skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely true. My g/f coos at other people's kids, but I look the other direction. The last thing I want is a liability for friendliness.
Greenwald and companion will have protection from Brazilian Federal Police
The pussification of America is not new.
Running MySQL 5.6 on Amazon RDS: Webinar followup questions answered
Still, I like the Windows idea that everything on the middle-mouse is related to navigating the viewport - scrollwheel, drag the view, etc. This consistency is pleasant.

While I love the convenience offered by the Linux selection-clipboard, it seems to mess with the design-language of the mouse. Maybe the Gnome team could keep the feature but move it to a new mouse action?

Moving the selection-paste to Meta+Lclick would get my vote. Would be a little bit painful transition, but would keep the feature while freeing up the middle-click for a role more consistent with its other functions.

And yeah, inter-app drag-and-drop is nightmarish because it's so hard to switch-tasks and scroll to the target without releasing the mouse. It's just not a useful interaction and 90% of the time I drag-and-drop something on Windows it's accidental anyways - it's a feature that belongs in a dustbin.
> Unfortunately it isn't discoverable

I think this may be one of the largest problems for people making the switch. After moving to Win8, a friend of mine enjoyed everything about the new OS except for one "missing" feature from Windows 7. He couldn't hit the windows key and type in the search box in the start menu to find programs he was looking for. After I told him you could still do exactly this, I realized that there is nothing on the start screen that really indicates that you are automatically search focused (people are used to a search box that they can focus on). Now that he knows about this he has no qualms, but I guess there are some undiscoverable features that some of us have taken for granted in win8 because we've actually read up on how to be a power user.
Thanks for the kind words. I feel exceptionally guilty for my harsh feedback now.

I'm still bothered by the 1 in 50 ratio. Maybe I'm misinterpreting it. Does that 50 include people who get phone screened or is that 50 exclusively people you have met face to face?

If it's the former rather than the latter, then consider my incredulity null and void. If it's the latter then you should drop me an email as I would jump at the chance to help you to halve that number.
Sort of. My ideal is a suite of rendering primitives, html/css parsers, DOM constructors, JS virtual machines etc. that are:

* Functional (OpenCL is a good platform for this, you basically have little choice other than few-to-no side effects)

* Immutable (Everything the user does, sends or receives is tracked and stored in a distributed database)

* Detached from OS level concerns insofar as possible. It should be possible to run with a very minimal set of OS services, mostly the drivers and network stack.

Last but not least:

The HTML and CSS portions are rendered into a homoiconic data form within the language, which is all that programmers and users ever interact with. Any JS is wrapped as a library in that language.

Without wall-of-texting, it's hard to go into the advantages this set of tools would provide. The short story is, I'd like to be able to edit the Internet and have the edits stay up (from my perspective) for as long as possible. Also, expose those edits/annotation to people in my 'network'.
Thanks, I misunderstood WADA's exact behaviour at international contests.

Complicating the issue still further is that some tests will be carried out by sporting bodies directly, some by national sporting bodies and others by international sporting bodies. And then there are multi-sport bodies like the IOC who will also carry out tests.

In any case, the point is that some countries are more aggressive about testing out-of-competition than others. Depending on the sport, that can make an enormous difference in performance.
If you see "he" everywhere, you assume being a man is the standard, and being a woman is somehow not applicable. This is a subtle affect that, if applied to everything, will change your perspective on the world.

And it's not that hard to just use "they" instead.
I'm with the two posters currently below me. When the factory runs out of the proper parts, they can do some "counterfeit" or sub-quality runs with near matches and most features will probably still work under most conditions.

The simplest example I can think of would be components value such as capacitors and resistors. If a design uses an uncommon part value (like 5.0uF) and the factory runs out, they can build with a common value (like 4.7uF) and come very close.

This is most likely to happen at the end of a production run. There aren't enough parts leftover for the actual quality device, but you can make substitutions and get some more near-quality units out instead of throwing out all of the rest of the good parts.

Another example I could foresee from the OP is that different revs of firmware were available at different times. e.g. a bug was discovered after the ROMs were masked or flashed and that run of chips should have been destroyed but weren't. (Hell, they might still be upgradeable!)

Ironically, the serial number was possibly intended to distinguish the official runs from sub-quality runs... The "counterfeiters" might not have been trying to fool everyone, but instead, to distinguish between official and ghost shifts. Welcome to the new age! :)
Maybe the servers are in EU?
Thanks for the great feedback.

