skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got marked down as not a culture fit when at an interview with a digital agency - I pointed out that the camped noisy office environment (all working on laptops no double screens and popper docking stations) would be effecting their efficiency.

The role I was going for was as a technical consultant to improve the quality of the work - go figure
The question is not really whether such and such implementation is best. The question is, does changing implementation preserves subjective identity?

I bet many people here would not doubt the moral value of the emulation of a human (feelings and such are simulated to the point of being real), but would highly doubt that it would be, well, the "same" person as the original.
I don't understand how people keep coming to that conclusion. IMO, iOS 7 looks nothing like WP8, and more than that - IMO it feels nothing like WP8. I don't really know how to quantify it more than that, they just still feel like radically different platforms.
Yes I understood that. But right now if you want to use docker.io on your OSX dev box you have to run linux inside a VM to be able to leverage the docker.io features (building and testing apps in lightweight containers) for later deployment on the target cloud infrastructure.

If you have OSv working both under virtualbox or vmware on your OSX dev box and under KVM or EC2 HVM on your cloud production environment, then it might be possible to have a docker.io features directly under your OSX dev box.
Vets? Doctors?

What does a programmer have to cry about?
Yes, for example - even better, a big button with "See it in action" or something similar. What's important is to make it very easy to find something cool - that for a graphics library is very important. Good luck :)
Does that mean 4chan is a victim of its success ?

I'll always view 4chan as a website who refused to grow up and expand, because it is afraid to since it might lose its very special flavor by doing so.

It seems anonymity is quite hard to implement and make us of properly.
Rosetta: Riding a ‘bucking bronco’ in space
A phpunit BDD Alternative
I wrote a bdd extension for phpunit a few years back and have been leveraging it recently for some greatnonprofits.org API work. It provides some nice output and plays pretty nice with phpunit + testdox. Give it a shot and log any bugs for issues that need to be fixed! I'd love the community support.
> and had to change everything in iOS in that period.

I may be confused by wording here, sorry: which one does "had to" mean:

* there was some external force pushing him (I'm thinking CEO rather than bloggers' complaints)

* he couldn't resist the urge

It somehow feels like the latter is what really happened, but I do not have any sources for that, and would be happy to know.
LinuxCon & CloudOpen North America 2013 - Linux Kernel Panel
Good point i always wondered why people write it like that it makes it harder to read.
Android WebView Exploit Allows Hackers to Install Malicious Apps
of course not it saves building services budget and they dont care a fig for the effect on the business overall.

Some director saved 10% on deskspace costs and got his/her bonus but screwed the productivity of all the staff by 10/15%
// Maybe these two lines will crush everything.

Whatever it referred to was no longer there.
The blog post has been updated, and it seems Opera replied to that effect as well:

> Hi as I written before "We must be able to review the code in a reasonable manner", you can upload somewhere your not-minified code and give us a link to it, write what library are you using to minify and write a command which will minify your package. As fast as we read your code we will publish your extension.
I have a very high opinion of PG

But he's not objective if topics touch Y-combinator startups¹, the same happened during the AirBnb PR disaster.

¹ and when he talks about programming languages ;)
Fantastic for sharing, though the startup time improvement is minor (e.g. I saw 17% improvement). BTW: that SO comment references a pdf that shows how to include your own classes, on pages 61-62 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/jp/ondemand/java/20110519-... tools link: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/make/tools...

IBM's multi-tenancy gives 3.3 speedup, for HelloWorld - worse for others (maybe if they combined it with CDS?)

BTW: The only way to get instant Java startup is not to startup - use an already running JVM, with the classes already loaded. It's fast. Just leave it in the background til you need it - it's effectively a server. Especially good to invoke javac this way, for lightening compiles (if like me you don't use an IDE).
Healthy life expectancy is only 75.0 max (in Japan)

If we expected to live much longer than that, we might be more cautious of accidents.

