skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minifying production-deployed code is fine (although gzipping largely eliminates benefits of minifying). If the code is open-sourced, the unminified version is available. If not, the code is not meant to be debugged by you anyway. (I agree, the latter doesn't always apply in non-ideal world.)
Ok, that makes sense when it's factual matters. But I have seen people whose entire comments history is comprised of defending a corp, whether that be MS, Apple, Google, or other. And I mean literally all their comments: no jokes, no random asides. Everything is supporting "their" company. I guess they must see it like it's a football team they support.

And there is no "if" on whether MS are doing it (employing paid shills). It's a fact that they are. They may well be doing a shitty job, but they're hired all the same. Of course MS are not the only ones; other companies do exactly the same thing. That's pretty much what "Social Media Consultants" are.

Thanks for the reply!
All the countries that occupied Iraq agreed on how to rebuild the country. That wasn't the case in Korea. No one in South Korea wants to reunite Korea badly enough to live under a hereditary Stalinist dictatorship, nor does said dictatorship want to give up power, so the situation is at a stalemate.
I don't know if this is actual industry lingo, but Penny Arcade has stories of "the trenches" to accompany its sister comic: http://trenchescomic.com/

Suffice to say that after reading those stories I'm never touching a QA/tester game industry job with a 10-foot pole.
So the counter measures are more deadly and dangerous than the threat. As usual. One of this combined with red eye detection and a flash could blind a thousand people in a heartbeat.
I just don't see this head start preventing a single person from doing same mistakes. This belief system seems like brain busy work: it makes you occupied for some time but does not make you a better person any more that any reflection will do when you are ready.

Add mythology to the mix and the system becomes net harmful.

Regarding Jesus: I just don't see "common christian" variety sort of people care about Jesus. Yes they claim they "love" him, but they just aren't trying to understand who he was as a person and therefore gravitate to beliefs that would make him facepalm.
Saying that I chose $20, and there's a 50% chance of there being $10 in the remaining envelope, and a 50% chance of there being $40, takes into account 3 amounts: $10, $20 and $40.

However if you're presented with 2 envelopes, there are only 2 amounts to begin with.

The only way you could assign a probability to what the second envelope contained would be if you started with 3 amounts then chose 2.

For example I have a 5c coin, a 10c and a 20c coin. I pick the 10c coin and flip it: heads I pair it with the 5c coin and tails I pair it with the 20c coin, then I put each under a cup and invite you to choose.

Now if you lift the cup and see 10c you know there is a 50% chance the other cup has 5c and a 50% chance it has 20c. You can take into account 3 amounts (ie. the one you chose and 2 possible remaining values) because the question starts off with 3 amounts.

If your knowledge of the system commences with "here are 2 cups" you have no extra information -- you only have 2 amounts. The higher and the lower. You will pick the higher one 50% of the time on the first go, and 50% of the time if you switch.
Damn, I thought Pratchet wrote another book...
Redis clustering and elasticity is still a work in progress. That said, when sharded or for single nodes, Redis is an outstanding tool, and their roadmap to distribution is very promising: http://redis.io/topics/cluster-spec

Note also that Redis Sentinel http://redis.io/topics/sentinel provides high availability.
Assuming every PC copy sold is digital at $60 a pop the 70% publisher cut would be $42. To generate an extra $300,000,000 in revenue on PC it'd have to sell 7 million copies. No game in the history of ever has sold that many copies on day one on PC. And they especially haven't done that when the game is releasing on consoles at the same time.

It will however eventually release on PC and generate a nice chunk of change over a few years at various price points.
Haven't tried Opera, but Ubuntu with Firefox and Chrome work perfectly well with flash for me. It's not a general issue that affects everyone; it's a problem with your setup.
There's a deep computer-sciencey lesson in this somehow, but I can't quite put my finger ... ah! Off-by-one error.
no, no, no, if you teach your children beliefs I approve of, that's different...
From the wiki, 137 million to develop for four years with roughly 250 people (137000000/4/250) = 137k a year average per person
Well, it shouldn't be much of a surprise since he has also ventured into the startup world. Backed by AZ16, etc http://canv.as/
If you define "the communists" as "the Chinese communist party", then judging from China's development they've done a fine job. This was not quite true during the 1950's, when the head of the communists was Mao.

