skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not been able to visit an F1 race, but for another wonderful sound (that you feel more than hear) a Top Fuel drag race is right up there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel

Apologies for those of you living outside of the United States, I'm not sure how widespread this form of racing is.
I can see wanting to work remotely if you want either a flex schedule (though remote does not necessarily equate to that), or if you live somewhere where your desired profession is not. For RoR, you may want to remotely work for a Valley company if you live in flyover country.
Excellent lessons! Anyone who has to give a presentation could stand to take them to heart. Unfortunately, most of us don't learn nearly as well from each other as we do from Professor Experience.

My most important lessons were 1) never assume that your PC is going to behave the same way at your desk as it will in the presentation room, and 2) when demoing software, never say anything more predictive than "Now watch this!"
It's a little unfortunate that there are two apps named "Hacker News Reader" and "Hacker News Reader!". Nice app though.
Thomas and Amy speak a lot on never accepting outside investment. So this was probably their own money. ("Bootstrapped," if you want)
He was likely talking about the situation in that particular conference, which was using Silverlight for its streaming.
good q, tikhonj.

a lot of people DON'T trade options on their expiration day. Even marketmakers, whose job is to provide liquidity in the name often shy away from it or demand high premia.

historically, retail investors sometimes closed out their positions on expiration day instead of exercising. this might sound weird, but some people have weird portfolio restrictions so its occasionally sensible.

also, for some equities, there are big events that happen to coincide with expirations. If you have an opinion on a big event (lets say AAPL options are expiring and you think there's going to be a huge announcement), it lets you buy expiring options for virtually no volatility premium.

also: people like gambling. buying cheapie out-of-the-money options is kind of like buying a lottery ticket. I've seen them hit (saw a guy take home a 5million dollar win one wednesday morning for a $6k lottery ticket he bought on the close on tuesday)
I'm pretty sure it's their own money.
If you take "Gandhi" I'll take "they're, there, and their"
I feel the same. I always hear people say to read others code. Really? Like what?
It's a bit like the pity I have on people that make phone calls for telemarketers. The position itself is a fiction, designed to maximize placement ("hard sell") at the expense of honesty. Yes, there are people stuck in those jobs. I have pity on the people stuck there. But the position itself is inherently corrupt.

The whole move of hiring away from people with some technical knowledge (enough to even _read_ resumes) towards impersonal, technically uneducated HR departments, out to tech recruiters who often are even worse at keyword searching than the HR departments, has been to the detriment of the job market.
Given Amy's modus operandi, I believe it's probably mostly their own money.
Film is more than just the quality of the image - it's about the mindset you approach shooting. If you're shooting on film you'll be lucky if you can have more than a 3:1 overrun. On digital it's much higher...you can afford to shoot more because you're not paying processing costs. Directors working with film shoot in a very different way to digital, and this does affect the final product: I know not because I'm a film buff, but because I used to crew on shoots with both formats.

I love digital, I love film. I'd like directors to have a choice, but I suspect we'll see studios effectively enforcing digital for all but the most influential directors going forward.
Ah, good catch!

Now I'm really curious...
Didn't Elon also say that the Hyperloop would be buildable/achievable without having to obtain large swaths of contiguous land for the construction of the entire loop (which is next to impossible in developed countries)?

How does this prediction meet that requirement? Or am I missing something?

This is the quote I'm referring to:

"It also can’t have a right of way issue, where people have to give up their homes."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/elon-musk-with-jobs-gone-go...
I've actually wondered this as well. I actually like the DESKTOP portion of Windows 8 and think it is a really nice improvement over windows 7. In fact, if Win8 shipped without metro, I'd buy it right now...happily.

But it doesn't. It comes with Metro, and although I "figured it out", I shouldn't have to.
Specifically as I'm comfortable with every OS available, using iOS, android, windows (since 2.0) and OSX. Each one of them requires a bit of learning and tweaking, but I remember opening win8 RC and wondering "how do I shut this off?"
Initially I got pissed off because I felt like a child, I had no idea how to find the control panel etc (without using "advanced methods, winkey-r, "control" enter). While every OS has it's weakness, if you can't do basic shit then there is a serious problem.

So, did they conduct usability testing? I also wonder. I'm gonna vote "no" on this one.

With that said, I'm still gonna get it, purely out of curiosity.
Here in Paris, if you're under 30 a 220-square-foot apartment is considered spacious. And it will not be "carefully designed".
It certainly isn't trademarked. :)
"Loudness" is an orthogonal debate revolving around mixing (pop music). There's nothing about the various media that requires or prohibits one from mixing 'loud'.

vinyl vs CD, tube vs solid-state/digital -- those are more similar to film's 24fps vs higher frame rates: straightforward arguments against higher-fidelity technologies because we've grown emotionally attached to the particular artifacts of legacy technologies.
For a 100k, they could have

1) Bought a ton of Heroku dynos with every single addon enabled. That would have given them any version of Rails they wanted with Ruby 1.8, 1.9 or even 2.0; Postgres, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, two different kinds of Memcache and three different kinds of asynchronous processing.

