skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the simplest reason, for 90% of people there is a no sense of purpose in life except settling for a 20K income and have a well settled family of four.

FWIW, I see a lot of competent people in the United States with this mindset (different numbers, but the same mindset.) They work hard in college and learn what they're supposed to, and after college they keep up with the technologies required for their work. They are rarely superstar coders, but they are competent and productive. People like that end up exactly where society guides them. In the U.S., the society turns them into valuable professionals; in India, apparently the outcome is not so good.
No hire.

Candidate came off as smug and didn't even try to qualify his opinion with supporting evidence or experience.
So I had a few separate experiences with this over the weekend:

1) A friend stood in line for a few hours, got to the front, found out they didn't have the color he wanted and left.

2) A colleague in another company got one and she immediately remarked, "it looks just like Android!".

3) A neighbor returned theirs because they couldn't read all the low contrast stuff on the tiny screen.

4) Another neighbor has kept theirs, but complains all the colors and things are too bright and too loud.

5) Another neighbor went in to buy his, got some time to play with it, decided he didn't like it and went and bought a couple Galaxy S4s for him and his wife instead.

6) Coworker said he like it, thought the control panel and "slide away the background apps" was great. Hated that the slide away the emails is now the wrong way.
This is DIY, not commercial use. It's just the plans.
Everyone stopped using FTP 10 years ago? Pretty general statement, one I know to be untrue because most of my non-profit clients still use FTP.

But I take your point, and on my own projects, I stick with git, grunt, and rsync. Not a fan of SourceTree, and now that I know Vim, I can use git diff to good effect.
To the downvoter(s): this comment seems like a rude quip for its own sake but if you think about the reasoning behind it I believe you'll somewhat agree.
What do you mean by staged? In a sense they all are- I'm sure they ask the question to a lot of people who say "that's not an iPhone, that's an iPad Mini". But they edit those ones out. They're not intending to portray an accurate image of the American consumer.
Interesting

- Django regular views are ok (though not class based)

- Django "class views" are a product of brain damage, really (see the example to see what I mean)

This looks like sane class based views, but I was expecting something more like the way Pyramid does it (which are not generic, but class based)
While I've been out of the .NET game for a year or so, I'm aware of the ecosystem. There's a lot of great libraries out there, that make the experience considerably better.

Companies on the Microsoft stack tend to be extremely conservative. I hardly ever see anyone using these ORMs - I see LINQ-to-SQL or EF, or just as often, inline SQL using DataSets in codebehinds.

I don't think that companies should immediately jump on the next great technology, however there are plenty of companies sitting around on WebForms based on .NET 2.0 (2005) and .NET 3.5 (2007), and a few still on .NET 1.1 (2003). The only reason these companies have not moved onto ASP.NET MVC (or anything else) is because of the sheer cost of doing so. With that comes all of the negatives discussed in the post.
Am I the only one who thinks we don't need Moore's Law anymore? The game has moved from computing to communication.
SK Gaming was started in Germany (but they essentially recruited the old NiP Counter-Strike clan) and I think 'bds' still is high up in the SK organization.
Hiring The Wrong Employee
Just as an FYI: For those that prefer a full screen experience when composing messages can hit 'd' instead of 'c' when using keyboard commands.
Yep, half-way sounds about right. By default ASP.NET doesn't allow you to GET json, have to override that.

Also the routing is not RESTful at all and doesn't handle nesting very well, so you have to find a 3rd party routing library or role your own.
he will do anything BUT turning against his puppet masters. you all saw what could happen - dallas, 1963.

the good thing is: since then, nothing changed. keep calm, people.
I think these are good points! I've been held back by AWS prices as well, especially during bootstrapping they are rather high.

The downside you mention at the end, regarding setup time: we use CloudVPS, a Dutch based company that keeps upping its service in the direction of AWS (currently, when your billing status is OK, new VPS-es are setup without human interaction, not milliseconds but still fast enough for most use cases, for new customers you're running a free trial within a working day or so).
AWS is just not very cost-effective in terms of performance per dollar, especially when it comes to storage performance (my own specialty). It only appears that they are because of the hourly billing and a human inability to compare quantities across nearly three orders of magnitude (hours vs. months) intuitively. Now that there are hundreds of vendors with hourly billing, as there have been for a while, it's easy to see how much they suck in terms of cycles, packets, or disk writes per dollar. They still have the most advanced feature set, they have by far the best public-cloud network I've used (out of nearly twenty), there are still good reasons to use them for some things, but don't go there to reduce permanent-infrastructure costs.
I've noticed lots of articles where people give the same advice: Don't worry if your plan isn't scalable at first.

