skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WebSocket servers test report: Jetty, ws/node, ws++, Cowboy and Autobahn
It's not stealing. It's copyright infringement. It's pretty important that we not let this distinction slip entirely from the public consciousness, because they're very different concepts.
Yeah, we only have 4 people in ops and about 20 in development. We have daily standup where the ops guys and 1 person from dev meet (total 5 people). We discuss what is happening Past and Next 24 -- this takes about 10 minutes. The process is super light.

We also use puppet with git. This allows us to version everything that goes into production via a puppet tweak. This is great for rolling back changes or getting an of what was deployed. Like I said, read that visible ops handbook.
The glass code is an application running on top of the kernel.
One thing that I don't like about the US News college rankings is that they use objective criteria with arbitrary weightings. There's no credible rhyme or reason why these criteria matter, especially not in the proportion they do. Nor is there a good reason that these weightings should subtly change from year to year.

For this reason (plug coming), I created the algorithm that Parchment uses to rank colleges for the Student Choice Rankings [1]. It uses (voluntarily submitted) data from students who got into multiple colleges and chose one to attend. It treats this as a set of games in which one college "wins" and others lose. It's derived from the Elo chess ranking method [2].

As people will no doubt argue, voluntarily submitted data has its limitations. I acknowledge those but for this type of project, sample size is key, and I have yet to see another project with anywhere near the same quantity or recency of data. Perhaps in time that will change.

1 = https://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-rankings.php?pag...

2 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
The consumer hardware industry.

There are a few shops that sell/release open source hardware, but I guarantee open sourcing Glass would make gigantic waves.
By what measure which we can trust?
1-click Random Decision Forests
> I'm only talking about auto-generated links that can't be clearly disambiguated by the system.

But they could be disambiguated by humans, which is my point. Humans understand context.
Out of curiosity, having brought up the subject:

What the hell do you do that justifies that >150K USD, especially if you aren't a founder? Are you a founder? What's going on?

I'm genuinely curious.
>It's not misleading headline, it's just a problem with tech blogs, they probably read this news on HN and stole it and tried to make it sensational to get some cheap traffic.

While that's generally how these outfits tend to work, Ars has built a pretty solid reputation for in-depth analysis and not having link-baity headlines.
Play to win, don't play to not lose. Be aggressive. Don't assume they don't want you. Enthusiasm is contagious; if you demonstrate an eagerness to learn and to help them grow, and if you demonstrate that you have the required technical ability, that will set you apart from other candidates. Have confidence in your skills. If you want it you need to reach out and grab it. Just do it. Don't be afraid of "No".
Apple’s Jony Ive said to be bringing flat design to iOS 7
In retrospect, I wish I added that initially. But at this stage, enough people voted that the number wouldn't be perfect.
And worst part, not being able to "scroll" to the closing button because they disallowed zoom ...
Unfortunately Microsoft has disabled or removed quite some import filters. e.g. you can't open a PowerPoint 4 file anywhere anymore.
They also disabled Works and Word Perfect filters. Probably a victim of the secure coding guidelines: Might have bugs ==> remove feature
Just out of curiousity, if they didn't release the code given the GPL2 license, could they be sued in private courts to release it?
What about audits of user accounts and access control?
Thanks for this gem and this inspiration
I'm working on a python library https://github.com/Azd325/gingerit .

To get this pretty API to the python world.
I'm on a Mac and holding shift scrolls horizontal...
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I attended/am attending a university that is not ranked 1-20 in the aforementioned categories but would be considered in the top 100 * NOTE for posterity: this was added 35 minutes after the poll was created.
That's very interesting. The difference I see between writing/writers and programming/programmers is that, and please correct me if I'm wrong, writers tend to work alone whereas programmers build code as a team.

So if I'm reviewing a pull request, it's code that's going to enter the shared codebase, and touching code of others on the team. It's not the same as reviewing someone's independent work, completely separate from my own.

I do wonder however about creative writing environments, where more than one person is involved. One example I can think of (but have very limited knowledge about) is comedy scriptwriting. I've heard it's usually a team of writers that works on a sitcom. I wonder how they work together constructively, and if there are lessons to be learned from those kinds of environments. Or perhaps the same problems exist there as there are in technology, where egos and timelines are involved...
Processes and rules are boring but they produce happy clients
Aubrey de Grey's SENS Foundation 2012 annual report
There are lots more possibilities, but the one that I think makes the most chance is:

4. Google is required to release the kernel code under the GPL

No such requirement exists for the other code.

The big pay-off for google is that to use glass you need to use google. If the devices were 'open' then you would not need google to use glass and they'd be in a cue-cat situation.
I've never understood why the common line is that any good hacker can pick up a new language and be just as effective as someone who has used it for year in a short time.

