's incorrect.

You can opt-in to the "graceful degradation" style of routing by using:

Backbone.history.start({
pushState: true,
hashChange: false
});

... which will route URLs using pushState where available, and will run full-page loads where pushState is not supported.

It's a pretty rare use case for a Backbone app that needs a router, but it's definitely supported.
Nice Analysis! Shouldn't the pricing take into account the Nexus 7 as well? Even priced at $400, the surface will still cost the price of two Nexus 7's.

It looks like a race for the bottom on the pricing of tablets these days!
There's source available at https://github.com/KiDoki/Image-Resolution
All the accounts I checked (ok two) look like they're part of a spam ring.
SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor
I like first email more (the one marked as bad example). It's simple, and to the point. After reading it you know exactly what is changed and why. It's a bit harsh, but we are not kids, we can handle it.

The other mail (the one marked as good example) is apologetic, lengthy, and doesn't get to the point cleanly. It might be good when talking to other managers, investors, customers or suits, but not when talking to your developer employees. If you write specifications like that, the job will never get done.
With feminists like Hanna Rosin writing articles like "The End of Men" [1], perhaps men can be forgiven for a little skepticism as to whether the fight "is for everyone."

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...
I had C64. I "programmed" in BASIC. Which means I typed in programs from manual (which was in German, and I couldn't understand it), and changed stuff to see what will be the effect. I've never went into 6502 assembler (I had no books for it), but I learned that I want to be a programmer, and that was what was important. When I got PC I tried QBasic, Turbo Pascal, Assembler, C, Delphi, and everything else. Distance from metal was never issue for me. The issue was the idea I had, and the end product I wanted to achieve. Hell, I've written small logic game with Turbo Basic, that was one huge for loop (with counter that went to 99999999 or sth like that, because I didn't knew of loops without countter) with 5 screens of nested if then elses inside. It was about guessing words letter by letter, and I didn't knew about arrays, so I had 5 variables A1$, a2$, a3$, a4$ and a5$ for letters.

It was horrible, but I didn't knew it. And it worked. I've shown it in school, and to my parents, and I was a wizard. The methodology, and style conventions came later.

I think of 8bit computers as gateway drugs that invited people to become programmers. Currently the closest things we have is javascript+canvas, or some scripting languages in game modding scene.

Nobody[1] really writes assembler today proffesionaly anyway. It is too hairy now, and we have better compilers. Don't push it on kids.

[1] by nobody I mean almost nobody, and yes, arm assembler is better, but still show me a big application written in it
Equivalent iPad isn't 499. Surface doesn't have a 16gb model. The equivalent iPad is 599.
I think one of the differences is pipelining/laziness, which makes it easier to decompose problems into smaller pieces.

For instance, look at his solution to FizzBuzz. Would you use a similar solution in ruby? He uses an infinite list, so if you naively translated it, you'd run out of memory. Instead, you'd have to explicitly use a generator in order to achieve a similar solution.

Of course, you can try always returning a generator in ruby, but that would be incredibly awkward because the built-in operators compute the entire result (like the + operator on lists). So, in practice, people intuitively avoid creating large intermediate results because it's wasteful, even in cases where that would simplify the code and make it more modular.

But in haskell, go ahead and use the large intermediate result, because it won't actually compute it before returning. It will just return a generator for the large intermediate result, and compute only the parts of that large result that are needed.
You really get at the crux of this for me, that these emails are kind of an abdication of responsibility. They are leapfrogging over (what I assume is) discomfort at actually dealing with people in favor of tasking the employee. Why have managers if they aren't responsible for the productivity of their underlings? Why make this an all-hands piece of information? It's passing the buck.

