skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company I worked for in the past, its founder was good friends with a CS college professor. And I'm told the founder asked the prof. if there were any particular students who were "relentlessly good", and then the founder would go full-force to get them.

I got to work with one of the guys who was hired this way... ohh boy was he something. The most important lesson I got out of that was there are students in B-tier schools that easily are more capable than A-tier schools any day of the week -- I suspect the reason the founder of the company took this approach was that you'd get workers who're extremely capable, but would accept a lower salary than MIT grads are expected to (because, yes, at some point I asked the guy how much he was making and I remember my jaw just dropped on the floor at how little the amount he said was).
A few years ago my wife gave me a subscription to barbeque sauce-of-the-month club as a birthday present. Every month I got a couple of bbq sauces/rubs in a box.

Best.Gift.Ever!
Apple to Target Emerging Markets with Low-Cost Phone
It's not her personal blog. For all we know, she went into detail about the whole thing and the reporter snipped it all.

I'm not saying it happened here, but it does happen.
How hard is it to put a static image inside a noscript tag with some candy fluff about the great product I'm missing? If anything, they will have my respect.
Broke and programming everyday on a project I'm working on. And with no income for quite some time. I'm down to two sets of pants and some of my clothes have holes. My sneakers certainly have plenty of holes. My office is the local library. Life is great!
I use Ubuntu for everything and I've worked on OS X and got along with it.

Unfortunately Windows is the only OS that doesn't have good integration with Unix-specific developer tools (like the GNU userland) or automation for installing said tools from a central and well maintained repository (coincidently the Debian repository is also the reason why I prefer Linux over OS X too). Cygwin is the only option and it's just awful.

Working on top of Windows makes me want to shoot myself. I don't understand how developers that deploy on other platforms (like the web) can stand Windows at all.
Google is sort of on record on doing cool things for mostly-free simply because they're there to be done.
IU receives patent for work predicting economic activity through Twitter
The CEO is Maurice Taylor, and he's used to say the same bullshit to US politicians.

That guy is pretty crazy.
The best useful purpose for headmounted displays is lifelogging. A reasonably high definition stream with audio and video of everything you see during a waking day (call it 16 hours) is only about a hundred gigabytes.

There's no reason not to do it, at this point. Imagine if we could go back and look at the lifelogs of historical figures. In order to achieve that, you basically have to archive everyone, since you don't know in advance if an individual is going to be important later in life.

People complain about the panopticon, but I'm interested in the opposite.
>"Lifecast" -- our team of professionals reviews a total stream of your life and gives you advice on everything.

This is a brilliant idea. However, I bet many people who would otherwise find it attractive would end up not using it because of the implications for personal privacy. Whoever is able to solve the privacy issues (real-time anonymization for footage? AI prescreening with a human expert team only seeing select things?) stands a good chance of getting rich.
what happened to doing one thing and doing that well? what is next, office documents?
> understanding means understanding narcissism and calling it out (cuz it's opaque to just about everyone else).

I enjoyed the irony there :)

Apologies for confusing your role at Freckle; "Chief Butt Kicker" was obviously not simple enough for my brain.
People spend that much money on leather sacks...
Ok, so that's not really "going after them with crazy intensity"; it's punting the problem off to your employees. Have you ever seen this strategy done well?
Correction; "a New Yahoo.com [Homepage]"

It's not bad, but if I leave the page for any other Yahoo.com path, I lose the experience; even worse, "top-level" paths can be very different themselves.
It wasn't entirely pushing the burden on the employees. Each place had an ops guy or on-staff recruiter who just got the names from us and took it from there. I've not seen it done effectively first hand, but I've heard it's the way to go.
If I was to pretend I was the Titan CEO and read into the letter deeper, it's almost a backhanded way of saying "look, you're probably not going to find any buyer for your firm and I'll helpfully tell you why because it seems your management and unions are in denial".
got it working! thanks
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Opera hasn't been struggling for years. It's had record profits for a long time by now.

People weren't kicked out until Opera needed cash to buy Skyfire.

Human decency sounds strange coming from you when you're bashing the work of your former colleagues.

These people had a job they loved for x years. Not the employer's fault if people decided to stick around instead of getting another job.
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Thank you. That is very helpful. But what about if it was necessary to have one command that changed the state of more than one resource?

And as you say, since certain aspects of the API (like honk horn) are unfit for REST, does it make sense to have the other parts of the API in REST? And then you've have two API's at once?
It looks like the assignment is just to write a tokenizer.
That's not THAT bad.

