skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting the pros and cons of the free hardware aside, I'm not sure getting rid of it would solve the demand problems. Apple charges $700 more for WWDC tickets, give away no hardware, and it still sells out in under two hours.
Apple has the same problems.

* Increase ticket prices and then corporate people push out indie developers.

* Increase venue size and then each attendee gets less value out of it, and there's an upper limit to venues anyways.

* Add a lottery and now your most loyal customers may not be able to go.

It honestly seems like the best solution is to just throw open the floodgates at an announced time, and assume the people who really want a ticket will be the ones most committed to getting one.
Good point. I've always felt uncomfortable with the lean startup mantra "If it's not working out, pivot." If something's not working out, it could be for one of two reasons: either you're doing the wrong thing, or what you're doing needs more time and hard work, that is, you just met the schlep. Deciding which one of the two you're looking at is incredibly hard. I don't think that there are any rules. The pivoting mantra just kinda glosses over that whole problem. The best advice I could distil from it would be, "If it's not working out, don't cling to it at all cost, consider pivoting." Ok.
-In many ways, I think Christian assumptions bolster scientific research. Of course, there are the luddites, but I think that the concept that there is a rational, infinite God gives us two bases for research:
1) The universe is rational, and so we can apply strict logical rules to discover it, and
2) we will never run out of things to discover.
Working around latency to eliminate "being hit by slow projectiles that missed"
Don't worry guys. Scott is on it! :)

https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/305064837434724353
Samsung struggles to block iPhone function for the blind
> -50F feels WAYYYY colder than -25F for example.

My experience is that this is true in the long-term, but if you're only outside for a few minutes, you won't notice the difference unless it's windy.
As a confirmed Peetnik, I must point out: it's called Peet's , not Pete's.
When load is not particularly high, it works well (seemingly efficient for passengers and in energy consumption). When load gets high (think ~noon), it tends to perform pretty badly in terms of latency.
I've been to I/O the last three years and I've found it to be worth the price of admission, even if you ignore the free stuff they've given out. The sessions are streamed or filmed, but if this stuff is your bread and butter professionally it's well worth it to go in person and talk to fellow humans.

The networking opportunities are great. I have sat down at lunch and realized the guy next to me was a developer of an open source package I was using in an Android app I've published.

They usually have office hours sessions for the various developer platforms they have, where you can bring your questions to their dev-rel people and engineers.

They've also been doing some code labs where you can try out some new part of a platform in a guided manner. There's another networking opportunity there, the way it's laid out means you get to exchange help and get to know the people sitting around you.

Having gone last year I got in on the Glass preorder (which was exclusive to I/O attendees) and I'm looking forward to having an opportunity as a developer to get out ahead of this tech.

And they generally have a pretty fun afterparty lined up, if you're into robots that fly, music, and games.
The Azure Dashboard is here, for anyone looking for updates on this: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard...
From my experience, anything that comes as email or text is rarely urgent as we might think it is. If something is really serious, it's either you are working as 911 operator :) or people will call or come in person. You might disagree, of course, but wait 'till you enter the workforce and see how'd you deal with an endless stream of "OMG! Super urgent!" emails.
Agreed - but I guess if you're 37signals you just attract the right people and you don't have to worry at all. But if you're not then maybe some of these riddles are just good heuristics.
I do wonder how many people dependent on corporate / government / educational institution training approval actually can go to these conferences.
I agree that you can't do anything if your raw demand is too high. But I think free hardware creates artificial demand, where some people are there just to get the hardware, and other people are there because the hardware makes the financials a bit easier to swallow.

Personally, I don't own an Android device, but I'd probably sign up if I lived in the area. It would be fun and I'd probably break even so why not?
How did this ever reach the top on HN?
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As a refugee from Amerika, I agreed with you all the way until your conclusion. What makes you think technological innovation will provide salvation?! It seems to me exactly the opposite. Increasingly, technical innovations are being used by the government against the people, and the people are becoming increasingly degenerate through their indiscriminate use of technology.
Yeah. Personally, I think it was an extraordinarily interesting experiment that didn't pan out. However, the corralling of side-effects (which was necessary for a lazy language) turned out to be one of the best innovations in the space, so that reinforces that we learn as much from mistakes as from successes.

Simon concedes the troubles with laziness and his biggest item of support for laziness is that it keeps you honest in terms of side-effects. I don't buy it. We can control side effects with the type system -- we don't need complete laziness (some laziness is actually quite easy to hand to otherwise eager languages).

