skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he hurricane wasn't a surprise... the effects shouldn't have been a surprise.
If you're going to run a startup, this is a good test of being prepared for a (known, impending, likely) shit tsunami, and being agile, and resourceful, and flexible, and, well, you get the idea.
If pg wants to appear compassionate about changing the date, that's fine, but this isn't like a tornado (no warning), or Katrina (total destruction of an entire city).
If people were going to apply at the very last second, guess what - moving the date forward by N days just means they have N more days before applying at the very last second.
If out of compassion pg wants to move the date, or more likely to avoid potential criticism of keeping the original date, then fine. But would this make a real difference, I doubt it.
Besides moving the date back might actually prevent some great company from getting in who are right now, demonstrating extraordinary resourcefulness at finishing the application (typing away on an iphone), getting it in on time, and providing a really cool story of how they did it.
A very messy one, though. With not that many alternative implementations (iirc they all are based on the converted-to-C Pascal code).
When have they pulled competing apps that they haven't acquired?
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I have the Nexus One and i think to buy a Galaxy Nexus..just for the good price!
Apple's Tim Cook shows ruthless streak in firing maps and retail executives
Node is not everything to everyone, but for a lot of people, it's the right technology at the right time.

- Easy to install and use, especially for hordes of client side developers.

- Easy to manage packages and dependencies via npm.

- Fast and scalable for writing logic around data transportation.
I don't deny they are making progress. But thats not as what you think it is!
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Springpad http://springpad.com might be the best Evernote alternative I've seen, but they aren't charging money so I'm a little worried about their long term sustainability.

Personally, I can't seem to get into Evernote in a serious way. Springpad, probably.
Nice - but needs more happy little clouds :)
A Github for hackerspaces
I am curious to see if NDK is still standing still or more freedom is given to the native developers.

Or if at least more JIT improvements are available.
To your point about "7+ opportunities":

Last time I spoke to Google, I had two offers on the table from companies who contacted me after Google, before Google even managed to put me through a tech interview. They then proceeded to mess up the tech interview so badly that the recruiter got the result thrown out and got approval to bypass the whole thing. In the meantime said two companies invited me for dinner and lunch and an informal gathering to meet the teams I would manage if I said yes. In the end I ended up staying where I was, but Google was by far the easiest company to turn down: I didn't proceed through the second interview, because I didn't see the point when comparing the treatment I got.

This is what their rigid bureaucratic process results in. Perhaps Google would not have wanted me at the end of it, if I continued the process. But if so, then presumably any candidate they would want for that position would find it even easier than I did to line up other offers in the same time frame.
I realize the problem. But their current approach has the outcome of alienating a lot of their target audience from even wanting to work there, or at the very least wanting to subject themselves to the hiring process.

The result is that a lot of people who are good enough to find it easy to find competitive jobs elsewhere self-selects out of the process, leaving the people who either really badly want to work specifically at Google, or who don't have other alternatives, in their hiring process.

The former group likely will contain lots of great people still, given that there's still a lot of people who see Google as a great place to work. The latter group likely isn't who they want.

Clearly the former group is not enough, given that Google has an army of recruiters who keep hassling a lot of us who have never applied to Google and/or who have turned them down for interviews or jobs before, or who have even worked for them and left.

They recognise they are losing out on a lot of good candidates, or they wouldn't have these people calling the same potential candidates over and over and over.

And from personal experience I know a lot of their recruiters are frustrated at how hard it is for them to fill many positions, and how often they approach candidates and are explicitly turned down because people don't consider it worthwhile subjecting themselves to their interview process when they can easily get jobs with competitive packages and terms elsewhere.

The last Google recruiter who contacted me called me to plead for me to do a second round management interview after I was lukewarm after the totally botched tech interview I've mentioned in this thread - she'd gotten approval to simply skip doing another tech interview completely after the tech interviewer did his ridiculous nonsense.

But who would I keep putting myself through that shit? No other potential employer, many of whom offer better terms than Google are likely to do, have ever tried to subject me to that type of employment process. I know I'm good at what I do. I'm used to being rapidly pursued with face to face interviews, being taken out for lunches and dinners, having the recruiter and potential employer actively sell me on the prospects and the benefits of working there, being told upfront exactly what I will work on and having them make it very clear that they can meet my salary and stock expectations. It's not that I need to be treated like some special snowflake, but I'd put a premium on working somewhere where I know I am appreciated.

Googles recruitment process scream "we don't care".
It's mostly sociopaths in the upper ranks of companies.
This is exactly what happened to Literature.SE and a couple of other sites I dipped into (although Lit.SE was my most active, and I was in the top 10 users there before it closed).

