skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the stuff that happened to randomly go against the flow generally gets pulled into lockstep with the rest by tidal forces.

But not entirely - the amount of axial tilt turns out to be a chaotic system. About 20 years ago I ran across an estimate that if the Earth did not have the Moon, then every so often we would randomly wind up with a sufficient tilt to be extremely difficult for life. Therefore our Moon may have been critical for sustaining life as we know it.

See http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/02/science/moon-may-save-eart... for confirmation of that tidbit.
Because safe mode is a different runlevel (IIRC), it gets the chance to run some maintenance scripts, delete caches, etc, uninhibited by some services that are loaded in normal mode.
"I think at this stage they'll be shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted."

Naw, they love it. You have to keep a false sense of exclusivity to make a product look sexy before it becomes a commodity device.
I'd love to learn more about your use case and what's important in such large scale operations. Can you please email me at debuggex@toarca.com?
They didn't have high school jobs with any amount the frequency of the people before them. There weren't jobs to have as the adults had them all.
Where's Internet Explorer and Office 2013 for OS X? Which significant Microsoft apps run on iOS?

Obviously it makes sense for Google to get its advertising hooks everywhere it can, but I don't see Apple and Microsoft having the same cross-platform incentives at all.
Worse: forcing you to the mobile site and when on it there's half the functionality and search doesn't return the same results. Are you not hitting the same API to search as the full site? Why wouldn't you?
It was a Google+ event with about 100 people invited. It felt like it was a cached notification that didn't realize I had already arrived.
These factors hold in any industry, though, so they're not sufficient to explain the preference for youth in the software industry.
Doesn't surprise me. Microsoft has a strong hold in the "enterprise" (read large corporations with bureaucratic but big pockets) sector.
Skillcrush: Reducing Tech to Buzzwords
open for discussion
Note that this law was passed in the UK, but it might inspire politicians in the US to pass similar legislation.
Every startup should institute pre-cations
It only integrates with the Gmail app on the device. There are specific cards that will work _only_ if you have the Gmail app pulling in email and it's enabled.
I think that, 4-5 years ago, perhaps a large percentage of people would have fit that bill but even then it was not likely to be anywhere close to a majority. Today though this is sort of the sophisticated man's Reddit and thus your suspicion is probably off by an order of magnitude.
On SimCity and that, Will Wright tends to think of his creations as toys rather than games.

'hell even some BluRay menus could be described as having "gameply."'

Which should be a pretty sure sign that "can be described as having gameplay" isn't that meaningful.

(The problem with arguing semantics on the internet is that everyone starts obsessing about technicalities. Quake, SimCity, Minecraft and Blu-ray menus, all qualify as technically being games. And so technically qualifying as being a game is clearly irrelevant to anything interesting. It is obviously not what people usually mean by "is it a game?" and such.)
Yes, I'd like to see some chinese sites on the list.

For what I can test http://www.alibaba.com/ looks decent in IE6.

One in four browsers in china are IE6. Source: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

(can someone check baidu.com, qq.com, sina.com.cn, csdn.net, alibaba.com in IE5?)
"I have not found any discussions about this topic yet"

Because cellular phones do not affect a person's health, no matter what a small group of tin-foil hat wearers may believe.
In this job market, that's an extremely frequent occurrence.
This is only for minor bodies, not planets. The poles of planets are pretty much defined to be 'pointed the same way as the Earth's'. The north pole of Venus is roughly aligned with the north pole of the Earth despite the fact that Venus's rotation is retrograde.

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_of_astronomical_bodies
On a Mac, you can just two-finger scroll right to scroll right on a browser window. (Still doesn't excuse dumb developers who don't test on multiple browser widths, but it does make it easier to deal with them.)
Very interesting. I hadn't considered that possibility before. Most of the managers i come across excel in their ability to direct blame to others and criticise yet can never deliver on their own promises or lead by example in getting things done. I can see how, being a real doer would redeem them greatly. It's starting to make sense now. This was a complete eye opener. Thanks!
While that is fair enough, I've never seen a company put a non-technical person in a lead technical role. Conversely, I've see no end of "a non-engineer can't manage engineers", which is what this feels like.

Of course, all other qualities being equal, having the addition of technical skills on top of managerial skills is good, but I've had more non-technical bosses I'd choose to work for again than technical bosses.
I can summarize the problem with the data in one sentence: a degree in computer science has almost no correlation with your usefulness as a programmer. So a glut of people with degrees does not imply that there is no skill shortage.

Really good programmers, like musicians, almost invariably start practicing as children. By high school, they know enough to be dangerous. By college, they're operating on a qualitatively different level than their peers who are trying programming for the first time. (Hence the widely-reported bimodal distribution of student performance in introductory college CS classes.)

