skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bah! Gnome 3 had a classic mode from the beginning which was unsupported and slated for deprecation. The only reason they now support a classic mode is because they lost market share.
I haven't yet shipped an iOS app, but I do have a couple of Cocoa apps, one of which I'm porting to iOS. I have to say that I'm happy with AppKit and UIKit development. Even Objective-C feels like a jewel ahead of its time, in spite of its verbosity.

You don't specify what it is that makes iOS development painful or what it is about the toolsets of your peers that sets them apart. Claiming that it's like "writing an app in the 1990s" comes off like hyperbole.
> Other engines just neglected to implement it.

Why would they have? Seems like waiting for ecma approval and specification makes sense.
> Answers will be from real employees who show their names.

Honestly, that seems to kind of defeat the whole purpose, doesn't it?

I'm assuming that questions are all going to be more-or-less standard. The value is in the "ugly" but true answers (e.g. the product manager is an idiot and management is a disaster, and the product will implode within a year), which no employee would ever sign their name to.

So what kind of value is this site attempting to provide, in the end? Is it trying to simply be a database on workplaces? I don't really understand what having anonymous questions has to do with anything.
Yes, that's a good point. Aaron mentioned some users would restart "if things ever look hopelessly messed up". A better analogy might be simulated annealing, where solvers randomly switch to another configuration.
Granted, but a little over a hundred years ago there were some might fine blizzards not equaled since.

I think they key here is, people lost interest when every little thing was declared global warming and then started rolling their eyes when the switch was made to "climate change". Fanaticism has a tendency to cause people to tune out, worse is when its driven to political and financial benefit of a few.
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Utter crap.

"Sadly Django provides no connection pooling and in fact closes and re-opens a connection for every request. All the other tests use pooling."

But it's free, open-source software and we provide asynchronous database connection pooling for Postgres SQL:

https://github.com/iiilx/django-psycopg2-pool
Tesco Newry Store: 200 new jobs or 200 displaced jobs?
My experience with the designs used by Linux desktop environments is limited, but haven't the dock and some of it's (folder-)icons shown in the article[0] borrowed a little too much from OS X?

I would much rather see them go about improving the GUI in their own way rather than trying to imitate another OS.

[0]: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iQDB5aZg__U/UVHDwY33wAI/AAAAAAAAHb...
Have you tried it? I can see why theres Go favoritism here.
You mean all iPhoto photos, al photos in the photos folder on the mac or something else?
I didn't downvote you.

I am using 12.04.1, but I made a mistake, in that I confused hibernate with suspend. Suspend works for me; I've never tried hibernate. The link you provide mentions only hibernate in the title but seems to be talking about suspend as well. Strange, since suspend works for me and I didn't do anything to enable it.

I don't dispute that suspend and/or hibernate is broken on many machines using some recent versions of Ubuntu. But it still "works for me": just another datapoint.
I'm curious how this actually works.

If I put in the name of a company and a specific employee, how do you go about getting the answer to my question?
I now live in Palo Alto. Being from Broward County (45 min from Boca), I can definitely relate to your concern. There is a significant difference in cost of living between So. Fla and here, often beyond what's visible on 'cost calculators'. Use multiple data points and average things out. If you have any specific questions, ping me at my email in my profile.
First reaction: Jackpot! It's like free money with little risk.
Second reaction: People actually post this kind of stuff? And that's just with one simple bot to retrieve it.
You don’t ‘own’ your own genes
"It is our biological imperative to reproduce, but with humanity we can rise above our animal imperatives and impulses."

This is true. However, if the causes for this attitude (biological or cultural) are in some way heritable, we can expect that over several centuries the attitude should disappear, or at least be significantly curtailed. (It is not clear exactly to what extent this is actually the case.)

No opinion is offered on the moral import of these matters. However, any future anthropologists will have something fun to study, surely.
Assuming you are talking about slide 7 I'm not trying to synchronize I'm just using the closing of the start channel as a signal to the goroutines that they can start their work. Clearly, it's not guaranteed that all the <- start's have failed before close() returns.
I don't think the HTV-2 uses (or used rather, since this was in 2011) a scramjet though, but uses a rocket engine. The HTV-3X was supposed to use a scramjet it seems, but that was cancelled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project
For a while I've been thinking about how to provide job seekers with the type of information one usually acquires AFTER working in a position for a certain amount of time. A sort of "if I knew then what I know now" collection of employee data. It wasn't going to be company specific, rather position specific.

After thinking about what people actually WANT, I figured they wouldn't want to wade through thousands (more?) job descriptions. Don't tell me what's out there, just tell me what I would be good at and would like.

So I started to think about a tool that would categorize available jobs based on what people REALLY look for in a job. Users could identify what they (thought) they wanted and the tool would show them jobs that fit.

