skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison falls even more short since Zynga develops all aspects of a farm, including animals and crops. And I woukd have to think there are many more virtual farms than real ones.

You are also for some reason comparing all of Zynga with just one Caterpillar plant.
One of my favourite little books is La Rochefoucauld's Maxims [1]. It is a collection of ~500 such aphorisms, mostly relating to human relationships gleaned from a lifetime at the French Court.

Such writing may seem very superficial and empty, but it is in fact full of wisdom. It's just that you either have to have experienced it or go through the effort of putting yourself in the proper mindset.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm
As pointed out in another comment in here, how do they expect to actually get decent night photos then? At least with a camera, you can change the exposure and shutter speeds to help with night photos. That's not something really all that possible with an iPhone, if I'm correct. Also things in motion, the iPhone tends to be very easily blurred, again, something that wouldn't be a big issue with a nice (or even decent) DSLR.

This seems like a very dumb move on there part, but I also grew up doing/loving photojournalism, so maybe I'm taking it a bit personal. I just feel like it's going to make their photos look very amateur, which will inevitably hurt their credibility even more so.
I'm not using PCH in the most recent example. I've been playing with this project: http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/ , so it includes Freetype, GLUT (using freeglut), and opengl stuff. Builds fine, intellisense lines everywhere.
Truly two of the worst e-mail subject lines to get from investors, managers, etc are "Update" or "Catch Up"
If you can only make trivial contributions, then by all means; it's not all that different to starting a new job in my opinion.
Will never visit. URL already too long.
I haven't read the article yet (as usual, checking comments to figure out if it's worth it), but I can at least tell you what "revisionist history" is, because I've seen it where I live.

This kind of "history" starts with the assumption that all the sources, or at least huge majority of them, are manipulated or downright fiction. It then tells you that a) the sources were manipulated by X for Y and with support of Z (with names ofc); b) there were other sources, that were not manipulated. The latter are mostly unprovable, because there is no way to cross-check them and no way of tracking their history, yet they are believed in above all doubt. "Revisionists" then say that they can "learn" everything, "all the truth", from the manipulated, untrusted resources they previously dismissed and then they become silent for a year, during which they try to get access to those documents. Shortly after they have it, the fun starts - every other week there is some revisionist who presents a "proof" that such-and-such lied, murdered, stole and so on. That's only a beginning though, because they soon want to demolish statues and change the street names, fire people from work (from police, army, all the other public services). Then the elections come and suddenly they disappear.

Well, at least that's how revisionists looked like in my country. The article is not that bad for sure :)
I've seen many posts here suggesting that any personal projects are a plus since it gives hiring managers visibility into your coding style.
You could use google groups (it's basically a mailing list). Pretty straight forward.

We had one for our 'post-college' social circle. It was a good way to spread the word about happy hours and parties, without spamming everyone on facebook.
I think it should be pointed out that the information the police get back from a DNA sample is NOT a fully sequenced genome. It contains enough information to find high confidence matches, but they can't go through the information and start looking for pepole that have rare genetic diseases or anything like that. I still view it as a privacy issue by taking DNA from people who are never convicted (they should delete the info of innocent people). However, DNA samples from the police do not contain much 'confidential' beyond a fingerprint other than determining parents/siblings/cousings.

Source: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/fore...
$14,742.88 is the real cost since hospital are running off of the income from what insurance actually pays. if average people were able to pay the "insurance adjusted price" for most things they would not need insurance for most things.
Photojournalism has never been about depth-of-field shots nor long telephoto shots. Photojournalism has always been primarily wide, deep depth of field, and more about lighting and composition than anything else.

Shooting "real" photojournalism with an iPhone is more than doable. Hell, the iPhone's field of view is a 28mm equivalent, which is perfect for photojournalism.

I don't disagree with the overall point about the failure of photojournalism, but photojournalism has never been about the capabilities of the camera.
> In my mind this falls into the same category as "searching" someone's smartphone if you arrest them. There's no analog for that.

Strangely, this is a case where "cloud" stuff could actually help. You can't search somebodies rented apartment just because you found his access device for said apartment in his pockets when you arrested him. Similarly, why should you be permitted to search his rented "cloud" just because you found his access device?

This is imperfect since clearly local data should be protected from such searches as well, but it is fairly accessible.

For this matter, I'd love to see someone push for an equivalent of renters rights in all things digital...
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Okay, but for various sharps, blades and other cutting tools, keep in mind that repeatedly heating and cooling innately dulls them. Taking metal through temperature ranges that result in expansion and contraction mess with the honed edge. Think about metal as if it were a malleable wax candle.

