skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The investment might have the purpose of getting an inside view into Square, and being able to adapt more easily should it take off.

With that reason, it makes sense for Visa to hedge their bets and invest in all parties of that market. With that they're in, no matter who wins.
As others have said, there will come a time which is probably unique for everyone, where things will "click". But a friend of mine had some good insight the other day. We were talking about complexity in software and why at times things seem so difficult. He said it's like when you start working out. You can only lift so much weight until your muscles give out. But eventually you keep working at it and increase the amount of weight you are lifting ... so although it will become way easier to lift the amount of weight you were lifting when you started, you will continue working just as hard to lift your current limit. And that's why software will always seem hard, because we build upon our past knowledge and learn to tackle more and more difficult things.
As if geeks are so interchangeable like sprockets! I'm an expert in my field, I have a PhD in it, if someone asked me to do machine learning or data mining or image processing, it would be a huge ramp up time for me, say about 2 or 3 years to get to the point of expertise I have in my current field. It would be a boring 2-3 years, and something that I'm probably not very interested in. If there are other jobs out there that make use of my expertise and interest, why bother with something else?
It's a matter of resource allocation.

If you hire lots of, I don't know, compiler specialists but you allocate them to write web apps we're all possibly worse off. The issue is, and what you're not cottoning on to, is that in a company the size of Google there's probably a team working on x for all values of x that could maybe use another member.

They're only tolerant of their resource allocation scheme because they probably don't worry about their employee acquisition cost.

With a company the size of Google, it'd be really interesting to deregulate their internal labour market (i.e. what Valve does). Let people switch all the time! If you need to prioritize one boring, yet necessary team allocate higher salaries to it.
> Usually when stuff breaks in the NVidia drivers, it's because of a combination of a kernel update and sloppy package management by the distribution. None of this should be an issue if Valve decides to release some kind of Linux based 'Steam loader' that boots directly to the game itself, or make their own Linux distro with tight control over the kernel and GPU drivers.

I'd say the best option here is to work with Canonical to make Ubuntu a stable gaming platform. Valve has the gaming expertise and Canonical has the Linux expertise and community mindshare, so I could definitely see them working it out.
"New" Textdrive
Wrong. Any company that wants to be successful has to allocate their employees to positions they will excel at. Not doing so is a gross waste of resources.
Just a criticism of Google Plus and how it is not the all the goodness what we expected it to be

the real name thing is stupid. I have created and use google plus by a fake name but since it does not sound fake, I have not been flagged.
None. Linkbait just tends to get upvoted, and sometimes the HN bozo brigade comes out in full force.
You've brought up several interesting points I'll have to look more deeply into. It does seem like a good idea to discuss this with an accountant as well. Thanks a bunch for taking the time to consider this!
business idea!
WAT? Enron was a scam from the very highest levels of the corporation. Unless you're suggesting that Kenneth Lay got a 3.0 from his board of directors and reacted accordingly, this is a ridiculous comparison.
Also gives them a discount if they want to acquire, or a payoff if a competitor wants to acquire.
The article refers to Google developer relations (where I previously worked). Google developer relations does expect people to come from a deep technical background as there's generally a much greater emphasis on support and high-touch collaboration than the traditional developer evangelism role. (Hence, the job titles are "developer advocate" and "developer programs engineer" instead of "developer evangelist".) So programming questions are fair game, if not the only game.
Awesome replacement to PowerPoint that works on iPhone too! =) great tool!
UAlberta, Udacity team up for online learning
EBay’s PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs
$60 light bulbs. Well at least they have the target market right (iphone buyers).
A lot of that loss was due to their Living Social investment, most of which was written down. And if they had large manufacturing expenses, are those for devices made and sold last quarter? Or is it for devices made last quarter to be sold this quarter?
Unless it was one of the Walton family... =)
CMAs partner with Trivi.al App and Songpop for Country Music Mobile Engagements
Did you already open the link before that screenshot?

