skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if that was a similar time to when I visited that office ~feb 2011.

The aircon was clearly over capacity then, and there were portable air conditioners scattered around the floor I was on, with flexible ducting feeding up to the return ducts in the ceiling.

I assume they've fixed that by now, I know they've gone through at least on remodel since.
FYI they're not these doing quick release cycles because they want to.

This is RC (Release Candidate) 2.

The way release candidates work is they can't become an official release if issues are found with that candidate.

They're putting out this second RC because they want to get to the official 1.1 version, but there where issues with RC 1 and as such it failed as a candidate for the official 1.1 release.

Over the next few weeks they will be hoping there is no RC 3.
"My goal when interviewing people is to have a conversation to discuss how they think, how passionate they are in their work, get an idea of their personality, and, most of all, do they know enough to do take on the job they will fulfill."
Thumbs up. I follow similar principles when taking interviews and always believed that to be correct
Maybe it's me, or my non CS background, but I feel that many positions could be filled by a "normal" programmer that doesn't spend nights coding esoteric algorithms. On the other hand, the esoteric algos guy might get bored in a job that seems requires routines (bug fixes, testing, coding boring interfaces, etc.) and might not play that well in a team.

I know teamworking is a buz word, such as "passion" and "drive" also, I know esoteric algorithms are fun, but one has to face the reality that sometimes complexity hides somewhere else, not in the programming craft by itself.

Actually, if you are a start up, I think the real complexity hides in the business itself (ie: getting customers to pay you) and I am pretty sure the difference between a passionate normal programmer and one that makes lisp interpreters during breakfast is slim to the end goal of said start up (which is, let's remember, to make more money than what is spent).
"Without better technology, prosecuting illegal BitTorrent activity requires substantial effort in order to make a case. It is simply not economically viable to properly prosecute the illegal download of a single copyrighted video."

Is this likely to have any implications for a wider range of copyright-by-IP address cases? Since I've only given a cursory glance past the details of other (let's say music and video) cases, this level of 'proof' sounds quite similar to what is being offered elsewhere.
AWS Offers General Availability For Node.js
Tips For Getting Into Your Top (Marketing) Gear
It's interesting to me that the judge lets so much raw contempt show. I am more accustomed to judges presenting a dispassionate attitude; I always figured that this was an important part of their role of making impartial rulings in an adversarial system.

Would showing this much unmasked disgust towards one party leave a ruling more vulnerable to accusations of bias on appeal (presuming this can even be appealed)?
Too bad I missed you - I've been growing up here for the last 18 years. Lived in Talkeetna for a while, now I'm near Wasilla, soon to be in Anchorage for school.

And you're absolutely right. Palin's accent is very atypical of the accent here. The accents are very eclectic, because the population is, but it's generally unaccented. I might add that her politics are atypical - despite her being a very conservative politician on the national scene, she was actually among the most left-leaning Republican politicians up here.
Addressable markets for high-end phones
$240 a year for something I use every few weeks, at best, is still pretty absurd.
More likely his haircut, or some other negative quality.

Name changes are cheap, at least in America. Change your name, get a new haircut, and voila, you can begin building your new identity. This isn't even an issue with technology, per se.

The guy's not powerless, he just has too much faith in courts. Why else would you be fool enough to sue your psycho ex-girlfriend? Has anyone ever said "boy, I'm glad I got into a legal entanglement with that person who hates me, because it sure resolved the grudge!"

No. Going to the courts is a fantastic method for elongating a momentary hatred to a lifelong vendetta.

Also, this is a culture clash. If you banged an American girl as an itinerant teacher in 1850, her brothers and her father might have just tracked you down to shoot you. Forget about cyberstalkin' -- they would've just stalk-stalked you and killed you like a possum.

Malaysia's sexual mores in 201* != America's 201* mores.
>When the United States mounted its cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities

Stuxnet? I wasn't aware there was any definitive proof it was the US.
A good appellate lawyer would likely argue that the judge's over-the-top reaction, along with his written commentary showing clear disdain for the business model of the plaintiffs and the attorneys, shows that the judge was unfairly biased against them from the outset of the case. I don't know if they would ultimately prevail on appeal, but the judge certainly opened the door for it.
The article is misleading. Adobe is not abandoning the Creative Suite at all.

