skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perfect example of NIMBY-ism. You bought a house at the bottom of a hill. You got a price that likely had this negative quality priced in, because cars drive fast downhill. Now, you act like people just started driving fast downhill in the last few years, and that this problem needs to be resolved immediately to suit you.
It doesn't help that the article seems completely unaware of the fact that "hacker" has two distinct meanings, and some of the people quoted aren't talking about the same thing the author is.
"they don't necessarily deserve to have them when it comes at the expense of even a mild cost to lots of people."

That argument has been used to justify demolishing inner-city neighborhoods to make way for overhead freeways benefiting suburban commuters.
Everything in this subthread is a demonstration of the fall in quality of discourse on Hacker News.

Because Cushman pointed out that a compass tends to have two points, he has received several downvotes. He's got, surprisingly, more than one person suggesting that he should be fired. Where does that even come from? Why is someone being a little pedantic on a web forum cause to tell them they shouldn't have a job?

Especially when he's right: compasses can point both directions. He didn't attack anyone and say they should be fired, he didn't accuse someone of being a "rhetoric astronaut". What's the value in being so hurtful? Most surprising of all is that so many people jumped in. Like they were just waiting to make fun of someone on the internet.

I'd love to see attacks at people stop happening here, because good discussions do still occur. But my remarks are just more reactionary bullshit, I guess. Maybe I should be fired too.
OP is an idiot. Not only is he airing his dirty laundry in a way that makes him look extremely bad (saying he was fired because he was "selfish" and "zoned the F out"?) but he left so much on the table (and with his admissions, it's gone forever).

Large companies have deep pockets and don't want information to get out. He couldn't have gotten $100 million out of this, but at the time, he could have definitely had the cliff voided (which would have been enough to get him comfortable)... but now it's far past too late. If nothing else, he could have let the cash and stock go and settled on a glowing reference from Zuck himself-- which would have made his career. There are so many ways he could have turned this to his career benefit.
Clickable - http://www.confusinghomework.com
I used to wait for AeroFS to mature, but now I just use encfs on Dropbox and that's my syncing problem solved. As for backups, I'm currently using SpiderOak. I haven't found anything cheaper (on the order of Glacier) that supports encrypted backups. Hopefully there will be a tool like duplicity (which, unfortunately, I've had bad luck with) for Glacier.

I tried to use Duplicity a few times with WebDAV (for box.com), and it kept freezing, becoming unable to resume the transfer, unable to see that I have files on the share even when I managed to upload all the files with the desktop client, and various other bugs. It's not as robust as I'd like, sadly.
Any windows alternative?
How do you know that nobody you know uses Google maps? I'm assuming you know at least a few people who own smartphones and who you do not often travel with; have you asked them whether they use Google maps?
Fog of World
This is from the decimal benchmarks included in the python source[1], in the recipe given in the decimal documentation[2] the precision is increased for the intermediate steps of the algorithm so it gives the correct end result.

>>> pi()
Decimal('3.141592653589793238')

1. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/344d67063c8f/Modules/_deci...

2. http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html#recipes
How does SSL work?
"Eddy Cue is Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services." (from http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/eddy-cue.html)
I didn't defend the maps app in that way; I was defending the immaturity of the map data.

The app, as I said, is superior in my opinion to the Google Maps app. It zooms better, loads faster, looks better, has better layout, is prettier, and has turn-by-turn directions and 3D features that were absent in the Google Maps app. Remember that the app and its functionality is completely separate from the database it points to. None of the map data is stored in the app.
My experience with the contemporary mobile web leads me to believe that 90% (100% of mass-market sites) of front-end coders are doing their work on quad-core CPUs and calling it a day.
Python deliberately broke stuff in the 3.0 release, in order to get rid of some (minor) cruft, but other than that it is as backwards compatible as anything else.