The script the OP uses replaces the href, so once you click it, it'll reflect the true destination.

As others have mentioned, you can get around that by doing a redirect and cancelling the link action instead. Then it will always show the fake target.
Yea I've thought about that. Let me see what I can do... :) thanks.
Ask HN: Why my resource is [dead]
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4711728 is marked [dead]. I didn't do anything wrong? Why my website is blocked?
Pulling the Mixergy archives to my local machine
having always been mildly regretful at having missed out on the archimedes (jumped from bbc b to x86), this sounds like a wonderful thing to explore.
My understanding is that people don't find out their assignment until after the hiring. Sounds like the Air Force: dream of flying jets, end up cleaning toilets. At least at Google one can quit.
Thank you, captain obvious.
Google was well known for logic brain teasers like that in years past - there was a time when Google recruitment was defined by such questions.

They've since stopped, and sadly it looks like Microsoft has taken up the mantle for stupid irrelevant logic questions.
LOL. Google is still a company, and the employees are hired to deliver stuff that the executives decide is important. It is not a college or grad school where you can switch between majors or research topics at will. Usually you have to stay for about 18 months in an assignment before you can successfully change to another group. Otherwise, there's always the door; which almost everybody prefers, considering how easy it is for them to find jobs they like outside of the big G.
"Ruby Under a Microscope"
I was expecting some beautiful images ... nevermind, my bad
> VISA has no such worries.

Would that they did. sigh
Juju - Go in Production
Can you suggest any resources for learning about profiling in python? I'm just getting into scientific computing with numpy,scipy,etc. and I'd be interested to learn more.
I work for a startup that uses an HTML5 music player on its site, and we use this trick to load all of our pages with AJAX so the player doesn't get interrupted by refreshes.
Sorry, I must be being dense. How is the title linkbaity? It's as close to a literal description of the article content as I can imagine. What should the title be?
It looks like it will never graduate to be a stand-alone language. Even though, it looks like it could be less terrible than Objective C for some design patterns.
Why would that even be a bad question to ask?
Cool, I just bought Ruby Under a Microscope and then looked up http://workingwithtcpsockets.com/ to buy that book, too.

I'm at a point in my Ruby career where I've begun peeking under all the abstractions I use after hitting performance bottlenecks. Performance has even led me to all sorts of new tools like using a SAX XML parser (using the Ox gem) instead of trying to walk the XML DOM in memory with Nokogiri.
>The difference between the Windows 8 app store and Ubuntu's Software Center is that you can easily add 3rd party repositories to the latter.

Or just install the other store's software onto Win8 or OSX. Still FUD.
After skimming the WSJ article, I have come to a conclusion. Dorsey is trying to be so hard to be Steve Jobs, except he forgot he has to make a profit.
Related:

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2008/07/is-google-...
I really enjoyed this article because it explains why it is so hard for me to consider leaving my home state of Arkansas. The cost of living is very nice here and with a developer salary, one can live very well.
http://images.apple.com/ca/imac/design/images/evolution_toda...
uh oh, if it run's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch then goodbye free time :)
Ehh the anchors break the back button. Kinda ruins it for me.
Regarding the car insurance: This is happening to an extent in the US currently. There are several companies who offer discounted rates for attaching 'trackers' to your car that report your driving behavior back to the insurance company.

I have very real concerns that this will grow to becoming as mandatory as requiring seat belts while driving. I'm sort of mixed on this point because, while this is obviously a very real invasion of privacy, I also tend to drive safely, and wish that more people did. In short, I'm conflicted. That said, just as I am currently able to not use those insurance providers, I am able to blog anonymously from a variety of other sources. I don't have to blog on Google Plus if I don't want to, and I don't believe that we're in danger of any laws being put forth that require real names on every internet post everywhere. If there were, I'd agree that this is a more likely comparison than it is, but I feel it's somewhat contrived at the moment. Your argument is akin to requiring that you HAVE to blog about everything that you do, and is only a matter of whether or not it's received by troublesome parties. I still have the choice whether or not to blog about a given activity, and if I do blog about it, I have the choice of specifying who receives it (or making it altogether private).

