skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software users not having a comprehensive understanding of the technical complexities of their software is nothing new. It is, in fact, the status quo , as anybody who does IT work for a living can attest.

That WP should have built-in caching, I cannot argue, but once the choice is made to use it, it becomes the chooser's problem.
... to reduce density it might have been easier to simply reduce pressure and then create a hermetically sealed chamber...

Disk heads "fly" above the surface of the disk on a cushion of gas that's pulled under the head by the spinning disk. If there isn't enough gas pressure inside the disk enclosure, this method of locating the heads won't work. Wikipedia actually says:

If the air density is too low, then there is not enough lift for the flying head, so the head gets too close to the disk, and there is a risk of head crashes and data loss. Specially manufactured sealed and pressurized disks are needed for reliable high-altitude operation, above about 3,000 m (9,800 ft).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Integrity_and_f...

Atmospheric pressure on the top and bottom faces of a 3.5" drive case (~22 square inches) is in the neighborhood of 300 pounds each, and there's still more on the front, back, and sides. A square box of thin aluminum is probably not a great starting point for building a pressure vessel. If the box is filled with a gas at close to atmospheric pressure, you don't have to worry about it.

Helium's specific heat is five times that of air, so it probably offers better heat conduction than air at 1/7th atmospheric pressure would.
Can we get net-speak out of titles please?
William Gibson discusses cyberpunk with the Paris Review (2011)
I am a Programmer not a physicist
Which are the top mobile platforms to build apps on... and why?
I think the juggernaut here is WEKA [0], I've seen it used in the real world far more than anything else.

[0] - http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
None of those would bankrupt me, without everybody getting bankrupt. An emergency fund and a modest lifestyle + a decent tech income = lots of security. I also avoid "straight tech" jobs, where there is no strong vertical experience. I work on data analysis and predictive analytics applications, which means I could easily make a jump into several other fields in no time. Call me paranoid, but I refuse to be the "HTML Designer" of the next crash.
Early hostile comments lower ratings on a group blog: a small experiment
Death throughout the ages, an anthology
Does it work everywhere?
The school for poetic computation (http://sfpc.io) is using hackpad to document our work. Its lightweight enough that people actually use it and the search is good. I also really like the fact that recently edited pads go up top, with a highlight of what was edited - makes it easy to see who is doing what.

http://sfpc.hackpad.com
Ripple: The Future of Payments
Varies from company to company, Sony's doing well, HTC's not. But they're all still in business.
I think the author is missing one of the points of 'get shit done', which is instead of debating whether you should use Go/PHP/node, just fucking do it. Instead of agonizing over a design choice, just make the damn thing and tweak it later. Don't over-engineer things.
The belief that better tools will obsolete the need for all that coding effort is probably as old as computer programming itself.

Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month, dismissed the idea in his 1986 paper No Silver Bullet:

"... building software will always be hard. There is no silver bullet."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_silver_bullet
Well, for me the Hacker News angle would have been the part about NP-complete problems ;-).
Google’s Schmidt Ramps Up Pressure to Rein in Eavesdropping
I agree in that "Get shit done" shouldn't be a culture but a goal. It should be a reminder that, after all your pontificating about monads or whatever, nobody but you cares about that shit and you need to produce things that they do care about.
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I think Hackpad is being hugged to death by HN. Anyone else getting 500 errors?
He canned their best phone (N9) and OS (Meego), only to pursue a clearly inferior business strategy, drive the stock price down, and enable a Microsoft takeover...
See my comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668578

The situation for the people Gates is thinking of is very, very different from what we can even imagine.
It would be nice to be able to search for a package. Also, the graph currently has a node per "dependency", which may be with a pinned version. Maybe it might be even better if it just showed package dependencies? Looking through the structure you can see "interesting" packages, but because a package counts as different if a version is specified it makes it hard to browse through the interesting connections.
You might like Pandoc[1].

1: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Why Face-To-Face Meetings Are Overrated
Fun idea, though I don't think I'd trust it with anything important, as obviously it requires trusting the website owners were and are sincere and uncompromised, and all the code they include.

If you're concerned about giving at least the impression of privacy though, your pages should not contain third party, and externally hosted js -

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

https://platform.stumbleupon.com/1/widgets.js

Given the number of sites this sort of js is included on, it must be a huge target now for people interested in breaking into websites and stealing info. If even one of the smaller social networks like stumbleupon was hacked you could take over and keylog quite a few sites just by adding something to the js, then once you have admin access, you have the site.
We are at the precipice of the end of coding.
Why I decided to travel 9761 miles for a 5 minute pitch
Just because someone that's really determined can overcome the iPad's shortcomings and make something that looks professional, doesn't mean that drawing with a capacitive stylus isn't terrible.

