skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe as they say, 10 apprentices does not equal 1 master. When you work with any outsourcing company they have people of all skill working on the project. You will get their best masters at first, but at some point the "b" team will be brought in and you will start seeing bad code.

I think this must be somewhat the nature of hiring contract workers because I have seen it again and again coming from all counties, as well as within the US.
Gundotra spent 15 years at Microsoft before joining Google.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra
"Before joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.[3] He joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications.[4] Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay working on charitable endeavors[which?] due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement."
G+ leadership thinks the internet is for brand management for bloggers, photographers, etc. They aren't being sadistic, they are simply generalizing from their own experience ad successful public strivers.

Personal private use is simply irrelevant to them. And you know, maybe it wasted time and the world would be better if people stopped having anonymous debates that don't win over any minds.

Google doesn't run cafes and bars, and they don't run reddit, and they don't want to. They aren't trying to kill Reddit.

HNers write their blog posts and seek discussion here instead of in the blog's comments. Redditors can post YouTube videos and discuss them on /r/videos
this only works for a few formats and small files.

wife bought a kindleDX to replace the mountain of books and huge withe papwr pdfs she have to read.

kindle will refuse pretty much all files for one reason or another. and none of the books are available in the amazon walled garden.

unfortunatelly we missed the return date. worst misleading purchase ever.

kindles are only good for people reading novels.
that was on purpose
Get some GPIO breakout boards, and turn things on and off, read sensor values, and make an internet of things. Get some relays and learn how to turn off your TV/Sound System when it's not in use to save some power. Or control some christmas lights.
7 million Soviets, Poles and other Slavic people, mostly partisans died in concentration camps too. Of total estimated 11 mil. 6 mil are estimated Jews and rest were Slavs also Romas and others - Germans who opposed regime, homosexuals etc.

60 million losses altogether, around 30 mil. were Soviets only.

It's not very smart to state things before you bother to study at least some basics.
I don't understand why he doesn't release the source for his applications.
How many votes do those ineffectual Facebook anti-change petitions get?
According to interviews with the people around him, he's not interested in beating machines.
For web at least, in some ways it's a cop out. All the developers I worked with are self-taught and in any case colleges in the West tend to be way behind industry practises.
I've dropped my paperwhite at least three feet onto concrete, and a shorter distance several times onto tile, no protective cover, no problems so far.
Why you don't put in description a link where people can see that demo videos?
Neat! I saw https://www.userapp.io/ a little while ago and thought it looked cool too. What are some differences between userapp and this service?
This gives you a pretty good idea of how it looks (video on page) : http://www.codeherdstudios.com/AsteroidSmash.html
Reading this thread I see some confusion about what YouTube and Google require with G+ account linking.

HN is full of smart people who work with tech all day every day.

Imagine what it's like for the average person trying to create a YouTube channel but trying to avoid leaking too much information to the creeps.

It's weird to me that Google would make things tricky for content creators on Youtube. These aren't people posting cat videos, these are people who are trying to build a brand and who spend time and money creating original content - some of it is "let's play" style video, or vlogging, but some of it is young people creating music video and sharing it. Pissing off those people leaves YouTube a wasteland of cat videos, adverts off the telly, and chopped up tv programmes posted without permission. Google can make lots of money off that, but it's a shame they don't want the original content.
> HTML 5 constrains local storage to 5Mb, which is precious little, if the display uses images/media.

You wouldn't use localStorage for images.
Bitcoin hits $500
They have no plans to upgrade it anytime soon.
It's quite possible -- likely, even! -- that you used that interjection a bit much.
Joel and newspapers make no effort to verify your name. It is trivial to spoof.

Integrated Google identity is harder to spoof if you use real id in any other part of the systen
Here is how this discussion usually goes:
Topic: "Soviet cars are crap"

1. "I am from the USSR and my fiance's uncle's neighbor drove his car for 500000 km without ever opening the hood!"

2. "I once had seen a BMW being towed, there are crap cars everywhere!"

3. "There are bad and good cars everywhere, it's racist to believe some countries are better or worse at making cars than the others."
If you don't want to be perceived as anti-semitic take some time to learn the difference between the words Jew and Jewish as in your gross use of "Jew 'community'"

When you use a phrase like "Jew 'community' and then discuss 'rich jews' as though the victims of the Nazis were solely Jews or were 'rich' it is difficult to take you as anything other than anti-semitic, which in fact, is what I consider you.

If you wish to upgrade to 'just an ignorant jerk with anti-semitic overtones' please do.
The problem with things like this is, since I'm not super confident with any of the technologies involved, it leaves me with an uneasy feeling of having messed something up somewhere.