The moderation was harsh and it led to questions being mundane, tedious or boring - and a race to get the "right answer" in (with little effort on quality). Opinion was stamped on and it was clear that SE was looking for mindless answer-drones and not a community with opinions and views.

Unsurprisingly, Lit.SE died a death after less than a year.
Every now and then I try out Evernote, but every time I stop because they lack a linux app. I wish they fixed that.
I may use these generated pictures as backgrounds for slide presentations, so it would be nice to hear if the author is fine with that. What license is the resulting picture subject to?
Rise and Fall of Micro-Job Site JobsFor10
Looks like JobsFor10 (similar to fiverr) has shuttered
Ugh, I really hope you're not a manager. This sort of infantile world view is why I'm so glad I'm self-employed now.

Let your employees determine their own work.
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I think the phrasing was purposefully self-ironic, but in the sense of excessively technical expressions rather than having too many words.
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Today, you can download for free a large set of blurred backgrounds. This package of consists of 25 high-resolution images (4000px x 3000px).
I found it pretty strange that there was no mention at all of the OS this targeted.
Terrible, terrible post to HN.

We could argue the religious context of the original asshole politician's statements. We could argue if the linux guys were actually making a point involving women at all. We could argue definitions of rape.

We could argue whether this belongs on HN. We could argue whether we should be using this platform to make morally persuasive cases about things not directly involving technology. We could argue about the role of women in tech.

The list goes on and on. This is just a really bad article. I know it's enough to flag or downvote it, but dang, guys. This should be a no-brainer. It doesn't belong on HN. The only thing this is good for is creating arguments.

This boils down to: somebody said something that I could be upset about. Now let's go punish them!

Get a grip.
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Surely that just makes him misandrist as well as misogynist? I don't think anyone's arguing that male rape is exactly a social good.
I'm not really sure what your point is by quoting that. Are you seriously trying to say that others are being "sanctimonious dick-head's" for calling out a rape apologist?
Mature games are the future of gaming (and the app stores are killing it)
"I was glued to the Weather Network for like two days straight, and didn't get a chance to complete my application form."
All major implementations (miktex, pdftex, xetex, luatex) are derivatives of Knuth's Pascal code.

There are others, but they did not get very far:
http://kasper.phi-sci.com/tex++/
http://www.cucug.org/amiga/amiinfo/reviews/AmigaTeX.txt
I have to say that I am amazed by the lack of professionalism and common decency. During a tech conference or on a tech list, the only 'insults' should be of a technical nature.

When going to a tech conference, I am not interested in sexist jokes. When I follow a specific tech mailing list, I am not interested in discussions about rape, politics, or whatever.

There are other venues to vent whatever opinions you have on such issues. If you want intimacy, there a dating clubs, etc.

Not to say that no relationships start at work or during a tech conference (I met my wife through work). But if you are not sure the other side is interested, give it time. Don't act as a predator.
Whichever way people will want to slice and dice the numbers, the irrefutable fact is that women are the victims in a vast majority (by a very very large margin) of sexual assaults. Intended or not, the action and suffering caused is the same. People that try to make it sound like a non-issue should probably be made to mentally live through it to understand.

edit: When prominent people in open source communities make such claims in public, it affects the entire community. It makes women feel vulnerable and unwelcome & might convey the wrong ideas to impressionable young minds.
The Linux community can't remain silent but it doesn't converge to one opinion either.

You just get this flame war and you might figure out that there is an underlying conflict instead of unanimous point of view. Maybe there IS a problem while at least one of the sides involved pretends that there is no problem.
Before you spend those 30-60 minutes, I want to know if you're worth working for. If you go straight into coding tests, I a) know you're not, b) expect you to be a formalistic stickler, c) I know you haven't done enough homework to at least have a reason to believe I am good enough to have plenty of options.

If you have done your homework when interviewing me, you'll understand that you need to sell me on your company, your team and the position first to let me assess whether you're worth my time.

The candidates who will bend over backwards to satisfy your coding tests before you've spent at least 20 minutes explaining why they should care, are the candidates who are fanboys and/or don't have other decent options. You should ask yourself why.

I've called off interviews and called the recruiter back to tell them I don't want to deal with that company again over interviewers who conducted bad technical interviews, for the reason that I know my value and I know the value of my time.

