skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exceptions, Restartable Conditions, and Aspect Oriented Programming -- of which many existing programming languages have implementations of the last and at least one of the first two, sometimes as fundamental language syntax and sometimes as libraries building on more fundamental syntax -- are all means of clarifying the separation between the principal logic of a program and peripheral concerns. There's probably other existing techniques.

The goal is certainly worthwhile, but it'd be more interest to know what specifically you are looking for in this regard.
Do employees actually take vacations at companies without a predetermined number of vacation days?
It would be meaningless, if we lived in an undetectable simulation. But IIRC, there's a recent paper that allows us to detect if we live at least in certain kinds of simulations.

Ah, here we go: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-...
1) Renewable energy is a pretty broad target.

2) Countering ethanol - see the internet.
Just because you're a genius with search algorithms doesn't mean you know how to run a successful, physical, product launch
For the nine months ending 2012-09-30, they paid USD 1.6bn in cash in taxes. (from Google Finance.)
Good luck to everyone. Let's stay positive and prepare for the interview. Here are a few good recommendations about YC interview and what to expect: http://askolo.com/ycalumni#4f7f608197db2e496f000001
but the real question is if this is the one that will make the front page or not...
Here is the follow up email.

"Unfortunately, we don't have the ability to change a shipping address once an order has been placed due to security reasons. If the current shipping address for your order is accessible to you, we recommend leaving it as is and receiving your package there.

If that won't work for you, we can instead intercept this order immediately with your consent. You are welcome to update your shipping address in your Google Wallet account and place a new order.

If you'd like for us to intercept your order, please reply with a message containing "I Consent"."

Now I get to call back and ask what "intercept" means. Great.
Recruiter of software engineers here, and liked the article. I can't begin to estimate what percentage of job changes are attributed to the work of recruiters (recruiting firms, not internal company recruiters), but I think that one reason engineers sometimes make poor career decisions is that they are being coached by recruiters to make them.

The technology industry has created a vibrant technical recruiting industry that feeds off of it, and it is often an unhealthy relationship. The recruiter (especially contingency recruiter) has a huge financial reward if he/she can convince the engineer to take the job, regardless of whether it is a good career move - the recruiter generally is paid as long as you stay 90 days. The size of the reward in addition to the competitive nature of the business creates some incentives that lead to trust and ethic issues. It is this problem that inspired my article http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/09/17/disrupt/

If you are dealing with a recruiter that talks about the job he/she is trying to fill before asking you about what YOU are looking for in a job, you are probably not talking to someone that is trying to help you make a good career move.
This is great to hear. I've been thinking of picking up the guitar to try and learn again, but for the second coming try to ditch my tabs habit.

Thanks for the awesome tool.
eBay's Usenet launch announcement from 1995
Yeah that is what I though too. I mean I put food in my box. he's in the overcrowded beatybox, even though he's the only one doing it in Belgium right now.
Increasing eCommerce Conversion Rates: Category Page
Cough. Netflix.
Google to devs: Fragmenting Android is against the rules
Thank you for this. What I wish I could find was a way to buy a low-cost version of Windows to run in VirtualBox on a Mac, not for testing IE, but just to be able to use Windows occasionally.

I'm not sure why MS wants to make buying Windows without a PC so expensive. I suppose they feel that locking us into PC hardware (that won't run MacOS, thanks to Apple's lock-in policies) is the best way to lock us into Windows. For me, someone who uses Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android for different things, it all just drives me toward a policy of trying to find ways to get by without MS and Apple as much as I reasonably can. A $39 "Windows for VMs" package would keep my foot in the Windows world, but lacking Apple's (current) hardware quality advantage, MS is the easiest to learn to do without entirely.
As a Joy Division fan, I must say this is awesomely well done.
It would be nice if it was responsive enough not to require (seemingly) one scroll action per sentence.
I don't know anything about guitars or tabs... but as a developer I think this site is beautiful!
Wow -- amazing! My #1 feature request: annotate chords. I'm looking at Honey Pie, and trying to figure out how to play Eb9 by looking at your fingers.