Is this really a problem? Do that many founders throw out an idea because it won't scale?
Mocking Android fanboys in a forum overwhelmingly dominated by Apple adulation? I hate to use a Reddit/4chan meme, but so brave...
::whispers into your ear:: "PIN number..., ATM machine...*"
The first outsourcing disaster I experienced was view state related. Back in 2003, a membership management app I inherited managed to hang of view state. Each page would throw 2.5Mb across a LAN. It sucked. It also had numerous bad patterns like UI driven SELECT N+1 hell. This is the norm for your average cheap custom build asp.net app.

We rewrote the entire thing in php (nice php!!) in three days and it's still used to this day without modification (even managed to get through a couple of security audits unmodified).
That was the sense in which I was using it. Game Developer magazine always used to have a section where they had developers do a "post mortem" on projects they had finished and they were very instructive on what had gone well/poorly.
'I want the entire Internet on my wrist'

So do I, but not at current carriers' rapacious data plan charges. My Sprint Epic 4G is in my sock drawer because a moment of clarity showed me that $180/month for internet on my person is wrong.
Remember all the naysaying? One story on HN claimed Apple had a "Windows 95 problem". Yet it seems that every time Apple reveals a product that tech blogs are disappointed with, it goes on to set sales records.
Please stop replying to people like this. It's extremely discouraging to people, and not helpful to the PyPy project (of which I'm one of the developers).

People have a right to have a problem with our software without trying to fix it themselves.
Everything counts in large amounts - Depeche Mode
The cheapest way to improve a confusing UI
Why? It IS highly secure. Just not infallible.
I've gone back to Thunderbird and IMAP because of this.

Hide text formatting buttons???

Teeny-tiny reply windows?

I'm not sure what assumptions they were making, but it feels like they want me to use Gmail like it's Twitter.

What's next, a "make this conversation public" button? And it will show on my G+ profile?
I guess you're wrong.

http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
It's not the dosage per pill that's unsafe; it's the concentration over a period of time. Acetaminophen builds up in the system.

I'd venture to guess that most acetaminophen/paracetamol users aren't popping Tylenol (etc.) every four hours for weeks at a time. But four Vicodin pills a day, taken over the course of a week or two -- not an unusual dosage for pain relief from major surgery or illness -- will concentrate an extremely large amount of acetaminophen in your system, because acetaminophen is eliminated fairly slowly from the body (and at great cost to the liver).

You're probably not going to kill yourself taking that much acetaminophen. I've done it a few times, and I'm still here. But you might do some serious, potentially irreversible damage to your liver. It's sort of like heavy metal poisoning: it takes a lot to get an acutely toxic dose, but a slowly toxic dose can accumulate over time.
I thought i knew what a broken educational system is...
YouTube video recommendation still has a long way to go
jsbin is 502-ing.
Today you do, but Java9 will expand the idea of the modular JRE and allow you to tailor what's included. They were pretty clear that the road forward would see JavaSE and JavaME merge into a single project with different "profiles".
I actually prefer the UK word "mobile" which takes away the phone connotation, and combines with "computer" as well as "phone."
How about hardware design doesn't allow it because the thing being stored is a hash?
My theory is the hardware is isolated precisely to prevent a software bug (update) from being able to access the raw fingerprints. "Children's game steals fingerprints" is exactly the headline Apple doesn't want to see. But that's just speculation, maybe it is accessible.
Staged as in the girl licking is acting through a script.
It's the revenge of the weird taxonomic western culture.

If you hate your users and don't know anything, you think systems should be designed logically. Logical, to you, will mean that similar things are put together. Likewise, similar will be defined by occupying the same spot in some weird taxonomy of all things in your head [1]. This will result in putting change the font size, boldface, and indention in a little tray of "things that happen to text". This is either because you are crazy or think your users love playing the $25,000 pyramid. You will then compound your madness by labeling this tray with the not-an-icon of an italicized, underlined, bold letter A.

If you do not wish to be one of these bad people that turn their UI into some sort of Lovecraftian chest of drawers where the contents of each drawer is another chest of drawers, please investigate "task driven user interfaces". They are better. Things that use task driven UIs are illogical and messy and unbalanced and much, much, more pleasant for the people who have to use them.

[1]: This is culturally determined and possibly different for every individual. Nobody else will understand your taxonomy. There is no way to fix this. Sorry.
because some functionality was moved and now requires more interaction doesn't mean its objectively worse. If by moving a feature that is very seldom used ( like renaming the subject ) allows you to make common features easier to use then its better.
I have a "basic account" with HSBC. All banks and building societies should be offering something similar.

