skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not denying that such an image could possibly besmirch the name of a photographer, I'm just denying that it could have such the reach that it would require such destructive terms as exclusive copyright. It's the same sort of classic conflation and/or misunderstandings of impact and likelihood that plagues security audits.

And it's only demoralizing if you subscribe to the notion that "art" is more important than "work" or that "work" is less important than "art". These are largely conceits that are forced on us by our culture, so you'd basically be letting other people's values make you a depressed mess.
I'd much prefer a solution that allowed the code to be read easily by humans (ie, wouldn't need to know variable ordering rules), and the hints be there to handle the machine implementation.

That said, I'd take standardizing the variable ordering.
Helvetica uses varying widths. Ariel tends toward fixed widths. For other hints, see previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086793
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I think your point on application management is a bit weak. I have several applications/services running on Windows 7 without any visible windows present ( i.e Apache, Adobe Service Management, spotify web helper etc..). For a lot of these I had no choice if they were installed, I frankly don't even know how some of them were installed. A suspended Windows 8 app isn't much different than these and at least Win 8 apps consume zero CPU cycles while suspended.
You obviously haven't watched Mad Men. Just toast them!

;)
"Error establishing a database connection" for the past ~20+ mins
This is actually a really well-written and balanced piece, and not just a mindless "Google is Evil" rant.
Ah, font snobbery is truly a strange thing.

What if, stick with me here, people like Arial? What if the website's audience likes the fonts that this font geek doesn't like?

Besides, as is eventually pointed out, most web sites were designed with availability as the main criteria behind chosen fonts, not design. That's why you can specify more than one as fallbacks. If you design a website totally around a specific font then what happens if the font isn't available?

True, we have web fonts today. If you start a new project then seriously consider using a web font. But this type of judgmental opinion isn't fair to websites designed before the rise of the web font. For some, switching to a web font for an established design may be a significant undertaking with unforeseen consequences.

EDIT: Read the guy's about page. He's apparently a young guy that already knows everything. His description of himself doesn't portray him as much of a professional.
A committed sub-group could also change things.

I'm part of the paleo community. I'd love to try eating bugs, and I think most of the people I know in the community would agree.

It could then spread out from that and similar groups. This has already happened with such things as eating offal, which is experiencing a resurgence among paleo groups (and probably foodies, but i'm not one).
You may want to check out a program called Divvy. You can set key commands to set the position and size of any window. There's other programs similar to it, but this is my favorite one.
Don't be so sure. How many untraveled Americans would consider raw fish a delicacy 50 years ago? Marketing has already created and changed more social norms than we'd like to admit.
Try http://spectacleapp.com/. Works well for me.
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And you say this based on what? Have you done any research into this topic or are you just emphasising a point that you have no clue about?
I use to use it but have since switched to Sublime Text 2. Aptana was purchased by http://www.appcelerator.com/ a while back and at that point I figured it was moving towards its end. However it looks like there have been bug fixes as recent as January https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/APSTUD-7638 but thats almost 6 months ago. There may be newer tasks in their jira but I just saw this on the main page.
I can share some anecdotes from a family member who worked as a Senior Design Engineer at a semiconductor company which went from being a public company to being purchased by a private equity group.

* His stock all converted to straight cash. This resulted in a pretty large tax bill as some of it was subject to capital gains tax since he'd only acquired it a few months before the acquisition. He probably should have planned for this better.

* The company went into serious cost cutting mode. Much of the R&D was moved offshore into Design Centers in Israel and India. This put US-based engineers like himself into a fairly miserable position and he left soon after. I suspect most of this was done to improve the balance sheet and make it attractive for another public company to buy it, which still hasn't happened.
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Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/915/
I've rarely had interviewers actually seek out my github/bitbucket/xxx repositories, bug reports, and code reviews.

I assume it's because they're busy "filtering" through hundreds of candidates and don't have the time to read the thousands of lines of code I've written.
You are implicitly volunteering most of the information you are privy to by using such services, in particular Facebook.
I only tried it briefly last night so I'm not sure about this, but probably (circumference of the earth) - (straight line* distance between guess and actual location)

A bit more experimentation should reveal the real answer.

*I'd have thought they'd use great circle, but no: it's just a big straight line on the map.
Yes, this is exactly the problem I had with feedly when I tried it a few weeks back. Seems to have way more clicks required to read the comments than Reader's much leaner interface.
Most of the world population is in Asia, where many don't have that negativity. Other huge chunks of people in Africa.