2) Gotten fully managed servers at Rackspace with pro support for pretty much any setup they wanted.

How is this even possible? The same application happens to hit bugs in the Ubuntu kernel and Rails core that haven't been fixed all the way to 3.2.9? And they have 100k to spend but couldn't be bothered to try different kernels and distros? Really? Have they seen the AMI launch screen on EC2?
Well, avoid Java, which is just C++--, and think Smalltalk instead.
I'd love to see that cage match ;)

Instead of inviting those who would help you achieve your tipping point to an MVP do you need to invite the non influential people? At least until you have your feature set in place?
Both liquids and gasses are fluids and drag is worse in water than air, so the energy required would only be higher. Consider: is it harder to push your hand through the air or a tub of water?
It also be great to have such an exhaustive peek inside the workings of the drivers head !!
After-all the driver is maybe the most important part of the race !

On the other hand, will there be driver-less F1 races in the future ? ... or more aptly put, WHEN will there be driver-less F1 races ?!
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I kind of like the image of Stallman standing up and blasting away at these legal people offering half-baked ideas for a problem they only barely understand at the 10,000-foot level.
That's just the way music is mastered these days, a great article on this stuff is here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm

But the debate between vinyl and cds is completely separate from the debate on loudness.
Just as "gnome-shell" is an extension to Mutter, you can also add other extensions to Mutter IIRC (I mean Mutter extensions, these are different than the stuff on extensions.gnome.org). Furthermore, you should be able to change the behaviour of GNOME shell window manager behaviour via GNOME shell extensions as well. The latter might be a bit buggy though.
Therefore Java == C?
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how much did it normally cost?
What problem does this app solve? I find using browsers for websites is more usable for me than using an app. I can have many tabs open, I can copy anything I need, press on links and do what I have been doing on the web for 20 years. All those apps brake the web, and make it actually harder to use it...
As far as I know they not only lower the center of gravity with the ballast but they also can put the weight where they want it to be and move the center of gravity to achieve a better weight distribution. So the effect on handling is more than just lowering the center of gravity but your point still stands :-)
You've basically just described interlacing. For instance, interlaced PNGs start with a 1/8 scale pass/frame and fill in the remaining pixels with the following 6. (Frames 1-5 would be required for a 1/2 scale image.)
I was going to say - that apartment is definitely larger than many in downtown Manhattan (if you live in one of the older buildings - particularly the old tenement buildings).

That might be 'micro' for Queens or even Washington Heights, but that's certainly not 'micro' for Chelsea or the Village.....

> I have seen several "nano-apartments" in NYC that wouldn't fit a queen-size bed comfortably

My friend had a tough time figuring out how to fit his full-sized bed - ended up deciding that it wouldn't work, and opted for a futon instead.
There are definitely good ones out there. And those that take the time to learn to write a little code have a much better chance of being on that list. We know a few good ones too. Few and far between, but clearly possible.

One thing I didn't mention in the post is that, in a lot of cases, the incentive system for recruiters isn't necessarily aligned with the best interests of the companies and developers they work with. Recruiters are a bit like sell side realtors. The incentive for them is to push a lot of product. So, as a sell side realtor, my financial incentive pushes me to accept the first offer that comes through, whether it's a low ball or not, and move along. Only rarely do I dismiss that financial incentive for the benefit of my client, because 6% of $300k isn't much different than 6% of $320k.

So, it's actually irrational for recruiters to spend a lot of time finding the perfect employee for their client, or the perfect job for their recruit, if it takes more time than normal.

Unless, of course, you take a longer term view. Longer term, highly successful placements mean that you get more clients and more high quality recruits. But, again, it's hard to think long term when we change careers so often.

Glad to know you're one of the good ones.
Well, only shittier.
What are the best social management & measurement tools?
I'm a little put off by the author's reaction to users suggesting features that didn't make the MVP cut. It's great that your users are requesting features that are already on your roadmap! That means you're potentially on the right track or at least know a bit more about your users.

When you complete them, you can tell your users that, "we listened to YOU the community and have delivered what you have asked for". You'll be able to keep those early users through the early stage roller coaster much more easily.

Your job isn't to be smarter or always one step ahead of your customers--it's to provide value to them so they can't live without you. Otherwise, sounds about right to me =)
I agree with most of your points bar one: But for the most part a lot of recruiters have nothing but respect for developers and designers in the tech industry

I worked as a tech recruiter in the UK for a number of years and that statement is categorically false. For the most part, recruiters haven't the first clue what developers do or how they can demand the salaries and contracting rates the market offers. For the most part recruiters view developers & designers as arrogant and self-righteous. Only recruiters who genuinely understand the divide between recruiters & developers and understand what developers face on a day to day basis tend to show or possess any respect.