What they did is:

- rename the suite from "Creative Suite" to "Creative Cloud"
- dropped one-time purchases of their software
- added monthly subscription to the software

Except the payment change of their products they didnt really change anything...
Pot calls the kettle black?
Are you trolling? 5 to 10 years ago?! Windows 7 already came out 4 years ago. Windows XP is 12 years old, and audio already worked perfectly then. Hell, I can remember using Win 3.1 almost 20 years ago, and the audio there worked pretty well too, for the limited use cases the pc could handle.
Could you try and sell it a bit more energetically to us? In what grounds is it better than the myriad of other clients that came before? How is it better than news:yc app, which has been recognized as one of the best around and Open Source?
They have an API and therefore a developer community. Also, don't they have business accounts with administrative features? I doubt this is aimed at individual users.
New Rollbar features: rules engine, support for Campfire, Hipchat, JIRA, Trello
Both Ubuntu and Android use alphabetically sorted release names that are dense - so it's equally easy to know if Ice Cream Sandwich comes before Jellybean (it's the release before), assuming you're not dyslexic (which I am).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...
I have been learning go for the past 4 weeks now and love it. Does anyone have any advice on a good GUI library that works well with Go? I have had a look at some of the Qt bindings but they are not that great sadly.

Also is there a decent MSSQL library for Go yet?
Backbone.js + Express.js SPA boilerplate
Crime and Privacy
Surely this is the wrong approach - instead of trying to remove every post about him online (ultimately impossible) he could employ a company to produce content with enough SEO juice to outrank everything else when searching for his name.
Reading this I'm kind of optimistic.

Star Trek quotes? Firefox screenshot? Amazing. I read a lot of negative stuff about US law. I hope that's because people are interested in the negative stuff and there's biases operating to not publicise that good stuff.
Well written piece that shows what to me is the SV recruiting paradox: there is a massive demand for programmers, yet companies make it really, really hard to get a job. It's easier to start your own company without the interview hassle and condescending attitude of some HR managers.

I might be out on a limb here, but it seems it's almost easier to raise money for your startup than to get a job. Of course it gets a lot easier once you have established a network of people so you can bypass the whole recruitment process.
Here's a little demo I whipped up with just the play head (hover-glow, dragging, and animation).

http://github.johntantalo.com/soundslice-svg/
"now" is decidedly premature. Adobe's announcement yesterday happened after this conversation, and I don't recall them making the new Photoshop available right now. And, seriously, if they have to make it one of the primary features highlighted during their keynote, it's only telling that it's coming very, very late.
So, all these tip's I've seen focus on improving canvas performance by somehow splitting the drawing into small pieces .. but what if one is working on a drawing app that absolutely needs to redraw a large area most of the time, think sizes like 800x600 or 1024x768.

Any good tips to optimize this kind of use-case ? I am developing an online Geometry Generator (http://GeoKone.NET) that uses a large canvas that is redrawing complex geometry, with paths that almost always change completely when being modified, thus invalidating the "render to image" option almost in all cases, except maybe when moving the formations around.

Good tips though and nice to read about people's experience. Too bad I am using Processing.js so I am kinda stuck with the optimizations Processing.js is using.
Show HN: Can I use... Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG
When I hit the "I allowed one month for interviewing and one month for buffer", I already knew what the outcome would be and my brain was screaming "WRONG!"

Job applications are very stop-start affairs. Post a job ad. Wait a couple of weeks for it to finish. Then leave the collated resumes on the hiring manager's desk for a while, then someone prods the manager "why don't we have a -foo- yet?". Manager starts the callaround, does the first round of interviews, makes a shortlist, then they sit on the desk again. Maybe discuss potentials with other staff, but it peters out. There's so much other stuff to do! Then someone says "Why don't we have a -foo- yet?". Rinse, repeat. It certainly doesn't always happen, but it's common enough.

At one place I worked, I was basically the sole applicant - my friend worked the other support role and recommended me. The HR officer (CEO's wife...) called me in. That went well, so I had a second 'confirm this guy isn't an idiot' interview with the CEO. A couple of polite proddings received no response. I asked my friend and he said "I thought we did agree to hire you, that's what I heard". A couple more proddings and the CEO said 'Yes'. But the HR officer wasn't responding. At this stage it was six weeks from first interview to CEO 'Yes'. We hadn't even discussed salary yet. I was so desperate for a job at the time, that I just rolled up and started working, because fuck it, the worst that can happen is that it's abysmally low and I go elsewhere - it's not like my days were productive otherwise. A panicked call from the HR officer the next day did a hurried salary negotiation.

Now sure, the last part of this story isn't typical (though I find it funny), but it took 6 weeks for me to get a job with a small, busy company who had staff with prior positive experience with me as a colleague and no competition. One month is nothing when it comes to applying for skilled work.
>Lotus, who hasn't made a reliable car... ever?

