skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a foreign local hire, not high enough level to have a full expat on a package...they call us halfpats.
I think it has more to do with whether you were imbued with conformity or not. It's hard to argue that Snowden's behavior isn't patriotic, much as Obama and the NSA keep trying.
It's the best attempt I've seen so far, but still it's very close from _the real Vim_.

See this: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems .
How Telecom Companies Can Improve Their Results With Big Data
Businesses that make material goods like 3M and Corning _have_ to innovate. If you don't keep innovating, you're going to lose your lead in established products (post-it notes, corningware) to China or WallMart.

Apple has a similar story with Android phones. Keep innovating or get your low-end eaten.

Google doesn't have to innovate. They're already China. If somebody makes something they like, they'll buy it. Or make a knock-off.
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

-George Orwell, 1984
I think he forgot the sarcasm tag, but it's hard to tell.
No companies should be offering 20% time anyway because it's a difficult promise to keep between crunch schedules and need to keep work between teams synchronized. Some companies also have creative interpretations of "20% time" as "We offer 20% time: you can spend 20% of your time doing whatever marketing needs you to do" turning the whole notion of 20% time into a disincentive.

Hack Days work much better. Easier to accommodate and more fun.
We didn't look at all at SEO since it's our customer dashboard, we don't really care about it.

Here's the few downsides of Angular IMO :

- I'm particularly unhappy with the router, it does a good job but as soon as you start to have nested routes and complex layout, it you want to avoid copy-pasting the same bits of code everywhere it becomes a nightmare. We mitigated most of these issues by using a lot of directives but it doesn't solve the problem entirely. We looked at ui-router at some point but weren't totally satisfied by the way it worked. Maybe we should take another look.

- errors are sometimes very obscure, it can be hard to debug, even if at some point you start to recognize some errors and know where to look first

- docs could be better

There are some other glitches here and there but most of the time Angular is a real pleasure to use, it's by far the best front-end framework I've worked with.
No. India -> US (MI : OH : DC : CA)
The how! It is one of the reasons I did not left yet, I have no idea.

Most countries won't accept Brazillians wanting to go there legally permanently (probably because the havock that illegal brazillians spread around the world :/) with few exceptions (ie: have specific degrees in case of Canada, or be married to a local, that sort of stuff).

Also, although some of our cities (like Recife) kill people faster than some war zones (Recife body count for example rises faster than Iraq body count), noone will grant refugee status to a brazillian (specially, because it would cause a political fallout of some government admiting that Brazil has civil war, and the government here is trying hard to avoid that status, despite having the Army and Navy being in active duty in Rio de Janeiro and fighting people that are armed with military grade weapons, like bazookas and anti-air cannons)

And my assets are negative, this is a big no-no for many countries (like US, that don't allow entry of people with negative assets even as tourists, because negative assets means they having nothing to lose, and much to gain by overstaying their visas).
I like the idea, and I actually think it could work. I wouldn't be very happy paying a fee, but if I paid $100 that's returned to me if I succeed or lost if I fail, without any other fees, I'd be quite tempted.

As a web service though there's no reason for me to use it. Your competition is me giving $100 to a friend I trust. I'm not sure how you'd overcome that.
PRISM is going to cost American cloud and IT industries $180 BILLION
1) Yes, by definition. If the workers wouldn't think that they are getting more (food) than they give (time), they wouldn't work.

2) However, the question whether this is socially or even globally fair is not a question of capitalism, but of politics/government. If things continue this way, sooner or later there will be too many unemployed people and there will be a revolt/class revolution. I believe the elite will work hard to prevent it, by introducing some kind of wealth/capital tax that will redistribute wealth to the not-haves.
Callbacks are a tool in my toolbox. General event based programming is a tool in my toolbox. Various threading models are a tool in my toolbox. Just because there are situations where a tool is not the best choice does not make the tool bad... it means you use a different tool in that case.
Yup. I am fed up with the lies we all tell to ourselves - all the BS that we smother ourselves in:- all for appearance's sake. If we could admit to ourselves (and to each other) how crap we (as human beings) really are, then we might actually stand a chance of fixing ourselves - and maybe also make a start on all of the obviously broken systems in the world. Only we cannot - we dare not point out our flaws or criticize the systems that govern and control the world:- because that would be "weird". The emperor is stark bollock naked, and we need somebody to point it out in such a way that we all take notice.
Thanks a lot for mentioning this - I was about to have to dive into setting up a build for an Angular app I'm working on (which I need to learn eventually, just not right now) so that project really helps.
Six months after he took the reins, Page announced that Google would adopt a “more wood behind fewer arrows” strategy that would put more of Google’s resources and employees behind a smaller number of projects.

There's nothing more soul-crushing for an organization than a board of directors.
"Why pay engineers to work on projects that will never meet a business case?"

