skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They weren't hated for their "stringent quality guidelines" they were hated for their censorship of video games and essentially telling developers to change things for really really stupid reasons. The only people that hated Nintendo were people who had to release through NOA because NoJ did not care at all.

Is that a cross symbol on a hospital in Mother 2? Better change that because I heard crosses are religious symbols and that's not allowed by NOA! Want to release more than 5 games in a year? Not allowed by NOA so better form some shell companies like Konami did by creating Ultragames (released Metal Gear for NES and TMNT). Want to call your boss Hellbat? Sorry better change it to Devilbat.

Want to make a game for a Nintendo console (which during that time they held pretty much a monopoly since what else did you have besides Gameboy and NES? Gameboy/NES held a large portion of the market)? Well you better order a minimum amount of cartridges. "Because we certainly don't want another video game crash like we had in 1983"

At least it's different now right? Oh wait, they're still kinda dicks to this very day.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/29857

Developers didn't cause the crash of 1983. Greedy companies did. Developers weren't the ones who decided that ET the video game needed to be finished by Christmas after starting the project in July of that same year. Imagine having 6 months to finish anything as difficult as a video game.
I've had a consistently bad experience with Ikea furniture.

Bedroom dressers - the bottoms fall out of the drawers and should ideally be glued in place (the instructions don't suggest this). Even with glue, they sag after a year or so.

Kitchenware - their handles on their pots and pans are very heat conductive so make sure you're wearing an oven mitt. Their kitchen block furniture with the thick wood top is well made, though it should be stained and varnished to avoid stains.

Chairs - maybe half the chairs I've gotten from Ikea had poorly drilled screw holes such that the chair couldn't be assembled correctly. Fortunately, the benches are made of such soft pine (read: scratchable) that you can drill your own hole easily.

Sometimes Ikea will eliminate a part (eg: a supporting brace for a dresser) but not redesign the assembly instructions. You might think you're missing that part, when in fact it was omitted deliberately.

They save money where they can by selling you disposable furniture.
Nice backflip, john...
price has just been updated to $34 since launch day is over :(
>You should be thankful you don't have to care about RAM usage anymore

Until such time as the machine cares about it in such a way that doesn't degrade performance (multiple seconds to launch apps vs tenths of second post killing some extras), I will continue to stay on top of RAM usage.
This is a nice mash-up. It would have been nice to preserve Kademlia's symmetrical distance metrics, though.
In the case of Hacker Dojo, it has big warehouse-style roll-up doors. If the issue were fire safety and egress, an interim policy of only allowing events >49 people when the roller doors are raised seems reasonable.

$250k isn't a huge amount of money, so I don't think there's a huge risk of them getting shut down. Especially given that the space itself is inherently handicap accessible, I don't think ADA bathrooms should be a pressing requirement. Yes, they should have them, but it's not sufficient to deter handicapped people from attending, and it doesn't hurt the value of the space to the majority of non-handicapped attendees.
Really strange that it doesn't, given the description. They describe it as working on an entire page.
Don't care about demographics on HN
Dependes on the friend whome you are trying to convince.
There is an obvious bias towards people who are engaged enough to register an account.
^ This is an important effect, IMO. I find people will tend to mimic the accepted mode of communication for that channel.
Thanks. I will give your idea some thought. A related offshoot I've considered is allowing companies to upload private code for employee onboarding. New programmers to the company can type through common code, get a feel for the libraries, coding standards, etc.
I think that's a silly statement to make. The average 40 year old will have nearly identical patterns, and I assure you that it's not limited to Facebook.

While there are certainly more new 20 year old developers than new 60 year old developers, they absolutely do exist; I've met maybe a dozen over the last year or two.

(Disclaimer: I'm 24)
>Or maybe they designed it to work well with a pen.

Which doesn't explain the horrendous build quality.

Or the weak screen.

Or the OEM shenanigans.

I really wish OEM's would stop trying to "differentiate" their product (People outside of company who care: 0) and ship the stock OS, maybe with some apps if they feel they need to.

The Android OS, unmolested, is a beautiful thing.
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This is great! I'd love to see some SQL examples too!
I think Pingdom's claims are probably representative today - in the last year YC and HN reached mainstream as digg collapsed and reddit grew big enough for people to start looking elsewhere for tech news.

Given the prevalence of the old digg-style groupthink on digg-flavored issues like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417382 I'm surprised there's only 44% under-25s.
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Thanks for the book. I bought it after reading some comments on here about it being motivating and have some good ideas and thoughts.

I figured even if I only learn 1 thing from this, it's money well spent.

