skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of the reason why every time a Google recruiter contacts me, the conversation starts with me interrogating them about what exactly they are able to promise, and so far all but one were able to give answers that made it worthwhile to accept an interview.

If Google had been the hottest place in the world to work, and I'd been fresh out of university, then maybe.
If it wasn't for the Maxx running 4.0 I would seriously consider it.
> Most Macs have decent hardware

It doesn't matter if they have decent hardware, that hardware is expensive and not upgradeable. That's a big factor for gamers who want to get the most bang for their buck. 2 years down the line, those Macs will struggle to run the latest games at the highest settings, and rather than being able to just swap out some components as necessary, people will have to ditch the whole computer and buy a new one from Apple. Good for Apple's profits, bad for the gamers.

> the driver problem in Linux prevents a large portions of hardware to perform efficiently anyway

I don't know what this mythical "driver problem" is, but I haven't personally encountered it.

> A number of humble bundle that I purchased runs really slowly on Linux because of lack of support for my graphic card.

I don't know what graphics card you have, but I have purchased just about every Humble Bundle so far, and they run just fine on my Linux machine.
Tons of CloudApp Logos, Icons, and Mobile App UI
Just out of curiosity:

Nokogiri has SAX capabilities as well (http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/SAX/Document.html). Any reason not to use them, especially as Nokogiri also has native JRuby support?
Google has always spread the Android love among different companies.
I'd be interested in the results if you show these symbols (without the names) to 1,000 people and asked them to name them.
The author has described the editor here: http://www.indiegogo.com/happyedit .
The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard [2006]
I would've gone with MADIS data, although interpolating that data over the area without sensors could be tricky, or perhaps could be worked in. Additionally it would be better if it had a more traditional slippy maps interface, was less "artsy," and like another poster on here had some labels. It would be great to also explore if highlighting gusts or or other straight-line wind type events could be shown as propagating and dispersing in areas where higher resolution sensors are located. Anyway, now that I've typed this, I guess you didn't really ask :P
But you haven't only hurt yourself. You've also (potentially) hurt the company that hires you based on the degree, or whatever qualification, you have - sure, you can say it's their fault for hiring based on it - and you can hurt the establishment that gave you the qualification as people lose faith in them.
As expected, very little support for other countries (specifically Canada where I am). Movie purchases, and HSPA, but no magazines or TV shows, no google music. Nexus 4 not available in Canada.

[edit]Correction - magazines now available in Canada (Woohoo!) they just didn't say so. Now, can we please have google music?
Which is okay. I am huge fan of Valve games and know that Nvidia drivers can run games quite well on Linux, so if AMD/ATI do not want my money, it is fine my me.

I know that one might say but majority of users do not know this, but from what I can tell from participating in gaming communities, these guy do proper research before buying a new rig. I can totally see lot of people who solely play Valve games (TF2, L4D, Dota2, CS:Go, CS) will try Linux if their games work on Linux.
Internally, Google Engineers work "by dessert" [1], the version numbers are decided by someone further down the product pipeline. With an instance like this, the developers most likely made a number of updates to the same branch of the OS (Jelly Bean), that someone in marketing/product management felt were significant enough to warrant a new 4.x number. At the end of the day though, it's still the same Jelly Bean core, so the next desert is reserved for another actual OS branch.

[1] - I believe JBQ said this to the media once, but I can't find the source now.
Google (nor does Amazon) "charge" sales tax. They collect sales tax on behalf of the state.
I enjoy reading these Sysops articles from Netflix. They provide a pretty good blueprint for working inside the cloud.
There are issues with the ATI Linux drivers, but there are a lot of gamers with NVIDIA cards, and those work quite well on Linux. We don't need to get everyone to move to Linux, just a good number, and just those on NVIDIA will be more than sufficient.
Android updates are named after things you might want to eat. OS X updates are named after things that might want to eat you.
Does Crysis 2 work? The guys at bit-tech.net couldn't get it to run on Windows 8: http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/software/2012/10/26/windows-8-p...
Serious question: How does laying off 325 product and technology employees get presented as speeding up how products are developed? Is there a kernel of truth hiding there, or is that just a polite complete lie?
Full details are available here: https://play.google.com/store/devices?feature=microsite

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4": https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g...

7": https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_16g...

10": https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_10_16...
To frame the discussion differently, I disagree with Paypal's recent mandatory arbitration clause, but I have reasons to use Paypal despite it; Namely, I have a few accounts that I pay for that only offer Paypal as a payment option.

As of this morning, I have sent emails to each of those account holders asking whether or not they have alternate payment methods available, as I will be canceling my Paypal account shortly so as to opt out of their mandatory arbitration clause.

If I choose to accept their mandatory arbitration and continue to use the platform, then that is my choice. That it causes me considerable inconvenience to opt out of their policy is my problem alone. So long as there are other ways to pay, then it isn't Paypal's responsibility to cater to me or my beliefs.