We don't contact people in your selection or connections. We want to focus on the small verticals where there is a high chance of match, like academicians, senior executives, developers, kernel developers etc. By spreading the word, you don't mention your selections. But if that still disturbs you, to be seen on jobrupt, you better not spread the word as privacy comes first.

Thanks for the great ideas on focus, niche, getting traction etc. They are great hints going forward.
Because the internals are sometimes not what you'd expect.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/2618014599/
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Do spread the word among your fellow team mates
This ambiguity means that I never use lclick-drag even when I'm tempted to use the clumsy operation - on windows I always RClick-drag so that the operation (move or copy) is explicitly selected.
The Innovator's Dilemma Strikes Again
If you avoided every company that has done morally reprehensible things, then you would probably be naked right now and have no way to get to work.
Just a shame it's paid
Is it possible for you to fit short naps (~20 minutes) into your schedule? Supposedly, if you practice napping regularly without letting yourself go over time, you will eventually get to the point that you can fall asleep quickly and immediately begin REM sleep.

Assuming that polyphasic sleep schedules are at least as effective as monophasic sleep, one such nap should be worth about an 1h20m of normal sleep. If you can fit even one in, and stick to taking it every day, it could be hugely beneficial. If you can manage to slip three of them in, you might be able to totally counteract the effects of your situation (although people seem to have trouble adopting polyphasic schedules that are designed to fit their schedule, rather than their circadian rhythm).
I think it's horrible that the only way to log in is via antisocial networking. It's only one step removed from being a facebook login. If you want it to be discreet, make it anonymous (email address only).
Thank you :)

The 50 includes people who got phone screened. The onsite to offer ratio was something like 3 to 1, if memory serves. I will update the original post to make that clearer.
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I wouldn't so much call it controversial as I would call into question its relevance. Most immigrants I've spoken to are very aware of how hard it is to build a career when nobody can understand you. They don't come out and say it, but you get the feeling that they put a LOT of time and effort into learning how to become effective communicators in English. I would expect a foreign applicant to make fewer spelling/grammar errors because of this.

The exception to this is when I find an "enclave" of foreigners all working at the same shop where the boss is foreign as well. English communication in these environments is worse than usual. But meeting random foreigners in places normally dominated by native speakers like coffee shops and bars? You don't want to know how many hours they've put into getting better at English. It will make you feel like a lazy, racist asshole.
I'm sorry, but your definition of theft doesn't make any sense. If you say I steal from society, then certainly I do it without even a threat of force, without lying and by asking people to get into businesses relationship with me voluntarily. When government steals from me, it's quite the opposite.

But I understand that you made up your mind, so if you're still checking this thread let me ask you something. You mentioned you were a libertarian. What was the turning point for you when you ceased being one?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland...

(Take note of the x remoting content).

The thing is, we don't really "use" X these days, it's more just a wrapper. Toolkits and direct rendering do most of the work, that used to be reserved for X. So Wayland was designed to cut out all the cruft, and make everything nicer.

I must admit, two clipboards can be nice, but a single clipboard is probably sufficient. Maybe we can copy-paste without requiring the original program to stay open.
You probably won't on a 42" screen used as a TV. Maybe not even on a 50" screen used as a TV. Used as a monitor from short range, is another matter entirely.

But Amazon is selling 75" TV's in the UK, and 100"+ projectors. As screen sizes go up,
people won't be too happy to see dpi drop again.

We are also becoming accustomed to higher DPI on our screens via tablets etc.. After I got my phone (1280x720 on a 4.7" screen) my 1920x1080 on my 17" laptop was suddenly noticeably grainy. My full HD 42" LED TV is no longer nearly as impressive as it seemed when I got it and compared it to my old TV.

My next phone will be a full HD 5"+ model, and I expect my next tablet to be in the 2500+xwhatever range or more for a 10", because anything else will look worse than my current phone. For a lot of content, sure, you won't notice much difference - I quite happily still watch my DVD's on my full HD TV.

In other words there are plenty of situations where we will notice the difference to 4K, even if we'd be perfectly happy with 1080p if we didn't have a higher DPI device to compare to.
We tried to launch pretty much the same concept a few years ago (dating through friends of friends on Facebook) but it didn't work out. It was called 'Trustcircle' and we still own the domain (www.trustcircle.com) in case you are interested in buying it! It might be a better option than tomonotomo! Just sayin' :)
April 06, 2000.

Any progress report on this?
Larry wanted a beautiful, consistent look throughout all Google's products. That sort of motivation leads to design disasters.

