skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ex-VS person here (from 5 years ago though).

It is never an either-or. It is always a complex mix of what customers ask for, what the strategic priorities/market realities are.

Often the problem with these queries is that there are not enough devs complaining to MSFT. No PM/engg manager is going to ignore a bug/problem if it shows up high in customer requests.

On promotions - I think it's the reverse problem. People only get promoted for working on something that's perceived to be hard.
For certain values of "wise" and "opportunity", sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815128
iOS - Take the picture now, or pick existing
Many thanks to shykes, mdaniel, backjlack, and the many others that contributed to this terrific release. So much has been accomplished in just a few months, which augurs well for what Docker will look like by year's end. Bravo, everyone.
Ah, so he's the proverbial shovel seller in the gold rush.
That's like saying Apple put all the features in iPhone so that people can't switch to BlackBerry and doesn't make any sense.

PS: Why not edit your post instead of replying to yourself?
Yes I think this is definitely a more likely reason. Having "dislikes" on Facebook could also make people feel bad about things they've posted, which would make them less likely to associate negative feelings with the site, likely leading to decreased usage for some people. So it's in FB's direct interest to not have "dislike."
My assessment:

Gimmicks:

- Popout explorer windows (So you can get the old style Pending Changes window, if you like)

- Make comments and discussions on code through web UI

- New release management plugin

- “Team rooms” allow your team to collaborate on code

"I'm OK with this" improvements:

- “Indicators” in code that give you info about blocks of code

- Cloud load testing

- More agile portfolio management options

- Test cases can be worked on through web UI

Real Improvements:

:(
Funny because I have in the past applied for jobs in such companies, but I never got an answer, and now I work for a company similar to Zynga.
I had this exact same surgery 7 years ago after tearing ACL/meniscus playing basketball. Patellar tendon graft FTW! (I joke that real men donate their own tissues)

For me, the ACL has been perfect ever since. Wish I could say the same for my meniscus and cartilage - I subsequently tore my meniscus 2 more times (each time in a non-vascular area so they just sanded it down, no sutures like you had), and then 5 years later I tore a chunk out of my articular cartilage that had probably been weakened years before when I did my ACL.

That led to an OATS procedure where they took bone plugs from a non-weight bearing part of the knee and transplanted them in holes bored where the lesion was. That last procedure was pretty fun as it entailed 6 weeks on crutches, non-weight bearing, during which period my wife and I had our first kid (yay for timing!).

Anyway, that just to say hang in there (I imagine your rehab is pretty much over by this point, but it probably still aches?), and I hope your ACL graft (good call with the patellar) holds up as well as mine and your meniscus better. Oh and enjoy the achiness that comes with changing weather. I was rather amused that that apparently is a real thing. :)
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Completely agree with you on this. A CEO dumping a large amount of stock is usually (but not always) a sign of bad things to come and sends a negative signal to the market.
tks @electrichead, I've got copies of the JS Cookbook and Crockford's "...The Good Parts" at my fingertips.
Based on the price of the dev kit, I would guess that the 2-inch displays are about $15per unit in volume.
There's a difference between being presented with stats and a company's homepage which is designed specifically to get you on board. It's not that I don't trust anything I hear, it's that I assume that a company is cherry-picking the best anecdotes.

But there are ways to present information that don't seem stupid. In particular, Basecamp is doing two things here that are misleading. First, they're not actually presenting data, they're presenting anecdote(s). Second, they're presenting them in a medium which should be viewed with extra skepticism.

I don't want to know what percentage of your paying customers like you (seriously? 3% of your customers use you but dislike your product?). What I want to know is what specifically you do and how you do it. Everything else is noise - and so the entire page is noise.
You should upgrade to patch 787 or above if you can:

http://i.imgur.com/xJ4r75B.png
We had the same access to information with the web years ago.
>I think the biggest reason is that even if they did offer a dislike button, people just wouldn't use it often enough to justify the precious screen real estate it would take up.

Ha! Let's test that, shall we.
I see I cannot downvote this story, either.
The very first line of his blog is enterprise software startups. If your targeting enteprise why would you turn that money down. Should your core people be doing the work? no, but why wouldn't you hire to cultivate the revenue stream. First it should be almost immediately profitable. Second, most enterprises want one neck to ring if things go wrong anyway.
Same here. I just draw them now, which is nowhere near as productive.
Without the video it was really hard to grasp what was going on, but this is awesome.
You should not join a startup as an early employee (with a correspondingly low salary) for an equity position that will not make you a post-tax millionaire in a 200MM exit.
370EUR in Europe.
The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Just because pcwalton wants to remove GC from the language doesn't mean that GC won't be available, just that it would be transformed from a compiler mechanism into a module in the standard library. The semantics would be exactly the same, though the syntax to use it would change a bit. The goal here isn't to hate on GC, it's to ensure that normal users are capable of implementing pointer types that are exactly as "blessed" as the built-in types--and the best way to do that is by eating your own dogfood.
Well, considering that their industry didn't exist very long ago, 2000+ employees is still commendable [ie if they had gotten there with no layoffs we'd be saying how great they are doing].