Regarding the job interview, if that were the case for all the applicants, I'd probably fare well enough. It should be worth noting that I've opened my life to such intrusion before for a job with the federal government, but I understood that as a condition of employment. If all employers made this common practice, I agree it would be very troublesome.

Skipping a little bit, all of the examples you gave are basically those of invasions of privacy, which I don't feel fairly reflects the issue at hand. Nobody's forcing you to post things on G+ at all, but if you choose to publish something, it happens to be in your real name. Again, you can still restrict visibility, or choose not to post at all, or choose to post somewhere differently that allows anonymity/pseudonymity. As such, I feel your examples are all significantly different from my original point.
Elasticsearch* - a Starcluster elasticsearch plugin
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
Yes, you can. The boolean just denotes whether the event is listened for during the event capture phase or the event bubbling phase. Makes no difference in this case.
Some of what Google does is tech industry gospel - for example things like technical interviews. When there's faults with it, that's relevant to my interests, as I might want to avoid their mistakes at my own company.

That's why I found the article interesting, at any rate.
I think you're probably right, and it occurs to me that I'm thinking of the civilizations in the cities I've visited recently (SFO, DC, etc.) and are perhaps not reflective of what it's like to be a transgender in other parts of the world / nation.
I think the post is negative. With all the awesome stuff going on in tech, I don't think we need to spend our time writing (or reading!) negative posts like this. It's unlikely to help anyone and only serves to get the rest of us all upset. Google has done some awesome stuff and the experience of a few (or even a moderate amout) people who have worked there isn't helpful to the conversation.
>Gamers are a very select group of people, and there's no reason Valve couldn't target them.

This is true, especially among the subset of gamers who build their own computers. They are particularly ripe for experimentation with Linux, and would represent the Innovator/Early Adopter stage in the TAL [1]. Get those guys on board and the rest may see it as new and cool and follow.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle*
I've enjoyed this conversation: but HN is not really set up for lengthy discussions :) (I lose track) so rather than clog it up if you want to chat more feel free to email me!
It also has the same DPI as the iPhone 3gs, so they can use the same screens, just cut to a bigger shape.
How Google Learns
When I was writing games for the Archimedes, I was using ARM-assembly routines to write pixels directly to the double-buffered screen memory. So I think a full blown emulator would be needed, rather than just the same OS. Unless ARM-6 can still execute ARM-1 assembly, and it still has addressable screen memory?
TL;DR
Use good journalism style.

If I understand correctly, you're saying that if there is one, then there shouldn't be one? I agree that the article should be iteratively deepening, but that doesn't change where a TL;DR section should go if there is one.

If there is one, put it at the top; if not, give me all the information I need at the top and explain later.

A TL;DR is an alternative to reading the article. If I have time, I'll read the article (if the title sounds interesting). If I don't, I'll read the TL;DR, bookmark it and refer later if I think I might need more info later.

It's like the title 2.0, not a different name for an abstract.
PayPal to lay off 325 employees and 120 contractors
Ending the Love Affair with ExploitShield | Trail of Bits
i should have added a smile to the last sentence. Wasn't meant to offend you!
Other resources in similar vein but modernized are the Get Rich Slowly and I Will Teach you to be Rich websites.

In particular, Get Rich Slowly definitely resonates with me. The blog is not well organized for someone who just jumps in, but Forbes has a good getting-started reading list:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/04/19/six-year...

The site:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/

Start with this article:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/09/28/money-is-more-a...

Disclaimer: I'm not rich and I don't apply most of the tenets above !!! but at least I'm self-aware (which I guess is a step 1 to recover, I hope).
The original post fails to frame its comments within the context of advertising in general and Apple's advertising campaigns specifically.