Of all the mantras from 37signals over the years, the one that I agree with and adhere to most is "context over consistency" for exactly this reason.
30 fps is even a bigger joke than 60. I think even the general public would get nauseous watching a game being played at a solid 30 fps, it's much different than watching a low fps movie.

If I were to drop $700 on a new display I would rather buy 2x $350 2650x1440 monitors that can run at 120hz at that resolution. They've been on the market at that price for quite a while now.

Back in 2001 or 2002 I bought a 21" 1600x1200 120hz CRT for $80 for comparison. It also had no input delay, perfect colors and the screen itself was flat. The only downside is it weighed like 80 pounds.
I don't understand. Was it supposed to delete the thing anyway, and then redirect if the user wasn't an admin?
One question I have is why Google (If this website is Google's) is hosting their stuff on Amazon?
It works great on my Win 7 desktop with a C2D and low-level Radeon video in Chrome, with Javascript disabled. Not even slightly choppy at all.
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Which 99% of iOS users won't do even if they are aware of it.
Nope, Sydney.

person: News Limited
country: AU
[replying to my own post] Just a note, I talked with Authy on Twitter and they indicated they're making Bluetooth an opt-in feature in the future and that their management console has the ability to restrict all use of it by managed clients. I'm still not happy about it, but those are positive steps.
But it's a co-branding strategy with a company that is widely condemned as having some horrible (and illegal) practices.

It's trivially easy to find these. I cannot believe that anyone at the largest search engine company in history failed to find or read criticism of Nestle before announcing the co branding.

The only conclusion to draw is that Google knew about, and did not care about, the criticism of Nestle.

Why not go the easy route and find a less obviously evil company?
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There actually is still a hierarchical tree in the start screen, it just defaults to your customizable pinned apps start screen. Right-click the start screen and hit the All Apps button in the lower corner for the traditional folder structure of the start menu (in smaller tile form, of course).
The other option is if you are a developer and want ultimate control the app is open source. For maximum convenience aught.
True. There are some windows trackpads that have that same smooth scrolling trackpads.. I've used some hp laptops that also have it, for example.
This sadly still happens. I remember looking through Craigslist jobs and legit companies wanting someone with html/css/javascript/php experience for $8/hr, kid you not.
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Currently there is only LinkedIn signup available. But we plan an email signup going forward. Mainly we need you to be able to see and select connections, which is easier on LinkedIn. In email it is only possible through a list of emails entered by the user. That's still a good option with some small caveats. Thanks for the feedback.
Maybe, but I doubt that will be sufficient. Evolution being the opportunistic bastard that it is, it seems likely that lots of little processes have hitched a ride on sleep. There may not be any single factor to take care of which eliminates the need for sleep entirely.
That looks like noise to me. There is almost four times more code dedicated to comments than useful code. If you write unit tests it would cover/explain all these cases. I don't see the point.
Also just noticed there's no mobile version.
I'm on safari on 10.8.4, up to date. i7, 8GB ram and an AMD HD6490M, and it runs crap.
The Android site uses a lot of (annoying) JS driven CSS opacity changing and also the font-smoothing CSS attribute. My money would be on that.
Oh-my-vim - a vim package manage heavily inspired from oh-my-zsh
They'll only be selected for if it affects their reproductive success, no? The problems we're discussing usually only affect people later in life, after they've conceived, so I don't see how could it have any significant impact in the natural selection process.
Is the iPhone version of Office better than the Windows Phone version? At least the WP version doesn't require Office 365.
Some people try the Konami code with everything. Try it with HN, see what happens.
So the selling point is that it's not worse than Win7, and the new consumer-centric touchscreen features can just be ignored, and there are various "under the hood" improvements that no one ever actually explains.

I'm not exactly seeing a compelling reason to break out the corporate checkbook here.
Show HN: Real-time multiplayer HTML5 MMORPG
This article, when I originally read it 5 years ago, was hugely influential to me. It completely convinced me of the superiority of refactoring existing systems to an ideal over rewriting. It doesn't take anywhere near as much time to fix cruft as it is to create a system from scratch and try to avoid your own cruft. But it's scary and it's an unknown. But if you approach it with courage, it falls quite easily.

EDIT: refactoring large systems has also convinced me of the superiority of statically typed programming languages for large projects. When I break code, I want it to break as hard as possible. I want to see absolutely everywhere function XYZ is called, and one way to do that is to rename XYZ to XYZ___ and see where all of the compiler errors show up.
My name is numo16 and I'm a Windows 8 and Mountain Lion user...
That was a very good read, thanks!
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Show HN: My Chrome Extension to view cached webpages
Hello everyone, I shared this little extension once in a comment and several people found it useful. It's a chrome extension that lets you view the cache version of a web page with Google Cache, Wayback Machine, or CoralCDN.