Possible bug report: I couldn't figure out how to exit looping mode, and had to refresh the page.

Not sure if you can fix this: two-fingered left scrolling in the tab area activates my browser's "back" function.
Refuse to be outworked
Or that they wind up being used as a rubric for determining power within the company.
Yes, indeed :)
Are you holding Netflix up against the GP's assertion, or in confirmation of it?
Summary:

Satellite radio currently pays dramatically lower royalties than internet radio. A congressional proposal would lower internet radio rates to be in line with Satellite. Artists are opposed b/c they get less money.

An RIAA proposal would instead raise Satellite royalties to be in line with Internet, and for the first time charge royalties for terrestrial radio.
I've written about an alternative "teleportation" method in what I call a Teleroom: http://www.thenureality.com/the-teleroom

I get excited about the potential of replicating data of physical things. :D
Fuck needing a technical-cofounder.

PicDigest looks very cool, which means that YOU are already a technical founder.

It's your baby, your burden. Bring in other people as you need them, but looks like you are good as you are.

Feature request: let people create digests from timestamped private storage (dropbox, s3 etc.) so people that aren't instagramming/facebooking hipsters can still use it (maybe something like Zapier would help you).
You think that almost every Android user uses a third party browser? Seriously?
It depends on the Belgium ad laws, whether you're allowed to compare your products with competitors'.

To be honest, polluting other company's hash tag seems like a very shitty and dishonest move. Develop your own brand.
If you edit the result, changing fort to foot, it seems to quickly learn the nuances of your voice. Depending on when you tried, iOS 6 also seemed to improve the results significantly, at least for me.
Thanks :)

It went through a few iterations before I added Perlin noise to finally make it look right.
Reinventing Email
This is my approach to PG's request to reinvent/replace email.

I look forward to get your feedback!
That is strange. I'd post the letter on my twitter with a hashtag to them.
Why would you compile Clojure to Scheme? If you know Clojure, wouldn't you be able to write Scheme without too much difficulty?
"HN, Twitter, Reddit, Google Groups, and Usenet"

Many of these examples tend to be online communities that share the same interest as you. Sure, you can probably configure your own Google Group (i guess?) but who's going to do that?

Facebook is mostly used by people to keep in touch with their offline community - their real-life friends.
Physics in Javascript Using Box2D
Birchbox And Brit Kits: Battle Of The DIY Box Sets
There is also the (i) button on the screen that you can tap. It shouldn't be hard for anyone to find, though I guess it must be?
I agree with the gist of your sentiment, but I wouldn't call them "clueless" - maybe unaware, or unconcerned.
Plus they aren't even in the same ballpark.
Vancouver satellite imagery is over three years old. Geolocation by Canadian postal code less accurate than Google or Bing.

Though points for detecting my browser and telling me how to enable WebGL for the 3D functionality, and Toronto 3D is pretty good.
We have some legacy files with > 20K in PHP. I'm yet to find a PHP IDE which will happily consume these files and let me work them. I just jump into VIM when I need to edit them.

For arguments sake, I'm talking an IDE in the model of Eclipse/IntelliJ/Netbeans, not vim/emacs/etc. I'm aware that people have some pretty awesome configurations for such editors, but I'm for the most part extremely happy with IntelliJ.
A person's reputation is an important factor in evaluating what they say.
Yes, it matters. The psychological reward of validation of your choices through group behaviours is very real, and very strong. Call it the "sheep mentality" as much as you like, but it is just as much the "human mentality" - popularity is a key indicator for us for the quality of a product, but even more so it also shapes how happy we are with the product after purchase.
Great! The ability to repeat the selected Chords is really nice. I would suggest adding real musical notation in another timeline (to help people that are learning it).

BTW, I'm getting a console error in some few videos: Cannot read property 'player' of undefined
Where's the boundary of "large"? I'm not the security professional that you are, but as an interested amateur, Google looks pretty credible to me.
3-D photo booth makes a miniature you
Crappy oversight is better than no oversight.

