skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just subbmitted: Application for tracking IOU's. I'll handle iOS design & dev, web JS (done) and REST API (done). You do web front (CSS).

Basically, my CSS and HTML sucks massive schlong. But I've gotten the front-end working prettly neatly (Batman.JS with CofeeScript) with the RESTFUL (in true meaning) API.

I want to focus on an iOS version + some additional social provider authentication while you do the front-end in terms of HTML and CSS.

It's a client-side front-end. But the templates are in HTML (HTML 5 with data attributes that is)

Sometimes it isn't about skill-set, but about Time To Launch(™)
Your claim is not backed by any evidence at all. There is nothing special or magical about "whole foods". And what is wrong with what you just mentioned is that now I need to keep fresh fruits and vegetables and milk on hand, those spoil. Your proposed meal replacement is also incredibly deficient in over half of known vitamins and essential minerals. Take my default challenge for the "oh its so easy to get all your vitamins and minerals" people: put together a recipe for me that gives me 100% of all my vitamins and minerals. When you actually try doing this, you will realize how unreasonable it is.
You do know that chitin or chitosan is an important part of your tooth paste?
Yahoo Finance is down
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Animation is now considered a core feature of GIF, but it was implemented as an extension by Netscape and surprisingly there is no official spec for it.

Extensibility is provided for in the specification, but the actual implementation within each application extension is, of course, application-specific.

The extensions I know about:

- NETSCAPE (animation)

- NETSCAPE (buffering)

- ANIMEXTS (same as Netscape animation)

- GIFCONnb (found this GIF Construction Set extension during testing but didn't try to reverse engineer it)

The only one of consequence is the animation one.

The page I used at the time to describe the animation extension no longer exists, but this page describes it and others:

http://www.vurdalakov.net/misc/gif
Look at it another way - charters provide involved but financially poor parents with the sort of focused alternatives formerly available only to the parents that could afford private schools.

And more bluntly, I find it really frustrating that diversity is a liberal value EXCEPT when it comes to education. The real value of charters imho is diversity, not superiority. Give kids a chance to be educated in a a manner suited to their own minds and personalities, not trapped in a one-size-fits-most-but-really-sucks-for-others system.
That's a terrible business model. You can't charge people for targeting options
AirBnB ruled illegal in NY
Well I want to become a better programmer and also work on a project for fun so I think Ruby would be good as it would expand my knowledge of programming.
EDIT: I think I'm going to go with node.JS
Yes they are, but that works in your favor as an employer or boss. A box of leftover marketing swag goes a long way when you're not allowed to offer raises or bonuses. When we briefly stopped free sodas in our office, I said I'd just pay for them myself our of my own pocket but my boss reamed me out. That's the same boss that invited our whole department and more out to lunch then asked for 20 separate checks. I still kick myself for not just picking up everyone's check that day, but I think she would have fired me on the spot. She was gone within a year.
- I'm more likely to skip lunch when I'm enthralled with solving a problem, since I can just grab a snack when I finally snap out of it.
I think instead a @ReorderingBarrier annotation might be a good solution. Like a memory barrier which doesn't allow reordering of memory operations across that point, a reordering barrier wouldn't allow fields declared before that point to be placed in memory after the field it's declared on or any declared afterwards.

It could also be used to control the alignment of the following field, to a cache line for example:

public class TestClass {
int a1;
long a2;
OtherClassA a3;

@ReorderingBarrier(alignment=CACHE_LINE)

OtherClassB b1;
int b2;
int b3;
long b4;

// ...
}

If I understand the reordering rules correctly, without the annotation it would be rearranged as: a2, b4, a1, b2, b3, a3, b1.

