skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've made a very big insufficiently justified leap to "very poor game". I also don't understand the remark about the "coins/store crap". Unlike many other iOS games, it has no in app purchases.

If you read interviews with the creators, you'd see that they wanted a very tight reward loop for the game. They also wanted to be certain that no matter how you played, you'd always feel like you could make more progress.

As for "the names behind it"; it's a group of Dutch indie developers. It's hardly selling because of their names.

I'd like to see a more objective, reasoned post from you about why it's a "poor game".

One of the most important things I learned in life was how to more objectively evaluate something by asking if it was well made, used techniques properly, etc. You may not personally enjoy the game, but that does not make it a "poor game".

I think you should have said, "it appears to be a well-made game that clearly the creators spent years polishing, but the gameplay itself is not something I enjoy".
I think my mindset is similar yours, but I relate to what the author is saying because it reminds me of some of my coworkers who I find a little tiring.
> Facebook's button seems to be perceived as more user-friendly than the unknown button on someone else's site, even if the unfamiliar button was designed to be less hostile than Like.

I expect that Schneier's blog is one of the best places to start reversing that common (and understandable) perception. Given the pervasive nature of fraudulent sites focusing on Facebook, one can't blame the users--but shifting their frame of mind from "fraud is bad!" to "tracking/other invasions of privacy are bad!" is overdue.
Yep, daily, and then we recite the same thing at our daily morning standup.

Don't think I'll share a real one, they're probably proprietary and no upside for me in that. But I can give you a fake one.

Below is the top of my file. The last entry, the dated one, gets pushed down every day under a fresh one, and I update it as I go during the day.

The markup syntax is vimwiki http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2226, but it could be any markup. Years ago I used to use markup something like this without transforming it, before there was anything like markdown or reST.

At the end of the day I run Vimwiki2HTML from within vim, and my daily status html page is updated; it's just a local page, I don't serve it. I copy today's entry from that and email my boss. Ten years ago I would have just copied the plain text from the vim file.

Every once in awhile I email the ever growing file to myself at home.

Scripts that generate the daily template after the example.

=Status=

==Long term ToDo==
* Some long term thing that currently doesn't have any tasks:

* Some slightly more interesting long term thing:
* practice elocution
* study needed inventions
* study electricity

==Immediate ToDo==
* Follow up on that thing by end of the week.
* See if that other thing is ready.

==2013.03.22 Friday==

===Today===
* Wrote test ABC.
* Reviewed test BCD.
* Passed test CDE.
* Failed test DEF.
* Wrote bug ticket 234 describing test DEF failure.
* Cleared ticket 345.

===Tomorrow===
* Write test XYZ
* Run tests MNO, PQR.

===Roadblocks===
* My cube mate keeps looking at me.

This generates a date:

$ cat bin/adate
#! /usr/bin/env bash

dt="$1" || "today"
date --date="$dt" +"%Y.%m.%d %A"

$ adate
2013.03.22 Friday

$ adate Monday
2013.03.25 Monday

$ adate "last Monday"
2013.03.18 Monday

$ adate "next Friday"
2013.03.29 Friday

And this generates a daily entry skeleton:

$ cat bin/edate
#! /usr/bin/env bash

dt="$1" || "today"
echo "==$(adate $dt)=="
echo ""
echo "===Today==="
echo "*"
echo ""
echo "===Tomorrow==="
echo "*"
echo ""
echo "===Roadblocks==="
echo "*"
echo ""
echo ""

$ edate
==2013.03.22 Friday==

===Today===
*

===Tomorrow===
*

===Roadblocks===
*

Then in vim, put your cursor above the previous day's entry, and:

:r!edate

which creates a new blank entry with one empty bullet per section.
People’s Republic of Open Source: China Preps National Linux Distro
Anaconda Python on the Raspberry Pi
Unemployment benefits run out after a year (or whatever they changed it to), but disability benefits never run out. If you look at the chart the big increase from 1961 to 2011 is "back pain and other musculoskeletal problems", which, as every prospective medical marijuana patient knows, is impossible for a doctor to disprove.

Of course disability claims are going up - the economy is bad and people are using disability as an unemployment benefit. The unfortunate result of all of this is going to be lots of extra paperwork (and potential rejections) for people who really are too disabled to work.
Lower than a single founder developer. Low. Unless you have previous entrepreneurship experience.
IMO, this comes from the ideology that the reason underprivileged groups are underprivileged is because of negative social expectations that have a negative subconscious effect on their performance. I don't find it completely convincing (there is much evidence which refutes it), but there are some small experimental studies which support it. I find it plausible that in a group where the minority is extremely small the effect may be large and significant.
I assume you have data to back up this claim and you simply forgot to link to it?