Conversely, when on the hiring end, I don't want candidates that are happy to bend over backwards for me without any sales effort first, or who don't ask me pointed questions about the company, the job, the terms. It makes me immediately suspicious about why they are willing to make such a big decision without sufficient information to evaluate if it would be a good fit for them.
Just out of curiosity, how often do you let someone else use your phone? Not check out your phone but actually use it to the point they'd require a guest mode? Guest mode on a phone is like flying lunches in via Concorde from Paris.
To be honest, the new HQ design looks both bombastic and anonymous to me. I especially wonder what it's going to look like from ground level; I have a sneaking suspicion that the circular facade is going to make it look like you're at the back of the building no matter where you are. But it's very hard to judge these things in advance from a few illustrations.
From my experience, Rosetta Stone does not work. I've also found from reading the about other peoples' negative experiences with Rosetta Stone I'm not alone in this. It's a nice method in theory, but in in practice it fails. Here is one well written argument for why it doesn't work: http://language101.com/reviews/rosetta-stone/
There's no "G-WAN's Javascript engine". Just plain old V8 embedded via a handler. You get just the basics, no batteries included aka you need to code the bindings to various things (like FS, crypto, etc) by yourself.

A year ago, a member of the former G-WAN community wrote a handler and V8 wrapper: https://gist.github.com/1077769. Guess that the G-WAN author (Pierre) tweaked that a little bit more.

Tested it myself. For simple "hello world" it was 5.5x faster than node. Quite impressive given the fact that a new V8 context is created with every request. But, again, no batteries included.
Don't agree at all.

This is about Open-Source developer culture, which I think is reasonably close to the HN mandate.

If 50% of the human race feels actively unsafe being near or working with prominent OS developers, that has a huge impact - on female developers, on the perception of Open Source as a whole, on the talent pool available to work on OS projects.

(Let's face it, the "legitimate rape" scandal hasn't done the GOP's public image a lot of good - do Linux users really want to be tarred with the same brush?)

Now, all of that's only a problem if the arguments made in the article hold up - but that's a matter for debate in comments. No-one's ever said that an article featured on HN had to be completely uncontroversial or universally agreed-with.

The subject matter, developer culture, is definitely relevant to HN.
A big part of how much faster LTE is than HSPA+ (which the Nexus 4 ships with), is the fact that most LTE networks are massively under-utilised.

HSPA+ can run at 42Mbps in theory, but network congestion makes that a pretty much impossible situation in reality.

As more people join the LTE networks, they will get slower and slower, just as 3G has in crowded areas.
hm.

While these comments are indefensible, and there's been a lot of talk about that in the past it feels a little opportunistic to bring it up again now to flog The Ada Initiative which is heavily linked to on that post, and a number of click through links.

If this issue is so important, why didn't you write this two years ago?

How is there no commentary on the reactions of people to that post two years ago?

So you're a writer for the Ada Initiative right? And you wrote an article for them about this? ...and, now... it's really topical, so why not whip up some traffic for it?

Not cool. Has that icky feel of an SEO attempt; sad really, because the issue is important.
I don't think Jeff was trying to create a spectacle, I honestly think he's all about the community and was trying to be inclusive.

What both Jeff and Gruber bring to the party is profile. As the article points out, there are already variants of Markdown that fix many of the problems but it would seem none of them have gained traction.

If you can get the founder of StackOverflow / StackExchange and the original creator of Markdown on-board, there's a good chance that whatever you come up with will get some momentum.

Specifications and test suites are all well and good but if no-one uses them what was the point? I suspect Jeff, as well as being someone with a good track record on making stuff happen, was an attempted solution to that problem.
Reducing fat means it takes more of it to get the feeling of being full. The milk is also full of growth hormones and carbohydrates which we get too much of, so drinking more of it is potentially worse than a bit more fat.
I have already started making used of 2.2.0 with media-list for my tweets (http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/). Nice to see http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/ already have the new version in their CDN.
I believe this is deliberate - giving a user a sense of what they did which results in the next action. This is especially important if the button you've pressed takes you to another screen.
Does this remove redundancies in contacts? Is there plans to enable users to update the contacts like http://rainmaker.cc?
> It allows you to write code which is multitudes shorter than in (almost) any other language.

It's not clear if you're making that claim only for 'distribution and fault tolerance'. In that case, I don't know enough to say. For pretty much anything else, I'm sure that Erlang is much more verbose than Ruby.
I hope your comment was tongue-in-cheek and you are not seriously accusing him now, based on what he wrote, of hating both sexes.
Wooah! No wonder EC2 & Amazon are preparing for the worth!
The email that kicked off this all (apparently; I think this is what started it):

(Trigger warning for sexual assault, etc. on all links here, obviously. Some semi-graphic imagery is used.)

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Rape_apology_on_LCA_maili...

