skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who do not need a smartphone, a tablet, or a HUD shouldn't purchase one. If they feel pressure from society to buy one or just want to see what all the fuss is about, then that's their choice.

People who purchase one for the games are doing nothing but providing funding to help improve the technology for the people who actually do have uses for smart-phones.

There are TONS of practical uses for smart-phones, but there are also billions of people living on this planet who don't have a use for them.
Sharing v isn't the problem. The problem occurs when v is evaluated.

The parent's post has no race condition, as v is evaluated before the goroutine starts.

The top example of my post has a race condition because there is no guarantee when v will be evaluated wrt to the loop.

The bottom example has no race condition because v is evaluated on every iteration and assigned to s, which is used by the goroutine at some point afterwards.
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I am expecting an offer soon for a senior web developer position at a 50 person web firm and want to make sure I have all the bases covered.

What would you want answered before accepting any position?
Just did a search on PG, here is PG's profile:
http://phdtree.org/scholar/graham-paul-2/

Didn't know he had a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard in the early 90s.
In the first half of my career, early 80's to mid 90's, there was rarely such thing as an independent UX/UI designer - it was just a specialty of some programmers. I spent nearly a decade being both a lead programmer and chief designer of the UI. All three major apps were well received and one still is on the market today (sadly not updated much). Today it is considered a distinct specialty though there are still a few folks who practice both.
I doubt you'll find many libertarians/objectivists who actually think that there is zero role for government. Of course we need roads serviced and a legal infrastructure to protect people from coercion. Those are things that can only really be done at a government level. Just because she doesn't focus on that in a book of fiction doesn't mean you should throw the baby out with the bathwater.

the new internet sales tax is called the "Marketplace Fairness Act", for fucks sake, was that name lifted straight out of Atlas Shrugged? Governments are on the hook for outrageously expensive union pension funds that will cause economic collapse, but Ayn didn't mention snow plows in her book, so we should ignore everything she says about collectivism, unions and government cronyism?!?

what a load of horseshit.
Comparing freemium game conversion to Triple AAA piracy is ludicrous, and the argument that a freemium game should convert more because its designed to convert people is the most textbook definition of a specious argument I've ever seen.

Successful Free-to-Play games like League of legends are suspected to convert greater than 10 percent of players to paying customers. Of the millions of players who pirated Bioshock infinite, I seriously doubt that only 1 percent could have afforded to pay for it and had a desire to play it.
The Future of Business School Education
This article makes me want to hyperventilate into a paper bag. I can't imagine what the execs namedropped think of the idea.
It makes no sense for Apple to buy Intel, especially when we're talking about dumping $120+ billions on it. If I had stock in Apple I would sell it right now based on this rumor alone, because if it's true, it's a very bad move for them.
Evil Idea: Put up a really good, well paid, job ad with an application that has this crapcha at the very end. Log IPs and see how long the average person tries to submit their application.

Compile and release the statistics to your evil deed on HN.
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NoSQL and Brewer's CAP Theorem
I think that $200 depends on the crowd, and on the device or software. I wouldn't pay $100 for a game that wow'ed me with it's graphics for example, but (if I had the money) I might pay $50,000 for a car that wow'ed me.
I tried to read your reply and my brain threw this:

internet.util.MindBlownException
Caused by: DoucheOverloadException
at lowSignalSnark(your.post:9)
Caused by: MoronDoesntUnderstandDunningKrugerError
at yabberYabber(your.post:11)
Ah yes, I know how that goes. Very hard to undo a fundamental design decision. Well, proportional or monospaced, Zeus is great either way. :-)
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Just added the ProFont: http://slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/29/~what-are-the-best-p...
"Pure evil!"

Literally hyperbole.
Four cloud tools to use for app development
Why everyone is trying to make this to work for every address available over the world? Why not just let it work for where it can work for and then iterate? What happened to the MVP idea?

This is a clever and intuitive idea. Nice work ;)
A college degree is also not guaranteed to lead to a job immediately either, particularly if there are alternative sources of the expertise. (There is no equivalent to copyright, in that sense, guaranteeing a student the right to be the sole provider of their expertise because they paid to receive it...)

Every sale is still a negotiation. I've said in the past that I think the economics of copies boils down to begging, but that seems a much harder sell when I say it first, so I like to argue a bit first... :)

FWIW, I think people are also decrying the service-model appearing in games (similar to the Kindle model, where Amazon can delete your books) - recall the recent Microsoftie who was fired after some bad PR - so it looks to me like people are moving towards the same limiting equilibrium, with or without copyright: easy copying, and paying only when they feel an obligation. IMHO, we can get there the hard way (increasingly jack-booted copyright) or the easy way (accepting human nature and negotiating differently in light of it).