If you only have ~10-50 years to live, you might be prepared to take some small risks to save time: cross the road 100m in front of a speeding vehicle... it's a tiny risk and you might die of an acute disease tomorrow anyway.

If you have ~1000-unlimited years to live, people might generally take fewer accident-causing risks: the cost of an accident is hugely greater.

Then again, who knows? Maybe a society of immortals would need to take more risks in exchange for status.

But, you essentially decide your own level of accident-risk and I'm sure you could get it way down from 1/1656.
I wrote this framework a few years back and have been extending and utilizing it a bit recently for validating greatnonprofits.org's new bidirectional review api.

It's a nice tool although it needs more eyes on it to identify lurking issues with misc phpunit features.

Please give it a spin. It is only verified to run against phpunit 3.6.7 but should work around similiar versions.
There are a few cases of genuine sloppy UI in iOS 7, but this site does a horrible job of pointing it out.

http://sloppyui.tumblr.com/post/61658685474 This is the most outrageous. Apparently this mid-transistion screenshot demonstrates something poor. What? I have no idea. Is it sloppy in the same way this http://i.imgur.com/e5Vyv5z.jpg is sloppy?
Threads rely on posts/images to get bumped to the front page.
Not bumping a thread is therefore a passive downvote because other threads are being bumped while the saged thread isn't.
Technically it isn't a downvote though, there is an actual way to do so (called 'hiding the thread').
Superb. (TODO: look for an ASCII drawing mode for Eclipse)
Makes one appreciate languages like Pascal which differentiate between the equality operator '=' and the assignment operator ':='.

I wonder why the decision was made in C to use '=' and '=='? I'm betting it has something to do with the laziness of the programmers :).
Has it ever happened that people moved to a rival product due to open formats?
News flash , AAA companies don't like to do PC releases because of all the piracy.
Hell Let me be honest , every GTA games i had played till San Andreas on the PC was a cracked version.
It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.
A First Look At My New Book (and why I’m writing it)
This is why I use VLC :)
Compared to others, the point of CM is precisely not to add too many features and provide a close to stock experience. It's not that useful if you have a Nexus device, but otherwise you can get (1) an Android version without all the clutter of HTC, Samsung or others (2) a recent Android version even if the device is old and unsupported.
DivX specifically is not so useful now that windows (7? vista?) bundles good MPEG-4 decoders for both ASP and AVC (but on XP-class hardware, it was more performant than XviD). I think the DivX software bundle includes an encoder, so there's that.

There's still a few reasons directshow is still relevant:

- Getting video thumbnails for .mkv, .ogg, and .flv files in windows explorer

- Adding postprocessing filters (deblock, aspect ratio correction, pixel shaders, subtitling) to media players that don't otherwise support it (windows media player)

- Adding AV format and container support to your existing media player, for formats that Microsoft don't bundle decoders for (e.g. H.265, VP8, theora, daala, silk...)
5 guys in a 4BR? So are two of them in a relationship and sharing a room, or is one paying $1200 to sleep on a couch?
I can't believe I got downvoted for that. I'm just stating facts about public transportation, regardless of type.
The other cup must contain Z/2 (with probably 50%, as you say) or 2Z (also with probability 50%).

Right that's not true. If you're presented with 2 cups/envelopes, whatever, and you're told that one contains double the amount in the other, then you have 2 amounts: Z and Z/2.

If you choose a cup, then the other one either contains Z or Z/2.

Whether or not you refer to those initial amounts as Z and 2Z, or Z and Z/2 is up to you, but there aren't 3 options, there are only 2.

This seems (a) completely different, and (b) unenlightening. It's completely different because I seem to know what all the options were for what you did and the amounts involved.

Yep that's my point: in order to attribute an expected value with probabilities for both Z/2 and 2Z assuming the amount you chose was Z, you have to know a bunch of additional information. This explains it much better than I can: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dy9/solving_the_two_envelopes_proble...

