skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Again, context matters. When a man makes a sexual joke and a woman makes a sexual joke, it's not the same thing because there are different implications to it.

My brain cannot even comprehend how you can believe such bullshit. I feel like am living in some kind of satirical novel when these incidents happen and people defend it with these type of statements.
Fine, you got me on "release" vs "release candidate." Still, it is clear that the plan is to release Ember as a 1.0 without Ember.Data (it would be very strange to add something of Ember.Data's scope into a release but not have it in the RC).

I'm aware that Ember.Data is considered separate. The entire point of my post was that I believe this is a mistake.
"Because it seems that once you declared basic income and nobody wants to work anymore"

That's not in evidence: most programmers could work a month out of the year and have the amount of money provided by a basic income, but they choose to work much more than that. But I digress.

Immigration is one of the more interesting challenges for a BI, but I think it's overstated. As alluded to above, there's still all the incentive in the world to work even while receiving a basic income: which is to say, more income. You would want to make sure that you don't have a huge immediate influx of immigrants, but that's pretty simple: limit the number of immigrants in to a manageable amount (whatever that is), and only give citizenship to an immigrant once they've lived here for X years. At that point they'd have been working aplenty, paying taxes, and building skills: on citizenship and receiving the income, they'd have the same skills and incentives to continue working.
He mentions that he bought the software when he had a Mac/PC with a DVD drive. Now, he no longer does. Buying a new computer shouldn't mean he has to re-purchase software to be able to install it.
Tell me where a place like this exists. I think you may be my doppleganger, especially in regards to #4, #7
Comment on photos from private accounts you don't follow on instagram
Stock options and dreams of millions when they go public.
Why Cyprus Will Pay Dearly
Can't you just download the trial version of CS5 and register it with your box serial?
Just upped the number of free tickets for everyone that wants to make it but can't donate. :)
Unfortunately how separate Ember.Data is depends on which documentation you read. In general most of the official documentation assumes you're using Ember.Data. That makes it feel missing, not separate.
There is a vast difference in comparing live expectancy at 21 and 0. In that none of the 21+ population is going to die at 0.
They don't have the trial version of CS 5 on the website. Only CS 6.
I played Ultratron too and it is a decent game but not very interesting. Revenge of the Titans on the other hand is an excellent, exciting game and I'm surprised it's not more successful.

It is worth adding more upgrades, mods and marketing to milk that cow.
Automatically generating the avatar is very cool, but in terms of realism, there is no comparison between what I've found on your company's YouTube channel and the video from the article.

My conclusion is mostly based on this video from your YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iggXtQ-jBBU

...and this video from the article:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d1ZOYU4gpo#t=527s

Finally, this video from your channel, even though it's a few years old, is both technically impressive and downright horrifying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFS05tR9028

If you have better material to show, I'd recommend featuring it somewhere on your main website.
EBay India Census Guide 2012 [pdf]
I think you touch on one of the greatest problems of the 21st century - coming to terms with the reality that maximizing for wealth creation rather than redistribution means very few people are doing things anyone can predictably assume is beneficiary - such as research, arts, etc. Almost every job lost in the last 50 years due to globalization and automation have been jobs very few people would want to do with their lives, and people always dodge that over some preconceived notion everyone should be putting in 9 - 5 hours.

Though, I think the more acceptable solution is to just drastically cut the hours of the uneducated grunt work that still isn't automated (while spending the time to automate it, because we are at the threshold of eliminating traditional labor and that is a good thing) and just divvy up the available work to the many, maybe even as little as an hour a day, or an 8 hour shift a week.

The problem is changing the entrenched century old agriculture / housing / trade industries to accept a lack of scarcity and dramatic price drops across the board. You want the income from that tiny work week to be the disposable income after providing food, warmth, shelter, and transportation, since it seems silly to even think of anyone living today unable to enjoy their life, when we have so much plenty.
I'm in the same boat here. It makes me wonder if I am doing something so terribly wrong that I am somehow being lumped into the same group as people who can't code.

Want to exchange e-mails and chat about it?
Of course it's nonsense. And if you articulate why, I think you would see that your basic income argument is nonsense for mostly the same reason.

I'm probably just preaching to the choir, so you can have the last word if you want it.
So? Get a USB device or perform an external backup before switching to the new computer. There's nothing more hypocritical than geeks feigning technological helplessness.
That's a bit disingenuous. Adobe CS5 was released with both a digital download and a DVD option. In fact, when the digital download was active, you could go purchase the retail box, enter the key in Adobe's site, and download CS5 that way.