I've been thrown into overdue projects in languages I hadn't used before, and have been able to start fixing bugs almost immediately... but "tweaking existing code" is a far cry from implementing new functionality, which in turn is far below making architectural decisions.

Languages exist in ecosystems that develop over years; knowing those ecosystems in depth takes a lot of time.
Microsoft's prices for Azure are actually very reasonable, and I generally find their tools easier to configure and use in real life. Microsoft makes some horrible products, but I actually really like Azure a lot.
Is the district attorney's opinion because of your strategy to make everything expensive?

We build other systems that are very complex, explicit and efficient. Less prosecutor discretion, and more adaptive law seems better than making trial costs spiral out of control.

Yes, and yellow light timing isn't contentious at all, is it? It's almost like perfect enforcement of stupid laws gets those laws modified to not be stupid. But whatever, i'm sure your way is good too.
I am publically taking the commitment to stop drinking coffee
Pointcast was basically a feed reader / screensaver. It didn't have any of the predictive elements of Now (as I recall... I had it installed back in the day.)

Basically, it turned your idle monitor into a poor-man's version of a TV tuned to MSNBC. One of the major problems was that selling ads on an idle computer screen is a hard sell.

The whole point of Now is that it's _not_ a generic news feed / portal. It's all stuff customized to you, and it's not intended to be just passively viewed.
The younger generation is coddled and entitled; surely this is the End of Times (again).
They give updates on all their major research projects, a great way to know how much progress is being made.
Steve Jobs was a genius now?
Does cardholder data ever pass through your infrastructure in any form?
The entire concept of "Millenials" has always struck me as somewhat of a square peg in a round hole. As you have identified, so freaking much changed over the last 34 years. So much. Almost every aspect of modern life is dramatically different in ways we now take for granted, and it changed in major steps throughout those 34 years. To think the lower and upper bounds of the 18-34 demographic have all that much in common is pretty silly.

That being said, generations are broad demographic sets -- not behavioral cohorts. They are highly heterogeneous sets, and always have been. In some cases, speaking of the "Millenial" demographic makes sense, especially in broad, economic terms (i.e., when talking about the size of the demographic vis-a-vis the future of the US labor market). But trying to treat the demographic as a homogeneous set, or in broad behavioral terms, is where things get dicey really quickly. Some generalities apply, but only in specific contexts.
Google Removes Search Box From Results Page? When Using Chrome's Omnibox
No Google search box for searches done with Chrome's Omnibox.

http://cl.ly/image/3U3l2A3l2D1j

Bold move. Anyone else seeing this?
It's an Ivy jab. UPenn is a private institution, hence the joke. The lore is that UPenn students are offended when people refer to their alma mater as Penn State, which is a state-funded institution.

Edit: I have no affiliation with either institution and think it's all irrelevant, other than from a cultural awareness perspective.
The industry for capturing data, the industry for ubiquitous information presence, the industry for augmented assistance for the disable, list could go on.

Imagine if IBM did not build the first PC with an open architecture, would it have caught on the way it did? Google should take the lead the open up the hardware and really make the glass affordable for everyone.
No - at my agency the design team works to a 12 column grid which makes responsive design a bunch easier, by "my grid" I mean our pre-built HTML/CSS in house framework for working with this Grid style. It's loosely based on Eddie Machado's Bones framework [1] but integrates well with Magento too.
[1] http://themble.com/bones/
Hmm, I've placed 291 orders on Amazon since 2004, used upwards of 6 cards there, and not had one compromise. About as anecdotal as your story.
I don't disagree, but the entire process is pretty subjective (there are many variables to take into account, and weights are somewhat arbitrary). USNWR provides a concrete list for the discussion and I think the top 20 captures the spirit of the original question.
Probably more preventing them from selling it rather than forcing them to release it.
What about using the global rankings[1] - though they are admittedly biased against liberal arts school, they are less manipulated than the US News rankings.

1 - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
Get HFT Genie Back In the Bottle: Cuban
on non-gcc compilers this is valid

#define include_them 1
#if (include_them==1)
#define hotcode /##/
#else
#define hotcode
#endif

void func (void)
{
hotcode printf("if included_them true, compile this line");
}
Mobile devices have much better context information than desktops. And they're more likely to be present during offline spending decisions.
Since the new administration decided to start gaming the rankings. Admissions rate now stands at 8.8%, down from mid-forties when I was admitted only eight years ago. Part of that was from switching to the Common App, part of it was riding the coattails of Obama.

It is a great school. But until recently, rankings weren't really something that the administration paid much attention to.
Wouldn't this be trivial for a bot to bypass? If you know the email address to be used, just get the gravatar for that email address and compare it to all of the images in the lineup.

