skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the solution then to me is ditch backwards compatibility.

Backwards compatibility is a visible problem, but it isn't the True Problem with creatorcodes/metadata. The true problem is that a world with metadata is an unstable equilibrium, because what if just this once we get it wrong.

* Consider the case that the file's author got it wrong

* Consider the case of Python and RPython (or .js and .json, or .txt and .md) where a file can belong to multiple classes. Further consider the case where a system has a Python interpreter but not an RPython interpreter installed (or a JavaScript interpreter but not a JSON parser, or a text editor but not a MarkDown editor, or...)

* Consider the case where a document was saved with Excel 2013, but just happens to only use Excel 2010 features, because who really cares about whatever the heck they add in each new Office release

* Consider the case of a container format, like mkv or mp4, that does not alone completely describe the format of the data it contains

* Consider the case of sometimes-interchangable formats like m4a and m4b, mp4 and m4v, etc.

* Consider the difference between a storage format (.sqlite3) and the data that it contains (.localstorage, Firefox/Profiles/places.sqlite, ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index)

* Consider the case that that one day somebody just wants to make a "monkey-fighting file without filling out this monday-to-friday questionnaire" and either the "no really, it's a file" creator code is accepted by the International Body of Creator Codes, or it isn't and so there are five incompatible implementations.

As soon as you tolerate any of these (and probably the list is a lot longer than this), we are right back where we are now: trying to guess what kind of file it is by poking at it with a stick. Backwards compatibility is a red herring.
Congrats on the sale! Have you thought about using a 3G-enabled iPad for demos?
Is this the start of a decline? Apple too busy playing financial games instead of focusing on the product?
US Government debt isn't AAA-rated because the House decided to play chicken with the US economy in 2011.
Young people recover quickly. Stay away from the sugary sodas, though.
Do you know of any cases where protected category rules were used to favor males, whites, straight people, or the abled?

Men could probably sue for employment discrimination in some jobs such as child care providers. But would anyone care?
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Transparency may not be necessary for trust, but it goes a very, very long way towards establishing it. Anonymity is the opposite of transparency.
It will be open source? Can't wait to use it then.
I tried to leave my email regarding the Windows port and it said my email address was invalid.
> didn't they do you a favor by telling you that you never really wanted to work there anyway

I see this bullshit argument time and time again on HN. Not everyone is an intelligent, skilled worker with experience and the ability to pick and choose jobs. The vast majority of people are vying for the same unskilled or barely skilled jobs and are just desperately trying to keep food on the table. ANY legislation that further reduces their bargaining power is abhorrent.
No and probably not. If you intend to do anything about it, you need a lawyer, who will answer that for you in the process.
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New StackExchange site for Hadoop experts/enthusiasts
They are a big enough company that they ought to do both
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Mo $$, Mo Problems.
Their corporate finance team and product development teams are very separate, I'd expect.
It's also not just CS, though CS is the largest culprit because well... software is eating the world.

No one cares about getting an education. They just want a job.
Can you expand more on "self-victimizing," what you think that is, and how it expresses itself?
Beyond that, the law creates a huge disincentive to ever asking for credentials for anything except the brightest of bright-line cases, because from the moment your employee refuses the credentials, you can't fire them for anything but cause without incurring a significant lawsuit risk.

The people talking about how a company could argue that their (say) Twitter account was a business account seem to miss the fact that such an argument takes place in court.
This was definitely a great feature. One suggestion though.

When you first hit the button it says: "0 results found for City, State, Country". It properly fills in the location, but NEVER say there are 0 results found, unless that's actually the case. It takes about 2 to 3 seconds for the result counter to update (I'm on a fast line so I assume that's purely backend). In that 2 or 3 seconds, I nearly clicked away, thinking there were no results.

I would look into the most efficient way to let the person know instantly that there are or are not results (the accuracy can be refined over X seconds, but what's critical is knowing there are results).
Honestly, I agree with you. My main concern is that I've known too many programmers with their self-esteem wrapped up in the idea that they're the world's greatest who would balk at any test that didn't end with being given a Turing award. Now, any business that can keep these guys out of your hiring pool is already a net positive, but it's also going to kill a disappointingly large part of your base.

