skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there's some useful academic term for what you're doing here.
And that publisher is... Steam. The trouble is even with the might of all those well-targeted customers there's still only a few thousand sales to be made - and thanks to the sudden change in the pricing of games in the last 5 years or so, you can now only make 1/10th of the money from a sale that you could before.

In my original posting I wasn't really trying to complain about the situation; just showing the facts and figures, and the ultimate conclusion of course, which is that we're not making any more of them. Probably. It is quite fun.
or, well, the smartphone they would use for email, maps, games and web-browsing, and the big screen they would use to watch tv and movies on! do you really think we live in a society impoverished enough that providing basic luxuries to the poor would be an overall hardship?
How would you like to invest in immortality?
Try buying it :)
> Over the next couple of days, I will transition existing subscribers off of Feedburner, but since some of you are subscribed directly to a Feedburner URL, [...]

Anybody happen to know how one might "transition existing subscribers off of Feedburner"? I have a decent amount of subscribers via Feedburner but I would also like to cease using it (the writing is on the wall) and transition existing subscribers off but, obviously, RSS readers are tied to my Feedburner URL instead of the "direct" URL on my blog.
SQLite has not just 100% statement coverage but also 100% branch coverage! http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
in the process of making a better-than-stock security system for the land rover defender.
I've never had anything other than comically bad customer service from live chat systems.

I remember trying to renew a domain that was due to expire very shortly (can't remember the company sorry) and getting a nonsensical error in the renewal process. It took 10-15 minutes for the chat person to reply each time and the most conclusive answer I got was "don't know".
You may have to move out of "the middle of PA".
Right, but the oddities and general paucity of the architectural registers makes it hard to actually put the large physical register file to use. Subtle differences in instruction selection and ordering can make a big difference in performance, eg. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15349308/using-xmm0-regis...
Thanks for posting the fixed link; I copied it from another computer, and missed a path. Doh.
Does anyone have info regarding how much it costs to do customer service inhouse versus using a third party call service versus using a third party live chat service? I suspect that live chat is far cheaper.
Some companies enforce this much coverage as part of their build pipeline.
On a related note, air travel this summer is going to suck. More so than usual: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/us/politics/ohare-tower-ma...
I wonder if being the fourth interviewee in a given day would help or harm your chances of a follow-up? :)
If I was bringing such a suit, I'd focus on the content of the blog post where she mentioned his verbal acknowledgment that the firm was a conference sponsors, and argued that wearing a shirt with his employer's logo made him a representative of the firm, the implication being that he was unfit to carry out his duties as a corporate representative.

I couldn't tell you if there's precedent for that; I haven't looked. If so, it might just as easily support a counter-suit for IIED or NIED. I hope nobody files any lawuits; if they do I'm going to take a vacation from HN and stick my head in a bucket of water until it's over.
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On the other hand, it's entirely likely that the next company will have untrained phone support and better trained chat support.

Or that the same chat support might have solved his problem right away, had he spoken to a different rep.

Support is always a huge crap shot.
I tend to go Foo, Bar, Baz, Fizz, Buzz, Bing.

If I need more than that, then I should probably simplify what I'm writing, or use more descriptive names.
That's a pretty crazy comment, but should I think it represents men in general?
haxe has flaws , but haxe is not backed by windows nor google. The team is 3/4 developers and they did a great work. Haxe will grow in the future. All it needs is a better "PR" and a bit of hype. A lot of successfull projects have been made with haxe.
If you wanted to troll you could say, "Oh wait! I've found the download. Incase anybody else asks it's http://piratebay.se/...
This is exactly why we are building our company SaleMove for sales not customer service
If you don't know why you are interviewing someone, why are you interviewing them?

Test coders on how to code, not on how to sell.
Yes, treating people differently will almost certainly result in people being treated the same. Not really though, it has never worked and will never work probably because it is illogical.

This is part of the reason why so called "male privilege" is actually bullshit. There are so many double standards and exceptions negatively effecting males that they are actually at a disadvantage in a rapidly increasing number of areas.
I think you could probably qualify this with the statement that most Fortune 500 companies are more willing to outsource live chat out side of the US because it's easier for a non native speaker to chat than to talk on the phone. Outsourced support leaves individual reps with pretty little power, and worse support for edge cases.

I am not sure what the right solution for this is, but many small-medium companies without outsourced support teams do quite a good job providing chat support. (i.e. Bonobos, Joyant, Rackspace, Gilt Group, Trunk Club, etc..)