Not to mention that mere pressure against skin on a cutting edge effectively bends and dents the edge until it becomes dull. That's what happens to IV needles, just the pressure to pierce skin alone ruins the point. How many times do you get to re-use a safety razor after shaving your beard or legs/armpits? Was the activity really very stressful on the blade?

And yet, maybe you'll get 5 passes (with a multi-blade razor on a thick beard) before it's pulling at the hair and skin, and you notice it's painful to shave with.

So too with surgical tools. After so many cycles of cutting, then heating and cleaning, you're pressing a dull butter knife against skin and whatever else you're cutting, relying more on cutting by sheer pressure than using the sharp edge to separate the tissue.

And then you can't stop the bleeding because the cut was wrong, the patient dies, you get sued (you DO get sued), and maybe you lose your license, reputation, time and money. So balance it against, just buying a $900 object brand-new.

But, yeah, how about sharpening them again? But with what? An angle grinder plugged into an extension cord? A stone wheel down in the metal shop? Not quite... I really don't know all that much about cutlery, but getting a blade perfectly sterile after sharpening it is probably something that is best done by automated factory machines, at which point the blade may as well be new anyway.
That's because in Libertarian Utopia everyone of importance will be independently wealthy, and those who aren't, deserve to be trampled by the others. /sarcasm
You can't be arrested for resisting arrest alone. You can be charged with resisting arrest and nothing else. This is an important distinction.

Imagine someone is suspected of murder. There is probable cause that this person has committed a crime so a judge issues an arrest warrant. A police officer finds this murder suspect and arrests him. The suspect resists but is ultimately taken into custody. Under interrogation, the suspect gives an alibi that ultimately checks out. This person isn't charged with murder because it's apparent he didn't commit the murder. However, the arrest was legal and resisting it was a crime. So the suspect is charged with resisting arrest with no other charges.
Clojure macros were designed in from the beginning, and thus a significant portion of Clojure core is built using macros. Also, to repeat an oft-stated argument, Clojure is homoiconic, making it much easier to treat code as data, and data as code, which dovetails quite nicely with the macro system.
I'd say if you already master JavaScript and jQuery then Backbone is the obvious first choice. It's simple but very flexible, more than any of the others. The community is huge and there are many plugins. There is also Marionette that will let you scale Backbone into something like the other bigger libraries.
When the company has to cut 18% of the workforce, the CEO and management has failed the company, basically.

I'm not sure why they are blaming mobile now, when anyone in the tech space could see in 2007 with the iPhone that mobile was going to be a big deal.

Also, mobile has ALWAYS been huge to gaming since the game boy or one could argue, the invention of a deck of cards.
Fragmented Android drives big dev to Apple
You forgot the word "Currently."
Playing the devil's advocate here.

What is wrong with the Sun-Times making this decision if it is shown that having a staff trained in 'iPhone photography basics' allows the ST to cut costs without hurting revenue? An iconic photo (e.g. Tank Man photo [1]) opportunity is a black swan event, after all.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
One thing that is annoying with all these review sites is that there is no way to verify if the reviewer has actually used the service she is reviewing. Amazon differentiates between the reviews from people who have actually bought the product, from those who may not have. If you could figure out a way to do it on your site, it would be cool (may be put a unique code in the bill, the customer has to enter it to add her review). Even though the quantity of reviews would be much lesser this way, the quality would be very high.
So how does Docker compare to Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/) ? They sound very similar.
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It just makes me very sad that there was no official e-mail to warn and suggest users to download the history and reports from the website.

Not mentioning the fact that a lot of knowledge base was at that domain that is not accessible now. I've spent quite some time experimenting with their python raw data lib and it was a great fun to bridge EEG scanner and binaural beat generators. Very sad to see one of the greatest EEG hardware for hobbyists shut down.
Of course I can install Adblock, noscript, and so on. It's reasonable to consider that on HN, where many technical people are, many of us are thinking about user experience, and ways of writing, presenting, and monetizing content. I was really more fishing for interesting perspectives about those topics, rather than a polite lecture about the wonders of ad block. But thanks for the ideas!
Hyperloop for Subways, Energy Storage and Power Transfer?
Pretty much anything. Even if you're just working your way through some tutorial on $SOME_TOPIC, put the code in a repo. Later, if you're applying / interviewing somewhere, it will still be of interest, even if it isn't some standalone, super-fancy, gee-whiz, flashy $WHATEVER.