Thanks!
How does doubleclick have demographic data for HN? I would love to be able to see how doublieclick defines me demographically.
How do you know they are rich?
An internship experience is totally different from a real job experience. Great intnernship experience is totally about "Hey, I worked at a totally cool project, got to hang out with smart people", A great real job experience needs rewards and recognition, healthy culture, work-life balance apart from the above.
To my mind, regulators could effectively issue recommendations but that should be where their power stops. If you do not want to have sprinklers and fire exits, it should be your responsibility, and your responsibility as a person entering that building to understand the risks of being there - and refuse to enter/stay inside if you think the lack of sprinklers/fire exits is posing you a serious concern.

And you mentioned it is a multi-tenant building - then why has this issue not been a major problem until now with the other tenants?

Same with wheelchair ramps and all. This is part of the "inclusive" madness nowadays, where you have to satisfy all human beings on Earth and make sure you do not discriminate anyone. Life is about choices, and choice is a nice word for discrimination. If the hacker dojo does not want to include wheelchair ramps and all, they are losing out on talented handicapped members who could benefit the whole community. And that's they choice/their problem. It's not up to the State to say what choices they should make. And when you start like that, then you should also have doors with indications for blind people, and bumps of the floor for blind people to follow when they walk and so on. It never ends when you start considering "EVERYONE ON EARTH" as a potential client/customer of your space.

And "Federal Law" does not justify anything. Before the official Law authorized Slavery and other monstrous things, the "Law" does not make anything right in moral terms.
"twitter is largely a one way medium. Celebrities -> everyone else"

"I'm not convinced that this is true. Here look at this random kid I picked. Nearly everyone he's following looks like a peer:"

This is the problem with inferring statistical properties from a sample size of 0 or 1. Here's some data on the subject: http://www.intmath.com/blog/twitter-follower-semi-log-graphs...

The sharp drop from having 0 to ~1000 followers on the graph on number of followers indicates that twitter is somewhat of a one-way medium.
"Microsoft took the opposite approach and came up with event bubbling. They believed that the event should begin at the actual target and then fire on the parents and so on up to the document."

Not original with Microsoft. Appeared in Apple's Hypercard. (Proving again that it's not how you feel, it's how you look.)
Sorry to go against some of those who've already answered, but this account is fairly superficial. An intern is not going to get the full experience of employees at different levels. Further, Zynga has multiple studios, so I suspect one studio may differ from another. Also the "I spoke with a friend @ Facebook and they work more", one subjective data point.

I don't work at Zynga, I've heard stories like others, but you know what, I wouldn't assume anything about them until (if I did) I interviewed with them and inquired about a position I was interested in. In general, gaming studios work more than comparably sized non-gaming businesses.

This particular article/blog has no more merit than the stories of ZOMG ZYNGA IS EVIL AND WORKS THEIR EMPLOYEES TO THE BONE.

My experience in the tech industry is, an employee will have expectations, a company will have expectations. As the employee, it is your job to look out for yourself and make sure that what you are getting into matches what you want. You can easily get sucked into the day to day and forget or not realize what you are giving up, you need to be aware enough to take stock from time to time and ask "is this working for me?"

Just a minor (well major) nit... Quoting someone who says "my job is my social life" -- if most of those hours are in the office working, you need to get out and live a little. Especially if you are an employee and not a founder.
your welcome! the goal of the ebook was to be motivating, but a big part of the interviews contains actionable and tactical advice about getting started, profit numbers, metrics, traffic/growth charts, marketing, finding users, and other things you'll likely encounter. the intent is it will be as knowledgeable as much as it is a motivator.
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I'm working on one of my first bigger Mac apps and keep running into issues with Objective-c. I'm an experienced javascript developer and am willing to trade knowledge. Email me at geuis.teses@gmail.com if interested. Gratzi!
Fred Brooks agrees. He broadly outlines a design system using gestures in The Design of Design. (I know that PHK already exceeded the quota for Fred Brooks references in a week; I guess, just get over it.)
The goal of a Demo Day presentation is not to convince the audience to invest. It's just to convince them to follow up with you. It's at that second stage where the demos happen-- as they were in fact happening all over the building during the breaks between sessions.