I don't care about oversight. I care that the taxi I get in to doesn't crash.

I don't have a lot of faith that regulators will do a good job reducing the probability of that outcome. I think they're likely to be corrupt, incompetent, apathetic or some combination of the three.

I do have a lot of faith that insurance companies will do a good job maximizing their own profits. Those that fail to do so will cease to exist. If we can tie insurance company profits to my taxi not crashing, I think they'll do a near-optimal job of reducing the probability of that outcome.

I agree that $1M seems low for a taxi. That doesn't even cover one wrongful death.
Months after massive restructuring, OnLive arrives on LG’s Smart TVs
The Big Jambox
Your premise that inflation ("DESTROYING THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR!") is always bad is hardly accepted enough to just throw out there and assume that everyone will agree with you. How many libertarians are there in this country? Not a majority.
It's already there!
When should I hire COO or VP of Operations for my startup?
This is a solution to a problem I didn't even know I had until I played with it. Well done!
How does the use of an IDE lead to worse code?
Hitler got his concentration camp Idea from the Soviet Jewish model. The soviets had the GULAGS and GAS chambers.THe only exception was that The Soviets camps were for extermination and Hitler’s camps were for labour and reformation back in to society.There is not one Nazi document that reveals an extermination program to this date .The bodies are being pushed in to pits by British bull dozers not German.All the rounding up of people anywhere anytime is horrific and deplorable.Freedom loving Americans could very well be next as our Government refused to go after the Soviets that attacked Poland as well.The US ,USSR and Great Britain now rule the world.This is the exact thing that they accused Hitler of allegedly trying to accomplish.Go figure.
It's not about the disparity between the price and the functional value. The value is subjective, anyway. Expensive jewelry communicates commitment, expensive handbags signal status, and a wine you paid more for tastes better to you. I may think it's foolish anyway, but I think throwing your money away foolishly is a God-given right.

As long as you're in your right mind.

It's when I start to think you're not in your right mind, or when the seller knows things about game theoretic implications of the arrangement that you don't understand (Penny Bids), that I take a dimmer view of things. And when there's compulsion or addiction, especially if it's introduced or reinforced by the seller, and the buyer doesn't really understand it . . .

Then it may not be illegal, but it's a dishonorable way to make your fortune.
yes, but you also don't get paid out vacation time when you leave, and there's always this social pressure to not take long trips (3 weeks, anyone?)
This. But, not everyone at Google is a search engineer. Many many engineers at Google work on one of our other products. We should, and probably do, have experts on online retail scale-ability somewhere

(disclaimer: i am a search engineer at Google)
Yesterday Russia lost contact with every last one of its space satellites
Did anyone in the tech community with knowledge of the complexity of NLP (which I would hope to be most of HN readers) really believe that Siri was anything but a gimmick? It's not as if it introduced ANY new technology--Siri's functionality has been in OS X for as long as I remember, and has sucked just as much the whole time.

However, I really like it when driving, so I don't think it's entirely a gimmick.
Correlation does not equal causation.

There was a world war going on in the period from 1914-1917, when inflation of the dollar was at it's highest ever [1]. It's possible that the effect could have been much worse if we were still on the gold standard, as total war tends to drive up the price of precious metals.

Fiat currency isn't a bad thing. You can't build the largest economic empire in history when your currency is tied to the price of shiny rocks.

[1] http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...
Videos of presentations for 19th Tcl/Tk Conference (happening now)
Didn't try it out (I'm an Android user), but nice idea. I forwarded it along to some old colleagues who are into Lean Startup, as this seems like a useful tool.

Unrelated to the app itself, but the website, the use of the word "feedbacks" seems pretty weird. (Are you a non-native English speaker?)

Sharing & Feedbacks
Share your prototype with colleagues and friends. They
can try out and comment on your prototype on their
iPhone, iPad or in web browsers. You’d be surprised
how valuable their feedbacks are.

