skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
depending on what motion you are doing with the mouse, from careful aiming through to whipping right round in circles with the mouse coming off the surface, you end up using everything from your fingers to your shoulder. Up and down (away and toward) motions are generally shoulder motions, for instance, unless they are very slight, as otherwise you arch your hand too far off the mouse.
The eventual browser default is still (sadly) browser locale dependent, so the menu exists for sites designed for a different locale. I and some others still hope one day we can get rid of that (likely replaced with per domain, primarily TLDs, defaults).
My take is that they could not manage the team growth that was supposed to support their business growth. When team was relatively small they could execute well. After they grew and had to hire just to fill those new positions random people dragged them down. The quality of late BB OS6 and 7 was awful compared to the 5th. This all happened when they were making good sales and were still growing.
Visualizing “ObamaCare-related” Job Cuts
This is why normalization methods exist, but is also the source of various security flaws, like Spotify's issue in June 2013 [1] with user names that were different at the Unicode level, but normalized into forms that were not unique. (Their example, the account 'ᴮᴵᴳᴮᴵᴿᴰ' could seize control of the account 'bigbird'.)

[1] http://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/
Debug a possible situation or even something that happened in the past. Take for example these question from ServerFault: "DNAT:ed packets disappearing"* [1] and "Openvpn, forwarding slow since reboot" [2].

*Sorry for the self promotion, but I don't have any better examples right now.

[1]: http://serverfault.com/questions/320181/dnated-packets-disap...

[2]: http://serverfault.com/questions/542381/openvpn-forwarding-s...
I'm not a sysadmin (though I run Linux and have worked in the Kernel) and I can answer 4 or 5 questions out of those.

So my question is, is this all you need to be accepted at Facebook? or "First level interview" means more difficult stuff comes after this?
And my, how these golden handcuffs glitter!
When you don’t sleep, eat crap, don’t exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers.

Houston, we have a problem...

The way I see it, you "use what you've got". If Fogbeam Labs is ultimately successful, it'll be because we were powered by a continuous flood of caffeine, adrenaline and heavy-metal. \m/

Now excuse me while I go back to sipping Red Bull, listening to Kickstart My Heart[1] and pounding out code...

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ9unxXxoJo
But in that case, do you do product search or mostly FAQ/Help related search?
Thx
I guess it depends on the stack. I'm also a .NET full stack dev, but my stack includes Windows servers instead of Linux servers.

It's been 5 or 6 years since I've done Linux sysadmin work, but I still knew a bunch of these.
You are just plain wrong. If congress doesn't pass a budget, there's no money and most nonessential employees don't get paid.
Resque Bus
Yes, if the client is consulting his cat, then we agree that it is not the designer's fault.

There is no doubt that there are difficult clients, but I am referring to a different problem.
Facebook to Startups: Don't re-invent the wheel
Anyone that can make a hackintosh already knows everything that Fry mentioned - which is one of the reasons why I said the target audience is unclear. And half the people who can run a hackintosh will be able to pick the errors in what he said as well. For those who aren't aware of the hackintosh, having the MBA in-frame sends a very mixed message. Why even defend it's presence? The founder of GNU hates Apple products for philosophical reasons directly related to the fundamental principles of GNU. Having it in frame is a misfire.

Fry is one of the most amazing people on the planet, but he was still a bad choice for this video, given that he actively lionises Apple's products - to the point where he receives special editions available to none other than Jobs himself.
DARPA has a thing where they feed multiple images to people and monitor their brains for signs of subconscious recognition.

Well, why not be a selfless biovegetable strapped down for some twisted kind of obscure use as a glorified sensor by someone else's software? I can see how the military were the first to get in to that! Talk about lack of ethics.

Policing precrime will likely be a thing that catches on.

The thing that's catching on is totalitarianism, which, simply put, is "policing" everything, everywhere, all the time, even though nobody did anything to warrant it.

Having this capability is also good for counterinsurgence, which many states seem to be investing in these days.

Err ... s/investing in/using as an excuse to spy on and curtail the rights of their own citizens/
I am waiting for the GNU mea culpa.

While I strongly support free software movements, they are not up to the height of the current circumstances. How can I replace my mobile phone OS (and hardware) with a free and completely open source? I am waiting for that. It seems the new mobile trend (iOS/Android) caught them off guard.
Really? I think that sounds like a dreadful way to code anything useful.
The trade-off is very simple - big screen or battery life.
BB believed users are not ready to trade productive phone use for browsing and multimedia. They were wrong.

