skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wondering why nobody has brought up the fact under Obama, unemployment assistance has been extended multiple times and it would seem obvious once your unemployment runs out, you would simply apply for disability.

I wouldn't propose this if I didn't already know several people who have done this in order to continue supporting their family. Also, my best friend is on disability and wholeheartedly deserves it, so I'm kind of torn about how I see people use and abuse this program.
> Well, yes. As a non-equity employee, why should you care about "them", other than how you'll come out of working for them five years down the line?

Because when you work at a company you don't care for, you are contributing to a toxic environment, which can hurt your career prospects much more than a sub-par salary, by making you caustic and bitter. If you come out of a job in anything other than high spirits, that will subconsciously, but seriously, hurt you in your hunt for the next job.
I'm a little sympathetic but ....

* Making games is like making music, movies, books, etc. in that the odds of you having a hit are very small. Thousands of people try, few are successful.

* I've seen a several articles about games here on HN that have been about "me to" games. Clones of clones of clones. The authors want us to pat them on the back for making a ripoff? Sorry. Make something original.

Personal opinion but Ultratron does not look even as good as the game it's supposedly cloning, Robotron 2084, which has way more "visual lollipop of swirling color that leaves your eyes sparkling and pixelated for hours". Compare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZRjdfh4_4

vs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7HkaqmSCxw
Find the Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then...
On that note: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/03/18/http-archive-jqu...
Shovelware is already a solved problem.
Sorry I was thinking of MangoDb
https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
http://code.google.com/p/thread-sanitizer/wiki/CppManual
This is aside the point of your blog post, but IMO it is entirely unreasonable to assume that you'll receive a digital download when you've bought a software on DVD.

I'm a huge proponent of DRM-free and open software. But think about this: It just happened to be that you were dealing with Adobe, who have the resources to make huge digital downloads available. What if the software on your DVD was made by a small company who can't afford to host multi-gigabyte downloads? When you bought the DVD, it was with an explicit assumption that you could use the DVD in a DVD drive.

Finally, yes, customer-service chats suck (except for Amazon - I continue to be amazed by how awesome their service is), and calling a company up is almost always more effective.
It some ways it is superior to how web hooks are normally implemented. E.g. Most SMTP relays have queues for both inbound and outbound delivery. Plus there are semantics for failed or bounced delivery.
Why does that seem unlikely?

I just read Storm of Steel -- which is, by the way, The Best First-hand Account of World War One -- and it does seem like you can't go two pages without running into a dead horse.

And from a numbers standpoint, if 6 million died in a 4-year war, it doesn't seem far-fetched that 980k would be killed in 6 months, especially since for an appreciable chunk of the war the Germans hunkered down behind the Siegfried line to conserve forces for a 2-front war.
Ask PG: Has an applicant been accepted after prior post-interview rejection?
There's plenty of startups that's been rejected after doing the interview. However, I can't find any case of the same team re-applying later and then getting accepted.

Has any startup ever been rejected post-interview, re-applied for a subsequent round, and been accepted?

Would YC consider a startup for a later batch that's previously been rejected post-interview?
I have heard they're technically allowed to, but in practice, cable networks do not seem to feel free to air nudity or strong swearing. Only the "premium" channels like HBO and Showtime do that. No matter how "edgy" MTV wants to be, everyone will keep their clothes on.
No. Had the kid been "disappeared" and all news suppressed, "police state" would be adequate.

For this? Perhaps it's plain incompetence. Maybe just an overreaction over flawed intel. Certainly nothing sinister.
I'm glad we're able to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide them with "trainin" as quoted in the article.
TV and cards don't need much income, but the health care certainly does.
Right, as someone in Emergency Services (not Law Enforcement, and not particularly fond thereof) in Olympia, Washington, the article is a little biased:

the tipster was a teenager who 'insistently and repeatedly' stated that he could specifically identify an AK-47 assault rifle

when a police chopper was overhead, the man, 'in his theatrical nature', started 'aiming and pointing his umbrella at the helicopter' (as confirmed by video from the chopper)

the schools -chose- to go on lockdown at the suggestion, not requirement of officers

one of the schools (that my partner's daughter attends, so if anything, I'm biased towards caution) chose to go on lockdown despite being a nearly three mile walk through medium density neighborhood, and the area already being cordoned off (so of debatable necessity).