(Note: I have edited the first paragraph a few times trying to be clearer, for lack of a perfect analogy.)
I couldn't turn off the volume with the iPhone's default silent switch. So it's not safe for work for the first few secs:)
Anyway UX/UI is great, the game is addictive.
In the process of shutting down my own company. I was bootstrapping a software startup with consulting gigs for the past 5 years. What killed it was my inability to expand, i.e. costly attempts to expand dried up my funds.

Though I learned a lot in running a company I feel I lost touch a bit on the programming side. My bread-and-butter was C/C++/ASM from about 1996-2008. De-rusting those skills now feels somehow liberating.
I honestly agree with you, at least with a lot of it. Can you think of any constructive ways forward, short of developing a striking new range of organic lamppost ornaments?

Maybe engineer-led companies could establish some kind of guild where they publicly pledge never to implement certain kinds of corrosive management practices. Good hackers could then just refuse to work for firms who aren't signed up, and firms could be ejected if they were seen to be breaking their promises.

The problem with schemes such as this is that the psychopaths will inevitably infiltrate it and use it as another way to exert control. I'm sure many people can suggest examples where this has happened before.

Perhaps this could be guarded against by making some kind of radical transparency part of the conditions?
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But Norway is the last communist state, so it should not surprise anyone of that comparison.
That's six of the first things you do. ;)
Google Maps have tried this, I guess it failed, because it no longer distributes such urls, but for the most part the old links still work, eg
https://maps.google.com/places/ca/bc/nanaimo/wallace-st
or
https://maps.google.com/places/uk/london

In fact the 'example' url pretty much works

https://maps.google.com/places/united-states/california/san-...

http://www.jasonbirch.com/nodes/2009/09/24/365/google-place-...
I suspect it is more likely that we will see Apple laptops built around some form of high powered Arm64 chip, which they can license and build. As long as it is powerful "enough" and has great battery life.

Apple already is familiar with alternative lines, and is also familiar with porting the operating system to support new chips.
not 100% sure, but i think you'd be singing a different tune if these glasses hade came out of apple. also, calling glasses dorky makes you one of those bullies everyone on here loves to hate. what's wrong with glasses?
Ah, I was thinking I can't be the only one thinking that. Thanks for pointing it out to me. I can understand his side of the story. ghg definitely did not "Zyngify" GDS.

In any case I'm gonna buy a copy of GDT to see what it's like!
Facebook Hacker Cup had a similar problem:
https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problems.php?pid=53250625...

I almost solved it; after screwing around for a while trying to record only one value for each square, I realized you need to store two values for each square. If we’re looking for the upper-left corner we can put a window, each dead pixel/pixel “poisons” all the pixels less than the width of the window to the left of it and the height of the window above it. Then you just do a linear scan over the remaining pixels. I think my problem was that I used too much RAM because I was trying to store the whole 2D grid; you only need to keep one dimension in memory.

You can see people’s submissions here:
https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/scoreboard?round=18989011...
These repeated break-ins should make consumer-grade hosting environments more secure.

Not going to happen at the price points people are accustomed to - they'll simply become professional-grade hosting environments, with a price tag to match. See Amazon's recent cloud HSM announcements - $5000 set-up fee before you get started. Then people will whine about how expensive it all is, and some bright spark will come up with ways to make it cheaper by compromising here and there, and we're back to square one.

Honestly, the high tech industries are shocking at learning from history - "Oh, those constraints from 10 years ago don't apply to us anymore, technology has moved on." Sure, but people haven't, and most of the real problems are sociological problems - fraud, greed, stupidity, stubbornness. Companies that deal with money or payment processing come up against this faster than ones that don't, and they adapt (see PayPal's anti-fraud department, so successful they spun off Palantir) or die (80% of all Bitcoin exchanges to date).
We better stop making many forms of new electronics then, to limit waste. Just imagine how many millions of USB sticks have been thrown in the trash in just the last year alone, as they become outdated by newer USB sticks that store twice as much at half the cost while wasting just as many physical resources!

Do you really need a new iPhone? No you do not. The iPhone 4 will do perfectly fine for now (according to some random bureaucrat), so the iPhone 5 should be illegal to sell until further notice.
MBTI shouldn't be used for recruitment, as the official MBTI guidelines mention because it's too easy to cheat.

It's a tool to assess the difference of personality within a team, detect potential weaknesses and to communicate about it.
While obviously I think you're intentionally overstating your case for rhetorical effect, it's worth mentioning that workplace "popularity" is not uncorelated with competence (it may not be strongly correlated, and there are always individual counter-examples) whereas highschool popularity was often negatively correlated with competence, or simply not correlated at all.