I can definitely see, with time, other places "adapting".
> To me, this would feel more natural in something other than the search bar of Google.

like in google glass?
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If someone gave you the specification of a linked list, binary search, etc, could you code up a mostly correct implementation off the cuff? This is precisely what these types of questions test for. Just having it memorized gives an interviewer very little information. Can they work through a logical problem and code up a solution? This is strong signal for programming ability.

I've never memorized any of these algorithms, but I can code them up pretty easily given the specification. If you can do this it doesn't matter how many years you've been out of college.
you should add the time it took and the number of clicks (ie. how far you traveled by clicking on the arrows) to the score.
The images are also scaled down to 82% of the original size when viewed inline in the document.

Another related issue is that when you screenshot something, you're not capturing any of the enhancements that are made by technology such as Cleartype for rendering fonts on LCD displays. (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx)
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Three suggestions that came to mind after playing this game for a while (skipping over performance issues, as they seemed to be from the Google street view API and not the app): local storage to save any progress when accidentally leaving the page, specific region gameplay and custom mapping for challenging friends.

By "specific region gameplay" I mean allowing the player to crop a certain region on the map and let them play within that area. For instance, America could be cropped and the player could then be tested at his/her ability to spot the different characteristics of each state. This basically just adds a certain ease to the gameplay instead of being placed into a secluded forest in Asia.

And custom mapping is basically how it sounds: allow the player to place their own markers and share the link with friends. Though since the "sharing link" is currently just a base64'd JSON string, I'm sure customized links could be created with a little manual effort if needed.
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Even with all those hints in mind I had to look hard to see any of those differences. Only the 'O' was spelled out for Helvetica so even if I saw the difference I didn't know which font it was.

I think I got about 6 right.
I just can't tell the difference, as is always the case when these font discussions come up.
Last time I learned what serif vs non-serif meant though.
I would love an embeddable nosql database engine but this isn't it. I'm looking for something like MongoDB but embeddable. RaptorDB comes close but it doesn't have full support for Mono yet. https://raptordb.codeplex.com/

Can anyone recommend one?
Two times on the topic... sorry
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Or a museum at night.
At the bottom he mentions that he'd gotten some help from friends, however a lot of this is knowledge gained over time as an engineer and wisdom passed on from more senior engineers. Some engineers have their own metalworking equipment at home, but it's also possible he did this at his place of employment.
hard. someone even made a comic to explain how hard: http://www.emacswiki.org/SmartTabs
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Upto the mid-19th century eating lobster was a mark of poverty : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#History . So it definately is possible.
A lot of today's population is underfed or suffers from nutrient deficiencies. To "feed" today's population we already need to increase the global food supply.

Here's a UN press release from 2009 titled "Food Production Must Double by 2050 to Meet Demand From World's Growing Population":

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/gaef3242.doc.htm
Much of UX design is suck. People can't tell a difference, not at least in detail. If I were to change color of a button, maybe you'd think no one cared.

But such things do make a difference.
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I'm going to suggest something radical. Spell-checking one's work before publishing it is more important to design on the web than one's choice of font. This is a provocative article, but it has so many typos that I can't take the readability argument seriously.

A couple things I saw (at least in the version I read): Hacker News and Justin Bieber are both "poplar." Programmers spend "shit laods" of time. And Helvetica has issues with "it's availability" on Windows.
"Performance" means something new in a rationalized cloud architecture
I think that the proposed solutions, @Contended and perhaps some sort of @Respect-My-Variable-Order, is adding more knowledge overhead than a simple rule, the JVM will lay out your variables in the order you declare them and it won't drop any even if it knows you aren't using them.

This feels like the simplest option to implement on both sides, the JVMs do less work and the programmers have simple rules to do in-object memory layout if we like that sort of thing. More than anything else it means we don't have to wait on a new JSR for each type of memory layout we want to achieve.

(I suppose there might be some CPU arch portability that the JVM might be able to do if we go with the annotations - but I think that we may be chasing a fools dream down that road)
Another example, in this context, what are "Big enterprise solutions"?
Using Google Apps (which is cheaper than FM) is not a hack, it's designed to be used with your own domain.
On the same note, not many Americans at raw (rare, rather) beef 50 years ago.
I'm right there with you. Imagining crunching on a bug's exoskeleton and swallowing it nearly makes me gag. Repeatedly imagining it kills my apetite and makes me feel nauseous. However, I think there's hope for you and I.