I guess the real question is more about how do you scale good support when you grow. Especially when most people see support as a cost center. (Not every CEO wants to be Zappos)
From the article: the cuts are "hitting where it hurts: in education and outreach". Is that really where it hurts for NASA? What about space exploration and research? Aren't those a little more important?
I think this is more of an outsourcing/language barrier problem than a live chat problem. I had a similar situation calling an outsourced support arm for US Airways. I called and I just needed to get my voucher applied to a domestic flight and the guy simply could not figure it out.

What I did figure out though is that if you press the number for "International" travel, you get someone in the US (Apparently US Airways thinks International traveler support shouldn't be outsourced). She was able to apply my voucher in under 5 minutes.
What exactly is "police state" about this situation? Police reacted on a tip and it turned out the tipster made a mistake. I didn't get the memo that we're now calling "police state" every time the police actually do their jobs.
my blood pressure spiked just reading this...
Sometimes you don't find out it's not good until several hours later when you are having a close encounter with a plumbing fixture.
Does your financial institution encrypt your passwords? Mine doesn’t.
That's an interesting example, but it doesn't have anything to do with "putting the physical register file to use". Register renaming always helps as long as your algorithm is dependency-free. It's probably one of the single best general purpose optimizations available to a modern CPU design.

The classic example of where register-poor ISAs hurt isn't about "subtle differences" at all. It's the fact that there are still only 8 (for i386) named registers, and so anything that needs to deal with a working set beyond that needs to do spill/fill to memory, and you can't "rename" memory accesses (though you can sort of cheat, as with the store forward optimization -- but that doesn't work nearly so well as renaming does).
They're like $30 on Newegg--I'm sorry but in the real world physical media ain't over with.
This was a surprisingly interesting read, compared to what else has been written about the event so far. Someone should turn this into a little Grisham-style legal drama for the twitter age.
SQLite is awesome, and a true model of just how good software can be. It's also designed by programmers for programmers and has a well-defined API that can be thoroughly tested. It's the perfect module, with an API (SQL) that has been refined over several decades. Less well defined stuff - like interacting with users - is harder to test.
a html web page and a paypal / whatever / ... account are enough come on ...
Fourscore and nineteen, actually.

Well, not literally actually. Figuratively actually, like all good translations.
This is like saying "A good leader Always leads by example". Sure it sounds nice, but it doesn't give you any example.
Is it possible that the market is now so saturated with games of all kinds that it's simply hard to find enough customers to care about each separate product? Between smartphone app stores, Facebook games, a half dozen different consoles, an endless supply of entertainment through Steam, Kickstarter and (basically free) Bundles of all sorts, it must be really difficult to stand out without a truly unique product and phenomenal marketing.

As some of you folks pointed out, it's turning into a race to the bottom similar to the music industry, where people won't even play your product for free, even when it's really high quality. Think of all the games you accumulated through Steam sales and never even touched. It's a brutal war over the spare time of the average gamer, and it's highly contested space.
It does mean bank note. It also means ticket, as in plane or train ticket. And the linked picture doesn't really look like an ATM.
> Sure, of course.

I get applicants who claim they're C++ experts, and they've never cracked Boost open to look for anything good, and they've never heard of TR1 or anything that followed. I'd like to have that discussion with a candidate. That's all I meant by "know Boost."

> You can also have a look at my GitHub

When I can do that, it's awesome.

Many candidates have been work-for-hire their entire careers, in states with Non-Competes that are either enforceable or people are afraid their previous / current employer might try to enforce it. I don't hold a lack of a GitHub account against someone.
Thanks for your explanation. I think we have different definitions of what an 'account' is. For me, an account is in which a user shares his contact information (maybe also business & payment info). That in itself doesn't add value.

From your last comment, I gather that (to you) 'account' surmounts to 'access to the service or product'. If so, we agree.

When you apply for Costco membership, you get something in return: the chance to buy products for less than they would normally cost. I don't see how that translates to the example provided.

NB: I'm a publisher, marketer, editor, and designer. I develop software, but I'm not a programmer.
The author is beyond hope, and has willingly hobbled himself despite knowing that this could be an issue. I don't think mere things like reason, logic, or prior planning enter into this.
I see no options about 2fa even though I'm in the UK. Also, it doesn't seem to support OTP and I have an Android phone (I don't always have my iPad with me).

They could've done this better.
It's not a great analogy. A VHS tape goes for $5 (Blu-ray about $20), while an Adobe product can be priced for a few hundred dollars. I'm not surprised he expected more.
Without education and outreach, perhaps there won't be enough talented and engaged people to take part in designing, building, and operating the equiptment for space exploration?
Thanks for the response.

