skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still want to see a complete redesign of their UI. It's slow, unresponsive, and I don't even think it's native code. They have the resources to do it.
I'm asking if someone wants a language like Ruby but with significant white-space why not use Python?
Not that surprising, I think it's the same in real life.

When my girlfriend sees her female friends they seem to just sit around and gossip about their boyfriends all night.

When I see my guy friends we want to talk about pretty much anything but our girlfriends.
This is a bit offtopic I think he uses Mac/s
I fear that the problem with this and other pseudo-metric sites is the same problem that essentially makes the rate of employment useless. Lack of universal accurate participation means those who don't care, or are otherwise under the radar (or above depending :) ) are not accounted for. These are fun, but not much else.
I'd say it might be useful as a lower bound.
Just because a language is "better" doesn't always correlate with its popularity. I do agree that C# is better (at least when I used it a few years ago), but I'm asking more about what platform/ecosystem changes occurred to increase its popularity...windows phone coming out or something?

EDIT: Ok, people have answered with Mono and Unity...thanks!
I think what's surprising here (to me) is that boyfriends aren't discussed more. Guess girls have more to talk about than their boyfriends....
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/specious

1 obsolete : showy
2: having deceptive attraction or allure
3: having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic <specious reasoning>

So instead of taking the common meaning of specious, a deceptively attractive benchmark we have to go to a less common use of specious in order to construct an specious argument about the proper use of specious? Nevermind that it is distracting from the main point of the discussion about benchmarks in the context of Topaz.
Put a job on monster and see if you get any women applying - in my experience I have never had more than a handful of women applying. Build a complete team? Unlikely.

Anyone from these follow-a-cv-through-HR-to-hire apps got actual stats on application ratios by gender?

I have to admit I never stopped to look at why (the headlong rush perhaps) - most women I knew in IT had come up through the ranks in that company.

And now I think I should look at what happened - I want to know how to get 50/50 applications let alone actual hires.

But sorry. I reject the idea you could easily build a (qualified or even strong junior) team from women only by putting out an ad on a bog standard job site

It seems to take a lot more than that and it may be a mystery why
Salarymania ( http://www.salarymania.com/ ) provides the same information for mobile. It is not limited to tech sector either.
There is no need for lack of prior art in trademark law, as multiple people have stated in this thread.
"The internet of things" is one of my areas of interest and a clear candidate to become a new "Next Big Thing"... interesting suggestion.
> You're drinking the wrong stuff, is all I can say. You've got to get the ones from the refrigerated section, not that crap that is sold at room temperature - that's no good.

Trust me. I've been there many times.
Apart from being skilled in 3D rendering -- the creator of this video seems to have enlisted a superb voice actor; audio + video fit together well. This is the work of a highly paid advertising agency, working for and paid by Google. The 'anatomyofahoax' centers around an old phone picture... this video had a lot more stuff. To conclude: it's the real deal.
yeah definitely! it's like academia... the ideas being tested are often very obvious but when empirically tested and validated that's when you start developing the capacity for deeper thought/theorems and business frameworks. cool stuff austin_e! keep mining that data.
I believe they removed this in Lion and put it back in Mountain Lion. Can anyone confirm?
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Not really. A student wanting to build out their portfolio looking for work in advertising/media production would get quite a bit of value out of this.

Especially with the perception of most people seeing this as being a real ad, that shows a lot of potential for a prospective employer.

It could also be the work of a freelance or independent studio using free time between projects, and may plan on later capitalising on it through a blog post or follow up video.
I was lazy when I complained about not be able to use slices as keys, I guess I really meant to complain that there is no arbitrary-length immutable sequence type that I can use as keys to a map (other than strings, which are sequences of characters and are allowed as keys to a map).

For an example where you might want to do this consider storing a count of the frequency with which different words follow a given n-gram (sequence of n words) in some corpus, the sort of thing you'd need to make a Markov chain nonsense
text generator (like the example programs in chapter 3 of The Practice of Programming: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/code.html).

Of course, you can always take your immutable sequences and represent them as strings, as other languages such as Perl, Awk and Lua force you to do. But I really like that I'm not forced to use such kludges in, say, Python or Haskell.
Friend of mine who's opinion I respect made the switch from C++ to C# a couple of years ago. Says basically---all the fun much less of the pain. Since both he and I have been C++ hackers from the beginning (even got to use the macro package once on a consult) when a long time hard-core jumps ship I generally consider that a significant datum. I keep meaning to but my current projects are large and I'm not in a position to convert (yet...)
It's anything even remotely close to $1000 I wouldn't go near it if it's running Chrome OS. I'm not paying a grand for a fancy browser case.