I wrote one years ago, not for C++11 though.
Sorry, you're going to lose on this one. It's basic cost/benefit ratio from the business' perspective. The cost and time of developing and maintain an alternate noscript version is almost never going to be worth it for the % of their customer base the people not running Javascript represent. Same reason ARIA loses out in most startups.
This one also quotes a GQ editor!

Milan fashion week apparently started today.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/8475bc40-7087-11e2-a2cf-00144...

http://www.gq.com/fashion-shows/F2013/new-york/top-10-milan-...
This is a refresh not a redesign.

She only took over about 6 months ago, properly redesigning something like the Yahoo home page is likely a year long process. I have no doubt that this is a temporary step to get a little bit of forward momentum for what has been perceived as a stagnant company.
I'm a shut-in. This is my story
Your experiences seem to be different. I personally found that it is different depending on the group and the people.

Some of them may not see the big deal, some of them may simply not have the self-control, but I've definitely have had similar experiences as the GP, of disrupting discussions.
While scathing, it is also very informative. "Not interested" and a vague "lookin' better elsewhere" doesn't get into the reality of "why?"

Methinks he did them a great service in being brutally honest. Those trying to solve the obvious problems will make much greater progress with such a letter in hand, rather than the usual apologetic tact. "Helpful are the wounds of a friend..." I'm sure he would, in fact, like to buy a French tire factory, but ridiculous pay for minuscule work makes for an offer no less insulting than his reply.
A Skill that All Technical People Can Use
Please take your time machine and go release PDF.js in early 2010. With good performance on the hardware and Javascript VMs of early 2010. Then I'll grant you the criticism of Chrome's PDF viewer. Otherwise, trolling... fact is, Chrome is the browser that liberated the world from Acrobat Reader. PDF.js is awesome and it may be the way to go, but as of today Chrome's viewer is still much better -- please try http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf in both browsers and tell me which one is sluggish and renders so-so, and which renders/scrolls instantly and perfectly and also allows you to actually fill the form.
Or to put it more pointedly,

Go look at half the captioned-photo memes on the internet. Not all of them were self-recorded.
This isn't even correlation, since when did insulting the french correlate to a rise/fall in stock prices?
And an additional one warning about Americans whining about how their Netflix/Hulu/Square/MLB/Pandora/HD TV networks/Amazon Prime perform subpar ...
So says a person who carelessly breathes the effectively unlimited supply of air.
Is it me or doest this read like it's half an article? I got through to the end expecting it to be about something that you can do with XMPP and Jabber, rather than a rather basic primer on Jabber and XMPP themselves.

I don't have a problem with it, although it would've been nice if the title had made it clear that it was a primer.
You're not saying anything worthwhile, man.

Look at how big this thread has gotten.

I'm not angry at phones. I'm sure you read plenty of good research papers on your phone and learn heaps from them. Good for you. I don't really care what people do on their phones, it's reflective of who they are anyway. People like you who read research papers on their phones would 30 years ago probably be reading them on paper. Whatever.

This has nothing to do with productivity or socializing. It's about habits and passive, stupid, mindless habits make for passive, stupid people. These habits have always been around, but phones enable more of those habits to intrude in our lives and tempt us over the alternatives. Obviously it's not the sole purpose of phones, not by a long shot. But it's definitely something they are good at. The nature of Glass, in this perspective, means it will be much better at it. That's where the addictiveness comes in, and that's what scares me.
Sure Mercurial is a valid and possibly better alternative, I'm just hesitant to call git's popularity an unhealthy fad.
I guess what people in the top rungs in society will have in common with those at the bottom is the tendency to randomly shout things.
That's nothing. When I was 16, I carried gas in a pail uphill from the pump to the car, and uphill back to the pump again, in the snow and in my barefeet for $5.9/hr
Unlearning College
I just finished my first Augmented Reality app, which is rolling out to its intended users as I type, so I'm a bit biased about this .. but personally I think: AR is AMAZING.

I've used the Vuforia SDK, and the ability to track paper with accuracy on the basis of a well-designed customized brand or design layout .. this is fantastic.

So my app is to demonstrate how AR can overlay and track over print, and edit print materials smoothly .. and I'll be damned if it doesn't work just great.

My next app will be for kids to make planes, in fact. Use the iPhone like a Magic Loupe, print out the picture, get a folding guide in 3D. Oops, I guess I gave that idea away for nothin' ..
I've been using it for about a month. It's my default PDF viewer, on my desktop - though sometimes it has choked on a file, and search has been an issue on large files.