"city-wide" - a very small city (population 46,000), and an area of perhaps 1 sq mi was actually cordoned off...
"multi-disciplinary" - 12 units were involved, including Olympia PD and Thurston County Sheriff.

Helicopter, not helicopters...

There are valid fears of a police state, but when you are asking the person calling 911, "are you sure he's carrying a weapon, not a cane or similar?" and the caller says "I know guns, and he has an AK-47 with him", and the person in question pretends to take potshots at police helicopter (in the singular), there's probably bound to be something of a response.
> so you could get them at bargain rates.

I think when you look at the DJIA, companies really are getting developers at bargain rates.

How much revenue do you think the top 30% of software companies are earning, versus how much they're paying their top talent?

> I also think you might be misreading the fact that the company you work for is letting open positions sit.

They're not - they're filling as quickly as we want them to. That's a Buyer's Market.
This reminds me frightfully of the Friendly AI Problem. Call it the "Friendly Economics Problem", if you will.

People often expect that Singularity-causing AI will have a set of pre-programmed guidelines about what to do (human happiness is good, killing all humans is bad, etc). It seems far more likely that we'll just use it to make money. If that happens, the Friendly AI Problem is exactly the Friendly Economics Problem.

So inevitably, the only thing humans will have to contribute to the economy will be consumption. Can AI be a consumer?

This is a critical step, politically. What we do now to the "useless" members of society will eventually be done to all of humanity.
Welp, there goes an obvious good thing we had high hopes would help enrich our infrastructure! Monday is going to be a very depressing day in the office for everyone: we're going to have to go to cgit or some such, and there'll probably be screaming and crying and whaling and self flagellation over that one.

Ya'll should provide an easy to use configuration for using gitlab as a RO mirror of any arbitrary git repository.

Hope you have a lot of great new things in the pipe that gitlab-shell is providing. If configuration was the problem, why not try and scrape gitolite's configuration directly and run gitlab from that? There's certainly another acceptable path- the one you took, creating your own repo server- but I have a hard time qualifying this- as this press release does- as a feature: it's a migration, a lateral jump: there's nothing new that happens, nothing better, it's just a different configuration routine to do what Gitlab and Gitosis.

I wont be suckered by such suavity, but there's a lot of people who would be more enticed by "new super configurable way better than gitolite repo server" as a sales pitch that probably were happy enough running Gitlabs at it used to run that don't really see this as a feature, as they were already on top of it. When releasing features, put the featureful ones foremost.
Many readers say they dislike seeing it on other pages, but as the author said:

I especially like them because I can obsessively watch the totals see how my writings are spreading out across the Internet.

It's kinda cool to watch the realtime google analytics views during a spike
Why We Reinvent Wheels
Reasons Why I Would Be Willing To Pay For Facebook
> The standard western week is Saturday-Sunday

Saturday-Sunday would be two days. I suspect you mean Monday-Sunday is the standard week, or Saturday-Sunday is the last two days of the standard week, in the West.

Note that this is also, while more sensible, still incorrect. The conventional week in many parts of the western world is Monday-Sunday. The conventional week in the US (which, last I checked, is a somewhat-significant part of the West) is Sunday-Saturday.

> Why do many web apps default to displaying Sunday to the left (start) of the week's calendar, rather than to the right of Saturday?

Because its the US convention, and many web apps are designed by people to whom US conventions are deeply ingrained.

> What possible utility does this layout provide?

Instant familiarity to anyone who is familiar with calendars (whether electronic or print) commonly used in the US.
I'm sure it's important for the demo scene (because the binary size is the only factor), but this is largely irrelevant for modern architectures when performance is considered.
It's an American thing. Like many things where the US chooses to do things differently from most of the rest of the planet (month-day-year format, not using the metric system), I doubt it provides any kind of utility.

