skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I don't think that recruiters are worth paying any attention to. At least not in the cookie cutter version. If they want to get in touch then that's cool, but if it's a generic email it will get labelled as SPAM.
This is the internet. We use "nigger", "kike", and "faggot" all the time. Because WORDS.

If you think the correct answer is to try to get everyone everywhere to not use whatever subset of words you subjectively find offensive versus just IGNORING THINGS THAT OFFEND YOU, I'm not really sure what to tell you, other than perhaps:

Good luck with that, you retarded faggot.[1]

[1] http://youtu.be/Fcja4WFFzDw
By your logic, it would be perfectly ok for the government to give each of us a billion dollars a year. Is this what you believe? If not, why not?
For reasons like this I usually claim that 32-bit x86 chips have zero or at most one general purpose registers. Everything else is full of weird junk like this.
What's so great about his rebuttal? I read that whole thing and it's all anecdotal and seemingly exaggerated. Plus it's based on a single person. It rebuts something but it's definitely not the OP's point.
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I appreciate the interesting reading. Thanks for the useful comment!
It already got patched. Or rather, Apple disabled password reset functionality already. In fact, the article was already updated an hour ago to say that.
Problem is, how do you discourage legions of anonymous 4chan users who have learned from experience that they can take action without any repercussion?
What's a good source for information (reviews, let's plays, video reviews, etc) of best indie games?

It's surprising just how uninformative some game websites are. That includes websites of the game devs.
> If their production costs are too high, they should find better ways of controlling costs;

They do: they find other games that are more profitable to make.

> a game that sells 2.5 million copies is still a game that the market has validated.

Corporations don't exist to be "validated" in some nebulous. They have to make money. I could get the market to wildly validate any product: give it away for free, or, hell, pay people to use it.

That unfortunately doesn't make for a successful business.
I did this once using an old Windows 95 exploit at a hotel in L.A. (The Safari Inn from True Romance, FWIW.)

It didn't impress my girlfriend as much as I had hoped, though.
Since my earliest days on the internet and on the web in the early 1990's, I've always been nervous when services wanted by birthdate for (AFAICT) no good reason whatsoever. Since then, I've always used proxy dates as my "birthday" (dates that are easy for me to remember, but no one else knows) for services that don't legally require my real birthday (when filling out bank/govt forms, I will use my real DOB).

I'm thankful that I've done that, but of course it doesn't help when a FB friend helpfully sends me a "Happy Birthday" message on my real birthday or when my real birthday is available through so many public records. Sigh.
These games would most likely make money if he made them for mobile devices.

Sadly he is making them for desktops where people expect triple A games and play only those.

Cas, if you are listening... MOBILE!!!!!!
There are several things wrong with this analysis. First among them is the supposition that Android is rudderless without Andy Rubin.

Android has won, on mobile handsets, in an explosive way, in the past three years. It is time now to consolidate that victory.

Android has a whole other area to conquer, in tablets, in the workplace, displacing PCs instead of feature phones and failed smartphone platforms. What Google product already dominates in PCs? Chrome browser.

If Google simply knocks the rough edges off the process of becoming a Google Logo and/or Nexus OEM, Android is going to continue to mop up the remaining handset and tablet OEMs and expand into PC OEMs entering the tablet business.

Maintaining the blistering rate of Android versions with meaningful innovation will not be easy, but there are still plenty of units in the handset and tablet world to conquer.
We're talking about basic income for the purpose of ending poverty, not giving people a billion dollars every year for some undefined purpose. Your hypothetical is nonsense.
Typing it in isn't really that interesting... but when you submit, now that's when the magic happens.
Hi Matt:

I've been a sales/biz dev entrepreneur & founder for 15 years. Bootstrapped my last co. to $7-fig/yr net (this was non-tech, east coast). Recently moved to bay area to build tech startup grounded in sector I've lived & breathed for many years.

Startup aims to tackle pain-points in enterprise relocation, $50+B market. I have a MVP & have been prospecting/selling 12-15 hrs a day. In 3 weeks since launch I have 2 large companies that have agreed to to direct significant percent of their business to us., this=profitability.