I would recommend using the word "feedback" instead. e.g.:

Sharing & Feedback
Share your prototype with colleagues and friends. They
can try out and comment on your prototype on their
iPhone, iPad or in web browsers. You’d be surprised
how valuable their feedback is.
How do I know if I am a 'ninja' or a 'rock star'? Is it one of those "If you have to ask, you aren't" things?

Do people really call themselves those things? "I'm a rock star developer. I'm a ninja."

Hacker, ok. There's nothing boastful about that term. You could be a really low-skilled but interested hacker.
Apple is a Gimmick and a Tease
That's why we have a "Bill of Employee Rights" (called something else that only makes sense in our culture) that require a majority vote (contemplating 3/4th majority) of the company to change. If someone changes them outside of this scope, there would be a revolt.

Policies that can be changed willy-nilly by some higher-up are really just meaningless platitudes (redundancy for emphasis).

To clarify, not every policy and procedure (of which there are precious few) are in there, just the big ones that that shouldn't change without everyone agreeing (results only work environment, unlimited vacation/sick, profit sharing, etc.).

Departmental ones, like "test coverage should be > n%" or "we should answer every customer service request in under n-minutes" are totally up to each group to manage as they see fit.
In the absence of actual numbers we can look at Google Trends. iPhone 5 is about double Galaxy S3 and Nexus 4 had been about half of Galaxy S3 for a week before almost reaching it on Tuesday. It may have peaked though (Wed shows it falling but that could be an artifact of the weekend/holiday or whatever); another week should give us a better idea. My guess is it will get swallowed by the Droid DNA hype train which Verizon will be pushing like crazy.
Electricity isn't very fungible at all, at least across space and time: It is expensive to transport and almost impossible to store. The limiting resource on power production is facilities, not fuel.

Any electrical power source that doesn't displace a power plant is a toy.
Aren't we all of African descent?
Thank you! Yes, standard notation is on the to-do list. It's obviously much more complicated than tabs, so I opted not to do it for launch.

Is the console error happening consistently for certain videos, or is it sporadic?
Super Material Can Stop Speeding Bullet
slow as hell while loading up but in the end worth it
Analytics: What’s Passion Got to Do with It?
good thing i bet 50 cajillion dollars on it happening...now I'm gonna go buy Mercury
Ir they don't show I'm the purchased section they might be gone forever, I kept a backup of the IPA file.
Fastest FizzBuzz
All-TIME 100 Video Games
Netflix is still amazingly liberal with its policies.
It does matter in real ways too. The Palm Pre may have been an awesome device, but tell that to the people using it with no community for support and development.
Thank you! Yes, a few of the videos have chords marked on tab tracks (e.g., "Chord fingering" on http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/) but I'm planning to add a first-class chord track type.

To exit looping mode, just press Pause? Or were you just trying to clear a selection? (If the latter, just click anywhere in the timeline canvas.)

I have searched high and low for a fix to that two-fingered left scrolling in Chrome, and there doesn't appear to be a way to fix it. :-( If anybody knows, please tell me!
Here's how you get access to Spotify's very exclusive web beta
Waitingggggg
Any discussion of Common Lisp tends towards a classic comp.lang.lisp style flamewar. Strawman exaggerations, complaints about the state of Common Lisp libraries, arguments about someone's "tone"...
Yeah, is one of the things I don't like about JS. The typeof operator should be able to handle those cases. Or a new operator that returns a boolean would be nice.

if(defined jQuery.unknown.propierties)
Why I'm Not Buying Apple's iPad Mini
Not to mention Coder and Bug Fixer.
Thanks! There's nothing stopping people from adding lyrics as "basic track" annotations, aside from the awkward question of "do I annotate each word separately, or phrases?"

The site doesn't require email verification to start using it... What was it you couldn't find -- the "Add track" plus button?
Every time I see a startup that starts with a Z, my first thought is: "Is that the boob thing?" (Zivity)
Do you have any article source for this claim?
A web slowly spinned:

...The bad news is I didn’t find it magical-
while Google’s voice feature understood my
queries more often than Siri did, it still
made several mistakes, and it often failed
to give me useful answers.
[...]
But the best thing about Google Voice Search
is that she’s overflowing with knowledge.
Many times she’ll answer your questions with
exactly the right answer. Other times she won’t
speak but will at least give you a search page
full of answers, almost always correct ones.
[...]
Last week I met with Scott Huffman,
one of the engineering directors on
Google’s search team.