The two emails are two extremes of this: the first uses authority, the second uses information. "Tell us why we shouldn't hate you," vs. touchy-feely Lumbergh-ism. Both are too much. Tell the bosses of the people slacking off and let the employee's manager deal with it under pain of their job being at risk. Isn't that what a management hierarchy is for?
Not to run off on a tangent, but you're wrong about the dairy beef comparison. Before heading to a feedlot, most beef cattle spend around a year of their lives grazing often allowed to stay with their mothers. Beef cattle are killed much sooner, but have something resembling a natural life for a time. Newborn dairy calves are removed almost immediately so no milk is wasted on them. Male dairy cows are used for veal (and I'm sure you know how that goes). The females are placed into small "igloos" with no chance for grazing or physical contact until they are old enough to reproduce. Then it's 4 or 5 years of constant pregnancy and milking until they are "spent" at the ripe ole age of 6.

I'm honestly not trying to be preachy here as I know this isn't the appropriate venue, but this is just not an area I feel anyone should be commending for their efficiency.
From what I recall, Sweden has very different cultural and legal norms around male parenting than the rest of the world - for instance, their paternity leave laws are much more friendly to fathers who want to stay at home and look after the baby so the mum can return to work than in most other countries.
The title of the article was "...Kill Company Culture", not "...Demonstrate that the Company is Dead".

If the CEO (or the intervening levels of company) are not open for discussion, the choice of email really doesn't matter. If they are, and the terse, uncommunicative, fiat email is sent out inadvertently, then that email is damaging.
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thanks. so the advantage seems to be that it's persistent (and in a way that's integrated with existing mysql system mgmt for backups etc).
Bell's theorem states no local hidden theory can be consistent with quantum mechanics. Only non local ones are allowed.

PBR says not only are local hidden theories banned, the wave function must be real. Unless you abandon realism of quantum states of course.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say.
True, thanks for the correction. The person I responded to said "job server" and I'm not 100% clear on what that would cover - perhaps job queue API would fit that description, perhaps it wouldn't.
I understood it just fine. Guess different people have different parsers.
Y Join Yahoo - Mayers campaign to recruit Googlers - cartoon
http://betadesk.tumblr.com/post/28618510015/y-join-y-marissa-mayers-recruiting-campaign-for
I'm pleased -- perhaps -- in that enough Googlers read HN that now maybe this blurring BS will be addressed.

Of course, it will be addressed by another "true name" purveyor. My head hurts.
I've never worked in the games industry, but it's my understanding (from the sidelines, reading about EA Spouse and all that) that games company execs decide on a release date and then throw everything they've got at it to make it happen (long work hours, working weekends, etc.).

And given how often games get delayed (Unreal, Team Fortress, Duke Nukem etc.) it seems they're not very good at predicting software delivery dates either.

I'm not stating that software developers shouldn't estimate at all - sometimes considering the angles helps you design it better - just that estimation in pursuit of nailing down a delivery date weeks/months in advance is a bad idea.
That was exactly my thought--there were a few thoughtful replies in there, but otherwise just absolute mindless bullshit. It's the same way when Linus makes a post about how he's just updated the code in his preferred emacs editor, spawning 500 posts of "I use Vim!"
How the Galaxy In-Memory Data Grid Handles Failures
I don't see any place in the article that places a value judgement on Marx's beliefs or positions, just sections that outline what questions he asked and what his ideas were. Can you point out what I am missing?
It seems like people just throw around the term "Ponzi scheme" without any understanding of what it actually means, saying that "Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme" or "fiat currencies are a Ponzi scheme", when those statements simply do not make any sense.

A Ponzi scheme is when you offer an interest bearing or dividend paying investment, and you have to use the money obtained from new people buying into your investment to pay out the interest or dividends.

That's a very clear definition, and Bitcoin obviously does not fit - and it wouldn't fit the definition even if Bitcoin weren't based on a transparent protocol and open source implementations.
It's not Enron, It's Facebook
I disagree, if your going for the value play, you can always get the nexus 7. MS has to differentiate by showing how cool office optimized tablet version is. However, it looks like MS has dropped the ball again if the reports of office on the tablet being a half assed port are true. Using the Nexus 7 just shows how crappy the app experience is relative to iPad.
Ya. The cajuns decendants of the acadians of Eastern Canada(present day Nova Scotia/New Brunswick). Deported by the British/Americans(who were one & the same at the time) to what is now the state of Louisana.
http://betadesk.tumblr.com/post/28618510015/y-join-y-marissa...
"Things like writing to an invalid memory address or heap corruption."

