skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to your question seems obvious, but only superficially. I've worked at a lot of tech companies of various sizes, and I've never been yelled at. I'm sure I'd rather be at a place where I did get yelled out every once and a while if we were creating great products compared to some of the rudderless places I've been where no one believed we were creating anything worthwhile.

But I did leave the rudderless companies, but it's rather hard to determine if the place you are interviewing will be fulfilling and successful before wasting a year or so there.

So if I were at a place where I was yelled at, yet they were creating highly successful products, I might just put up with the yelling. Maybe I have a high tolerance, I was in the Army and did go through bootcamp, or maybe success makes a lot of things more bearable and the alternative isn't that attractive.
How Women View Themselves, Vs How Others Do
With acceptance rates so incomprehensibly, almost farcically low (the rate was under 2% last year, and must be approaching if not already surpassed 1%), I don't see much value in reading into one's rejection.
"Woah. I can code in Malbolge."
Basics of Graph Theory in Transportation Logistics
Pulling some threads together: sitting, posture and gravity
Stock price went from like 75 to 700 in like 4 years so yeah, for most of them, the screaming was worth it. My old roommate went from kid from poor family with debt who would have never considered owning a home to paying cash for a home. He was pretty unhappy but I imagine this kind of makes up for it.
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HackerWeb App Fixed for Windows Phone
OK so I took it upon myself to fix the HackerWeb App WP8 viewport bug has nobody has bothered to look into it for the last few months.

You can all now enjoy reading it on your Lumia 920 and HTC 8X the Azure hosted site.
I know right? I got interested in _why after he vanished (but before the big article). Loved his video on Hackety Hack and Kaxxt. Excited that he might come back after all... we'll see!
xibs get in the way really really quickly after you ramp up. I would rather have a solid UI library built out that I can use between apps than have to constantly reinvent the wheel and fight with xibs and the GUI editor. Maybe they are fine for one man projects but for larger apps and larger teams they are almost certainly a mistake especially if you use them all over the place.

I'm not saying they did not work for hipmunk or for you generally but every app I have taken over that uses them extensively has been a nightmare to get back on track. Maybe I just have not been burned by the roll your own approach yet but I sure have been burned by the use xibs for everything approach.
Google Affiliate Network Shutting Down
So we're in violent agreement? ;)
Show HN: FollowTheseApps - App Changelogs in Your RSS Feed
When we were developing our main project, ForkJoy (https://forkjoy.com) , I noticed that I had downloaded almost every food app in the AppStore. I ended up with 3 folders full of food apps just so I could keep up to date with what the other guys were doing. I never used them, I just wanted to see what changes they were making. Our team's developers had the same problem, so one of them did something about it and made a service that scraped the Android/iOS app stores and put the changelogs into an RSS feed that he subscribed to.

We figured that other people would have the same problem, so we decided to release the product as a service.

We're proud to introduce Follow These Apps (https://followtheseapps.com)
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This service is useful for the following niches:

- App development companies

* Following competitors

* Keeping track of internal app releases

- Tech bloggers

* Getting notified when popular apps (ex: Facebook or Twitter) put out new releases

- App enthusiasts

* Keeping track of their favourite apps

* Being notified when certain apps are updated that are not available in their region

I'd love to hear some feedback on the idea.

Check it out at https://followtheseapps.com
I read somewhere (can't remember where now) that the hacker supposedly dumped the key from memory. My guess is they type in the passphrase on boot or something, and it lives in an agent thereafter.
FlightCar was rejected on first pass--don't feel bad guys! The reason most startups fail is because the founders give up. So don't give up and keep hustling!

--Shri (Founder, FlightCar)
You can't do much public good if you don't get re-elected. Since public opinion suggests people want more services and less taxes, something is going to have to give.
This reminds me of days around 11 years back, when I was studying for engineering college entrance exams.

We would have entrance exams for coaching classes which prepared students for main entrance exams, basically the elite coaching institutes would ask candidates undergo a entrance test and pick up only the best.

Many of my friends were rejected, including me. Some were selected. In the end in the main exams we did better than the guys who were selected for the coaching class. It just turns out after we were rejected we were motivated to push ourselves further more than others.

Rejection can do wonders if taken in the right spirit. You basically go into the phase to 'prove something' to not just yourself but every one around.

This is a very well drafted email.

>>Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes.

Says it all. YC companies fail too.

And there are a lot of non-YC companies that win. At the end YC is like the coaching class entrance exam, not the main engineering entrance exam.

Your main test is how and what you do on the ground.
QB64 also has multidimensional arrays, functions, while loops, "user defined types" (structs) ... apart from the lack of pointers, it's not all that far from C or Pascal once you ignore the syntactic sugar. (Or as pg calls it, "Algol with a funny hat".)