I never buy $350 jeans from any brick-and-mortar or online stores that sell such jeans, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean these services are "not so popular" and "don't get much use".
Lordy, we seem to live in hyper-sensitive times where everyone parses simple humor through a filter of scrutiny looking for some reason to be offended (often to be offended on behalf of some other group). The wisdom I have mostly heard, and agree with, is to be sensitive and respectful when making a joke -- but if they can't handle humor that was intended to elicit fun, then f__k 'em.
There are lots of overlapping trends, some positive and some negative.

The War on (some) Drugs (aka war on blacks/mexicans/chinese) really stepped up in the 1960-1990 period, so crime stats and general urban hell was at a peak during that period, and improved 1990-2010. It's unclear how much blame for that is on baby boomers. The continuation of the War on Drugs is undeniably a boomer thing, though. That alone is more than enough reason to be angry.

"White Flight" to the suburbs was mostly the parents of Boomers, so they were only indirectly involved, although they did also continue it through the 70s/80s/90s. Gen X and Gen Y are the dominant forces behind re-urbanization.

There are lots of awesome new technologies (I mean, even a 2013 car vs. a 2006 car is an improvement), but that's technological progress and relatively global, vs. US-specific. Yes, points for not actually causing global thermonuclear war or a collapse of the global economy. Microcomputers, cellphones, the Internet, medical advances, etc., all amazing.

The (re) emergence of China from ~1990, the end of the Cold War, and the rescue of India from socialism in the 1990s+ were undeniably great, but had little or nothing to do with US domestic policy. Reagan probably did accelerate things by up to a decade, but the 1990s were a case of mismanagement of the "peace dividend" and a bunch of emerging threats.

(1990 itself and 2000 are probably unfair years to pick, due to the bubble of 2000 -- 1991 vs. 2000 is a lot different from 1989 vs. 2001. I don't remember the exact details of the early-1990s recession or the early 1980s and which time periods were bad, but I do remember 1998-2001 and 2001-2003)

Women and racial/ethnic minorities did probably do better in the US fairly steadily year on year for the past 100 years. That's one big point.

On college -- look at the costs of MIT or UC-Berkeley in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, especially vs. a feasible income for an 18-22 year old.

The big thing is the rise of inequality -- essentially everyone in hn is one of the winners or is credibly likely to become one, but for the bottom...50%? of the US, the odds of having a better life are lower now than they were in the past.
This is ridiculous considering that a large number of homeless people have a disability, physical or mental. To say that this people are just faking it or overreacting because they don't want to work is really messed up, you are essentially saying you really don't believe those people actually live with a disability.
Unfortunately, this sort of problem is basically unsolvable for Linux (and other such "open" platforms). Either you get a proprietary blob that implements a protection scheme, or you simply don't get the functionality being promised.

Objecting to efforts to make the situation better for HTML5 experiences on other platforms because it won't work on Linux is, honestly, pretty selfish. It can't work on Linux, so you're basically saying since it can't work for you, it shouldn't work for anyone else too. And that's just dragging down the state of the web to the lowest common denominator.
I seriously doubt this will help you but...

I operate a wiki site and I literally spent years adding content, developing and refining to the point that it now gets a few thousand visitors a day. I am not selling anything and none of these people pay for anything or contribute to the site, they are just visitors. If you want a "brute force" way to attract an audience find an area you're interested in and make a content/tutorial/information site out of it. If you can couple that with something to sell you might have something. I haven't figured out the latter part yet.
Men, and especially white and Asian men, are afraid and confused because other people have this powerful weapon they can use against them called "getting offended". The rules for how it works are fuzzy and not printed anywhere and anyways they vary from place to place. So men, and especially highly logical men, are scared, curious, and very motivated to try to figure out the rules.

In recent cases of sexual harassment at conferences, the rules were very clear-cut. The lesson was "don't touch a woman that doesn't want to be touched by you" or "don't put porn in a presentation", for those few men dense enough not to know that in the first place. Conferences learned a lot and got serious about being safer places for women. Pycon was a leader in that.

But this time everything is scary and confusing. People don't know what lesson to take. So they're blindly groping for an answer.
I think with an increase in telecommuting jobs (except Yahoo!) there may be growth in these small towns in the future. Small towns are nice to raise children in, have lower costs of living - which can be offset by high pay, high skill work telecommuted into the office from small town home.

And then the extra cash will turn into custom furniture because all the neighbors have IKEA and they want to be different.
Developing QnA app using Spring , MangoDB and BootStrap
E[le]ven year old, just released this generic iOS game, how did i do?
We have to bite our tongues and be careful of everything we say

Every word out of your mouth has an effect on the people around you. Please, consider consequences before you speak. This is not a radical notion.
> leading by example

He is way behind here, and we could have used his advocacy much earlier.

There have been alternate buttons, browser plugins and a movement to include no third-party scripts on the web for years.