Complaining about backwards compatibility on the 3.3 release news item makes people think you have some specific issue in mind.
What is the most likely "next Reddit"?
None of these are the reasons that online news is broken.

Online news is broken for one fundamental reason: It's currently hard to generate enough revenue from online ads to pay for the creation of high quality content.

This is the only problem that needs fixing and anything else is polishing brass on the Titanic. Fancy news reading systems (Instapaper, Flipboard, Pulse, etc.) are nice because they strip out all the ads. "Wow, look how much nicer it looks! We're totally saving journalism." They aren't. They don't have to pay to produce content, so they can repackage it inexpensively or for free.

The truth is more people are reading the news now than ever before. 16 million people read The New York Times online last month. The print publication peaks at just over 2,000,000 on Sundays.

We don't need better social crowdsourcing of stories. We need more ways to pay for great content.
I am an Indian (from Goa). Your idea that the millions of Software Engineers from India are going bridge the gap is misguided, IMO.

What Software innovation has India done? Do you know of any compiler companies from here? Or any Operating System companies? How many linux kernel engineers does Infosys or TCS have? Both companies are sitting with billions in cash. Do you think any senior directors there are thinking - let's create a microchip, even if it's way behind Intel or AMD? I remember reading an interview of Bjarne Stroustrup - he said AT&T gave away their compilers to their competitors (like HP) knowing fully well it would strengthen them. Is any company in India on the same level as AT&T, who can see the bigger picture ? Maybe Tata's come close (not TCS). Indian senior management are like glorified buniyas - who when they put down 50 paise, expect Rs 1.5 back. It took Standard Chartered to come to India and sponsor a marathon. That should tell you a lot about senior management here.

On a larger scale is any Indian company thinking we can build a commercial aircraft? Only HAL builds fighters - but that's a govt company. Soon Microsoft is going to create an opportunity for everyone to erode their Desktop OS share by walling off developers? Do you think TCS or Infosys is building a Linux Distro like Canonical/Ubuntu? Do you think they have the balls to get into that market and try and take market share?

The fundamental thinking of India seems to be flawed. Everyone wants a piece of the outsourcing pie. Synergies and bullcrap like that. No products come from here. I believe we are already suffering a much worse fate than Japan. Videocon is a collaboration with a Japanese company (since the talk was about electronic majors from Japan). Where are the real indigenous products from India, so that we can have the same fate as Japan? The only advantage the 1 million "good" engineers you claim is cost. Once the cost advantage goes, people are going to be jobless, not bridging any gaps.

I went to 2 leading BPOs with my compilers for Survey Programming and Cross Tabulation. The VPs said the thought of writing such products never crossed their minds. They were not interested.

If you want to see the difference in Indian thinking - compare with Germany. Open source is available to everyone and that means countries too. I have read many articles about Germany using Open source in govt offices and there was an article about France and Libre Office.

India cannot go down the same road as Japan, because we dont have the products in the first place to go down that road.

I don't know if your "bridging the gap", means supplying engineers to other countries. If yes, then this is the typical thinking that creates the net negative cash flow in economies like ours.
Really? A reference would have made his career and that to from someone who does not have a shining reputation in the tech circles?
IMDB was originally crowsourced. Started on Usenet.

Can anyone assert ownership over and derive commercial benefit from a data source that traces its origins to volunteer contributors? What would be legally required to do that?
Something that has hit me more times than is ideal is opening times. A surprising number of travel guides do odd things like say 'open Tuesday to Sunday, closed 1st Sunday of the month.'
At a quick skim its easy to miss the 2 key things, closed some Sundays, closed all
Mondays. And unhelpfully the format of the information is often inconsistent within the same publication. Invariably the info is out of date anyway, and prices are considerably higher than the guides states. We usually used Lonely Planet or Rough Guide, but the lack of up to date opening times was a continual pain (out of date prices is annoying, but you can spend more and get in, but if the place is closed, you're stuck).
Consumer Reports: Actually, Apple’s Maps app doesn’t suck
That's not skeumorphism; it's a style choice. If I had to simulate ripping the top piece of paper off the notepad in notes to clear it, then that would be skeumorphic design.
I have to agree with acostoss on several of his/her points.