Its a young company, who knows what form it survives in but that it go so far so fast is pretty impressive!
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/znga/real-time
You might as well refer the OP. We both used the word exactly once, nitpicker :) I agree with that one, having taken a class on the topic at CMU in the 90s (which was mostly a waste of time). The same can be applied to most other bullshit startup terms.
My 1st thought was that the difference here is that Apple were broadening their focus, the other two examples were pinning all their hopes on a single product.
Not only food, but office supplies. Very true.

But it's important that the Variation is indicative. Like if you get baller snacks for a year and lame snacks start coming in, that's a very bad sign. But if you've always had lame snacks that's not a bad sign, your company is just frugal.
In the first couple pages there is an argument made that the Japanese supreme council didn't seem to react to news of the first bomb and the associated casualties.

I don't think it is easy for us today to understand how slow information was to travel during the time of the war nor is it easy for us to understand how incomprehensible it would be to accept reports about a single bomb creating as much destruction as was reported at the time.

While the slow reaction of Japan might be incomprehensible if the same events happened today I think it is dangerously misleading to apply todays standards regarding communication loops and the destructive force of atom bombs to the events of the late 1940s.
Here is a more detailed reference:

http://brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif
Lessons from 7 years of bzr development
Web Development in D
or disable javascript
It's very hard to be sure of removing all viruses and prions from a surface... especially if that surface is porous or worn-down from any use.

Deep, long superheating might do it... but that itself can wear or destroy many materials, and the item would need to be kept in 'like-new' sterilization until next use.

Hospitals might not be the best place to try to do that; in 2002 there were about 30,000 deaths in the US due to hospital-acquired bloodstream infections, per the study referenced at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection#Uni...
> for some people, implicit competition within real-life friend groups for who gets the most likes on their photos is A Thing.

I didn't realise this until my sister told me recently that I was "getting pretty good at Facebook".
Email me... Interested but not for even 40k. Check out Flippa and you'll see what sites are going for.
But Sun didn't change the company name to Java. RIM did change the company name to Blackberry. Slight difference.
>This doesn't make rich countries as much worse off as you think it does- the majority of the increased production of poorer countries goes to meet local needs, overall having a relatively small effect on the price of global labor.

That bit of contorted reasoning has long been the dogma of some economists. Whether you belive this thinking became entrenched due to some grand globalist agenda or was simply wishful thinking, you must admit that it is counter-intuitive to believe that massive outsourcing to low wage countries would have no effect on domestic wages. And, now, many economists are having second thoughts:

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/changing-views-...

And, from Nobel economist, Michael Spence

[2] http://www.cfr.org/industrial-policy/evolving-structure-amer...
On a previous ratings-based site I was working on, we ran into a big problem: distinguishing not caring from not liking.

Because to "like" something, or give it 4 or 5 stars, means you both like it, and it matters to you.

But if you're getting notifications in your newsfeed about a particular band, for example, giving it 1 star could either mean you hate the band's music, or it could mean that you've just never heard of the band and don't want to hear about it.

Depending on the site, you may want to do drastically different things given the two cases, but I've never seen any site that successfully distinguished between the two things in an intuitive way. (And giving 3/5 stars is not really the answer either.)
> How do we know which problems are fake problems and which ones are real problems, though?

Which ones will people work on? Which ones will they spend the fruits of their labour (their wages) on? There's your answer.

Twitter and Google search are presumably very good for their customers (the advertisers).
while there are any number of reasons a trading halt can occur, few of them are particularly beneficial to zynga. In this case the most likely candidate is public disclosure requirements by the SEC. It is tricky to announce things uniformly across a multitide of outlets, sometimes a press release will go out early and the company will ask for a halt until they can get the rest out. In this case it looks like marketwatch had the news at 2:48 but zynga's official press release didn't hit until 2:52.
it shocks me that this market was still this bad.

at $~20.000 a leg, you'd expect the current providers would already be providing all the benefits this company claims is unique to their business.
The public announcement: http://blog.zynga.com/2013/06/03/ceo-update-4/

"Our Founder and CEO Mark Pincus today sent a note to employees
outlining structural changes..."

It might seem like a small thing to some, but I can't believe the casual language on the blog post introduction. The CEO "sent a note" to his company?

I'm sure that softened the blow to those 520 people. It was just a note, after all.