Have you ever used a proper digitizer? If you did you should notice immediately how much better it is.
(disclosure: I'm the co-founder)

As well as launching at Disrupt in Berlin, we reached the semi-final of the Alpha competition (alpha = low investment in this context) at WebSummit in Dublin. There has also been some UK media attention including The Times (sadly behind a paywall) and The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sme/small-talk-rb... - scroll down to second sub-heading)
According to their Twitter it should be back now. Works for me, but I did see 500's earlier.
I respect Latex users, but I believe it should die. However I see no actual replacement now or in near future :/
I wish one of the big guys eliminate it once and for all. But there is little value in developing a replacement for academic paper publishing.
Totally unrelated, but looking in the source for PredictionIO (which is Scala) they've got this really deep directory nesting before you can find the code. That's something that always annoyed me about typical Java apps.. is that also a common thing in the Scala world?
Not everyone writes something with the aim of being on HN or reddit or anything else. Sometimes people simply write for the joy of it and don't want to bother with server upkeep.
Throwing something together and putting it in front of people aims to answer the question of "what does the customer actually want?" Until you've answered that question you can't build a professional product - otherwise you're building without a defined set of requirements.

Many entrepreneurs I've met hate the fact they're writing utter crap code, but without the budget to make mistakes (e.g. building the wrong thing), you have little choice.
I find it quite incredible that these days a company can go from a position of almost unassailable strength to total collapse in a few years. That too in a market that is booming rather than falling. Blackberry had over 50% market share back in the mid to late 2000's, and now is defunct. In India back in 2008 Nokia was king. Pretty much every phone was a Nokia phone, and now Nokia too is trying to claw back.

Now that the smartphone market seems to have matured, do we expect to see the current market situation to remain relatively stable over the next decade or so?
Yes, I worked at a large media company where the GM would run around saying this exactly in this way. However, ON TOP, there was a massive PM department that was poorly setup and just slowed everything down. Worst of both worlds.
If your only goal is to get shit done, then too much of what you get done will be shit.
To me the sample output doesn't produce any aesthetic pleasure at the moment, I can't imagine using it even for the simplest material, provided I can choose between LaTeX and it. I hope it will improve.

The title is definitely misleading: "modern LaTeX" it still isn't.
The hover version exposed the most information in a usable and visually-understandable format. I am not surprised.
What happened to the horse population once its marginal product became zero? They got turned into glue. Mostly, except for the lineages which could be retained for entertainment value.

I'm not at all saying that we'll see that happen: I'm speaking to the fact that people's marginal utility really can drop to zero. And although we might like to console ourselves with thoughts that everyone can end up a productive person with enough education and self effort, that's just a pleasant fairy tale. I've worked in service jobs before, and the people in the underclass there, though often genuinely nice people, aren't capable of being independently productive.

Why can't they just form their own economy? Well, they will. In many places you can see what happens when the bottom rung run things: think the favelas of Brazil. Some level of cohesion with the broader economy, where it provides goods that for whatever reason are suppressed by the State in governed areas, coupled with rule by brute violence.
Ask HN: A small reward to everyone who signs up vs. a big reward to the best 3?
I am designing a promo campaign for my startup. have a budget of x dollars. Now the question is should I follow the give something to everyone rule and give a smaller reward to every guy who signs up. Or should I make it exclusive and give a much much bigger reward to the top 3 guys?<p>The Pros and Cons I could think of are:<p>1- If you give something to everyone, the reward is spread tooo thin to be attractive.
2- But if you're giving something to everyone who signs up and performs an action, people may think of it as sure fire money for which they dont have to wait for a contest, etc.<p>Can you guys share your opinion on it as well? It'd be great if you already have some experience running this sort of campaign.
If anybody is smart, they'll get bought out for the patents by Google.
I strongly disagree. Our society is awash in information, and has been for decades now (the internet isn't exactly new, at least in the United States), yet life over the last 30-40 years has been pretty consistent. Arguably the automobile had a more fundamental impact on the structure of our society than has the internet.

The idea that information and education are a silver bullet is a romantic idea that's rarely evaluated on its own merits, certainly not by people who make a living pushing bits of information around.
No, it connects to vim via vim's client server mechanism. The docs for it are wrong, because it will work on OS X if you have MacVim set as your default vim because MacVim is compiled with +server. Anyway, I am quite sure this thing will run into all kinds of trouble because of how broken vim is.
How do you reboot a company's culture? The culture is something that is developed over many years, "rebooting" it would take quite a bit of time if it is even possible at all.
This has nothing to do with tech, IMO. Wander over to Wall Street, go into some white collar office with a bunch of people doing data entry, go to some fulfillment center warehouse, and then go to a construction site and you'll see the same behavior.