Depending on how it's implemented (haven't looked at the code) you might even just be able to compare the URLs used to display the gravatars...
I'm lucky enough to be healthy enough not to need a lot of direct contact with the medical establishment, but I know many people who have had illnesses that were misdiagnosed repeatedly by many different doctors, and a few people who had problems for which medicine's answer was "sorry, we ain't got shit for you, go die plz".

I wouldn't say software development is "ahead" of medicine, though, the two fields are simply not at all comparable. I have yet to hear an analogy between software and another field (architectural engineering comes up a lot and that one is also pretty stupid) that actually makes any sense.
Fundamentally if there are N blocks mined per month and, say, 10N miners, each miner will get paid very rarely which will scare them away. The only advantage of Litecoin is that it mines blocks at a faster rate than Bitcoin.
I made up and used something similar to JSON in 1996. It's not difficult to think up if you're trying to find the simplest possible text-based hierarchical data format. There were a lot of variations on this idea.
ah ic. Thank You. So what is point of releasing the kernel code when no one has the glass code?
I went to a tiny liberal arts school no one outside Texas has ever heard of. Majored in CS.
No, it used to be just search. Now it's a whole integrated service of helpful information on a local/personalized basis (RTFA).
I like Ars, but today's Ars is less Anandtech and more Verge. Which is to say, they indulge in their fair share of link-baity gadget-blog-type posts. They're not beyond redemption by any means, but the sad truth is that Ars doesn't always do the kind of in-depth analysis that they once did.
Oh thank god... when that leather crap started to creep into OSX I took it as a sign that Apple had peaked and was on its way down.

Things should look like what they are. A computer display is not leather, so it should not look like leather. Making it look like leather is low-brow kitsch, like a fake electric fireplace or fake electric arc candles.
It is because of security issues with old code that probably mostly dates back to Office 97 or older. How often do you receive Word 6.0 documents via email nowadays?
Your assumption is basically correct, except a lot depends on what content in the mockup is meant to be dynamic. Sometimes a mockup can imply certain features which then must be implemented in order to fully meet the design. It is those features which take up the majority of the development time.
UChicago was top-10 when I was applying for colleges, and to be honest I don't give much credence to the exact ranking. The set of schools in the top 20 match roughly what I would expect (saying top 5, for example, would exclude schools like MIT and Stanford)
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They are legally required to release the kernel code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
Which is rather sad, coming from Ars Technica; they weren't always just another tech blog. E.G. Jon Stokes published fantastic pieces on computer architecture there, and Ryan Paul's coverage of open source was well-informed.
I'm not a specialist at all of these questions but I would say that kernel modifications are not worth taking such a big risk. And if they wanted to avoid publishing the code of some parts of their kernel implementation maybe they could instead make a kernel module and in this case I believe it is accepted of not releasing the source code of the module.

But in any case as mentionned in other comments I believe the interesting code is more high level, or server side.
This kind of thing puts a smile on my face, because it breaks the omnipotence of one company in the industry. Making the market reflect its true colors, which is competition. In this case, it was Microsoft who got there first, and not Apple.

I hope this kind of innovation is maintained, because we the users benefit from this. In so many ways.

I wonder if Microsoft hadn't invested everything into flat design, would Apple had moved away from skeuomorphism so fast ? I think not. I hope to see Apple fighting for the design lead again.
That's pretty much the way it is with nearly every major. Plus depending CS degrees exist on a sliding scale between Math, and Programming.

I think a very math/theory heavy approach is better overall, but it's not a vocational training program
Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator
Since I'm pretty un-connected to this account, going to start undergraduate at Cornell. While it may not be Harvard/Yale/Princeton, I'm not going to complain (however there is still some element of jealousy/annoyance).

What is HN's opinion of Cornell, especially vs other Ivies?
They could be sued, but only by copyright holders of Linux source code.
Mobile Labs Raises $2.9 Million for Enterprise Software Testing
"The interview is still a traditional environment." --Jaime Fall, vice president of the HR Policy Association. As quoted in the article.

Something about his use of the word traditional sets me off. Oh well, they made a "jobipedia," whatever that is. If it helps graduates get past the often capricious nature of HR drones then I won't complain.
Sweet! How did you reconcile Wikipedia concepts with the line geography of streets?
Am I the only one who thinks Gruber is greatly overrated? OK, we get it, Apple's on top and anyone who thinks different (no pun intended) is an asshole/douchbag. And again with how Eric Schmidt "wasn't exactly being honest" etc.

My own TLDR: Google screwed Apple with Android, and for that they should burn in hell for all eternity.
Oh whoops totally missed the state school phrase! (and I know the joke too!)

