skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having designed one and worked with another, it's all about constraints. I'd start by asking some questions.

What kinds of games? Text games? 2D games? Animated games? 3D games? Existing games? New games? Twitch games? Slow games? Multiplayer games?

If existing games: What platform are they on? Windows? Do they use DirectX? Which parts? Which versions? OpenGL? What do they use for music? Mac? Are they PPC or x86? What version of OS X? Linux? I don't even know what questions to ask for that.

If new-but-existing games: Are you expecting them to be recompiled or ported to your platform? What's involved in that? What constraints does your platform exhibit?

If new-exclusive games: Why on earth would anyone build for your platform? What's your penetration?

That both informs and places constraints on your hardware and software infrastructure, which in turn places constraints on your ongoing costs to keep the lights on, as well as on how end users will experience your games.

Of course, all of this assumes you've done all the customer development and market research that would justify building one after both of those essentially failed in the market.
Let me offer an explanation: maybe the job he was applying for asked for knowledge and experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Grails, Javascript, SQL, CSS, writing stored procs with PL/SQL, performance tuning, node.js, and Git...and the binary trees/linked lists portion only pertains to Java (and maybe Javascript?). More specifically, maybe the guy just hasn't had the need, for whatever reason, to use a binary tree or a linked list recently. I doubt he runs around saying "it's April, I haven't used a TreeMap in a while, let me use one now so it's fresh in my mind for next year's interview".

The point I'm trying to make is that some requirements are very, very wide/broad. And then they'll take one piece of that broad pie and decide to go very, very deep.

And then there's the death knell...you spent time developing deep expertise in something no longer actively used. This applies more to frameworks than languages (i.e. Struts, Prototype, Dojo, etc.)

It's a no-win situation all around.
An interconnect protocol-sized PC?
Yes, the analogy is silly.
Personally as I said before I don't like these anti-discrimination laws and think they are likely fundamentally flawed (at least nowadays).
Virtually all of the huge web successes went for long periods of time without profits so not worth being surprised by this.
Because we run out of an existing primary car practice. So the one office we have has its own insurred and medicare patients we are just supplimenting their existing (thriving) practice. There has been some canabalization, some of their exisiting medicare/insurred patients signed up for a membership, but the practice doesn't care because billing medicare/insurance is so expensive, they employee 12 people for coding/billing alone.

As of now we split the membership fee and with the office, so our cost is rather limited and does not include any medical personnel
salaries.
It is yet to be tested whether we can support our own brick and mortar, staff, ect... But we feel those will be profitable with 1000 members per office but our goal is upward of 2000 members per office.
Thin clients ride again. How much will Dell charge to run your instances?
storing it where it belongs just adds a little bit of safety. i mean you never know, especially when considering the current world economics.
FAA grounds all Boeing 787 airplanes in the US after second battery-related fire
have you seen this: www.docusign.com/devcenter ?
Bob outsources his salaried job to China
This is dubious. The cheapest way to "get rid" of weapons-grade plutonium is to dilute it as fuel in conventional reactors (so-called "MOX fuel" -- MOX for "mixed oxide", mixture of uranium and plutonium). It's not difficult. This doesn't make economic sense, and has no other benefit, but it does convert weapons-grade plutonium into non-weapons-grade plutonium; and this is politically correct. (Non-weapons grade means: too much thermal, radioactive, and neutron contamination to be practical for weapons.) This is pure politicking, unless you think (e.g.) the US Air Force is in danger of terrorist pirates stealing its nuclear weapons.

The US is doing exactly this: (NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration)

http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/factsheets/mox
FAA temporarily grounding Boeing Dreamliner (787) flights in the U.S.
A few words about what Timeboxing is would be handy on there.
Compete shows 9m -> 6m in last 12 months:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stumbleupon.com
It's not just that; dealing with a robot should be easy and predictable. You're dealing with a robot that is trying its best to obey the irrational wishes of the content industry.
I've never gotten that plugin to work well with my PHP code. Code complete is awful. I've switched over to PhpStorm for PHP code because it has static analysis and refactoring.
I still didn't get it. It looks more like a sub heading than a link.

You could use a link text color that stands out from your overall color scheme or make it some text and a call to action button.
I'm really sick of these sensational posts/comments showing up on HN.

Seconded, and I'm also tired of the dogmatic and uninformed approach to legal issues. Just because law employs logic does not mean that being a programmer gives a superior understanding of law. The same misconceptions crop up over and over again and badly lower the signal:noise ratio.
I think that's because we've been linked to a non-secure page by https instead of http. I would have thought the servers should forward you on to the correct page without a cert error though
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This is disconcerting. I'm pretty close to Everett plant so I see the plain white 787's first test flights (they just finished another one yesterday). For those of us who work on software, even complex distributed apps, the new plane is an unfathomably complex undertaking.