With the barrier it would be rearranged as: a2, a1, a3, (cache line alignment break), b4, b2, b3, b1.
Should you ever use Linked-Lists?
From UnQLite core developer:
No, Jx9 (the standalone library) is under SPL, while UnQLite is 2-clause BSD (including the Jx9 core), so there is no worry about that since the two software are developed by the same company. In other words, use UnQLite without restrictions
Works fine for me, search history disabled.
Code is code - it's the concepts behind it that matter. If this is going to paying project then go PHP - it's what you know and you'll be able to get it done faster and probably with higher quality. If this is just a project for your own gratification then I suggest Ruby - or Node.js or Haskell or Erlang or 8086 Assembler or ... It doesn't matter. When you are your own client you do what you need to do to make you happy. Doing something because we busy bodies on HN think you should ultimately does nothing for my happiness or yours.
The Importance Of A Good Logo To The Success Of Your Company
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the article was using a good music metaphor.
Its really hard and i face that too.
But it becomes easier when your idea/creativity gets so real to you then you will see yourself do crazy stuff to push the idea out.
You will do things like working extra private hours and some reduce their work hours at their work place and others even quite the job because of the burning desire to satisfy the thirst for creativity
Indeed, BerkleyDB even is implemented with MVCC while as far as I can see they use a global lock. This means BerkleyDB is superior in regards of concurrency.
Seriously, name me one successful company that doesn't have a host of failures and cancelled products attached to their name.

I much prefer Google launch a ton of products and only focuses on the one's that "stick" because I know they will generally create an incredibly good product once they are fully invested in it (see Android, Chrome, GMail, Docs, Analytics, etc).
Sugestion : it will be challenging if it could be possible to limit the steps in one location to max 10 - 15, then it can be very interesting to see who scores >10k points.
Do or do not, now there IS TRY...
Understanding the Unique Benefits of Each Social Platform
Clean looking app. Nice work!
That Xbox One Reveal Sure Was A Disaster, Huh?
And then later on they ask for a Tax Holiday to repatriate the funds. All perfectly legal, right?

Why are tax laws implemented so poorly? Could it be because companies like Apple have pressured for thge congress for a shitpile of loopholes?
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There is a somewhat embarrassing (to my taste) discussion here

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/pierre-deligne-wins-t...

in which they claim that it is policy of the Abel Foundation not to bestow the prize on people who would not attend the ceremony.

This strikes me as surprsing at the very least but you can never tell with foundations.

I am thinking in three centuries' time people will say: "Of course, they gave Grothendieck one of the first Abel prizes" and receiving a sorry answer "well, I say, no... it was a question of policy".

Kings are not kings if they do not survive someone rejecting their bounties.
I'm a touch sceptical here - while I appreciate a noobs perspective whenever I'm starting something new, I prefer to see something that encourages best practice - a mix of experience through the eyes of a noob would be better in my opinion.
I've seen it once, in 13 years of working professionally in C. I think two people changed the same one-line if statement, but for two different reasons (probably adding two different new features to the same bit of code). And after an automatic merge it became something like this:

if(flag)
set_other_flag=1;
call_function();

(both lines necessary)

Anyway, it didn't take long to narrow it down to that bit of code but it took a few more minutes to figure out why the function was always getting called. I couldn't work out what was going on until I looked at the disassembly and was forced to reassess my opinion of what code was actually being compiled. Too much python in my diet, perhaps.

I remember being surprised at the time that it had taken so long for this to happen, and I made a mental note to keep an eye out for more occurrences. That was summer 2006, and I haven't seen it happen since.
I have been working on building my own(FeedRebel.com) for the past few weeks. It's far from perfect at the moment and web only. I plan on doing a Show HN at some point but would love some early feedback as well. Here is the url http://www.feedrebel.com
No matter what it was, did he learn from it? That's what matters in my book. If he was older, I might care more about the specifics of what he did since I think a lot of people get too comfortable with the lies they build around themselves and appearances they need to keep up, especially professionally. But he's young and he's learning how to hack it in two industries where going at it alone is both rewarding and daunting, and of course you'll mess up somewhere, especially when you have much less experience, both professionally and in life.

