skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So now we know you don't respond to critics either! :-)
Do they really not have a 64bit version?
> But, at least here in the US, we currently have way more demand for good developers than we have supply. Basic economics says that your model will not work.

The problem is that hiring someone who can't code doesn't help me. And a bad engineer is worse than no engineer at all.

It's not like a grocery store where a bad employee is just really slow and a really bad employee steals things costing me a percent of a percent on my margins. A single bad engineer could theoretically destroy a company if they were savvy enough.

Pretty much anyone who does technical hiring will tell you that it's way worse to hire a bad candidate than to not hire a good one and interviews are tuned for that. It's the opposite of the American criminal justice system. A no-hire doesn't mean you're a bad candidate but a hire recommendation is very likely to mean that you're a good one.
> …shit laods of time

typo
Diablo III players collectively burned 4.7B calories (infographic)
Sure, just need to add a login page, selecting an available drone, a payment method and off you go :-)
Most companies even try to own your "thoughts" while employed at them, even for your after hours stuff.
In the respect of existing C programmers, maybe. Having myself never mastered C because of its complexity, in a few months part-time effort starting from getting a book on Go I built a sophisticated website. In the respect of non-C programmers, Go is extremely useful.
I'm fairly happy with Gnus combined with Gwene, and surprisingly found this combination more time-efficient than Google Read has been for me. I first reduce my read list using Usenet-reader paradigms, and then use a small function of mine which batch-opens all that remains in Chrome tabs.
Just a quick reminder: if you only use the popular tools you might miss the perfect weapon for your use case.

Finding the right tools isn't an arranged marriage, it's a continuously evolving affair with twists and turns like a good novel.

Thanks for puttin this together. Always interesting to read what others think is "hot".
I agree that for the company being sued, there is no downside to feeding the patent troll monster by selling a desirable patent to a known patent troll, and there is no cheaper way out if you've got a large portfolio of patents.

But for the tech ecosystem as a whole, there are huge downsides.

I feel this personally because a former employer got three patents from my work, then assigned them to that particular pool. Despite my personal belief that those patents should not be patents, they could potentially be asserted against some popular technologies and big companies, and if they did then I'd be legally obliged to testify. (This is not a mistake that I feel inclined to repeat, but a decade ago I was not as informed as I now am...)
The bar exam is a licensure process, not a hiring process. The hiring process at a large firm (analagous to a big software company) is a 20 minute screener where you chat about the weather, followed by a callback where they put you up in a nice hotel, and you have a series of 20 minute chats about the weather punctuated by a nice lunch at the local steakhouse. Gruelling it isn't...

Not that I would suggest replicating it mind you. The interviews are simple because they're literally just screening for people who can't have a converstaion about the weather. 95% of the substantive decision is just looking at the rank of your school and then your GPA. 90% of the candidate pool is excluded by arbitrary cutoffs from the get go. Which is an awful way to hire.
You also forgot one thing - non-profits also do not have the contractual obligation to have profits or growth, like public companies do. Big difference.

Of course, non-profits are not created equal. There's IKEA and then there's Mozilla or EFF.
Based on the title, I assumed this was referring to Google's ACTUAL goat rodeo: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.htm...
Why Netflix is the new King of Guerrilla Marketing
Two different styles of competitive play my fiancee and I tried:

1. You can spin around, you can't move and you can't Google.
2. You can spin around, you can move, and you can Google - but you only have 10 minutes for 5 guesses.
Snow Fail: The New York Times And Its Misunderstanding Of Copyright
Usually pressing shift while maximizing does the trick. More recent apps have a full-screen option too.
I currently live in Asia, so it's relatively easy for me to find them. Where are you based? If in the US, I suggest looking on the Internet for some cicada recipes! Roasted.

Most insects can just be fried. Sometimes people add some salt, or some other sauce/seasoning and that's it.
5 Completely Insane Facts About the Apple Approach to Taxes
28 Educational Podcasts for Web Designers & Developers
He said "for development". The nice thing about the VM in Dartium is that you don't need to compile as part of your development workflow until you need to QA and deploy, just edit and refresh. You don't need the VM in consumer browsers to get that benefit.
1. The point is that websites should not specify a font.