Can someone starting at age 18 still become a great programmer? Almost certainly. But they need to put in the vast amount of times and intense effort that it takes, and that gets harder to accomodate the older you get.
Go: stupid simple, in source, breakpoints
Agreed. Another line that irked me: "They don't realize (the interview) is a sales event."

I don't think it is. You're interviewing me and I'm interviewing you. You're potentially getting my time and my soul. That's not just for sale - we need to see whether it's a good fit. If we can't even move past your desire to see me put on an act in the interview room, maybe it's not a good fit.

However, things like answering cell phones are valid concerns. That's blatantly rude.
The rich may not physically move their bodies, but what about moving business operations to tax-friendly locations? Especially if you only do it on paper?

What about the flight of manufacturing from the US, c. 1980-2000?
It's not like the second you've had meth or heroin for the first time you're instantly and irrevocably addicted to it. There's definitely an ability to recover from that.
Misleading headline; they released the boring code and none of the interesting code.
Ask HN: What do developers do with web mockups?
I have a guess. They extract the assets and use it as a guide, but pretty much make the html/css from scratch. Am I correct in my assumption?
Parent is correct, and it's not placebo. Disabling swap on OS X usually results in a dramatic improvement. People unfamiliar with the poor memory management of OS X tend to become personally offended by this suggestion and often start explaining how swap works (usually incorrectly). The reason is simple; it swaps when it doesn't need to, and swapping is much slower than accessing memory. For what it's worth, I've been running this way for years.

Yes, I know how swap works - I'm a kernel developer (mainly FreeBSD, but I have experience with most mainstream desktop kernels, including Windows). No, it's not dangerous to run without it in 2013 if you have enough memory.
When designing a new system-wide architecture like a new storage subsystem, edge cases matter. A lot. I'd call it, at best, an oversight in the design phase of CS-WDE and, at worst, incompetence.
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This is my favourite comment by far.
Pirates react to their games being pirated in Game Dev Tycoon
I've been on tour before, gave everything away for free, slept on couches...
I bet Hacker News would look fantastic in IE5, tables and all
Pulling over for flashing lights and sirens is one thing.

But building a bridge out of the way of your own infrastructure with your own/investor capital so only flashing lights and sirens can cross it is another (god forbid the other parties involved use the same bridge).

Why don't law enforcement agencies build their own social networks and email clients that people want to use?
Continuous Deployment at Quora
BTW, XMLHttpRequest was a big mistake with significant consequences from Microsoft's point of view. It opened the door to Web applications an ended the age of desktop applications and thereby Microsoft's dominance. If MS managers had understood the technology they would have never let it escape into the IT world. Without IE's accidental support other browsers (Netscape, Firefox) would have been unable to establish the technology.
At least if they refuse to do a coding exercise it is really easy to go to the next candidate.

Heck I would probably just end the interview there if that happened to me.
Ah, that would be because those "eye exercises" are snake oil.
They also pop up for me when I tap to put a cursor in the search box at the top of the map app.
Dying in space: An American dream
And sales when aiming for SME organisations can be very informal.
One would think that the police are already able to do their jobs efficiently, since we have the largest prison population on this planet. What this proposal is about is making it easier for the police to gather evidence, because as we all know, leaving their desks and actually working to catch criminals is just asking too much of them. It is precisely the same argument that was made for CALEA: demanding that the police actually go into the field and attach wiretapping equipment to phone lines is making it too hard to catch criminals, so we "must" make it possible to execute wiretap orders without even leaving their chair.

The checks and balances are weakened every time we make the police "more efficient." Again, the point of making the government, police included, inefficient is to thwart those who would try to establish oppressive systems. Making the police more efficient makes it easier for unjust laws to be passed and enforced.
"They cause a lot of support trouble for anyone who provides one."

I can't picture anyone working int tech who's ever had support trouble because of the existence of one, unless the end-user chooses to use it during a firmware update.
Could you use the same argument for accountancy? Or playing the guitar?
Article author here. Many native apps of course will use HTTPS and will be able to use ordinary Persona. The protocol described in the article is for native applications that need replay detection, key exchange, mutual authentication, etc (particularly those that already use SASL and/or cannot use TLS).
I still use winamp.
I highly doubt that 13 hours of wifi-connected travel is preferable to 3 hours offline. With a 3-hour suborbital flight you can fly out to Beijing to finalize a deal and be back in time for a late dinner.

If you fly out with your lawyers and team, you could spend the 3 hours prepping, and the 3 hours back drinking the celebratory champagne.
The "Yea, but so what?" is relevant for policy-making. Legislation that would protect a specific luxury/entertainment industry from privacy may be re-distributing wealth to those players from other less protected players.