In addition, your footer doesn't completely cover the page - http://i.imgur.com/nHcrl.png

Also, you don't have a favicon.
There's no dubbing north of Germany, and most Norwegians, Danes and Swedes talks a decent english, but there's still a strong "anti-EU" sentiment. I'm personally more of a fan of a Kalmar Union, but if we can't have that, I'd rather suffer the EU than have renewed distrust across borders.
The speed bumps that I've encountered in the U.S. typically take up as much of the street as possible. The UK example is interesting, but I think you are right about the cars here in the U.S.
"Progether" community popped up on Reddit, "program together"
It really feels like this person has never gone on Reddit, despite it seemingly being a large competitor. The problems that plagued Digg do not apply as much to Reddit as there is less gaming the algorithms or superusers. Not to say they don't exist, but they are less of a problem. With regards to the inability to 'make it' as a normal user, look at the front page at any time and see how many posts mention their surprise at making it to the front page.
Our startup is thinking of doing this in a few months to get away from the Canadian winter for a few weeks. It also helps that our designer lives in Mexico, so that would be our first location choice. Any affordable location recommendations for a travelling startup?
The money I would have let go. If you're not offered a severance, you're better off negotiating a great reference (including an open offer of introduction) than trying to shake them down for money.

I can see that he's successful, but there are so many ways he could have played this better. Let's compare:

A. A lifelong agreement from one of the most successful people in our generation to give a positive reference and introductions to top investors, in exchange for a small concession (non-disparagement and non-litigation regarding the company and the termination).

B. Emotional catharsis associated with discussing a termination in embarrassing detail.

I'd take A.
Can we just make this the auto-reply comment whenever someone mentions skeuomorphism on the internet? I couldn't be more sick of the concept, except when I hear it constantly being used incorrectly.

Textures and styles aren't skeuomorphism, skeuomorphism is imitating real-world objects to provide a sense of familiarity in execution. Not a notes app that looks like a notepad, a notes app that FUNCTIONS like a notepad.
I work for a company that makes recruiting products to fortune 500 companies. They don't offer online courses to cashiers working for big retailers, or to truck drivers working for transportation companies.

Jobs at technology companies might be what ArsTechnica and Hacker News readers go for, but those jobs are such a small percentage of the jobs filled every day in the US.
You didn't have a perfectly working solution before, btw; Google Maps still has a lot of errors.

I don't know if I'd make this comparison. The level of erroneous data in Apple Maps is just insane compared to Google Maps.
A great example of this working are the Kindle editions where I can take a publicly available blog with an RSS feed and yet still feel completely content paying for issues to be sent directly to my Kindle rather than writing scripts or using services to do the same task.
>Your first link from a year ago discusses how tablet apps on Windows RT - the ARM version of Win8 - will be restricted. Yes, that is old news. This statement that Metro apps on the flagship desktop version of Win 8 will also be restricted is news to me

Are we reading the same article here? That article explicitly states that Windows 8 Metro apps will be Store only. I hate to quote half the article but here it is:

>However, the company is creating a separate sets of rules for its “Metro-style” apps — apps that are optimized for touch screen devices but able to run on any Windows 8 machine.

>Microsoft is restricting the general distribution of Metro tablet apps — meaning all Metro apps must be downloaded through the new Windows Store. The only ones who get a pass on this restriction are developers and enterprise customers.

>The distribution of traditional desktop applications will remain the same, according to Microsoft.

>The move to force distribution of Metro apps through the Windows store is similar to Apple’s treatment of iPhone and iPad apps

Where is Windows RT or ARM even mentioned here?