2. The fullsize screenshots are nearly as ugly as the scaled-down versions. I searched for the text and the Wired article is rendered nicely without funky subpixels blurring everything for me (on Xfce/Opera, 1440x900). If the standard of font rendering on other devices is as bad as appears to be shown in the screenshots, this would be yet another reason not to worry about specific fonts but fix the rendering first.
managers and higher ranking people are paid by the day, so their hours are not counted. I have been paid by the hour only the first 4 months in my ~10years of working carrer.

edit: but on a side note France (and Germany) ranked very high in output per worked hour the last time I checked, way higher than the US. Kind of not messing around in the office people.
Evacuation slides use pressurized gas canisters to inflate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_slide
Why We Can't Let Bad Policy Stifle Tech Innovation
It's not - but there's literally nothing technologically preventing it from doing that. It's one thing to put a device incapable of doing something into a room. It's something entirely different to put a device there with the promise that they won't abuse that power either by malice or error.
I don't know what you specifically mean by a driver locking up PCI (and we've moved on to PCIe now), but I suspect the general category of (1) is largely addressed by the io virtualization facilities and RAS features that have recently come to amd64 hardware. That stuff has existed on big iron hardware since times immemorial.
I misread it the first time, too. It's conversational.
Don't know about spiders, but as for grasshoppers, crickets and locusts, gently swat with clothes to kill, remove anteannae, wings and leg spurs. Roasting is the best as it kills potential parasites and they taste best that way (as well as helping to easier powderize all that chitin).
Practically every application has full screen mode nowadays (not sure it's possible for developers to disable, actually).
I think ISPs should firewall SMTP by default, and if they don't provide you with static IP they absolutely should add their dynamic IP blocks to the DUL / PBL etc. Almost all of the spam rejects from my mail server are from dynamic IPs. Them's the breaks. FWIW my ISP were perfectly happy to relax the firewall rules when I asked.
I mean there's no drawback in having your patents unusable for offense, since you wouldn't have a product to use them against, even if you could.

Selling a patent to a troll obviously has huge downsides, as you said.
JPEGs for text examples! I'm sorry, but a big part of the apparent differences between the different font examples comes from compression artifacts. It's not that Helvetica is a inherently brighter font than Lucinda Grand, see e.g. the first example. Just judging from the images, the difference in readability of the different fonts might come as much from how well they compress as anything else.
> Nothing wrong with this in theory

Oh, I think there's plenty wrong with this theory. There is very little that's new in the world. People aren't as special as they think or are taught. :)
Where Have All The Linkers Gone?
My lawyer cousin always said it's all about the difference between "avoiding" versus "evading" taxes. But this just seems to take things to another extreme...
No one is asking this, but why is this chrome only (Disclaimer: I am a Firefox user)? is there a specific part that is tied to the native browser code (microphone and speakers can be accessed though web languages)? [Note] the tone of the question is curious and not accusatory
Genetic Counseling Does Not Equal a Bilateral Mastectomy
How big is your company? I can't imaging this scaling. This sounds good in theory, but I think one could only hire 1) people currently unemployed or 2) new grads who haven't had jobs. Also, I imagine plenty of good engineers balking at this type of time commitment in building out a feature when the company should likely be proving why the engineer would want to work there?

Is your stack that simple that someone can get up to speed on it in a few minutes so that they can actually build out a feature in two days? Most places I've worked, requires significant onboarding to setup dev machines with all the environments and then understanding how the code flows.
This is insane and very impressive, but I have to ask -- how does he have access to all these tools, and all this expertise? Is this a product of his job as an engineer? These seem like a lot of very expensive and large metalworking tools and some seriously in-depth domain knowledge. Really impressive either way.
Minor thing - but did you mine "quite unreadable" rather then "quiet unreadable"?
I'm happy to see them going ahead with this. Codelearn has some interesting technology under the hood and deserves a bit more recognition than it seems to have had so far. (Disclaimer: I've had a preview of their platform as I often write about Ruby/Rails stuff.)

Another thing to bear in mind is that this almost harks back to how the Rails community was in 2004-2006. A ton of people blogging about the things they'd learnt and found out. Then they became experts, Twitter was born, and not so many people blog "hey, I learnt this about Rails!" anymore.. :-)
Our focus is collecting donations for charity or just easily collecting money among friends with an online "collection box" Fundraising for products is just a side-product what is possibile with our system. It's not our main focus, kickstarter and indigogo are better with that ;)
The main difference is that in 1999 you could run lynx and see nothing but pure plain text. Today, browsers no longer fetch text — they fetch scripts that fetch scripts that fetch text.

DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN.
Nice! Thanks for the nice suggestion.
Using Bazqux.com. It's the closest to Google Reader that I've found and it's fast. Inoreader.com is also not bad.
Poor Immigration Policy Threatens Bright Students
Was this inspired by GitHub's new distraction-free comment feature? The styling looks exactly the same.
The worst is the new USA Today redesign. Each article page is presented to seem as if it were a modal popup, but it's not. They have an "X" button in the upper right corner that just begs you to click it, and when you do it just sends you to the home page. It's a neurotic design.
There are two execution modes for Dart: checked mode and production mode. Check mode inserts type checks for assignments and parameters. This, together with the static analysis that the Editor/analyzer does, generally works as well as full static typing, in my experience.
Hmmm... open up your mind a little bit...