But if all you get are two envelopes, and the information that one is double the other, the situation is much simpler: you're choosing between 2 amounts and there is absolutely no difference if you switch.
So what - if I didn't visit the link, I wouldn't even know about these "sloppy" features.

Done is better than perfect.
"It's not about fair or unfair. I'm not saying anyone should force the companies to change."

Why not?

What if game developers were to unionize? Or we were to strengthen the 8-hour work day laws? Or boycott the most egregious companies?

What's wrong with those or other ways of forcing the companies to change?
Yes, and someone locally just got in a terrible accident on a scooter. Brain damaged for life and lucky he didn't die.
http://archive.org/details/playman00groogoog
>>What makes paper/whiteboard so advantageous ?

This is a very important question. Drawing Maps, especially for testing purposes depends on dumping things from your brain to paper as they come to you. The problem with Map creation software is Mouse and Keyboard, take time to draw a circle(Or at best position a circle), and write things inside the circle. Brain doesn't work in get-idea->hibernate-until-recorded->proceed mode. Our brains pretty much reach an idea, and then proceed towards the other. For that you need a quickly interacting tool. Pen/Paper, Whitboard/Marker is the best tool at this time for that kind of a purpose.

Another advantage of White board is the size. Many software teams gather create a map on a big white board, take a photograph and mail the team.

Also stuff like using Pen/Paper has separate advantages. Like putting in quick note points, or a diagram etc.
On a related note: Yamauchi was 55 when the NES was released and he retired some time after the Gamecube at 74.
Steve died at 56, makes one wonder what else he could've given us.
Not to mention, with smartphones getting cheaper and cheaper, a lot of people in developing nations are getting access to the internet for the first time.
"...However, a study of over 40,000 survey responses collected over a decade has found that the benefits for workers are quickly outweighed by the disadvantages..."

"...The productivity benefits of teams working together have been used to sell the open plan office for decades. Yet, if you do these evaluations and actually talk to occupants of open plan offices, very few people think that they are productive spaces..."

Note the moving the goalposts here. The survey shows people don't like the noise and interruptions caused by open plan offices. Okay fine, I get that. But the article promises that the benefits are far outweighed by the disadvantages, and then by way of disadvantage tells us that people don't like them that much. There is no data whatsoever on the benefits or drawbacks overall, just opinions from people working in open plan offices.

Is it not possible that open plan offices annoy people and are also more productive? We don't know. This entire article just tells us most people would rather have their own space to work and not be annoyed so much, which most of us should know already, right?

"Things that achieve a goal" and "Things we like doing" are overlapping sets. They are not identical.
For what it's worth, I think nearly all your examples are spot on. These are sloppy jobs that I would've personally been ashamed of releasing to the public.

That said, noticing alignment issues and font inconsistencies is not given and a lot of people won't give a damn about them.
They're not off topic they belong in /mlp/
Don't you feel a little sad when you vaguely remember those days? I'm only 26 but my memories about those "golden days" are becoming harder and harder to find.

I got an N64 at the age of 10 when my brother and I got "good grades for an entire year" in primary school. It was my first console (and we didn't have a computer).

I started claiming I wanted to make videogames around the age of 7, so it was almost like a defining moment in my life :) I have a lot of great memories with that thing, and still think the controller design (though not the build) is the best of any console ever.

After we got the N64, we suddenly had many more friends who wanted to come over and play! I evangelized the N64 and eventually there were 4 of us who got one, so we could swap tons of games. (Game acquisition for kids in those days was hard!)

Been a huge Nintendo fan ever since. My N64 is still hooked up to the TV.
One additional reason for the popularity of VMs in enterprise environments is that software vendors will often refuse to support applications on servers that have other applications installed.

Supporting high-availability of guest servers by allowing "live" migration from one host to another is pretty cool as well - either for fail-over or to allow hardware maintenance.