You need your engineers to put up with mundane, boring work. Paying them to spend a minority of their time on an interesting project helps.
https://www.tesla.im
If you believe that XML's information model maps onto "any other language" just as well as JSON, please show me native mapping/object support in XML and, conversely which programming languages (besides XSLT) have mixed content and attributes.

You can serialize to/from XML in virtually any modern language. Not sure if you're seriously asking this, or what the limiter "native" is supposed to mean (beyond that JSON is JavaScript. But it isn't C#, and it isn't Python, and it isn't...).

How they use attributes or elements is context specific. Every feature and pattern doesn't apply to every use.

XML specification is ten times longer; it has dozens of sharp edges you have to memorize in order to use effectively.

No, you actually don't. You create an XSD of a simple layout (trivial, monkey work). That is what you serialize from/to. The universe of possibilities in XML is, again, utterly and absolutely irrelevant.

Seriously, JSON doesn't even have a DATE type. That is so fundamentally broken I don't even know where to start (Microsoft has their own mystical blend of date when they use JSON, for instance, incompatible with anything else).
You're tilting at windmills.

I didn't claim our current system is perfect or uncorrupted (the phrase least worst system clearly points out that our current systems are flawed). I don't think social improvement (however you define that) inevitably leads to some kind of totalitarianism, but I do think people claiming to have all the answers to creating a fairer society have turned out to be tyrannical more often than not (e.g. Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin etc), and I prefer the gradual, consensual move to socialism we have in Western Europe (a form of capitalism tempered by social justice and redistribution, far more equitable than in Marx's time for example). Blaming, dehumanising and scapegoating minority groups (the 1%, bankers, etc) to expiate our sins does nothing to help our society become more fair, quite the reverse.

The last century under moderated capitalism has seen much progress in conditions of work in the western world, and even recently in the developing world, and this in spite of the selfishness inherent in capitalism which you would think would tend to ever-increasing centralisation of power and wealth if left unchecked - I find that an interesting contradiction.

If people want to debate redistribution, what fair means, how to moderate capitalism or replace it and how to make our societies more fair that's (in my view) a useful debate, but diatribes about a shadowy conspiracy of a 1% elite spanning centuries are not productive, because they're not going to make people face with sober senses their real conditions of life, and their relations with others in society.
Yeah, Google still strikes me as probably a great place to work. 20% time is not common in the industry, and trust me-- if you work for Google you work in a much better place than your typical "enterprise software" hell-hole.

But this might affect their ability to attract absolutely top-tier talent.
> * I don't think they are really trying at the moment.*

I can - sort of - confirm they are not trying hard. Last time I tried to advertise on Reddit, I failed because they could not accept CC payments from mainland Europe ... Just think of all the ad revenue they are losing.
I started using Debian around a year back. Been a Linux user for all my professional life. Started with Red Hat, then Fedora, then ArchLinux. I was always aware of Debian but I got the idea that the installation process was a bit tricky (this was way back).

I finally installed Squeeze and the installation process was painless. The dist-upgrade to Wheezy too was easy. And now I'm really glad to see they have a 1 CD download containing only Xfce, which is my display manager of choice.

Happy Birthday to the Debian project!
Why not yet?

I have some crazy student debts here, and moving money in or out of here is not much simple, also it has some other implications... I am basically forced to stay until I pay those debts, unless someone offer me some REALLY good job elsewhere (REALLY good in the sense, that wage - cost of living is significant... although I currently earn 15k usd, a 80k usd job in SV is not much profitable for example...)
A Rubyist's confessions on Python
Seems fine on an older webkit nightly (the newest one, on another machine, crashes after five mins)
Again with more disingenuous argument. I've already stated my position on politeness. I don't think people who go on tangents without actually addressing the main points of the argument - in this case that of sexism and the existence of grants (which not even 5% of your comments touch on, other than vague statements of disagreement with no factual backing), deserve politeness. Politeness seems to you to mean "allow people to go on tangents because calling them on stupid bullshit[1] is impolite". I on the other hand see allowing such tangents to be a distraction from the central discussion point, and a way of deflecting actual conversation - an attempt to avoid having to back up an indefensible position.

You can keep harping about your insulted sense of propriety, or you can address the point.

So, do you actually have anything (evidence backed) to say about your belief that there are more grants for women in tech than men in nursing (etc)? Do you have any clarifications of the vague phrase about "on the same order"?