At events like TC Disrupt, where startups demo in booths,
few (perhaps no) investors ask for demos from all of them. The startups have posters and investors decide based on those which to approach and talk to further. In effect YC Demo Day presentations are those posters.
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A lot of the content on flipcode has found new relevance in JS/canvas games and demos where many classic software rendering techniques can be implemented on top of the 2d context. In many ways I find the challenge of implementing a renderer from top to bottom far more interesting than twiddling with high-level APIs such as WebGL.
Couldn't you just ignore the lawsuit? Presumably they are after big bucks, and it is a pain and huge cost to continue with legal proceedings. And you are probably one of a thousand threats they send out. They are in-business too and don't want to waste their time on cases that don't pan out. Do you really think they will actually take you to court? I suspect they may just drop it if you ignore it, unless you are a big name startup with deep pockets. For the patent trolls, this is just a numbers game. If you send out a lot, a certain percentage will settle... Note: I am not a lawyer and this does not constitute legal advice.
Yes, the Dojo got thwacked by the common practice that every city government in California has at least which is that when you sign a new lease you have to bring the space up to the current code. This problem is compounded by the fact that 'the code' keeps changing, in part because of new issues (like earthquake knowledge gained from new earthquakes) and in part because they don't feel they have enough money (an example of that is that the 'blue' color required for outlining handicapped spaces changed slightly which required folks to repaint existing striping).

A more accurate headline would be 'Haven struggles to stay open while updating to latest codes', having just gone through the process of securing new facilities for our company one of the things in the lease was a requirement that the landlord turn over the space already compliant with the latest codes. Remember this story if you are out leasing space (if you're subleasing you get a pass though, so sometimes that makes it a better deal)
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It's interesting that the discussion is in terms of God exists/doesn't exist. I think that already includes a pretty significant context. It's worth also considering the relevancy of the belief; the degree to which one's beliefs operate within that context. For example, that there is (or maybe there isn't) a guy on some planet somewhere named Booglifoog -- it makes no difference to me -- the question is irrelevant.

It's like skiing in the trees; if you want to succeed at this, focus on the spaces between the trees, not on the trees. Dawkins, for whatever reason, is distinctly focused on the trees.
This is quite possibly the least informed comment I have ever seen on HN, and that says a lot.

In other words: give these guys an inch and they'll take a mile, asserting their author-it-ay the whole way. It always starts with something reasonable sounding (fire codes) and then moves to incentivizing the government for uncovering more violations and more fines. And it's very hard to figure out all the violations ahead of time [3]:

This is a flat-out lie. Building codes are written for the sole purpose of guaranteeing minimum safety standards in a jurisdiction. The reason that California has such stringent building codes is that California is the most earthquake-prone state in the nation. Our building codes may increase the initial upfront cost of building, but they are estimated to have saved billions yearly in prevented property damage and loss of life. Compare, for example, the typical yawn that Californians give to a Richter-4 earthquake to the devastation that similar-strength quakes have had in Mexico, Europe, Asia, and (ironically enough) the U.S. East Coast.

The ADA exists to make sure that all people have access to a building open to the public (it does not apply to buildings which are not open to the public). This generally means any business. The civil enforcement provisions may be overzealous, but they were also added in because they were once necessary.
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i don't really care how fast i type as programmer as i found typing doesn't account much of time in total time of shipping a product. and second, why the hell we got code completion for!?
Not being up to code makes it illegal to occupy the building. I'm not quite sure why the NY Times would leave something like that out; it's possible that code violations are more prevalent in NY and thus the import need not be explained.
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It could be just me, but judging by the sample chapter I cannot really justify spending $34 dollars on this book.

I am sure author has put a lot of work into it, yet still the price feels way too high.
I don't understand why I need to sign in to try this out. Glad you're getting rave reviews in this thread but I'm passing on the basis that I believ this sign in is unnecessary and creates yet more data exhaust.
One issue I can see is that you only need to have one friend who uses a third party tentd with questionable privacy policies and now everyone they're connected to has their data exposed. Would it be possible to implement it such that you can say 'yes, you can have this data, but only if your server is not being run by 'blacklist' (would have to assume the requesting sever doesn't lie about it's identity).

On the positive I can see this catching on because it's easy for existing social networks to integrate, it would almost become do or die forever more if a network that does integrate them catches on
There's no possible way these recent positive-story-about-zynga bloggings are bullshit PR-shill damage control. Zynga wouldn't do that, would they?

Oh, wait, yes they fucking would.
> They save money where they can by selling you disposable furniture.

Well, yes, that's the general idea of most items in their catalog. You buy their well-designed version instead of Wal-Mart's poorly-designed version. Their target market is not exactly people who would otherwise shop at Restoration Hardware.

In my case, Ikea is a lifesaver. I move around quite a bit, and when I need a piece for a new apartment I'd rather not spend a bunch of money when I'm going to be leaving it behind in a year or less. I've probably bought that damn perforated aluminum cutlery holder 8 times on 3 continents.
Most startup offices don't have wheelchair ramps. Just take a tour of the offices on castro street, home of startups like Mozilla, Meebo, and Outright. Most of those buildings have restaurants on the ground floor and offices on the 2nd floor. Most of these offices don't have ADA complaint bathrooms either.
Or, you know, they could have just made sure the building was up to code first, like every other business, organization, and individual.