Does this mean that I might have to cancel some accounts (namely PRGMR.com, which I use and love) and replace them with other, perhaps more expensive alternatives? Yes, but that is the choice that I am making regardless.

If G+'s benefits to you are greater than your conviction against their real name policy, then that is the choice that you have made. You're of course entitled to your opinion on it, but nobody's forcing you to use it even if it is perhaps the most convenient way to do what you want.
Hey HN, we're really excited to announce Propeller. It's the absolute best tool for non-technical folks to build mobile apps for themselves or their businesses.

All of the other "app builder" tools are limited to prototyping UI or generate really subpar webview-based experiences. We're going to change that by letting you build fast, native apps and will store the data you care about.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
This looks VERY cool, might be exactly what I'm looking for. Just signed up for beta access!
https://www.airbnb.com/techtalks
And as I mentioned in another thread[1], that is something I disagree with entirely.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713137
Same thing here, almost exactly, although they didn't wait a couple of years before contacting me again---more like a month.

On a third go-around, I asked what the deal was and haven't heard much from them since.
Why I Avoid Android - Curtis McHale
There has always been selective fudging and use of benchmarks but these days Apple is not afraid to lie openly.

For example, the iPhone 5 was launched as the world's thinnest smartphone, but it wasn't true. Ask any owner or reviewer of the Fujitsu Arrow.
Will phones get this? Or other-size tablets?

Does anyone know when the 4.2 update will go out?
Nexus 4: 8GB for $299; 16GB for $349; available unlocked and without a contract on 11/13 on the Google Play store in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Canada.

Importantly to me, it's got 1700MHz support so it will work on Wind & Mobilicity.
TL;DR: Worked at Metaweb which was acquired by Google to develop for Google+. Left within a year because of a disagreement over policy against pseudonymity and the affect it has on victims of harassment. Received email from Google years later offering job.
Could you say more about how you arranged to transfer? Others have suggested it is impossible or very difficult, but perhaps they are outliers or victims of older policies. Was it 4 months of trying to be moved, or did you move quickly after trying your assigned role for a while?

(I think I would move the other way, into servers :))
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This is old advice but it's still really good. Just the other day I read this and made some changes to my blog. I think it looks much better for it.
If you're on Windows and want to quickly check if you have 0-byte files in your Dropbox, open the Dropbox folder in Explorer and type "size:empty" in the search box, and hit enter. It will show any 0-byte files.

If you'd like a batch file to check this, that you can run periodically (perhaps programmatically), try this:

@echo off
for /r C:\Users\username\Dropbox %%F in (*.*) do (if %%~zF LSS 1 echo %%F)
pause

If you'd like to echo that list to a file, change the middle line to:

(for /r C:\Users\username\Dropbox %%F in (*.*) do (if %%~zF LSS 1 echo %%F)) > C:\Temp\emptyfiles.txt
You can buy it here https://play.google.com/store/devices?feature=askme_campaign
Your right, but Google still has polices and procedures to follow for hiring that do blanket across the company. It could be some thing like, do not contact former employees unless a human vets it.

In a situation with former employees, you have to take into account all that has happened with them. Because the employee sure will (for better or worse).

If you have different groups operating for hiring, they need tools and info to work better. I'm not faulting google for this incident, I just think it could be done better.
but even though I (obviously) disagree with the idea that Twitter allows pseudonyms

I can understand not caring about pseudonymity, but I see no good reason (for individuals as opposed to corporate entities) to be actively opposed to it. Why do you think you have any right to know my name, and what harm comes from not knowing it?
I have the same issue. I’m on a Nexus S as well and it’s starting to show its age with the latest operating system and apps. But the form factor is great, and all these newer flagship phones are huge.
People do this for real? I thought Yegge met one person who did it and was making a joke at that guy's expense.

EDIT I suddenly got it. They're doing long exhales. I think my kids might do this when they're pretending to work. Then again, they are kids.
Nexus 7 devices are being sold at a loss, so I suppose in one sense yes, the price there is too good to be true.
Ron Conway: Why The Technology Industry Must Get Involved In Government
While not necessarily true here, one could argue that developer bloat could lead to a slow down in product completion.

As a developer using services PayPal regularly, I hope that this does lead to an improvement of there service. Otherwise, we've been fleeced by corporate PR babble yet again.

On a side note, the rise of companies like Stripe and Square might have given the higher-ups pause. These should have been spaces where PayPal was the innovative leader, not lemmings.
*16 GB is $349
Nope :-(

"Available only on tablets.", see http://www.android.com/whatsnew/
Thank you Google, for making the Nexus 7 16gb 199$ 1 week after i bought mine .. I love this tablet, but the one thing i really wish is i had the 16gb version, but couldn't afford it at the time.
Stripe is hiring infrastructure engineers in SF
At Stripe, infrastructure ranges from system design and implementation (such as building out our data tier) to building internal abstractions (such as creating the frameworks used in our codebase) to devops (such as writing tools to manage our server fleet).