That said, if it was something more malicious than what you mentioned, then it would be worth looking into.
So if a kid grows up in an abusive home, fuck him forever because his parents don't give a shit.
Chrome 27 is out on Windows/Mac and seems to be required. You'll need to upgrade to 27 manually if you're on Linux or wait for your distribution.
When? Food and drink are considered non-taxable benefits according to HMRC:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/payerti/employee/changes/new-benefit....

It's always been non-taxable as far as I can remember and a quick google is not bringing anything up.
Study complex analysis. It is a very pretty field which certainly has connections both to algebra (in fact, complex analysis grew out of the study of roots of polynomials) and to geometry - there are a lot of fascinating geometrical results in it, such as the famous Euler's formula for angles, e^i Theta=cos Theta + i sin Theta as one of the simplest examples. There is also the theory of conformal mappings and all sorts of beautiful results for analytic functions, e.g. the fact that a complex function which is smooth (i.e. differentiable) and non-constant must take every possible complex value (except possibly one point) - certainly not true for the real numbers! Once you have a good understanding of complex analysis, you can continue to study Riemann surfaces and topology. A lot of modern geometry and number theory grows out of these studies, e.g. the Riemann hypothesis which is very important in number theory, and Riemann surfaces which are strongly connected to models of spacetime, both started as part of complex analysis. Also the field has a huge number of applied results, e.g. in the area of differential equations and Fourier analysis. Once you have a good grounding in complex analysis, you can decide if you want to move into the later results (such as Weil's), which tend to be very sophisticated.
"Goat rodeo" is slang for a particularly chaotic situation where nobody's in charge and everybody's going in different directions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_rodeo
Gary V: storytelling, without it, even the best startups fail
Stop Using Linked Lists
Diablo 3: A Case Of Virtual Hyperinflation
Nice idea. Wonder if it's responsive to touch devices... would be great to be able to write books for ipad this easily.
"Warren Buffett framed the problem for me once in a way that clarified how basic our most stubborn obstacles are. He said it would be easy to solve today's problems in urban education. 'Make private schools illegal,' he said, 'and assign every child to a public school by random lottery.' "
Neat idea! We'll be following along as we've found students do better with a bit more structure than this program provides, but there are so many ways of learning it may work well.

What I like most is the personal help. It promises not just a video but guidance to the best video based on where the "noob" is located... that's awesome.

I would say that "passively by dropping comments to the blog" feels like a low bar (but maybe I'm reading too literally?). The response rates to questions must be prompt – the difference between getting an answer in 30 seconds and 10 minutes is huge for me, and I've been writing software for 15 years. It's only worse for beginners.

For our students at Thinkful (http://www.thinkful.com/) getting human contact promptly is key... our students only like banging their heads against the wall for so many minutes before getting demotivated!
How ironic. I read this as I'm being annoyed by gmail accidentally breaking chat (it no longer can remember that I read a chat AND KEEPS FLASHING TO DRAW MY ATTENTION TO ITS STUPIDITY), and plus.google.com has a layout redesign that I simply loathe.

Designers will always want control, but they seem to use that control to do things that I do not like.
Why Web Designers &amp; Web Developers need to Communicate
Lightbulb that responds to data
Thanks, I was NOT being sarcastic, sorry for not being clear on this. Most anti-Google articles that make it to HN are completely off-base, this one was quite rational.
I have allot of spare time and I think starting this project would be a good idea to use my time. I think I'm going to with what language I really like, which is node.js.
Very bizarre to read these kinds of business stories. I was a business major and recall all the case studies regarding the unmeasurable, but vast, benefits to the company of providing ancillary benefits such as free gym membership, free child care and free drinks/snacks. Sure these things are measurable monetarily, but the increase in employee moral, employee retention, productivity and general PR over company culture are immeasurable. (Admittedly they are measurable to a degree, but so many variables can allow business people to end up with numbers that support their decisions)

I guess that is where academia collides with corporate politicking, as an MBA hired in a tech start-up it is easy to justify a 6 figure salary and stock options when you can show you are directly responsible for cost cutting of $x, rather than an MBA explaining they are responsible for $x increase in cost, but that company moral is up.
Intriguing! What's the tech under the hood?
They have a legal obligation to their shareholders to maximise profits

Please stop saying that. It's urban legend repeated by those that wish to excuse any corporate behavior.