Generally though, it's a good solution that doesn't require dealing with Adobe updates all the time.
Explorations in Clojure's core.logic
The parameters of that scenario were that you'd ship the data on the disks that were eventually to store it (presumably without duplicating the OS on each during the transfer process). Therefore, there'd be nothing to move the data to.
> Titan had to pay millions to Washington lawyers to sue the Chinese tire companies because of their subsidizing. Titan won. The government collects the duties. We don't get the duties, the government does.

This is how tariffs work. You don't tax imports to fork over free money to domestic companies. The point is to increase the cost of the imported good to compensate for illegal (from the WTO's point of view) Chinese subsidies.

I'm confused as to why he thinks those taxes should go to Titan.
One Developer, One Impressive 3D Game Demo Ported to the Web with No Plugins
TestFlight, Welcome to Android
You must be proud of yourself for coming up with such an original joke. You know. One that hasn't been floating around since the first day Glass was even leaked.
Couple that with the cost of getting yourself to one of the required meeting locations...which can easily run somebody as much as the cost of the device. Some of us do live in flyover country. Though that's probably our fault and not Google's ;-).
> Stripe is not a First Round company

Yes, thx for clarifying. Mentioned FRC as they published the article.
Thanks!

I went back to Linux just because Unity feels refreshing and different and runs faster than Win7 in my hardware.
Perhaps Glass will be the killer app for CyanogenMod [1], then.

[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
So, the AR happens in the picture-in-picture instead of the main screen. I think that still counts as AR?
I think you had a point on pricing until you explained GoPago's fees. Assuming a company uses the same system for 3 years, you're looking at $3,600 spent on a rental. Square and the separate iPad Retina purchase add up to a $1,100 one time fee. I can't debate you on features, but I would argue they're extremely competitive with pricing.
I wonder why they use a boot-drive at all instead of netbooting these things (or use a pair of USB-sticks).
Quite the flame, I share others surprise that he would be quite so flagrant in his discussion. It is something of an art, and perhaps a bit of fun, to tell people 'no freaking way' with language that reads nicely. Clearly the guys at Titan have no interest in that :-).

It would have been more effective perhaps if he had shared with the people of Amien the context of the discussion. Something along the lines of "this is what we can pay per worked hour if we want to sell tires to your neighbors. More than that, and they will buy them from Chinese factories." And let the unions be the ones who get to decide that the jobs go out of the country.
Yea, I have an idea of what would happen ... we'd have a ton less people getting their boxes easily owned because they visited some webpage and happen to have some old technology installed that they don't ever even use.
Is there any chance that Google decided to start developing self-driving cars just to have an answer for the insane safety hazard the glasses are going to pose?
This article almost makes me want to create my own automated scanner/ocr just to distribute it in torrent.
It is a little worrying that if some (perhaps inexperienced) developer arbitrarily calls a method that invokes Ruby's select, the process will crash mysteriously.
So, comrade, it costs $0 to produce a Google Glass?
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Yes, but there is no percentage in it for him. It's like telling a random fat person on the bus that he's fat. Probably nothing happens, but there is a small chance he will fly into a rage, or will tell everyone that you called him fat (maybe blogging about it, with video!). There's a much smaller chance that he'll suddenly start to diet/exercise, but how does that benefit you? It's different if it's a friend/family member, or if you're hired as a trainer or doctor.
Exorbitant pay for 3 hours of labor* is much less sustainable. The euro-per-hour workers will (and do) work their way up to better conditions, while their overpaid slothful competition will just get shut down.

(* - we may also presume those 3 hours do not constitute "hard" work.)
Seems to render fine for me in FF20 on W7: http://i.imgur.com/G5PPEbN.jpg
Cisimple and HockeyApp: All your builds are belong to us
Yes, we have -- I talk about this a bit in the video (skip to 14:48). We care about building an environment where we all want to work. To some extent, we're making a bet that building a happy culture will ultimately lead to a higher-quality team and make Stripe more successful. It's a design decision, and while it's hard to tell what things would look like with a different design, we know we're far happier than we ever were working elsewhere.
Not global rev numbers, but it does have them. Once you understand the "distributed" part of DVCS, I think that's an OK tradeoff.
Agreed. As someone who does a lot of biz dev, I would be thrilled if a prospective partner was this honest with me.
XMPP is focused on real-time, synchronous communication. It does provision for async communication with server storage of offline messages, and even originally discriminated "chat" messages from "email"-type messages with multiple recipients and a subject. IIRC, this latter feature is deprecated as the protocol developers focused on real-time stuff.