If you're a software engineer who has dabbled in devops, scaled a distributed system, or designed widely-used libraries, we'd love to talk -- send an email to gdb@stripe.com. Feel free to include a description of your prior work and any other background you think would be relevant.
An approach I'd like to try is allowing the template designer to expose a certain amount of grid changing freedom. I'd also like to experiment with content types that have a render method parameterised by width (and possibly height).
16GB is $349, not $399.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/nexus-4-official/
Kort - a thumbnail preview concept
Facebook petitioned to stop censoring prominent Icelandic feminist
> Unfortunately, here in Europe things are starting to change for the worse.

For very geographically specific values of "Europe". Lots of places are on the contrary seeing things improving. Europe isn't a single entity.
Thanks for the compliment. I honestly didn't intend to stir anything up this much, and my original statement was more of a tangent that only slightly related to the comment I wanted to make about autonomous cars.

Regarding empathy vs. understanding, I'll direct you to another comment[1] I made on the subject, but the TL;DR version is that I believe that I am empathetic to the plight of people who feel they need anonymity, but am not empathetic to the people who feel that they need anonymity and must also have it on Google Plus, despite there being other alternatives available.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713137
And just $399 for the 16 GB version!
There's definitely a need for this. Right now I'm around 50% the way through building a web app version of what I need, which will either be "good enough" or just serve as a prototype.

If my v1 isn't native my v2 will be, but I'd rather just go for it with a tool like this.
Its good to see a good set of custom widgets coming out for bootstrap. Bootstrap become a really good framework to bootstrap a web app. http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/ is another rich text editor I came across. Its based on wysihtml5.
I have no idea about the device, but that name is embarrassing.
However, the screen is "PenTile" (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family), which means that each pixel is only 2/3 of what we'd usually think of a pixel. And it really does look like crap, even at high densities (such as on the Galaxy Nexus).

If you calculate out the number of subpixels (what actually shows colors on the screen, the important number), the 2048x1536 display on the iPad is still significantly ahead: https://www.google.com/search?q=2560*1600*2/3+-+2048*1536
"I am ignorant to how much they would matter in real life."

There exists only one "business model" for social media and that is to post ridiculously personal, identifiable information all on the same unifying social media site. The key is there is only one model allowed to exist at present. Forcing non-anonymity means people might have to think about the issue, perhaps fraction the model into public and private parts, or evolve new standards of their own online conduct instead of just dumping everything everywhere. People hate nothing more than being forced to think, for example, its well known that many of the general public would rather die than think. Its a direct attack against the very idea of a single unified "business model". That's the main reason why its hated. The very idea of posting different things on different sites is whats being attacked, and by banning anonymity G+ was fracturing the existing model into "only post public identifiable stuff here, and anonymity required stuff elsewhere". They're hating a move a player made and some hating by extension the player, but we're not allowed to discuss hating the game or even what the game is...
While I have no hard figured I believe the cost difference is because Google is probably selling these devices at or around there cost. They are selling them (like how amazon does with their tablets) as content delivery systems. Simply as a way to get more people to into the google ecosystem.

Other companies must sell their devices to make a profit, google does not. As long as they are close to making even on device cost they can make up for and exceed it elsewhere.
She links to to an article that propagates said myth. Click on "arbitrary technical puzzles".
If this practice was widely adopted, I wonder if AWS would experience a bank run/DOS in the affected and neighboring zones.
Are you referring to Enron's stacked ranking practice? I don't think Google does anything approaching that.
Dude if you can really solve minesweeper, publish the paper and become famous and rich, because that shit is NP-complete.

http://www.cs.montana.edu/courses/spring2004/spring2004/curr...
It's interesting they havent' done a front facing camera. That's big with the tween crowd.

Edit: I meant rear facing on the Nexus 7. Not front facing.
It's possible that I'm misusing the term. I'll state that I am at least sympathetic, just not on the stance that not only are they entitled to anonymous/pseudonymous speech (which I feel they are), but are also entitled to having it on Google Plus specifically (which I feel they are not.)

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713137
And with that crazy resolution.
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Nope :-(
"Available only on tablets.", see http://www.android.com/whatsnew/

New versions of Android usually roll out to Nexus devices days or weeks after the release of the new hardware. So you should expect November 13th + X days.
YC W13 application guide - what is "impressive achievement"
When can I start buying non-Mac laptops with this kind of resolution? It probably doesn't help that Windows doesn't have good support for scaling at high resolutions (although I would bet that Metro apps will scale fine due to the use of XAML).
It's better to have trusted bookmarks than type any such URL because nobody can be sure to be smarter than fisher.
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In that case, :( and :). Thanks for the reply!
Android 4.2 supports wireless display (aka Miracast) to watch movies on your TV
> Nexus 7 devices are being sold at a loss

Back in June... and only for the $199 model...
Your sincerity is worrying to me. I thought Internet would break physical and mental boundaries... And indeed it's quite the opposite, I realize how different we are.