It's also questionable to define the economic system of Deng's China as "communist" in the same way as Soviet Russia and, say, Cuba.
From the Android API docs:

"What a Terrible Failure: Report an exception that should never happen."

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html..., java.lang.String)
Two words: diminishing returns.
My first internship was at a very successful (non-tech) company.
One the things I learned there is how R&D costs were 2% of revenue, while marketing... 50%.
And we're talking billions here.
Depends on the kind of work you do. If you're in sales or marketing the open office plan may indeed stimulate creativity or whatever.

But for people who have to concentrate (like software developers) it's a productivity killer. Joel Spolsky used to touch on this occasionally - he claims all sorts of research shows the most productive arrangement is to put everyone in his own office with a door.

Where I work that will never happen, because there are corporate-wide rules about who gets an office and who doesn't. You have to be a director to get your own office, which is two levels above non-managers. They're so anal about it one time I worked on a floor with no directors and they left all the offices unoccupied. They crowded everyone into cubes and even doubled one up when they ran out of (cubicle) space.
You can only imagine what that game could look like if it were designed for PC and not decade old consoles with hardware that was mid-range when the consoles came out.

It sucks that every major game lately is just made for the lowest common denominator and then if we are lucky, we get a half assed PC port. Dear god what a mess GTA IV was and how many patches it took to actually get it to a workable state.

I still wait on a studio that actually takes enough pride in their work to develop something that really pushes the envelope of PC gaming. You could take that then and show even the "Next Gen" consoles what actually is possible nowadays if you don't go for the bargain basement.
10 FOR I = 0 TO 15

20 POKE 53280, I

30 POKE 53281, I

40 NEXT I

50 GOTO 10

What is funny that 27 years later I still remember those memory addresses.
Extensions should be in the clear so we can see them. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to minify an extension, they get downloaded once. In this scenario minification == obfuscation == something to hide.
Actually, I think Opera has the same policy as Mozilla. If you reply to the reviewers (who are very responsive), they seem to let you minify as long as you show them the unminified sources.

Our extension (https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/disconnect/) uses the minified versions of seven libraries, which are about half the size of the unminified versions. Why not give users a better experience by shaving a few seconds off the install time?
Why is minification important in this case? How will it effect your execution of the extension?
The New Twitter for iOS 7 is Sending Users' Tweets to My Lock Screen
It sounds like you could relate the same statement to using github has hiring criteria. And, I believe enough discussion around that, as an indicator of technical ability, has already happened to say that it is only an indicator of awareness, interest, and activity. I would be interested in knowing how other industries have handled the online portfolio trend. Has SoundCloud affected the hiring of musicians, or YouTube and acting auditions?
I was underwhelmed by GTA 4, because of the sluggishness (on PS3), but that's reportedly gone. One of the cooler things I've heard about GTA 5 is that they're, when online game play goes online (later this month), going to create in-game television by piping in other player's gameplay framed with newcaster narration.
I'd set up a page with some A/B testing scenarios if I were you and a bunch of analytics (Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, Google analytics, you name it) behind it. Each page tests a different sales message and requires a user action to proceed (a click to another page, or to add an item to a sales cart, etc).

If you have different potential users (graphic designers, architects, etc) set up a bunch of those pages on the same site custom made for each market. This forms your initial sales funnel. Your users will vary depending on what the product is and nobody can tell you where to find the customer who would use your product better than some real testing.

Once you have your funnel testing pages, you can start directing traffic from every source you know via custom urls. Tell your followers, spend $25 in ads on any platform you think fits: google ads, facebook, another channel, twitter, etc. and use the analytics to see how many people come back from each channel, and how many of them click through to your action step.