Managing people is not trivial. So, to bring tech into it, it really boggles my mind when I see these awful styles. I mean, we spend years developing our skills, and break our arms patting ourselves on our back on how skilled we are. Then, for whatever reason, we end up on the people side and suddenly making it up as you go is fine. We have books on managing people - they are not a panacea, but I'm shocked at how few people in these positions have heard of them, let alone read them.

For example, the Microsoft Press books form the 90s are great. Debugging the Development Process, Software Project Survival Guide, Writing Solid Code, Rapid Development, and then books like The Mythical Man-Month, and Peopleware. Just a passing familiarity is all I ask. But no. Favored people and 'can't be hit by a bus' people get away with anything, great people with a few rough edges get fired at whim, no guiding principles on what it takes to execute a project (get shit done doesn't count, sorry), no concept of personal development. Ugh.
And that article is in #1 spot in HN and of course, OP article itself is linked in article!
I think the catch is that empathy is a large part of good social skills. And is something a lot of "socially awkward" folks are lacking. When you have a massive inability to understand the person on the other end of the conversation, it is not surprising when you learn to ignore them. That is, be an asshole.
Good to see some actual research into this. I'll venture an explanation for the "key criteria":

Your name: Do I recognise your name? Have I seen you before?

Current title and company: Is the company a respected, recognised name? Is your job title analogous to the job I'm trying to fill?

Current position start and end dates: Less than 1 year indicates you're either a contractor or a risky employee.

Previous title and company: Is there consistency with your job titles? Any previous 'big players' in your history?

Previous position start and end dates: Same as current position. Looking for longevity and consistency. Any significant gaps in the dates?

Education: Self-explanatory. Relevance and significance of your course and University.

In all honesty, 6 seconds sounds accurate. I opened a CV I hadn't previously seen before to see if I could glean all of the above in that timeframe and I managed. It was at least enough for me to instantly notice some impressive previous employers and a decent degree of longevity at each company.
Wikifying scholarly canons
valuable!
whilst the detachment of 'px' and screen pixels is a no brainer in the modern world with its proliferation of pixel densities and viewing distances on different devices, the CSS standard could probably do a better job of explaining this.
I actually don't find it hard at all to understand the situation they are in, and I suspect not many people do.

That being said, I agree with Gates. There are far more important things than 100% global connectivity.
Four Revolutions Compared: Agriculture, Industry, Information, and APM
To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Sam Sudore, I am a seasoned technical professional with over 20 years of management and business experience. I live in Seattle and conduct a lot of business in San Francisco. I represent a small but talented group of Ruby and Java developers based right at the boarder of Mexico. We have helped a lot of companies achieve their goals while keeping their expenses in check. If you are interested, we would love the opportunity to discuss your development needs to see if we may be of service. Give me a call anytime if you would like to discuss this further.

Regards,
Sam Sudore
425-471-3133
Software development is Not a Jenga game
+1 for a static jekyll blog :)
How many px is 180 degrees then? or even 75 degrees? Obviously it doesn't work because degrees aren't linear and px are linear. That's the point of the article - confusing angles and px is a very bad move that might appear to work until it doesn't.
Asha WAS doing well is developing world markets. Asha is now a dying business. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://allaboutwindowsph...

Microsoft bought itself another Kin.
Perhaps the most interesting and useful fact about the harmonic series is that the nth harmonic number (the partial sum of the first n terms) is an extremely accurately approximation of ln(n) (they are very close for all values of n, in the limit they differ only by the Euler-Mascheroni constant, which is about 0.577). This is the only approximation I have seen that has constant error in the limit.
> I have to clarify one thing for you though. Having a
> family IS extremely gratifying but it doesn't come at the
> expense of freedom. Simply put, your priorities change.
> What may seem like a loss of freedom to you now, will
> probably become less and less important to you as you take
> on a family.

Hmm. I'm glad this is true for you. It's certainly not true for me (or most parents I'm close friends with).

Don't get me wrong, I love my wife and daughter and wouldn't trade them in. But I have mourned my adventures lost and I expect I will continue to do so.

It's certainly also true that emotionally well-balanced people don't dwell too much on the impossible, and I strive to find joy in the very different opportunities parenthood presents. I also have found my priorities adjust with partnership and parenthood, so some adventures no longer have the same allure.

But I would never counsel unattached people that parenthood doesn't entail dramatic loss of freedom. That just sounds like crazy talk to this parent.

Rather, I'd say: parenthood can be wonderful! But I sure recommend getting your fill of adventure before embarking on reproductively oriented sexual activity.
Sounds like a Daily WTF, but it's also very common.

Its seems most companies don't realise the easiest way to move fast, is a extensible, easy to change/understand code base. And not going through spaghetti code with a fine tooth comb. Odd they recommended research, they only care about one off prototypes.