At least not one that is still relevant in the 21st century.
> the curriculum doesn't really sell itself at all for professional software development

Oh, I completely agree. It's a Liberal Art, essentially. As opposed to a Trade School. I'm a huge fan of a liberal arts education, and I think the background of a Computer Science degree is fantastic, but I can't lie to myself that it's necessary.

I think the future is more mentorship, and once someone is a bit established in their career, that they will take continuing Liberal Arts education to improve themselves.
It would seem that the niche we chose is a bit shite :) But that's why we're abandoning it.
Why would the author expect big sales from a polished version of a 30 year old genre? Look at his competition: Here is another $4.99 game in the action/indie category http://store.steampowered.com/app/211400/

The recent big indie hits are genre defining or at least have very unique gameplay. (minecraft, ftl, etc)
That is impressive, but you've basically just checked whether cloudfare has a POP in Ontario, or atleast within 2-3ms of your datacenter.

They both have POPs local to me:

eggplant:~ tsl$ wget http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
--2013-03-22 19:29:21-- http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
Resolving cdnjs.cloudflare.com... 141.101.123.8, 190.93.240.8, 190.93.241.8, ...
Connecting to cdnjs.cloudflare.com|141.101.123.8|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-javascript]
Saving to: ‘jquery.min.js’
[ <=> ] 92,629 --.-K/s in 0.04s
2013-03-22 19:29:21 (2.03 MB/s) - ‘jquery.min.js’ saved [92629]

eggplant:~ tsl$ wget http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
--2013-03-22 19:42:05-- http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
Resolving ajax.googleapis.com... 173.194.75.95, 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::5f
Connecting to ajax.googleapis.com|173.194.75.95|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/javascript]
Saving to: ‘jquery.min.js.1’
[ <=> ] 92,629 --.-K/s in 0.05s
2013-03-22 19:42:05 (1.62 MB/s) - ‘jquery.min.js.1’ saved [92629]

Just to drive home how much locality matters:

tsl@beast:/volumes/fast$ wget http://nas.***.com/jquery.min.js
--20:00:05-- http://nas.***.com/jquery.min.js
=> `jquery.min.js'
Resolving nas.***.com... 10.10.10.2, fd2b:2048:4633:10::2
Connecting to nas.***.com|10.10.10.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 92,629 (90K) [application/javascript]
100%[====================================>] 92,629 --.--K/s
20:00:05 (63.00 MB/s) - `jquery.min.js' saved [92629/92629]

Looks like my single core ARM6 nas is the best in my neighborhood.
Weren't people trying to choke NASA before the sequester? Is the effect of the sequester more significant than previous efforts to slash NASA budget?
I'm happy to be talking to another business dev. Shoot me an email. I love sharing data with others.
I don't know about games but in indie music the market used to be saturated by free mediocre music, and now it's starting to become saturated by free good music. But not because the musicians want to generously give all their music away for free, it's because they're all chasing the same goal of "if I give some away for free, the marketing boost will make up for it". And as more people enter the market, that belief gets less and less valid. I think there might be a lot of parallels with game-making. A popular thing to produce but the "game theory" behind it is tough as everyone races to destruction. I keep hoping that something like repeated-prisoners-dilemma will happen, where producers collectively decide to act in a way that is in everyone's best interest.
I think a big chunk of magic in Ember is its state machines. I think without explaining this core-mechanics and how it's used by ember and ember data. Beginners will have a terrible time learning the framework. Not only this, but you're exactly right you end up in weird unresolved states, due to bugs, race conditions and a like. Not fun.

Also ember should try and move away from calling itself an MVC, it's much more complex then that. I think this mis-categorization confused new users as well.