The US-spec Elise/Exiges were powered by a fairly mundane Toyota engine. Body panel costs aside, it's a cheap, reliable, unpractical, and great vehicle.
Concurrency in a long polling (Erlang) comet server
> Why single out weather? Lots of human activities are impacted by weather. What's the analogy to software?

To point out there's still a large variable in the construction projects isted, and it's not as cut and dried as you made out.

Here in the UK (land of rain) the weather is a major source of extra costs in small (under £1M) projects. Source: chief surveyor of a county council's highway department.

The contracts are well negotiated by the construction firm (and I understand is an industry standard clause, so you can't just hire a different firm), so if work can't be done on your project due to inclement weather, they will put in a claime for their labour costs for thse days, plus hire of plant that's on-site. AFAIK they won't get the full cost, but they're good at putting in frequent claims :)
Yep, they almost achieve the same thing - unfortunately its terribly out of date and there is no real API for the page.
A similar report is here - http://www.cnbc.com/id/100713593
One can't do much about comments on websites, but man, secure your machines. I'm willing to bet that "hacking his email" consisted of firing up his Windows machine, opening the account with no password, and starting Outlook. Same for the nude photos.

Yeah, yeah, "trust" and all that. I don't think my own wife of nearly 20 years has spent more than ten minutes total logged onto one of my accounts on any machine in our home. I trust her, she just doesn't need to, she has her own account. Random chick I've been dating who displays just a little bit of psycho bitch from time to time? Yeah, that machine gets locked down with a high-entropy password and she gets guest privileges.
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[A night later]

Oh, I really mean it. Teachers to children (and especially maths teachers) are essential for our society, and have one of the hardest job.

Focusing on proportions you can teach almost anything: from basic triangle geometry, including elements of what later they will know as 'trigonometry', to interest rates -even letting the best get the scent of 'compound interests'-, to areas & volumes to the notion of 'speed' as a ratio, to how to save money for the future... There is little more a normal 'literate' person needs to know, as I see it.

However, it takes quite an effort getting them to actually perform the computations. This is where 'good' -appealing- exercises and problems are required, and this is where the teacher's craftmanship comes into play. A good craftman will find the correct and 'fancyful' exercises, according to the class, the student, the time... You know, this is where the 'heroism' takes place.

All the best.
This article's title and content is mind-blowingly poorly worded. It's almost the definition of blogospam.

I'd strongly recommend the original AWS blog article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5665732

(TL; DR is that this is the release to general availability of the Node.js version of the AWS SDK)
To answer how to get an URL in detail would need understanding of the 7 layers of OSI, sockets, http/ftp/etc, SSL, html layout, keepalive, etc etc. The answer should be a really informative about how much someone understand (and check architecture grokking). [Edit: I might try this, thanks!]

Cons are: It is specific to web people, of course. And not really a programming question.
Crashing or rebooting is not a problem -- machines had a reset button -- we've been brainwashed.

I have an EQU and XOR raster operation mode. I use a image blot to make my pens wide. For XOR this doesn't work. My operating system prides itself on no ugly code. I don't think I'm going to worry about ROP_XOR with wide pens. XOR is only used for rubberbanding -- the normal graphics are done redrawing the full screen at 60Hz.

God says...

17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall
stir up himself against the hypocrite.

17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean
hands shall be stronger and stronger.

17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot
find one wise man among you.

17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts
of my heart.

17:12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of
darkness.

17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness.

17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou
art my mother, and my sister.
Is there a list of changes since Go 1.1 RC1? Just curious what held up the release.
It's persistent in pre-traditional societies.

The orthodoxy is pre-traditional societies were about equal in likelyhood between matriarchy, patriarchy, and both. If you're looking at dominant deities for this definition.
I would hope that this and other news outlets picking up the story would carry enough juice to help push the offending content from the first page.

Its a terrible story. Can he not submit take down notices to individual websites?
Well, they often work on commission..
Will Mumbai's Tallest Skyscraper Be Its Greenest Too?
Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take
Unless you've got full-drive encryption going on, I don't know what "accounts" have to do with actual security if they've stolen your computer and have physical access to the drive.
You might learn more from the first person you looked at from a random employee at a random company.

The second person, you might not. The 100th, you wouldn't. There is only so much you can learn from failure, when it is the rare, immense success you care about.

It might be rare, but in terms of outcome averaged sampling, you'd learn much more from examining the few, significant strings of immense success.

It is not a series of independent random events, summing up. Wealth distribution is not normally distributed.

It is not a series of independent multiplicative random events. Wealth distribution isn't even log-normal.

