skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you a developer that dislikes marketing your own stuff?

No, we[1] don't mind marketing our stuff[2] at all. We post links[3][4][5] to our stuff on various forums, answer questions on Quora[6] that promote our stuff, write blog entries[7], share stuff on LinkedIn, Twitter[8], etc., etc., etc. as we go about our business of "putting the Enterprise in Enterprise Social Network".

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me at prhodes (at) fogbeam (dot) com.

All joking aside, I guess some developers may have an aversion to marketing. Probably more just don't know a lot about marketing and promotion. I'm no expert at it myself, but I try to learn more every day. These days I spend as much time reading marketing books as I do technical books, and terms like "SEO", "positioning", "differentiation", "value proposition", "unique selling proposition", "solution selling", "SPIN selling", etc. have entered my lexicon.

What don't you like about marketing?

It's hard. And I'm a n00b at it. Therefore it sucks. No, really, it's kind of fun in a way, and I enjoy learning and stretching myself in new directions. But it can be frustrating dealing with so many things that I haven't had to worry about in the past.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: http://www.fogbeam.com/products.html

[3]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

[4]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[5]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Heceta

[6]: http://www.quora.com/Who-are-Jives-competitors

[7]: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com

[8]: https://twitter.com/fogbeamlabs
The record low in Stockholm is -26, not -16 C. At least according to wikipedia.
Redesigned instantdomainsearch.com coming soon
Einhorn scores legal victory versus Apple in cash scuffle
Game manufacturers care because their customers care, and because the same cheats often are related to copy-protection breaking. If you're going to cheat at videogames, why not do so in games you didn't buy?
Why not? Chili, garlic.

I don't see the issue here.
Why Google Missed The ‘Social’ Bus
Of course, this is the petty personal misconduct. It doesn't include the more troubling official actions, such as coordinating the multi-city crackdown on the Occupy movement.
Yeah it's not great on it's own but it's a great ingredient. It also makes ketchup quite a bit better the twice a year I want it on something.
Also, using really common identifier names (like "log") in outer scopes is a bad idea regardless of how your language's scoping works. Writing `{log} = Math` at the top of the file is just polluting your namespace for no good reason. You shouldn't do it, just like you shouldn't use `from math import *` in Python.
You Can Be Too Beautiful
Rooster sauce is somewhat common in my neck of the woods (Los Angeles). At the very least, everyone would know what you're talking about. That said, most people I know just call it by it's name, Sriracha.
Huawei denies link to work of Shane Todd
I found what's probably the actual picture (because of the mentioned Asian-American astronaut):

http://www.chow.com/photos/365772
>Markdown's popularity is due to 'geek appeal', not ease of use. The masses won't appreciate it the way coders do.

It's still about "ease of use", but for a particular subgroup: coders and power-users.

In another example, the casual user would prefer "search and replace" Word-style too, including lots of manual fiddling with the replacing, whereas a coder would opt to use regular expressions. That's not because regexes have some "geek appeal", that's merely using what (given your skill level) fits the job better.

It was never meant to be "mainstream" in the general way.

That said, you trying it and reverting to TinyMCE could be explained in various ways:

-- Maybe not a UNIX-style coder? Are you familiar with the command line, the UNIX way, etc?

-- Wordpress is not particularly suited for Markdown. It's a third-party option in Wordpress, whereas other systems (e.g GitHub or even Tumblr) have it as a built-in option.

-- What exactly do you find "more convenient" in TinyMCE? Blog articles are generally long stretches of text, for which Markdown is as natural as it gets. So, what exactly does TinyMCE offers you? Do you really want to see hacky, kludgy bulletpoints for your lists, as mimicked by TinyMCE (and, so easily broken)? Do you use tables and colors in your post text (resulting in equally fragile markup)? Or is pressing "B" so much better than "" for bold text?

I'm not generally against WYSIWYG, but it would have to be a no-BS, perfect editor, and no HTML editor fills that role. The markup is bad, and while you don't have to look at it, it is also fragile. Nesting things 1-2 levels (a list, a table, etc), deleting rows, moving images, end with various kind of broken result.

IIRC, the Google Docs team took a completely different approach to the normal HTML WYSIWYG widget (creating it from scratch with primitives much alike a desktop WYSIWYG app). That's probably the only one that's tolerable.
I recommend to check these two articles by Oliver Reichenstein about this topic, one of them he wrote about 7 years ago

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/100e2r

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-...
He actually does tell people how to fix it in their templates. And having a clickable logo that goes to your main site is basic advice even in very down to earth books like "Don't Make Me Think".
Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire
Oh, I know. I hate them as separate entities. I'm not even convinced necessarily that justified text causes more rivers - they make awkward gaps and ruin my pace, but I don't usually get distracted by rivers with justified text.
Doesn't affect the truth/falsehood of what he's saying.
The problem, it seems, is that the titles were a little Editorialized. Which can get it flagged, as doing this is against the HN guidelines.