Advertising is intended to create the perception of differentiation. The bar for accuracy is pretty low, not quite caveat emptor but very nearly so. Tablets have become a commodity, and Amazon is no more disingenuous than a one would find in a campaign where two brands of mid-sized sedans are compared.

It is certainly no less truthful than claims that a device is "magical," nor more disingenuous than comparisons between "Macs and PC's".

The original post's moral outrage simply is not justified to the degree it purports to be unbiased because it is structured as a point by point refutation. It justifies the thesis (of disingenuousness) rather than concluding it to be the case after thoughtful analysis.
Is there a way to lock the mouse when not in full screen mode?
retaken, perhaps.
I think you missed the part where there's a class="lsf" on the containing element, maybe a span - I don't think the typeface would be applied to an entire body of text!
You claim you have empathy for the group twice, but the content of your comment can basically be summed up as "I don't empathize with them, I don't know what they are going through." Maybe you mean you sympathize with them, but it's hard to tell from your comment.
I'm using it on my scanner site. Logging in lets you use a few more features that otherwise would be unavailable. It wasn't terribly difficult to add to my stack. The hardest part was finding and integrating a reasonable JSON interpreter to deal with the return. I wound up using a library called jansson.

http://scanner.rachelbythebay.com/main - hit the cog/gear link on a call and you'll see the login button. Notice that once you're logged in, the "ops" popup drops the button and adds a few more features without you having to do anything else.
Absolutely. This is a wasted opportunity.

In spiral mode the elements with the same valency should be in the same row.

In fact, every mode should take this into account.

H and Li should be in the same row. The same with Mg and Ca.
They "need" pulseaudio? Yikes. I was hoping people had stopped using it D:
"Derailing for Dummies" is merely an attempt to dismiss the arguments/opinions of members of certain groups without logically addressing them.

The only purpose is to create a rhetorical Escape Hatch [1] when logical arguments fail (or one is too lazy to construct them).

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Escape_hatch
I'd rather Anonymous go after Zynga because they use flash. It's about time we get some quality client-side code that doesn't eat 100% CPU just to plant some seeds on my stupid little virtual farm.

Another legitimate motive is to reduce the amount of time people waste on *ville. Even if they just DDOS, that means 2+ hours more productivity per person! That leaves bored programmers with nothing to do to waste their time, and we might just get some quality games out of it!
When I bought it (at launch) the 8GB model was just under $250 including shipping, and the 16GB model was $275. (I checked my receipt.) The prices have changed somewhat since then.

In any event, the $199 price struck me as highly misleading at the time.
>Going with your assumption that he or she became famous, why does she want to be not seen anymore at a spec-work site, one would think? It's either because he / she is embarrassed to worked at one time at a spec work site, or that he or she, after gaining experience, understood that spec-work is actually not that good of an idea

I would assume he/she is embarrassed to be seen on a spec work site because of people like OP above who actively work to shun those people.
What do you mean by stand-alone?
Instacane
I don't think ChromeOS can be useful as a tablet interface, just like I don't think Ubuntu would be useful like that, but I could see it somehow dual-boot, or easily change between the Android and ChromeOS mode when being docked to a keyboard, with ChromeOS being more optimized for that kind of usage.
Because they've been shown time and time again to tell you if someone is good at answering brain teasers rather than if someone is good at being a programmer/engineer/whatever.
If you like this, you may want to get a copy of the book this evolved in to: "Smart and Gets Things Done"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/05.html

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Gets-Things-Done-Technical/dp/15...

