skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, set aside the judgement on rudeness for now. Twitter limits the number of people you can follow with daily limits and rate limits and a hard stop at 2,000. In order to follow more than 2,000 you need first to be followed by around 1,900 people. There are many people who would like to generate a large following. After all, the most influential/interesting people (and celebrities) are followed by millions. Therefore many people unfollow non-followers so they can move on to follow someone who does follow back.
Think of it as a karma system that has real world relevance because the number of followers you have is public and often your Twitter handle is associated with your real identity.
So, if you do not follow everyone who follows you will lose folowers. Unless you are Justin Bieber of course.

The rude part is that someone took the microsecond required to follow you and now they have to use a tool to find their unfollowers (you), unfollow you, and follow someone else.
I call that thing bullshit.
"Our analysis indicates that TCP is unwieldy and inappropriate for MMORPGs" yet World of Warcraft, Lineage I/II, Guild Wars, Ragnarok Online, Anarchy Online, Mabinogi all use TCP. Extremly successful. I using UDP would have help making World of Warcraft better they would have done it years ago. But they all probably have no idea right?
If you're a CEO and your goal is mediocrity, that's a good plan.
SVN being centralized guarantees pre/post commit integration is also centralized. You can't enforce that with Git because people can bypass the integration hooks.
Well, gerrymandering is such a common practice in the US anyway, no reason it should not extend to this...
I could almost accept the government having cameras everywhere as long as all law makers and law enforcement were also recorded and not exempt from the video used against them in prosecution.

Except that's never going to be how it works. If they get bypasses for the TSA, I am sure they get to skip monitoring.
I beg to differ. I did have "no exchange value on account of other employments" at the time the very first BTC was mined, and I suspect quite a few months after that. The same cannot be said of paper money as from the moment of its inception and for many long years thereafter it was redeemable in gold, thus satisfying the regression theorem. Even today a tenuous link is still maintained as the gold reserves of every central bank factor, to a limited extend, in the assessment of a currency's health.
Why, you you rather people buried their heads in the sand?
Steam is probably the least in your face, get in your way DRM there has been.. Compared to what other have done, and will do, I'll take Steam.
Clever use of bomb threats.
For those who know me , I hate to say "i told you so" but i've predicted mass lay off coming to yahoo and it's not over. Their new ranking system is just an excuse.

Since the beginning of Marissa's binge buying, the goal was only to pump the stock up, not to make Yahoo actually relevant. There is no long term strategy whatsoever.
I work in an SVN shop, so I haven't had much experience with git thus far.

What are the advantages that git has over SVN in merging? I've never had any problems merging while using SVN.
I don't think they want to reduce the crime. They want control. Those "security forces" are for protecting the security of their power.
> I'm not aware of any evidence of this, and I don't even remember any of my Apple fanatic friends even claiming this. Any references?

From my personal experience, yeah they do last a lot longer than my other PCs, maybe with the exception of ThinkPad. Mac hardwares are very strong and well designed. Most other PC manufacturers needs to cut cost from every single component, thus they won't be able to use the highest quality components.
Can you give an example page where it doesn't work?

The comment you're referring to mentions font boosting, which is a feature that changes font sizes on the page.
Your analysis is correct but you're coming to the wrong conclusions.

It's clear that going in, Marissa needed to fire a lot of Yahoo employees, she just needed to find a way to do that and she found two: 1) revoke remote privileges and 2) stack ranking.

Once she is satisfied that she has gotten rid of all the underperformers, she will most likely cancel these two policies.

And in the meantime, Yahoo is offering top dollars to hire new blood (ideally coming from Google).
Fair enough, they did do that. Not quite the same situation, but still a good example of them responding.
I suppose I should have expected as much. :(

Well, I hope things will improve.
Very cool. Just found this post although I missed it originally. You may want to post to the julia-users/dev lists.
I just went to plus.google.com and I had a huge popup asking me to subscribe a bunch of things and enable a bunch of notifications.

Things I've explicitly turned off, because I dont want to be bugged all the time.

The only way to move on was to edit the URL back to what it was before I got redirected.

Google+ is all about coercion. There's really no mistaking about that.
Thanksgiving morning would be better. There is usually a ton of people out in the afternoon picking up last minute things at grocery and liquor stores.
Here's what I don't get about web fonts - http://imgur.com/SA3FjJb - why do people use tools that break down so horribly to make the whole site unreadable ?

Or is it just me? The image is on win/chrome, which probably is the most numerous setup currently worldwide. Mac/chrome is okay.
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The error message says: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_main" (etc.) If someone truly knows nothing about C, how does that person go from that error message to "In the case for C, the entry point is defined by the “main()” function." I'm not clear on where the beginner is going to go to "dig deeper and understand what it is that it’s trying to say."
Now that I'm re-reading this, it seems to me that Google is doing exactly the opposite. It's even more product focused, and is now moving towards making everything one big product called Google+.