>Microsoft is not doing this out of concern for the safety of their customers but rather to increase their own profits and control. But for PR and anti-trust-avoidance purposes, they will sell the loss of freedom as an increase in safety. It's the same bogus argument that overreaching governments use.

Citation needed. Anyway, this argument has gone moot in the discussions over the iOS app store. The bird has already flown and Apple can't keep its iOS devices in stock. That argument is a day late and a dollar short.
The entire story about a startup is about money.
VC-istan is banking, really, except instead of securities and loans you're dealing in ads.

Honestly, I think finance is better. The money's better, the work is about the same in quality, and if you stick to the quantitative stuff, the people are a lot more ethical in finance.
Uh huh. So, I take it then you've actually built a Windows desktop application that was popular / important enough that you had to do all of the following on a startup / small-business budget:

1. Installers that have to cover three versions of Windows, two hardware architectures (x86, x64), and thousands of different localization permutations.

2. Deal with piracy, cracking, and malware-ified version of your own company's desktop applications.

3. UI design in C/C++ that didn't look like absolute shit. Oh, and let's go ahead and throw foreign language localization into the mix too (German words are looooooong)

4. Company-defined security policies / UAC / third party virus scanning technology that can interfere with the install process in ways you couldn't even imagine.

5. Bad images and weird registry issues caused by things that are largely out of your control, but you have to account for anyway.

The only item on that list Metro forces me to deal with (if I want to) is localization, which is 10000x easier to do in HTML5/JS or C#/XAML than it ever was in C.

If all of those things seem simple to you, I'm calling bullshit.
(I'm not sure if I've down or upvoted you by mistake; if the former, I'm sorry)

On the other hand, and unlike here on drag land, accelerating and then shutting down the engines while proceeding at full speed is possible in space.
Applicasa: Build a Server Side for Your Mobile App in 10 Minutes
http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

Each core is a RISC processor with local memory. OpenCL is designed to target heterogeneous architectures and map to whatever compute is available.
Bored, empty weekend. Throw some ideas of things to build
As the title says, I'm stuck at home this weekend and nothing to do. I've got a case of creativity block and can't decide on what to build.

Throw some ideas at me on some fun/interesting projects that I can complete in a few days, please :) Web app, mobile (iOS) app, or native OSX/windows anything!
Looking at the recent proceedings at FaceBook, I am not so sure how many investors would be interested in introductions from "The Zuck".
Does embracing your social flaws help or hurt you?
Agreed. Also, look to China. I can't see how they can keep up their "economic miracle" for much longer.

You can only build so many empty cities. Or one would think.
There is some work currently going on to make Flask run on Python 3.2.

https://github.com/puzzlet/flask/commits/py3-dev
As one data point: a resume has never been relevant to my career. I've never gotten a job or a contract through a resume.

Completed live projects instantly visible on any browser or smartphone with a quick technical explanation have always been far more valuable for me.

You don't need to ask anyone's permission to build amazing software.

(Unfortunately, you continue to need permission to build many other things.)
VideoJs is free (ass free speech), Flowplayer is not : it's a badgeware.
Speaking of controls, a request:

I want to be able to repeatedly replay selected moments in videos.

So, I hover my mouse pointer over the seek slider at a certain point in the video so that I can repeatedly click that point to repeatedly replay that particular moment.

But most video players (including Flowplayer) cause the controls to disappear after a few seconds, even if I just barely clicked.

This forces me to wiggle the mouse to wake up the controls right when I don't want to move my mouse because it's remembering a position in the video for me.

I would welcome any solution to this problem. A keyboard solution might work well. Youtube has keyboard shortcuts '1', '2', '3', for jumping to 10%, 20%, 30% into the video. I wish you could hit '.' or something to jump to the last position I set by clicking my mouse on the seek slider.

Also, I wish the controls did not fade away when I am hovering over them, using them.