But, from my experience[1], WebGL topics have a hard time getting tracktion on Hacker News.

I'm glad this got traction this time. It really is an impressive demo.

[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=web...
Modern-day indulgence?
the "two visions" were how to screw up and how to embrace the post-scarcity economy respectively. the problem is that the currently-rich will have first crack at the cornucopia and they could easily feel they have somehow earned the right to it, and need not share it with the currently-poor other than via crumbs of charity.
Yahoo.com redirecting to mobile version for Chrome on Linux?
To my mind, being a hypocrite is up there as one of the worst character traits a person or organisation can possess. It's one of the few things that actually produces an emotional response of anger from me. I wonder why that is?
Why in the hell would operating systems keep signers that expired? If there is no longer an organization backing a key, IT SHOULD NOT WORK.
Woah , the music generated is beautiful looks like some sort of computational creativity.
Trovalds's song is depressing , http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=torvalds
The Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo
> It doesn’t just bother me, it infuriates me. ... When I don’t get that in 1-click, I get mad. How could you be so ignorant? Why are you expecting me to decipher your url and to type it into the browser? Why should I? You just captured my attention and then you punched me in the face!

Is this a joke?
I think we've exceeded the limits of HN discussion.

Probably, but I do see a couple of things in your post worth a brief comment:

You seem to be under the impression that the r coordinate is the space coordinate of the local inertial frame. It's not; it's a coordinate in a global coordinate chart. Two objects can be approaching each other with respect to the space coordinate of the LIF but be separating with respect to the r coordinate.

You also seem to be under the impression that the predicted trajectories in the LIF, if it could be extended indefinitely (which it can't), would have the particle inside the horizon moving outside it. That's not correct; the predicted trajectories in the LIF would have the particle outside the horizon falling inside it, then falling past the one that started out inside the horizon. (This has to be true because the horizon is moving outward at the speed of light, so neither particle can outrun it from the standpoint of the LIF.) The resolution of the puzzle does not depend on explaining why the particle that starts inside the horizon doesn't escape out; it depends on explaining why the particle that starts outside the horizon doesn't fall in even though the LIF predicts that it should.
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Correct. It may be 20, 30 and 40 hrs a month with each for a flat fee. They receive detailed accounting of how that time was used and if they no over that time it's X per hour.
Yes, I see it too.
Reading TFA apparently there is no string type, so nothing in it is a string. It's all binary data, byte array or whatever that means in your language of choice. If an application or a library the application uses converts a string into binary data before and converts it back after, that's none of the format's business.
Well for starters, it may help to realize that "Most of the employees either live in San Francisco or want to" is absolutely false.
:)
This is what Android 4.2 might look like on the Samsung Galaxy SIII
Another really nice one is Lanczos interpolation, although that only works well if you have at least four points (or 2 + the filter size). I wrote a demo for Smooth.js a while back that shows how that filter works in 2D: http://osuushi.github.com/plotdemo016.html
Thanks for this. I just spent 30 minutes reading up on calculating pi with a simple Monte Carlo algo. Thinking about doing it d3.js...
The main point of z/VM is that you can run multiple instances of different operating systems on the same physical hardware. (It's sort of amazing that IBM started developing this virtualization software in the mid-1960s.)

And you can most certainly tell it's there, since there's an API to call z/VM services (which wouldn't exist on the bare hardware) from a virtual machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)#Hypervis...
First off, nice work, this is legit useful stuff.

Suggestions; the regex reference could use a distinguishing feature such as a subtle light grey background and/or a line seperating it along with more whitespace.

Also, the boxes seem arbitrarily placed. I realize one is centered, and the others take up the remaining space on the next "line", but perhaps you could create better visual boundaries or something.

Lastly, apologies, but maybe the font Lato looks nice on your setup, but its rather jaggedy/unappealing on windows.
Event Gateway, IM, and SMS injection in ColdFusion 8
ColdFusion 8 enables Event Gateways, instant messaging (IM), and SMS (short message service) for interacting with external systems. Event Gateways are ColdFusion components that respond asynchronously to non-HTTP requests: instant messages, SMS text from wireless devices, and so on.
true. further, many languages refer to a group of women in the feminine, a group of men in the masculin and a mixed group in the masculin.
What is a "KG"? If it's meant to represent kilogram, it should be "kg" (lowercase), and it's a unit of mass, not either force (which is newton) nor pressure (pascal, which is basically newton per square meter).
> Last year, a modeling contest claimed to have found the most beautiful woman in Britain: Florence Colgate, an 18-year-old who worked at a chip shop in Kent.

A picture of Ms. Colgate: http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/News/abc_florence_colgate_dm_...