There's no platform here at all. Not externally (who develops for or on Google as a platform?), but apparently not internally either.

Because the haphazard way in which different properties interact, the way functionality and data bleeds through, and all the damn bugs because of it are all signs of products and data being hooked up to each other with duct-tape.
I'm not against affirmative action on principle, but does anyone else find it a little strange that the need-based grants are only available to female programmers? They could bias the admission process in favor of female applicants (or other underrepresented demographics) without conflating financial issues, right? Or there aren't even enough female applicants without this incentive to allow for that?
Zed hasn't finished it yet. I'm dying to see this virtual machine of his.
"Beyond that, what is the real concern here?"

I am concerned about any expansion of police power, including local forces. One of the protections we have against unjust laws is that they are unenforceable, but that protection is eroded when the police get expanded budgets. Whenever the police become better equipped to enforce the law, the citizens suffer because of it. We have a lot of unjust laws on the books; giving the police more ways to enforce those laws is harmful to our society.
Ironically, this very thread contains similar examples of developers advocating for some HTML5+CSS+Localstorage+embedded web server frankenstein because they've never had experience building desktop GUI apps in .NET.
Another important outcome of a successful "hello, world!" is that you find some kind of MVP - Minimal Viable Printf.

Just because it is C doesn't mean you've got a sane libc. Let alone the luxury of a debugger. Just seeing that simple string on the screen/logfile can be a blessed relief.
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You may find it interesting that there's a guy in California who died in prison under the three strikes law for attempting to steal a candy bar, because a petty theft can be prosecuted as a felony for people with previous thefts. Another guy, who was never arrested for theft or violence of any kind, has been in prison for 20 years and will likely remain there for life after getting arrested with 13 sheets of LSD. The cost of keeping someone in prison can be over $100,000 a year. Regardless of the seriousness of the crimes committed by the people presented in the ACLU link (and I don't disagree with you that they are not trivial), the fact remains that we have the most overzealous criminal system in the world.
This.

Done this a few times. Entire process for a kiosk is:

1. Build a full screen app in Visual Studio with WPF. WPF is great here - 2d, 3d, interactive, animations, video everything, all without any code. This is beyond trivial and the tooling is entirely free.

2. Build it and copy the exe to target windows machine (a cheap AIO desktop - Sony VPC are nice as they have VESA mounts, touch screens and don't break that often)

3. Set the machine to auto login and set the shell to the program.

4. reboot it. Done.

This takes literally minutes.
I'd be very interested. Even without a writeup I think I'll try implementing your strategy, but a little documentation would help a lot.
This book and its companion (free) online course are great:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems
http://www.nand2tetris.org
The guy talks for 20 pages and says what I could summarize in a sentence. "Unorganized code is unorganized."
Are you being serious with this comment?
Passive income for grandparents
I am a senior software developer and I would like to build something that would allow my grandparents to receive a small passive income (between $600 and $1000 a month would be great, but anything is better than nothing). Any ideas? I would be willing to spend between 2 and 3 hours a week to maintain it after building it. Thanks in advance :-)
This is one glaring example of corporate stupidity.

I couldn't ever overlook the gross misunderstanding of statistics here. The "bell curve" is an asymptotic distribution law, and even assuming that the distribution of performance is indeed normal, it is outright idiotic to fit the bell curve with as low as 10 people. The chance that no one out of 10 random people will be really at the lowest 5% of performance, is as high as 60%. The HR even uses an Excel sheet to even draw a normal distribution...

I have seen many good people's careers stopped in my farm (and it is a big farm), because of this "bell curve".
This is a really interesting article, I love reading about game networking. Hard to find many resources on this type of stuff... the 'Age of Empires' Gamasutra one is awesome too.

We used Apple's Game Center API for the online portion of Stratosphere: Multiplayer Defense (iPad), and it was pretty nice that Apple did all the work as far as network packets go... but you do have a choice between reliable and non-reliable sending. It wasn't explicitly said, but we assumed one was TCP and the other UDP. We went with the reliable option for all of our packets and it didn't really prove to be a problem, even simulating under 3G. Granted, Stratosphere is a strategy game. The bigger problem ended up being just having enough people online at one time to even play lol.
What prevents a malicious client from simply editing the source and sending back "false" calculations?

In my time as a web developer, probably the most important lesson I've learned is Never Trust the Client.
"One should not assume that they know the reasoning behind every law and disobey it simply because they disagree"

The reasoning behind a law is irrelevant. The effect of the law is what matters -- the effect on individual liberty, the effect on society, etc. Unjust laws are laws that are harmful to individuals, particular groups of individuals, or society as a whole -- and it is our civic duty to violate those laws, and to violate them to such an extent that they become impractical to enforce.