So what you're trying to say is if the entire virtual machine crashes, you lose all running threads.
You are wrong. Stop guessing and then acting like your guesses are facts.
Yeah, I'm in the same camp.

One of the most appealing things about Quora is the extent to which it creates a pleasant community. When I saw this, I thought, "Hey, neat! I'll have a better idea who's reading my answers." But I understand why people are upset.

On the other hand, I almost murdered them when they started forcing people inbound from Facebook to log in with Facebook:

http://www.quora.com/rage-against-quora/Rage-forcing-Faceboo...

So I've got my eye on them. The extent to which they can square the community vibe and their relatively high moral standards with the expectations of their investors is still unclear.
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The Samsung Series 9 is a good example of bad design not just for the AC port but for many of the ports. We have a couple of the 15" models in the office and the ethernet adapter and mini-hdmi adapter are too big to effectively use at the same time with how close together the ports are. When both are plugged in, the ethernet adapter will typically be at a slight angle and not always completely connected. I realize they are meant for portability and so wi-fi is going to be used most of the time but if you've got big files to transfer it's a huge pain in the ass.
This is great. Coase Theorem explains governments as naturally large corporations, or at least an entity similar to a for profit corporation. Brilliant. Yes, governments create laws; unlike other corporations, they have surpassed the threshold of size (not sure whether to measure that as number of employees, money, information, etc) and support to and been given one of the ultimate money makers in society. Laws exist to direct wealth, property, and rights. They produce laws and regulation for the voter population to consume.

However, the "inequality" on the Coase spectrum is slowly balanced out as we gain access to decentralized technology. I bet that pretty soon company set-ups, like Valve's, will become much more prominent. I just hope the same thing happens with governmental institutions.
Can we please stop this errant speculation until pricing is announced? No one, except a few people in Microsoft have any idea what it's going to be priced.

edit: Sorry, feel free to downvote, didn't want to distract from... you know.
Adapt your landing pages to search keywords for maximum response
Oh so you have to join Google +? And then send a message to a few profiles; hoping you get a response?

That's now good customer service.
Yes, very organic. The original programming shortcut accidentally created a sort of ecological niche, in which all sorts of things started to take root. Now, nobody can bulldoze the lot because there's too much stuff growing there.
The world's reaction to this news: http://www.hark.com/clips/vxxjzhjsnl-you-think-this-is-funny...
None of this is true. Single-page apps need great JSON APIs. Rails is awesome at making great JSON APIs. With Ember Data on the front end and ActiveModel::Serializers on the backend, you can completely free yourself from writing JSON serialization code.

For websockets-based applications, check out Cramp. And note that as both Rails and Cramp are Rack-based, you can combine them.

"Go or Node or Erlang"

One of these things is not like the others...
SF is far more Hispanic and East Asian than white. In any case, why so racist?
Quite cheap. Just 10% more than Instagram, and that doesn't fly into space.
agreed. very well written though, and to be honest, if we (as a society) right some wrongs in the area of male family roles, some of this will balance out on its own.

honestly i think that could be a really effective approach to battling institutional sexism. i think entitlement and empowerment are very different, and male entitlement is behind a lot of institutional sexism IMO. empowering men is an important factor here. a man empowered to be a great, engaged, responsible father will help to alleviate societal pressures on women--at least it'll be a wonderful start. don't you think?

in any case, this article was definitely refreshing! cool point of view.
I agree with being more forthright, but any company that believes the answer to a tight deadline is to have more meetings is doomed doomed doooooomed.