Edit: to expand on my comment a little. I thought the premise of Chrome OS was that except for specialized cases almost a "typical" user things could be moved to the cloud, eliminating the need for high powered machines and complex OSes that can fulfill various use cases, consequently the price drops dramatically. If Chrome OS is still limited to essentially web/cloud driven functionality what is the justification for the high price point?
The schematic is wrong, the relay and diode should be moved to be 'on top' of the transistor. But the circuit on the perfboard looks correct.

The diode goes across the relay coil because when the relay coil is turned off, there will be an inductive spike generated. The diode protects the transistor.
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10.7.4 is when it was reintroduced I believe:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/53073/8035
I love the idea of suggesting books to get people familiar with an industry they probably don't know a lot about. I think people jump to conclusions about Wall Street being useless based on not really understanding what Wall Street does. Think about it: if Wall Street were useless, would anyone care whether it was working properly or not? It is precisely because it is useful that we care about it running well and correctly.
He uses a MacBook Air [0] for the hardware.

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/linus-torvalds-loves-his-macb...
I was exactly the same TW/dropbox until a couple months ago...

I'm almost finished polishing up an App I wrote for personal use that edits/ synchs a folder of .txt files. (Maybe this weekend I'll get around to finishing it?)

Its not groundbreaking but it'll be available iOS and Android - then use your favourite text editor on pc/mac.

Email me if you want to beta test in a week or two?
Indeed. But unlike "just software", firmware is never, ever fixable in source form except deep within the bowels of hardware manufacturers. Even when found, firmware bugs are generally ignored. I wonder if anyone has checked: has the fixed image been released to linux-firmware, or the Windows driver yet? Will it ever?

Just browse through the ./drivers tree of the kernel source some time and look at all the "quirks" and "workarounds" there. Recognize that virtually all of those could have been fixed in firmware, but weren't because no one cared.

It's just deeply depressing. This was a virtuoso debugging performance, but it didn't have to be that way if hardware companies were sane. But they aren't, and we all pay for it.

(edit: I just checked for myself, the Linux e1000e driver apparently doesn't support runtime firmware update via the kernel API, so linux-firmware wouldn't be expected to have this. I don't know what the process is for an affected end user to get a copy. I suspect there is none.)
Is Google planning on adding Android to the Chromebook at some point? It seems like Android would allow for much richer apps.
Though there's an internal inconsistency having a four colour logo while showing pixels as having three colours.
Attempt at becoming a millionaire just got a step closer: $1,000 made so far
Could this lead to a runtime in which I can use really cool ruby modules from python and really cool python modules from ruby? I mean, seriously, these two languages both have some pretty awesome stuff, and regularly I say about one, "man I sure wish I could use $module from the other".
As someone who joined Cisco/IronPort (post-merger) and quit a little over a year later (2011-2012), here's my thoughts:

- Cisco is closing the San Bruno office where IronPort was located.

- Cisco is moving everyone who worked from San Bruno, mostly people who live north of San Mateo, down to the San Jose office for "office consolidation and simplification". Read: 10-30 minute commutes to 70-90 minute commutes.

- Cisco bought Meraki a week after this "office consolidation", but is keeping the Meraki SF office open, many saw this as a slap in the face.

- There is tons of technical debt, no one is lasting more than a year, and it's a toxic place to work. In my year there everyone was running away the moment they could. In one year the VP, 2 Directors in succession, Principle Engineer, two different managers I had, all but two tech leads I worked with, 4 engineers in my team of 7, all left. Many more are leaving with the office move.

Cisco is essentially divesting themselves from all IronPort tech and talent, and it looks like it's on purpose.

I would read this as "how Scott Weiss handled acquisition by Cisco well for himself for 2007-2009" not "how everything went well".
What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product?

For our company, using email to distribute work (among other things).
i was thinking the same thing. its really just sound advice on how to 1- admit to yourself there is a crisis, and 2- focus to solve it. definitely taking notes and using these strategies in everyday life!!
Fantastic Article, Fantastic fine. Well done.

As a telecoms engineer predominantly selling Asterisk for the last 4 years and Asterisk experiance extending back to 2006 it's shocking to see this finally put right. For so many years, I have avoided the e1000 Intel controllers after a very public/embarassing situation when a conferencing server behaved in a wierd manner disrupting core services. Not having the expertise the author has, I narrowed it down to the Eth. Controller, Immediately replaced the server with IBM Hardware with Broadcom chipset and resumed our services in providing conferencing to some of the top FTSE100 companies.