Unfortunately the government has learned to keep people in line with fear. We now live in an age of militarized law enforcement; it only takes one widely publicized story about someone having soldiers attack their home to get the rest of the population back in line. You see it with drug prohibition, you see it with hacktivism, and you will see it with every tyrannical law that the government enacts.
Good grief

"...Yahoo! has recently laid off about 600 employees based on a ranking system introduced last year..."

No. Yahoo has laid off people because the business cannot support that number of employees. Stack ranking is just the tool used to make the decision.

The problem for any good-sized business is this: in difficult times, how do we make the decision who to lay off? People want to go on the warpath about stack-ranking, and that's great, but it doesn't address the problem.

So a story about why Yahoo is downsizing would be interesting. A story about stack-ranking alternatives would be interesting. One mixing up the two concepts in order just to keep some bullshit narrative alive about stack-ranking? Just to get some reaction? Not so much.

I'm still waiting to hear what Microsoft has come up with to replace stack-ranking, because there has to be some kind of plan. Instead, we seem to be on a merry old witch hunt after any companies who dare to use the phrase "stack ranking" in their employee evaluation policy manual. The greater discussion is not advancing too well.
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I'm a bit afraid of this. Is it so hard for Google to run PhantomJS and crawl JS sites. If google reads CSS display:none correctly why it's so hard to make the JS crawling work... That's madness. This SEO ( Google ) stuff is making decisions for frameworks and tech-stacks. That's bad, it has to be the other way around. I don't want to make websites for Google I want to make them for the users.
I wonder if Feather is ever going to leave beta. It's been around since pre-2009. (http://lifehacker.com/5418251/youtube-feather-is-a-lighter+w...)
Ask HN: Xbox One or PS4? Help me decide
Somehow I feel a bit uncomfortable laughing at this.

If Google ever becomes involved in defense work, with this attitude, we are fucked. Imagine combination of armed drones, Google's self-driving car technology and a vast amount of real time data on everyone everywhere.

Now where did I put that tinfoil hat?
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Teams are not formed randomly - competent people like working with other competent people, and underperformers find safety among other underperformers. Even an impersonal evaluation of entire teams as a whole would be more accurate than a 10% firing quota for every team.
Results of the question here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1C1r8vGqZm7PiKZwYI7v1WnXJAJx...

This is a follow up post from my 2010 post asking for help in deciding between Xbox 360 and PS3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1191884
The horsepower-per-pixel of a 5s is a close match to an Xbox360 game that insists on running at full 1080p. http://timothylottes.blogspot.com/2013/09/a7.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/android/mock/ is a neat way to stop applications asking for too many permissions getting what they want. It'd be nice if it were being maintained somewhere/possibly pulled into CyanogenMod.
If you're a web game developer reading this you should also know that WebSockets, XHR, and anything built on top of those technologies (socket.io etc.) are TCP based. Only WebRTC DataChannels and flash are able to do UDP based communication in the browser.
I'm merely offering an anecdotal view and make no claim otherwise, though FWIW it's a pattern I've now seen with multiple clients who previously had varying levels of Google dependence as well as my own companies and myself personally.

The thing that made me mention it was that so many of the reasons given by so many of the people involved are fundamentally the same. If what I've seen is at all representative, Google are increasingly perceived to be a security/privacy risk (though this is hardly unique among cloud services) and perhaps worse for them, they're not perceived to be a stable long-term bet (too many dropped products, too many unwanted changes happening too fast, nothing special in terms of quality or features, and little support for users).

Some of these factors presumably won't be as damaging to Google in the consumer market, or at least not as quickly, so I don't see their main advertising business dying any time soon. However, to businesses with real money on the line and organisation-wide IT strategies to plan, Google's overall offering looks increasingly unattractive. For example, Google Docs/Drive/Apps have been tried by various groups I know. None is still happy with them, and several have been forced to move at least some of their activities to alternative systems because the Google ones just weren't capable of getting those jobs done. Chrome is another example I've more often heard mentioned between curse words than flattering ones recently. And I already mentioned in another post the horrible experience we had trying to organise some Google Ads.

