skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Really? My first impression, upon reading the Ars article, was that it was sensationalistic, ham-handed slop, emitted by someone who not only didn't understand what the hell he was talking about, but didn't appear to have bothered even trying. Then I checked the byline, and all became clear: Dan Goodin is a hack of long disrepute [1] [2], barely competent to regurgitate content generated by others, and certainly not up to anything remotely resembling original analysis or reporting.

The surprise is not that, when given a relatively subtle and complex topic such as this, he made such an utter hash of it that the subject of his interview came off like a paranoid schizophrenic. The surprise is instead that Ruiu didn't know better than to give a third-string jackass like Goodin an interview in the first place.

[1] http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Dan%20Goodin

[2] http://arstechnica.com/author/dan-goodin/
I was thinking of going with Debian, actually. I don't know, it's been forever since I shopped around for a good Linux distro.
Sure - it's clearly a good idea, where feasible (and git repo + whatever-special-hardware should allow the same thing, for the one reasonable case I can think of where it wouldn't be feasible).
Unfortunately that page doesn't actually explain the difference between ART and Dalvik.

I found some random benchmark by a user on XDA (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/new-runtime-compiler-i...) that could indicate significant speedups with ART. Though I would take this information with a huge grain of salt right now as it is one benchmark from an unknown source.
Azure tables is good for storing data much in the same way as a spreadsheet, however when you want to do anything even slightly complicated to index the data it soon becomes hard with table storage and you have to start repeating data. Not ideal. Cloudant makes it very easy to store the data and index it in a myriad of ways without repeating any data.
How we pulled off our first conference and why people loved it
So this is why we haven't seen much happening on the dalvik side.

The source is here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/kitkat-relea... and commit log: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+log/kitkat-re... - So if somebody has the time to investigate it most questions should be able to be answered.
Because KDE is still relevant in terms of desktop market share/adoption %. They should not give that share up without a "fight", although they may prefer to use a word like "trying".
This is how user-submitted events should look for the mobile web
I really miss finger. It was quite a novelty.
I never got a reply to my app
I wish American software giants would open more offices in Canada. Canadian software industry is still in a sorry state right now, but there's a lot talent in the country. American companies can pay lower wage to Canadian devs than US and they will still attract top talents from other Canadian companies because developers are lowballed hard here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ... Yet another HN URL that's mostly undisclosed. Sometimes I wonder how many there are.
Software jobs are usually categorized with soft-eng, compsci, comp and/or elec eng and sometimes even other engineering disciplines. So they most probably don't view them differently. It really depends on the candidate and their capabilities. I have worked at places where the previous coop students were in compsci whereas I am a compeng student. For most of my interviews so far, the other candidates have been from softeng/compsci/ece. Answering as a second year undergrad :)
I think its a bit more than this though.

Their co-op program was, and continues to be, pretty awesome. This, IMHO, is what first got the great students to go there.

With university cost only increasing its nice to know you'll be able to pay your way due to co-op.
It is interesting that this is the exact opposite action Reddit takes when they are having server problems. I wonder what that says about each respective community.
How to Self-Publish a Bestseller: Publishing 3.0
I was volunteering in a comic shop when the bubble burst. At the time we blamed it completely on the sudden availability of reprints. Marvel realized they were sitting on a wealth of intellectual property and started pumping out graphic novels compiling the most valuable story arcs (this plus the movies made their stock prices shoot to the Moon). Then they started producing DVDs with entire collections of comics in PDF format. I bought a DVD from Marvel with the entire history of Uncanny X-men comics for $40 (DVD's now worth $200). A week later, I donated my entire X-men print collection to the shop owner.

http://www.amazon.com/40-Years-X-Men-Complete-Collection/dp/...

There are a lot of hard feelings about this in the comic-collector community. I did lose years of what I expected to be an investment. At the same time, I get to read the entire history of Hulk comics at a fraction of the cost.
You can tell Nick to take his time. I'm having a very productive morning.
Entirely possible, but the fact remains that those three companies are not proof that high tax rates still start big companies. Forget about "why", the simple fact is they were not started in times of high tax rates.
Kickstarter bans genetically engineered rewards
I would say that the variability of education quality between Canadian schools isn't that high, but the number of universities isn't great either. Waterloo does try to be more experimental with their curriculum than many other schools, but the real secret is in the co-op/internship program.
All Waterloo engineering & (many) computer science students start doing internships in first year and complete 6x 4-month internships before they graduate. This means that you get significant experience before you're cast off on your own, and a chance to test the working conditions at a variety of companies, roles and locations. Graduates are better prepared to hit the ground running once they get their diploma.
For hiring companies, they get a low risk 4 month interview. Waterloo also has interns available all year long (not just in the summer months), so they can spread out the minor burden of training an intern.
I haven't seen a similar model anywhere else and Waterloo has been doing it for decades.
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The article only touches on it briefly but I think the difference between most issues and the few "gold-plated issues with megawatt cultural significance" is key. People saw Actions Comics #1 and Amazing Fantasy #15 selling for huge amounts and got the idea that #1 issues and first appearances were somehow inherently worth a lot of money, when in fact it's the cultural importance of Superman and Spider-Man that gave them their value.