Not an argument against you, but a point that I see glossed over a lot. Unless you somehow legislate away piracy across an entire budget category very broadly for families and individuals, you run the danger of picking winners.

I thought the point about demand signal was interesting that you raised. Do people consider rampant privacy in some specific area to be a demand signal that is coupled with an extremely high price sensitivity?
This seems highly unlikely considering they don't remember to update the azure SSL certificate two years in a row.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/02/25/windo...
If only there was a way for young adults to learn how to be respectful and understand "time and place" for various behaviors. Oh yeah, there is, parenting.
Making someone make a purchase decision to play around with your platform blocks some people from ever using your platform. You don't need to let everyone play for free, but allowing say 1,000 requests a month at no cost would get some extra people to try out your platform.
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Oops, I meant "easier to read but harder to write".
>Laws should always be enforced.

That's rather naive. We need to fix a lot of laws before we could do that because:

1. It's not unheard of for laws to be contradictory in some circumstances, or just outright contradictory.

2. Do you really want everyone to be automatically ticketed for jaywalking?

Laws were written with policemen's, and the court's discretion in mind, whether you want to believe that or not, and switching to an automatic always on enforcement mode would be oppressing in the extreme.
And they can make the up/down arrows work in even older browsers by using document.images instead of document.getElementById.
I don't think anyone's disputing that false color could be useful to scientists or that we should put cameras on satellites that capture true color images for the benefit of blog posts targeting the general public, and I certainly was not claiming anything like that, being horribly under-qualified. But waxing poetic about "the red rose of Saturn" is a little bit silly IMHO, but it's nothing worse than that...

http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/191/The_Red_Rose_Of_Saturn
I would say do it. Worst case they say you're not qualified yet. THATS WAY better then the case of you never asking. Besides, if your asking about an intern position, it usually is OKAY for you not have the "full stack". Heck when I first interned at this ASP.NET position, I literally had to learn th e syntax day 1. "Figure it out later".

note: Not the same as "Fake it till you make it". If you know how to CODE well, and have the inpsiration to learn you can learn. If you have no idea how to code (which doesn't seem the case), then start making websites for fun.
Yes, I have the same experiences with recent grads and even people moving from first job to second. Their casualness, lackadaisical attitude, and general "go with the flow, man" attitude towards the job and the employee hierarchy just makes it very easy to say, "Next!" I've hired enough of those casual employees in years past to learn that it's not worth it to do it again. Can they be good employees? Absolutely - they are all smart, capable, and have the ability to perform. However, what I've found is that they consistently either try to use humor to downplay whatever problem is found (thus trying to diminish the problem, not their behavior), or they just nod, say "Yes, sir. Won't happen again.", and keep on doing the same things. That sort of attitude works fine in many large companies all over the world but, in a small company, it's a lot harder to get away with. I don't have time to train you on how to be a human - that's what your 16+ years of school was for.
Let's examine this.

Suppose in ten, twenty years from now, all us old fogies are retired or dead.

Who are left? The Millennials.

Imagine you're a Millennial hiring manager. You're interviewing someone. The interviewee texts in the middle of that. Would you feel offended? Maybe.

Or maybe you are also texting your colleagues and HR during the interview.[1]

This is assuming that something like Google Glasses is not more ubiquitous. That is to say, Buckminster Fuller's notion of ephemeralization (tech gets smaller and smaller until it becomes invisible and everywhere). That is, non-localized communication technologies becomes invisible and everywhere.

This is also assuming that our current hiring practices are still relavent.

There's an excellent Wired magazine articles about the kids born after 1993: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/genwired/

Something to think about if you're looking to stay relavent in tech.

[1] Caveat: I set aside time daily for mindfulness meditation. For me, texting during the interview isn't so much as rude or inappropriate as much as you're scattering your attention to multiple places, so you are not as effective. On the other hand, if the people you are texting are helping you with the interview, then more attention is on the interview than any one single person can muster.
I wonder myself, I'm trying to find information about PCI-DSS.

I Program the integrations from online stores to payment gateways. None of my programs saves any credit card info, yet I'm not sure if I can state that their PCI compliance?

"Merchant / Services" I can understand, but what about a "piece" of software?
I'm only talking about auto-generated links that can't be clearly disambiguated by the system. At worst, the experience wouldn't be any worse than it is today.
Also, the article talks about behavior seen in "recent college grads", which hardly includes 34 year olds.
> Android code is released in two parts—changes to the Linux kernel are released under the GPLv2 free software license, just as Linux itself is, while most of the code that makes Android recognizable to users is released under the Apache License. With Glass, just the Linux code has been released.