(I'm more than willing to change my stance as soon as someone provides a link backing up the "legal obligation" argument.)
Indie developers cannot self-publish on Xbox One
We've been using Advanced Custom Fields ( http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/ ) for 2+ years now, has anyone used both and can comment on how they compare?
Ah, my misunderstanding then!
Funny pitch, it actually enticed me to try to advertise there, only to find out that you cannot pay with a credit card if you're not in the US, UK or Canada.
I once was scolded for taking too much of what did eventually become the "managements" coffee.I was offered the ability to purchase packs so I could drink from that particular coffee machine, price tag: $60. The "others" were directed to another coffee machine, slightly inferior.

The fact that I worked more than 14 hour days, weekends, had to pay for my own cab fares home (because trained stopped at 23:45) and occasionally had to spend nights working on features to hit marketing deadlines. At one time they hired a freelancer who wasn't up to par so I had to do all of his + my stuff, four nights in a row. At some point all nighters was more common than non all nighters.

This is what happens when non devs take over and we become machines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1008178
You don't mention how you're finding jobs, but my main advice would be to get referred to jobs. Let everyone you work with, and which you share a mutual respect with, know that you're looking -- seed your network. Also go to meetups and any sort of external events you can (user-groups for software products, etc). Because, as others mention, being referred helps immensely.

Also as others mention, confidence in the interview is something you can develop. Practice. Practice speaking, practice the white-boarding (somehow... maybe record yourself at home with video and watch it), or use the public forums (the meetups). I've taken to recording myself reading the Harvard Sentences, to hear how I sound. Whatever works for you.

Finally, it's just a numbers game, the long game.... It. Takes. Time. The whole process always takes longer than I expect. Keep searching, try to not get emotionally attached to it, because it's such a roller-coaster ride ('I had five rounds of interviews, we had good rapport! .... [two weeks later, after silence: no-go decision]), and lay low in your current job because a paycheck is nice to have in the meanwhile.
The concept of "good" and "evil" is inherently a value judgement. Less open is more evil for some people. That's not wrong, you just don't agree with it. It's values, not everyone will agree.
Concurrent Releases Pattern, a Machine Learning DSL for Hadoop
This is probably an unpopular point of view, but:

I actually agree with author (despite his going into a rant in the latter part of the article) about the horribleness of needing a Google+ account to interact with most of Google's services these days (I'm wondering if any clueless fool in their marketing/sales dept. has suggested G+ login for search yet...), but I actually quite like Google+ .

It's, IMHO, miles in front of the competition in regards to large communities, but, admittedly, fails on the actual social stuff (friends, family etc.). But, as I see it, the only reason they fail at this is due to the overwhelming dominance of Facebook.

I now only use FB for communication with overseas (and far away, easy if you're in Australia) friends. Most of my other online community social behaviour is done through G+

Just my 2 cents (with inflation)
>That's because the FDA regulates food.

Which is precisely the reason your fear-mongering is nonsense. The FDA isn't going to suddenly disappear because these guys are selling the same thing tons of other companies sell: meal replacement shake mix.
If they provide an alignment argument then the annotation based approach becomes much more attractive. You could even go all cross platform and have 'alignment=cacheline'

That would be a lot of fun to play with.
Why didn't he say anything? Why sit on a board if you're not going to offer advice?
Why Android Hates You
absolutely correct
The EU directive put a legal up limit on the number of hours you can work yes. But this limit is quite high. Besides, this limit does not apply when the person goes home and work in the evenings from there on her own will (and for certain positions, that's frequent).