P.S. The other major contribution Haskell made to PL was type classes, can't believe I forgot it.
Networking is definitely one of the main reasons. It's why I'd encourage anyone who doesn't get tickets (so, given the odds, probably me and most people here!) to stop by one of the local satellite events the Google user groups run. They're good fun, and the larger ones live stream many of the sessions.
If you can categorise the tasks (which is a very big if), you can maintain an index of the time taken for tasks of a given type to complete and value accordingly in effort required. Allow employees to pick available tasks and they will gravitate to where they can deliver most value.
How long is this supposed to take? It's just showing a spinner for me.
Same here. I've never worked with the Facebook API but I'm guessing there's some sort of limiting going on somehwere that won't let the app pull every like. That or the amount of JavaScript that needs to run to load some people's likes would kill everone's browser. Or maybe some combination of the two.

For what it's worth, most of my likes I was okay with but after disliking a few and refreshing I got a couple that didn't show up the first time.
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The US government actually sets generous price floors on what H1-B's can be paid to prevent this sort of thing (for better or for worse). An H1-B application specifying a salary that is lower than said floor would be rejected.
I totally agree, but only in the FizzBuzz case.

It's the perfect, super-simple puzzle that can be solved quickly, but let's you see how a programmer might approach a problem, how they like to code, and their go-to language, etc.

It's not like you are trying to stump the programmer. Any programmer with a lick of skill should be able to knock out the FizzBuzz problem in their language of choice.

It's actually kind-of fun the first time you do it.

Personally, I'd watch the programmer's face. If they smiled after realizing the problem is not as clear-cut as it seems, they probably enjoy programming.
Here's a comparable Haskell server, warts and all

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import Snap
import qualified Data.ByteString as BS

main :: IO ()
main = httpServe (setPort 8000 emptyConfig) $ writeBS $ BS.replicate (1024*1024) 100

I'm benchmarking it currently, but my laptop's network stack seems to break ab. It's also probably faster to build the response incrementally using an Enumerator, but I've never used Snap's Enumerator library and this is slightly closer to the design being tested in the other servers since it'll allocate the whole bytestring instead of writing it lazily.
Great article. I totally agree; User growth is an uphill battle that requires a well thought strategy to 'cross the chasm' and beyond. However, I did not see any mention of Value, which I find to be inherently important. When it comes to User Acquisition (or I guess what we now call Growth Hacking), I believe that Value is one of the most important (and sometimes overlooked) aspects of any project. Solving real world pain points creates inherent Value, which in many cases facilitates organic growth. If your App or Service is Valuable, then people will naturally want to use it, no promotion necessary. I've found that the Value of a project is usually tied to the Vision of the Founders, what types of problems they want to solve, and how painful those problems are. I try to make all my Projects High Value, but many are still in the beginning stages, and how successful (or unsuccessful) they will be has yet to be seen.
Ask HN: How do you find out about startup parties/events?
Is there a master mailing list, facebook group, meetup, or some other organized approach? Or, is it all just word of mouth via friends?
I don't think optical stabilization would really do much for full-on head bobbing. It's more for finer-grained movements, like hands shaking. And I don't think our heads actually shake much.

That said, you could do digital stabilization on head bobbing and probably get a pretty good result by jacking up the size of the stabilization window, although you'd lose frame size.
The curation is done by scientists volunteering their time to the journals. The publishers add nothing. They are parasites and deserve swift, merciless death.
In this case, an SSL certificate has expired. The leap year issue last year was a bug about date addition: 2/29/2012 + 1 year was calculated as 2/29/2013, which is a date that doesn't exist.

The only similarity is that both involved certificates. (The invalid date was used internally as an expiration date for a certificate.)
OpenJDK project gets a Wiki
Indeed Elon Musk claims that the theoretical maximum performance from a fuel cell is lower than the current practical performance from a battery.

As he might say, "Your best case scenario is still failure."
but what kind of SXSW party could you throw with that much lube?
I want one of these in a dive mask.
Key features of mailbox - email snoozing, lists etc. would be hard without backend support.
They are everywhere. Go to a place where people are working on interesting things and there will be plenty of invites. I would never go to FB group, meetups could work depending on the city.
It depends entirely on the person asking the question. Some people probably don't care, but there are some fans of the most efficient possible solution.
It's utterly ridiculous that I can make a better latte myself with a home machine, Whole Foods espresso beans, and organic skim milk. Starbucks always manages to make lattes that taste burnt, even with flavor shots and 2% milk.

I'm not sure why this is.
From a legal context, is someone's right to privacy thrown out the window every time they go outside? If so, then the legal issues with people videotaping other people would be almost zero, which IMO is kind of odd to think about.
Their stated reason is:

3) They don't know if their backend scales well.

So their rollout plan is basically to add twice as many accounts each week, then see if it handles the load, then repeat.
>That still doesn't help the candidates who just don't see the trick.

This may be true, but at the same time candidates who DO see the trick get positive points. Because a lot of these puzzle questions simply require you to think outside the box, if you're forgive the use of that phrase, and honestly if you have hard programming problems to solve that is a killer skill.