After many months I was losing interest. Then I recently discovered Aaron Swartz was working on something similar. "...we did agree on another good idea: a wiki to tell students what different jobs are like. That site should be launching soon."[1]

I'm not sure how far Aaron got with the project, but I think the idea is still viable. I often find myself doing a lot of research and job description comparisons to get past the cookie cutter information to attempt to answer the question, "what exactly will I be doing for you?"

Maybe I'm alone, but the majority of job interviews I've had were more about seeking information about the work I was going to be doing. Information I should have had well before I ever applied.

[1]https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
The Cofounder Conundrum: A Sexless Marriage (Usually)
When this service will be retired? Should somebody invest time to Google Services?
Meditation has a branding problem
Bus vs Broker
Detect Pseudo-Element Animation Support
“The shareholders, meanwhile, were well aware of their power. “If he doesn’t do whatever we say, we’ll sell and his share price will fall,” Berezin says. And sure enough, when shareholders voted him vegetarian, Merrill complied, even though he had been an avid meat eater. He was a longtime Democrat, but his investors decided to make him register as a Republican, which they argued was more ­business-friendly.”

Sounds to me like he doesn't have the power to decide for himself.
That works until the country that does have military dominance decides to conquer you and take that production for itself. The market is meaningless when force can be used to take what you can't purchase in the market.

It is possible to be a wealthy nation that doesn't have military dominance (Switzerland, etc). The key is to be overall small enough that you can consume a lot per capita but still fly under the radar of the big boys. A country as big as the U.S. doesn't really have that choice.
Nobody Cares About Your Stories
The biggest reason we wanted to use iCloud is:
background syncing (i.e. not just when the app is in the background, when the app isn't even running).

For apps that get a fair bit of off-line data creation this is a nice feature.

There's no way for a third party library to do this (at least not through iOS 6.1.3 SDK).
well, you just described why there are even distros to begin with.

otherwise everyone would spend 'half the time' reading the LSF guide and having the perfect distro.
Could you elaborate on the PR beating comment? I feel like I've been under a rock lately.
Personally, as someone who works with LLVM IR on a daily basis, the idea of standardizing LLVM IR as it exists today worries me a lot for several reasons:

* Most importantly: LLVM IR is a compiler IR. http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...

* LLVM IR is really big compared to asm.js. http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling...

* LLVM IR wasn't really designed to be portable. clang bakes lots of architecture-specific stuff into the IR that it generates. It can be hacked around the way PNaCl does by trying to define a "generic" architecture, but it's stretching the architecture beyond what it was intended to do.

* LLVM IR is very unstable and continually changes from version to version.

If we don't care about backwards compatibility, I would much rather see a bytecode standard done from scratch than PNaCl's approach of trying to use LLVM IR. I know the reason they did it is to use LLVM's code generation backends, but I feel like that could be done without using a large underspecified compiler IR as the transport format.
>It's more like watching your peers blow past you because your toolset is from yesterday and their's is from tomorrow.

And what would that "toolset of tomorrow" be? Surely not Android's joke offerings, or Windows 8 same old...
Understanding the business reasons for needing an infrastructure.

A love of automation, bordering on an obsession.

A deep understanding of the individual technologies that make up the stack, as well as a higher-level view of how all of the moving parts fit together.
I follow the routine of making big plans, completing 60% of them and then repeating the cycle.
Book: Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook
He was clearly unloved by his parents.
How we wrote our app for MS Office 2013
I would suggest to include Tornado Web framework.
"Placebo effect works even if patients know they're getting a sham drug
Study suggests patients benefit from the placebo effect even when told explicitly that they're taking an 'inert substance'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/22/placebo-effect...
vor_: unfortunately, you're hellbanned.

> I have no experience with iCloud, but I'm pleased with Core Data for managing a persistent object graph. It automatically handles version migrations, undo, and faulting, and some interfaces can be populating with almost no code via bindings. I'm happy with it. Still, I'll be very interested to watch the Core Data presentations at WWDC.
Actually, we had an early revision of the benchmark tests that had exactly that analysis, but we really felt it is a very interesting subject that deserves more focus.
How to build your own Twitter-like “Open Source” page.
It provides a guarantee that they will continue doing what they've been doing
Many new features proposed for C++14
I wrote a pototype helper class that makes using promises super easy for node.js (https://github.com/icodeforlove/node-promise-object)
As you might imagine, during this exercise, we've had a lot of conversations about the points you raise. We have our own opinions, but we ultimately removed most of that content from the blog post because we didn't want it to be too editorial. We will be posting follow ups with some of our opinions.

Some things are really difficult to answer in a vacuum. If you already have a competent devops staff, hosting your own hardware is probably beneficial. The increased performance per "server" is substantial. But no devops staff? Then it's either very risky or cost-prohibitive to own hardware.
Actually, it's because it contains some performance regressions. To quote their release notes:

"This release is not a typical beta, in a sense the stability is the same or better than 1.9 and can be used in production. It does however include a few performance regressions documented below that don’t allow us to label is as 2.0 final. (It also contains many performance improvements.)"
Okay that's fair, sounds like a better path to go would be to make an entirely updated website.