First BB device on multimedia side of this trade-off is Z10. It has a big screen but short batter life. Otherwise fine device, I like it better than Galaxy S3.
Yes. And possibly even through the mid to mid-high end.
The article is wrong.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/28/gover...
How to write a typical, non-trivial CRUD application using AngularJS
The context of the answer was an expert talking to the experts who answered the newbie.
IMHO it's completely fair to criticize others for the externalities that they create. UTF-16 is a design flaw, and Microsoft repeatedly decides to release a new version of Windows that fails to meaningfully address that flaw. To date, MS hasn't communicated a vision for a future of Windows where nobody has to deal with UTF-16, we can only conclude that their vision is that for the next 100 years, the rest of us will still be paying to support their use of UTF-16.

This isn't just about UTF-16 either. Think about how much IE6 has cost everyone who's made a website in the last 10 years. Microsoft's penchant for building and marketing high-friction platforms is a huge drain on innovation (and a big barrier-to-entry for people who want to learn programming), and the company deserves an enormous amount of criticism for it.
>Of course as a founder & CEO you know that your 18% of the company at an $80 million is worth more than 26% of a $30 million valuation but I promise you that this is a nuance that even really smart & educated employees struggle with.

Oh, really?.. Your smart employees suddenly stop comprehending basic math when it comes to their future compensation?

Or maybe - just a guess - when the CEO was recruiting engineers (who, perhaps, don't have much experience with the business side of startups) he told them they would have 0.75% of the company but forgot to mention dilution?.. Could that be the "nuance" employees struggle with?
They already support a standard charger via USB just like the rest of the EU phones. The problem is that into the phone itself is a proprietary connector, which many people think is against the spirit of the regulation.
I agree with both of you.

Do either of you have recommendations for services that will help me integrate the accepting of Bitcoin? Or do you have any positive or negative comments concerning Coinbase?
There's more to come. I've interviewed with Facebook for a similar position.

After a phone screen, they setup another call that was probably more intense. They asked me to be near a computer with a net connection so I assumed I'd be writing code or troubleshooting something.

I ended up turning it down because I received an offer from another .com that seemed more promising but I believe if I passed the next call, I would have been flown in.
In practice, you always know the byte alignments at the level of abstraction that ASCII and UTF-8 occupy.
That's why Myspace has no chance
You can check the consistency of the kernel "file" and compare a MD5 / SHA-1 of known good kernel. Assumption here that the kernel is loaded into healthy hardware. Depends on the spirit of the question. I do agree, running kernel looking at itself... chicken::egg.
The cultural memory of stock options revolves around the Microsoft IPO, where in a pre-internet age, secretaries (which indicates how long ago it was) became millionaires via tiny slices of equity. The Google chef brought the misconception into the internet age.

Even at a billion dollar exit, 1% is borderline fuck you money after taxes.
What is not said is often more important than what is said. A good employee will learn how to read their CEO that way even if they aren't very transparent.
These comments seem very ignorant of what a government shut down is and why it's happening. It has nothing to do with debt or taxes or spending limits. Congress must pass a budget or a CR by September 30 or most agencies must close their doors. There are exceptions for public safety and other reasons. It's the law.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/28/gover...
Thanks! yes that's what I mean
Thanks! yes, these are very useful example.
> On the other hand, I'm betting you'll have a hard time naming a company that had to pay "thousands of dollars in lawyer fees" for buying what turned out to be a boosted logo. You just take the logo down and get a new one.

It doesn't exactly work like that. I wish I could find my notes right now, I have a half-written blog on copyright issues for clients that I did a bunch of research and found these cases. Anyway, you don't get to just say sorry and move on. You're liable for damages whether you knew about it or not. You can, of course, go after the designer if they're not outside your reach (international or hidden behind an anonymous online identity) but it's a real issue. As a designer, I have to know about this stuff because I can be sued if a client gives me something they don't have permission to use and I do. There are, of course, a number of issues that could effect the outcome including if the copyright is registered and if they're willing to go through the effort to go after you but it's a danger that shouldn't be ignored. (I am not a lawyer. I just have a healthy fear of them.)

> The process you're advocating, with the specific bells and whistles you're mentioning, starts at $5000. No sale. Could you instead give him some advice that involves a more effective use of $500?

Not always. My wife and I are both designers. Many of our friends are designers. We do a lot of on-the-side work with small budgets that would give a much better result for the same cost. Sometimes one of us will come home from doing something during our 9-5 for a huge multi-billion dollar corporation to do something for a 1 person startup. Often the startup has more interesting projects and are much nicer to work with. Plus, I don't have to wear a suit, a fake smile and get patted down by under-paid security when I go to meet the CEO of tiny-startup, llc. And as a bonus, most of you guys pay in less than 6 months without having to resubmit form 41824817B with the new PO number to the department that never answers their phones. (I hate corporate work.)
It's a pretty good post, too bad about the title. I should give Closurescript a try. I don't necessarily agree with local modifications though, not unless it's absolutely obvious.
That's because open source is not necessarily related to freedom. It's a purely pragmatic issue, though a core property of free software, but by itself it does not guarantee freedom.