[1] snark is a fantastic method of pointing out bullshit, as is flat out saying "your argument is not addressing the point", as is noting disingenuous behaviour.
Company halts bin spying program after public outcry
The rest of the article describes how it's being pinched out of employees' schedules using performance evaluation policies.
The political backdrop for the US embassy closing was more the traditional Democratic vs Republican back and forth. The right and Fox news hammered this administration on Benghazi (depending on your POV that was entirely justified or horrible partisan politics) with pretty good effect. Therefore, at the slightest threat of another attack on an embassy the administration goes into PR panic mode. No WAY can we have a second attack on a consulate within 12 - 18 months - our opponents will have a field day in the press for weeks. So you have the over reaction of closing down so many embassies.
>It used to be that HP engineers were expressly given Friday afternoons and full access to company resources to just play with new ideas. Among other things, this led to HP owning the printer market.

And arguably enabling the Apple I.
That's what Yahoo thought, 15 years ago.
I don't think I played with the words. No debt == freedom. And to have no debt isn't easy mostly due to social pressure - keeping up with the Jones. But it wouldn't really hurt to plan in such a way that before one hits 45 they are debt free and own house among other things.
I was only once there, as a tourist, but was attacked physically just because my car had a registration from one of Croatian neighboring countries.
I am amused that the zte_us seller email address is: Livinglife9012@yahoo.com
I read a comment from one of the sysadmins (alienth?) saying their main bottlenecks were I/O.
Crunch schedules are often the result of poor management (at many points along the chain). My group seems to handle the balance reasonably well--we certainly go through crunch times (either because of deadlines, or customer requests), but when we are outside those times, we can spend some of our time playing with things. There's no guarantee that we get some percentage of our time each week or month to play with new things, but if we feel we can put it into our schedules, we have the freedom to do it.
That was my first thought but then I realized that no-one can force them to sell to Google
I am actually overpaid for our standards. This is because I am associate of the company, and thus I can get whatever I need... The thing is, what I need (mostly thanks to student debts) is still more than what most companies here would pay to a programmer.
I think plumbers would be a better example than lawyers. Do you expect them to unclog toilets in their free time?
the site http://builtwith.angularjs.org is no longer updating i guess. their github page indicates a lot of pending pull requests. https://github.com/angular/builtwith.angularjs.org/pulls
First and foremost it's off-topic. Second, these are the same citations used by those who were pushing for the FTC to sue Google for antitrust, so they have political baggage, third: it's before the company was founded so it's all academic and theoretical with no actual experience behind it, fourth: context matters - choice quotes from long texts have been used for Google bashing before, some earlier this week even.
Does it mean that we reach peak Google now?
I live in the same country Canada, same province PEI, same city Charlottetown I was born in.

edit: apparently in the comments users mention several other versions of map showing the same thing, I'm not sure which is the most accurate map.

Related and interesting is this map of which countries give automatic citizenship to children born there: http://i.imgur.com/iBveG7Z.jpg

Via reddit /r/mapporn and user kencrema http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1it8pv/map_of_what_...
.us -> .ch

I do not currently plan to ever move back to the US. I moved here for other reasons, but I no longer feel free when back in my country of birth.

I wonder how many others feel this way, and I wonder if it's possible to quantify the economic impact of the 'brain drain' the US's unconstitutional laws and policies (and other fruits of our generally-fucked political system) precipitate.
> They want to have a car that doesn't embarrass them when they drive into work or round their friends, because owning a BMW has been a secret dream and it's a totally reasonable price, and a smooth ride and great acceleration.

This is really pushing it. Anybody buying a BMW on $100k in Silicon Valley while paying SV-level rents is a pretty big over-consumer. If you have a family on top of that, well... you won't be retiring any time soon.

I also find it odd that you jump immediately from "a car that doesn't embarrass them" to BMW. There's no in between? You have to go all the way to a luxury BMW to not be embarrassed by your car?

By all means, if you really value owning a BMW then get one, but unless you're making considerably north of $100k you don't have a strong case for not being an over-consumer.

You know how much $100k was when the term "six figure salary" started being used in the early 60s? Let me put it this way. The rich Donald Draper on Mad Men made $45k. $100k would have been more like $800k today. That was a CEO's salary. A "six figure salary" today is nothing like what it was when that term was coined.
Looks like these are built on Polymer. (http://www.polymer-project.org/).
The absence of upper-case letters is disturbing on this website. I am not sure of the purpose, is it a stylistic thing? It does not confer style to me. It is a kind of forced laziness, the kind of laziness that takes an extra effort. Going against the grain for no other good reason than that it is against the grain. It is like living in a foreign country for 10 years and not learning the language at all - it takes a bigger effort to not do it, than to do it.

While everyone might write emails or other messages in all lower-case, this is an article that is meant to be read by lots of people. Upper case letters actually do exist for a pretty good reason, they let you read much faster, by letting your eyes parse sentences more easily.
What is your definition of "failure?" A project that nobody uses and makes the company no money is a failure in terms of direct profitability, but may be a success for other reasons. Your engineers get to exercise their minds in unusual ways and keep themselves sharp. Your engineers are more willing to put up with boring tasks. You attract talented people who want to be self directed at some level.
Any Mac forum usually has a good place for developers to post questions, and ask for beta tests.