The link to the source: https://github.com/dbz/webcache

The link to the chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webcache/cmmlgikpahieigpcclckfmhnchdlfnjd

If anyone has any feedback, I'd love to hear it. I'm a 20 y/o computer science student currently attending foothill college in Los Altos, CA and I'm a part-time pizza delivery driver! If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me or post here. I'm on my phone about to board a flight so I may not answer right away, but thanks so much checking out my extension!
Compare with:

func main() {
var m1 map[string]int
m1["a"] = 1
fmt.Printf("%d\n", m1["a"])
}

http://play.golang.org/p/JJQ7dSZLeA

which yields

panic: runtime error: assignment to entry in nil map
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Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6323572
This is the first one-liner I've read that actually explains something useful I can do with higher-order type inference. Preventing errors at compile time doesn't count; doing something is run-time by definition.

Thanks.
What prevents any two people from doing this at any time, anywhere?
Perhaps we're coming at the situation from different viewpoints. You appear to be judging the situation based off of how "he" came to be a default while I'm coming at the situation from the viewpoint of intentions.

Honestly, I caught myself using "he" several times writing this response but went back and "refactored" my response. Does the fact that I use "he" automatically make me a sexist? No. That's just how everyone around me spoke English and thus how I learned to use it.
I've watched all eps of TG

You poor thing. Help is available if you only just ask.
Don't forget that Duo Security's mobile application supports Google Authenticator (and any other TOTP-enabled service). It also has already been working on iOS 7 for weeks.
>0 friends are using it

>"Page Not Found! 404" immediately afterwards

>My Little Pony picture

>closing it, never planning on using it again

First impression is important.
From the perspective of lessons learned, that is generalizable truths, one can only generalize to that company. So the reader of this article can only really say, this is highly relevant and accurate if I intend to apply for an engineering position at this particular company. Beyond that it falls into the same anecdotal category as any other advice dispensed by recruiters or HR personnel who have responsibility to screen applicants entering into the interview process.

The big difference is this recruiter has gone to the trouble of actually measuring a number of factors and assumptions and can say with great confidence, this is how it works in a particular company. In that regard it is certainly more weighty than the type of blog post that says "I have been doing screening for 5 years and this is what matters to me. And, by the way it seems to correlate to hiring decisions at the back end of the process."
The only difference in this case would be that Varnish will always pass those requests through.
I agree. It would work a lot better of the function were called something like "stringRepeat" or "duplicateText" or something other than "multiplex", because that's really not what multiplexing means. Then, rename that one parameter from "count" to "repetitions" and the function is almost completely self-explanatory.

Not to mention, it probably doesn't deserve to exist at all. "text * count" is simple enough that it should probably be inlined.
You would be surprised at what you can achieve with a little effort and using mainly smaller companies with an ethical bent (certainly ethical clothing and bicycles are available).

Nevertheless, I agree it is hard, and I'll likely be using some of Googles services for a while yet. My main point is how my view of them has changed, and that will make me seek out alternatives when possible.
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The name breaks the responsive layout
Might become a thing. Of course, Android is more famous than Ubuntu (to the masses)
To be honest, I misinterpreted the ratio. I wasn't aware that the 50 included people who were phone screened. Fortunately the ratio makes a lot more sense in that context.
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All the main code is in main.js
Take a look at the initEasterEgg() function.
goog point actually. Domains like vision research are again left in the cold. And then people sometimes wonder why oh why researchers like to stick to old standards and still use 20yr old fluor CRTs driven over VGA cables :P

Btw 3D using shuttered glasses on a nomral 120Hz LCD might look ok when playing games and whatnot but is in reality not: the amounts of crosstalk are beyond what can be used for scientific research unless you stick to a small area on the screen and tune everything specifically for that area.
The article is a paragraph, you seriously missed this / didn't read it?

>The cables won't change either, as the group claims current high-speed Category 2 wires can handle the increased bandwidth.
That sweet 404
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I'd be really interested to see some innovation around bookmarking.

My bookmarks are a hopeless unsalvageable mess. I have around 900 bookmarks, but have little hope of finding the one I need when I want to.
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Nice! They definitely overlap, although there are a few differences... I'm not sure if ministat accepts bignum, scientific notation, etc.