Validate the channels that work best for you via the referal links and search keywords. Validate the sales pitch that works best via some the A/B page scenarios for each.

Refine, polish, rinse, repeat. This is a standard process for anyone from lean startup methodology followers to Google execs.
DivX has a streaming web player that's quite good.
Having Symmetry and exact shape is more of an optimization issue. Ansys numerical simulation tools are not really needed for feasibility check. Hand calculations are sufficient, mostly taken care of in the alpha design document. However, the issue of having sufficient space to store steam is somewhat unclear and needs some brainstorming..
Yeah I wonder when the winners will be announced for this year's contest?
A better question is why isn't he posting as anonymous.
We've been working on DrawQuest for the past year: http://www.drawquest.com

More info, in case you're curious: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/8/3942110/drawquest-for-ipad-...

Same company, different product.
I've got the reverse problem: I'm _always_ warm. Keep a fan at my desk, on at all times. Over-the-ear phones trap a _lot_ of heat.

Instead I use earplugs.
Please do. I was hoping to find an option to turn it off.
"Is Opera saying they will do a comprehensive code review on every line of extensions submitted to their store? Will they require documentation on all design decisions and processes involved? What about any server-side code?"

Well, duh, yes they will do their best even if they may fall short. Props to Opera.
Thanks hbbio - I was mostly interested in learning the differences from the point of view of zBase, as I'm a user of redis.
If you still need a catch-all codec (and splitter), use the ffmpeg-based LAV filters (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191).
Honest question, why you need MMS since everyone can just send multimedia via email/FB/Whatsapp/hundreds social messaging app? My experience with MMS has not be pleasant: slow, limited (low quality), unreliable (sometimes does not arrive or corrupted) and expensive (compared to "free" in email etc).
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The blog Marginal Revolution considered the question a few months ago: "What is the political equilibrium when insect-sized drone assassins are available?"

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/wha...

Adapting my comment from there:

One possibility is that in the future, high-status (and thus also high-office) can only be safely held by pseudonymous cryptographic identities that can’t be linked to soft, locatable, assassination-prone meatspace bodies.

Note that this also makes it possible for a high-status identity/officeholder to be a branded collective (or AI) that continues beyond the death of any its members.

So, potential news from that future:

The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 ruling authored by Chief Justice @CyberJeffersonian_7, rejected the suspiciously-late election returns from Puerto Marte, throwing the 2096 election to Senator @Verax1983 over Governor @Locke2001, in the closest Electoral College contest since Bush-Gore in 2000.

From his/her undisclosed location, President-Elect @Verax1983 praised the ruling and again denied allegations that he/she has been a software-only entity for the last 17 years.

I, for one, welcome our new pseudonymous overlords.
It depends on the partitions and how other surfaces are finished.

With sufficiently high walls (about 6'), carpeting, and acoustic ceilings, you'll actually cut noise quite a bit. Lower and sound travels in straight lines.

One of my gigs had a "pod" style cubical layout with 6' high walls, glass in the upper 2' or so, arranged in groups of four (see diagrams below). It's still one of the best workspace designs I've seen, period.

https://plus.google.com/photos/104092656004159577193/albums/...
I normally think that people derserve an inexpensive legal eductionat, but in this case I think an exception is needed.

> a rather rude reply telling me that they are uninterested and I am "free to report this to any linux organization."

Ye... They picked the option of intentionally infringe copyright for commercial gain. That is as indefensible as it can get with copyright infringement.
Then how do upper-class families raise children?
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (2003)
How does that compare to ffdshow?
Does anyone know if .NET runtime is multitenant? Would be great to know about the alternatives (and their future plans).
Massive Layoff Says It's Over For Blackberry
Google [1] and Ask [2] isn't better either, they are offered with most updates of Adobe Flash and Java. Guess everyone will sneak something in if given the opportunity.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/5mAdH.png
[2] http://i.imgur.com/3zWPK.jpg
Rethinking the guest operating system
Why Bing? Because Microsoft is desperate enough for market share to buy traffic through affiliate marketing.
Very neat and clear. I found some interesting new libraries while browsing.