It is extremely easy to set or forget one extra parameter or something and everything falls apart.
mediocre for programming books - you have to be in landscape mode and still code snippets will wrap often. Books with terse code (like functional programming books) work mostly well, but books with less terse code are unreadable even with smallest font in landscape mode. EmberJS in Action comes to mind as totally unreadable on my paperwhite.

A++++ for regular books of all types.
Hey just in case you've not noticed... apple is linking to http://www.codeherdstudios.com/AsteroidSmash/ from the game description, which is 404ing on your site (should be http://www.codeherdstudios.com/AsteroidSmash.html)
True, but I still believe my observation about their computer security scene is valid. Like I said, a few simple search queries will yield lots of results.
Its not really that slow; try different software. Low power means you need to be slightly efficient.
Alcohol actually doesn't bind to the same site as benzodiazepines, which is why valium doesn't make you feel drunk. Something that mimics alcohol's binding behavior is in fact new.
Yeah, I'm guilty of rarely upvoting (or downvoting) items. Are upvotes on the actual submission the only driver of where it ranks, or does comment activity also weigh in? If it does, that would seem to encourage flamewar/ideological topics to float to the top.
Turn comments off then.
But if you travel with the wares, you can bring in €X (around €400) worth of stuff tax-free per trip (there are independent limits for alcohol, tobacco (as long as it is for your own use), and medicines)

See for example http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/arriving/arrivingnoneu.htm (that's for the UK, but AFAIK these rules are standardized across the EU. At least, http://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/b... is very similar)
The second bullet is what doesn't work.

I heard this same line about a year ago, and I created a separate "page". That page is nearly unindexed. People don't follow the page, they follow my other two profiles. When they're searching for me, that's what they find.

What I need, in order to make that second bullet true, is the ability to HIDE my first-party login pages (people find them), associate my emails with that "Page" and login to EVERY SERVICE as that public identity. This means leaving G+/Maps reviews, this means Maps Location services, everything.

With "Pages" useless and broken, the logic of this system falls apart.
Show HN: A gem to stop progressively building ActiveRecord queries
> The reality of it is that businesses can't just stiff
> you on a bill if they agreed to pay for your services

That feels like it should be true, but it's not. I'm not just speaking about software; a large portion of my family is in construction, and I'm shocked at how often client businesses think they can get away with just not paying them.

Perhaps it actually is better in the software world, where clients (hopefully) know they are going to need you in the future.

Anyway, good for you that you can find clients that know they need to pay you; but not all businesses have figured that out.
Syntax Off (2012)
Like blockchain.info? ;)
Is it actually practical to statically compile & link large parts of a modern C / C++ based software environment? The last time I tried to do that with a nontrivial C program and GCC it felt like an ultimately unsuccessful snipe hunt.

Incidentally, cross-compiling static binaries is a hugely productive feature of Go.
Although there is no definitive plotting option, we are exploring a number of avenues. See:

http://julialang.org/downloads/

With the IPython Notebook and Julia, you can use Gadfly to produce plots right in the notebook without any further installation.
How's the TM backup treating you? I've set up netatalk too, and had the backup's sparsebundle get corrupted 3 times over the course of half a year leading me to abandon it. Now I just rsync to the NFS fileshare, which is less automatic.
Imagine not insisting on unique identifiers at all. The horror. Your argument pretty much boils down to you being comfortable using real names. That isn't a great argument against letting other people do something else.

(This is one of those things where enabling consolidation is pretty much orthogonal to the interesting part of the discussion, which is really more about how much latitude the service allows users. Of course giving the option for consolidation will be great for some people.)
> I've had the exact opposite experience.

Then you have not received any email from Comcast's email servers (or at least the few I've seen).

The one's I've seen retry three times to a temp fail in 1 second intervals, then bounce back to the recipient.
It's hard because yes it's true that Java and C# have fully defined behaviour (at least to my knowledge, and when you assume that the garbage collection is optimal) the operations of the VM's themselves are written in C. So you are still dependant on that the programmers of your VM are in control of the undefined behaviour of C.

I know that sounds a bit like a cop out, but it lays the finger on the pain point of modern computing, that whatever we do, we are still so heavily reliant on C for everything low level.

How would we come close? I'd say name a language whose JIT directly outputs (x86) assembly, and whose runtime is written in a runtime free version that is output by that same JIT.

The only language I know of that can do that atm is Rust.
Why the Climate Corporation sold itself to Monsanto
Did you buy the Galaxy Camera? That was the real first product that they can say something original. Unfortunately, nobody supported them. How about Galaxy Watch? It was the second, and also nobody helped.

Have you checked out Bada SDK? Have you used KIES manager?

Or, what's your point? Are you telling me that they really have something better? So they're not a copy?

