skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.

In most European countries, unions tend to be strong enough to prevent this type of situations in regular IT shops, if you complain about it.

Just in the game industry, people tend to avoid to complain, because it is so hard to get into.
When I was coming out of high school, I was trying to decide whether or not I should go to Digipen or a "real" university. Being a video game designer had been the only career dream I'd ever known, so Digipen had a lot working in its favor.

Fortunately, my dad made sure that I contacted a local game designer before I committed to Digipen.

He told me the most important thing I could do if I wanted to succeed was not become a programmer, but to study English instead. He said programmers were considered a dime-a-dozen by most studios, were often treated terribly, and truthfully, weren't exactly the most pleasant of people to begin with. By developing a background in English and creative writing, I would immediately give myself a leg up over most of my competition and my career prospects as a game developer would be significantly better off for it.

This left me with a conundrum: what did I want to do more? Write stories and be treated well or write code and be treated like dirt?

Neither. I wanted to write code and be treated well (crazy, I know).

I still write stories on my own, and I'm in the process of developing my own game, but every time I read one of these stories, I feel much better about my choice to skip professional game development as a career path.
> Writing quick shell-like scripts or entire applications in a systems language is now a viable option for lazy jerks like me, even if it's not always the best one.

I agree completely. I love Rust for this reason too. That's not what the grandparent said, or what I'm arguing against.

Grandparent was dismissing my concern about language interoperability because new languages should cover "all your needs." This attitude is closed-minded and dangerous.

A language that covers lots of needs is great. A language that is so useful that you find yourself needing fewer total languages for your project is great.

But the moment you use that as a reason to stop caring about interoperability between languages, to argue that it doesn't matter whether your language can interface with others, that's the moment when I stop paying attention to what you are designing.
Perhaps http://www.shallalist.de/ ?
>The point is that you'll only ever need one password

this will never be true. You'll only ever need one password for mozilla persona. The user expectation will still be one password per site, and allowing sites to brand the box will only make things even more confusing. It needs a stronger mozilla branding, not a stronger client branding.
Interesting. I thought the opposite. I watched it before I saw any information about what it was, and had no idea what it was supposed to be about in the end. I just needed a little more context at the beginning, and I think it would have been quite clear.
This is a hard problem, because it involves mindshare and resources; even a perfect language would take years to gain a serious foothold. But it'll never be solved if nobody tries.

I'm glad someone's trying.
I don't know if you can fix it, or at least not in the short term, no matter what kind of critical mass you get. Housing stock has a lifecycle of 50-100 years. Anti-development policies can create a "housing stock debt." In New York, which doesn't apply rent stabilization to any housing built since 1974, 60% of housing units are still rent-stabilized!
what happened? did you get an error?
Ah! Right. There is no Persona password if your email provider supports Persona natively. If your provider has native support, you only authenticate with them, and the site you're logging into sees a credential issued by your provider. Mozilla is completely out of the transaction in that case.

You can try this yourself with a demo identity provider we have at http://eyedee.me/
First Look At Snapjoy’s iOS App For Photo Viewing. Apple, Take Notice.
Outsiders and newcomers tend to see the problem as lack of supply. Those who would have to live next to new skyscrapers (or move to make room) have a bigger variety of opinions.
Huh, I've never felt unsafe walking around east of Valencia in the mission. I travel out to SF from Brooklyn quite regularly and always find myself walking out around York. It's never even occurred to me to think of it as unsafe, but I guess I'm not a local and don't hear the stories.
I makes some sense. If you're using SSL and someone is trying to snoop on your connection. If you visit a non-SSL site from an SSL site and the referrer gets sent then the snooper knows the URL of the page you were on last. Whereas if the target site is SSL then no information is leaked to listeners.

The point of SSL is to protect from snooping, not as a general privacy-protection mechanism that should have everything privacy-related shoehorned into it.
Try this scenario on for size:

Hans the German downloads the app. But as he walks through the streets of Munich, the app doesn't show him anything interesting. Hans posts a 1 star review on Google Play, saying "app is broken does not work on <whatever phone>". This is not desirable for Google.
F# took over Python, when I am doing scripting on Windows.

Just because it is a nice excuse to use it on work projects, otherwise I am bound to the languages required for the project.
Congrats on coming up with a really clever way to approach crowdsourcing!
The Future of Microprocessors - David Patterson, Mark Bohr, Bill Joy and more
"By stature I mean anyone in position to talk about proper grammar vs improper. As in an English teacher/professor, an editor, etc vs someone off the street."