Is this a PR piece? It sure isn't about Siri.
Not quite as bad as finance where you're a VP like 5-6 years in.
IANAL, but while I think it's nice that they give these sorts of freedom, this sort of "no rules!" attitude can become a liability as a company grows.

When Jane gets told, "sorry you can't take 10 weeks of vacation this year", even though Tom got 10 weeks of vacation, you leave yourself open to all kinds of legal trouble. What looks like bureaucracy and bloat in bigger companies are most likely regulations put in place to protect both employee and employer rights.

I think the key to any HR policy, even an overt lack of HR policy, is to make sure its applied consistently.
Great post! Only suggestion I might add as a helpful pattern would be leveraging Backbone.Events to implement a Mediator pattern for communication between Views. This is overkill for between Parent Views and SubViews, but I have found it to be very useful in facilitating communication between unrelated Views.
Reading this just makes me scared of Backbone for larger projects. Things like having to keep changes to models silent just because a view isn't ready? Backbone is all good and well for small projects, but I think it's be best to look elsewhere for a larger project. The problem is that backbone has a smaller learning curve so people try to get started with it, and it is better than nothing, but in the long run you'll just run in to more dead ends and spend more time on fixing things and getting around edge cases than if you went for a more fully fledged solution like http://emberjs.com or https://github.com/rhysbrettbowen/PlastronJS
Some of these steps seem very restrictive for no clear reason.

> 3. Do all employees deploy code on their first day?

You want to make sure that deployment is simple and streamlined enough that it's possible for a new employee to do it on their first day. That doesn't mean that you're doing it wrong if the receptionist doesn't deploy anything.

> 11. Do you discourage the use of IDEs?

You want to make sure that the code is easy to work, whether you're using Eclipse, vim, or whatever. So make that your goal. There's no clear purpose to be served by nagging people for using XCode if that's what they're most productive in.
there are better frameworks out there for larger projects definitely - but event driven is the best way for larger projects.
VGA/XGA/QXGA is good technical denominations, but good luck marketing an abstract acronym. "HD" works as a marketing term because, somewhere along the line, everyone knew it was short for "High-Definition".

I consider myself a techie, and even I didn't know that "VGA" was "Video Graphics Array", and "XGA" is "eXtended Graphics Array". Nor would those phrases mean anything to the layman, even if they did know.
I agree with most of that, except the lack of a release date. The November 13th date was posted and well known in advance.
"Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list."

Speak for yourself. My primary use case is to send and receive messages with others. If a message includes things to be done, I'll put them in a TODO list, like I'd do with any other messaging protocol.

The reason why reinventing email always fails is because email isn't broken.
What happens when someone like Anonymous hacks these "official" Twitter accounts, announcing (fake) attacks. People will get hurt.
You might want to fix the glaring typo "Re:Inveting email" at the top of the page.

As someone aptly mentioned though, the problem is you are just redesigning the email inbox and giving it some quick reply buttons (ala the Gmail canned responses).

I suggest you take a look at AOL's Alto for an example of something that is trying to tackle something similar largely through UX design.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/10/18/aol-alto-email-applica...

All that being said, the design is cool. And you have a kickass domain name.
Open minded.
Yeah, I've dealt with 10000 line JS files before. You know, the master JS file that gets included on every page in the application. Too risky to change anything in it. Ever.
I've pushed new cards, a couple of which are less douchey. If there's still not one that fits the bill I'll make one with the exact text above. Thanks again!
Beautiful UI. My 2 cents, the problem with these solutions is that outside of engineering teams, assigning tasks to the creates disdain in teams.
EntropyUDID: Why it’s the ultimate unique identifier
After retry the error seems to have gone away; I guess that it was a problem with YouTube not responding petitions but I'm not sure; I am using extension-less Chrome in Windows 7.