In which way? Do you mean the Android which comes from Google? Because Android is just an assembly? Are you talking about [AMOLED](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8I5oMxbO9Q&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...). Or are you talking about TouchWiz widgets? Which looks so similar to iOS, even Google warned them to stop copying. Or Wacom tablet in Galaxy Note series? I know some people want it for Wacom tablet. Is it also Samsung's innovation just like Android which is also a Samsung's innovation?

It's irony that the word "Android" is actually a legally registered exclusive trademark owned by Samsung in Korea. Any other companies can't sell a phone named "Android" in Korea. So maybe you're right. That's very innovative strategy. But personally, I don't think real innovators won't do such crap.

Please tell me only one thing they really made better rather than copying other one. Not just larger and more. Because you won't call adding one more wheel to a Toyota truck as an innovation.

I am not talking they're not trying. They sometimes try, and any trial for original product horribly fails. Isn't it true?

They really suck at original or innovation. But for copying? Oh they're supernatural. They're doing it over decades, and even has been supported from government for that.

It's simply because you can't derive originality or innovation by copying others. If you ever have tried to make something new, or better, you should know that you must break existing one first. Copied but better? That's impossible doesn't make sense at all.
I am yet to meet a coder who likes to rework on a code written by another programmer. This is regardless of it being an India/Western programmer
Sold 5 for $10 a piece and never got my money. The process of converting BTC to USD is insanely convoluted. I should've sold them to a friend.
Maybe he wants to monetize it? Nothing wrong with making a living.
$22 Hangout Hoody
found this simple, minimal and geeky.
Someone needs to set up an Internet wide "Creepy PMs" (/r/creepypms) website, so women (and others) can show just how many disturbing contacts they get every day.
True, but I still believe my observation about $x is valid. Like I said, a few simple search queries will yield lots of results.

Where $x can be an element of the following set:
{ America is a gun crazy violent nation where the streets are filled with people roaming with guns taking shots at minorities. , Abortion is murder, A woman's right to choose is important. }

Pick your favorite bias. You will find "simple search queries" that will yield lots of results.
Getting your record sealed won't hurt, but there are plenty of other data sources that will still list the conviction - so anyone who does even a moderate background check will find out.

If I were you, my long term goal would be to get myself set up with my own consulting company. It will help to separate your personal history from your work history. Companies don't have felony convictions.
> Most Google employees do not approve of a strategy that google is betting its future on. Has this ever happened before?

It was before my time, but I'm told acquiring youtube was unpopular. That seems to have worked out. I doubt it was as unpopular, though, and there was a lot less bet on it.
The answer to the question is YES, but the article is inaccurate on the main features of the Paperwhite. Unlike smartphones and tablets like the iPad, the Kindle Paperwhite isn't back-lit, but front-lit, which make all the difference in the world for your eyes.
I own the previous model (with the physical buttons) and I'm considering upgrading to a Kindle Paperwhite (because of the occasionnal glow on the screen when I read in bed).

The main issue for me is the weight of the device: 206g for the paperwhite and 170 for my older kindle (according to the amazon website).

Is this difference really noticeable?
Is it still possible to read with one hand?
>>1. Any money is a bubble in a sense.

Not really, no. Peter Thiel's explanation of bubbles is great. He says that bubbles arise when there is (1) widespread, intense belief that’s (2) not true. During the dotcom bubble, people were pouring money into companies simply for having a domain name; the intense belief was that the companies were worth a ton of money, and that simply was not true. A similar reasoning led to the housing bubble: the intense belief in that case was that houses are great investment vehicles and they always appreciate in value. Turns out that also was not true.

Currently, the main thing that is driving Bitcoin's price is speculation. There is widespread, intense belief that it will become a major currency. Is that belief true? The simple answer is we don't know.

But that's not true with just any money. The dollar for example is not a bubble: people believe it to be a reliable medium of exchange, and the fact that it is backed by the US government makes that belief true. Therefore it is not a bubble.
Years ago I worked for a mom & pop computer consulting shop and I was surprised by how many small businesses just didn't pay their bills.

Anecdotally, we did a lot of work with local law firms and they were the worst. (I guess because what're you gonna do? Sue them?)
What does front lit mean?
I use backtick. It's great not having to reach for a control or alt key to change window.

It is a minor annoyance in markdown but in shell programming I use `$(...)` instead, since it can be hard to tell if a character is a backtick or a single quote.
"... the Israeli method of doing airport screening is to be admired"

Well that depends on who you ask. Palestinians or even people with distant Arab roots who are subject to racial profiling, or even people suspected of being, god forbid, peace activists might tell you otherwise. Some examples:

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/do-you-feel-more-arab-or-more-...

