skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree, and read recently that young people feel its no longer hip but are kind of locked in [ how I felt leaving M$ dev products for open source back when ]

I use FB periodically, and recently quite a few things in the UI dont seem to function [ logical bugs as opposed to say whether I like the feature design ]

I see this as a kind of bitrot setting in, maybe its just hard for large organisations to continue to innovate. Maybe it needs to move more slowly and focus on polish/robustness now. Do people like FB feature changes? I've found them to be annoying with no added value as a user.
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The fact that someone would even pose this question proves what a sham the software industry has become.

If your method of growth is acq-hiring, your company ends up like that tower of random debris (that looks like a dick) that Kefka lives in at the end of Final Fantasy 6.
Less than $30k? You're going to need less than $15 for the underclass that this article is talking about; and even then those people are going to have to buy used.
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This is a very simplistic notebook. I just wanted to play with the data a bit. There are about 250 data points included in the bundle. I would love to see what else people will do with the data and notebook.
Well the settlement with HSBC was to pay a $1.9 billion fine -- it's unlikely that Liberty Reserve would be able to come up with something of that order of magnitude. Additionally, I think the prosecutors would make the case that Liberty Reserve was _primarily_ a criminal money laundering operation while HSBC was a large, multi-faceted organization which engaged in certain criminal acts.

And anyway, they still may face criminal prosecution -- the judge has yet to sign off on the deal: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/23/hsbc-court-th...
Not huge, big for a non-athlete, kinda on the wimpy scale of athletes, at least until after .mil. More like basic training prep, which was physically pretty easy after proper preparation (other than the sleep deprivation).

Not unusual at all for the biggest bully to be kinda wimpy compared to even an average kid, I think there's a bit of a compensation reaction.

I will admit the "helped not be bullied" bit IS true solely WRT my point of diversity although I think you have the reaction mechanism wrong. I did not hang out with the football players much but we did commiserate about leg days (everyone hates leg days, lets just say the soreness the day after is probably the most painful thing anyone intentionally does as an inherent part of any sport) and I did not hang out with the mountain biker kids but we could talk about favorite trails and stuff. I don't think it matters that I was big-ish, even as a scrawny little long distance runner I could have at least talked with track and field kids about blisters or something even if I never joined the track and field team. The point being that it gave me the diversity to communicate with kids other than my classmates who took calculus and "intro to o-chem" their senior year. In retrospect, solely looking at bullying oriented outcome it probably is a heck of a lot easier to listen to some heavy metal than to doing squats in the weight room, for the identical quantity "X" of not being bullied, if that makes any sense. The other problem with weightlifting is it leads to ... enhanced caloric intake, which becomes a problem later on in life if you drift away from lifting but continue to eat entire roasted (small) chickens in one sitting, for example. I'm still kinda fat even now.
http://www.docusign.com/ ?
> But it utterly failed to account for the strategies that were in place for future functionality, that placed very different requirements on the platform.

In other words, he pissed management off. He busted his as off trying to improve the product and was rewarded by being treated like shit. It really sounds more like he was railroaded by company politics by stepping on the wrong peoples toes.
Two projects you may want to review for ideas are Redis and toybox.

Redis comes to mind because it started out as largely a single file of code that has since been split and organized into multiple files. The code is quite approachable; you'll likely understand how most of it works after a day of causal browsing.
http://redis.io

Toybox comes to mind because it's insanely modular, and aggressive about code re-use. The logic can feel a bit dense at times, but he's going for size and speed. I'm a big fan of Rob's efforts.
http://landley.net/code/toybox/
Thanks - purchased through amazon.com for £28 with shipping. amazon.co.uk would have been £38 and apparently taken longer to deliver.
Ambiguous rules, ruthlessly enforced. Been there, been done like that.

Swimming With Sharks captures the pathos pretty well, for hollywood. Definitely painful to watch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114594
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It's true that the U.S. did model some of its public education on the Prussian model:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system

But there's a lot of conspiratorial libertarian agenda in your comment.

American schools existed before that (and were called "schools", it's a very old word), they were just influenced by the Prussian model. The part that Americans liked was the view that all were entitled to an education in a public school system with a universal educational curriculum, thus democratizing education. As it was adopted they modified it to suit American ideals and needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_the_Uni...