I don't care what your culture is like or that you want to be a "cool" company. Notes are for reminding people to clear their old food from the fridge, or seeing if anyone wants to get together after work to welcome the new guy. This is serious shit to (hopefully) every one of your employees, and especially so to 18% of them. There are times to be formal.

The letter itself is much better, but the blog intro is part of the official announcement. It counts.
From the pictures, this impoverished individual appears to be getting through life the best he and his family is able to. We see a nice kitty, family, friends, a modest clean apartment. Like your passport, did you not also "misplace", or forget your sack in the cab? Or are we to believe, this finder, is to figure out how to find you? Do you offer a reward? Are you hiring goons, formulating a police sting ops?
Try searching for "for" in Apple's thesaurus
I was able to view the entire contents (annoyingly spread across many pages) without pop-ups, a sign in page or any issues at all. I'd politely suggest that on HN, designed for those technically minded in the sphere, you should be able to cure your own browsing problems.

Whitelists, AdBlock, Ghostery, NoScript, HTTPS everywhere and so on and so forth should fix any issues you have.

You are perfectly able to choose when / where ad revenues are paid, rather than being tied to someone elses business model.
It really depends what version of Tetris you're talking about, but it might be possible if it follows the concepts of Playing Tetris Forever ( http://www.tetrisconcept.net/wiki/Playing_forever ) - specifically, the generator they use ( further discussed in the same Wiki on the http://tetrisconcept.net/wiki/Random_Generator page).

That being said, it would be awesome if someone fit the algorithm onto a little microcontroller and got it to generate the control signals for a particular console (although as you already mentioned, resolution might be a limiting factor here...).
That's why the author lists a number of examples from roughly the same time period (or earlier e.g. Lincoln/McClellan) as a means of comparison. It's anecdotal, to be sure, but then again this is history, not science.
I think a comparable change on Apple's part would have been renaming themselves to MacBook with a stock symbol of $MBP (or something equally narrow, as opposed to dropping computer to go after a bigger market).
TLDR: Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers.

Version 0.4 introduces a remote HTTP api, a new Build functionality, and an experimental Openstack integration.
The full version vs. service pack distinction doesn't really matter to me.
It has become the rule that even a good article must have a horrible title. Otherwise, who will click through to see what has been written? It's a real shame, because the title isn't really reflected by the content.

The actual title: "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan... Stalin Did"

A more accurate title: "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan... There Were Many Confluent Factors"

The latter is something you'd expect to read on an academic paper, where the former is about par for the course when it comes to journalism.
I was not talking about application-specific passwords. I was talking about the ability to make 'backup verification codes' which can be used anywhere a second factor is needed. Once they have your first login they have a permanent all-powerful backdoor to your account unless you go in and hit the button that resets all logins.

But more importantly, your threat model is rather urealistic. Why would you trust an infected and keylogged computer to not be able to steal something as unprotected as cookies? You're right that in some kind of situation with a 'pure' keylogger you're safe, but you could get the same level of safety by doing something silly like log in with an on-screen keyboard. I think such a narrow threat model is misleading.
Not for engineers though. There will be multiple offers in the case of Zynga engineers, so negotiating isn't the issue. It's better financially to get severance.
Pardon me, Jacques, but why is that you are now resorting to baseless and unfounded personal attacks against me (aside from the obvious: "When your argument is shown to be invalid: 1)resort to name calling in order to confuse the topic 2) _____ 3)PROFIT!!!")?

"Spammers like me"? I've never used this tactic nor ANY other 'blackhat' SEO tactic - please check your facts (I know, I know... I've gathered thus far that this task may prove to be a difficult exercise for you - flying off the cuff and making unfounded accusations is far easier)...

I did however provide an anecdotal account of someone that I knew that had used this tactic - which I characterized as 'inexperienced' and as a 'lapse in judgement'... Furthermore, not that it really matters in the court of Jacques, I did voice concerns to the team when I learned this approach was being considered by a team lead.

I do believe that this practice is bad for the web and that any site proven to have used it should be hit in their SEO ranking.

This said, I am not confused on any of the points that you or I have made... I do however believe that you are correct on one point - you are likely incapable of dispelling anything currently present in my head on this topic... From our interaction here, I have gathered that your intent isn't to further discussion, to clarify a confused point or to factually correct an incorrectly stated claim - in short, your intent would merely appear to be 'trolling'. So... Congratulations on your success! You win the trolling Internets!