It reads somewhat moderate--reading the chain of articles to get to it I rather expected a mustache-twirling misogynist, but it seems that isn't quite the case.

EDIT: Come now, downvote without explanation, especially when I've provided some of the primary material?

EDIT2: Second email here: ( http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Rape_apology_on_LCA_maili... ). That's where a lot of the bad comes from, I think, as he tries to explain further his position.

EDIT3: Some additional correspondence floating around: ( http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/ted/reply.txt ). It seems like he's more complaining about the quality of the data than really attempting to malign anti-rape sentiment.
They really should make this open source and switch to community model of development.

Same thing I've seen with Rebol. Freeware but closed source = no trust from users.
The "Apple dumped Google" meme was started by Apple fans before the new maps got released. You can go back and read the triumphant proclamations of how much better the new maps was going to be now that the nasty Googlers where no longer holding them back that were written all summer.

If the new Maps had even been good enough they'd still be saying it. Instead they're now trying to backpedal, just like before Maps was widely believed to be a bit shoddy it was claimed to be an Apple "homegrown", from scratch data set, when clearly they mostly just bought in data, but still managed to screw that up by putting some pretty crappy business info on top of solid map data. Now the emphasis (and blame) shifts onto all the data suppliers whereas before they'd all have remain faceless (just like Gorilla Glass wasn't allowed to name Apple as a customer, and Samsung has to screenprint Apple logos onto their chips).
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The post was a reaction to this post: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/18505.html, which is dated Oct. 29th.
This is highly overwrought, and I'm getting rather tired of submissions like this to HN. Enough with the gender warfare. I don't come here for that. The mailing list post she's exercised about is well over a year old.
Intel tried the low-power x86 with the Atom, didn't really go anywhere. It's true that scaling up an ARM will be equally problematic. But, the point is that they use ARM because they don't want to push the power envelope.
P. S. I've reviewed the offending Pesce’s slides and found nothing offensive about those. Yes, there are maybe two images which seem to depict a soft form of consentual BDSM.

But if you're offended by other peoples' consentual BDSM, you are actually offended by other peoples' sexuality. Which is YOUR problem and it has nothing to do with rape concerns. If you're offended by other peoples' consentual sexuality, YOU are the offender.
Tso's rant about rape statistics comes across as amazingly insensitive, but it also suggests an alarming incomprehension about the legal and ethical ramifications of consent. There are circumstances in which what we might call implied consent can be assumed unless explicitly withdrawn: a healthy, long-term, committed relationship in which both parties have a clearly and explicitly maintained understanding about it.

Outside of such circumstances, consent should not be assumed - particularly when alcohol is involved. In this case, the concept of "no means no" may inadvertently do something of a disservice by implying that consent is given unless it is explicitly denied. Hence we now have the concept of "yes means yes", which indicates that consent is not given unless it is granted explicitly.
Last I checked, google search can also be accessed through http. The reason why youtube's search can be http without issue is that all results are on youtube so you won't be leaking the search to another site.
If you use TreeStyleTab (or Tab Groups) then the hierarchy is a major context as well.

Not to mention that creating a bookmark feels like a big decision. Something you want to keep for ages. While a Tab might be simply some a page in a reference manual.
Ha, no. Ted Ts'o showed a little bit of free thought, which some people find quite intolerable.
How on earth are we supposed to know that?

It's not mentioned or linked to.
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Averages across hundreds of millions of people easily mask that substantial areas and sectors are thriving. Yes, it sucks if you're in low level jobs in the weaker markets. If you're in other sectors and markets you will instead be hounded by recruiters. The place I currently work, we have to be lightning quick when hiring these days, because the candidates we want get snapped up within a couple of days.
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Without getting into the touchy subject of rape and who's right or wrong, I just wanted to say I feel Tso's posting was much compelling than Aurora's.

Tso went with a very unemotional approach, analyzing statistics and attempting to piece together things objectively.

Aurora was extremely emotional, describing her response as being "frightened" and terrified". Instead of disproving his research she tended towards personal attacks.

Why can't we just have an honest, straight-faced discussion about touchy subjects? It's unfortunate whenever one side holds an unpopular opinion the other feels the need to silence them.
Yeah I know (I'm actually on Windows and just realized the news was for the Mac version) but I'd like to have something to automatically back up all my data on a daily basis for instance. I still think Evernote is worth it though, it's purely for nitpicking.
Nvidia's Project Denver [1] is very similar. A 64-bit ARM based CPU for servers that they started working on a few years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

Edit: It seems the announcement from AMD is in response to this announcement from Nvidia, the 2014 date also matches: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20120921010327_Nvid...