Also, free beer > free pizza.
Kudos on calling out the man page in the spirit of instruction.
Post more neuroscience articles, please!

I read The Brain that Changes Itself recently and it markedly reinforced certain suspicions I had. Which other areas of are most active in neuroscience at the moment that might one day be related to human/computer interfaces?
Oh I see, so probably just an interview to filter out candidates.
Another reason why a startup employee shouldn't take stock options and their value seriously at all when considering a job:

> I hate when companies publish too much information about the total stock option allocations, the company valuations, the dilution faced in every round, etc.

The startup employee cannot take their options seriously at all in a situation where this attitude prevails. To her credit the author seems to understand this:

> if money comes through options at the end of our journey that’s icing on the cake

A perfectly reasonable attitude for people to take, although it means the startup is going to have to compete for employees with cold, hard cash.
What's with the click bait title?
http://scottberkun.com/2009/top-ten-reasons-managers-become-...

Especially #8

"8. Self aware, including weaknesses."
Ambient Reality
Follow these easy steps to get a company full of naive people (probably new to startups) and pull the wool over their eyes so you can exploit them to work for below-market compensation!

The closing speech even confirms it. I thought work-for-resume went out of style in the tech world along with unpaid internships. I guess not.
Total link-bait title. Better: "Porting Minecraft to ClojureScript". That's better, but still not entirely accurate since this is just a demo, not the full game.
You might look into helping the Replicant project, which is working on free software for mobile phones: http://replicant.us/
This post seems to be a scam. The rather sensationalist claim in the title has nothing to do with the post, nor is it referenced at all. The post is mostly about reimplementing Notch's 'Javascript Minecraft Rendery Hack Thingy' in clojurescript; and the niceness of applying the Closure Compiler to reduce the size of the output.

At best, the author will later explain that they were conducting an A/B test of post titles and will later share with us the results of their experiment. As it stands, however, this seems to be simple link-bait.
Docker is awesome and I've totally redesigned my development workflow around it. Instead of running a monolithic dev server with dependencies for every project I start (mongodb, mysql, ruby, a giant mess of gems, node, memcached, jvm, etc etc--at a certain point these things start stepping on each others toes), I have a docker image for each dependency and configure a cluster for each project. Source version control is handled independently by simply mounting a project's root folder on each container and passing around config files. File system layering means the container branches for each project only take up as much disk space as whatever gems or node packages they don't have in common. For me, the moment I "got" docker felt like the first time I really understood the git workflow. Starting a new project is now a matter of minutes instead of hours, and the reduced friction allows for tons of experimentation that I would have avoided before. It's also fun to be able to spin up a 12 server mongo cluster on a single VM and watch how the sharding and replication works with different key schemes. I really can't say enough good things about the project, with the caveat that I've only used it for local development so far. I'm super excited to see where it goes once it hits 1.0.
I am for one ok with propriety software. A lot of people want to make money by writing closed binaries and a lot of people want to buy them. Arguable a lot of cool things came out of this model.
In ideal world you could write your software, make it open source so advanced users could hack/verify security of it and still don't lose any (or many) customers, unfortunately it doesn't work that way in our world.

What I am not ok with though are monopolies, lock-ins and influencing education. There is no excuse to teach/use/promote any of the propriety software in schools. There is no reason to use any of that in government institutions. If one vendor has so prevalent position that there is no (or almost none) alternative then it's a monopoly and it's time to deal with it using antitrust laws (which by the way aren't nearly strong enough these days). If there is no free alternative developing it is great project for government to sponsor.

If people not force-feed Excel, Word, Photoshop, Matlab etc. during their education days still want to use that for convenience later in their career - let them. Just give them real choice by educating them with open tools.
The difference is one of values and principles...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.e...
I'm willing to overlook people's self image related qualms with this post on account of how impressed I am by the neologism Senatrix. Hilarious! More like this :)
I thought work-for-resume went out of style in the tech world along with unpaid internships.

American-style corporate capitalism is an original sin culture. You're worthless until validated ("saved") by an abstract phallic symbol called a corporation. The work-for-resume culture isn't going to fade out for a long time.
I'm still not sure, after all these years of almost identical rants and writings, that I fully understand RMS's views. I don't see why freedoms 2 and 3 (distribution) have anything to do with freedoms 0 and 1 (control). If you want to know what's happening to your data, all you need to know is what's happening on your computer, which means you need to see the source. That's a cause I agree with 100%. I don't understand why you also need to be able to give a copy to your friend.
I don't know why you are getting frustrated with him, he just (correctly, as far as I can tell) interpreted the above comment for you.
What if they are not trying to get into the identity market? Imgur is not trying to become your social identity. Reddit is not trying to become your social identity. Success means different things to different people or to the same people at different times. Myspace lost the authentication and identity market.