The default position these days in enterprise environments seems to be that a server will be a VM unless you have a really strong case for having dedicated hardware (and that only ever seem to apply for database clusters).
Did he drive too fast, or do you just have a lot of idiotic drivers around?
One of the things I read about high speed city to city travel is related to commuting, not just business travel. But yes, I was changing the subject to public transportation, which I think is a serious problem in the U.S.
Interesting perspective. I often get annoyed at myself for remember very little from my school years that's not related to my current career or hobbies (e.g. history, geography, English lit) and almost feel that I should learn it all again, but I guess if I don't actually use that knowledge I'd just be forcing myself to memorise facts for the sake of it.

Perhaps it is best that I just let it go and instead focus on learning new things that I really want to learn or that'd be useful for what I do/want to do?

Now if only I could selectively delete memories I could finally forget the time I ended a call to a client with "Love you, bye!".
Funny, because I thought that the whole point of buying an Apple product is that even if you lose features and interoperability, it's incredibly well polished and thought out.

Seems they're losing that attribute without gaining the others.
> Done is beter than perfect

Apple's new MO it seems.
Who the hell still installs divx?
Oh, well post under your real name then, so you won't run the risk of being tainted by his money, ideas and connections, should the situation ever arise that you've done something he would be a part of. (And I doubt very much that YC operates this way anyway.)

What's that? It's too convenient to vociferously denounce someone for having an imperfect track record while doing something so grand that you could scarcely imagine the decisions he's had to make? (If you tried, that is.)

There's a reason why the word "anonymous" is often followed by "coward" -- it's abusing anonymity when you run to it as a shield from which to make pointed criticisms against actual people who will actually read what you write. Anonymity, used bravely, can provide a defense against the mob. Used cowardly, it's a defense against scrutability.
It's fake, but a few years ago there was a story about a meeting between him and Steve Ballmer. Google for "HEY, BALLMER, WHY DON'T YOU SUCK MY TINY YELLOW BALLS?"
Awesome that he understood the detailed history and requirements of the whole format after spending a few weeks with it, huh?
Mechanically Designing Binary Searches for Interview Questions
I'd love to see a similar set of "'iOS 7-updated' apps running on iOS 6 or earlier."

Before I upgraded yesterday, there were a couple of apps I saw (I think it was Shazam) where they must have emulated the iOS 7 feel, rather than using system-native widgets, so the result was a "business in front, party in the back" mishmash of UI on the same screen.
> /b/ was almost entirely ponies at one point

And it was a better place, then they let the /b/tards have it back.
The earlier years of the 360 were plagued by RROD problems. I bought a second (original) console a few years in and had no problems.

My experience was that the RROD issues were sorted out well before the elite and slim 360s (worked in GameStop), so it's surprising you had problems with those versions.
Just remember that tons of free software distributed on SourceForge now includes malware and broken installers as well.
Thanks for this.

I don't actually use C, although I know a few languages with C-like syntax (Java, JS, AS2.0) and I'm learning Go & planning to learn D.

This small change will be really helpful in all these languages. Even if I never make this error again it will help stop people who alter my code from making this error.

Perhaps they should teach it in more programming textbooks, as I've not come across it in anything from HeadFirst to online tutorials to Deitel & Deitel.
I found Riak to be fast - can you clarify how you set it up?

I know some developers that can make Oracle seem slow by not designing the actual database correctly.
For many people changing the searchengine is not a change they can revert themselves. Neither is having less space because of an additional toolbar. Both changes hurt them. Malware.
More likely it was never 'designed', but evolved from a memory dump, with inconsistencies appearing as the architecture changed over the years.
Why is the textbox transparent? I haven't seen the actual transition in action, but it certainly looks sloppy this way.
Facebook isn't about data, it's about friends. Most people move to a rival product once many of their friends have done so.
Watch A Cat Unlock The iPhone 5s Using Touch ID And The Fingerprint Sensor
The whole point of Bastoy is that they don't feel overwhelmed and actually learn a thing or two about living in a society.