I seek to recruit a talented developer that has product design experience as well as leadership & network capability to become VP product. I'm attending meetups, contributing where able and working hard to connect to SV ecosystem. But developers still seem to see me as the "biz guy" enemy.
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Wow this is pretty amazing and something I wish google had offered for awhile. The one area where I think your going to need to work on is your pricing. It's just to high for most websites. Of course, if your an elephant hunter...
Agreed. This a great article and great presentation.
>Who's the sexist again?

most of the time, the person asking that sort of question

Nice misrepresentation of what I said, by the way. It's not about the joke, it's about what's behind it. Women are frequently objectified in jokes, and the Technology industry hasn't exactly been the most welcoming to women. When you make a sexual joke in front of a woman in this context, she might feel inclined to think about what's behind that joke. And you will feel that no matter the intention, the tech industry is not one that has proven itself to be mature enough to be given the benefit of the doubt.
If you liked reading this post, I highly recommend Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. One of my favorite quotes, "So it goes," is repeated often throughout the book, and though it usually refers to tragic circumstances, it too hints that life will throw major wrenches in our plans that we shouldn't try to completely ascribe meaning to.
http://indiegames.com/ is pretty good for learning about new games, but not great for reviews
The biggest thing I took away from this is that you should treat potential employees like employees.
I don't know if anyone has actually said they won't be hiring women because of Adria Richards. What people have definitely said is that Richards may have hurt gender relations by causing male techies to be nervous around female co-workers. This was actually the most common reaction from women to this story, among those that I read.

In fact, I think it's a very underappreciated aspect of this tale that so many women sided against her. A lot of them make the same kinds of dick jokes--including, as we now know, Adria Richards.
Yeah, I thought the whole point was the unique, impressive design. The story is good, too, but I think the real point is being missed by everyone.
Oh... boy...

I'm guessing the 2-factor auth is tucked away under "Password and Security."

Which is hidden behind a bunch of inane "security questions" that I dreamt up years ago.

Not only am I unable to setup 2-factor auth, I can't even change my password!

They couldn't hide it behind an e-mail confirmation, or provide alternate options to login?

Obviously it's my fault for (A) not trying to change my AppleID password in nearly 10 years, and (B) not having systems in place to prevent this sort of thing... However, this is a service that basically has unchecked access to the associated credit card account. The fact that they don't even have a "Can't remember? Contact Support" link frustrates me.
Bullshit. It's not about whether ALL women are uncomfortable. Of course not all women are uncomfortable. So should we only frown upon behaviours that make every single member of a minority uncomfortable? Some is enough.
Just no, her behavior was unacceptable, she got him fired via publicizing the event not because of his actions, she demonstrated she's clearly emotionally unstable and she should be avoided in the future by companies,as for women have to spend their whole lives looking over their shoulders? I'm sure you don't realize this but 1) it was in front of 100s of people in public she could have easily told him to shut up. And 2) men make up the vast majority of every single crime except sexual assult, so don't act like this world is a safehaven for men and a everyday warzone for women, what she did, was clearly out of order, how would you like to get your family and career destroyed for making a slightly crude non-sexist joke?
The price will eventually stabilize (possibly at 0).
Doesn't this have network effects? The CDN used by the most sites becomes the most valuable since a user visiting your site will have the library cached.

I've always felt the benefit was that loading assets could be a networking no-op.
There's no single good definitive source, but I'll link a few random ones I've seen point to cool stuff in the past:

http://indiegames.com/index.html

http://rockpapershotgun.com/

http://www.tigsource.com/

http://jayisgames.com/
I think Python would be a very good choice. With it you will be able to do a lot more than programming web applications. For example, it has excellent libraries for scientific work. At the same time, it is very good for creating web applications (although probably not so much for real time web-applications, but I doubt Php is very good for that either). It has many very good web frameworks. I have used web2py, which makes it easy to create websites, and equally important, to deploy websites on various PAAS platforms.
> "helping a local company offering $95k salary and benefits (well above average in their area)"

I work for a NYC startup that has hired Philly residents in the past - either remote or remote-occasional-commute. Geographic salary fences are falling, and falling quickly - may I suggest $95K is below-market? Heck, around here $95K is below-market for a good, fresh undergrad.
People may or may not notice t-shirts, but the people wearing the t-shirt assume they're going to be noticed. It's a subtle, possibly not-entirely-conscious decision. But it's a decision. The idea is that people wear t-shirts as signifiers/broadcasters of their self identity. They don't necessarily think of socks the same way -- partially because they're not thinking socks will be seen, and partially because it's just not an ingrained psychological pattern.

I'm not saying novelty socks can't happen, and certainly there are a few fashion labels making a pretty good buck off of socks with fun, quirky, and unique designs. That's sort of an emerging space in the apparel business, actually. But the use case is somewhat different from the novelty t-shirt market.
Why? She reported the microaggression to the relevant organizers through a public channel. I don't see the problem?
knockout.js

require.js

durandal.js
I think that depends on what kind of conversion you're after. If you just want to harvest email addresses, then sure. If you're looking for satisfied paying customers, this kind of trickery won't work.

If you build a button that promises something for free, you need to give something for free — free tier, 30 day trial, ebook, screencast, etc. Having visitors fill out an account form is not a gift to them, it's a gift to YOU.
> The entire country graduated less than 10k people from CS programs in 2010.