We call the latter 'the good ones' and they are incredibly rare but they do exist.
Nice. It's neat that the top layer is written in JS and is malleable -- Cinnamon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_%28user_interface%29 ) is an interesting project too (uses the GNOME3 platform, but implements a new UI which looks more like GNOME2 in JS).
He underrates the power of principle.

"Mass is awesome. What if every object in the Universe had mass?"

"Liberty is awesome. What if there should be no such thing as slavery and every human being should be free?"

If you pick the wrong principle and take it to an extreme, then yes, it'll lead to undesirable results, but that means you should throw bad principles out, not all principles.
To expand on your suggestion a little, I would suggest going even further - learn how to design your own processors and figure out how the low-level details really work. With hardware description languages such as Verilog, programmers can apply a lot of their knowledge to hardware engineering. I've found that a lot of things carry over from conventional programming languages to HDLs, and that it's incredibly easy to get started. The computer engineering mindset is pretty similar to low-level programming, and really helps you understand how your code runs, even more so than assembly.
Yes, bigger numbers are always better!

So, yes, increased framerates do make things like aliasing concerns -- long the bane of many an action movie director's existence -- go away. However, there is a concrete and visceral difference between 24fps and 30/48 that is impossible to ignore (unlike, say vinyl vs. digital, which requires an expert and a dollop of wishful thinking to recognize). This is not something that only the snooty directors and film buffs will notice -- everyone (and I mean everyone) in the theater will comment on it.

Now, perhaps we all as species just need to adjust to the new normal. We'll see. Personally, I find that 24fps adds a sense of larger-than-lifeness that I find really attractive. Maybe I'll just get over it, but I suspect that I'll miss 24fps for quite a while.
If they're going to make them that small at least do it right

http://www.ted.com/talks/kent_larson_brilliant_designs_to_fi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

There's nothing "smart" about SmartSpace :-(
You start in the only sensible place, Belize. I hear it is nice this time of year :)
The Size of the Mobile Market
Whatever you think of the Obama record, it’s worth...
Detecting undefined behavior in C programs with CompCert
Like this?

http://news.rawsignal.com/default.aspx?mode=1

It is done for each category. I wish the up would do it for all categories at once, because I don't always have time
You're confusing a couple of things here. DR is substantially increased with digital recording; so is SNR. Behaviour at the upper end of the DR differs between digital and analog media. Whereas tape, for instance, saturates (which may induce pleasant distortion!), digital audio clips (which induces headaches). However, that doesn't really matter in practice if the audio engineer in question is worth his salt. Levels at every point of the digital chain need to be adjusted accordingly: the old strategy of keeping everything close-to-maximum doesn't work anymore. One keeps everything well below clipping point instead.

Overeager compression (specifically, limiting) is a whole different problem, especially with modern pop production.
because the employer will no longer see the employee as "loyal".

Is this really true, though? I've heard it for so long and it's always had the air of received wisdom without facts (or even anecdata) to back it up.
There are some arms races you can't help being involved in, if you want to survive. The best you can do in such cases is build the arms but not use them (unless fired upon).
3) hired two $5000/mo sysadmins for a year.
Of course. Anything of this nature can be used to good effect, but they should never be imposed on everything just because people are used to inferior technology.
> "the idea that absolute fidelity to some Platonic ideal of an image is an end in and of itself is purest bafflegab"

Particularly in artistic media, where emotion and tone are regularly conveyed through distortions.

48/60p may be great for some projects. Their technical advantages may enable shots that simply can't be done well at 24fps. But even that does not make them inherently "better". Merely the right tool for a given job.

As there's no technological requirement for us to use either one format or the other, I see absolutely no reason we can't go forward allowing people to choose technology on an as-appropriate basis without slandering particular choices as illegitimate in all cases.
Thanks for sharing this Justin. It's refreshing, mainly as in my mind it allows for guidance on what to let go of and hold on to, and potentially when to do it. I imagine you can only hold turtle position for so long, though if you can manage to find the fun and creative part to it, then you can keep doing it for quite awhile; Makes me think holding the turtle position without creativity would build resentment - which leads to all kinds of terrible..
>On basically all political issues, unwavering is a good attribute.

The complete inability to compromise is the defining point of the republican party. I don't consider this to be a good attribute at all.
If you trust a random gist link as little as I do, here's a more reputable confirmation:

https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/271012712253911041
Newspaper23, I have a very hard time adjusting my eyes to that font/typography combo. I simply can't read the titles fast enough to return to the site. Reddit and HackerNews are easier on the eyes (same with OP's link).
Huh? He was advocating for finding a principle and taking it to the extreme. He wasn't discouraging it.