If I were interviewing somebody who had only tutorial or exploratory code up, I'd just use it to seed the conversation. "I see you used a while loop here... is there a way you could do the same thing with a for loop instead?" or "You did this tutorial a year ago, based on what you've learned since then, how would you rewrite this bit?" and things of that nature.

Over time, as you start writing bigger and more functional apps or systems, you'll obviate the need for that stuff, but use what you've got.
As I say in a comment elsewhere in this thread, I find the dissent on this extremely illuminating and tend to agree with it. One thing the court can't consider right now (since it's a hypothetical future and that's rightly not their business) is that some day, DNA sequencing is going to be dirt cheap and super fast. It is only a matter of time. When that happens, what will the court think about the police driving around hoovering up all the hair and cells you shed every day? You know, just to solve those cold cases to see if anyone turns up?

People get all worked up over automated license plate readers but the thought of the above happening makes GATTACA (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) look like Disneyland.
Why should it be bound to the level of technology? An fMRI doesn't require coercion or harm, and that could be used to extract internal thoughts, already.
Which languages (other than C) do you like? What do you want to do as your first web project?

How familiar are you with HTML,CSS, and Javascript?
Yup, and if course it varies. Complications are a huge driver of costs, so making marginal improvements to the complication rate (either by improving the standard of care OR by insisting that you go to a place with a low complication rate) can have an outsize impact on the cost of care in the aggregate.

Companies like ConsultingMD (horrible name, http://consultingmd.com) are taking this approach to reducing costs.
De-listing is inevitable at this point. I give them 2 quarters before they are a penny stock.
There's never been a better time to be an indie developer, particularly on the PC. Marketing remains difficult, but now there are virtually no barriers. Digital distribution and engines like Unity have changed everything.

Steam has its problems, and I wish they'd just shift to an Apple-style app store model with a curated storefront. But in general, they've been a huge boon to independent developers.
I agree, you'd be better off building your product than reading pretty much anything. Reading HN is rarely the most productive thing you could be doing with your time.
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I think the Wall Street hope is that this means scaling back efforts on unsuccessful enterprises, and "doubling down" on successful areas.

I don't think Zynga needed to be as big as it was anyway, so maybe this could be viewed as getting the business back to the correct size.
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Note the contrast between this and the departure of Groupon's CEO:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/01/g...

Now of course they are about two different types of events, but this letter is missing a number of things:

- Down to Earth language: "brothers and sisters" (that we just fired) is over-the-top enough to set off alarm bells in the first few sentences.

- No self-reflection or accountability for mistakes. Instead, downsizing is blamed on "scale" not meeting the needs for "leading on mobile." Nothing to do with bad decisions or missteps made by leadership. So what "scale" is needed then? Is Zynga going to fire people until they are a dozen people in a garage so they can "lead" again?

- No re-assurance that future downsizing is not imminent. No discussion about specifics of how the evaluation of employees was conducted. No explanation as to how or why an 18% cut is the right size to provide the expected benefits to the company. If no other information has been provided to employees, people at Zynga should all be in fear of losing their jobs based upon this letter.

- Instead of explaining in detail why the downsizing is beneficial, the CEO punts and says "But I think we all know this is necessary to move forward." This is not a detailed explanation of the upside to the downsizing, it is a jedi mind trick to cause people to project their own justification for why downsizing was the right move. The only justification given for reducing the size of the company is tautological: we need to reduce company size because we need to scale down the size of the company.
> When that happens, what will the court think about the police driving around hoovering up all the hair and cells you shed every day? You know, just to solve those cold cases to see if anyone turns up?

What, in itself, would be wrong with that, as long as the police were catching people who were actually guilty?

This is kind of the same thing as the fear of self-driving cars. Why would it be better to depend on things like eyewitness testimony (which is hugely unreliable, especially for cross-race identifications), when we have much less fallible DNA evidence?
This usually only happens if the company is failing, in which case your stock is close to worthless anyway.
'Scratch an itch', meaning make something you want to use.
sigh and people wonder why us nerds/geeks are so difficult to talk to. Stop nitpicking and read what I said, then interpret it.

Point is, you can either make decisions on what you think, or you can come up with hypotheses and find hard evidence that supports them. In fact, people often go with evidence in spite of their innate biases, thus making decisions based on what they don't think.
Could this just be outsourcing the photography to professionals?

Or could it be crowdsourcing "Pick the 100 best amateur photos rather than 1 good pro?"