Also, school (technically σχολή/"scholé") in Ancient Greek means "leisure." Since learning and study were leisure activities, the term evolved in Greek and Latin into the word for learning in the ancient world, while the English term "school" has meant a place of learning and study since the Middle Ages. Arguments from etymologies are virtually always the flashing red light of terrible history.
Article title doesn't fit. It's contents state that 10,000 hours MAY not make you an expert. Realistically though, no rule of thumb gives 100% coverage. That doesn't invalidate its accuracy for the majority of cases.
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For me, it would have been a more helpful title to actually name the former employee (Jeri Ellsworth) since she happens to be quite a famous name at least in some circles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth).

I was not aware of technical illusions or the castAR, looks very interesting.
> I don't know if google makes money with gmail Honestly, I doubt it.

As Google is a pretty key component of paid Google Apps, and the free version is an advertising venue, I think Google makes plenty of money with Gmail, both by selling it and selling advertising in it.
Get some QA engineers to manually test every build.
In Puerto Rican Spanish we have adopted some of those words and we do have translations for others. But this is due, in part, to our close relationship with the USA.

pork (pork barrel) = tocino (barril de tocino)

accountability = no direct translation but "responsabilidad" serves the same purpose and "acontabilidad" is slowly entering our lexicon.

bullying = no change. We just adopted the word.

patronage = padrinaje, apadrinaje

solipsism = solipsismo
> Had [old white dudes] been the ones to pioneer these tics, we'd be praising them as enriching expansions of the language. We'd be reading The, Like, New Yorker

I wasn't aware (and still don't care) which social group started adding "like" to everything; the reason it bothers me is that it adds noise without adding signal...

(Though I'm not a linguist; maybe there is some signal there that I'm just not consciously aware of?)
Take Felix Dennis. Idiot at 25... Multi millionaire at 35... Billionaire now. Can anyone do it? Yes. Just like the lottery, anyone can be an outlier. Average people, can do an average job with 10,000 of practice.

For you personally, don't worry about this shit and do whatever you want to do. If you're not good at it, and don't enjoy it you'll know... You will quit on your own and find something else to do.
And they forgot using it as a flash drive ...
There is a lot of crud out there and some genuine gems.

Perhaps from your perspective.

Even 3 years olds have opinions on what they like.

That's true, but that doesn't mean they have discerning tastes; small children like what they like and it has the potential to be pretty much anything.
Which browser are you using ? we tested on quite a few combinations but might have missed some.
$16k is also a harder sell than $2k, especially for a pilot that may not end up being useful.
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> Correct me if im wrong ...

You're wrong.

Wordpad on Windows and TextEdit on OS X can open .odt files. I've just tested in Mountain Lion and Windows 7 to verify it.
A good example of this irrational fear of what's in the news is the recent studies showing that many people in the US think the crime and/or murder rate is up when in fact it's down.

Too many times I see people from other countries, and the US too come to think of it, assume that every street corner in the US is a scene from a wild west movie with everyone shooting it out because someone said the wrong thing. Well, maybe parts of Chicago.

I guess they get this from what they hear on the news from the US and their own countries. Seems to me that today is likely the safest I have ever been in my lifetime in the US.

As you say, my biggest fear for myself and my family is a car accident.
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Don't disagree with you, but I imagine those people would have less problem with "isn't it?" vs "innit?"
This is a known/filed issue. Current work in progress to generate a new mobile friendly guide. There's a lot of components on that page for mobile.
Thanks, I didn't know what the article was referring to either. Your link is a clear demonstration, and I think I get it.

I now feel like anyone who cares about this is unhealthily nitpicking.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5785693
She has a vagina.

It gets wet when she is aroused.

And it lubricates the whole company, generating synergies never seen before.

That will usher a shift to a new paradigm of value creation once all the human resources drink the kool-aid.
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Any word on the testing the 10,000 hours theory by learning golf? (Knew & cared nothing for golf, goal is expert player after 10,000 hours practice, last I heard was well on his way.)
I don't think you can find info on the Jaguar core on their website. Why are you looking for a CPU core info now, though? I thought you wanted to find if AMD GPU (note, letter C is not the same as G) in your PC uses VLIW, and somehow being reluctant to use web search (like this http://www.bing.com/search?q=amd+a10+vliw ). I am sorry, I cannot help you with navigating AMD website - it's dog slow and poorly organized.
Also, disregard all I say, you, obviously know better. And sure, my silence means I agree with your idiocy, and not doing something else, like not checking HN comments.
I'll be all over this when it's compatible with my Nexus 7 :)
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No, I can't say that I have. I just looked up Yahoo's Mail app on Google Play[1]. Unfortunately, the very first thing I see in the description adds to my perception of its quality and doesn't make me want to try the service:

> NOTE: We are aware some of you are having issues while attempting to view an email. To resolve this issue open settings > About Yahoo! Mail > Clear Cache. You should then be able to see your email messages post clearing your local cache. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The app does look to have mostly positive reviews, and that you're asking if I've tried it must mean they're taking a step in the right direction. I wonder if they've considered making it an IMAP client. Given that the built-in Android mail app leaves so much to be desired, I'd gladly try it for my work account, which may then slowly change my perception of Yahoo.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobi...
I'm sure the team would appreciate the feedback as to where the deliverability was less than another provider. Also, might want to ask about the recently added tools to use your conversion stats to help route traffic.
The problem is Dryden's gut feeling gets the gist of the rule wrong. The gist is not: "you don't have to tell the government anything that might make you look bad." The gist is: "You can't be forced to testify at a witness against yourself in a criminal proceeding." The further away you get from that core scenario, the less likely the 5th amendment is going to apply.

You're right, Dryden didn't have time to hire a constitutional lawyer. But he shouldn't be teaching his gut feelings as constitutional law. He could have just said: "I don't think the school can make you fill out this survey, so feel free to opt out."

And yes, I realize I'm being horribly anal retentive here. I was taught a lot of misinformation and oversimplifications as a public school student.
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The administrator that said this is naive. Admitting to a crime is self-incrimination regardless if it can be held against you or not. Maybe the county or school system won't hold it against you but what stops the state or feds from prosecuting you?

You should always talk to a lawyer before admitting anything incriminating.
Great stuff from Bret, as always.

It's interesting to me (and I imagine that it's frustrating for him) that he has been trying to hammer home the same core concepts and principles for years now, but many people fixate on certain small aspects of what he's trying to say, and miss the broader picture painted by his website and various demonstrations on there.
I have to take issue with the jokes about Yahoo! spam filter. I've had the same email address for 10+ years, @yahoo.com, no effort at all to hide it. I get maybe 1-2 spam messages that reach my inbox per week. Usually 1-off nigerian prince emails or "You won 1M GBP UK Lotto" junk has been the most recent ones.

Generally I sit with ~600-700 mail in "spam" which appears to cover ~2 weeks of not-checking-spam-folder.

Not a bad ratio at all, much much less than 1%.
It's odd that your own website has a movie section and a link to IMDB and several movie critics [1] and yet you're here on HN trying to show off pretending that you're so far removed that you have to go out of your way to explain to random people that you don't know who this person is when no one asked if you knew and knowing who she is isn't even relevant to the topic.

Do you walk down the street telling passers-by that you don't follow celebrities? Is it that important to you?

[1] http://lee-phillips.org/info/movies/movies.html
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> Taking a better job is fine, but halfway a project it might kill the project when some of the top guys decide to leave. It might even be worse when the architect of the legacy-system decides to leave with knowledge of all the undocumented business rules.

Exactly. The world is pretty small and you shouldn't step on somebody's toes unless you absolutely don't see another way out.

The sensitive thing to do here, is to make sure you've got your ass covered and if this is a persisting problem or you feel like you can't work there anymore, then you quit after the current job is done. And hopefully you can leave with a good recommendation.
One way I've worked around this is to merge the original pull request, then immediately force-push the fixed version. Still doesn't fix all of the UI metadata, but at least the pull request gets marked as merged.
I hear it in your example but I don't in the interview.
Isn't that her normal voice?

Or is she singing a whole song with vocal fry? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ThRVUcmSa0 (Dream a Little Dream of Me)
Great! Been waiting for this one.
This came up in a discussion I had with a tech at Disney Animation. The biggest issue is actually getting the assets from the workstation over to the rendering farm. Since the assets for a single scene can be many gigabytes using someone else's far away render farm would be prohibitively slow.
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it was intended to identify students who could use help

"We're from the government and we're here to help you" coupled with "you have nothing to hide, right?" seems an unwise combination.
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I'm surprised he didn't mention http://thedanplan.com/ which is a guy doing the experiment.

Its not clear to me that we can ascertain the validity or not of this conjecture with simple experiments though.
If LR operated as described in the indictment, it didn't really have information about its customers, so those records might not have been all that useful.
I agree that it's how it should be, but the author of the original question seemed pretty upset exactly because in this particular case it was not like that.
One other possibility is that this developer is experiencing schedule chicken. I'd recommend reporting your time estimates to your lead, giving it the old college try, but going home at reasonable times and not pushing the clock too hard.