I switched techrunch.com to the two-click solution in 2008. It didn't last long because we weren't successful in arguing why you don't want scripts from third-parties loading automatically. I sure could have used a bit of backup at that time.
By "implementing a jQuery plugin" you mean "copy and pasting a few lines of code, like it says in the instructions"? I'm sure you can appreciate that some people have the skill to do that, but not the skill to come up with a new solution from scratch.

Also, I was genuine above when I said that, if you have a better solution, you should publicize it. Any reason why your method can't be done just as easily, if the code was out there?
What "small experimental studies" are you referring to? This entire comment was a dismissive appeal to authority.
My bank also doesn't one-way hash my password. On occasion they turn their computers around to me and show me my password at the counter. I suspect they may be encrypting it in the storage medium and encrypts/decrypts on the fly.

PS One way hashing is different to encryption.
A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1
I feel that to an extent the above article misses the point. It strains to draw this distinction of "remember that women want to be treated like people in a work context but also that women are different than men and you should remember that too." Its exhausting and puts the emphasis on the wrong place.

You know why people like Adria Richards are hypersensitive about dick jokes? Because women are a minority in programming and being a minority sucks. If there were as many female CEOs as male CEOs in tech and we knew as little about Marissa Mayer's child-care situation as we do about Jeff Bezos's, nobody would give a fuck about dick jokes. Women aren't the minority in tech because men make dick jokes--(some) women are sensitive about men making dick jokes because they are in the minority. When people don't feel awkwardly self conscious about their place in the power dynamic, they are free to laugh at jokes like a normal person.

Fix the representation problem and all of this will take care of itself.
Online Chat Rooms / Pakistani Girls Chat Room / Free Live Chat
No.

Ellen Degeneres or The Voice or any of the other false equivalences you're desperately reaching to make is not the professional technical workplace.

If you run in any of my technical circles, put on a technical presentation, or otherwise represent at a technical conference, and you make "jokes" that are sexual innuendos of any kind or are otherwise unprofessional....

You will be gone. Gone.

Count on it.

The tech world created these shitty circumstances for women and this shitty little drama because we males in that world have behaved abominably. Over decades.

Guess what? Now we're going to start demonstrating that we can be professional, or heads are going to roll. Continually.

Count on it.
Of course its being PC since this is exactly how PC is defined. You don't get to wish away the label simply because you don't like it, especially when you've just repeated the definition.

I can always tell when I'm talking to someone with a strong filter and it always makes me feel uncomfortable. They don't seem genuine, they don't seem honest, they don't seem real. I wonder how they are really like when relaxed with their filters down. What if they really are a douchebag? I've met plenty of people who filter heavily but are still basically sociopaths.

I've heard there is now corporate training on how to have a strong filter without letting other people know that you have one, by intentionally and strategically letting out noticeable but forgivable gaffes at certain points to make it appear as if you are genuine.
"to drink"
OnLive[1], which is what was being talked about, is literally streaming video to you of a game that's running in a datacenter somewhere.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive
Despite the fact that the OP is in jest, I found myself wondering the same. The best we could come up with at the office was to get some SDHC cards that are hardware read-only lockable (the spec says they exist [1], but I wasn't able to find any to purchase). On these SDHC cards, you stick a PXE-like implementation that allows it to pull a disk image off another machine in the DC, install it to an attached USB drive, then chainboot to that disk.

This setup would allow customers to upload an image which is effectively burned and attached to the hardware during an automated provisioning process. When the node is powered down, the USB drive is wiped by the next provisioning.

The customer is expected to set up the image so that it provides ssh (or what have you) on boot. Since the failure state of, say, a kernel panic in this setup is complete data loss, there's no need for KVM or anything.

It probably wouldn't be a very competitive service, but as mentioned elsewhere, for $5/month most applications are likely better off with a VPS anyway.

--

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/354473/is-the-lock-mechanism-...
I don't know what the solution is here, but I'm worried that if we don't implement this solution, the web will fall even faster out of favor to native apps.

I'm talking about mobile.

Right now running flash or silverlight on your desktop is no big deal. This "solution" is unnecessary. But on mobile we have a real problem: the only way for anyone to deliver encrypted media is via a native app, which is exactly what everyone is doing. That comes at the expense of the web. So now we have an entire generation of users growing up on apps (netflix, hulu, spotify) because those content licensing deals require DRM.

The desktop is fading. If we want the web to stay relevant as everything moves to closed ecosystems, this may be a necessary evil, because the web+EME is infinitely more open than the an iPhone/Android app.
Meet Jekyll Part II
In part 1 I discussed why I chose jekyll to build this site and presented a high level overview of how jekyll works. In this post, I’ll dive into the depths of jekyll and show off some of its features - including some essential plugins.
1a. No offices, only cubes.
1b. Limited conference rooms, people ignore the reservation just enough to make it irritating.
2. No continuous integration. No Git.
3. We say there is, but there isn't.
4. As one of our supervisors said recently, "If I'm not telling you what to do, or changing your workload on a daily basis, then I feel like I'm not doing anything."
5. All of the above!
6. Most people show up for work, most of the time. Performance reviews are irrelevant. You may be evaluated on things like "dresses appropriately" when there is no dress code.
7. No, no, no. Employees are not fired. I'll let you think about where that eventually leads.
8. No. No. No. No. None.
9. Not in the budget, sorry.