Hmm -- it seems beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Compare the above to Ellen Page, my favorite actress right now (get ready to have your heart broken):

http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/ellen_page-wide.jpg

To me, it's no contest. Reasonable people may differ, but ...
And if I pinch zoom in I can't see the whole line.
Microsoft: Recent Cyberattacks
Reminds me of the RIAA caught pirating: http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-someone-else-is-pirating-throug...
I feel the opposite way. I think it humanizes them by showing that even though in their professional lives they are draconian enforcers of certain laws, in their personal lives they are people like you and me.
Looks like they are matching Linux i686 and Chrome in the user-agent. 64bit Linux (Linux x86_64) opens the desktop homepage.
Nice move. I did it once to return from Denver to SF, and caught the train. A wonderful experience.
Meanwhile I don't bother visiting the USA much. I could not imagine returning to a life of constant travel there.
It's really sad how everyone just accepted it and will also accept whatever is next and after that.

Even if you don't fly, drones are coming soon to watch you every minute of the day that you are outside.

Maybe one-day inside too with technology developed ironically from TSA scanners.

And people will argue to defend that too, and warrant-less is the new norm.

My sympathies to Ryan.
To clarify, I was speaking more in general about hypocrisy. In this case, I don't hate the people, but I don't like the hypocrisy inherent in the organisation.
Entire USAF F-35 fleet grounded due to suspected structural integrity problems
From my experience, the Occupy movement was quite regional. The city I live in, the typical anarchist crowd joined with the homeless need a place to camp crowd which resulted in about an acre of city park land closed for a number of weeks to clean up all the human waste and drug residue.

Maybe there was done big city coordination, but in my small, coastal, liberal, college town, it was all about the typical antisocial crowd pushing more of the same.

The added secret sauce were the meth, heroin, and other tweakers that joined in.

Clearly a product of The Man. I mean governments colluding.
Because this isn't the same benchmark, did you compile with -O2? The Go version allocates a 1MB slice once and sends it to every user. The Haskell version literally states that it should make a bytestring during every request. The compiler might optimize it away with the right flags.
From what I understand, the developers have noticed that they get patches for the Rail app but not much for the CoffeeScript part, so they think that by switching to JS they'll get more dev interested.

Also it looks like one of the core dev doesn't like CS much, which might have precipitated things a bit [1].

[1] http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-us...
It would be quite an anomaly if there weren't at least a few remote employees that were worth keeping remote.
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91770 in the house
Nice work indeed. But IMHO this is to little to late, the damage has already been done. All the little kids now think everything in JavaScript is evolved around jQuery. In a way it now is, but without learning the hardway and knowing all the ways to sidestep or work through potential problems. Peoples scripts can't be taken to their fullest potential.
It's an entertaining exercise, especially when you watch your computer chew away for several minutes before telling you that π is probably somewhere around 3.26.
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age: Digging through the Geocities Torrent
It's actually very useful for developing, testing and debugging programs that need to be run on a mainframe without having to actually try it out directly on your production environment.
Squeeze a Lime 5,000 times and what will happen?
We will only launch Squeeze1.com if we get 5,000 Squeezes/signup's on our 'Lime'. It's a bit of a risk but it may payoff. Over 730 signups so far. Private beta test is starting Monday if you're interested.
More than happy to answer any questions :)
I haven't used Hammer yet but I just have to commend you on the design of your website. Looks great and is really easy to use.

Best of luck!
And you would have gotten an instant fail on the "cultural fit" criteria.
I wouldn't hold my breath. This sounds like a huge, messy, heuristic coding effort to solve a rare, über cosmetic problem. TeX and typography in general seem to attract really obsessive folks, but this doesn't strike me as harboring a hidden ideal that's computationally well-defined and feasible the way other parts of TeX turned out to be. I guess we'll find out if somebody does it.
Hypocrisy is fundamentally hard to avoid, it's almost a universal human trait. I think the bigger problem is absolutism when it's not justified.
Tabasco is really good with simmered vegetables. The vinegar and aged flavors brighten up and fill out the flavors.
It's sad that a useful public service has to go away because people are abusing it in this way.
Hm. I don't think I've ever been called apocryphal before.
This WebGL demo is apparently a port of Unigine Crypt which is a mobile version of Unigine Sanctuary (running on Tegra 2):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX25STzOdtM
I think Huy Fong's works for American food because it's jalapeno, which is a familiar flavor. It's blended with garlic, so it's not an unfamiliar flavor - somewhere between Chinese, Mexican, and Italian.
This trend towards ridiculously large font sizes is becoming exceedingly annoying. There's been so many articles about it, and many pseudo-techy (trendy) blogs are adopting the large size. 16pt minimum? Really? There's a reason that so few sites and text editors use that by default. It may look great on your retina display but on 99% of screens out there it just makes your site look like it's aimed towards kids.
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I never meant to imply it was the only reason, just that it was one of them. Another is the support considerations; each option you add to the drivers to tweak rendering output is yet another permutation of testing.