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/10/big-hold.html

http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/politics/6148-palestinian-at...
Would be cool to have a 2 player or 1 player option for iPhone in the future though.
Thats a shame, if I recall correctly for me it was trivial to set up with macports.
Only if you don't use HTTP/1.1 on the proxy side.

proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Connection "";

In the proxy definition.
It is true that alcohol and benzodiazepines (and barbiturates and z-drugs, for that matter) bind to different sites on GABA. While noteworthy pharmacologically, it does not address my comment about the organism-level effects of GABAergic stimulation.
Awesome, would love to get their thoughts on a video for Wigwamm
I trust Iron less than I trust Google: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.comp.freeware/MK53RMjk4n...
The referenced articles seem to repeat assertions that
this new drug may be {less|not} addictive
without providing {pharmo|neuro|pyscho}
reasons for those assertions.

My guess is that people will be able to find
old or new ways to abuse or become addicted.

The idea of an antidote or antagonist is initially appealing, but we
may see the pattern that made the narcotic antagonist nalaxone
(Narcan) subject to abuse - people take a long lunch break,
inject a narcotic, enjoy the buzz, and then use the antagonist
before returning to work, supposedly no worse for wear.

Would someone who does the benzo-equivalent of a three-martini lunch
and then takes the benzo-antagonist be ready to return to coding,
planning, or digital networking no worse than they were when they
left work?

Will the antagonist really convert someone who is too
benzo'd to drive to someone capable of driving as
well as their pre-impaired self?

How long will it take for societies to
work out those details and differences?

This is something that has great potential,
if it could replace ethanol without bad effects of ethanol -
but to believe that it might have no bad effects
seems naïve.
Hmm, that is interesting. I still would like an addressing some of the other very valid concerns here that certain safeguards might not be engaged but if this is true then this is really cool. From elsewhere in this thread there are people saying it doesn't work with certain full-disk encryption setups but that's to be expected I guess. I have it installed, if not always running, and it is a cool app and from what they have said they have planned I will be following it. Thanks for the update!
Hmm I'm sorry to hear that. :-/

But if they brought a civil suit they would win easily, no? That's what I really meant by that line. My father is a lawyer & every time I bring up something like that to him he laughs. "Of course they have to pay, it's just too much trouble sometimes. Usually just the threat of legal action is good enough."

Maybe it's not so simple but that's a shame.
Since it's on your record (until 7 years?) then you seem to have some options limited. In this case, maybe choose one as a litmus test?

In the end, a big part of the interview is salesmanship and you'll need it for whatever way you tell your story. How about interview with a few other companies that are not on your big list. In fact, find something like an insurance company or a place you know will freak out. Use those experiences for your final test.
This is actually the first app for iPad that has actually made me want one.
I remember the state of Virginia used to use SSNs for driver's license numbers but I've heard they've stopped doing that.
Depends on the use case. Leap is not very versatile.
I only have 63 points and I can vote (but rarely do). Actually I can only upvote. I think 500 is for downvote rights.
Here's some critique of your presentation in the App Store:

- Why is there a pause symbol in the middle of every screenshot?
- Terrible layout on the corner banners in the screenshot.
Play head to
head
Against your friends!

[large top margin]
Play with up [no leading between this line and the next]
to 4 players
on 1 ipad
[no bottom margin]

- Random placement of text next to the circles in the 'How to Play' screen. Why aren't all of those lines of text centered above/below their circles? Be consistent.

And when I click the link to your website, hoping for maybe a video of the game in action, I get served nothing but "Cannot GET /AsteroidSmash/".

Wearing my "random browsing of app store hat" my reaction is "okay I'm moving on to another game".

----

After finding the webpage for it and watching the video: Wow this thing looks confusing. I have absolutely no idea what's going on from the video. Blue things moving around in front of a blue background with no contrast of any kind, and four fingers rapidly tapping. And a couple of blocks of text that're close enough to being centered that they look amateurishly off-center.
The US gov waited until eGold was doing ~2 billion in transactions annually before it moved to shut it down. Given the growth rate of btc it just recently became big enough to get the attention of the federal gov. I think it is certain the US government will attempt to shut it down more a question of when and how elaborate their attempt is (e.g. Will they try to: arrest a few btc users, dump large sums of money into the btc markets to destabilize it, or build a cluster larger than the entire btc network).
The best discontinued feature is the experimental browser on 3G. Traveling abroad and being able to pull up nyt or gmail is like a permanent tether to home.
Unfortunately, you can murder someone, rape a child, blow up a building or sell a plant that won't even be illegal in 10-20 years and they are equally horrible on paper.

I'd say you were convicted for selling marijuana and not lead with the term "felony".
Are you in California, by chance? I'm making the assumption that you are ...

You made me curious and while googling I came across some information that seems to indicate that companies in California cannot go back further than seven years on a background check and cannot ask about convictions more than seven years ago.

You mention that it happened when you were a freshman and that you graduated roughly five years ago so I'm guessing you are past the seven year mark or, at the least, very close to it.

If that's the case, it sounds like you might be able to avoid the situation altogether.