This absurd situation (where someone wants to go back to jail) only happens when criminals are turned into animals and kept in boxes for extended periods of time without any support.
Really want to buy GTA V, but I am just put off that it's on old consoles! I have a PS3, but I'd much rather wait for a PC release and have it looking as good as it can, and silky smooth.

Or am I being prejudiced? Does it run OK on a PS3?
In the Edinburgh office wages are much lower than in equivalent positions outside games, and everyone is waiting for a bonus to compensate for the crunch they had to put in to finish the game.
I hope they do get a big bonus, my friend is basically living to work, not the other way around.
DrRacket lets you embed images directly in source code.
I keep meaning to but haven't got round to coughing up the £35. It does look amazing and is (one direction) of the sort of thing I was talking about. I'd need to see the javascript it generates before I could happily include it a project.
So install CCCP and not a codec pack :)
Have you tried FreeMind? The interface is quite good -- none of this circle drawing stuff you point out.
The market tried, I can't find a link at the moment and I'm unsure if this was NES, SuperNES or even on a Sega console, but there was a legal battle around making a game on un-licensed cartridge. You didn't see any, because Nintendo succeeded in being in control of what could be released.
I, too, prefer paper for the reasons you noted. However, I also tend to run out of paper and the map becomes a disorganized mess as I cram in new ideas. So often I end up reverting to software. I haven't found nice mapping software, so for the time being I'm using a text editor. So I don't draw circles or write pretty headlines or such; I focus on writing thoughts down (I type pretty fast) and I worry about organizing it later.

A map editor is on my todo list though. The goal is to make something where I can do exactly what I do now (type things down, little to no mousing involved, minimize time spent on the circles/organization/whatever) and shuffle the data around when it becomes more convenient. Diagrams and drawings will still be a pain though. Maybe I'll get a Cintiq or something :-)
> The only issue is that after a while some animations start being a lot to sit through each time, especially the multitasking interface animations and app fly-in

This is what annoyed me a lot about WP7, too. Long "cool" animations that slow you down with each action you perfor, get boring very quickly, and eventually become frustrating.

On my Android phone, I've even set the animations to be faster than they normally are, precisely because I want stuff to be done fast, not watch a 1-second long animation each time I tap on the screen.
No, if anything it's a lot more like Android, UI-wise. Here's a comparison:

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/06/10/ios7-vs-android-a-quick...
There was a time when gaming PCs had to be upgraded regularly, but that hasn't been the case for years, now. My gaming rig was built about three years ago, and it should be able to go another one to two years before it will need an upgrade. And even then, the only upgrade it should need is a new video card (the GTX 460 that I have is sufficient, but it will eventually be a performance bottleneck).
PHP Jobs, articles for this week - 19th September
As it is a massive commercial product that is developed to run on PS3 and Xbox 360 I'm sure it runs "OK" on the PS3.
Just a nit, but there was nothing special about Hollywood in 1962. Hollywood has always been a "cool kids" club, and JFK was right in the middle of it.

What we see over time is that various people are considered cool kids or not, and the cool kids all like one thing or another, but Hollywood in the 50s and 60s wasn't some kind of propaganda machine, although folks today make it out to be. It was just that's what all the cool kids were doing back then.

There was some really edgy stuff made in the 50s and 60s.
Clojure's Core Functions in Depth
Some previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746787
Weird. In europe you can watch it online on the provider who bought the rights in your region. Only thing that is annoying is that they dont allow retention, so if you are 3-4 hours late you are SOL. Sad if the sold the US rights to someone who does no online streaming.
HP upgrades Envy 17 Touchsmart with Leap Motion
That means I still need to install 300mb of divx crapware, right?
two t's are better than one :)
Using a VM can also reduce copying of data, particularly in the network stack.
iOS7 hurts, simply hurts my eyes. After many years I'm forced out of the platform by this UI revamp.
Pretty simple really. They haven't used either.

WP8 and iOS7 are about as different as you could possibly get.
I had noticeable frame rate drops on PS3, but it's still an incredibly fun game to play. 8 hours in so far and a smile on my face the entire time,