In addition, some of the options better fit the old fixed pipeline architecture of the early 2000s; forcing some of the rendering options older drivers used to have isn't really possible in a fully programmable world.

But to expound a bit on the cheating angle, one manufacturer (Asus) even went so far as to specifically market these features as a competitive advantage for customers of their products:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/10/asus_releases_games_cheat_drivers/

With that said, users that installed the debug versions of the windows DirectX framework (historically) and the various developer tools (such as nVidia insight) have some of the same capabilities that used to be built-in to older drivers.

Developers have combated this by using programs like punkbuster or rolling their own tools (Blizzard wrote "Warden").
Is that even legal? If you negotiate as a condition for your employment the ability to work from home... I don't know. I am of two minds on this.
The hollowing out of America. See... all of Detroit.
That's why i am always broke.
P.S. Oh and my native language is Russian.
IE is still the leading browser in USA
Can you give us a shirt picture from the O’Reilly Perl Conference?
Isn't absolutism often the root cause of hypocrisy? As in the stereotypical closeted homosexual lawmaker pushing for discriminatory laws based on absolute religious beliefs.
Wish they would rent all of Moscone center instead of just Moscone West. I clicked to buy a ticket the second it opened last time and still didn't get one through that means. I was lucky enough to win a coding contest for my ticket the year before and work for an OEM the next year, who seemed to get some pity tickets because they kicked all the OEMs out to make more room for fake living room setups for the Q.
If asveiku is a real name, then he's heard of at least one (linked reply to "last time").
Both media companies, not tech companies.
Clever or hard to read code is just that. I don't use CoffeeScript but I wouldn't use this example to be mean about it. At the end of the day, it is an acquired taste. My only concern is I don't have the time to invest to make a decision on it and I would suspect others are in the same boat. So, by default we choose a tentative no.
It might be an incredibly common interview question, but it's not an incredibly common day-to-day task, particularly when there are methods built in to classes that perform this function. An interesting task? Perhaps. But not reflection of the dev's skills, per se.

You're not asking about syntax with this. It's a problem solving question and at the end of the day, the only real metric here is not whether a dev could code this up, but whether he can code it up quickly, under time constraints, while being stared at, under pressure, with rent or a mortgage on the line, and maybe kids to feed.

I am hard pressed to think of even one real life dev task I had in my entire career where I had to solve a problem under those circumstances. For most devs, we take ownership of the problem and solve it at our desk under reasonable time frames without the spotlight. For bigger problems, we might think about it in the car on the way home. We might sleep on it over the weekend.

That doesn't apply to reversing a string, of course. But you have to consider that, depending on the dev's background and skills, he may be spending time in jQuery, maybe Spring and Hibernate (for Java guys), maybe even some CSS. Maybe he's a GWT guy? Maybe he was assigned to a team dedicated to (God forbid) EJBs. In other words, he may be multifaceted and spends more time working with an API than "just" raw language coding. The language is just a means for working with the API.

And the one thing you want to measure is not something he does daily. Now, if he can't use a for loop, feel free to mock him. But reversing a string? That's clearly a puzzle.

EDIT: I can't get this part out of my mind:
"Is incredible how badly the test goes with the people! I interview for myself or others more than 100 people (of any background, including university, tech schols...) and I think only 10/12 people do it correctly - barely-"

So you continue to use that question? Despite the results? So that when you do hire a guy that passes, he won't ever do this on the job because you know you damn well he should use the reverse() method? Because you won't pay him to code it raw and waste time and money when there is a 1.5 second solution to this? That's sadistic. :-)
"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
One thing I can't understand is if "RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents", why then there are tables?

And also, probably I should better explore website, but is it transactional? In other words, is it possible to save multiple documents and RethinkDB server will reject them in case of conflict, just like all-or-nothing semantic in couchdb before ver. 0.9?
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Most jobs are not provided by SV companies or Microsoft. Most prople are not in a career that typically hires from across the country at their own expense. Paid travel is a luxury enjoyed by a small segment of job candidates.
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Right now, "I published in Nature" is simply a proxy for "I published an important paper." or "I am a productive faculty member." I certainly agree that these are valuable messages to signal.

My entire point was that better and more objective ways are being developed that can signal this same message, while cutting out the cost and inconvenience of the journal middleman. The exact recipe for these better ways is still an open question, but I do know several people who are working on it, and I listed several specific examples.

Branding no doubt plays a role. But there is already a major trend towards downplaying branding in favor of more objective metrics like impact factor and the H-index. And I do hope that science can be held to a slightly higher standard of objectivity than the general economy (maybe that's too idealistic?).