The Seattle Times commenters are a mix of Boeing employees, rational outside observers and angry lunatics.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/p...
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He would have been blocked. There would be no access, authorized or unauthorized.
Like I said, it's complex - for our internal solution we just queried for rates for all of our box sizes, and then our software suggests the cheapest it thinks will fit, but allows the warehouse guy to override it. It has a really simple formula for "learning" when he chooses something different.

A general solution would be much harder, but if it had existed we would have forked over money without too much thought.
data backups: this point is moot because, who cares about archived email? that's like 1% of the pain of loosing an account. 99% of the problem is the messages you will never be able to read.

Same with the youtube channel from OP. i'm 100% certain that the guy has all his videos ready for re-upload. but who cares? He had worked hard promoting that channel in several venues and acquiring an audience to THAT channel. That is lost forever.
Well, if "stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars", I guess you have a point.
Tried to install your app and run it. The application crashed at launch, details included here if you need to trouble shoot it.

Process: launchd [1985]
Path: /Applications/Zonebox.app/Contents/MacOS/Zonebox
Identifier: rinik.Zonebox
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [138]

Date/Time: 2013-01-16 15:27:10.376 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)

Crashed Thread: Unknown

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00007fff5fc01028
"Development of parallel query execution in PostgreSQL proper has been stagnant for quite a while unfortunately"

To clarify, this is related to the parallel execution of a single query. PostgreSQL has been making huge improvements scaling to many cores when there are many concurrent queries.

Even for single queries, postgres has been chipping away at the edges by moving more tasks to background processes.
If you're hiring 100 people, you still only get the same number of applicants. If you get 100 applicants, you're not going to fill your 100 positions. (Note the "at least 99" in my post)

If I'm desperate to hire 100 people and I can't get 100 qualified applicants, that's when I start looking to people who could be the right people in very quick order. I've done that and ended up with some true super stars. But that was a three month investment that could have failed. I'd rather hire someone who already has the skills I need.

Whether you're hiring 1 person or 100, you're still looking for reasons to cull them.
I saw all such specific statements yesterday, albeit from different people. In particular, the argument that he was facing life imprisonment because the maximum possible term for the offenses he was charged with totaled 35 years was widely repeated. The news media does this all the time because big numbers sound most impressive, but the maximum sentence is only sought and handed down in a small minority of criminal cases.
You mean Product Service. Because you're their product. They DO have customer service.

Remember, google customers are advertisers.
It's very clever but doesn't really do anything for me.

The first time I hit the space bar I get text rendered over an image, and it's hard to read.

Further page-downs trigger the video, but there's no obvious place to look for what's causing the sound since the video is not centered on the page. It's off to the side, and either close to the top or the bottom of the screen.

It's much like someone handing something to you to read, and then as soon you try to read it they start talking to you.

Video keeps playing even if I've moved further down and the video is mostly off-screen.

I appreciate people trying to do something a little more engaging but it's not done well enough here to offset the annoyances. It distracts from the content.
No, I think he is just saying it doesn't make sense to start taking away guns from everyone because of this. It is not logical.

32,367 died in automobile accidents in the US in 2011, but no one is trying to take away your car.

If the Newtown tragedy happened differently and the killer used his car to run over 20 children. Would you want new legislation to limit your access to automobiles?

I understand this is an emotional time, but how is this so difficult to understand?

Let me put it a different way.

Good regulation: Drive drunk and you can lose your right to drive or end up in prison.

Bad regulation: Drive drunk and your neighbor gets his car taken away.
It's still alive: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060367

Just seems to have been modded down or something: http://hnrankings.info/5060367/
> but it demonstrates you are deliberately committing the real crime

So once again you're back to saying that it provides evidence of another crime. But many people are saying the anonymity becomes a crime itself when in the context of another crime. I'm kind of bothered by that as it puts a liability (or a chilling effect, if you like) on being anonymous, something I do every day and cherish very much as an important aspect of my privacy. Even though it won't become relevant until the day I am (perhaps wrongly) accused of another crime, suddenly it will become a very huge liability if that ever happens.