Not to downplay his achievement - I'm sure making the game was a lot of work either way ... but implementing it in Basic doesn't seem especially praiseworthy.
Here's why I say no it isn't:

The end product, what my nib is for, has 12 labels, three UIView border bars (1px thick), two UIViews just for a differing background color in a couple spots, and a UIImage. Now you're right, I could set all those in code, alloc all those labels and adjust their sizes and positions relative to the ones that came before and all of that jazz, and that's all fine and dandy. Until I realize that my design needs tweaking. So, instead of selecting all elements on the nib and pressing up twice for a two pixel shift, I'm sitting there editing 20 different things in a CGRect call... way more work.

So instead of doing it all in code, the way I went about was creating a subclass of UIView with a .xib file attached to it. The .xib has everything where I want it visually and it's connected to the header via properties of everything that needs to be dynamic. Then I made a custom init method that just takes in my object and returns a UIView object that is the totality of that nib loaded with the data I need it to be.
All in all, instead of bloat, every time I need to return an instance of that custom subclass I effectively call something like this:

UIView *newView = [CustomClass createCustomViewWithObject:(id)object];

And that's it - I'm free to put it wherever I want up the chain in my subsequent views.
Already going the way of Microsoft...
Bitcoin is experimental and behaves in ways that money has never done before.
"It's harder to get through a reinforced door in a hurry, but I can think of plenty ways of either getting through it more slowly, or of making the cockpit unpleasant to be in without breaching it - lighting a fire outside it, for example."

I can think of a number of ways as well, but most of them do not involve the type of knives that will be allowed.

"the difference is that if you manage to escape the confined space then you'll probably be able to run away"

You specifically used the words "hostage situation", which implies an inability to escape.

"Ignoring this rather obvious difference seems obtuse."

HN guidelines aside (I do not think it is civil to call someone obtuse), the original article you submitted states that the TSA does not think that small knives are sufficient to let people with bad intentions crash airplanes. I do not think that the situations you have mentioned (slowly breaching a cockpit door or a hostage situation in the cabin) call this into question.
Apple makes money on both hardware and software. So while all those manufacture have to pay for its OS ( Windows ) to M$, Apple gets those themselves as well with MacOS.

Which is why Apple is much more profitable when you are discounting Microsoft from that equation.

And If you are talking about Hardware, ( which by the way includes both component inside and exterior as well ), please makes an proper comparison before jumping in to say they are insanely expensive. While i am not saying that they are not, it is not a huge difference as some have put it.
TL/DR: Chairman of Forbes gives his two cents on Bitcoin which boils down to "It's new. I don't understand it."
How about Silicon Valley itself? How much influence does Silicon Valley have for it's own land?
I find it strange that the US has laws that many people break and the law is only enforced sporadically. Some examples in California are speeding, missing front license plate, age of consent laws, use tax on out-of-state/internet purchases, and illegal immigration. Having a bunch of laws that people break with impunity has a "broken window" effect, leading to less respect for the law overall. (Whether or not these laws are just is an orthogonal issue, which I won't get in to.)

Regarding speeding, I don't see how the current system can hold up under technological advances. There are a dozen trivial ways to tell if someone is speeding, from the toll booth data of the original article to cell phone GPS to computer vision to road sensors to smart cars. It doesn't make sense for the police to perform inefficient, dangerous traffic stops when all this data is available, but the system would collapse if everyone received 10 traffic tickets a day.
". . . dividing space into a four-dimensional grid."

Time Cube! These stupid idiots still don't understand it.
How is Order the modifiers to maximize the product of their successive restrictive effects equivalent to "people copy what they know"? The restrictive effects of a given adjective are an input to the model because that issue was never the question. The ordering was the question, and that's what my proposed model attempts to predict, given prior knowledge of restrictive effects. The interesting prediction it makes is that people prefer orderings that converge rapidly and evenly.
IMO being yelled to create someone else's vision and being paid relatively poorly seems like a poor tradeoff.

In tech it is actually common, imho, to have respectful and well-paying work environments. And there's a lot of good product to work on, even if they don't have the cult following.
very cool! i've done a bit of video art in quartz composer but i hadn't even thought about using it for prototyping. such a versatile tool, i hope apple doesn't abandon it
That's a fair point. If Apple allowed their employees to publish on the App Store, do you think it would be fair to other developers that the same people working on the technology they use to make Apps have this exclusive insight to the direction and future of the technology?
There are two universal properties in the sense that a universal property is either defined in terms of a "terminal morphism" or (dually) an "initial morphism" (see the Formal Definition in the wiki article) -- the examples are particular instantiations of this general definition.
Not bad. I hope more people will pursue different careers and passions after they've spent 10-15 years in one area.

A friend of mine has a neighbor that used to be a software engineer, and now makes sausage. It's honestly some of the best sausage I've ever had, and you can't hardly find it anywhere because it sells out so fast. Well, I know one place I can get it but I'm not saying where.