People might not like the nerd, but they do appreciate he or she knows his or her shit. And, the less dysfunctional the organization, the more likely this is to be reflected in salaries, etc.

So, fun read, and a good counterpoint to pg's essay.
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I just wore Google's glasses for 2 weeks and I'm never taking them off*

*until they stop getting me attention
In those games: make your city/company/whatever thrive as means to have fun.

Goal in minecraft: have fun, no means provided.
This. One policy is voluntary and is to ensure companies aren't racially discriminating during the hiring process. The other sort of puts you all out there and there has been lots of news made about reducing discrimination by removing photos, names, and addresses so hiring managers can only focus on your qualifications.

As an american I sort of prefer the American method. The checkbox means ethnicity is measured so you have a metric. The french system sort of assumes equality (it's in their motto!). With plausible deniability you can say you don't discriminate and no one can argue against it.
You've asked a very broad question, and many of the possible answers are easy to find with trivial effort on your part.

There's the usual employment questions (insurance coverage, holidays, flex time, bonuses, options, etc). How much training do they do? Does that include career advancement, management courses, and job rights/EEOC training? How many conferences will they fund you to attend?

There's the usual Joel-test sort of questions (source control, one-step builds, daily builds, etc?).

Frankly, I would think someone in a "senior" position would be able to ask a better question than this. That shows in your three years history on HN; it seems you really like asking broad undirected questions that no one answers. Improving that skill is much harder than improving a tech skill, but perhaps a course in technical writing would be useful here, since it would involve improving your understanding of what others think are useful. Perhaps that or a related sort of training is possible as part of your employment?
Usually when something is not statistically relevant you can also prove it. I am not sure how you would do it in this case.

It probably works to some limited extents: for example, I am sure they can guess rather accurately whether the candidate is male or female.

So I do see a difference between a non valid tool and a tool whose efficiency is hard to evaluate.

Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't use graphology.
the ironical part is that being from a 3rd world country, this isn't really an option for you, is it? the other ironical part? now iOS is priced according to your disposable income... isn't it ironic, don't you think?
I see your point, but if I were running a consumer-grade hosting company, I'd seriously consider updating my terms of service to disallow running mining operations or keeping cryptocurrency wallets in the servers.
In my experience, it all depends on the individual. It doesn't matter what degree they have. If they have work ethic and ambition and they love what they do, you absolutely want them on your team.
Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4m
I don't consider suicide to be gun violence (excepting murder-suicide).
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Look man, I don't mean to rag on you. It's just - how do people think academics make a living? They're normal people just like the rest of us, with grocery bills and mortgages, and daydreams of having enough time to watch their kids grow up. Money is tight everywhere, and has been before the crisis, because so little research can be shown to have actual uses. Dreary-eyed grad students flock to academia hoping to not have to think about such mundane things as gasp money, full of youthful idealism about Advancing Human Knowledge(tm) only to find out that their contributions, in all likelihood, will not matter at all, and after 10 years in their university coming to terms with the fact that they'd rather find other ways to give meaning to their life rather than wasting it on more of the same publish-or-perish grind.

Obviously this is exaggerating things - some research is genuinely useful, and overall the state of the art advances in all fields, even if in very small increments; and very few academics (at least of the ones I know, which is a considerable number) drag themselves to their desks every day thinking about shooting themselves in the head. But the core point that academia isn't the romantic ideal that some have of it are undeniable, and won't be denied by anyone living the life (because that's what it is - a lifestyle, with advantages and drawbacks like any other).
Yeah... You really should have put a disclaimer in there to let everyone know that you were advertising your own product.

That makes me never want to try the extension, no matter how good it may be.
I can't justify buying a Google Glass. I doubt they will be $200, I think $800 is more likely at launch.

But then I couldn't justify my iPad when I bought it. $600 for something I can check email on and browse the web? I already have a laptop for that right? Well I ended up using my iPad loads for far more than I could have imagined.

I really shouldn't have bought my MacBook Pro. It was twice the price of a Windows laptop that would have suited me fine, and I could have even installed Linux and had a great development setup right? Well yes, but I'm so much more productive on a Mac now than I ever was on Windows, and I have to fix the software a lot less than I do on my Linux computers.

Just because I can't justify buying a Google Glass doesn't mean it's not worth buying. I've got that feeling of excitement about a technology that I haven't had since I bought my first smartphone. Is it worth it right now? Maybe not. But if no one bets on it, it's not going to happen, so I'll give it a shot.
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The whole point of the piece was not to suggest that Apple should buy Intel but to point out the burden that their cash mountain represents in reality.
Your arguments strike me as a good illustration of why we need more recyclable electronics and more recycling initiatives.
Anecdotally, as someone who wears (prescription) glasses 24/7 already, I haven't noticed anything like this.