"Importance or reputation gained by ability or achievement: 'an architect of international stature'"

A person of stature in the English language would be, by my consideration, someone who is notable for upholding the generally accepted usage of the English language. An English teacher has been professionally trained in proper English. An editor is tasked with enforcing proper English. Students being professionally (and specifically) trained in the English language would be suitable for being authorities, but they not necessarily of stature.

I didn't think I had worded it ambiguously, but here it is reworded: I don't think anyone who has a reputation gained from achievement in the subject of proper American English would argue that "could care less" is a good substitute for "couldn't care less".
Hey all.

This app is _really_ cool. I've found out a lot of stuff in my neighborhood (just a little south of SF) that I didn't know existed.

The website is here: http://www.fieldtripper.com/

There's even a launch party on Saturday (9/29) - http://www.fieldtripday.com

I'm a member of the team which has launched this product - any questions, and I'll let you know to the best of my knowledge and ability to answer.

Hope to see you in two days!
Facebook Gifts
tcp_tw_reuse and tcp_tw_recycle are dangerous. We have seen a significant number of connections from clients behind a NAT gateway being dropped with tcp_tw_recycle = 1.
Space Team Project presentation at Singularity U.[video]
That was 1958, back when prohibition was still in the memory of many congressmen.

When prohibition was passed, the Civil War was still in memory and Congress felt it needed a constitutional amendment to ban ethyl alcohol.

Today, if Congress wants to ban a thing they simply pass a law that puts you in jail for its sale or possession. Simple as that.
>Wikileaks, at least with the initial major leak, does not redact or edit information to protect anyone.

This is false. They spent months redacting information before publishing.

Even the Department of Defense agrees they did not release any information that endangered people: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/17/170227/dod-study-con...
I would have to say this all depends on the overall objectives of the company. If you've got a life style start up then one person is enough. If you've got lofty goals and you're looking to grow the company, and even raise money for that startup, then you will want more than one founder.

Finding one other person is hard enough -- trying to find three seems really challenging. There's ways to make decisions and break tie-breakers without having a third co-founder.

I believe that it comes down to expertise. Its very likely that you're not going to have domain expertise in everything, so you'll have to find some other co-founder that does. I'd think that you'd want to add more co-founders to ensure you have the domain expertise covered.

There's a blog post on our website that discusses "Why Three Founders in Better than Two". Might want to check that out for ideas on why it is better to have more than two.

http://thinkspace.com/why-three-founders-is-better-than-two/
Definitely a case of where you live I suppose. I have never heard of a union IT shop here in the states.
App.net Launches $20K Incentives For Third-Party Developers
In case you have a feeling of deja vu:

Last Call for Facebook Gifts (https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=405727117130)
I stand to correction but playing with tcp_tw_recycle, may cause dropped frames with load-balancing and NATs.

Scroll down to 'Networking' and read the notice.
Financial incentive is good, the developer is encouraged to continue maintaining and supporting the project and make it even better, listen to users, pull in useful features from popular forks, fix bugs, etc. The way to have the most popular open source project is to have the best one.
If Apple takes notice, it may be to implement something similar and block this app for 'duplicate functionality'.
No, you're not too dense to see the issue here. I'll give you two reasons, but there are more:

(1) The New York Times does not have operatives on IM sessions with the people in charge of protecting military data in order to convince them to hand over archives wholesale and indiscriminately.

(2) The New York Times doesn't later publish that data so indiscriminately that it takes a crowdsourced data mining effort simply to figure out whether informants have been compromised by the disclosure.
RVM 1.16
That's pretty spun. It's true, of course, but by excluding the $950 laptops of other vendors (which are spec-wise very comparable with the Apple offerings) as "not high end" it's mostly just true by construction.

A similar number for "total units of 15 inch laptops with 4+GB memory and discrete GPUs" (my personal guess at a "high end" definition) would tell a very different story.
That's what this appears to be about.
Would you rather pay for transit twice a week or five times a week? And dogpatch is relatively nice, especially if you include Potrero Hill which is a short walk away.
I have no doubt there are all sorts of perfectly legal activity that will make you ineligible for military service.
There's tons of room in this space. This version seems to be general interest, but there's plenty of specialized versions that will come along as well. Be a specialized version.
And do the US newspapers have this same classification?

I could see declaring Iranian state run TV as an enemy, they are the propaganda engine for Iran, I could see them declaring "The Center for Holy Jihad and the Complete Destruction of the US and Israel" an enemy.

But Wikileaks seems to be pretty even handed in their dissemination of data they get, whether its US secrets or Australian secrets or what ever.