Even if there weren't a million bagged-and-boarded copies of Rob Liefeld's Bludd Gunn McShootDeath and the X-Murder Y-Bunch #0.5 sitting in people's basements, it still wouldn't be worth anything because hardly anybody cares about those characters. Even classic runs from the 80s and 90s (Walt Simonson's Thor, Morrison's JLA, Sandman, etc.) haven't had anything like the cultural impact and recognition that major Golden and Silver Age titles did outside of comic circles.
>With a slightly more expensive dongle that can transmit as well as receive, your laptop can pretend to be a wifi access point or a cell phone tower...

I understand the point being explained here, but is this really accurate? I don't know of any SDR platform, let alone a "dongle" with anywhere near the capacity necessary to operate as a wifi AP.
Really liked the TOR visualization.
I made the mistake of staying at one job for 9 years. I was raised by my Grandmother who in her generation staying for a long time was a good thing. 9 years on one technology and tools is a huge distaster that I realized too late. My current position I have been at for 4 years. Now every day I am making sure I learn something new so I can prepare to find a new position.
Be A Great Product Leader (Dropbox / AirBnB 2013)
A Guide to San Francisco Architecture
Fair enough, but there's a lot of people who know JS, don't write JS like C and just want types.
Waterloo is really great at making it easy to hire co-ops. This is a huge part of its success. I've heard hiring managers say they prefer UW students over other schools simply because the co-op process at UW is so easy for them.
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Live somewhere else in the US? Maybe we could work something out about working remotely transition into working in the office. (Maybe. Tell us what's up. I started working remotely from Chicago before moving to SF.)

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Show HN: Treatings - OkCupid for Networking
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1pp71i/my_first_web_app_treatings_okcupid_for_networking/

My best friend and I disliked our jobs and wanted a non-awkward way to reach out to people whose work interested us. We finally quit our jobs, moved into bunkbeds (http://instagram.com/p/WOPgf-rcFB/), and learned to code in order to build a community of people open to meeting strangers whose work interests them, over coffee. We're now talking to companies who will be featuring their employees as "ambassadors" offering coffee meetings ("treatings") to individuals interested in working at their company.

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https://treatings.co/search

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The funny thing is, at least when I attended UW (early 2000's), is that its domestic profile was not as strong as its recognition in the US would suggest. Many Canadians would mention more established schools such as U of T and Queens before Waterloo.

However, when I went for my first internship in California (NVIDIA, with about 20 fellow UW students), I found out that most people there couldn't name a single Canadian school, but if they could, it was UW.

I also remember a poker dealer in Vegas seeing my friend's iron ring and guessing "Waterloo?".
After working with so many bright colleagues from Waterloo, I knew such an article was bound to come up one day considering they are known so less here in the valley.

Coming from a collegiate programming world, their ACM ICPC record is also pretty top-notch.
Well said, thanks for the insight.
Worked pretty great, Safari 7 on Mavericks.
Isn't it pretty hard to get Canadian citizenship if you're American? Like, even with highly sought after skills in tech I've heard it's near impossible.
Absolutely, I agree that a heck of a lot more time than 1 hour would go towards figuring out the entire user flows, UI etc. I never meant to discount that aspect and that's where some of the negative karma here is coming from.

As far as building a Meteor clone, challenge accepted. As soon as I get off work in a few hours, I'll get banging.
I browse my local paper and our quasi regional paper (Savannah Morning News) each morning at my coffee shop. I would not use the Atlanta Journal Constitution our "state paper" to house train a puppy.
This is slightly off-kilter, but,

Can anyone who was there verify the "stampede" or "mayhem"? I'm really curious about the actual truth of how crowds of people react to imminent danger; I keep hearing one thing about how people go nuts and another about how this is completely untrue.
AppScale + App Inventor
Like I said in a previous thread, as far as building a Meteor clone, challenge accepted. As soon as I get off work in a few hours, I'll get started.
I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
The problem I have is that on my smallish (13"? Not too small) monitor, the top and bottom of the video are always very close to the top and bottom of the viewport. On a 24" monitor it would be better, but I found watching the videos to feel very claustrophobic.
If you want to write nuclear shutdown routines for AEAC, or work on something else safety critical in Canada, there may be a difference. (Strictly speaking, you can get your P. Eng by doing CS, if you take the right set of courses, but nobody in their right mind would subject themselves to this.)

If you want to work on something relatively harmless (buttons on a web page) then it won't matter.
That's Google's definition, which in my opinion doesn't capture the word correctly. That definition implies "plausible" suggests "likely". Turning to Webster:

1 superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious <a plausible pretext>

2 superficially pleasing or persuasive <a swindler… , then a quack, then a smooth, plausible gentleman — R. W. Emerson>

3 appearing worthy of belief

To me, an idea is plausible if I can entertain the possibility without suspension of disbelief.
I was thinking there had to be something like:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1905

I'd be surprised if there isn't something equivalent for most state legislations as well (for state employees).
With co-op salaries only increasing it's nice to know the students will be able to pay whatever we feel like charging them -- UW administration
It's the co-op program.