Now if you say the anonymity crime is "planning and preparing to commit a crime" then that's (sort of) OK. Once again, the anonymity is part of committing a separate crime that I can at least rationalize is wrongful. But if you tell me that the pure anonymity itself is a crime then I'm very disturbed by that.
I wish the link went straight to this github page. In my experience wikis haven't been worth opening to get an overview of the product. Thanks for the link though.
Joggle - because calendars and to-do-lists are too tedious to use.
Joggle (www.joggleme.com) gives you a free personal assistant that you can email or text with. It even automatically manages your Google or MS Exchange calendar.
Now you're torturing the analogy. The equivalent programmer translation is "What is the middle parameter to this library method?" I'm sure most people competent at using Google can tell you in 60 seconds what that parameter is. In a large enough company you can afford to take the productivity hit as someone who is "smart and gets things done" gets up to speed on a new technology or with new libraries. However, if you're in a small team and you need to execute on your business fast without holding up development, you want someone who is "smart and gets things done" and also knows that library inside out.
It was so brave of you to criticize a company on Hacker News for not being profitable.
Why didn't they just change it to 100 million and get it over with. If they couldn't be bothered to respond after 25,000 sigs, they've clearly no interest.
The future is fusion
HTML5 effects mixed with XHTML doctype? Oh noes!
The plan is to move 300 tonnes from NY to Germany over 7 years, so whatever the reason, they're not doing it in a hurry to meet any immediate crisis.
Most of the links you give talks primarily about thorium as an alternative fuel in traditional nuclear reactors, which is not what this article talks about. It talks primarily about Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors which are entirely differently to current reactors, which are all solid-state reactors.

It's really sad to see the different topics gets confused, because they are really different. Thorium as an alternative fuel doesn't really solve much, besides it's maybe cheaper for some countries. Of course the entire expression "Thorium reactors" are somewhat at fault. It's incredible ambiguous, especially when people inside the current nuclear establishment talks about using thorium in (slightly modified) traditional nuclear reactors, such Pressurized Water Reactors.

Of course there are many things which can be said against LFTRs, mostly that it's still an unproven technology. Sadly it'll stay that way if nobody does something about it.
I've seen HP ones before, but they were around $300, maybe $250 I think. That's a couple of months ago though.

Regardless, $50 sounds dirt cheap.
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Not knowing the industry your SaaS is targeting perhaps you could take the route that the original founders of Reddit did and lie to the first few businesses that come onboard. http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/22/reddit-fake-users/

Get all your friends to sign up to the service and interact with the first 10 or so business customers as if they were real users. You don't have to go free open beta for the first 6 months to verify the MVP, you could even confirm the idea by visiting or cold calling some of the target businesses you're interested in poaching. Perhaps try to stick a high dollar price on the monthly rate and offer the service to the first 10 signups for free or generate interest with an awesome landing page and a big closed beta image to procure email addresses from both users and businesses..
Walmart Plans to Buy More American-Made Goods
Auto-playing video is weeeeird.
In the UK, sign-up forms that need addresses often let you enter a postcode then choose among a handful of buildings. This is usually based on Royal Mail 'PAF' data - for a price, they'll give you a CSV file of every address they deliver to.

Is there any US equivalent? What data do you use to back the address verification?
Bone Marrow Donation FAQ
This is a great video on what needs to be said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h...
Pretty cool, huh? :-) You can follow (and contribute to!) that development in the open source project, just like you can with the Node version of hipache.
Most interesting! I just do reversing for fun rather than profit, but Immunity and Hopper both look very impressive.
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I understand this argument, and I adhere to it somewhat, but I still use gmail. It's just so much more usable (to me) than any other webmail service I've used.

Yes, I am taking on a potentially bad burn of Google ever axes gmail or cuts some important features (it's happened to me with Hotmail before), but I'm willing to take that risk because of the gmail feature set.

At some point, Hotmail decided to delete sent/received email older than some arbitrary amount. An important personal conversation to me was deleted.
I take it you mean "hackers are particularly good at arguing the analogy to an absurd extent"

(This being an example of course)
Not pinball - http://a-button.jp/
Duplicate submission of the link already in active discussion on front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5069227
That doesn't seem like it would add up for a stand alone office that served only these type of members. 2000 members per office would bring in $40,000/month. Add about 1000 visits (which seems like a lot for an office to handle (32 patients a day)) and that equals an extra $10,000 giving you a total of $50,000 revenue per month. Thats $600,000 a year which doesn't seem like it would go very far with your doctors, support staff, supplies, building etc.

Cool idea, but it seems too good to be true for the consumer as a stand alone business!
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

We actually have an API live for HelloSign. Is that what you were looking for?

http://www.hellosign.com/info/api

If so, we'd love to hear what you think.
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That's interesting, they ultimately passed.

I'd like to read their reaction.
I tried emailing hi@draftapp.co both from gmail and my dreamhost mail and both returned to sender
I imagine Fukushima or Chernobyl would have benifited from 72 hours extra to get their act together.