(imo Penn State is a fine - as in very good - engineering school)
It seems like this would weight financial aid rather heavily? Maybe that's a good thing, but doesn't really deal with the quality of the school.
neighborhoods are actually easier than streets because you can find neighborhood polygons in many databases... this must have involved linking up Wikipedia with a real GIS database like Open Street Maps. I'd love to hear more about how it was done!
They were two very distinct issues, both in retrospect, should have been preventable. One was a cert not getting renewed correctly (which is really more of an engg/ops process thing) and the other was a piece of code that did date checks incorrectly.

[Disclaimer - early and long time Azure guy at MSFT]
Totally agree with you however what I'm finding to be the most difficult is a lot of getting started resources tend to be using different nuances of the Python programming environment.

My goal is to setup an environment closest to what I'd see in the field but its really hard to determine what that means.

In the ms world when you bounce jobs getting up and running usually involves using the same three programs you always use.

From reading about python I'm getting the sense that there is so much more variety out there in the field.
A good point. Here's a website that lets you draw circles on maps.

(http://obeattie.github.io/gmaps-radius/)
You just need to compile your ClojureScript with the popular jQuery externs file.
>things like answering cell phones are valid concerns. That's blatantly rude.

Yeah, but not unique to millenials.
The Future of Wearable Technology -- PBS Off Book
How does optimizely allow cross domain event listeners?
Does anybody knows how optimizely allows you to select items in their interface?

It looks like they include the page as an iframe and after that put some extra layer on top of it allowing you to select certain items.

I'm wondering how they do that, somebody has any clue?
Here's how to do it: Hold down the apostrophe key until a menu pops up showing similar characters, then choose the backtick.
I saw this for couple of days, but now I can't. It was really annoying :(
Along with CMU, Berkeley EECS is also not Top-20. Perhaps this list is not the best match for HN priorities.
RIP JoePa.
Also the case on iOS Chrome: http://d.pr/i/9pwK

I think I first noticed it a week or two ago on desktop and iOS, so not sure if it's a version thing or an a/b test.
I bought 5 copies for vanity reasons at a local bookstore in Mountain View. None of them had the wi-fi hotspot. :(
Google Authorship For Insurance Agents - The Simple Way
This is a good analogy we like to use also.

We also sometimes compare it to SMTP and Gmail. People used to run their own exchange servers, now it's easier to let a company worry about security and backups, and make it cloud based. This is the idea behind Coinbase.com
I don't think either Hotmail or Office 365 use Azure in non-trivial amounts, or atleast they didn't in my time there until 2011.
Not only are the weightings arbitrary, but many of the criteria bear no relevance to quality of undergraduate education. As an engineering undergrad, why would it matter that my alma mater's teaching hospitals were among the best in the world and raked billions in research grants?

Rankings are a terrible way to select schools, not just because they don't even claim to rate quality of education, but also because many top schools explicitly IGNORE any measures of success that aren't included in major ranking schemes, whereas schools with no hope of ever cracking top 20 are forced to craft a different niche for themselves.
You do know that Microsoft is dominant in Enterprise and that that is where most IT dollars are spent.

The more surprising thing to me is that Microsoft isn't burying Amazon. But give them 2 years.
When I've tried to set a new password to one which includes symbols and is longer than 6 - 8 chars, they've rejected it.
Good point. That's pretty silly. It's fun to see these rankings, but they definitely have strange arbitrary weighting.

I'd love to see thoughts on ranking CS schools too. I always see MIT/Stanford posts but not much else.
Sometimes even if the money doesn't move away directly, some entirely unrelated money ends up somewhere else building factories, and then somewhere-else starts competing with you and taking away large slices of your business.
This is 3 years old...
How about a national db of photos that's free for artists to register low res works on. If someone wants to publish with media they don't have a license for you're required to do an image matching search. If you get a match you pay a buck for the contact info of the artist and have to get a license. If the artist finds you used it without paying them a licensing fee and it's registered you pay a fine based on what you made off the usage. So a newspaper maybe has to pay 10% of revenues for the day they ran the image on the front page. I honestly don't know what kind of penalty is appropriate here, but obviously it should be more than can be absorbed as the 'cost of business'.
...and wouldn't that be anyone who has ever submitted a patch that has been accepted by Linus?
Even if they don't go as far as I wish they would (complete UI redesign) I'll be fairly happy with modest updates to the overall UI. I'm not a big fan of Win8, but I've quite liked the MetroUI look on their phones. A nice middle ground between the two would be a great update.
I'm no expert in design, but when trends change so consistently, I have to wonder whether this is like automobile design or fashion where UI design kind of just "rotates" and churns indefinitely rather than head towards "the true answer"

I have no idea and no opinion on which is better etc, just genuinely curious.