Google's resilience appears to stem in part from traditional alternatives shooting themselves in the foot by also pushing to cloud-based offerings and therefore immediately running into similar concerns. Even so, Google seem to be getting worse faster than everyone else.
The mystery of the AT&T iPhones _possibly other AT&T phones_ that won't unlock
Surprised to find "Marseille" in the 701-800 :D

According to LastPass, "The following 114 hint(s) were used by 470 other people that share your password.". I wonder where I'm gonna find mine :D

Though this has a therapeutic effect: I'm not the only sucker to use a brand as my to-go password.

brb, changing my HN password
> I'm not trying to nitpick but I'm worried newcomers to the language might be misled by your comments

I'd better not mention the IOCCC then.
The Republic By Plato
And it didn't even ask me for my phone number or fingerprints!
From Its Beginnings In A Denmark Loft, Zendesk’s Steady Rise To The Top
Nice idea. The star grading rating features gives instant feedback as you hover, so I expected the same from the thumbs up/down rating feature. Also, changing color to green/red when I click should be instant, not once the ajax has finished. Good job!
Unless you lived right by, and I mean next door, to the refurb place I believe in Texas, it was never a few days. A few weeks maybe. I've had a Xbox 360 since launch go through 2 rrod's (so not really the same console) and at best it was 2 weeks to Georgia. They handled everything but shipping was never 2/3 day or better either way. I haven't had a return in 2-3 years now so maybe they got soooo good at the end that changed but I never remember it being that quick. MS also finally owned up to and corrected a serious design flaw. I don't expect the same from Sony just yet. You'll at least get them looking at it in the same manner initially. It behooves everyone for them to check it out and refurbish first, then just replace as they determine the root cause.
Obligatory xkcd reference:

http://xkcd.com/763/
No, it was happening way before Google, every page's meta tags would have "anna kournikova nekkid", even if you were selling lawnmowers.

I was an avid user of AltaVista back in the day but what killed it, and why I jumped on Google as soon as it was available was back then, it was simply less polluted.
Yeah, your mail would be going to your@name.tld and your old address (assuming it's gmail or something?) would use a vacation responder. I'm against forwarding mail as people will continue using my old address. Put your foot down and tell people to use your new address.

Else you'll never be able to close your google account.

+1 for a write up. Last time I tried making a mail server I got it to send mail but it couldn't receive any.
- I've never tried it, but I've heard that a porn site is very lucrative. Just get some nice videos, ads and your good. It shouldn't be that hard to maintain.
My Craigslisp Chrome Plugin
Actually, exceptions are where all of the money is made in this business. The top 1% of startups produce the majority of the returns, which is why we all want to invest in the next Google or Facebook, even if we're not 100% certain that it will in fact be the next Google or Facebook.
This is not true in my experience. Do you have any data to back this up? Seems like a bit of a poke in the eye to those of us that do a great job and have social skills.
No idea really, but much higher than it is now.
History tells us voters find 'value' in victories
Browser Museum (2000)
- But you'll need alot of traffic. Also it is very competitive.
Worth noting is that FastR is a JVM implementation of R that uses Truffle and Graal.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and...
I think the author uses the term in the same way as the LISP quote, since he doesn't propose that we abolish BBoM, but rather manage it, as it solves practical problems and is a fact of life.
git checkout -- <file>

This will revert the file back to the the last checked out version.

git checkout <sha-1> -- <file>

Will revert a file to the state it was in, in that particular sha-1.
1) potential flaws in the logic being discovered.

2) the iron fist of the Empire.
Remove to Improve (The Data-Ink Ratio)
If I am a programmer who just finished a bootcamp and has some decent side projects (a book on clojure web dev, a new take on spreeder, and some other ones in the works) that are all open source, is hacker school far above my skill level for working with you guys? I've perused the website far too many times in the last several months but have held off from applying because I wasn't sure if i had the chops to work with you guys and it would be a dream of mine to take such a good chunk of time and dedicate it to open source work with other like minded hackers who seem to be a brilliant bunch.
The one question being, of course: on what pretext will the majors sue to shut this one down?
Most of the discussion and media reports surrounding which are fog.
I read this every few years ... it's well worth keeping these warnings in the front of your mind!
I wasn't thinking he's making fun of snapchat but this is obviously (re)posted with the context of snapchat its recent valuations in mind.

You are completely missing the point of the article, too. It is referring to the bubble of air which valuations are based on.
Yeah, I get that the ACLU's actions regarding the 2nd Amendment are defensible.

That wasn't the topic.

The topic was the claim that the ACLU is a "strong supporter" of the second amendment. Do you know a definition of "strong supporter" that is appropriate for the ACLU's actions regarding the Second Amendment?

No, I don't want to hear about how great the ACLU is.

No, I don't want to hear about the ACLU really does support civil rights.

No, I don't want to hear about how their position on the 2nd amendment is reasonable.

No, I don't want to hear about all the other people who can protect the second amendment.

I want something responsive to my question: in what sense is the ACLU not just a "supporter" but a "strong supporter" of the Second Amendment?

Don't have anything to say about that? Then please stay out of the discussion rather than changing topics and blurring the issues. Thanks.