I actually printed out about 20 sample bits of code, and discussed that. I worked with people on the Image Processing / Computational Geometry side who would set up a programming challenge with a compiler, and I respect that, too.
Oh, good point about the conference sponsor stuff.

Still: there's a big gulf of persuasive evidence between saying someone is not acting in the moment as an effective representative for their firm, and in directly procuring the severance of an employment contract between them and their employer.

I think this case, or any case in the other direction, is extremely far fetched.
that's why you need to write tests BEFORE you start coding ;)
This line of questioning is sometimes useful. However, the first rule of being a good ally is that it is not the responsibility of any member of a marginalized group to educate you. There is no shortage of writing on this topic, including in the most recent threads.
Totally agree. That said, it's a sad irony that this debate will probably resurface with the next incident within a month, much like the frequency of mass-shootings in the USA.
One trick is to not use a database but a flat text file. You can optimize for querying nightly.
"Lots of places are just looking for smart developers because there's lots of things to do rather than looking for somebody to fulfill a specific task."

That. If you are that company, I don't want to work for you.

You have to have a mission. The big hairy audacious goals guide your week to week work. If they don't then "You're doing it wrong".

If you don't know what I should be working on, then I am unlikely to be able to move you forward in a meaningful way. Sure, Google as a whole may not have a "thing" for me to work on, but each department will have it's key thing... again, if they don't, what the are they adding to google? Is my job secure? Or will I get axed in the next product that doesn't serve to organise the worlds information?
I doubt they are expecting Apple and Microsoft to incorporate the Dart VM, so they are putting a lot of effort into the JavaScript output. The Dart VM really comes into play in the near future for Chrome Packaged Apps. They interesting thing is loading snap shots of the virtual machine state quickly.
http://www.infoq.com/articles/google-dart
There are tons of meetups going on all the time (www.meetup.com). No real estate tech meetups that I know of though. I'll be at Realtech SF too, so feel free to ping me if you want to meet up there.
At the time I was working with code that had been written with Visual Studio 6. The code snippet was written at that time, and I thought it was interesting because of how it behaved, and it let me delve into how the person reasoned about the language, the compiler, and the runtime.

I repeat my earlier declaration that I loved candidates who didn't know the answer, but could have a good conversation about the question.
I've also long supported the negative income tax, because it avoids the perverse incentives of the existing system.

BTW, it's not being means-based that causes the existing system to have perverse incentives; the NIT is also means-based by definition. The difference is mathematical: whether the subsidy is a step function of income, or a linear function. Step-function subsidies always create perverse incentives. Unfortunately, they are ubiquitous. I dream of the day when our legislators have sufficient mathematical ability and understanding to select appropriate linear functions instead.

Anyway, I came across a paper explaining why the NIT is a non-starter, politically, in the US. The basic problem seems to be that there are too many people -- especially young single men -- who currently receive no subsidy yet would be entitled to one under the NIT. This group would make the program too expensive.
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Thanks for the response! Only reason I mentioned it was that I didn't see REST anywhere in the linked article or here: https://github.com/emberjs/data
A lot of people lost their tempers over the last few days, and angry people are not good at rational discussion. It's a good question but I also think you'll get better answers after people's blood pressure has returned to normal. But I know you were looking for women's opinions so I'll bow out at this point.
I'm obviously outside of the audience this is for, and probably most other commenters since only one other person mentioned performance.

Perf??

And of course, this follows the "include a script tag to our server" cloud product web API pattern. This isn't setting off giant alarm-bells for anyone else? This gets past the sniff test?

The fact that this doesn't fail the sniff test for most people is probably why most web-apps feel like most web-apps feel, instead of like http://prog21.dadgum.com/.
This is software. You don't buy the DVD, you don't even buy the software.

You buy the license.

The license isn't bound to a delivery format, and in 2013 downloads are the common delivery formats for anything other than console games. If any party is being deliberately obtuse, it's Adobe.
Probably everyone born after 1945 should start checking the "nazi war criminal" one, but I'm not brave enough to be the first.
I am surprised he did not do that from the very beginning... I am reading his monthly newsletter and did not look at the blog too often, but on my own installations I always asked myself, how much of my users privacy I want to give up for some gain I might have (usually not much)
Imagine it's night, and you're a woman alone at a bus stop, in an empty street. Two men arrive, also waiting for the bus. While they're waiting, they start making sexual jokes.

Now imagine you're a man in the same situation, and two women arrive. They start making sexual jokes. Can you see the difference?