So tell me the Times and the Washington Post are on the same list or have the same standing in the eyes of the US Government and I'll agree that this is a non-story and over blown.
They could, if they had that information. I have meetings scheduled out until November right now. If I tell you I have a meeting on Monday and here's the agenda for the meeting, that's releasing the information before the event happens.
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Yeah, well, this is what you get when you cut out all the political philosophy and liberal arts from the education system: a bunch of libertarian programmers who think they've discovered something really new.
This sounds pretty cool! Are there any screenshots of the chess app available to non app.net members? I'd like to see what using an app in app.net looks like. If it looks good I'll sign up for app.net and start developing apps immediately.

Seems like there's some "low hanging fruit" problems that this app ecosystem could attempt to solve. First is search and discovery. Just do it better than Apple. Then there's the review process. Just scratch that entirely and use collaborative filtering to let the best apps bubble up to the top of the list. Of course have some flag for offensive, hate related etc apps.

How about partnering with Stripe and having an in-app-purchase system where developers get 100% of the revenue? Or perhaps 90%. Just being better than Apple is a great start.

One more thought: Apple's app ecosystem had the benefit of users' CC info pre-entered. Seems like app.net could benefit from the CC or other payment info already supplied by users when signing up.
And you have to pay for it. Which means actually no social interaction ever because none of my friends would pay for such a thing.
Hi, one of the cofounders behind Fitocracy here.

While much of the discussion here is focused on tracking activity, I want to mention that we at Fitocracy consider tracking secondary to the social experience the app and site provide. We believe that the key to long term success isn't about numbers on a screen but rather, making fitness a part of your identity and every day life through spending time with people and communities just like you. I highly recommend you check out the social aspects of the experience if you download the app :)
It looks like they can really put the Frommer's acquisition to use in this.
Indeed. I'd say that in terms of sane basic development and operational processes most game studios are about 2 to 3 decades behind the curve relative to the software industry. The continual death march is the norm, for example. This hasn't changed much despite the massive increases in revenue over the years. I suspect it won't change until we see some significant turnover in the industry.
THought initialy was some offical Apple thing and then looked at it and thought was something to do with Steam aka Valve and then looked at the about at the bottom right and became clear:

"MACGAMESTORE was launched in April 2005 and since then has grown into the leading Mac-only distributor of digital download games with over one million Mac games sold. Our goal is to provide the best shopping experience that Mac gamers deserve with hot new selections every day, excellent customer service, daily specials, great bundles, and useful information to make purchasing decisions easier. "

Having just read about Apples new market application upon iOS6 devices being one page at a time and wondering how long until alternative interfaces to the market would florish I can only with this lot the best, I don't have any apples in my place, nor owned them, but for those that do at the very least it shows alternative markets can get into an app store and in that if nothing else rejoice.
Same here. Plus, I'm not a big fan of the "creative" ads that don't talk about the product or say nothing about what it's supposed to do. Sure, it's a pretty ad, but ads are expensive, and air time is expensive, too(well on TV), so viewers need to realize immediately what it's about.
The law requires foreknowledge of an actual terrorist action that the donation contributes to.

Moreover: I'm actually wrong here; the Obama Administration (which, recall, was pushing back on a far broader standard requested by the GOP-controlled Congress) applied a stricter standard, of "substantial support", which I understand to mean that not only do you need to have foreknowledge that your contribution applied to an actual terrorist attack, but also that your contribution actually has to have significantly enabled the attack.
Ah! Definitely not using Dropbox app to do the syncing for me automatically. Again, too much magic for something too important. I can't be guaranteed that the Dropbox app maybe somehow loses authentication and silently stops syncing, or maybe I edit a photo on iPhone and its filename is unchanged in the filysystem and it doesn't get synced over, or anything similarly weird and technical goes wrong.

Maybe I'm being paranoid but all I want is a perfect and completely transparent guarantee that I have a complete snapshot of my most important files. I'm willing to do the little manual work for it.
I agree that there is more to teaching than simply knowing and understanding the concepts. My overall message is more that credentialing is not the best way to train new teachers.

I'd also argue that credentialing is also used to limit the number of teachers entering the field to keep wages higher, but I suppose that is another matter entirely :)
I dont think app.net is revolutionary enough to be next big social network.

I believe that next big social platform will be open, decentralized, interface-independent and wont be under direct control of a single company/organization. Something like an email, just an api...
That is what this is all about. The Air Force was dealing with an incident involving JoeClerk (actually JaneClerk). Providing information to Wikileaks was called communicating with the enemy, 104-d (referring to the UCMJ) not to go after WL, but to go after Jane.
"As bad as Ion Storm was internally, there was a dark secret that eventually unraveled. It wasn’t until years later, well after the 1996 E3 demo of Dominion Storm, and after StarCraft launched, that we discovered that the Dominion Storm demo was a fake."