Think of it this way: if the low-millisecond latency internet is good enough for multiplayer FPSs, i.e. exchange of player/missile coordinates, then why not use it for other aspects of game data too?

The article may have been a bit fuzzy in its discussion in general, but I believe it communicated clearly enough that gfx are on the GPU and longer latency stuff such as AI (which is _not_ computed in nanoseconds, nor does it need to be completely deterministic) can be done via external network interface.

Cloud AI has all kinds of other advantages, too, such as dynamically scaling difficulty, which we already see examples of in Starcraft 2...
ZomBee Watch (you can participate)
Can you really see that happening though? The negative associations attached to insect eating are too great. I think it would take more than marketing to change such social norms.
Similarly I'm 8 for 10 and have been working for nearly 20 years. So I get a score of 80.

If I had an 80% success rate, but was 18 for 20 I'd score 117. To get that, I'd need to be changing jobs every single year.

The score is not only totally made up but pointless and adds nothing to the rest of the article. It's just there to suck you into the article.
Verdana is lovely, but it takes up too much space. This is especially a problem in information-dense contexts. Ariel fits much better.

It's also interesting to me that the author chose a paragraph font that I find too heavy and too "interesting". Reading it was unpleasant.
Perhaps indirectly. I've been researching raising Black Soldier Flies as fish food -- there are some interesting possibilities there: they feed on waste and "self harvest" (when larvae are ready to pupate they climb up, and if a ramp is set up for that they go up the ramp and drop into a container.
Yeah I don't know anybody that leaves after 7h being at work ...
Similarly,
Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?
A: Zorn's lemon
> * no tabs expanded to spaces.

Oh, finally.

Tabs for indentation levels, spaces for alignment. How hard can it be?
Disagree unless you're startup is building a library that implements solved computer science algorithms.
Amazing Google+ Visual Recognition
Why does the food supply need to double to feed an extra 2 billion people?
Amazon Marketplace - Not a Fair Play
The inventor of the tab character is on my list of people to assassinate when they're young if I ever get access to a time machine, the other people on the list being Hitler and Charles Douglass.

The tab character is a nice idea, but they do not seem to have worked out at all. I'd much rather have syntax-aware indenting in the editor, now that available compiler technology and CPU power make it practical.
I’ve been using XMPP for quite a while, first on jabber.ccc.de, then on my own server (and on a Google account in parallel), but have so far not received a single spam message.

Is XMPP spamming really a thing?
This is something we'd run as a small pilot as well, and we do work with SaaS, but any SaaS option we use has to be verified through our internal security department.

This makes quick trials basically impossible for SaaS based services.

An internally hosted solution would let me do a pilot and demonstrate benefits internally. If this becomes an option, I'd give this a try.
I agree with Ryan here, I signed up as well, your site fills an important need that developers and designers have and I am looking forward to this.
The one point I wanted to criticize is that there was no validation on your form , i made a typo in developer and managed to get through.
Also I didn't receive any email confirmation.
AppNexus CEO: Why Is It So Hard to Hire World-Class Talent?
I have heard people saying how Microsoft is FORCING Metro Apps on desktop and other crap... I started using Windows 8 from day one and I never used a metro app... I really do not understand some people.
Once you find the perfect font, with it's microscopic differences set just so, you'll realize you're on the web and not print so fonts look different to your users. High DPI, low DPI, Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android, etc etc. I wouldn't waste much time fretting the differences between Helvetica and Arial unless you're printing the result.
MotionBundler: Good Old Fashioned Requirements for RubyMotion
Reeder is going to use Feedbin. See: http://reederapp.com/reader/
Agreed. This site has nothing to show us on how its going to "collect". The standard "Hey, share this with friends and get them to donate too" is not ground-breaking. I've seen some REALLY cool ideas in this space and they never saw the light of day since the person(s) didnt want to take it places
I'm in love with Open Sans for paragraph text...
So good. Can't wait for the icns.
The full size screen shots just reveals more of compression artifacts.
Just a wild guess: people are submitting and up-voting lots of these links.
What I mean is that you can't tell your editor to indent an arbitrary block of code.
Bronx Officer Is Accused of Hiring E-Mail Hackers
In Mountain Lion, most apps now have arrows in the top-right corner of the window that will make the app fullscreen (in its own space), so you can easily switch between fullscreen apps.

That said, I agree that this remains the big difference between OS X and Windows -- especially now with large monitors being standard. When I first switched to OS X it took me years to get used to a true "multi-window" environment, but now I have I find Windows to be claustrophobic by comparison.

I think this is something that often trips switchers up, because OS X and Windows look similar enough that they don't realise there's an actual philosophical difference -- OS X has a window-as-a-document model rather than a window-as-an-application model, and once you realise that, it all makes a lot more sense (e.g. the application menu bars pinned to the top of the screen, and applications not quitting when you close windows).
I agree.