But in a way, I understand your point, it's just that the world is not ready for that. Just look how far an Apple versus Samsung debate could go on a place like HN and imagine that you're talking about serious issues in a less tolerant place. I don't want to die (or be rejected) because I said I don't like X or Y on the Internet. (And I was the first supporter of G+ until they messed up with real names policy).
Here's a for example:
http://www2.ncl.com/vacations?key=EPIC17CIVLIVMRSPMIBCNFNCST...

17 days from Rome to Miami in October, with stops in Florence, Provence, Palma, Barcelona, Funchal, & St. Thomas, for $2738(balcony room).
With regards to tablets, one of the next major battlegrounds is going to be in the enterprise, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft duke-ing it out. From that perspective, Surface makes a whole lot more sense. If they can perfect Surface, they will be in a fierce position to defend their enterprise territory.

With regards to the emerging enterprise tablet market, Google is playing serious catch-up. If Microsoft can come late to the game, but demonstrate the tenacity they have in the past, they might pull another "IE over Netscape" on Apple.
I don't disagree with the premise. When I say I disagree with Twitter's choice, what I mean is that I would probably enjoy Twitter much more if that wasn't their stance.

The reason for this is perhaps anecdotal, but in my personal experience, I generally find richer, deeper and more meaningful discussion when real names are involved.

This is anecdotal at best, and HN is a notable exception to that rule, but that is my experience. If I were president of the world, I would not change Twitter's rules, as that is within their right to provide pseudonymity, but if I were president of Twitter, I might just change it. (Though from a business perspective, what they have has been working for them, and I'm profit-minded enough to wager I wouldn't mess with that.)
It seems that they still sell MacBook Pro's without Retina:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macboo...

I guess they've moved these down into the price slot. Retina has only been out since June. It'll probably take another year before everything is Retina.

Another thing to consider is that Apple just introduced AutoLayout in iOS. They will expect developers to have adopted that within a year or so, which will free them from the basic resolution doubling that they've been doing.
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Nexus 4, 7 & 10 have a front facing camera. (Nexus 7 doesn't have a rear facing camera though)
True. Microsoft has been famous for those for decades.
Can you comment on the articles or fields you were editing in, or would that jeopardize your anonymity?
I have Galaxy Nexus. I was thinking of upgrading to the Nexus 4, for better battery life. But, LTE is missing from the device. On the other hand, the price is great. I wish Google used some muscle to make carriers bend towards Google's needs. I am grandfathered into a Verizon unlimited plan, and would love to stay.

I am excited to see the screen on the Nexus 4.
We keep it simple, and use a Google docs spreadsheet. We split the ideas between the ones that we quickly jot down with almost no research, and the ones where we have done thorough research.
That hardware (manufacturing) is a commodity? I think they already know, judging from the inane modified android UIs they put on their handsets.

I think it would be more important to break the "you are just a dumb pipe" news to the mobile carriers. They still have illusions.
Even your use of the phrase "... the legal fiction that bits have color ..." sounds silly to me. Compare that phrase to "... the legal fiction that bicycles have an invisible ownership property ..." to see why. The entirety of the law is about similar fictions.
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I think it's fairly obvious from all of these stories about the Google recruiting process - being pestered fairly regular by different people who appear unaware or indifferent to your past experiences with Google, either as an employee/contractor/failed candidate - that the recruiters have some sort of quota system and need to keep feeding potential candidates into the interview process to meet their own metrics. Hence why a lot of times it seems like someone is being contacted out of the blue based upon an "online profile" that someone stumbled upon through desperate-seeming research.
Well that's disappointing. I suppose they thought the UI was too confusing to put it on smaller screens?
Arrrgh! That Nexus 4 looks delicious, absolutely awesome. But why does it have to be such a monster! With their flagship product, can't they shoot for a happy middle ground and not for monster sizes?
You'd think a launch would be geared to play to the widest audience. Disappointing that the presentation requires Silverlight to view. Wasn't Silverlight EOLed?
Followed up via email, this sounds like a bug which we'll look at. We use geoIP for the ccTLD redirect, but then Accept headers should dictate the language subdomain.
Ask HN: How likely is it that Sandy will affect AWS us-east?
I'm guessing it'll also be available on the Nexus 7.
What Dorsey isn't the golden boy that the valley and press make him out to be. blasphemy . Agree, VC's are just looking for a huge exit, with the payments platform and having someone be their Steve Jobs reincarnate will help.