$3 used, $11.61 new

Not sure if there's an ebook version, searching for a PDF brings up some programmer's blog who looks like he's hosting it illegally by accident.
Good news is fluffy candy that is tasty but not very useful. Bad news is harder to eat but is much more useful for survival reasons. Bad-experience outliers at Google are then more interesting than average or good outliers. Having a pointless conversation about the joys and successes of Google really doesn't allow me to "know" anything, which is the point of coming here.
The idea of owning a tablet by Google creeps me out to no end. I just can't picture myself using this without the lingering feeling of having Big Brother tracking me, watching me, keeping tabs on what sites I visit and what content I post online.
Sadly, for those people building their own computers, driver problems are going to be even worse... I have never been able to get my ATI/AMD graphic cards to work properly under Linux...
Interestingly, I've long thought that Python is like the piano of programming languages. It takes almost no time to learn how to play Three Blind Mice, but an expert user can also play Rachmaninov.
Interesting. I thought the various groups inside Google competed for engineers? To the extent that there are posters advertising working on Chrome/Android etc.

Given that it is "easy" for people to leave, I would have thought the policies would be forced to change?
I would have said the same during my original undergraduate work (at 18-19). However, I ended up working full time and taking night classes with other working adults. From then on, there was never a coat tails problem. We would actually have the problem of people wanting to do too much rather than people not wanting to do anything.
Near-death? ARMv5 is still going strong, I'm pretty sure there's a decent amount of v4 being produced, too.
As someone who does a fair amount of hiring, I would never hire someone off the strength of their (supposed) work alone. The ability to problem solve under pressure and their ability to communicate effectively with others are really important factors I won't get from looking at their Github account.
Any form of art specially something like writing can't come out of shallow thinking. In age of productivity, we do thinking out of doing and less based in "calling."
Flagship Android device, unlocked, without contract, for $299.

Impressive.

From the marketing video it looks like Android 4.2 gained Swype-like keyboard.

It seems that they're no longer using tablet UI, even on Nexus 10 (i.e. it has status bar on top, navigation buttons are in the middle of the screen). That's weird, and I definitely don't like it, but it might not be that big of a problem.
Chrome should capture the mouse when you click. Firefox only allows pointer lock in fullscreen mode.
Clojure Documentation
The URL for the "Shop now" link should have been:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGCAVM/

instead of:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGCAVM/ref=gw_c1_kf_ipa...
JQuery Sprite Animation
Does anyone find it bizarre that Valve is so upset about the Windows Store not being "open" when they, in Steam, run an app store that is far, FAR harder to get your software distributed in?
Valve in cooperation with Canonical. Now we know why Ubuntu needs to have some secret projects.
Haha, thanks for that - now I know what I probably sound like whenever I sing along to 'Dragostea Din Tei'!
The Introduction of .uk Risks Damaging the UK Economy
Loved using RISC OS back in the day at school
Except for the part where they announced their margins on the tablet were at best razor thin.
I've always been a huge fan of reveal.js and this takes the tedium out of making these presentations. Nice one @hakimel!
"On Monday, just after 8:30am, we noticed that a couple of large websites that are hosted on Amazon were having problems and displaying errors."

Our sys admins couldn't get to reddit.
I don't recall the details. It's not just shipping -- unlike Amazon, Google actually charges sales tax (not a criticism of Google btw -- I think Amazon's sales tax advantage is horribly unfair to other retailers). For the model I eventually did buy (16GB, which was at that time the top-of-the-line) I paid about $25 in shipping and tax.

What I can verify is that I paid $275.44 for a "$249" 16GB Nexus 7 whereas a Kindle Fire HD would actually be $199.
Let's hope you can afford to do that for many years to come. When the choice is between relocating or unemployment, an average job offer suddenly gets much more interesting.

Unfortunately, here in Europe things are starting to change for the worse.
Importance of Selling Your Vision in Lean Startups
tx!

"if it has too many comments, it is too polemic and it is pushed down." well, this is surprising.
Luckily any tablet you choose will have significant tracking capabilities...
You can get Macbook Pros with retina displays now, which is what I assume you meant by Macbook since the Macbook-non-Pro line is discontinued.

Pedantry aside, I agree with you.