For a few years growing up my mom (a single mother) had trouble putting food on the table, so most nights we'd eat spaghetti with olive oil and broccoli. She was very anti-hunting, but she started dating a guy who hunted deer. After a while the prospect of large amounts of high-quality free meat (we almost never had meat) was too appealing to turn down. I remember the first time I witnessed a deer being butchered I experienced the same revulsion I describe above. My mom's boyfriend had a trick up his sleeve, however. Before we ever saw him butcher a deer, he made sure that we tried (and enjoyed) fresh deer loin and deer heart (sounds gross, but smooth muscle is delicious if prepared correctly). He didn't tell us what it was at first, and he cooked it in a way that pretty much any self-respecting meat-eater would love.

It's kind of a tradition for the hunters in my hometown to cook up a fresh loin (and liver) they day they butcher a deer. Quite often that cut of meat never makes it into the fridge, and it's the best damn meal that animal will produce. Writing this it's hard not to salivate thinking about fresh loin sautéed in butter and garlic. Needless to say, after going through the process several times I went from being disgusted by the gutting, skinning, and butchering to being excited to participate and hungry for the results it would produce.

If I can have that drastic a change over one type of food, why can't I over another?
This article, and others like it, imply that what Apple is doing is unethical. However, the opposite is true: it would be negligent for Apple not to do this.

Apple's responsibility is to its shareholders, and that responsibity is to maximize profits. Because it stands to lose billions of dollars in taxes if its income is reported naievely, it makes perfect sense for Apple to spend millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions to optimize its tax flow.

As long as nothing illegal is happening, this is just an exams of a company fulfilling its fiduciary duty to its owners.

If people think this behavior is egregious and needs to change, the solution is to pass new laws to that extent. No one is going to voluntarily overpay on their taxes.
It is a bit terse. There is a very easy to miss show/hide details link in each section, but it does seem to omit mention of this technique. I think it is talking about using aggregations of data as documents in NoSQL databases. See http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DDD_Aggregate.html and http://martinfowler.com/bliki/AggregateOrientedDatabase.html
> in 2011, individual income taxes contributed $1.1 trillion to federal coffers, while corporate taxes added up to $181 billion.

amazing. Corporations pay 5 times less taxes.
I am not a designer, thankfully, or even more people would hate me.

I am fine with the usual serif, sans-serif, monospace etc. declarations, but I think that it should be left to the user/webbrowser to decide which particular serif font they prefer, as it is the user that has to read the text set in this font.
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He was 15 - does it really matter?
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Kudos to the author for providing explanations, complete with formulas/diagrams/images, and also for crediting (cREDDITing?) his source for each joke.
I believe the theory is that we are currently on an unsustainable path that is drawing down our existing inventories of global food faster than we are replenishing them (ex. overfishing of oceans), so to feed 1) our first-world selves, 2) our third-world friends who are becoming first-word (i.e. eating more food), and 3) an additional 2/7 population... that will require a growth in the food supply. I think some of those on the more doom-mongering side tend to underestimate the general agricultural innovations of both past and future, and the market forces that drive them, but there are some compelling arguments that this may not be enough.
Developers: learn Photoshop and CSS. The designers you'll find this way will not be worth anything more as designers than operators of Photoshop and CSS.

Designers: learn programming. The programmers you'll find this way will not be worth anything more than a really inefficient way to test your designs through a compiler.

There is real value to having a skilled designer and a skilled developer, but those people are rare and you aren't going to find them reliably if you don't know anything about their fields. At best, you might randomly stumble on one. Considering that communication is far more important of a skill than most other skills, the only way to find the right people is to first get to know them as people, not as objects to plug in to a whole in your project. I talk more about this on my blog (http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/48619863000/hiring-is-dati...)

Both of you will be far better served by the experience. You might have an idea now that seems like it has a burning need to be developed and you don't have the time to learn on your own, but it's just not true; that's the manic tendencies inside of you talking. If you give in now, you'll be in this exact, same position in N months when the next burning-a-whole-in-your-brain project idea comes along.

By all means, continue with your project as you learn. It will probably suck, but you'll come out of the other side with more skills, ready to make the next project even better.
The overlooked issue with Windows 8 is that it is fucking awesome. I've got the desktop for clutter and the black background for reading and other focused tasks...when I need them. All just a single keypress apart.