Well, I'm not sure. Chernobyl isn't relevant because its issue was one of supercriticality (milliseconds, explosions), not decay heat (hours, gradual melting). In Fukushima, there actually were passive systems, not as sophisticated as ESBWR, and some failed instantly (a steam injector in reactor #1). And IIRC off-site power too a lot longer than 72 hours to restore, but I don't know if the explosions contributed to this. I'm not a nuclear engineer so I can't meaningfully assess this. But there is data here.

As a curiosity, ESBWR is actually a direct descendant of the BWR/3 at Fukushima, from the same designer (GE Nuclear). Not a scare tactic: I'd be pretty happy living next to an ESBWR.
Hires and recruitment fees are typically made with the assumption that the employee will be employed for more than 12 months, and that higher fees to the recruiter will result in a more valuable employee.

Not saying its true or untrue, but you can't just say something like "Thats 3 months worth of earnings!" when value is the thing that matters, not price.
I'd love something with the following specs:

* sub-$50

* USB powered

* USB stick sized

* Plugs in to a monitor via USB

* Auto-suspends when removed.

* Auto-wake upon insertion
Please don't submit stuff like this.
No, the plugin's name is Sublime CodeIntel (without the space). That's what it is in both the repository and package manager.
I tried to advertise on StumbleUpon many times a few years back and they always rejected everything I submitted. Yet they still spammed me from time to time asking me to advertise. I'm not surprised to see them laying people off when they make it so difficult to give them money.
The previous active discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5065947

has apparently gone dead, perhaps because there is doubt that this story is genuine. Neither submission source for this story is very reliable.
Analogies aren't an argumentation technique at all. Analogies are only useful for explaining stuff. They are utterly useless for forming an argument, despite what many people would like to think.
Why bother changing the law when you can just change your medium of exchange. Much simpler to just trade in gold than to try to keep the Fed in check.
The problem is that a person can only die once. It's a big new. It appears in the main newspapers. Everyone comments about it. But in a few weeks it will be not a new new and it will be replaced by another new (a plane crash, a hurricane, a terrorist attack, or even something unimportant like a football match).

Another possible plan could have been: Go to trial and proclaim innocence. Get a guilty verdict and proclaim innocence. Go to the appeal court and proclaim innocence. Go to the supreme court a.p.i.. Start a hunger strike a.p.i.. Get a reduction of the sentence a.p.i.. Offer to create free software for charity institutions a.p.i.. Get the disallowed by the penitentiary system a.p.i.. Try to start a vocational school in jail to help rehabilitate the inmates a.p.i.. Also denied a.p.i.. Get out on parole a.p.i.. Give as many conferences about the case a.p.i..

In each of these steps there is a new to publish and get coverage in the media and explain that the laws were unjust. And each time explain his position about the restrictions of some information. It's like a PR campaign. Some messages only are understood after a lot of repetitions.

I understand that it's easier to say "just go to jail and start a pr campaign" that really doing it. It was a difficult situation and I don't want to judge him. But I don't think that suicide was obviously the best alternative.

And as I say in another comment: Some people did important things after incarceration or unjust persecution:

Nelson Mandela: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

Galileo Galilei: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
It originally said SublimeLinter instead of Sublime CodeIntel
I use PDFPen instead to sign PDFs by dragging and dropping a signature into the .pdf and saving it. For sending contracts out I use RightSignature which saves a ton of time.
Not sure where you are based, but we are building something specifically for freelancers (London first) - check us out at www.yunojuno.com and see if it fits. (Oh, and we're not recruiters either.)
The focus on "design" these days in nearing meme territory. Design has always been important, What's exactly new ?
Yup, same error here. Full dump: https://gist.github.com/5db045977b157096f448
(dotCloud employee here)

We are very much aware of HAProxy, love it, and would have been very happy to use it. For the majority of use cases we would probably recommend it over Hipache, simply because it's more proven.

However, our particular use case involves a) a very large number of vhosts, and b) a highly dynamic topology where backends are added and removed very frequently. In this setup, instrumenting a cluster of HAProxy (or nginx) boxes basically means re-generating and reloading multi-megabyte configuration files across dozens of machines, several times per second. It's what we did before Hipache, and it was painful. Compared to that, implementing active health checks was a small price to pay.
Yes, you are right. I'm changing the color tonight.
Running latest version of Chrome here... The videos play when they come into view. They immediately stop playing when they leave view. I actually don't mind that. The videos themselves are each pretty short, so they don't seem like they'd be too distracting if trying to read the content.
I'm not sure it would be wise to provide the private key for www.whitehouse.gov to Akamai to attempt such a configuration, no matter how trustworthy they are. They need to fix the routing internally (slower, but safer).