But this is all entirely besides the point made in the article: that outsourced customer service is terribad when they don't actually have the resources/training/motivation to fix problems.
Of course. I'll feign the love for it.
You can easily do without a protocol[1] -- NSKeyValueCoding doesn't require a protocol to be implemented anywhere. For example:

@interface MYObject : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *foo;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *bar;
@end

@implementation MYObject
@end

And somewhere else in your code:

- (MYObject *) buildMYObject {
MYObject *object = [[MYObject alloc] init];
[object setValuesForKeysWithDictionary:@{ @"foo": @"purple", @"bar": @"elephant" }];
return object;
}

Then you can access it like a regular property:

- (void) useMYObject {
MYObject *builtObject = [self buildMYObject];
NSLog(@"value: %@", builtObject.foo); // will print "value: purple"
NSLog(@"value: %@", builtObject.bar); // will print "value: elephant"
}

There are some gotchas to be aware of here (that Parse likely takes care of, since you're subclassing PFObject), such as setting nil values, or attempting to set the value from a key that doesn't have a corresponding property on your object.

1. It looks like the main benefit to the protocol is compatibility with the existing design of -[PFObject objectWithClassName:], and, I don't know enough about Parse to say what that does. But, I bet its nifty.
Society treats people differently depending on who they are. Men have certain privileges not afforded to women. If examining situations in a social context, this cannot be ignored. There is a reason this conference was BOASTING about having 20% women attending.

We cannot treat everyone as if they are the same if the playing field is not level.

In a vacuum, there should be no difference. But we do not live in a vacuum.
$60 Superdrive? Or, you could escape Appleland and pay a lot less:

http://www.newegg.com/External-CD-DVD-Blu-Ray-Drives/SubCate...
Another article where the author thinks(confuses?) REST and CRUD have a one-to-one mapping?

Ref: https://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/put-or-post-the-re...
It won't be used just this once though, there are tons of things still on DVD/CD. He even mentions in the article he wife needed one to install Microsoft Word.

Plus a "superdrive" is just an over-priced Apple branded version of a generic USB DVD-RW/CD caddy. The Apple one is £61, the Samsung one is £25.

Anyone who buys a "superdrive" is a huge sucker.
It tries to be too many things to too many people, can't do a good enough job on any of it. Not really worth the investment.
Ember data is built on top of REST.
> Should a conference about confucianism in China also find a western person to speak, or be cancelled?

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. There are some good scholars of Confucianism who aren't Chinese, and it'd be worth getting them in.
How does this compare to Chartboost?
The pains of living in a castle
A nice thing about not having a free plan is you don't have to deal with cheap free users. Someone who's paying you $60/year is invested in the service and wants to see it succeed.
It wasn't just an honor system. There was a system of actual, albeit clearly flawed and deficient, security in place, which was exploited.
One possible explanation is "last place aversion":

http://www.nber.org/papers/w17234

> Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory experiments, we find support for "last-place aversion" in the contexts of risk aversion and redistributive preferences. Participants choose gambles with the potential to move them out of last place that they reject when randomly placed in other parts of the distribution. Similarly, in money- transfer games, those randomly placed in second-to-last place are the least likely to costlessly give money to the player one rank below. Last-place aversion predicts that those earning just above the minimum wage will be most likely to oppose minimum-wage increases as they would no longer have a lower-wage group beneath them, a prediction we confirm using survey data.
Sexism in tech is like an onion: Why PyCon matters & why we need to change
aka "I will only work at venture-backed startups that will die in two years or Google".
I don't think the person who got fired should have been fired. I don't think she should have been fired. I don't think such an internet shitstorm would have been necessary, but here we are. All that I am saying is that I don't think she overreacted in reporting this in a public manner.
That's good to know... though in my hasty research I didn't see anything that said so. That should be a big selling point.

https://github.com/emberjs/data
For me, it was just normal boytalk sharing personal preferences for small or big female body parts, for them it was as exciting as leaking out of school to smoke a cigarette.

Thinking about it I'm regularly seeing kids aged 13 or 14 smoking cigarettes in front of their schools in Paris. French people have a special ability to free themself from the rules.
I think this is a great idea. Ember-data is powerful, but it's still very unpolished, and there are a lot of hard problems left to solve. I don't think it should be rushed just because ember is now close to v1.
The point he was making is that he knows that it is possible to supply a digital download link. I think it absolutely does give him the insight into the range of things that are possible within the industry. Whether or not the company is willing to provide such a thing is a completely different question, but technical possibility is what he was attempting to communicate...
I see how having a free demo account might be helpful for trying out the service, but a permanently free account is totally contrary to the idea of posthaven.

Really though, paying $5 to try it out isn't a huge deal if you don't like the service -- you can cancel whenever. I'd rather see development of useful features than the devs worrying about a free demo thing. Because of the way it's structured, a free trial doesn't benefit the company or paying users -- growth is not the goal, sustainability is.