I feel ember has a lot of broken promises, but I will continue to hold judgement until a solid 1.0 release.
Sounds like the steganographic equivalent of Y-chromosome genotyping.
Er, I think you meant to compare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6gmgExmJbM
The so-called journalists who are calling the jokes "sexist" have been especially irritating, and their attempts to distort the truth to help pull favor in Adria's direction is only pissing people off even more.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/03/adria-rich...
It wasn't "any place" it was a school, and it wasn't a "vague implication" but a rather specific report (guy, black mask, gun) (the fact that a report is wrong does not mean it is vague). That seems to warrant a pretty serious reaction.

Indeed, there was a report of a gunman in my law school a few years ago. The place was locked down, SWAT came, there was a helicopter, the works: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Gunman-Seen-at-Northwes.... It's standard operating procedure when dealing with sensitive areas with lots of people.
Get very smart about who you apply to. Seriously, stop responding to ads right now and spend the next week studying job postings. Look carefully at every statement. Ask yourself, "why would someone put this in a job posting?" Don't just assume you know, think about it and ask yourself if there's something you missed. Memorize the posting, before you reply.

Then when you finally answer the ad, you'll be so far inside the person's head that it will look like God himself sent them the PERFECT candidate.

You need to be patient and to sharply cut down on the number of ads you're answering. So pick the good ones, the ads that look like they were written by engineers. The ones where you can see the thought processes of the people hiring.

In my job search, I sent out exactly one reply to exactly one ad, to the company that hired me.
I upvoted your top comment but I'm definitely downvoting this whinging about downvoting. That shit has to stop, or HN will become truly unreadable.
PHP Programming For Children Kickstarter Project
"And somebody did find new jobs for those horses! 2% of them, at least. The balance got slaughtered."

I do not think this was as much of a slaughterhouse as that makes it look. Today, horses typically live for 20-30 years or so. In 1900, I would think working horses would be lucky to reach 20 years; as they became older and less productive, they would be sold of and slaughtered.

With an average 'working career' of 10-15 years or a horse, just stopping buying replacement horses would be enough for most of that decline in the number of working horses.
The comparison to music is apt. I have a friend who went through the 90's in a grunge band and had a small modicum of success (they released three albums) and said he's glad he's not in the music industry now. He described the music industry these days in one word: saturation. Actually, an over saturation of shitty music.

These days, it really takes an effort to find good music. It's the same thing with the gaming industry. There's so many games, it's hard for people to sift through the shit to get to a decent game. When you have an entire generation of kids with an attention span of a goldfish, unless you have millions in marketing, it's a long, long road till you make some money.

I'm reminded of the immortal words of AC/DC when they sang: "It's a LONG way to the top if you wanna rock n' roll."
Digging Around In The Google Graveyard
This is windows 7. Notice that neither of them are maximized. The behavior you talk about only occurs when you maximize the window, not when it is "half-maximized" as shown.
The sequester is a big sick joke. A bunch of toddlers are throwing tantrums in DC right now, trying to scare the public over big bad cuts.

The truth is, America has a priority problem. We have more than enough money to spend. The toddlers in DC are used to getting their way and free spending like crazy (thus the trillion dollar deficits). Now they're being forced to make choices, and they're openly attempting to scare the public.

The best example of the sequester con is the White House tours. It's a big lie that they can't keep it open, pure propaganda.

The things we're free spending money on right now are disgusting. We have money to drone the planet and murder thousands of civilians, but not to hire teachers and fix bridges. We can keep Guantanamo open and spend money torturing people, but we can't keep our schools open. We can give the theocrats in Egypt lots of money, but we can't keep a simple NASA outreach program. We can spend a trillion dollars on the mostly pointless and highly dysfunctional F35 that will barely ever see action, but we supposedly can't keep the FAA operating at max capacity. Biden can spend a million dollars on one night hotel stays in Paris and London, but the White House has to cancel various Easter celebrations.
In today's day and age I think its reasonable. Even when I bought it, I knew I could download it online and use the same license key. That was an option until Adobe released the new CS6. Further, this download is still available to you if you bought the digital download. What I couldn't understand is why they would not provide the same service to a customer who buys via DVD.
There are so many resources for adults to learn to code online, I thought we needed one for the younger kids...