Because in the end, and despite all its kludges, e-mail doesn't need replacement. Its biggest problem remains spam, and even that is under control by all the major providers.
The fact that there's so much activity in the space suggests that it's undergoing disruption. For years, POS systems have been... well... POSes. They're unfriendly, overpriced, lacking in features and just all around bad. The tech has been easily 10 years behind the curve.

We've got a new generation of POS systems coming into place using commodity hardware, the internet & business model that doesn't involve paying some shady fucker thousands of dollars for plugging in some hardware & typing in your menu.
I think he thinks he should be reimbursed for the lawsuit expenses.

He does appear to be a bit flippant as well.
I'm not at all saying everyone should write a full-blown non-js version of the site. I'm saying it would be nice, and might garner more traffic if there were some content explaining the sites' mission.
Super easy Sass media queries
If they're smart, they'll pick up the bone vibrations from the wearer. You know how your voice sounds different when you hear it back from a recording? They should be able to detect when the wearer is saying something in the same way you hear yourself when talking.
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
While C# looks like a great language, and I'm looking forward to playing with this, does Xamarin really allow you to share that much code between platforms?

In my experience, 75% of my mobile app code tends to be either working with platform-specific APIs or just quite trivial. Is the potential for code reuse high enough to justify the extra layer of stuff to understand (and potentially break)?

Edit: I can see how being able to use C# is a plus for some people, I guess I'm just slightly skeptical of the cross-platform selling point.
Writing more efficient queries with Entity Framework Code First
Is Formal Design Education Necessary?
In SVN you still have to update (and in fact, if you try to commit without updating, it'll complain at you). That's the same as git pull. So all that leaves is one extra step, the push.
I'm not trying to be a fanboy here but as far as I can tell, Android borrowed a lot from iOS until it matured enough. Only after, they started experimenting, added great stuff on it and diverged for better.

What role model does Glass have now?
Gamers may hate always-on Internet, but behavior tells a different story
This is a series of 3 posts that explores 3 different strategies for improving performance of Entity Framework queries
"I see the value of an AMA for someone who is never coming back here again but really, is an AMA for someone who is going to stick around necessary? I would much rather just do it more of a grass roots style. Answering things as I go along." - Will I Am Shatner
> Uh, it sounds like you have pretty poor luck...

Not at all. While still young, I learned to have realistic expectations about relationships. This saved me a lot of pain and heartache. So I've been lucky.
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Looks like not everyone has been paying attention.

Hint..theres no strike

Its a shame people who dont pay attention are flapping their gums like that.
Depends on what you mean by stand up -

https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/04/16/can-states-...

Many states, publishers, and other entities try to claim copyright in parts of the published law:

http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/gacode/

Some activists have objected:

https://public.resource.org/index.html

It's an ongoing problem and is not "bullshit" at all.
They both display about the same (nothing a casual glance could reveal). Firefox took ~ 1 second, while Chrome was slightly faster <1 second. It's hard to count. But it's about the same give or take a few hundred miliseconds.

My setup is FF 19.0 and Chrome 24 on Win7 with 8Gb Ram and 3.1GHz processor.
A: Lazy people who walk so rarely they've forgotten they have feet, rich people with more money than brains and people who love cars and the polluting stench that spews from the tailpipe.
One might argue that it's the main thing they do. Which is not a bad thing at all.
A friend of mine and myself had this idea a while back, while Square was still in its infancy. It would allow people to find out exactly where to find the merchandise that they wanted, its price at that location, the number of items they had in stock, a way to order it if they wanted to purchase it... It would bring non big-box stores into the world of organized supply chain.

In order to do this, we posited, we'd have to create a dirt-cheap POS that was also incredibly easy to setup, use, and track inventory.

The idea was hung up on the fact that we didn't have an "in" -- the clout to get these smaller stores to invest in us. As we simmered on it, Square turned hockey stick, created a mobile app, and we already saw that they were headed in this direction.

Kudos. Even if it wasn't my implementation of the idea, I'm glad to see a step happen in that direction.
Ok. Lets hope those with accessibility issues (screen-readers, etc), people with constrained systems (old, corporate, etc), and whoever else might not be able or willing to use js can figure something out then.

Oh, they have! They won't visit your site. Cool!
6yo builds iPad game with his dad using Monotouch
Why down-vote me? He originally wrote January in his comment!
> Insulting the French doesn’t seem to be rewarded by the stock market, and Titan is down about 1% so far today.

Journalists should be forced to say "correlation is not causation" ten times before writing each article.