Buy I'd be happy to give it a test dubcanada at gmail com
They might have, and it might have told them it was the right thing to do.

When I was in the Valley a few years ago, lots of people were quite convinced that top talent had already been completely chained to Google/Facebook/Twitter anyway, and there was no chance of poaching it away. If you follow that line of reasoning, there is no point investing in recruitment, at least locally.
I certainly have experienced the situation that you are describing, where I managed to do tons of D.I.Y. jobs around the house when I really didn't want to call the insurance people because I was sure I'd missed the deadline, but...

I'm not sure I understand why you are requiring a deposit. Is it just to ramp up the "must do this"-ness of the task?

Scenario 1: Your customer wants a huge task so they can avoid it and do lots of other little tasks. - Effective cost: $550 for big task.

Scenario 2: Your customer wants to get good at actually doing tasks. - Effective cost $50 for big task.

Your deposit rewards actually getting tasks done. Is that what you're trying to achieve?
Take it easy, but you can't negate the impact that Apple had in our field.
When I tell someone who isn't from an Uber-city about Uber - they lose their minds by how awesome is seems.

My experience has always been at least a 9/10 with them.
There's this place not too far from Scotland, easily reachable via a cheap flight with EasyJet. It's called Italy. They make amazing pizzas. And gelato. Mmmmm, gelato pizza...
A team of HP managers walks into the Svalbard global seed vault a week after the bombs went off. They smile contently as they sit down to their first meal of popcorn, to which they will survive for literally weeks longer than everyone else.
We've basically settled on the same way of organizing Angular project. Our plan is to have specs and scss file in the module folder too.

Unfortunately we couldn't do it before because we're using rails assets pipeline, but it should happen soon now.
Even if it's a problem for them to prefix it, surely they can deliver it INSTEAD of the requested video.
When Ryu met Wolverine - The best gaming crossovers, ever.
I think they pick the task for you. Leastways, that's what it seemed like from the pitch...
Installing Go, Gocode, GDB and LiteIDE
Very curious about what the NSA were doing that was found unconstitutional by its own kangaroo court. It must've been pretty bad.
crap. doesn't ship to my country : (
Greece is still Greece no? (despite all the issues)
The author's approximation of 125 million bangbangs in the 7th iteration is quite good. The actual number is:

159591041

I wrote a small Python script that allows for further analysis outside the shell:

https://github.com/vog/bangbang
Are those during working hours?
That's the important part.
How do you expect one little guy to stand up and speak out on principle, when all the big guns just roll over and get in bed with the government? We've heard recently of possibly Yahoo and Google resisting to some extent, but imagine the outcry if tomorrow Gmail or Ymail was shut down. What if they did it just for a day, SOPA style?

The typical response is that they are a business, they have shareholders to report to etc. but these guys have much more clout, money and media influence to fight this kind of thing.
Reactive JavaScript
EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Now Has 100K Weight Factors
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit, and you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'OK, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."

- Ayrton Senna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton_Senna
The word "country" is perhaps a bit too overloaded.

Maybe it is better to say "I was born in Wales (GB-WLS) and live currently in England (GB-ENG). There are two different ISO 3166-2 subdivisions of the four that form the ISO 3166-1 entity GB."
The author needs to google 3M an find out actual facts. It's like Google came up with it and Everybody was in a mad rush to copy it. God forbid, innovative ideas come from anywhere else but the companies we perceive to be the most innovative. Google was keen to adopt the practice that's worked well elsewhere and they seem to be focusing on other methodologies now, maybe they're figured out something that works well for Google NOW. It doesn't make 20% time more or less effective. It's just how companies evolve.
I know it'd be impossible to know these stats, but it'd be interesting to see how many (recent) ex-Googlers went on to start their own successful startup. With that, it'd also be quite interesting to speculate how many of these business ideas could have benefited by being "within" Google.

In many ways it's a shame, although I think most of us can appreciate that the Google of yesterday is a different beast to the Google of today. One area where I think it could really hurt Google is in recruitment. I imagine the "20% rule" would have been a huge factor in getting the best engineers to work at Google. With this news, I can see some of the magic of Google disappearing in my mind.
While Google does have a Borg-like aspect, I think they do still need to innovate.

What is more, it's clear the founders are still very keen to push the limits of innovation.

Maybe, as has been said by others, they are not shutting this down but restricting it. In effect, they're replacing most of the 20% time with acquisitions but they do still have the process alive to enable some internal innovation.
Yep. The web components aspect is the most interesting aspect of this. It would have been useful to put that in the post title (until a mod reverts it).