Secondly, it's especially written in the law that with the "cadre" status, you are to work a number of days annually, not hours (it's called "au forfait" if I'm not mistaken).
Agreed. But note that it's not all "noobs" helping "noobs"... there's someone who knows chiming in with directional support along the way. That's a big difference.

Coursera tries "peer learning"... commonly referred to in the forums as "the blind leading the blind."

At Thinkful we definitely see a benefits from both peers and experts...
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't personal favourites made available to the public in two clicks instead of one in the 'old' design as well? And you could see all users that added a photo as a favourite when viewing the photo?

It just never occured to me that it was a feature that was not meant to be 'public'.
This is one of those ideas that became a meme because it is unquestionably true. Ideas which are true tend to spread quickly. And, regarding this specific example, it's ludicrous to claim that it might take years if you violate zoning regulations. It would be more like hours.
I noticed this at my first Silicon Valley job. When I joined, about a year after its acquisition, the kitchen was fully stocked and they had to ask people to take pizza home with them.

First the soda orders went from a variety to a few brands and the pantry which was always open, started getting locked. Then it was cut to just cold cuts in the fridge and you had to run once the pizza guy got there or you were hungry.

Attrition started soon after. It was apparent to all that our European parent corporation didn't quite understand how Silicon Valley worked. After about a year of everyone who could leaving (CEO, Dir of Eng, most of pre-acqu and post-acqui employees who weren't H1-Bs), the office ceased to exist.

Like the OP, I saw the cutting sodas as a sign. If they are going to nickel and dime on something that keeps people from having to take a 20 min break to quench their thirst, where will they stop?
"started to go towards free tea and coffee but this was stopped by HMRC"

That sounds like a cover story some accountant made up to justify penny pinching. I've never heard of stuff like that being taxed.
Change your DSL modems default logins now or get hacked
The article states that the study was released by The Boston Foundation [1] and MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative [2].

That said, your comment basically amounts to an ad hominem attack against an article and related study that you clearly didn't even read, as the information you were asking for was provided in the article. Your post does nothing to further intelligent discussion. It's bad, and you should feel bad.

[1]: http://www.tbf.org/
[2]: http://seii.mit.edu/
>I'd rather spend my time tinkering with stuff than preparing for interviews

If we're talking about raw programming skill, I would say that actually learning these fancy algorithms will pay off more than (random) tinkering. It's the difference between directed and undirected practice. Undirected practice only takes you so far. To truly get good at something one must do deliberate, directed practice consistently.
Very insightful post. In my experience, the startup weekend teams are also too large: most startups have 2-4 founders, not more.
Voice search is a natural extension (and time will tell if its an ideal one), but I think the thing that is most interesting with all of this is the steps these companies are making in natural language processing.
It's like they didn't even do customer research. They developed in an echo chamber - and got something that ultimately no one actually likes. I've had my 360 for a long time but I won't be getting a one. Steam box probably for me.
While the comparison isn't perfectly apples to apples, I don't think it is fair to rule out the possibility that charter schools might do a better job of serving students with so-called "good parents". If it is the case, why is that a bad thing?

Do we not want schools that serve the needs of many different groups?
I promise I'm not trying to troll here.

When I hear "free soda" I hear "free diabetes and heart disease". Free soda is the worst kind of encouragement to have your employees living a healthy lifestyle. I'd love to hear about a company who seeks to provide fresh local fruits and vegetables at its snack table.

I really don't mean to come off as a Debbie Downer, but soda is such a terrible scourge on society as a whole.
We were a 6 person startup that hired a CFO and cut soda because our burn was too high and we hadn' t raised money in 3 years. We experienced that exact same meeting and resulting effect at our company. It probably seems strange that we would get a CFO this early, but our finances were a total mess and we had a co-founder who dipped so 4 years after the founding we were hamstrung when going out to raise money.