By the way, Flowplayer seems to have a bug: if I attempt to hover over a point in the seek slider and repeatedly seek to that point, after the first click or two, it begins ignoring my seek request.
What You Won’t Learn From Medical School
I think you're missing the point of the article at least a little here, although I agree with almost all of your points. Granted, hackers like any other group aren't all heroes or not heroes, and as you say the term is a loaded one already. But if you can define heroes as "people from all walks of life and professions, at varying skill levels who do something at great risk...for the good of one or many people", then there are certain examples in the article that fit that description. Heck, even the kids stealing credit card details are benefiting themselves, which actually conforms to your definition.

In certain cases I think black-hats are completely justified. I don't see what's wrong with DOS attacks on an organization like the FBI, a well known perpetrator of torture internationally. Ok, so one could argue that most DOS attacks are merely mischievous and aren't politically or morally motivated, but some are, and it's usually a case of the little guy (small groups of citizens) against the big guy (governments), and one could see this kind of hacking as a force tipping the balance in the individual's favour.
Here in Germany that would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand, SMEs that are the major backbone of German economy.
Not an HR reference. An agreed-upon reference from Mark Zuckerberg himself (he did work with the guy) including introductions to investors. Yes, I think that would be a major asset to anyone. The sort of thing that comes along once every several lifetimes. This idea that Silicon Valley is a what-you-know meritocracy is not well supported.

All he needed to say was, "look man, I'm sorry we got off to a bad start. Let's talk about how we can help each other out in the future."

Mark Zuckerberg has a bad reputation? On what planet do you live? A lot of people dislike him, sure, as a lot of people will dislike any billionaire, but he's the most successful person in our generation... and it's pretty evident to me (and to most) that at least some of that is earned.
> The end result of all this is that NIMBYism creates scarcity (due to transportation inefficiency and by retarding new development) that makes houses expensive, and that causes people to be economically extremely sensitive to real estate changes (which are out of their control) which causes more NIMBYism. It's also yet another generational fuck-over of which we're on the losing side, the assholes pulled the ladder up behind them.

This is so unbelievably true of the UK at the moment. In fact, we have the problem even worse given the higher population density (almost ten times that of the US).

Here the baby boomer generation got rich by sitting on the property ladder. Now we have a generation who simply can't afford to get on the ladder. Average prices are 20 times average wages in parts of the country.

Existing homeowners are paying down their mortgages with record low interest rates, while there are no mortgages available for first-time buyers, so the wealth gap is just getting larger.

Oh well. Here's to a lifetime of living with the parents while we cruise towards a pensions disaster...

Edit: By way of example, this is what £90,000 ($145,000) gets you in London these days: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210436/
If you have lower back issues, each speed bump is painful, no matter how
slow you cross it. Also, barriers can make a neighbourhood arms race -
street A gets speed bumps; traffic diverts to B & C, who get roundabouts;
traffic diverts to D & E, which get pinch points; traffic diverts again,
streets F, G, H & I become one-way; wash, rinse, repeat.
A refactor-in-progress of Sublime's Vintage mode, aiming for 100% Vim coverage.
This conflates two issues. Online news being broken which I agree with emphatically, and online news discovery being broken and solved by limiting your sharing to a specific group of people which I'm skeptical about since I'm not sure how that's different to what existing giants in that space do.

Online news need a whole new revenue model that can support and encourage quality journalism instead of chasing ad impressions that encourages or perhaps demands the AOL-ification / Demand Media-ization that makes "news" a byproduct of an SEO and link bait game.
I experienced such failure on a plane I was flying (CFM56). I don't remember what the exact problem was, but it had something to do with a batch of materials they used in the construction of some blades. A whole lot had to be replaced. It was my 138th hour flying as capt.

This is a new engine, without figuring what causes those fractures, NTBS should ground them. I bet they already know what it is.

My father (37 year of flying) always tell me stories where engines in the industry had vibration resonance problems that caused fractures in the whole airplane those engines never ended up flying.