My question is: What is their hook? Why can they do it better than some random bootstrapped people?
There have been little hints like this throughout the recent articles. Yet people say "stop whining about what they _could_ do; they're not actually doing it."* Well, there's enough evidence they _are actually_ "fighting crime" with intelligence data (see the Reuters story about DEA, IRS, etc. getting tips from NSA.) Even if not, who can honestly think a system, where a spy agency collects everything from everyone and is allowed to hand it off for domestic criminal investigations, is a good idea?

*And yeah, I do try to keep in perspective life as an American is pretty good. But "we're not as bad as those guys" or "we're currently using our extraordinary powers pretty responsibly" are dangerous excuses to have when expanding power...
Thanks!

Btw, the project is looking for collaborators. I belive this is the kind of approach to discover and report security vulnerabilities in the 21st century..
Some of this is really good advice. But there's a fine line between shielding employees from the emotional burden of the full truth and creating an emotional burden by hiding some of the truth.

Generally speaking, smart people are pretty good at reading a situation. But they're also pretty good at inventing narratives to fill in the gaps in whatever information you've given them. If there's a particularly glaring gap or inconsistency in your story, you're going to create a culture of uncertainty and resentment.

Money is the toughest topic of all. Who's getting what, how much of it is left, how much is considered a good exit, and who gets what in that exit -- all of these things are going to be subject to open and not-so-open speculation. Accept as much, and avoid inadvertently creating sketchy or conflicting narratives by telling different things to different employees. When it comes to the financial direction and health of the company, how much you've raised is increasingly becoming a matter of public knowledge. How many employees you have is public knowledge (at least within the company). Your monthly burn rate is not public knowledge, but a smart person can arrive at a halfway decent guess. No need to get into the weeds on these topics, but be honest at the high level.

I like your idea of minimizing the into-the-weeds discussions about options. Employees should be there because they believe in the company, and they should hope for the best when the company succeeds. To whatever extent possible, don't hire mercenaries -- people who are just there for the payout. Hire people who want to be there, can handle the risk, and will be more than happy when the company wins big and everyone benefits. But give them enough options so that they will win when the company wins, and so that their incentives are aligned with yours.

I don't believe it's the startup CEO's job to educate her employees on the finer points of dilution, financing, liquidation preferences, etc. Any employee joining an early-stage startup should be doing that sort of homework in the first place. But it is the CEO's job to give her employees a reasonably fair deal, and to explain her long-term goals and expectations. And the CEO should not use her superior financial knowledge or position to take unfair advantage of employees who might not have as much information or financial savvy.
Any headline which ends in an exclamation mark can be considered sarcasm.
I think there's a different situation altogether. It's not dilution that pisses the engineers off; it's the general fact that what they get (equity-wise and career-wise) is so inferior to what the startup mythology promises. Dilution itself just becomes a touch-point, because all that other crap they look back on and realize they "should have expected".

Most startup engineers think the equity is a signing bonus, almost like a gift-- say, a teaser-- and that they're going to get an order of magnitude more as long as they perform. The fact that it vests over 4 years (with cliff!) and that initial employee allotments are almost never improved is glossed over until they actually join the company.
Oh no no no no no, those plans are well past. I was just commenting that life insurance plans do exist where they pay out in the event of suicide (although they're conditional).
Characters are not fixed width, no, but codepoints are. The idea of "what exactly constitutes a character" gets pretty fuzzy in some cases anyway with utility codepoints.
Absolutely right, but, as I'm fond of pointing out to friends who join startups: you are not joining Google, Facebook, or Microsoft. The odds of you even joining Zillow or Yelp are so remote as to be a rounding error to a rounding error.
Is there anything these pigs do that is worthwhile?

If it weren't for parking, speeding, and DUI tickets, 80% of these pigs would be outta jobs.

Solve a murder you worthless pigs.
Although it's a pretty decemt way to get something up and running while you're learning to program.
> Don't do it!

I get why you're saying this, but it bugs me when people tell those with an inclination to commit suicide to not do it.

It's not your life, and your judgments about its current and future value are meaningless. The person living the life, and that person alone, can meaningfully judge the value of continuing to be alive. It's arrogant and dickish to tell a person about the value that continuing to live has, even if well intentioned, and doubly so in the case of a person you (likely) do not know.
This one is my favorite so far :) Very sleek. But I wish it distinguished "tar" and "snap" to give a subtle cue as to pronunciation. What if the "tar" part were set in a slightly heavier weight?