It might be worth mentioning that the authors of "health books" generally tend to be more concerned with selling more books than they do about actually improving your health. I would be very skeptical about claims made in a self-help health book that weren't backed up by actual studies.
Facebook needs to be asking candidates just 2 questions.
(1)Can you increase the number of minutes per hour your mom spends on Facebook?
(2)How much do we need to pay you to feel comfortable doing that?
without a doubt your's is normal use. do you really think google gives a shit about you?
With ThemeForest and the like, design is the easiest skill to fake in the requirements set of launching a product. I can get a theme for $20 that will take me at least to MVP stage without looking silly (for most products), but I can't easily get to that stage without development skills, customer development skills, market skills, etc etc.

I'd leave design for last and advise people to learn the other skills ("other" means "skills they don't already have", so development for market-people, marketing for developers, etc) first.
this was just reposted after already being killed earlier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5625156
Getting a college degree will likely get you a job if there is demand in the area in which you did your degree.

Imagine the situation where you get your CS degree but find that few people are willing to pay for programmers or software and the people who are willing to pay will still not pay very much yet the demand for software is still very high. Such a situation doesn't make sense in a rational market.

Problem with piracy is that it isn't a "negotiation", a negotiation would imply that there are 2 sides attempting to reach a compromise. With piracy you can simply hit up TPB and download whatever you like without the consent of the author.
My bib^H^H^Hportfolio is at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/

These days I'm working on putting together a language that supports live programming, trait inference, and has a rich typography experience that can transcend the smalltalk-ish IDE rutt we are stuck in.
It's a very nice-looking URL, but I'm not sure how practical it is. Although the idea that "Cool URLs don't change" is not explicitly stated as one of the core principles of REST, it is nevertheless important. But political boundaries and names do change: some more frequently than others, of course, but they all change in due time. If the URLs are not kept up-to-date, then the mapping API becomes a lot less useful, but it also becomes a lot less useful if they ARE kept up-to-date.
Billion dollar games company to be founded on Google Glass?
> Great designers have a bunch of skills. Content strategy, interaction design, information architecture, user research, typography, etc. Where does "great developer" sit.

Pretty much at "person who has spent the same amount of time at acquiring skills as the 'great designer' has at theirs".
He also proclaimed RSS and Podcasts as world changing technologies back in the day. And he proclaimed Netflix dead in 2007. That's 3 huge misses right there. There are probably more, and he may have got a couple right along the way too.
It probably got killed for a reason. The title is misleading. Apple did not buy Intel.
I hate to say it but what does anything an MBA teaches have to do with being a good leader? Leadership can't be taught, it has to be learned. Those business analysis skills are just that, business analysis. I think the largest problems revolving around the concept of getting an MBA is the sense that with it you should be in a leadership role.I'd love that knowledge but I would never make the assumption that having knowledge means I am entitled to having a management role.
Yes thats excluded, however your .git is stored locally and it would need be root user to even look at directory.
Geocoding is about turning a textual reference into a grid reference. Without some textual reference you can't geocode. The real problem is a lack of methods for expressing uncertainty from a known definite benchmark.
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I'd suspect it would. I've received things like USB flash drives on Microsoft promos. I could be wrong but I think EU law puts the onus on the person disposing electronic goods rather than the producer. (Not that most people listen with anything small, it just goes in the trash.)
"No contact metadata" will be mostly irrelevant in the next years, when computer vision along with some automated social engineered photo correlation will be able to cleanly identify individuals out of photos, linking to their social network profiles.
I wonder why did they put the visible spectrum on the lower end of the scale despite its frequency is higher than the upper end of the scale (it is 400-700 THZ).
>Many addresses are as simple as rose cottage, village, POST CODE, and there might be many 'rose cottages' in that postcode. //

This seems unlikely. In a small village people know the other house names enough to avoid a collision - in England I've a feeling Parish Councils used to keep order in this regard.

This page suggests that Local Authories legislate (bylaws I guess) on the allowed names: http://www.housenameheritage.com/hnh_extras_officialviewlong....

Quoting that link:

>"The Local Authority will liaise with the Royal Mail to ensure there is no conflict with names of other properties in the same street or immediate area, before formally registering the name. If there is a problem, an alternative name must be submitted. In some cases, the Local Authority may explore the possibility of a house number being registered at this point, in addition to (or instead of) the new name. Once the change has been approved, the Local Authority will normally advise relevant bodies such as the emergency services. The same procedure applies for brand new properties which, for whatever reason, cannot be numbered (however, virtually all new properties today are numbered)." //