The Sun Times isn't the New York Times. It's the lowbrow of two daily newspapers in Chicago, and already leading the charge to the bottom.
Most investors can really help with at least one thing, and if they're busy with that, they won't muck around in other things.
After reading through the two linked pages I can not see the relevance. The first article just discusses the in-place update but shows no (real) problems with that. The problem in the Stackoverflow question turns out to be caused by a bug in the OPs code and not by a breaking change between versions 4.0 and 4.5. Of interest may be the linked list of breaking changes [1] and given the size of the .NET framework it is a very short list.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh367887.aspx

Note: The deleted comment was something like »This is not true«.
Here's what my team pitched at AngelHack ATX
Earlier this month in NY Times: Hospital Billing Varies Wildly, Government Data Shows
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-...
The first paragraph contains this: "Obviously, if the bombings weren't necessary to win the war, then bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was wrong". I don't see why articles need to go there. Studying history is useful but making moral judgments mixes societies at different levels of moral development.

Unless "unintentionally" can be fudged to morally sanction wiping out a city with a nuclear weapon today, I don't see the point. Maybe I slightly exaggerated the moral repugnance of society today towards civilian death. But the difference between moral attitudes toward civilian death today and civilian death in WW2 is so dramatic, a little bit of exaggeration does very little to weaken the point.
> [...] the author's don't really pick/control the titles. The editors do, and it really is pretty geared for link bait.

Note that this practice is much, much older than the internet; hyberbolic headlines sell newspapers as well as driving people to click on links, and headline writers have been taking that into consideration forever.
Interesting. Look, if you're not into spamming stop using terms like 'organic link building' as though they are somehow normal use of the words. To me organic link building is a thing only an SEO 'expert' would use as though those things have a normal meaning. People that are just focusing on the content of their website and that are being run into the ground by the SEO crowd with joe jobs and other nasties are definitely not busy with 'organic link building', but the SEO crowd is. There was a time when links were organic in the sense that the whole web was held together by those links because that's what the web was, a set of pages held together by links.

Then google came along, the SEOs spoiled it for the rest of us with their 'organic link building' campaigns and that was that. "Oganic" in this context means nothing more than 'unpaid', and even that is a quite a stretch judging by the number of requests I get to place such links (obviously, they're very organic and the payment is just a token compensation for my time, even if it is recurring and the amounts offered suggest there is more to it than that.).

The better meaning for that set of words - which you apparently don't subscribe to - is that 'organic' means 'natural', in other words, links that you, the site owner, have nothing to do with, and that therefore you can not be building.

If you're not into spamming and if your SEO experience is as limited as you say it is then get off your high horse, stop using typical spammer terminology that creatively redefines words that had a perfectly good usage before the SEO crowd came along and call it a day.

Lest you get into this territory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,...
Based on the title I was thinking this was another philosophical comment about the business model, reduced to 140 characters. Perhaps even a haiku.
The "untracked" WFH days suddenly come under scrutiny.

This can also be an indicator of rampant abuse. That is, too many people work at home and don't work much. In my experience, even in small companies, there's a lot of me-too-ism with WFH, which leads to people asking for and being approved to work at home, when they really shouldn't be. Over time, this can lead to a measurable drop in productivity.
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The author touches on this, but I've always been fascinated with how little awareness there is in the USA about Japanese atrocities (like the Rape of Nanking and Unit 731) compared to the well-known and oft-discussed atrocities of the Nazis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Am I being too cynical, or is this...

...our mission of connecting the world through games...

...just about the most ridiculous bullshit ever? Zynga is about one thing: Profit. That's not necessarily a horribly evil thing (though the ways they go about it might be), but it's most certainly a very clear thing. The only thing they're interested in connecting the world to is their bank accounts.
Sheepdogs protect endangered penguins from foxes, saving them from extinction
This seems very strange to me, but then again I thought Amazon was crazy with AWS.
> So why don't insurance companies seem to be driving the costs down?

They are driving down costs -- as the OP mentions elsewhere in this thread, while he was billed nearly $49k for facilities/equipment, the insurance company only paid $15k.

There certainly are a lot of rich doctors and hospital executives who are being paid ludicrous amounts of money (especially considering the hospitals themselves are billed as not-for-profit), but the insurance companies are making money hand-over-fist in the current regime.
Maine cellphone-privacy law first in nation
Except for the not-so-inconsequential fact that DNA evidence can now be faked (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html)
Most of the threads on this post and some other recent ones on HN provide a counterpoint: Many people in the West (note that NYT is widely read all over the world) don't know what's happening in Turkey and are curious. At best they are getting the government's version of events. Now, at least they'l have a single page of information from the other side.
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It will have the sweet odor of poor people's blood I like so much in my gadgets.