I have (once) had the problem where my mind locked up on a puzzle question in an interview. (Disclaimer: Usually I'm really good at them, but then I usually get most of the IQ questions right too...) But I got the job anyway.

The point is that HOW you use these questions is at least as important as the content of the questions. If you ARE willing to work with the candidate on finding the answer, and you make it clear that it's not a make-or-break question, then I think it CAN be (at least) a positive filter for awesomeness.

Yes, sometimes you could let someone fall through the cracks that way. Nothing about the interview process is perfect, though, and if what you really need is someone who is awesome, then letting someone get away who IS awesome is much better than serially hiring people who AREN'T awesome hoping that you find one eventually.

That said, and as others have pointed out in comments: 99% of the projects I hear about on HN would NOT require awesome. They just require competence. And solving IQ puzzles isn't how you detect competence.
Blood + Sweat + Tears + Code + Polish + Sales + Luck = Startup
Most Lisps are untyped. Typed-Racket and Qi seem to be the standouts. Other than that I would agree that there's not "more mathematical" background.
The Shadow of the Future
I don't have enough time to deal with marketing. I have a limited amount of free time as it is and I'd rather spend it doing something I love (developing) rather than something that is required to make money off the the thing that I love. It's not that I _hate_ marketing necessarily but there are 1000 other things I'd rather be doing at any given time.
If that's true, it's just plain stupid.
They were threatening to do that for last year's meeting, and then backed out on it. There was no test.

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-io-2012-extend...

In the meantime, be sure to brush up on your coding skills. They’ll come in handy when the new application process opens in February. That’s all we can tell you for now, but we’d advise against making travel arrangements until then.
"Scientific research is by no means tied to Christian assumptions, I don't know where you're getting this conspiracy theory from."

I haven't read it, but there is a history book called The Saviour of Science that's all about the role of Christianity in shaping modern scientific assumptions.
Al Qaeda's anti-drone countermeasures [pdf]
'fertilizer' -> Ammonium Nitrate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate (NH4NO3) Nothing more than air (using the Nitrogen) and Water normally the Haber-Bosch process used natural gas as its source of H2 however it is also easily produced by splitting water if the energy is "free".
It's really just an iOS issue. Apps can't run in the background to check mail and give notifications. So you need to check the mail on the server and send a new mail notification independently of the app.

The weird side-effect of this hack is that you get a notification of a new email, then you open the Mailbox app and it has to go retrieve the new email from the server.
People operate these..They are called hedge funds.
I'm not much on telling the future, but I see a huge avalanche of Google Glass stories on the horizon.

I got into stereoscopic photography lately, you know, with two cameras. I'll probably be willing to try Google Glass, but I sure would like a version that captured stereoscopic images. We have two eyeballs, we should capture two image streams.
Maybe the hardware manufacturer can certify and sign game binaries as being allowed to use the direct GPU API.
Check this post from StackExchange [1]. One of the things I definitely took away from it is that while working remotely has benefits and affords flexibility to employees and employers, it incurs very real costs that have to be mitigated and accounted for. Making an explicit choice one way or the other can be better than muddling through halfway.

[1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-i...
No more old school formatting.

When you go to the wayback machine it indicates there are old records, but when you click on any of them they are missing.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090615000000*/http://useit.com
Yahoo has given ~50% returns since August last year.
Dealing with outages is one time where I have to think on my feet in a tense and urgent situation, and occasionally write code.
In Google+ hangout, astronauts talk tech, Isaac Newton and Twitter
Referring article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9886637/R...
I can't speak for everyone but I feel like a large part of why I'm not very excited by doing marketing of a project is because I feel like the project should be good enough to market it's self.

I think developers have a sense that if I focus on making a good product everyone will want to use it so I don't have to worry about marketing. Even though a lot of us know that marketing is very important we feel that by focusing on marketing there is a sense of my work isn't good enough to stand up by it's self.
Author here. Except for a moment where they shut off invites entirely, it's stayed consistent at a linear 800/hour for the last two weeks. At some point, presumably, they'll increase that but they haven't yet. The prediction on caniusemailboxyet.com ended up being accurate to the day. In my post, I disclaimed this by saying that the figures were at the current rate.