It has no fees, so long as I don't go overdrawn. It had a regular cashpoint machine card, which they've just replaced to be a visa debit card. It has online banking.
You sometimes get good support. I've spent too much time on the phone to then (as a gold partner) and got sod all back on most occasions. If you're lucky you get a workaround but most of the time it's denial.
This is the assumption. However, reality begs to differ. In a place where 75% of the teachers are adjuncts and more and more tenures are replaced by adjuncts, that assumption does not hold. Teaching as an activity is in general valued by society, but that doesn't seem to pay of in appropriate wages for a large part of the teaching workforce. I think that's a sad state.
Shiny is truly awesome and makes building web apps that involve statistical processing really easy.

Shameless Plug: Here is an app that I built using Shiny to display availability in bike sharing systems across the world.

http://glimmer.rstudio.com/ramnathv/BikeShare/
Irony Indeed! Never see traffic like this usually.
Don't make your code "More Testable"
Given all of the differences between Python and C, I don't think it's even debatable whether or not the indentation rules in Python are the key difference. I'd say that typing and interpreted vs compiled are both so much more important.
prior to asp.net mvc or those master page things, every asp.net project I ever worked on eventually had a base webform which was the dumping ground for everything and thus nightmarish to comprehend or maintain. Django's CBV's remind me of that nightmare and I tend to avoid them because it feels like reinventing a poorly designed wheel with no real value.

I occasionally see comments on threads claiming they are the best thing since sliced bread, but rarely can anyone back it up convincingly.

So, to me they feel like a fad, and should be avoided IMO.
How not to handle a major product launch: The BlackBerry Messenger fiasco
Proximity-based files sharing app goes into Private Beta
Hello! We're a rat-pack of developers, our company was featured by Android at Google IO (our demo was live-streamed over the Keynote! Sweet!), and we're sick and tired of the friction that currently exists with file sharing on mobile devices. We're taking a step-wise approach to our grand (evil) plan for file sharing domination, and the first step is Drop, a file sharing app that is super simple, super fast, and super secure. We're launching the app into limited Private Beta, and we're looking for brave and courageous souls to help us kick the sh!t out of the prototype. The steel-booted can apply here @ www.get-drop.com.
See you at the Fight Club.
The Drop Team
Actually, I expect Moore's law to speed up. Yes Moore's law will end at some point, (in fact physics would tell us it must end this century) but it won't end with the death of the silicon transistor and it won't play out the way people seem to think.

Without the ability to keep shrinking silicon transistors, the industry will innovate in new directions. Eventually (perhaps after a period of relative stagnation in Moore's law.) they will hit on something that is economical and that allows further scaling (graphene? who knows?) and that's when things get really interesting. We've been using the same technology for a long time now with predictable, incremental improvements in shrinking the process. When we switch to a wildly new technology with wildly new characteristics and limits we're likely to see some order of magnitude improvements. It's this exciting transition period that will result, in my estimation, in not just the fastest growth of in the speed of new processors and memory, but a general uptick in the rate of innovation in the industry in general. We've gotten too comfortable with silicon for too long. Change is in the air.
All I want for December Holiday Celebration Day is a touchscreen that interfaces to HDMI directly without the need for an external daughterboard.
Sorry, signed up to say that you sound like an angry young developer. It sounds like you're angry that you're being "forced" to use a tool you have no idea how to use. I use many different development frameworks and have even used Visual Studio. It's not my main development environment but even I know enough not to load 34 projects into a single solution. Ever hear of compiling some of them and referencing the binaries? What a cluster your code must be.
@headius was so kind to answer my question on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSch/status/382065119515398144
Wow...

were there really that many people out buying iPhones this weekend?

How does Apple keep doing that?
1. A Correction to that post is there isn't MANY provider that are around the same price. He said Hetzner. And that is like the ONLY other provider for the same price. And in many cases OVH offers better value then Hetzner.

2. The problem the post mention about OVH not being elastic. That is simply true with every other dedicated provider. ( Actually StormOnDemand offers Dedicated at per minutes pricing ) . But OVH should have their Public Cloud ready in October. Which means you get a Hybrid of Cloud and Dedicated.
It's kinda what I get for running Wordpress on Linode. I'll have to checkout AWS.
I think so, if you're actually designing the images on them.
you can take acetaminophen 1gram ever 4 hours. So long as you don't do it for any length of time(1 week+), thats the issue. (Assuming your liver isn't comprised. )

If you keep to the NHS guidelines you'll be fine (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Painkillers-paracetamol/Pages/I...)

your issue is that you had an opiod mixed in. That is where the "huge risk" is. Both opiates (especially ones like codine that require the liver to work) and acetaminophen (paracetamol) hammer you liver, which is fine so long as you don't take the piss.