Also, while I agree that the coffee shop website doesn't require Donald Knuth, the hard part will be convincing the coffee shop owner that that's true. Especially with the meme that "A players hire A player; B players hire C players". It's just an issue of marketing. If your firm was promising a 40% programmer for $50k and mine was promising a 99.9% programmer for $25k, most of the hiring manager I've known would hire mine, despite my testing procedure obviously being crap.
It would be pretty naive to make that argument.
There's always those that can succeed despite the odds against them. Let's not hold up these people as evidence that outreach isn't necessary. For every male kid who programmed his comodo TX-whosits before he could walk, there are a hundred kids who get in it through high school, or take it up in college, etc. Similarly, for every girl who isn't turned off by the male-dominated culture or anti-social stereotypes, there are a hundred girls who could have made it in tech if it weren't for these repulsive influences. Outliers have no bearing on what is appropriate for the general case.
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Love this ^ so true.
Would it be possible for someone to remotely interfere with the sensors on this car, causing a malfunction or collision?
Really nice project, quick learning tool! This is the future of web tutorials :)

I found this on his twitter, you can submit your tutorials here:

http://thecodeplayer.com/play/add
I think there comes a point after which you have enough money, and you have to wonder what kind of society you are building, what kind of future. This is, after all, the same company that used to have a marketing campaign that featured individuals of considerable moral courage ("think different" / gandhi). But that's just for advertising of course; it's about saying the right things, not actually doing them.
In what operating system?

All my Windows and Linux systems let me change the filename, without selecting the extension by default, and in the rare case that I want, I can change the extension too, from the same interface.
Oppenheimer has to do something with his time other than counting the mountains of cash.

In all serious, no it is not. It's a tax efficient method of getting value to the shareholders whilst still maintaining a massive cash hoard, that's all.
The author mentions [1] (at the bottom, under 'key bindings') that light table uses codemirror[2] as the editor.

I am really amazed with how well codemirror emulates basic vim key bindings [3], as I prefer to use ctrl-c rather than escape and I often find that vim emulators either do not support ctrl-c or do not support it well.

[1]http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers...
[2]http://codemirror.net/
[3]http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
Emergency vehicles already broadcast their presence to traffic signals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_signal_preemption#Line-...

What you're looking for is something similar to ADS-B in aircraft, hopefully designed properly this time with encryption and authentication.
As someone who hasn't explored this much, why is a meta key problematic?
Except she wasn't interested in tech. She just started participating in the things her dad did because she was interested in the musical component of some of his projects.

Not everyone has the convenience of having a parent in the industry to get them interested and keep them going, spurring them with ideas and creative solutions along the way. She landed there by chance and look what she's done. Everyone deserves such opportunities.
Not to me. It seems the most directly adhominem argument possible. I think you should address the argument, not the arguer.
I keep mousing over these features for screenshots or a demo video...
I'm unclear on what experience level you're looking for in applicants. I'm a fairly good programmer (phd in cs) but I'm shit compared to Norvig. I'm in NYC with time to kill this summer. Should I apply to be in hacker school? Or would I be a "Resident" instead?
It depends, some of them are just for fun, others they have prizes and someone has to win, I generally don't care about it and most attendees don't either.
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Congratulations, you have found one of the things I would remove from the javascript features of a browser if I had the skills to do so.
Having run almost a dozen hackathons for high school and college students, I'm not surprised at all to hear this story.

At our last CodeDay in Seattle, a 17-year old HS student built an app that's received over 175,000 downloads on Google Play. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/student-programmer-creates-succ...

We've run CodeDay in five cities so far, with 30-100 students attending each event. If anything, it's a good sign that we can change the culture at the high school level and get more students into technology.
I can't think of a bias in favor of males. But there are laws requiring certain equality. I do know of a case where a guy protested the dress code at his work (he wasn't allowed to wear shorts) by wearing a short skirt. The company's dress code allowed employees to wear short skirts, and they were not allowed to enforce the dress code differently for men.

Pay and benefits are enforced to be the same. In some states, car insurance companies are not even allowed to give different rates for men vs. women even though statistically women are less risky to insure.
Heh, I thought that was your job.

If you actually are interested, see this post and all of the comments: http://www.thepowerbase.com/2013/04/github-graciously-helps-...

I admit I don't understand the downvotes.

danilocampus invited me to a comment war, I graciously declined with a bit of humor.
Won't this format leave behind traces of what was in the file before? I'm not sure that this is something that we want in a standard interchange format. Users will assume what they are sending is only what they see in an application. This is reasonable. I am concerned that using this format will lead to data leaks.
looks nice but not good for doing facebook, HN, Reddit at work with open monitors :P :D
The more of these posts I read, the more I believe most PHP programmers (as a majority) really aren't "clean coders" or have any intention of writing organised, maintainable. More likely they are just coders who write what they have to, whatever works and takes the least amount of time to get the job done.