Following this episode, I spend numerous days diagnosing the chipset with many conference calls with Digium engineers debugging the server remotely. In the end, no solution, recommendation to avoid the e1000 chipset and moved on.
Google is now making Macbook Pro retina laptops?
Javascript just with 3.9% of the share? The title should probably be scoped to "Most Popular Programming Languages of 2013 on CodeEval". That's relatively clear from the text of the blog post, but it is still worth re-emphasizing.
1366x768, the most popular resolution, is being ignored
As of January 2013, 1366x768 resolution is, by far, the most common.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_resolution_higher.asp

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/11/move-over-1024x768-the-most-popular-screen-resolution-on-the-web-is-now-1366x768/

And it's being ignored.

Youtube, for instance, doesn't render their videos at 1366px horizontal. I think they should, even if it will cost Google additional resources.

What do you guys think?
I've purchased 4 Macs in the last 4.5 years.

Two Macbook Pros and two Macbook Airs. I'm both clumsy and impatient and a huge fan of them. I'd only consider something like the Thinkpad Carbon with a better screen over my Macbooks. That having been said, iTunes could greet me with a cup of coffee and sex in the morning and I would still scoff.

My comments weren't meant to say anything about iPad or Surface. Personally, I think that Surface is a great start and I think people are being really short-sighted about it. Obviously the iPad is a different use case as you point out and isn't going anywhere, I think that's good as consumers define what they want/expect.
Ask HN: Are there any time-clock web-apps?
I'm looking for a web-based solution (internally or service-provider hosting) which would allow employees to clock in & clock out. And managers be able to do simple monitoring like a list of who is currently clocked in. Everything I see online (www.shiftplanning.com, www.clockspot.com, www.timeclockonline.com, etc.) seems to be either too rudimentary or far beyond our needs. Any advice?
If you run out of RAM or CPU on a single machine you start running into operationally problematic situations with Redis.
Good luck guys. Good choices for your UI/UX.
Sorry, I phrased that poorly. I meant that I, personally, based off of my own biases, was expecting it - not that it should be obvious to everybody based on global factors.

In fact, I meant to communicate more that I am pleased to have my own biases confirmed rather than this being a global trend that everybody should be able to see.
This seems much more serious than the much-ballyhooed Pentium FDIV bug. Hopefully Intel will be on the ball with notifying people and distributing the fix.
5 Conversion Optimization Experts Weigh In On An Email Remarketing Campaign
Article commenters were surprised about the high London figures. Here in the UK, I've seen massive growth in the hacker community at the grassroots level. The Hacker News meetup (http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/) was 20 people in a pub back in 2010. Now it's 400-500 hackers in a large auditorium every month. Google Campus in East London is full to bursting every day with people working on their own projects. It's pretty inspiring to be a techie "between jobs" here in London
Well for a start the system has to work this way to be practical. If there was a credit card transaction for every coin use then the minimums would have to be a lot higher in order to take into account processing fees. You can't sell something for 20c paid by credit card. Even a sale for $1 eats up a fair bit in processing fees. But converting $20 into "coins" then allows the coin based transactions to be for far smaller amounts (eg equivalent to 10c).

Obviously Amazon and other virtual currency providers need to give you a good reason to get sucked in. They are largely successful. One approach that seems to work is paying to save time. eg when playing a game you can unlock various items and make progress just by playing the game for quite a while. Or you can do a transaction to accelerate that such as getting an item immediately or unlocking levels.

Americans also have a tendency to prefer fixed known in advance costs over variable ones. Note for example how telephone service has been that way. If you buy $20 worth of coins then you know you can never spend more than $20. On the other hand if your credit card is on file and used in every transaction then you could end up being dinged for far more than you expected.
I'm kind of opposite. All these years now of using touch tablets makes me frustrated that I can't touch the screen to do simple things that would be much easier with touch than with a mouse (dragging stuff around, for example, which requires holding a mouse button down and moving the mouse at the same time).
The body design cloning the mbp makes it look dated already.
brings back memories....

http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2009/06/msg00018.html
Since you want to resolve this in public this is the reply I just sent to your email:

Michael

1) You should not have released the funds at all until the entire website was delivered
2) The freelancer has 406 feedbacks, someone with that many feedbacks can't get there without delivering really good work so I would like to talk to them about what has gone wrong
3) You can always log an incomplete report which is very damaging to their reputation
4) I have refunded all your fees ($29)
5) You still have $100 in an outgoing milestone payment you can log a dispute for

Regards
Matt
My blog post (wrote about an year ago) about programming language popularity, based on HN Poll : http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/03/28/top-10-most-popular-prog...
A very reasonable insight, but I'm not thinking of giving up my job and throw me into the unknown. A new position always has its risks but I think this can be calibrated. Thank you for your comment about my English.
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After graduation, my friend and I decided to build mobile games instead of finding jobs. Today we released our first game called Monster Rivals. It is a fighting game with simple RPG elements such as stats and items with unique powers. We have a lot more planned for it in the future, but wanted to get the game out as soon as possible. The game also allows you to fight your friends through Facebook.