I've gotten into a debate with some friends about this: a degree on a resume is really great, but it's not necessary for the vast majority of programming jobs.

> helping a local company offering $95k salary and benefits

I hear that driving a truck in the North Dakota oil boom can earn you $150k, to start. Even in a Buyer's Market, you have to offer a realistic salary.

> well above average in their area

Average what? Average programmer?

> there were very few applicants

How did the company find candidates? I feel like a lot of companies expect applicants... This is like expecting the phone to ring and having someone ask you out on a date. Putting your profile up on Match.com isn't much better.

If you want to hire people an hour out of Philadelphia, have you considered training people who live an hour out of Philadelphia for the job?

Again, I've said this a few times, maybe I've been very fortunate to work at companies with enough gravitational pull, because we work hard to make sure people know they're supposed to apply. But since we've put that effort in, we have overly-qualified applicants lined up for openings that don't exist.

> many were completely incompetent

You just told me that CS graduates can still be completely incompetent, but then you expressed surprise that apparently degrees don't matter that much any more. =)
Though we focus more on industry/professional news, Delve (delvenews.com) just launched Google Reader integration. Now you can sync your data and we'll pull in sources, generate topics and turn your folders into 'channels' for fast news filtering. It's free to use Delve as an individual and we're launching our mobile apps soon!
What comes after baz? I've seen some use quux but having 4 letters bothers me
You need to double-check your methodology:

http://sworddance.com/blog/2013/03/22/always-check-twice/

The difference is almost certainly an initial poor DNS resolution the first time for which ever service had the slower time.

That said, a more complete js cdn is always nice.
I don't believe this is the majority of humanity. This was not a major problem when I lived in India - most people (with far less opportunity than typical Americans) were quite willing and able to work as domestic help.

Perhaps lower class Indians are simply superior to lower class Americans? Or perhaps the incentives are merely different?
The privacy trade-offs of pulling the info off a website are simple and well-understood.

The trade-offs of a page that keeps pinging a mothership with every mouse wiggle are less comfortable.

The trade-offs of a page streaming out user's activity to a dedicated service are even more troublesome.
Keep in mind, the only benchmark I really care about is Discourse itself, I am sure that in many micro benchmarks JRuby is faster and/or slower
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If you live in the southwest you can find an immigrant to do those jobs for you.
Another point to make is server response time. I'm not making a claim one is better overall than the other, but at my location (boston) cloudflare's servers respond a bit faster. Just grabbing a couple different files between the two shows up to 300ms difference, but usually <100ms.

[edit] oh yeah, and this is all moot if your user already has it in cache, which is currently more likely from google.
GitHub: rolandtritsch
I don't really think this is a worthwhile route to go down. Someone could very well argue that if a man took a woman's picture because he overheard her making a vagina joke, it wouldn't have gotten any serious attention at all. Adria's complaint was taken seriously, at least by the conference organizers and the employer of the man who was fired, because she was a woman, and women are most often the recipient of sexism, especially in tech. Therefore, it's vital to take a stand against those who exploit that attention through their own cynical motives.
I'm betting when faced with the prospect of living on the street, or worse, starving to death, these people would figure out a way to cope with their current afflictions.
I have a system exactly like this at my company, with a prettier UI on top of the SQL querying. I've been considering open sourcing it for a while; I wonder if there really is a demand for this, or if it's one of those things that everyone prefers to roll themselves.
I'll be somewhat blunt - but this isn't meant as disrespect for you.

The software industry is highly bimodal. There are two very, very clear camps - you fall into the other camp than most HNers.

The market for mid-top end talent is a huge sellers market. There aren't enough people to go around, salaries inflate double-digit percentages every year, and crazily does not seem to be stopping.

The market for low-end warm-body coders is a huge buyers market. There are more clueless VB coders than there are seats; many, many more.

Do you, by any chance, work for a consultancy where innovation, code quality, or engineering excellence aren't exactly high up on the list of priorities? This may explain your glut of candidates - whereas on the other side of the industry fence companies are offering six-figures to fresh graduates and creating bidding wars around entry-level applicants?
This should have been saved for 1 April. It's good advertising though, and since it hit the front page of HN it's probably driving a ton of traffic to their site.
the point isn't how fast your CDN is, the point is how likely it is that the user already has the asset in browser cache.
Sure, but on the other hand, they're giving Adria exactly what she needed to get out of this one stronger: a way to claim to be the victim of the Internet Hate Machine.
For small files like this the latency is much more important than throughput, not to mention more users will have Google's version cached already.
Most mobile games don't make money either. He responded to that idea. http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1369#comment-54311
If you don't mind, are you a man or a woman? White or colored?
Also, there is the conceptual model of how an x86 computer works, and then how it actually works is another thing, for example I think the Sandy Bridge architecture has 160 physical integer registers, if I'm interpreting this correctly: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-archi... .
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The term microagression is weird.