In some large organizations (I've seen this previously where I worked), the first group to claim that the schedule was unreasonable became the scapegoat for slashing of features. So, everybody would look around and try to get a sense of who was furthest beyond making it and not say anything unless their team was the long pole, since you'd "benefit" from the increased schedule time anyway without the high-visibility hit for failing to deliver.

Yes, totally dysfunctional. But, in some orgs, it may be the most realistic (or at least typical) way to save the scope of the project.
Going to court at all is a loss. Why should I have to risk having to pay for a lawyer and take time out of my day to convince a judge that I shouldn't be bound to the terms.
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There is absolutely no place for this sort of comment here or indeed anywhere on the web.
What is so special about this application compared to other ones with the same purpose?
Creaky voice? That's sooooo 2012. It's all about the creaky-voiced long alveolar glide with mid front unrounded vowel and glottal stop.

"A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds"

http://theweek.com/article/index/244460/a-linguistic-dissect...
It's one thing if it's made clear that there's a probationary period; I've worked in (non-tech) companies where that was the case, although very different than what's been portrayed above.

If it's not clear that's the case, which seems to have been the case in these anecdotes, it would be pretty unacceptable.
Wait a sec, I thought that customers were asking for ray tracing in RenderMan before then and they used the first Cars as a testbed for those capabilities.
I think it's more that some people just aren't wired up that way.

I am great at coding and analytics, but naturally quite bad at music. I tried really hard and put in a tremendous amount of time learning music and I was us mediocre at it, no matter how much I loved it and how hard I tried.
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> There are two different ways to look at this, the first being that the federal government knew about the illegal transactions happening at LR, and was unable though incompetence to stop them. The second being that the government didn't have the technical or legal ability to stop them. Either way it does not paint the government in a good light.

Due process protections in the US generally mean that there tends to be a gap between "government has a pretty good idea that something illegal is being done and a fairly specific idea of what it is" and "government has its ducks in a row regarding proof that will stand up in court to begin legal action with a reasonable probability of success".

I actually think this is the core of one of the best features of our government, so I don't think it paints the government in a bad light at all that it often knows about bad things happening considerably sooner that it has the practical legal ability to stop them (or, at least, before exercising that ability will jeopardize the ability to hold wrongdoers accountable under the law.)
Maybe I'm more crotchety than you and find "shallow personality traits" and certain "vocal mannerisms" more annoying. These were not the point of the article, which was about one particular vocalization, which I could not detect. What was "very annoying" to me? The vocal tic of saying "like" every three words, the constant tossing of the head and hair, the speaking in a tumble of disconnected, cliched fragments rather than in sentences, the general vapidity, the garish makeup, etc.
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Lol, I put in my true opinion and constantly get down voted. Seems like people would rather debate nonsensical things than face the truth. The original post deserved the response it got from me and I will continue to call it how I see it. If you want a real discussion then ask a real question. You didn't even say what you are trying to do. Web apps? Desktop programs? The op is trying to compare languages that are not even in the same domains. I like all the languages you listed and think they have their place. Not sure why you are comparing them to Ruby though.. I like Ruby mostly because of Rails but have been playing with laravel. PHP is faster sometimes but so is Ruby if you know how to program. Down vote me again haters. I'm starting to get off on it.
ScratchPad looks very nice and useful. Is there any such Mac app? Doing just this and no bells and whistles?

@OP: Your app is not reachable. Looks liked it's HNed.
Excuse me, who "warrants" the way you talk?
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I've used Duolingo in the web and in an iPhone, and speaking as a developer it's depressing to see how good and polished is this app. I wish I had their eye to nail down a perfect UI/UX.

I installed the Android app right now, and seems to be even better than their iPhone app (you can type directly the translations instead of choosing between a closed set of words). It's a fantastic app, highly recommended to learn a new language.

It will be great if they could add a way to chat with other users like in verbling.
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You can obviously build them wrong and end up with an anti-pattern but no, the Interactor pattern is all about managing how your objects communicate and building code units that are single business cases. In the OP's case, the Comment model shouldn't ever care about Mixpanel, or potentially emailing people that a new comment was posted, that logic can all go in an Interactor, where encapsulation and SRP is not invalidated.

Interactors let models handle only what they need to know, and help minimize the coupling between these models. Trying to follow how a feature is implemented in a "typical Rails app" can be a nightmare of View -> Controller -> Model -> lib -> Model -> etc. With this pattern, as long as the interactors are well named, an entire feature can be encapsulated in one object.
Where does the data come from? The "System Data" on the website doesn't have anything yet
It also helps that we actively do our best to prevent and put out forest fires.