The game data including the user/character profile is all on my servers hosted on linode. We have 3 servers- [primary mongo], [secondary mongo], [mongo arbiter, redis(for leaderboards), nginx forward proxying to 4 tornado processes]. I chose to use mongodb because it seemed to fit our needs very well for a database. Our user/char data is always queried together, and therefore we don't need to do many joins. The data is sent and parsed on the phone as a json, therefore it is extremely convenient to keep the data in a collection instead of constructing it every time.

Link to the game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelmaji.monsterrivals
Correct - but the same applies to the other sites, the time tracker is basically to ensure that hours billed are correct. This doesn't make sense for fixed price projects (as this was)
I find only keeping boilerplate configs in repos helps decouple application code from any one installation. Software can sometimes be used in more than one environment, it's not always a one-to-one relationship.
Or, if you're someone like me who was non-founder employee number 1 and are pretty sure you're not cut out for corporate life...arrange to work from home as much as humanly possible.

The bureaucracy of the acquiring company makes me rage, but at least nobody sees it when I'm telecommuting :)
It seems like there's been a concerted effort to "rehabilitate" Milken, or even build a narrative that he was set up as a fall guy in the '80s. But _Predator's Ball_ and _Den Of Thieves_ tell a pretty detailed story about what was happening in the leveraged financing practices at the time.
Dunno what to make of your bubblechart. On the one hand, I should be absolutely ecstatic that I am firmly sitting inside the 0.6% bubble and still making ~200k per year, with complete, total and utter ignorance of the rest of the bubbles that make up 99.4%. On the other hand, I wonder if just like the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble, this 0.6% bubble will also pop. Maybe I should broaden my skillset just a little bit...ah, what's that 0.8% bubble right next to mine ? Closer Clojer Closur ? Where have I heard that before. Oh yeah wasn't that the rival language also hot for data scientists. Hmmm...maybe if I bone up on that..after all, 0.6+0.8 > 0.6 :)
I don't have any evidence to support this, but I suspect that the ranking is:

1. iPhone 5

2. SGS3

2. iPhone 4S

4. iPhone 4

This fits, more or less, with what I saw on the uSwitch site that our erstwhile correspondent indirectly referred to. I "tied" 4S and SGS3 because they're going to go to different needs. I suspect that the SGS3 is roughly the same "price" as the 4S (it's actually $20 more with a contract at bell.ca) but includes LTE which the 4S does not.

Unless Apple changes its release cycle (unlikely, IMO, but entirely possible given the rapid iteration from iPad 3 to iPad 4 + iPad mini), CQ3'13 will probably see the SGS4 outsell the iPhone 5—for the same reason that the SGS3 outsold the iPhone 4S: a new lead product from Apple was introduced.

Is it possible that the SGSx becomes the most popular phone for more than an Apple introductory quarter? Yes. Samsung is investing VERY heavily in brand marketing (see Asymco for an analysis on that, but it's something like 13x Apple's entire marketing budgest) and the SGS3 is supposed to be a Very Good Phone. Claiming that this is true now, however, is an Extraordinary Claim, requiring Extraordinary Evidence.
Another useful tip, using only the shift key will adjust it silently.
The importance of mentors to build a successful career
Since it's getting hammered here's one screencap I just made: http://i.imgur.com/YxDb9Sz.png

And here's the top 250 median salary counties as a google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt...

Are tech job salaries really correlated to anything at all? When I mention my salary to other software people I get either "I wish I made that much" or "why do you make so little?"
You should try Blimp (getblimp.com) have being using it for a few month and it just works. They have a free plan.
I work for Google and have to wear a badge with my name and picture on it around the workplace as part of the company security policy.
Is The Girl Scouts Actively Discouraging Girls From Using Technology?
Orange Pippin (http://www.orangepippin.com/) has a ridonkulous amount of info on other apple varieties.

Among the commonly available types, my favorites are Honeycrisp and Pink Lady.
Thanks for all the comments. This is really a great community.
In a previous job, we had a lot of components with configuration files containing credentials for databases, etc. What we had done instead, was to put placeholder tokens (imagine %DB_ROLE1_PASSWORD%) in the configuration files, and then puppet (chef later) would be used to deploy the packages and replace the tokens. In this way, no developer ever knew of the production passwords, and only the system admins had access to the source control for the puppet scripts. There really shouldn't be any access to production credentials by developers if you have separate roles for developer and admin. (Some companies are too small, I know =)
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Color me impressed gentlemen. A useful idea with great execution.

Now how about:

1) Ability to sleep/snooze on notifications. The use case would be when we are working in the browser and require focus. Some of us feel overly compelled to click little red notification badges, which can be distracting. Yes shame on us! :)

2) Make coffee and walk the dog
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