I hope he truly enjoys making cakes and I hope one day I'll embark on a different professional journey again.
Isn't it good that the PTO resists pressure from either group?
I mean, the only part which would have influence on how they work is the entity above PTO, whichever that one is (Supreme Court/DOJ/?).
I suspect that even if they allowed submitting code then it will probably not be mandated which language be used and we will likely get something like obfuscated javascript or Brainfuck or god forbid obfuscated Brainfuck (if that is not redundant) in the patent.

Documented code would be a great step forward if we decide we have to keep patents around because at least your money is buying source code in some form.
Why would knowing the SOLID principles have any real relevance when the systems in question are probably written in COBOL and date back at least 4 decades?
This is the type of "journalism" that instills fear into the market to manipulate Apple's stock price.
Determiners (the, an, that...)
Observation (pretty, nice, awesome...)
Size and Shape (big, huge, great(usually)...)
Age (new, young, fourteen years old, antique...)
Color (blue, black, pale...)
Origin (French, American, Asian...)
Material (woolen, jade, metallic)
Qualifier -- this one can seem tricky. It's an adjective that has become part of a set phrase with the noun. Like "book cover" or "rocking chair". Those have to stay right next to the noun or it messes up the phrase (a rocking blue chair has a wobbly leg; a blue rocking chair is doing what it should). A "great dragon" is very dangerous and amazing, not just big.

There are also a few English phrases with postmodifiers, like 'mother-in-law' or 'attorney general', but they are few, and you learn them one at a time.

It isn't really logical, and every language has, more or less, its own order, but English is more firm in its adherence to its set order than most. It just sounds right to us!
I think OP was making the point that, instead of speeding, a police officer should radio other officers ahead of the speeder in an attempt to catch the perpetrator.

It's a bad point because police already do radio ahead while they're in pursuit. Also, some cities do not allow police to chase suspects but it all depends on the crime. For example, they may chase someone wanted for murder but not someone else who's wanted for a non-violent crime. The argument is that it's not worth putting the public at risk for some offenders but for others it's important to apprehend the suspected criminal.
Didn't apply/get rejected but am always up to meet new techies in the city.

email is in my profile.
How did you arrive at #1? We used USPS's api for a year before switching to SmartyStreets, and there's no way their api is powered by USPS's buggy api.
I put his name in the title when I submitted it b/c of that exact reason, but I guess a mod changed it afterwards and removed it.
Congress. Congress are the ones who count.
Anti-police sentiment exists here because police abuse their power systematically, and notably so in places with strong tech communities like New York City and the Bay Area (specifically Oakland), residents of which are over-represented on HN.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showd...

On the horizon:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6790/intels-clover-trail-dualc...
American Airline's response to today's outage
They're German. They have a procedure for every imaginable circumstance. And as long as they're following the procedure, there is no problem.
You have to live as if you have free will. You can't say, "I've considered all the possibilites, and have decided that there is no free will", because considerations and decisions are acts of free will themselves. Of course, that doesn't mean you have free will.
Personally, I don't really feel an anti-police sentiment on an individual level. I get that it's a hard job, and I've met some respectable officers.
But collectively, the seemingly total lack of accountability drives me nuts.
Spotify expands services to new countries
It'd be easy enough to mandate a list of languages. Or alternatively to require languages to be standards published by a recognised national or international body from a short list (ISO, ANSI and equivs, IEEE, ECMA etc).
Do you support international rates? I looked into Postmaster.io but they don't seem to yet.
Ask HN: How are you using the PDF format in your websites?
Transaction processing on IBM mainframes is typically very robust. It's what they were built to do.
1 Dev + 1 Dev = 2 Devs
Tachyon: 100 times faster than HDFS
The dig at Chicago School Law & Economics was off-base. L&E wasn't some attempt to subvert the justice system by "moneyed interests." It was an attempt to put parts of the legal framework on a rational economic footing. At it's best, it gave justifications for things in the law we always believed but didn't have a formal way to talk about.

He does make some good points re: environmental laws. We overestimate how well we understand probabilities, and worse, humans generally tend to diminish the weight of uncertain benefits in the face of certain costs, by a factor greater than what the underlying probabilities warrant. Global warming is a perfect example. Even if you believe that there is not consensus on whether there is anthropogenic global warming, does that mean the rational thing to do is spend $0 combatting the possibility? Of course not, not unless you think the probability is 0%.

On the other hand, putting environmental law on a firm economic basis has also been a boon. Speaking in terms of negative externalities and cost shifting instead of "hippie treehugger values" has salvaged the movement even during a time of a hard political shift to the right in the U.S.
And people will use this as a reason to scream "OMG CORRUPT COPS ALL OF THEM ARE AWFUL!" Welcome to the history of law enforcement.