I still spend most of my time on the desktop, but when I want something all it takes is a single keypress and to start typing. No navigating an arbitrary hierarchy of menus where how things are filed made sense at the time they were filed. It just finds the damn thing.

It is better Windows, but change is hard.
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This title is misleading - the patent dispute is about the design and placement of the headset, not about Bluetooth itself.
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Because if you do, the safety net will collapse your circus tent by their sheer weight.

The actual argument has been made in sibling comments: braces are verbose, and the mistake we speak of is exceedingly rare in practice. For simple one-liners, the verbosity costs more than the lack of safety net.
It takes one keypress to get to the desktop.
Another "better test scores!" result...
Yes it's possible. Lobsters were once considered the cockroaches of the see and only poor people would ever eat those disgusting creatures. Now it's a delicacy.
I think you just proved the point, most people will not notice, nor care, about a change in fonts from one family to another if they are similar.

If one were to change a button from red to a slightly different red, which is a detail, then most will not notice nor care. Change it from red to green then there could possibly be a change in response; be it good or bad.
I think that your point about learning being easier when you've got a problem is probably true. But as someone without such a problem immediately at hand, I could really use a list of interesting problems to give me a starting point. And, even if I had a problem I wanted to solve, I expect I might not even know where to begin on it (so then I'd have two problems, as they say). So in practice I'm not sure what to do with your advice.
Not quite. Raw fish wasn't a big leap because we've been eating cooked fish for thousands of years. You can start with tuna "steaks," which look like a rare beef steak, and go from there. There is nothing like insect "meat" in our diet. The closest thing we have to a bunch of small crickets is a bowl of cereal in terms of shape and form.
> Seriously? One of the most important aspects of your design

Most websites need a lot less design than they have. There are properties that, for branding or other reasons, need to exert full control of their look and feel that need strong design, but most websites don't, and over-design gets in the way of disseminating information to users.

> If your website doesn't specify a font you aren't doing your job as a designer.

Not every website needs anyone doing a job as a designer. There certainly are very important places for design on the web, but the web as a whole is an information dissemination platform, not a full employment program for graphic designers.
I think that such a developer would be equally as likely to forget to free() memory or overflow a buffer. I assume that the reasoning is that people who don't know C well enough or are too forgetful shouldn't be working on the Plan9 codebase anyway, so why optimize for such a bad case when there are definite costs to doing so (as I mentioned before)?
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You should convert the VBA macros into an Excel plugin, the API is almost exactly the same and so it shouldn't be too hard. We recently converted an Outlook macro here at work into a plugin so that it was much easier to distribute through the office, it also avoids all the security warnings you get with macros.
What you're claiming is a straw man of the processes I've personally seen. In most good interviews they ask you something specific to implement, such as how do you implement a code complete feature in an IDE or an event logger. There will be some obvious naive solution that would be slow with any reasonable amount of data. They want to see if you can use the data structures in practical way.

The expectation is that if you're smart enough you can reason to a more optimal solution even if you haven't seen a trie in 15 years.
Calibri is where it is at. Should be the universal font for documents.
That's true, but OP talked about storing '100 byte records' into a single file. For large files (x times block size), wasting a block for the tail is usually negligible.
Access to quality education is not a right in this country, but attendance is required for a variety of reasons. Most of them related to creating and maintaining a functioning society. The more lofty goals of compulsory public education are about giving every child the skills to have a chance at a decent life.

So, if the government is going to force people to send their children to school, but isn't going to MANDATE a minimum quality level, they should at least give people a choice in deciding what's best for their kids. Because as it is now, the government is forcing people to send their kids to schools we all know are terrible.
I'm guessing the tastiness is just from the seasoning / barbecue flavor on the outside?
I've long believed this to be true, so it's interesting to see this article.

I grew up in a traditional Hindu family where nearly everyone was vegetarian. When I came to the US, many of us started eating meat. 15-20 years ago, this horrified many of my cousins who stayed in India and remained vegetarian.

Fast forward to today, many of those same cousins have started eating meat in India. I read an article the other day saying the traditional Hindu vegetarian diet is falling by the wayside, and poultry consumption in the subcontinent has skyrocketed. In another generation, I expect to see a large rise in red meat consumption where the natural resource needs are much higher.

This got me thinking, can the planet really sustain another 1 billion, full-time meat eaters? If humans have such high protein requirements that can't be satisfied by a plant-based diet, isn't eating bugs the only ecologically sustainable choice?