Students trade independence during summers for year-round schooling that has them gaining 2 years of work experience at up to 6 different organizations by the time they graduate. And the reputation of the program is such that, if you've got the ability, you'll get opportunities at the biggest tech players.
On top of the work experience, you'll have a wealth of experience applying to literally hundreds of jobs, being interviewed, both technically and non-technically, perhaps as many times as you will for the rest of your career, and all of this while working alongside and competing with very bright peers.
Curious if all the output code is arranged in absolute positioning.
From a technical side, it probably means that Reddit is showing static pages to visitors while HN is showing dynamic ones.
Common, anyone who has even driven through Waterloo knows it's sleepy... No one says "shit, I really want to go to Waterloo". That's like saying people want to go to London (Ontario)... That's just not a thing
Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16
I blame magical thinking. Start with nebulous concepts without definitions (like "healthcare" and "profit"). And use Orwellian distraction and conflation to blame all problems on Oceanic Republicans and other Enemies of the State.
With these NSA revelations, I feel like there is still an elephant in the room nobody has yet started talking about...

THIS DATA CAN BE USED TO UNDERMINE YOUR STARTUP.

It's not just privacy we should be concerned about. It's our economy.

Whether it is corporations willfully collaborating in secret with the government or government secretly infiltrating corporations - either way, this presents a serious opportunity for exploitation of the public marketplace.

Because with this amount of data, the NSA has a goldmine of business intelligence that it can put to 'strategic use' via third-party 'partners' who can actively participate in the market; ie- COMPETE WITH YOU.

This is unfair and a terrible flaw in an economic system.
My google-fu (or maybe just my patience) doesn't seem to be good enough to find it but does anyone know where one might find a list of all incidents of this type? As in all airport shootings?
Every tech company I've ever worked for in Toronto has been acquired by a US company. Quest Software/Dell, Oracle, Microsoft, and the former Novell... the only bad part is that these offices don't always keep hiring post-acquisition. But that has more to do with acquisition dynamics than Toronto being a bad place for a satellite office.

But I disagree that Canadian developers would be appreciably cheaper. There are plenty of cities in the US that would be as cheap or cheaper than Toronto or Waterloo for a dev office.
Former Waterloo student here...

It's a shame that more Waterloo folks don't stay in Canada and build their businesses here. Unlike when I was at UW, nowadays there is plenty of investment money available in Canada and significant tech hubs in Vancouver, Toronto and Waterloo itself. Not to mention the fact that even in less major Canadian cities (or the US Midwest) there actually is a tech scene happening and people are starting new businesses. It is no longer necessary to move far from home to build a tech business.
Takes a couple of seconds.
Google just pulled a “Facebook Home”: KitKat’s interface is Google Search
I really don't want to distract people from the matter at hand: NSA's massive spying dragnet.

With that said, you haven't seen the Snow Fall article by the NYTimes? [1]

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
Let's let our inner villain run free for a bit, and see if we can find a way to cheat.

Suppose we were to buy a good sized supply of paper of the same kind and from the same manufacturer that Marvel prints its books on. And suppose we were also do the same thing with the ink Marvel uses, and the staples Marvel uses.

Then we wait 40 or 50 years, and look back to identify the books that turned out to be very valuable in hind site, but did not appear so when they were new. For instance, books like Journey into Mystery #83. Journey into Mystery was an anthology series. It had started out, I believe, as horror, and slowly changed to science fiction. In #83, one of the stories was of a Norse god, Thor, in our world.

Nothing about that stood out to alert people that this was the start of something big, and so maybe they would want to buy extra copies to preserve. Just another new character in a book with new characters all th time. But this one WAS different...more Thor stories appeared, and he became a feature in every issue, and gradually they stopped having non-Thor stories and the book became The Mighty Thor.

Anyway, we look back and identify a book that we now see was another Journey into Mystery #83 (which, BTW, is worth something like $50k now). Then we reprint it, on our 50 year old paper, using our 50 year old ink, and stapled with our 50 year old staples. Then we age it for a few years (I'm guessing that ink diffuses some through the paper and so experts could easily tell if a page has been freshly printed).

Is this a viable evil plan?
All Flash video for me, FF24 on Linux. Thankfully, because Flashblock did its thing and suppressed it all. What an horrific example of presentation over content.

Anyway there is no 'HTML5 video'. It's H264, or VP8, or whatever.
If you go to a good school in Ontario you are looking at $7000 at least
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Among the "rich" countries, Canada is one of the most open in the world to skilled immigrants.
Because they don't want to break functionality and get blamed for things. If people refuse to support them though, that's another issue. And it IS ridiculous that KDE continues to support Windows but won't support Mir..
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