I started to code when I was 7 on my dad's Commodore 64 and would have killed for a resource aimed at someone my age...

Any help would be appreciated!
NATO-Commissioned Report Says Killing Hackers Is Basically OK
Clearly there's way more sales to made than thousands, it's just that it's going to be a power law distribution. There's only going to be one Minecraft (10s of millions), a handful of Super Meat Boys (million copies) or Legends of Grimrock (half a million), etc.

It seems like the more interesting question is what a developer can do to increase their likelihood of winning the indie game lottery. Besides making a good game. FTL did it by getting lots of publicity from being an early game development kickstarter success story. Legend of Grimrock had excellent graphics for a 4 man indie game, resurrected a genre that had been dead for a couple of decades, and got good launch-time reviews in a lot of big PC game publications. (I expect that the nostalgia effect was a factor both in getting the reviews in the first place, as well as in them being so positive).
French Government recommends to use smaller fonts to save space on servers
Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-a-a-alcohol
Relevant: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/the_terrible_awful_tr...

He argues that the system is "broken" on purpose.
But it is bound to a platform.

If you've bought Creative Suite and they've since released a new version, they won't do a cross-grade, so there's a thousand-dollar plus penalty for switching from Mac to Windows (or vice versa, though you could run Windows in a VM).
I so wanted this. :(
Your Gmail chats - in visual form
I'm not sure what using wget is supposed to show.
Using it 25 times in a row on a completely stable, completely idle 25mbps connection, I get speeds/times that vary by 100% consistently

(IE min is 496k/s, max is 895k/s, average is about 600k/s)

Using wget is a completely useless benchmark, from what I can tell.
Using apache's little benchmark tool I get about 255ms vs 180ms average for 100 requests to each.

The interesting part is that for ajax.googleapis.com I get:

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 175 228 28.2 227 306
Processing: 0 12 15.1 8 90
Waiting: 0 0 0.0 0 0
Total: 189 240 29.8 235 350

and for cloudflare I get:

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 19 28 13.1 25 125
Processing: 125 155 28.0 146 246
Waiting: 21 28 6.5 27 65
Total: 144 182 30.7 175 271

IE for google, all the time is in actually getting a connection and getting the bits, whereas, for cloudflare, there is actually some time waiting for their servers.

Using 5 concurrent requests actually gives me a massive advantage for google (cloudflare takes roughly the same time, google goes 4 times faster)
When we were making Ultratron for Steam we knew that it wasn't ever going to actually sell much, but that was not the point of the article. The point of the blog post I wrote was simply to say, it takes this long and this much money to make a game like this, and it earns about this much money, so we're not going to do them any more. I think it's a shame because it scratches an itch that just isn't scratched anywhere else. And that's what Jeff was getting at, indirectly; it's a shame that these kinds of games aren't really all that viable to make. I don't want to play endless zombie games and man-shooters. I want to play games like Ultratron, and almost nobody is making them any more, which is why we've made it.
I wouldn't object to seeing interesting posts that happen to be Africa-related here on HN proper...
Using wget for a test is just terrible. Here's a better test (and I'll put it here, so everyone can criticize it):

1) start chrome in incognito mode.
2) press f12, and then click on network
3) load each js

I'm in Denver, this is what I got:

Google:
DNS Lookup: 14ms
Connecting: 24ms
Sending: 0
Waiting: 46ms
Receiving: 42ms
TOTAL: 128ms (86ms latency)

Cloudflare:
DNS Lookup: 15ms
Connecting: 43ms
Sending: 0
Waiting: 46ms
Receiving: 49ms
TOTAL: 154ms (105ms latency)

I can't take a test run with wget seriously when there are better tools so easily available. It's beyond lazy.. it's incompetence, or worse, dishonest. He couldn't even be bothered to run it more than once from his own computer(!)
I find this whole situation very frustrating so much so I wrote a blog post about it. It's people like Adria who discourage women to join or take part in our industry.

http://lovefromkelly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/life-as-female-d...