How many times in the history of computing has a team seen a faked demo, believed it, and cloned it, unwittingly becoming the first ones to do it for real? The fact that there are several such stories is really quite amazing.
"Here are the targets we'd attack in Canada if we were at war" is a little different from "everyone meet up at Fort Afghanistan in Tent 123 at 1300 hours".
So, if I mean to do espionage against the US military, all I have to do is gather lots of information, and publicly dump part of my findings in order to become a "news organization".
what os/firefox/flash version are you using?
idonthack countered your claim that Wikileaks does not 'edit or redact' with this link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/16/wikileaks.assessment/index.... (well the slashdot story pointing to that link but primary sources and all that)

It seems that Gates found that Wikileaks did actually use some restraint (not perhaps as much as one would like but it would be inaccurate to characterize them as a free flow channel of secret data)
I have tried both the Wiki and am now trying the mindmap method. For me, mindmaps are much easier to visualize where content is and where content isn't. Also, traversal is much less cumbersome. These two factors make a huge difference in the overall usability experience of each. With a Wiki, it isn't as intuitive which "areas" need to be filled in.
Adobe Revoking Code Signing Certificate Used To Sign Malware
As Rumors About a $2B Valuation Swirl, Airbnb Sees Mobile Traffic Double
Is this the result of the Karma acquisition [1]?

[1]http://blog.getkarma.com/post/23305446792/karma-is-moving-to...
If Julian Assange had just taken a stupid PR trip to Afghanistan, I don't think that would have had any particular repercussions for Wikileaks.
How about this scenario-

Hans the German hears about this cool new product and goes to download it, only to learn he can't.

Hans never goes back to product again, having attempted to get it once before.

This is not desirable for Google.

They're licensing a lot of content from a number of providers. That's far more likely to be the cause for regional restrictions than any plan.
Oops forgot the URL https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sysctl
Amazon without all the fulfillment overhead and all the event driven and social context. First pass was virtual gifts right? This is physical. Interesting, but needs some major fortitude.
"Today...they simply pass a law that puts you in jail for its sale"

Today? They have always done that. Which is why the USC reads as follows:

"Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
Right but this was a major problem.

Assange tried to weaponize the document dump. He put the encrypted dump out there and threatened that if anything happened to him the info would be released.

The fact that the key then leaked is an amazing demonstration of Wikileaks' incompetence, but it does not speak to the actual intent and threat that Assange was bringin to bear against the US government.
youtube link to video in case anyone else has trouble getting it to play on chrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z...
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were implying that BEING called an American was offensive, instead of the other way around. I understand now.

I also didn't see the implication of being "not really American" if you don't say it that way, but I see what you mean.

Funny story about the girl in Germany, though. :P
No. No newspaper has that classification, including Al Jazeera. The US military isn't terrified that Reuters is trying to socially engineer whole databases of diplomatic cables out of them.
I use an application that detects where I am and turns things off and on as required. Much better than waving your phone at a sticker.
At what point does circumvention of (bad?) security begin to constitute a violation of UCMJ?
Once a month App.net members will receive an email asking them to give feedback on the App.net apps they have used that month

I bet they're going to love that. There's nothing people like more than filling out the same form over and over again, after all.
in practice, certainly! The devil's in those constant factors etc :)
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Ah, the press event, the time-suck that had to be tolerated in every realm of human undertaking: video games, sports, business, politics, etc

> As every game developer knows, release dates are slippery, but the dates of trade shows are set in stone. If a game studio has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare booth space, purchase long-lead print advertising and arrange press appointments, the development team is going to have to demo something or heads will roll.

It's crazy to think about how much money and resources were wasted, not to mention destructive pressure created, by these contrived schedules of publicity dates. Getting publicity today is not as simple as making a webpage and twitter account, but at least it's not how it was in the OP's day
Yeah for that part, now somewhere in that developer program information it says :

"Developers are free to monetize their applications through their own mechanisms; this program should be thought of as a “bonus” for building software that App.net members use and love."

So developers can add advertisements and now no advertising feature of app.net is void?
could it be something like a movie using a 555 prefix on a telephone number?
To give more of a background, Apple acquired Chomp on February 23, 2012.

You can see screenshots of the horizontal card based interface here from the original Chomp app:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chomp/id348286549?mt=8

IMHO, the team at Chomp has too much power over the App Store. Apple comparatively few acquisitions per year so I wouldn't be surprised if the Chomp team totally took over App Store search.

As an indie developer I'm hoping someone at Apple is seeing the iOS 6 app download before and after results and isn't happy about the trends.

In the recent keynote, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that 90% of the over 700k apps in the App Store are downloaded every month. I don't see that happening anymore with the current state of the App Store.