I did have a hard time figuring out what those odd numbers on the right side of each row should indicate, though. Displaying the percent symbol on hover does not help either. You should provide a tooltip in the individual rows as you do it in the detail views. Otherwise this number just feels odd, especially in the "Trending" view.
Less than you think unless you hit a rib or bone. But if you are really nasty just put pressure operated container that fires a poison into the body http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella style. Depending on the payload they won't save him even if he is in ER the moment he gets shot.
But it's not like these people are stuck here. Most of them could get a job in many different areas of the US and abroad.

It's supply and demand. There's limited supply (SV doesn't build UP like NYC) and a lot of demand (plenty of high income folks).

I agree that rent is high. I'm paying 2x as much to rent a 3bdr/1bath home in Sunnyvale than I was paying for a mortgage on a 4 bdrm/2.5 bath home in Cincinnati. I'd probably be willing to go up to 3x (and might actually have to do so).

I'm not playing the options lottery (though I'm 2 years into founding a startup). I very much like living here and hope I don't find myself back in Cincinnati (nothing against the city, just not my cup of tea).
May I ask where you got the rent to ownership conversion numbers?

I ran this awhile back with the nytimes buy-rent calculator: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

With a 4.8% mortgage rate, 20% down, 37% marginal tax rates, 3% inflation, closing/buying costs around 3%, 9% rate of return on capital and ~$700/month:

Buying a $600k place is break-even with renting at $2500/month after 4 years and buying is better thereafter. $800k is break-even at around $3300/month

There is government distortion playing in. The mortgage tax deduction (esp. in a state with high income tax rates) provides huge incentives to buy. $4,000 a month in rent is only equal to $800k buying if you are below the 15% income tax bracket.
Our data is our digital identity - and we need to reclaim control
beloved? A number of people I knew, including myself, were going for the Windows mobile 5 and 6 phones in that 2005-2007 period (those years may be slightly askew, but generally before everyone had an iPhone or Android device). The device specs were good, the phones had all the features, I bought Missing Sync to make it work well with my Mac; It all should've been smooth sailing.

But it just didn't work well. Email would quite often need to be reconfigured, it was awful at renegotiating connections and hopping from tower to tower, that one update (from Samsung or MS) that wouldn't turn off GPS correctly when you left the application that was using it, killing your battery in a few hours.. The list droned on.

Taken on their own it wasn't the end of the world but put together it felt like that frankenstein PC you have running in the basement that you didn't have a power switch lying around for and turn on by touching a screwdriver to the motherboard.

Maybe it was ahead of its time, maybe the OEM's just weren't paying enough attention, maybe Microsoft was trying to hard by including a start button and awful stylus. All I know is that damn near everyone I encountered with one of those phones was seeing people with Blackberries working as advertised and becoming very jealous. Add iPhone/Android in a few years and MS couldn't just leave it out there. They'd have been better off completely killing mobile than leaving Windows Mobile to compete with operating systems meant to be used on phones
Looks neat and all, but I have a hard time getting behind anything Zynga is doing...
You would save on top developers.
Not much on the office though.
Better hire remotely.
Good point. We let them shoot and kill each other however.
I'm not sure what the exact problem is with writing left-handed.

I have been switching between writing right-handed arabic and english all my life with every kind of pen available, it has never been a problem. I never even noticed there's a difference.
Shame on you sir, for living in advance society, that deals rationally when confronted with a statistically insignificant event of high emotional impact. Shame!!!