Hahaha, you're right, I'll change the slang.

The link content is broken on purpose, and I think the About Me section is weak, but I don't consider this half-assed. Maybe I posted this prematurely, but I did want to get a sense of peoples opinions and advice. And I'm glad people are giving me honest advice. I'm getting the sense that it's simply not good enough, which I think is better to find out now from you guys other then a rejection letter from SpaceX.

Really appreciate the comments.
Defaults matter because they're sat in a juicy little feedback loop: more people have them installed, so they get more eyeballs and bug-effort, so they get better and have better support, so more people use them.

At least, in theory.
The Future of Search is Visual
It still works that way, just indirectly. It's called FICA taxes.
Mozilla Browsers can now run high quality 3D games, Yes no need of plugins
Finger Trees [pdf]
Make a Twitter out of RSS
Show HN: Quickly insert links in Markdown based on Google Chrome history
Isn't the very first example in that article flawed?

void decrement_reference_counter(rc_base* obj)
{
if (0 == atomic_decrement(obj->rc))
delete obj;
}

This is classic test-then-act, isn't it? What happens if another thread bumps obj->rc after the comparison to 0, but before the deletion? That other thread could find itself referring to a suddenly-deleted object, or am I missing something?
In the legal world, that's not meaningless. Simply because one hasn't (yet!) attempted to aggressively assert patents doesn't constitute a defense if one decides to in the future. This might (though it's still not a contract, and I didn't click through to read the terms).
Crazy, first thing I did was google how far it is to Tehran (albiet I'm Iranian). Seems like 30mins from New york at mach 20.
Responsive Design:  The Only Mobile Strategy That Scales
For Play, you'll want to either 1) handle the (blocking) database queries using Futures/Actors that use a separate thread pool (this might be easier to do in Scala) or 2) bump the default thread pool sizes considerably. The default configuration is optimized purely for non-blocking I/O.

See e.g. https://github.com/playframework/Play20/blob/master/document... and https://gist.github.com/guillaumebort/2973705 for more info.
Could you kindly add error bars to your test results?
Google Maps for business allows you to map a BBQ location but not your customers
Thanks for asking. We're going to pool the questions together and send them over to the company and let them know they can answer them (publicly) on an interface we built for them. If someone has cced an employee, we'll put them on the email. We'll probably send to HR or the founder(s), depending on how big the company is. We're not sure yet how companies will respond.
We were surprised by the sinatra-jruby tests as well. If you read our "expected questions" section, it's not clear to us why Sinatra's performance on JRuby was weak. We'd love to hear from a JRuby expert about how to address Sinatra's "wrong" looking numbers.
> As an external developer, Pepper is something I could actually implement independently for a reasonable amount of money ($2M or less) in a reasonable amount of time (1 year or less), if I could rely on Google's existing (P)NaCL toolchain.

But what's the point? You'd be stuck running some subset of "things that can run on the web", and the vast expanse of existing HTML content would be inaccessible. If you want to use NaCL/PNaCl for non-web applications nobody is stopping you. Writing a "browser" that doesn't implement HTML+JS is just nonsense.

> Would there be ambiguity? Yes. Google has already said they're willing to work with implementors to resolve any design or ambiguity issues.

We have no basis to know whether "attempt to specify all out the ambiguitity in the Pepper API, using the Chromium implementation as the standard" is harder than "implement the already-fairly-well-specified set of web technologies". We know web technologies can be implemented fairly interoperably, we have multiple interoperable implementations.

> You know, you might have something to do with that? You're not exactly a powerless or disinterested third party in this dialog.

And yet we're not the only game in town, either. None of the other browser manufacturers has expressed any interest, so it's not like we're alone on this. Why should we have to carry Google's banner? We've got enough stuff on our plate.
A nice looking info graphic about responsive design that is responsive.
Apple has 26k employees in retail: http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/

Apart from that, in Google most (core) jobs are software related, in Apple not so much (there's hardware, design, logistics, manufacturing specialists - even if the bulk is @ Foxconn and similar contractors).

Even if we consider software jobs only, I believe the bulk @ Apple is working in OSX/iOS, not to mention iWork, Final Cut, etc and not directly in Cloud infrastructure.
Code caching is being worked on with "FunctionBlob":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5228935
Right, where is Zotonic??, which is actually focused on speed/performance
I would like to note that I don't work on V8 full time anymore and all opinions that I express on twitter are mine alone and not those of employer, my current or former team.

I am writing a blog post that condenses my feeling towards asm.js into something tangible.