If it was "micro", a proportional response would have also have been micro. Public shaming seems out of proportion.

And "aggression" implies directed hostility or malicious intent, neither of which seems to be the case here.

> Jokes like that foster the uncomfortable boys club environment that is so inherent to tech.

I have to simply disagree here. There are other things that may foster such an environment, but focusing on dumb, non-hostile jokes like this are a distraction.
Newspapers routinely find the money to pay $570/mo and up for ChartBeat, and then never use it, or I-don't-know-how-much for Adobe Omniture when they could have Google Analytics for free. So I don't think you're representative of the news industry as a whole.

Also, content-heavy sites have different analytics needs from applications. It'd be interesting to see where Heap fits in, but most of the analyses you can run in KISSMetrics, Mixpanel and other app-focused analytics tools aren't of much use for news organizations.
I'm not sure how Ember Data is different beyond providing a smarter interface to collections and models than BackBone.
But then you can't do conversion analysis anymore.
For the kind of developer who is implementing git in javascript in a month, $144k is definitely in the realm of market salary. Obviously this is more than most people in the world make, but if you just reject it as greed outright you are ignoring the real problems of corruption and dirty money happening in the upper echelons of society.

To me he's offering to do something, being up front about the cost, and you can take it or leave it. I see no moral justification to start prying into his expenses. You don't know how big his family is, or what debt he has, or how he spends his money, so who are you to judge him? If he makes this money in the private sector then I see absolutely nothing greedy about proposing that same salary on a kickstarter, but beyond that I don't see that it's any of your or my business. He's not enriching himself through arbitrage here, he's simply putting a price on honest work that has an outsize public benefit.

There are so many real financial injustices in the world that I just don't understand what angle you're coming from here. Do you believe individuals just shouldn't be allowed to make more than a standard deviation above median income? Or is does it have something to do with an ideal that F/OSS should distance itself from real money? If you were offered a job for $150k would you turn it down because it feels like selling your soul to the devil?
There's also a good discussion going on at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1asj6a/sanskrit_...
The problem was the extremely public nature of the channel. It wasn't speaking softly to the usher that someone was being inappropriate and unprofessional, it was shouting into a megaphone that someone was being inappropriate and unprofessional.

It's the "megaphone" part that I think is out-of-scale. If we're going to be a civilized community, then gentle, discreet correction should be the societal norm.
Related: http://blog.sethladd.com/2013/03/i-shrunk-my-dart-to-js-code...
> I challenge the reader to find any notable figure online who has held a controversial position and not been the target of death threats.
I'm not saying that Heap have got the pricing right but you should absolutely NOT look at cost when you put pricing together - rather, you need to ask your customers about the value of what it is you're providing. For example, Heap will be saving the time and hassle of deploying a generic solution on a server and the time of customising it. Plus Heap will be improving their product every day whereas the self-hosted version would need a developer to add new features. These sort of things all add up - you'll be surprised what you find out when you ask your customers.

Pricing is hard. There are a lot of good articles and discussions on HN if you do a bit of searching.
Say, you have a desktop client-server app. Outlook, for example. How would you feel if it were uploading every click on the menu and every mouse move (in the confines of its window, of course) to the server. Strictly to help the developer improve the product and make it better for you, their customer. This should be totally OK with you, right?
On the strength of this article I downloaded the demo, and it was a long way away from "a visual lollipop of swirling color that leaves your eyes sparkling and pixelated for hours". In fact, it was deathly dull. I gave it five minutes and encountered nothing remotely resembling challenge or interest. The graphics aren't bad, but from the article I was expecting to be blown away; I saw nothing that hasn't been done five years ago.

Maybe their sales stink for a reason. Back to Touhou for me.
I just enabled two-factor auth yesterday so I can't see the interface anymore but it seemed like there was a "Just email me" backup below the questions.
Some stack architectures (e.g. Hobbit) use small offsets to allow addressing into the stack, which adds some of the flavor and flexibility of a register-based machine while still conceptually keeping all values on the stack.
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With the lack of affordable healthcare, a drugged out populace on drugs that cause depression (prozac and the like as well as many benzodiazepines used longer than 2 weeks) and insanity (alcohol being the biggest culprit), stressful work for little pay, and the national economic depression, how can this trend not be going up in a nation that has been at war, non-stop for over a dozen years?

This is a surprise? I think not.
> I hate the idea that she's getting death threats and insults because of her gender. That's wrong.

Maybe I'm a fool to try to figure out the motivation of anonymous jackasses on the internet, but: It sure feels like the passion and energy being put into some of the attacks is due to her gender.