Co-codolmol (the UK equivalent of vicodin ) is still available over the counter with a 8/500mg is available without prescription here in the UK.

update

Reading the article its very hard to see what point they are trying to make. The evidence they offer to suggest that its unsafe is vague. Prolonged exposure is bad, and almost doubling the dose is doubly bad.

The basic rule of thumb here for any medicine is this: READ THE LEAFLET. DON'T MIX AND MATCH. TALK TO A DOCTOR.

Most medicine is toxic, and if you double the amount you take bad shit happens. If you OD on codine you stop breathing, why is it a surprise that if you OD
The answer is a chef recipe, but now you’ve got some more questions…
7 million iPhone 5 devices, vs 9 million iPhone 5s + 5c?

So we still need an estimate of iPhone 4S sales the weekend after the price drop (including in China) to compare fully.
Why is it so hard to understand that "Moore's Law" is coming to an end - for silicon chips at least?

The point of these stories is that we're getting to transistors being as big as atoms, and I think that's happening roughly around 2-3nm for silicon.

Whether we'll still be able to improve performance for "computers", by switching to graphene transistors, which even if we can't shrink those anymore, we could maybe "optimize" and harvest all the performance from a graphene transistor. But that is probably going to keep us another 10 years or so.

There aren't that many ways out - until we start making quantum computers, and hopefully silicon and graphene transistors will hold us until then.
Not that you can't get most of this stuff in other platforms or editors, but I'm encouraged that the features they seem to be adding are actually useful as opposed to new ways to drag-drop a table onto a webpage.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudio2013RCForWebDevelo...
I'm working on my first large scale programming project, learning Python and Django right now. I am in the midst of trying to figure out CBV's, and I am starting to understand and agree with the criticism of the generics that commenters have been making. If I want to make any modifications, I am finding myself just writing my view from scratch. I'm going to give this project a try today and see if it makes my life easier!
"Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces to Generate Lift | Hacker News
According to the article the program "essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort". I remember reading this article when it was published (i think it was posted here on HN) and thinking it was just hyperbole, scientific claims notwithstanding. I'm happy someone has actually tried it and reported the results back, but I think it clearly demonstrates the hyperbolic nature of the claims.
Judiciary budget cuts may lead to lighter sentences
"Pursuing legislation that would give federal judges greater flexibility to sentence below mandatory minimums was another longer-term strategy announced by the judicial conference. The judiciary pays for offender supervision at an estimated cost of about $279 per month per offender. Officials said that offenders sentenced under mandatory minimums spend more time under supervision. Congress is considering a bill, the Justice Safety Valve Act, that would allow greater judicial discretion at sentencing. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. supports the legislation."
apple is clearly doomed.
If the idea doesn't scale it could be a problem, especially if your revenue model is based on scaling or if you're planning on raising money.

I think the sentiment you're referring to is mostly "my idea scales but my prototype doesn't - I can't ship before my prototype scales!" and commenters saying don't let that stop you. That's definitely a mental hurdle to get over but a much more fixable problem.
We spend a long time (30+ mins) reviewing every single coding challenge we receive. We also use it as the basis of an hour-long interview - probing on the choice of libraries, asking extension questions, etc.

But it's important that you weed out no-hopers at the CV- and phone-screen stage, otherwise you're going to get hundreds of coding challenges and you won't be able to give them due attention.
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This how I feel about every version of Skype (for OS X) since version 2.8.x. The Skype UI had two windows - one for contacts and one for conversations. This made it easy to tuck Skype in a small corner of your screen. I think starting at version 5 they switched to one giant window and the community, pretty unanimously thought it was one of the worst UIs they had ever used (see this blog post: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/30/skype_5/). The change seemed completely unnecessary and made things very non intuitive. If I myself had trouble using it, I think it must have been even worse for people who do not use computers so often. Indeed many people reverted back to 2.8. I used 2.8 up until a few months ago when Skype finally decided to drop video support for it.

I think the newest version of Skype does let you break things into new windows, but to me it seems that it should be the default.

My main point is: the UI was already great, it didn't need any changes.
Wow honestly what is this company ? 4 interviews ? Hours of coding ? Seriously ? You better be the best bloody company in the world.
When I click on cancel one of the most annoying things that can happen is a confirmation dialog. Having one of the buttons open my email client is one of the few things that could make it worse.
It was never the case.
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