I also would like to add that it still excites me much to see JavaScript to become faster and faster and that I anticipate real world JavaScript written by human hands to become faster in the future and I don't think we need AOT compilation shortcuts for that.
This is (hopefully) related to the VP8/MPEG-LA patent licensing issue from a few days back. Remember that part of that announcement was that Google would be "soon" releasing the set of terms under which the licensed patents would be used. If these are those terms (and they aren't yet -- only MapReduce patents are mentioned), then this is fantastic news.
Apple is strong when they have total control, but web services require dealing with large-scale chaos.
Cairo is a project to make a OS X-like dock. It's not enabled in any of the main distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu...), but you can add it if you'd like.
I am pretty sure that you are just going to get filtered PR bullshit responses. Unicorns and rainbows.

Get some actual off the record/anonymous answers and then things might get interesting.
Judging from the Techcrunch leak at the start of the month(http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/google-is-building-a-same-d...) this product belongs to the new Advertising & Commerce unit which was formed when the Maps and Commerce unit was broken up this month. A product maintained by Google's dedicated monetization unit probably has a better chance of being somewhat stable.
Weird, but GNOME 3's notification system is what sold it to me. I hated to have tray icons visible all the time, specially because I don't neeed them all the time at all. But that's just me, I guess.
Read differently:

"Apart from a few patents listed, we hold a large arsenal of patents that we won't rule out using offensively against both developers AND users of open OR closed source software."

As a software developer and user, I'm not entirely comforted....
Hmm came here thinking we were going to talk about the philosophical implications of keeping/breaking promises and how deals are still made with handshakes over Ommegang Iron Thrones.
As I understand, you can't hit those speeds with just a rocket engine. The HTV-2 is considered a rocket glider - it needs a rocket to propel it to altitudes and speeds where the SCRAMJET can kick in (as the scramjet itself has no moving parts).
Okay, I think I misread you. The meme of "the US only has 5% of the world people but consumes 25% of the world's resources!" is usually said by people who think it's "unfair" that the US is consuming "so much."

If you are saying that the US needs military dominance because we need to protect our own domestic production from invasion, that's something else. I still disagree but not as forcefully as I would to the other characterization.

(If an invader tried to invade America for the purpose of seizing our wealth, much of it would evaporate instantly. They can capture factories but more and more of it is IP that a potential invader could just stay home and pirate instead.)
To be fair, in the introduction they do clearly point out that these are not technically "controversial" and just have a tendency to evoke controversial/confused reactions from laymen.
Upbringing is much less important for development than genetics? No. Single mothers who raise kids in poverty with no father figure raise more daughters who have more kids without getting married or even involving a strong father figure (repeating the cycle), and more sons who become criminals or forever doing minimum wage jobs and going nowhere. Parenting > culture > genetics. Your genetic predisposition does not make you who you are. A person who is sheltered and not able to see the world is much worse off than a person who is given perspective about the world and able to expand their library of thoughts.

Which of my opinions do you want me to show are informed by data?
Cloud Infographic: Securing Big Data
They announced that Google Reader would be shut down in June, but that you can export all your content and settings to other services.

Bloggers, journalists, and internet commenters started crying like 5-year-old children.
Google retired their very popular Google Reader app. They took a lot of bad press.
The JOBS Act (still) is not working
I feel like people forget that Google is a business.

Google has always retired products and always explored new avenues. I don't see the difference
No, they're not. They can run via CGI (so, yes, compiled for each request) but that's slow as ass. They run via Plack/PSGI - they can be deployed in a multitude of ways, including via FastCGI or running standalone using built-in webservers, or via Starman - the latter in particular is very fast indeed. With a simple "hello world" type app, > 6000 requests/sec can be easily handled. Obviously an app of more realistic complexity won't be quite that fast, but you'll still handle many requests every second with no trouble. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4770406/4040 contains some basic benchmarks.

EDIT: also, mod_perl is generally best avoided these days; it's old, not very pleasant to work with, and ties you to Apache. Writing an app with Dancer / Mojolicious etc means you can deploy in various different ways with ease.
An oddity in all of this is that Wal-Mart has been removing the self-checkouts from here in Canada.

The comment I got from a family member who is a contractor for them is that they removed them due to the fact that there was an increase in theft upon their installation. Having been unable to reign it in, they have since been removed and the express check-outs were doubled.
Thanks for sharing. We didn't know about Aaron's project, but it definitely resonates. We definitely agree with you here --> "Information I should had well before I ever applied". Hopefully companies / their employees will answer the questions!
mach 20 = 24 500.88 kmh (~6800m/s)

This is incredibly fast.
Distance New York to Paris : 5851km[1]
it would take 14 minutes for this plane to do the distance.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=paris+to+new+york
Rise of India as an App Superpower
I suspect the parent is talking about the Google Reader shutdown and the flack they've been taking from the tech press.