Maybe not news to you, but I think that there are a few things on the cards for dealing with memory layout. I know there is a strong push from certain corners, including Doug Lea, for (object) headerless struct values to be included in Java 9.

There is a hint of a an @Contended annotation to get the JVM to put a variable on its own cache line.

But it seems to me that a very effective fix would simply be to ask all JVMs to stop fiddling the variable ordering.
> The point is that websites should not specify a font.

Seriously? One of the most important aspects of your design, and you want to leave it up to the browser? Web design is 95% typography. If your website doesn't specify a font you aren't doing your job as a designer.
Fix for the smoothing: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2010/09/turning-on-clear...
Ok. I don't see any aesthetic difference. I can read all text equally well. All text looks easily parsable, nothing looks ugly.

I dislike this article.
When sued by a patent troll, I agree.

But, for instance, if you're part of the whole mobile patent lawsuit mess, then it is darned hard to tell the difference between a defensive lawsuit and an offensive one.
Learning math is pretty much like learning programming.

Sit down to read books, it gets boring. Get a real problem to solve, and you learn tons of things along the way.

Don't learn mathematics. It's not supposed to 'learned'. Math is basically what you indicate in notation without you would other wise denote in words while you explore something.

So don't learn, pick up a problem and explore.
I find it hard taking advice on typography from someone who thinks using slab serif fonts as body text is A-OK. Reading that page made my eyes bleed.
Just do it then.
Here is his quote:

"F* a boston bomb wait till u see the s* I do, I’m be famous rapping, and beat every murder charge that comes across me!"

You're telling me this is intelligent? You think this is free speech?

The punishment, in this case, should be community service with victims of the Boston bombing. I'm not saying this kid doesn't have potential, but putting that online shows a lack of sense and/or empathy. He can learn that while helping people who have lost limbs.

Prison time is rediculous, I'll agree (as I did in my previous post)... still think he's an idiot, though, and this is not a free speech issue that I'm going to defend. We have bigger problems here in the States, Mike.
I’ve had similar experiences at two SW’s I attended: great excitement during the event, great people, etc. Yet the follow-up of actually going for it seems to be a different thing .

I’ve had a discussion on the topic with Nick Stevens on the topic (actual # of startups being launched out of SW’s), who highlighted the mission of SW: “Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities.” They seem to succeed very well at that mission in any case!
Personally, I'd rather see content delivered in a sane standard format and let users apply stylesheets that match their own preferences or needs.
Feels a little ironic that the wrong image format is used in an article talking about the details of web design. In some of these pictures, both the "good" and "bad" fonts look bad to me, but I can't tell if it's because of the compression or not. In others, the "bad" font looks better to me, but I'm guessing this is because the "good" font was more aliased before it was compressed. The lower-contrast text examples also look blurrier than the high-contrast ones. Images with relatively few colors (like pictures of text) should be stored as PNG, especially if being able to pore over the details is important. This might be a good article with a good point (I don't know much about typefaces), but I feel like the examples really work against the article.
I think in the 90's the motivation was the same. Sure for some folks it was just about being lazy and only supporting one browser, but I think for a lot of people it was taking advantage of CSS and Javascript only available in one browser.

In those days a lot of the functionality that we take for granted as cross-browser was only available on the bleeding edge of one or another browser. I think for a mainstream audience, those badges were more appropriate then than they are now.
This reminds me of audiophiles who say that listening to music on anything other than vinyl through a Class A tube amp on [favorite speaker manufacturer] speakers is a waste of time.

Grow up.

Most people cannot appreciate the difference. Taste is subjective. Look at the Billboard Top 40.

You do what you want, other people will do what they want.

If someone ASKS for your opinion, of course share it with them. But writing screeds about how the rest of the world needs to conform to your tastes is hilariously stupid.
The declaration of printf is both scary and pretty cool.

What happens when you have more then 9 substitutions specified in the string? :D

edit: decided the code was a bit long to have pasted into my post. Can find it at the bottom of http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/last1120c/c03.c
That's not at all how it works. This is completely absurd.

First, you need to plan your days off. So in reality, you will work 40hrs 1 week and 32 the next one for instance.

Secondly, when you have a certain status (called "cadre"), you are actually giving away the exact count number of hours for a number of days of work. Those work days can be (but not necessarily all the time) more than 8 hours. Actually, any work days is usually more than 8 hours because, like the previous poster says, we take a long break for lunch and that's not part of the hours.

Finally, Americans always have this idea that the French are super strict with their hours, but that's true only in jobs where they are actually clocked by the hour. There a many job where it's not the case and someone committed won't mind staying a few hours extra a week if it means having the job well-done.

In contrast, I've been working in the Netherlands for 6 years now, and I see this behavior much more often : after having stayed the mandatory 8.5 hours (30 minutes lunch break), the person will leave, no matter what.