Bottom line: I don't think this is the right place for people unwilling to put $5 toward an awesome idea/business model. You can go use tumblr or blogger or whatever.
Why display Sunday to the left of the week?
The standard western weekend [edited] is Saturday-Sunday. 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? Meetup does this. Google Calendar does this on iOS. And so do many others.

What possible utility does this layout provide?
I used to think 100% coverage was a good idea. But every test has a cost to write and maintain. The question is, is that cost worth it?

The answer depends both on how important the code is and how tricky it is. If the code is so simple it obviously can't be wrong, I won't test it -- unless it's also so critical that I need to be sure there are never regressions.

If it's slightly tricky but not very important, I'll probably, but not certainly, test it.

If it's critically important AND tricky, I'll test every edge case I can think of.
Net neutrality and corporate power: the mixed legacy of the FCC's outgoing chief
If you have another Mac with an optical drive, you can very easily share the drive over your network: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5287 . Or, rip it to an ISO on another machine and put the ISO (or just its files) on a thumbdrive.
That is definitely not how you use the phrase "None the less".
I live in America. It's still unclear if there's a national consensus on women being mainly sex objects with breeding potential rather than thinking, speaking human beings, and thus every woman with a brain needs to be reminded that they're properly understood to be fuckholes. Maybe in your English-speaking country, things are better?
I find it to be a good rule of thumb to write a test for a bug you just discovered and fix. If it happens once, it'll probably happen again.
Visit friend who has DVD drive

Supply friend with favorite beverage or meal

Connect shiny new Mac book pro to friend's computer

Install over network connection

Or do it at work. Or have someone rip the ISO and transfer it through the cloud. Or any number of other methods. Was the economic value of the time you spent arguing with Adobe staffers less than the cost of a workaround like this?
Awesome. This is getting added to our company chatbot's little morning news report, right next to the "days since last Java exploit" one someone posted here a couple of weeks ago.
Citizens still have rights to protect themselves so we're not a police state yet, however we are driving down that road at 90MPH though.
There 30$ and if you don't have one you can use a friends as they don't exactly break on use.
Is there anything wrong with linking to the share pages directly to avoid the JavaScript buttons altogether? e.g.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fex...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=My+tweet+http%3A%2F%2F...

Google+: https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:...
I remember the very first integration of code coverage into IntelliJ, a very long time ago: way before the community / paying edition (because I remember that then I switched to the free/community version and it didn't have code coverage in it anymore)...

Well: it was already able to perform partial line coverage, so the 66%/100% example given in TFA is totally bogus.
Unqualified:
One of the questions they asked me was the difference between a TCP and a UDP packet. I assume this question tripped up earlier applicants.

Foreign:
On their ad, they specified that they couldn't sponsor H1-B Visas, because they had a lot of replies asking for that. They didn't want to deal with a language barrier.

Unmotivated:
I learned after I took the job that of those applicants that weren't A or B, the rest of them really wanted to work in games. They decided against hiring them because they were worried about the guy jumping ship as soon as a game job opened up.

I was the first guy they interviewed that didn't have any of these hangups, and jumped immediately on me, despite having no real previous experience with C#, .NET or other C-like languages. They offered me the top-end of my salary request range. I had nothing to negotiate. I can't imagine this having happened in anything other than a seller's market.
FlightPath
A Year in Frontend Development
I'm fine if they tell me they're doing it, and what they're collecting, and giving me an option to turn it off.
I agree on the two camps ideology, and this is HN after all, so I'll ask - how to you get into the sellers market? I graduated with my CS degree with an ok 3.4 GPA recently, and I cast a wide net on jobs from Django to openCL, but everywhere I apply I either get cold shoulders, a 30 minute phone interview that never gets a response even with follow up, or rejection on a lack of project experience. I've been working FOSS for a few months now, and I hope that helps, but when you live in the middle of PA and not a big tech hot spot, have no networking contacts, and no desire to try to play founder-with-some-arbitrary-webapp-maybe-1mil-people-will-use-but-will-be-forgotten-in-a-year how do you get ahead?
>>The majority of applications don't do a lot of number crunching.<<

Exactly how do you know what the majority of applications do or don't do?
Text-only Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://....
Death is Not an Experience in Life
I just activated it on two accounts (including one account that didn't have an Apple device attached, so I had to use an SMS device) and it worked right away.
I would just download it from The Pirate Bay and use my license key. :)
Well, everyone is somewhere on the embrace-new-languages spectrum. It's clear that the people on the far edge of that spectrum have long moved on from Ruby. But there are still plenty of people further back. I'm sure we have years to come of stories of people switching to Ruby, just as we still see them with Python sometimes.
Actually, not a lot of major US airports were built after 1970. Denver International Airport is the only big one I can think of. NIMBY makes it really hard to build airports except in the absolute middle of nowhere, where there's no need.
Clarification: the article author isn't Cas. So the author writes iOS games, whereas Cas writes Java games. (Though they are Java games which cleverly bundle their own JRE, avoiding a lot of the horror that can come with it.)
> People always think that calling out microaggressions is overreaction, because they look at an individual incident, and not the whole