That's where I work. And I wouldn't give it up for these fast paced do-or-die startups. :)
> being a minority sucks

Well that's the thing with this community. We think we're clever enough to avoid basic human nature and NOT discriminate a minority. I believe this can happen with dedication and extreme stories like the pycon's one to remind us of how being a minority sucks when people act too human.

> Fix the representation problem

You mean fix the mentality.
Serious question, and I don't mean this disrespectfully to you, but why did you not turn him away immediately and proceed to waste everyone's time?
Seems a bit early in the dating process to assert it's a 300 million year old machined piece of metal.
The Facebook app for the iPhone is actually pretty good, after the switch from HTML5 to native.
At one time people made such elitist arguments about doing arithmetic, too, and now we teach it to children. I think it's Fred who has this right.
No, I think he meant what he said. If there wasn't an unbalanced representation of genders, the sensitivity would be less because there would be less self consciousness about your gender in the situation.
"women have already gotten a raw deal by being socialised to find sex uncomfortable"

The counter to this is that they should be made more comfortable by not ~forcing~ them to pretend to be comfortable with awkward conversations in professional situations. Some things aren't as progressive as you imagine.
Though I have only been on the applicant side of the interview table, everything you say rings true to me. I understand completely why employers need to do low level competence tests.

However, I am curious what you mean when you say that it is a buyers market. From everything I've read, there is a shortage of development talent, so those "selling" their service as programmers have the edge. Doesn't that make it a seller's market?
"sexual joke" are not necessarily "sexist jokes" and there is no particular reason to say that women are somehow traumitized by the mere mention of sexuality. Is making sexual jokes at a conference unprofessional? Yes, but it's unprofessional regardless of the gender of anyone or everyone in earshot. Whether it's unprofessional enough to justify:

"You will be gone. Gone."

"Count on it."

is quite clearly a subjective matter. All I can say is, don't invite me to represent at any event you put on. Being professional is one matter, catering to PC bullshit in the misguided belief that you can avoid even the remotest possibility of offending someone, is quite something else.
I still don't understand your logic. What is it about being a minority that makes one sensitive to dick jokes?
I love this list!

I just don't think a company is going to answer many of these questions. They might think you are a spy for the competition :).
I like how it says "But it has yet to catch on more broadly partly because of concerns around security — bitcoin exchanges are regularly hacked" Which is defiantly not true.
Stone ships show signs of maritime network in Baltic Sea region 3,000 years ago
The right way of coding AngularJS: How to organize a regular WebApp
As far as I can tell, this is quite untrue. Many of the most successful people I know are quite bitter about their previous employers. It's all about spinning that, though. It's not enough to just be bitter. You need to flatter your new employer, showing them that you jumped ship to them because they're so excellent, unlike those previous schmucks.
Ancient stone tools show technological enhancements over time
That's a good question. Given some of the "fundamentals" of security that were obviously ignored, I'm reluctant to believe that they can make that assertion with any confidence.
Yeah because the lazy really know how to build massive wealth right?
Let me ask you:

Guy calls a hat cute, he...

Woman calls a hat cute, she...

Which one is more offensive?

What exactly did men do that was so terrible to women -- in this industry -- that you feel like everyone has to make amends, and anything that "could" be a sexual joke should result result in the drama bomb we just seen or any ultimatums?

I did NOT suggest that you should be making bathroom jokes on stage. I DID suggest that calling a hat "cute" is not the slightest bit offensive. Seriously zero need to call for an apology over that.

You know what this drama bomb does to your profession?

-- It makes your profession unwelcome to me (male) and to many other people who would like to join in. We just had a post on the front page yesterday written by a woman who found this whole hoopla offensive and I am willing to bet excellent odds that women don't want to be part of this drama either.

Why?

-- The immaturity and the way you handled this stuff, as a community, is so incredibly shameful and backwards that I simply refuse to be a part of it. I would love to go to PyCon or similar places, but this makes it look like your profession is virulent and everyone is at each others throats, and any small spark is going to light a huge fire of controversy. I don't want to be a part of a drama bomb and I don't want to be part of a club that is openly succumbing to every whim of Drama Queens and Drama Kings.
Don't get it confused, no one is saying that conversion analysis isn't important or shouldn't be included in the featureset. All I was trying to point out that you don't have to include the code for everyone if you don't need or want to for whatever reasons.