And I'm not "whining," thank you. I already have access to the app. I just thought it was a fun way to visualize the line.
Broken Tools, Human Frailty, and a Beta Launch
Yes, looks good. thanks for the follow-up.
Or just retroactively reduce the lengths of copyright terms. After all, they retroactively increase the lengths of those terms all the time, so why can they not reduce them as well? The constitution explicitly requires copyrights to expire, but makes no specific mention of what the minimum or maximum terms are.
I've seen this happening with other companies recently. There may be a small trend away from remote working. I agree its unfair to the employee who was hired on flexibility, but I don't think it is a bad move for Yahoo. It takes a very specific type of individual to work at home with the same efficiency as in an office.
the gofmt tool has a replacement feature:

`gofmt -r 'InitialName -> FinalName'`
I HIGHLY recommend no one else use this site without more followup from the developer

I don't like this. Not for what it claims to do, but because it doesn't clearly say what it does do.

"Facebook Unlike". I get that, good name. When I go to the site, I understand I have to sign in with Facebook. That's fine.

Problems:

1) Why does your app require permission to write to my page? You only need permissions to read all the pages that I have liked, nothing more.

2) It is not clear where these FB pages are coming from. I am presented with a handful of FB pages. Now some of them I have Liked and will continue to do so like Photopic Sky Survey. But I am also presented with things like "omg! from Yahoo" and "omg! Insider", but of which I have never and would never like.

3) The term "Unlike" indicates there should be buttons or toggles called "Unlike". At a minimum, hitting "Like" on something I've already clicked should "unlike" it. However, I'm seeing a mix of pages that I definitely have liked and other ones like "omg!" that I did not like. The "Like" button is available on this. If I hit that, am I liking or unliking that page? Its a visual double negative.

4) Once you hit Like, there's no way toggle the button state again. It just turns to Like and stays there.
This Google Spreadsheet is only a database for this new D3 alternative gallery: http://biovisualize.github.com/d3visualization/
Care to explain what those features are?
Sousveillance[1] seems to really answer 'Who watches the watchmen?' with 'We all do'. Ultimately I think not only crime will go down, but also more egregious cases of corruption. This is more harmful to governments in the long run who like a rather tight control over information, as the internet constantly demonstrates. I'm slowly learning to be okay with this aspect of AR.

It's the /services/ that Glass secretly enable for its users that I find far more worrying than mere scrapbooking of your life. Just start thinking as sleazy as possible here, for a moment. If Glass can log conversations, it can also relay conversations to other parties to comment upon.

I just can't stop imagining things like MTurk-like services staffed with popped-collar sociopaths fresh off the set of Jersey Shore, all working with your transcripts to be your 'virtual wingman' as you work your 'game' on unsuspecting people. Ridiculous, but just sleazy enough I could see it.

I imagine if we all really just wanted to depress ourselves today, we could keep coming up with more and more ideas of how to exploit AR for social advantage/manipulation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
Lists are just IMAP folders.

Email snoozing needs some kind of backend, but it doesn't really need access to your GMail account credentials. The backend could just re-send you the email normally.
That is depressing. Companies are nothing but collection of human beings. One would hope that most humans are not happy to go about their lives lying to other humans on a regular basis.

So yes, companies don't have a moral point of view. But human beings do, the humans who work for and run these companies. And while philosophers have opined extensively about the relativity of morals, I'd hope that there are some values that an overwhelming majority of human kind subscribes to.
Six Tools for Managing Multiple Remote Desktops On Mac and PC
I wouldn't consider subreddits a good way to gauge a tech community's size. Try IRC rooms and mailing lists.
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* business plan to be revealed later.
> If I was searching for a mail client, then mailbox would be it apparently.

FWIW, the reviews on the AU App Store are very mixed - 82 5-star, 20 4-star, 11 3-star, 2 2-star and 58 1-star.

Many of the 1-star reviews are complaining about how this (free) app has a waiting line.
This isn't particularly surprising, the policy at Google was (possibly still is) much the same. The theory is that you don't interact enough with your peers if you're not face to face.

I wonder if secret calibration scores are next.
In order to justify a monthly payment I feel you would really have to be pushing out frequent high quality updates that just kept making it better and better.

If development started to get stagnant I would probably "forget" to renew it after my CC expired or something like that. Or at some point I'd just feel "I've given this guy enough money" and cancel even if I kept using the editor.
I'm not sure that I have a constructive way of replying to this. Can you spell out your objections, instead of trying to jostle my imagination?

You act like no one's been fired after their first day at Starbucks.
As the person who posted that question, if you gave me that answer right away, I'd say "good, but can you do better?"

"Sort and take the second highest" is a fine first answer. I'd expect most good candidates to start with that. I'd also expect them to say "but I think I can do better" on their own.
Let's not assume that public equities indicate good decision-making! :)
If it's done correctly, such devices could be the stupidest thing you could try to steal.

For instance, it could buffer constantly (if it doesn't already, I'm not too sure) the last 5 or 10 seconds of video. If it detects the device has been snatched this buffer is instantly dumped to the paired smartphone (and from there possibly to the cloud).

So unless the thief is very skillful, there's likely a good mugshot of him or her out there.