A sweatshop language? Haha, no I take that back, it's not like that..
Fancy.
All I want for now is a pair of glasses similar to sunglasses - but with HDMI in at 1080p projecting a 30in screen at 3ft.
Probably that why they hiring director of legal and privacy - https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qd29Vfw3...
Oles, what a CEO. I have had direct contact with him, as OVH is a partner of one of my projects, and it's not that easy to find someone so passionate, humble and responsive as he is.
It seems a bit misleading that the article contains no more than two photos of Facebook's offices, considering the title.
Your old-fashioned P.I. has written his fair share of papers in LaTeX thank you very much! :)
I thought it really weird how he didn't understand how to aptly work with tuples, either.
+1 on this idea. I would even consider targeting web development editors like Sublime Text 2 or Brackets.
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Fantastic mission statement: clear, concise and it sounds almost impossible to do.

It seems like people really get behind startups with the biggest, craziest visions....it almost serves as a built in rallying cry.
"The new campus is filled with beloved and familiar-looking restaurants, shops, banks, barber shops, and bike shares" --> anyone know how they decided which businesses got to open up shop inside?
I remember some article about a guy in India who ran a business. His employees could get mortgages (or some kind of loan anyway) but he couldn't because he wasn't employed. If you think about it though, it sort-of makes sense. A business is a gigantic liability, and if things get bad, you'll default on a loan before shutting down a company.
The US baseline is that you can be fired for any reason or no reason. Where is there to go but "up" from that? How do you find a reason to be outraged about this?
I guess more people are verifying then they had counted on, because the system appears to be down.
how well does the Velodyne work in heavy rain or snow?
The article fails to mention while they have huge sums in the bank, it is overseas so they can't bring it back without paying taxes. It ends up being cheaper to borrow money in the United States then to re-patriate the money from offshore.
> He denies that qualia exist (or at least he used to).

That seems almost nonsensical to me. Certainly people feel pain, etc. The question is what pain amounts to, not whether pain exists.

There was a time, however, when some philosophers used the term "qualia" to refer definitionally to whatever parts of phenomenology could not be explained physically. Then other philosophers would deny the existence of qualia, but that way of speaking was rather muddled, so as far as I'm aware, this usage is uncommon these days.

As for some dualists consenting to nomological supervenience, yes that is certainly the case. Epiphenomenalists such as Chalmers would indeed. But when one speaks of supervenience in this context without qualification, it usually refers to metaphysical supervenience. Or at least that's been my experience.
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>Here’s the list of top 10 majors, with starting salaries:
Petroleum Engineering: $93,500
Computer Engineering: $71,700
Chemical Engineering: $67,600
Computer Science: $64,800

majorS .. it's ... the list has more than one major, so it's is not going to be anything.

and woooooooptiedoooo. It's not all about the money.
One thing I've learned from this kind of news is this: Do wrong and get ahead. Most people will forget next week, you'll get a ton of free press, and oh yeah...more users.

I've been so dumb to not have tried this kind of bad publicity stunt yet.
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The article is focused on the creator, a 17 year old girl, and is less focused on the invention. The title illustrates the bias. How a young girl (two underdog classes) won a challenge.
The title seems to reinforce the idea that being either and/or both is handicap in this environment and I dare say it is not!
Where there is a substantially similar statute that permits employers to demand credentials to any account pursuant to an investigation of "employee misconduct".

Sheesh.
I am pretty naive when it comes to Finance, hence the comment.
This is my website, so apologies about the self-promotion, but I think it provides a lot of information and photos from Facebook's Menlo Park office for those interested: http://officesnapshots.com/2013/02/04/facebook-menlo-park-of...
Does this trump the CFAA interpretation on violating terms of use (such as giving out your password)?
Google Braeburn Capital and you'll realize this is nothing new for Apple. They've been good at optimizing their finances for a long long time.
What's wrong with having to throw them out every 2-4 weeks? :-)

I used to wear contacts every day, and even wore the daily disposables for a while. Those were actually really convenient.
If your credit cards are really willing to give you an unsecured loan that another bank won't accept a car as collateral on, then someone's risk analysis is wrong.

In practice this doesn't happen because large single-item purchases should be denied, especially if they're unusual. If you generally spend $500 of your $10,000 limit on an average of 20 different items, and suddenly try to put one $5,000 item on your credit card without calling your bank ahead of time, it probably won't go through. Source: I worked at a credit card risk department at a major bank.
"Don't be evil" has never really worked, despite best intentions, depending on your vantage point.