How is publishing photographs of the individual offenders in a specific indicdent and a description of that specific incident not both looking at, and encouraging others to look at, an individual incident, instead of some broader problem that incident might be part of?
Do you guys feel like live chat is a bad support medium? Or just that it is easier to outsource badly?

I hate phone support, so I'm curious. Phone support is expensive (to run), costs more time for the customer, and often forces you into a horrible DTMF IVR or an at best mediocre voice recognition IVR.

Give me web chat any day. Easier authentication, easier info transfer and I can be on hold in a way less intrusive manner so I don't mind wait times as much.

To me, unless you're selling me hardware I want you to be a web chat first support company.
You might notice that those are all YC companies also ;)
Yours is far from a universal opinion. Plenty of people who cheat could probably win a fair fight, but cheating makes it easier. Watch any sport at any level and you'll see "cheaters" win.
The entrepreneur itch: Why I quit my job
While the article at freedom-or-safety.com is down, here's an alternate article: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/mar/20/umbrella-mistak...
Maybe it is just perspective. I'm not good either, but I am a deep introvert that always botches interviews, and I've been job hunting for ~6 months, across the Internet. No network, I live in the middle of PA so no person-to-person tech sector without spending a few hundred dollars traveling, and I've been doing FOSS for a while now just biding my time so I have a portfolio to sell to get a 9-5 or go freelance (though I'd probably prefer the latter).

From my experiences, it is very circumstantial if you hit the ground running in a week like you said, or just get stuck in a mile of resumes, 3 week delays between responses with anyone from a 5 man startup to Amazon, and I think it is all about the network / school / area you are in. Besides being good, which I'm not either - that is kind of the golden ticket to glory.
I don't get how people are missing the point of the article. Its about how untrained their chat support is, not about buying an external DVD drive vs not buying one.
Definitely the link that I was referring to. It's perfect, thank you so much!
sometimes I wonder if this sort of policing is like an allergy, an immune system gone overactive.
Totally agree. And when I'm not sure, I used randomized testing against a trivial but slow implementation to make sure that it also works for all the edge cases that I didn't think of:
https://github.com/openlayers/ol3/pull/418/files#L12R552

Haskell's QuickCheck is two generations ahead here. Not only does QuickCheck check random cases, it's also clever enough to refine those random checks into concrete edge cases.
> You're absolutely right that I'm talking about the law, and that I'm not talking about if the joke is sexist or not. That's what this discussion should be about, shouldn't it?

No. Absolutely not. The law defines things for the legal system, not for our society and not for our culture. The concern here is a cultural one, not a legal one. The laws on the books are barely relevant to the real discussion here.

> If your only interest is in if the joke is sexist, then you're spending all your focus on the easy issue, and ignoring the more important and thornier issues.

My interest is in whether the joke is sexist because of its relevance to whether the culture is sexist. Many people are using the incident as evidence of a pattern of sexism in the tech community. I'm arguing against that conclusion, because the joke was not sexist.

The legalities are not more important. Thornier, sure, because the law is almost always thornier. Not more important. Culture is more important than law, every single time. If the culture of the tech community is positive and welcoming, it won't matter what the law says because nobody will care to file suits. If the culture of the tech community is negative and discriminatory, it won't matter what the law says because women will simply avoid the tech community. Either way, the culture matters and the law does not.
I just got a Nexus 7 for work. Some interesting transitions, etc, but many apps still look horrible and scrolling is still painful to watch.
IndieStatik's really nice - lots of in-depth stuff as opposed to rewritten press releases. (OK, they gave my game a positive review, so maybe I'm biased.)
These actually aren't banner ads like iAds, they're full screen ads shown e.g. after completing a level (Interstitial ads).
"The bikespike is the first ever hardware/software solution that increases the chances of law enforcement recovering your bike."

Not true.

Ignoring the fact that law enforcement doesn't give a damn about recovering your bike -- there's already a product on the market that by a striking coincidence, costs $1 less than the minimum pledge that gets you a device.

And the pre-existing product (http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/Products.jsp) does not include a monthly subscription charge.

Myth busted.
When cops are shutting down little girls lemonade stands, it's a police state.
I use coverflow constantly in OS X to look through files quickly.