Yes, he said that sometimes it won't work; but the whole point of the article is that you can discover and learn new things when you try taking one principle to its logical conclusion.

Where did you get the idea that he was arguing against that?
I completely agree. The industry itself has become more and more corrupt over the years. However, I think it is a case of the acts of a few tarring everyone with the same brush. There are people within the industry who are genuinely well versed and technically minded, and benefit from this. That's what I aspire to be like for however long I'm in this job for. But it's an uphill struggle.

We're salespeople. No one grows up wanting to be a salesperson. I've got a degree in Classical Civilization. I have no idea why I've ended up as a salesperson. But I don't think that should make me a bad person just because I put as much effort as possible into my current job. I'm not looking to completely change the view of the industry, just to show more of a human side to it. Besides, I've built relationships with managers who I now consider friends, and I've made placements with people who have ended up absolutely loving their jobs. There are positives to it, and that's what keeps me going.
As in so many creative endeavours it's the limitations which make the art. It's not always about going for perfection, but it always has to be emotional.

Which is a more powerful statement? This: http://virgo.bibl.u-szeged.hu/wm/paint/auth/monet/parliament...

or this: http://isitthattime.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/fog-over-the...

There's no question that the latter is more technically accurate, more lifelike, more realistic, but it lacks the guttural punch of the Monet. Monet was a master, but only by exploiting the limitations of his medium could he attain that mastery.

So it goes with film. A decent cinematographer uses the inherent faults of film to convey emotion. Without the low dynamic range of film, the dark corners of the Nostromo in Alien would have looked like a plywood movie set. Without lens flare and blown highlights then the plight of a dehydrated hero in the desert would be much harder to get across. Those things - 24fps, lens flare, low range, depth of field - have become part of our shared culture now. So much so that even media which aim for perfect realism (eg video games) mimic some of them to aid immersion and, once again, heighten the emotional response.
I'm perfectly fine with preferring film for things that film is better at. Stuff like the dynamic range you mention is an excellent example of this. I'm not sure if digital has caught up in terms of raw resolution, either. Arguments like this make a ton of sense: if film is actually better for something, then that's a reason to prefer it.

I only have problems with weird arguments where people prefer stuff that's obviously worse, like the aforementioned grain and low frame rates.
I agree. That's certainly bigger and nicer than my room in Hong Kong.
Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed
More like Western Micro. I agree with the comments, $959 a month doesn't seem like "low income" rent to me either.
It was more a case of hard clipping vs soft clipping. You could get tube ( valve ) amplifiers moving high tension volts way over spec at the cost of lots of third harmonic ( mostly ) distortion by providing things like DC amplifiers. Semiconductor amplifiers would simply turn into a digital switch with enough current. Fast enough current and they're more or less flip flops.

Normalising within 16 bits has led to loudness wars. That's the medium. Analogue chains all overflow towards a chaotic end. Some people prefer that chain of events.
Could be the best news in the Linux desktop wars I've heard this year
These SF "microapartments" are 220 square feet for $930/month. There are 10 square meter (108 square foot) apartments in Tokyo for which the rent is $750/month. This is nothing.
Just a personal 48FPS testimonial here...

For some reason I found myself at an IATSE event. IATSE is a union for motion picture professionals. At the end, they projected a scene, once in 24fps, the second time in 48fps.

48fps looked "real" to my eyes, insomuch as it looked how I imagine it would've looked to have been in the room.

Unfortunately, that's not the look I like in films and movies. It truly looked like a soap opera.

There's a chance that 30 minutes into the Hobbit, peoples eyes will acclimate, and you'll forget, but I think those initial scenes are going to be a bit of a disappointment.
I always thought that phones powerful enough to have apps are also powerful enough to have browsers.

How is this app better than just using a browser?
"and the writer is a Windows guy who thinks "*nix doesn't get viruses."

this is the part of your statement I don't get (the other part, I'm not sure if it is well-grounded). Do you mean the guy wants to prove otherwise? Also, if the guy is a ;Windows guy' wouldn't he be much better at writing Windows targets?
I don't think so, it mentions the weather station and the radiation monitor being the instruments involved here, but the "big news" is from a sample collector.
Weird. I like how hacker news is all text and read it daily.

But I could see my eyes getting bored after a while on tldr. I much prefer this layout
http://www.rawsignal.com/

Optimized for fast consumption or just dicking around.
Giving up on coding standards
After many attempts to use the Unity desktop, I decided that I just didn't like it (some do, and I'm fine with that as well). What it has done is to make me aware of the fine work that the Xubuntu team has done.

http://xubuntu.org/