You don't need an official Oath or for the company to know or base their employment on such an Oath. Either way, the bottleneck is the employee drawing attention to the company doing something unethical; no Oath has to get in the way of that. There's already a sub-thread on top-secret/weapons/armaments jobs. What about political ethics? And religious? Marriage / gay rights? Porn? "Sexism?"
good thing there are plenty of accelerators in the sea!
David (the author) has stated on Twitter that there is currently no trial, but you can request an instant refund if not happy in the first 14 days https://twitter.com/_DavidSmith/status/329238071717535746
Whats wrong with SVG? Doesn't it accomplish what the OP wants to do already and is already a standard supported by a lot of applications? I must be missing something here
How I wrote a title that didn't suck, and saw my productivity increase 30%
Totally, though I like being able to hear the employees talk about what it's like there
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Let me tell you a story:

The FIRST Robotics Competition high school team (Mechanicats, from Chicago) and I were testing our robot late one night this February. While we were munching pizza, exhausted, a girl from the team came to me and asked if I enjoyed what I do (I'm the software mentor for the team). The reason for the question, she said, was that she was torn about what to study in college. She told me that her grandmother, who lived in California, told her that she should learn programming! The grandma said she heard that, since there are so few women in tech, her chances would be much greater in getting a good job. I was flabbergasted (this is a South Side school and she's not coming from a well-off family, how the grandma came with this info is anybody's guess). I told her that's absolutely true and she should go for it. She's now enrolled in the rPi based python class I'll start next week.

So there you go, there's the solution to the "too few women in tech". Show young women that this is an huge opportunity, they should seize it. Tell them about the $5k for women in Hacker School. Tell them to participate in hackathons. Unfortunately, many of people focus on negative aspects of this situation. They have a lot to learn from my student's grandmother.

Please teach this to as many girls you can influence.
This is the page I was expecting to see
Technically, you could use something like PyInstaller[1] to bundle the runtime and all libraries into an executable package. Practically, no one ever does that. :)

[1] http://www.pyinstaller.org/
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What is the point of having 102 billion dollars in overseas bank accounts?

How can it be considered "successful tax planning" when 70% of their profits are sitting overseas and basically UNUSABLE?

I get it, they don't want to pay taxes on it. Well, isn't paying your fair share of taxes on it and then getting to use it better than it just sitting overseas not doing anything?

Are they waiting for a tax holiday? Is there some other strategy here that I'm missing? Why are they content with just leaving their money overseas where they can't do anything useful with it?
Some screenshots of the web site and the app in the review here http://www.macstories.net/reviews/feed-wrangler-a-new-rss-re...
"Under Microsoft's current guidelines, which may still be changed, the decision of whether a game will require an internet connection to work and if that is a one-time authentication or a constant connection, will be left up to individual publishers."

source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/26/4268782/next-xbox-drm-achie...
I think most people open-in-new-tab by command or control clicking on a link. The event handler can detect the key being held down while you click a link.

We're basically guessing their intent and not running preventDefault if they are trying to open things in a new tab.
Seems more like the author is trying to shame the VC in question. I didn't think the e-mail was out of line, nor I'm I going to start to because of some made up consensus.
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Not true! The employer is going to have to care about the law, because it is very cheap for a terminated employer to get an attorney to bring a case under this statute.
Is this the start of a decline? Apple too busy playing on the high-end market instead of focusing on the fast growing low-end?

Is this the start of a decline? Apple loosing profit margins instead of focusing on high-margin products?

Is this the start of a decline? Apple too busy with domestic consumers instead of focusing on the pro market?

Is this the start of a decline? Apple too busy with iPad instead of focusing on the iPhone, his best seller?

Is this the start of a decline? Apple too busy on hardware instead of focusing on services?

etc, etc, etc...

I don't get the doom and gloom surrounding Apple lately. As much as I find John Gruber irritating lately I find myself agreeing with this observation: No matter what Apple does, it seems wrong and it's setting the course of its own demise.

And after that rant... Why is this a hint of the company being more interested in the finance games than in products? Seems to me that its just a decision made by the CFO, that, as usual, is being given too much attention because the company behind it.
And there are more photos on the "office" page.
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Uber the fastest growing company ever?
Hah, I was actually trying to pitch a friend on a Matlab-as-a-Service concept a month or two ago--to say that they were skeptical would be an understatement. Good luck!
This is nonsense. Although I'm not a lawyer...

Dwolla is a money transmitter according to most (if not all) state statutes. Its relationship with Veridian does not satisfy any statutory requirement necessary for exemption. Veridian itself does not have a charter, and is not a credit union. In my personal opinion, Dwolla has been breaking laws since day one and continues to. Its investors are no different.
So, Github unveiled a diversity initiative. Which would appear to be their prerogative...

Can you help me connect the dots between that and people making victims out of themselves?
Isn't he simply suggesting entrepreneurs should be building ventures that impact the other 6 billion?

From what I've read, I didn't think he's shaming anyone.

It seems he's drawing his line in the sand. Conversely, I think it's odd that most of his investments don't correlate to his spouted ideology.

Danielle, great job putting together the analytics. I love that you publish the data in this manner. I think the title comes on a bit strong.
I googled how to do it and found the fluid browser for Mac. It's great, it lets you create standalone apps.