The problem is future employers assume your the problem.

Btw, Proper scrum/agile encourages people to refactor and keep technical debt down.
As long as it can parse my .vimrc (but then, that's vimscript)
The assumption made in this article is that startups with the "get shit done" mantra only say to "get shit done" when you're not performing. I feel like the entire article is based on a bad assumption..
To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Sam Sudore, I am a seasoned technical professional with over 20 years of management and business experience. I live in Seattle and conduct a lot of business in San Francisco. I represent a small but talented group of Ruby and Java developers based right at the boarder of Mexico. We have helped a lot of companies achieve their goals while keeping their expenses in check. If you are interested we would love the opportunity to discuss your development needs to see if we may be of service. Give me a call anytime if you would like to discuss this further.

Regards,
Sam Sudore
425-471-3133
"you should value execution over planning".

People who hold to this philosophy should practice it while driving. This would reduce the number of people who hold this philosophy.
I think you interpret "get shit done" different than I do. Not trying to put words in your mouth, but I think you interpret as get this product out ASAP. I think of it as take responsibility for yourself, if you need a break, take a break. Whatever you need to do to "get shit done", do it.
Humble bragging meets survivor bias.
Sony's had one good Q with 2013 Q2 and most think its at the expense of HTC. If they continue to carve a market out of what HTC and LG had then maybe they are doing "good", but one good quarter doesn't make a trend.
Or add it to the "simple" wikipedia language.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_on_a_rubber_rope
>You can’t address public education unless you address the fundamental problems with how we hire, pay, promote, and fire the teacher

The problem with all these reform policies is that they are focused on the teacher. Teachers are at the bottom of the barrel in the education world. They can't choose the books, schedules, punishment, or much of anything in the class room. They are even told what to teach regardless of the abilities of there students.

How about the principals, directors of curriculum, various specialist, and all the rest of the "other" people in education.
i do. whats the big deal about that?
Technically message won't get delivered if it's rejected on SMTP envelope level.
New focus. New goals. I'm giving myself one year.
It wasn't even until the 1970's that it was considered illegal in most states to rape your own wife.
Cool, wanted to find out if it was possible to track anything, specifically I wanted to know if the C-bomb was more common in UK and Australia :)

If would be nice if it was possible to change the tracked word directly from the interface (or maybe some service like this already exists).
what a relief, thank you!
Charging un-funded startups to attend a conference to matchmake them with VC's is unproductive and unethical.

If there's a problem with this article, it's that it takes hundreds of words trying to unspool drama from such a simple point.
Ask PG: What percentage gets an interview
PG: I have seen various stats on the web which put application => acceptance rate between .8% and 3% historically, though recent data suggests it is currently closer to 1%.

My curiosity is about interview invite rates, do you invite about 2% of applicants? More/Less?

Or more aptly, what percentage of interviews convert into funded companies in the batch?
I think the best way to pivot and change, is having codebase that you can actually change, without breaking everything.
Thanks for the reply.

What sort of command line tasks are you trying to invoke on both systems that are easier to invoke on unix? I can't think of any commands off the top of my head that I've had to invoke recently, other than IIS commands. Maybe it's just the fact that the C# developer's workflow is so heavily IDE based. I can imagine that if you were having to manually invoke the compiler etc, then a useful command line would be a must.
If you use the sbt build tool, which is by far the most popular in the Scala world, you have to use Maven-style directory layout which is the originator of the horror you refer to (see http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Getting-Started/Direct...). Most Scala projects don't bother with the com/foo/mystuff directory structure part, retaining just the mystuff directory, which is a small saving.

It's an annoying vestige, but I typically don't navigate the directory structure to find files anyway. Instead I use projectile in Emacs. I'm sure other editors have similar systems.
The Cheap App Mentality
XML format is a non-starter for me. It adds too much cruft to the text; it requires putting everything inside of open and close tags, including paragraphs.
Community. Unlocking The Mysteries Of People
CBFS has a $7k-20k license price-tag. How are you affording that for your project?

I looked at it some years ago, but couldn't justify the cost for what I needed a FUSE like ability for. And moved on to a couple of other things.
I disagree. An asshole doesn't have to grasp social nuance. Instead they can just run it over with a truck, problem solved.
SowHN: Marisa - a visual Ghost theme
> Doesn't stop someone just removing the + tag on the email address.

It won't stop spam but the biggest risk with these leaks is from automated testing of a password found from a leak on one service you use with the same email address on another. As long as you use a separate + address for both you'll be safe as they are unlikely to automate testing of different + addresses since most users don't do that.

> A better way is to set up a catch all on a domain... but then you're likely to get a lot more spam

I forward my catch all domain emails to gmail. I hardly get any spam now except to leaked addresses which I've filtered to add bright red labels so I can ignore them.