It's a severe power law. There is some ordering principle that is not captured by simplistic luck based models that people put forward. Luck may still dominate, but it is not clear how, or why. And strict wealth based "Matthew effect" models don't work either, since throughout most of history the advantages of a socioeconomic advantage decays, rather than compounds, over 15 generations.

Skill hypotheses become much more plausible when you look at the statistics.
> And admittedly, the questions I asked were so difficult that I seriously doubt I myself could've answered them when I first got hired

Sometimes I have to stop myself doing this before conducting interviews. I think it's an ego thing, or perhaps an insecurity. When I worked at Amazon the culture drove this kind of rubbish and skewed our hiring process immensely.

There was something perverse about being in an interview loop, all 8 of us "not inclined" to hire a single candidate because they missed an recursion terminator in a solution to something properly complex and scratched out on a whiteboard in 15 minutes. All of us nodding like "that's so stupid" and I was sitting there 100% certain of the 8 people in the room the 7 of us who hadn't conducted the same interview 50 times would drop a bollock somewhere along the way. Yet there was no way this "otherwise competent, and quite nice guy" was as technically astute as all of us gathered here today indulging in our nice cup of ego massage while other people got actual work done.

Now when I interview candidates I want to see some code you have written you are proud of. Above all, I'm looking for pragmatism, effective reasoning and discipline in execution.

I love the idea of a paid working trial of some length, followed by a permanent hire but I've yet to convince the powers that be that it's an effective strategy.
So... anyone here up for Arc, then? ;)
Daily happiness averages using Twitter
And some say Windows is dying...
Don't kid yourself, we don't even have robots that make USB cables. That stuff is still made by hand in China.
Contempt of court, given jail time, skips the country and keeps going. Christ, what are you supposed to do? :/
Nice post!!
Physical access = game over, as a general rule. Full disk encryption can help, and would stop someone like this woman, however.
I agree it seems OP is bad at interviewing, as well as some others who have replied to OP. It would be better to view the interviewing process as a game with a weird set of rules, half of which you don't even know when you join the game. Realize your chances of winning the game (i.e. getting the job) are generally not increased by ferociously attacking the rule book.

Also, from the companies perspective, if you can't even accept their interview process. How on earth are you going to accept all of their other wacky corporate rules you will have to comply with day-by-day. On your first day you will probably be like "I have to put my opening brackets WHERE? Dude, that's sick..." or "I can dig the spinning in my seat three times before committing code, but why the hell can't I commit when the line count of the commit is negative?"

You will not make a good corporate slave.
They did go after very many people. They did these cases one at a time because it's easier to do that for them. People either paid up, or they didn't pay up in which case PrendaLaw dropped the case.

This case is awesome because they tried to do exactly that, but an alert Judge thought something not just unpleasant but actually fraudulent was going on.

What that says about all the other cases (where Prenda got millions, apparently) is open for discussion.
Full time? The amount of hours? I've been writing code for almost 10 years now, but I don't code full time. It also depends what your definition of 'proficient' is. I can build anything I can think of, but compared to most professional programmers here I feel like I barely scratched the surface of software development.

In his book 'Outliers' Malcolm Gladwell states that it takes roughly 10,000 hours to get really good at anything. Be it programming, playing the piano or speaking Chinese, it doesn't matter.

For web development, you can learn enough to build a simple yet decent app/website in a matter of weeks. To get proficient, it takes a lot more.

For me, it seems that the more I learn about programming, the more I realize what I don't yet know. Which is a valuable lesson in itself, I guess.
He should learn to secure his online doings
and then create new everything. Also, should keep away from social accounts.

Name change would really help and if kept quiet, zeros harasser's work. It's not about whats right, it's just the easiest way.
You're completely off on this subject. The copyright holder can do whatever he wants with it - including releasing it under multiple, different licenses. The onus is on the licensee - a person who obtains the licensed code, to honor the license given to him. It's the responsibility of the licensee to comply with the terms of the license and republish whatever needs republishing when (if) he redistributes the code.
change name and life
Have you tried Lightroom? I prefer it for photo editing, the process is way more streamlined.
> In most interviews I’ve had, engineers and recruiters I speak to spend a great deal of time gloating about their product, almost as if they are trying to sell me their product. The fact of the matter is, I am not interested in being spoken to as if I would be a potential consumer of your product. I want to be spoken to as if I would be a potential employee working on your product.

Spot on!
Pretty awesome. But maybe not a surprise to those who've been battered by Dalvik (it sucks) and those who know LuaJIT (known to rival and beat optimized C code).