Let us recall this failed attempt at rational discourse - I provided a cautionary tale which related to the original post. You decided that it was your job as keeper of the interwebs to correct a statement that I had made - a statement which was already correct and so did not merit correction. When confronted with the reality that no correction was needed, instead of conceding or clarifying any confused points, you decided to continue to argue against a point which was never made ("derp. I don't care what you call it, even if you do use the common and widely accepted vernacular, I am right and you are a stoopidhead spamming me!") - moving away from the corrective form of your first comment to an opinion-based prose in your 2nd (using the correct conversational form finally, though still largely failing to make any valid or related points)... And finally, when all else failed, you resorted to a personal and baseless attack against me in calling me a spammer...

Jacques, I really do hope that you have a wonderful day... and I do hope that you are able to find that bug - just a hint, I don't think it's in your code... it's possible that it's of the posterior variety...
there is a difference between a minority created by inaction and a minority created by forced action.
I've heard from someone who was involved in this that sterilizing medical equipment that you can't autoclave is seriously non-trivial.

And certainly not free, nor is autoclaving, including the inevitable human errors that will result in incompletely sterilized equipment, plus there are all sorts of tradeoffs made here. I'm just old enough to have had glass syringes used on me, they're thick, heavy and obviously much more easily broken, which is less than ideal for taking blood and the like.

One other advantage of disposables: you can more afford to stock up a lot in case you need to surge after a disaster, they'll get used in the normal course of operations. Whereas the reusable stuff is generally/always? more expensive up front.
> who eventually end up hyperventilating about jackbooted thugs forcing you to register your car at the DMV.

It's a poor argument that can be derailed by what you think another might say.
I agree with you. But it does mean that you need to plan, and maybe wait a year or two while you build up savings, etc.

There's a lot of evidence showing that working more than 40 hours a week is counterproductive for employees, and results in negative productivity after a couple of weeks. I don't know why running a startup should be any different.
So much for Tony Robbins and the “internet treasure”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEojTYYyGA0
I think he missed some:

96. Stay out of jail.

97. You may feel you lack the time to defecate, but this is generally not something you can wait until after your big exit to do.

98. You are a special snowflake. Act like it.
There's a lot of enterprise focused startups that deal almost exclusively through their API. Gnip, among others, comes to mind. As for your second point, hiring and managing an integration team for the early revenue is nice, but the point is scalability. To be clear, I"m not saying never do integration in my post. I'm saying there's many companies that shouldn't but do.
From the first few lines of the article:

> As usual, there’s so much I will only be able to just skim the surface with this post. Stay tuned for many more posts on my blog, the ALM blog, the Visual Studio blog and others as we reveal more detailed information about all of the new capabilities.

>I will not, in this post, be talking about many of the new VS 2013 features that are unrelated to the Application Lifecycle workflows. Stay tuned for more about the rest of the VS 2013 capabilities at the Build conference.
No, just Make Something, it will Take Ten Thousand Hours, but remember, Startups. Study those who have Made Something, and then copy them by Making Something of Your Own.
Initially that seems a bit high, but after thinking about it a bit, it doesn't seem unreasonable.

LA and NYC are expensive places to live, so the salaries will be bumped up to account for the cost of living.

And the $80 million figure takes into account all of the taxes, social security, unemployment insurance, and benefit costs associated with the employees. An employee making $80k a year can easily cost $100k- $120k a year depending on benefits and taxes.

And its trendy for big name "startup" companies to offer high salaries and costly fringe benefits to attract "rock star" programmers.
I am sure you could have taken a better picture! but it has to look like this so as to read not so far from the stereotype.
That's pretty interesting, I didn't know of those services.
Absolutely. I thought it was a very well-written article despite the hyperbolic, misleading title.
you might want to think about gamification. points, levels, quizes. etcs. Obviously that could go in a bad direction but, if the couple is scored together probably not too bad.
pcwalton both wrote the article and the comment I was replying to. If GC isn't necessary because Rust's type system can prove that the deallocations are safe then the answer to the question of how to write programs with nontrivial memory allocation patterns shouldn't be "use an external unsafe GC".
"This is why I've started to dislike revisionist history." History is a science. This is as if you said: I don't like Max Planc or Niels Bohr Dirac, since they were questioning classical mechanics in favor of some hard to understand mambo-jambo called quantum mechanics.

A true historian is a die hard revisionist, someone who is chasing "conspiracy theories" to reveal the truth using scientific reasoning based on evidences, documents.

The article itself is kind of worthless, since it is based on vague speculations, without critical look on the presented hypothesis (the most important, IMHO, part of honest scientific approch is to try to find weakneses in our own theories).

The fact that something sounds probably is not a proove that it is true. If I see blond haired woman, I may put hipothesis, that she's dying her hair - they are blond, after all, but we all understand, that it does not have to be the case.
Could be she lost friends (or superficial friends) because they were envious of her trying to build her own company, but on the surface they were saying "that will never work" instead of "I hate you for trying".