On an unrelated note, where can I get your citizenship?
Just read the linked article. Talk of deploying ground-to-air missile systems or gun turrets against drones at public events, etc. You can be sure the billion dollar defense contractor industry is salivating at the 'threat' and will spend the money to make us all believe in it.
When you sage your post (adding "sage" into your e-mail field), your name will turn blue. This is very visible especilly in a barebone software like Yotsuba is.
I love the free-range kids movement, and if I have kids I'll join it,

but I really don't understand the no-TV thing. When I was a kid I filled my room with televisions and computer monitors, and I watched two tv shows while I listened to top 40 radio while I alternated between playing Mario Bros and writing Pascal programs. It was the magic formula for helping me think clearly.

As an adult, I live in a no-TV house and I work in a quiet room on a single laptop, and I can never concentrate as well as I did back then.
> [citation needed]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r9/quantum_mechanics_and_personal_id...

It's long, but it's worth it. I personally enjoyed reading all this.
http://www.cccp-project.net/
I don't think anybody advocates bullying, or that nobody should ever check up on kids. If they get into bullying, that is a problem and should be adressed. I don't agree that fighting games in general lead to bullying, though.
I ssh into a remote VPS, where all my mail is delivered into ~/Maildir.

From there I read it with lumail, if I have problems I revert to mutt.

I've got webmail setup for those times when I'm travelling and cannot use ssh.
> Is Opera saying they will do a comprehensive code review on every line of extensions submitted to their store?

Clearly, no. But they do probably want to check if your js might be pulling on some funny URLs behind user's back.
.NET has a feature called 'application domains' which provides stuff pretty similar to this, but I don't know if the support is as complete. They use it for security sandboxing, on-demand code loading/unloading, etc.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2bh4z9hs.aspx
That's why I originally bought it -- and discovered that it was amazing. The form factor of the notebooks (hard covers, spiralbound) are great as well- my only wish is that I could buy ones that were not perforated for easy tearing, or ones with a grid.
Yes it was a rant but your response is wrong on almost every point (thanks for conceding that SF is anti-car).

Here are a few links to help open those eyes. I wish I had the time to relate all my personal experiences with each of these problems. Maybe we could grab a beer someday to discuss how to fix this but the first step is admitting there is a problem.

Overview - http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...

Rent control - https://www.baycitizen.org/columns/elizabeth-lesly-stevens/s...

Homeless - http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nevius-How-helping-the...

Anti-tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928382

Corruption - http://www.citireport.com/2012/04/inside-the-willie-l-brown-...

Crime - http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-family-s-murderer-ki...

Anti-family - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/families-flee-san-f...

A little humor - http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-san-francisco-worst-aw...
I run a startup in Bangalore and Chennai, so I can explain the costs involved:

In Bangalore

Your cost for 2000 square feet office space would be at least $2000/mo in a fairly decent building; add to this 10 months rental advance which is $20k

Your cost for each developer would be between $1k - $2k - this of course depends on the kind of work they'd need to do as well as how much experience you're looking for in people. Do remember that almost everyone in India expects a 10 - 20% raise every year. Senior level PHP folks will cost you $1,500-ish considering the fact that freshers out of school get paid $600-ish a month.

You'd also need to invest substantially in management staff in India because it's very hard to get anything done unless you have a manager for every 4-5 people, unless you get really good self-motivated guys who'll cost you a bomb. Managers will end up costing you $2k+

And, I forgot to mention - laws and the government are a bitch here.

I think you're just a few years late in jumping to the Bangalore bandwagon :)
If you look at the key features, following are the attractive points about zBase:

- LRU based or random eviction based cache management.

- Support for multiple disks and thereby IO parallelism.

- Incremental Backup and Restore (You can pack 5x .. 10x size of RAM in ZBase and make use of incremental backups for node failover)

- Incremental backup helps to offer Blob level restore in hourly, daily and weekly granularities)

- Cluster manager - ZBase operates by partitioning entire data into virtual buckets and servers act as containers to hold these vbuckets. Hence provides scalable ways to increase or decrease the number of servers in a cluster.
... I'm not sure how that differs/contradicts/contributes to anything said thus far. Did you have anything to add?