People are people. We all do stupid things, and pretending that cops are anything but people is idiotic. Yes, they should be held to a higher standard. No, that does not mean you should not expect them to fuck up; it means that they should be punished when they do, just like the rest of us.

I know people who scream corruption and all sorts of other stupidity every time some government agent does something that seems even remotely wrong. I also know people who will defend, against all logic, all actions of anyone carrying a badge. I fall somewhere in between; I know and have known a whole lot of government employees, and have even been processed by a few of them. Yep, it was my fault, and I can't bring myself to hold it against them.

The point is that most people who take the job of upholding the law do so. That the laws aren't perfect is not their fault. That there are people who take that job but still break the law means they're not perfect, and it means they're still subject to the same laws as the rest of us. That's not news; that's just reality.

The idea that cops should be perfect sure as hell didn't come from cops. At least, none that I know. Higher standard? Sure. Perfection? Try a mirror. No one can manage that, and if you want perfect people chasing you down the street, you're likely to get sued when they find out you're using Superman without express written permission.
The real-world implications are one of the world's leading password cracking projects is able to test candidate password guesses 50% more efficiently than they would have otherwise.

This amounts to the loss of almost exactly 1 bit of security. Yes, really.

The first letter of my password is lowercase, not uppercase. There, that's how much it matters. 1 bit.
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> It follows that if our universe is one of the more probable universes that our laws of logic and probability estimates are not calculated from probable postulates, thus our assumptions leading to any conclusion are probably in error.

What 'postulates' would they be calculated from? Does it even make sense to speak of universes following different 'logics'?

> far more universes simulated that have properties that are nothing like the "real" one as technology progresses, i.e. there are more instances of "sonic the hedgehogs" and "super mario brothers 1"

Those seem like perfectly normal universes to me: they're fully describable by short programs executing over discrete binary states like a chunk of RAM. Where's the violation of logic or metaphysical oddities there?
IVs are not really meant to be secret, IIRC. They're just meant to be different each time, to avoid getting the same cypher text if you have to encrypt another plaintext that begins with the same block.
Wouldn't rule out Javascript then.

I think common sense applied to the process would be enough, rather than mandating languages that may or may not be relevant in the future. Though Patent System and Common Sense might be bit of an oxymoron.
iSteve
Let people pay you. Make it easy
The RFC spec says 1000 is a minimum, which is what 1PW seems to have been using.
In the decreasing order of priority

* twitter
* github
* google
* ... many many galaxies later.
* facebook.
> learn to run simulations on the scale of a universe

Pretty sure under our current understanding of physics, it's impossible to simulate a universe like our own within our own.
If you want to convince anyone, you have to do better than just referring to your feelings. Plato felt the world of ideas was more real than the "real" world. Cosmologist Max Tegmark argues that we have no reason not to believe that the universe is anything more than pure math, and all formal systems exist in precisely the same way that our universe does. Philosopher David Lewis argues that the actual world is nothing but the possible world that we happen to be in. Representationalists believe that any simulation that duplicates the causal structure of conscious beings would have conscious beings in it. (A novel does not duplicate such a causal structure, so that's one place where your argument falls flat on its face, if indeed you were trying to make an argument.) Searle with his Chinese Box argument is not buying it.

The bottom line is that we just don't know, and are unlikely ever to know, but if one wants to argue intelligently about it, there's a huge amount of philosophical literature on just this topic.

On the other hand, your position would seem to deny human rights to future intelligent robots, which has serious ethical ramifications should you happen to be wrong.
Lots of memories there. Fun fact - the programmer of that game went on to contribute to the Allegro graphics library. Going from QB to DJGPP+Allegro seemed like a natural progression, and quite a few people in the QB community followed a similar path.
My initial impression is "Wow, so cool, I wonder if I could do it.

Then quickly I am brought back to Earth by thinking that I will never see my family, friends or pets again.

I wonder how many of these "thousands" of applicants have truly though this through and could actually do it.
QE1 ran from Nov 25, 2008 to Mar 31, 2010.
QE2 ran from Nov 30, 2010 to June 30, 2011.
QE3 started Sep 13, 2012 and hasn't ended yet.

(Honest question here) I'm curious when we should expect to see the huge inflation created by the QE program, and why we haven't seen it yet if it began nearly 5 years ago...

Am I missing something?
"Real" QBASIC has structs, maybe some of the other things.
> Wouldn't rule out Javascript then.

Or C# (ECMA), Common Lisp (ANSI), SQL (ISO), Fuzzy Control Language (IEC) ...
No, the attack speeds it up by a factor of two (1 bit).

The other factor of two was a known and expected optimization for HMAC that the OCLHashcat developer(s) discovered the hard way. The defenders (1PW's users) may have already been taking advantage of this optimization, so it really doesn't count as an "attack".