Agreed
It's interesting how the whole PaaS movement has begun to resemble a more traditional development and operational split, as devs who thought they were finally escaping from the tyranny of systems administration and design find themselves forced back into taking such things into consideration when building their apps.
There's absolutely no way for it to infer that 100%. How many times have people started driving to an event or the grocery store and taken a turn towards home halfway there? I'd rather be reminded at an appropriate time even if it's unnecessary than not be reminded at all.
All bugs can be traced to the programmer, of course. I find Forth error-prone because it's untyped (not even dynamically typed) and you have parameter-passing errors, where you pass a parameter or get a return value from the wrong place. Traditionally, too, you don't have local variables, but I think that's not actually nearly as big a problem as it sounds.

That said, my last few words were exactly backward from what I meant to say. Harder to write than assembly, because you have to take more care to avoid stack-effect bugs and you don't have local variables; but easier to read, because your Forth isn't full of arbitrary noise about which register you're using for what.
Why Parse is Facebook's Most Significant Acquisition Ever.
And for my next magic trick, popular modern video games rendered in 256 bit color.
Isn't it 400% more pixels. Retina should be 2x the width and 2x the height.

Anyway. Mine is slow too. With the nvidia card everything is mostly fine, with the integrated intel card everything is mostly sluggish.

There was a review of the 13" retina when it came out saying that the intel gpu was terrible and that he sent the laptop back and was going to wait for the next generation.
If only there was some way you could pay a small amount of money, to have access to a game for a few days or hours...

Most video rental stores used to rent games, before they were pretty much all killed by the triple whammy of streaming, Netflix, and the recession.

There actually may be a market segment of people like you, who are willing to pay small amounts for short-term access to games, which is being more-or-less ignored by most of the gaming industry. If the market segment is big enough, could it be an unexploited startup opportunity?
Same here. It does playlists well and that's all I need.
> how many are the multi-platinum award winning rock stars

Probably none. The actual rock star level people can get O visas, which don't have a quota.
Although I am not certain about it, the way browsers are expected to handle encryption may have also changed in 14 years -- making payment gateways on these websites wither unusable or risky.
Obviously no one has tried the Google app (iOS at least). It is the most disorganized and slapped together application in the history of iOS.

I'm still wondering how the hell anyone could seriously consider releasing this abomination.

Until Google decides to join the iOS infrastructure (like reading from your Contacts - radical I know) none of it's apps will provide even the slightest interesting interactions.
The premise of google now is that it can read your mind. It's not my (the consumer) job to be concerned about implementation.
I should really go to a demoparty again, some time (you do remember me from my scene days, right skrebbel? like you I had a different nickname back then).

Do demoparties also have Javascript compos nowadays? Building a 4k usually took me about 6 months, add some extra to that because I've been out of it for ~10 years ...

I always prefer the "limited" compos because you don't usually need a team (hard to come by, helps if they're local) and because IMO it shows more of the scene spirit: pushing the boundaries. I mean, a PC demo nowadays can pretty much do anything, and even back in the day I felt it was too much freedom.

Are there still parties not all the way down in Eindhoven? :) I'm still located all the way up North :) Although if I'm heading somewhere for 3-4 days, NL is small enough. I do need some peeps to meet up with there and have a good time, cause I doubt I can get my local friends to clear their schedule on short notice like that :P
joshgel, I don't know where you live, but in my country, hospitals are publicly rated on their performance in treating MIs with angioplasty within 90 minutes of patient arrival, insured or not.
I tried iTunes over the years it was was far too annoying.
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In a practical apocalypse, you might be able to recover transistors from garbage dumps, too.
I dunno. i think that's the kind of thinking that pushed the cost to defend against a federal case up to 1.5 million.

I'm not advocating we just throw people who might be guilty in jail. Everybody deserves their day in court. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone (who's not directly involved in something horrible - father of a murdered child, etc) that disagrees with getting a fair trial.

For example, i'm a big fan of red light cameras. I hate them, but the blind uniform enforcement is great. Doesn't matter if you're a cop, or an important business man, or late for school. You break the law, you pay your ticket and move on.

Laws are for cases where it's hard to get everyone to agree in the heat of the moment, that's why we write them down beforehand. Arguing about Alice killing Bob is different from arguing about Alice buying a car from Bob. It's still a negotiation, but adding some special cases so everyone gets all the facts doesn't seem wrong. Remember, the prosecution still has to turn all that stuff over.
Pretty amazed that they would make it legal to steal... The law is too vague on how they would attempt to contact the owner and it does not state how much they have to pay to license it.
I'd agree, most of these numbers are "fuzzy" and based on analyst estimates; I'd almost be more surprised if they DID perfectly add up to 100%. :-)