Just like you can tell your boss a joke where someone's getting fired, but you could feel uncomfortable if he was the one telling the joke. Asymmetry of power -- in the gender case, of physical power -- means that context matters.
> Putting someone in front of a computer gives them the freedom to google

And what's wrong with that? I use google several times/day to help out with programming problems. This is 2013; if your company doesn't have access to the internet (and thus Google) then people aren't going to want to work for you anyway. The problem is you're trying to set up some kind of artificial situation where you want people to solve a problem without access to readily available information.

Sure, you could have them sit down at a computer that you've unplugged from the network and have them solve your problem, but why bother?
And that would be good, too. I like to laugh with my co-workers. Especially the ones who have to maintain code that was originally written in Visual Studio 6, but somehow has survived to today. Because if you end up with a job like that, where you occasionally have to maintain something that long-lived, you'd better have a sense of humor to carry you through to the times that you get to innovate like crazy and make something nobody had ever thought of before. May we all get to work at jobs that have a healthy and responsible mix of those two activities.
But thinking that running 12 miles a day is the only useful way to run, will discourage you from attempting to run.

To put it another way, saying "50% test coverage is fine, sheesh" should encourage more testing, because it lowers the bar you have to strive for to consider yourself to be "doing it right", and therefore makes it easier to talk yourself into trying at all.
It used to be that there was only a very narrow market for games, but now there is casual, hard core, mobile, tablet and console, desktop, MMO's, indy, web. But to offset that the market is also much bigger and more inclusive. There are people that now pay for video games that would never have bought a Nintendo or an Xbox. If you want to make money in video games you have to find a niche and give that audience quality versions of what they want.
> I will take 100% coverage with good tests over anything else any day of the week.

Isn't that obvious/tautological?
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There _has_ been tons of debate - loads of comment here and on Reddit - if you're starting another thread for karma, shame on you.
[Edit] ah ok -- nice troll :)
The job of the police would seem to me to be "exercising appropriate discretion" rather than sending an army to any place where there's vague implication something bad might happen.
> That's not the point.

It's clearly not your point. But I think its an important point.

> The point is we shouldn't brush off these individual incidents as insignificant because they are part of a whole.

If the significance is because they are part of a whole, then they need to be addressed in that context.

> The problem is not going to get solved if you don't show that you do not tolerate this sort of behaviour, on an individual scale.

You can not-tolerate it by making a private report to conference staff; you can not tolerate it by making a public discussion of the general problem with the specific incident as one of the illustrations; you can not tolerate it in many ways. The argument that something shouldn't be tolerated, even when accepted, doesn't automatically justify every possible response.
I believe this would be a manual process where you'd ask your subscribers to subscribe again on a different platform.
A friend and I share one that's hosted at his house, we use it as a mumble server, and plan possibly to host other shared services.
The market is saturated by mediocre-to-average games. There's plenty of room for truly great stuff.

Just today we heard about Banished, a beautiful city builder game in development by one guy which has hardcore PC gamers (jaded creatures indeed) very excited:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/22/simsettlement-ban...
I believe the only way of doing it is to delete the FeedBurner feed. Google redirects requests for your FB feed to the source for 15 days, then stops redirecting and shows a message with a link to the source feed for 15 days, then returns a 404: http://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79597?hl=en

This should give keen subscribers the chance to switch over, although you will likely lose some in the transition.

If you have FeedBurner's email subscription option turned on, you'll also need to migrate those users to MailChimp or FeedBlitz or similar manually. (You can export the list from the FB control panel.)
"you're trying to set up some kind of artificial situation where you want people to solve a problem without access to readily available information."

Would you hire someone who has to google for an answer to fizzbuzz?
This seems like what journalism should be

Remember this during your next NPR pledge drive :)
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It sounds like you're talking about 'immigration raising the population', which is slightly orthogonal to the grandparent post statement that birth rates tend to stabilize, but are higher than otherwise because of immigration. I assume what he was actually referring to was the tendency of first generation immigrants to have a higher birth rate than non-immigrants in America.
Makes sense. We've been careful to stick to RESTful endpoints so it should be a matter of creating API keys and documenting it properly.
I noticed quite a few of the states on the top 10 are from the south. I'm curious how many of them were ex-military.
Looks nice. I do worry about the privacy implications of analytics like this. I'm also pretty sure that this doesn't fly in Europe... something to consider perhaps!
I'll note that the salaries at some of the top companies have not been inflating that much. For them, it's a Buyer's Market. Like I said, perhaps I've been lucky with the companies I've worked at, and didn't even realize how fortunate I was.