Being a startup does not give them carte blanche to ignore basic laws of society, especially not laws which address actual safety concerns. [Of relevance to Hacker Dojo: see pretty much every mass casualty club/nightclub tragedy of the past decade, in which dozens died in each instance due to code violations.]

More importantly: if someone had gotten hurt or died in Hacker Dojo as a result of a code violation, all of their officers would be facing criminal negligence charges.
This can be a common problem especially when working with a module which occupies a split, but doesn't depend on the file you're working on, like NERDTree. I've solved this problem in a fairly lightweight and elegant manner with the Bclose module, however, by (c)mapping bd to Bclose
Speaking of uninformed comments, weren't you the guy pounding his chest as a lawyer about how no companies actually take international tax law into account, who then got tooled when the Double Irish was pointed out?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3565426

You were colossally wrong about something ostensibly in your domain of expertise, and then too you said something similar ["I do international tax for a living. I laughed so hard at this line I started crying."].

You seem to thus have a history of making hostile, bold, unsubstantiated statements. OP might be wrong, but at least provides links and argument. You simply cite the ADA at its word, while conceding en passant that enforcement might be "overzealous" [ya think?].
Since your quiz applies equally to any JavaScript engine, why not replace "window" with "this"?

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

> In the global context (outside of any function), this refers to the global object, whether in strict mode or not.
A fitness trainer who believes you breathe through your feet would probably suggest you run barefoot. Hey what do you know, he's just created one of the most popular running fads (although this could go with running barefoot or in sandals, as both are popular among hardcore runners).

And dietician's pushed the traditional food pyramid for years, which many current dietician's find fault with, years after nutritionist's pointed out the same thing.

I've met successful doctors, lawyers, trainers, etc., that believe in crazy wild theories that have no basis in anything other than what they want to believe. Success amazingly often has very little to do with if people are right or wrong (I'm sure there are some very wealthy astrologers out there).

By your theory, it doesn't matter which doctor you pick, they are all trained physicians, so they all believe the exact same thing. Need a psychologist, just read Dr. Phil's book, he's board certified. Or don't agree with Dr. Phil, then all psychologist's are bad.
What's ironic then, is that Nintendo has slowly lost its dominance over the video game console industry...

How are you measuring dominance? I don't really follow these types of things closely, but hasn't Nintendo been in the video game business longer than any of its current competitors and hasn't the Wii dramatically outsold it's current crop of competitors? They've certainly had plenty of flops and bad years, but who exactly is more dominant than Nintendo in the console arena?
WTF with all the title changing? This one was originally posted as "On why Y Combinator Demo Day does its companies a disservice", which is what I clicked on from the main page, but now is retitled to "On YC Demo Day, and those graphs", which is an inferior title for the purpose of, you know, suggesting to the casual reader whether they'll want to read it. The submitted title even made use of the article's actual subhed (reformatting it to remove the question, per guidelines).
Who cares if someone is demanding special effects? They had the option to say no, and run the arrest in a normal way. The US making demands/requests was probably a convenient excuse for them, IMO.
Additionally, fire kills people, as does the voluminous smoke it gives off.

Fire exits are required to make sure people can exit a burning building within 3-7 minutes (varies by jurisdiction). This is based on an unfortunate history of tragedies involving people dying in fires, in which it was discovered that people who did not manage to escape in the first few minutes usually succumbed to the smoke.
Seems like a great book. Please publish it on Kindle and I would buy it immediately ;)
And how could I convince you otherwise? By pointing you to my portfolio site or a linked in account?

Maybe this post is badly timed with all the other negative stories going around, but I thought I'd just address one thing which I believe for sure isn't fairly judged about Zynga.
So the reason twitter closing its API as as an attempt to maintain their 'walled garden'? Rather than building a sustainable competitive advantage they are freezing out developers and hoping for the best?

Perhaps it is part of a larger scheme, that leads to monetization?
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Well it was more the interest graph. I follow people on twitter for whom I have no idea what their email address is. So finding all the people I follow on Tumblr is a simple matter of getting my follow list and matching up with registered Twitter handles.

And yes, Tumblr can do their own service the Tumblr version of Twitter, but then users are 'meh' because really they want just one thing to follow/monitor not a dozen (the Google+ problem in spades).

So what Tumblr really wants is a replacement for Twitter that has the same attributes, but creating that replacement is a made harder by the whole 'one place to go problem.'

One possible strategy is to empower a 'neutral' third party. As more and more people are alienated by Twitter, even competitors of Tumblr can see the benefit of empowering this neutral third party and so by not 'owning' the service they empower the service to be successful. I realize that is a bit zen but its really the only way this works as far as I can tell.
Does noisebridge have concrete wall enclosed dumpsters? Did they also perform a traffic study when they moved in?