skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should start an independent bounty in btc for whoever can find and release their sourcecode into the public. I can donate 1 btc to the cause.
These articles always walk a very fine line between opposing views. How do you simultaneously claim that pink dolls are marketed to girls and that's bad. Then also claim that there are no video games that have pink dolls, so therefore girls are excluded.

As a father, I worry that if we 'encourage' our girls too much to discard girly pink things, they might receive the message that girly things are inherently worse. It's perfectly ok to ensure your kid isn't forced into some role because of their gender, but be careful not to preclude/deride things they may genuinely desire. Don't be worried about attending a tea party with your girls. The 'message it sends' is that you care enough to play what they want.
Or how about an acknowledgement that it's becoming harder and harder for people to compete against machines?
A New Cost Effective Way To Mine Bitcoins - Open Bath Immersion
You don't just toss out branding. When was the last time Apple, king of branding, casually discarded a branding?

Macbook

Macbook Pro

Mac Pro

These names have been with us for, what, nearly a decade?
With Pivotal CF costing $250k min, anyone got a idea what this is worth?
I think IntelliJ IDEA has all the features of the other IDE products. Stuff are just added/removed by default and adjusted towards Java development
Beware, if you are outside of the Bay Area getting a degree is comparatively more important to employers... At least until you have oodles of XP.
It's a major indicator of poor system design.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not necessarily knocking MongoDB—people who know more about it than I would do a better job of evaluating that. But realistically a swappable DB backend isn't that difficult, and if it is, they should seriously reconsider how they are using the database.
Can you debug webviews in Android with this? Or is it only for the dedicated browser?
Whenever splitting Microsoft is mentioned, I pray for them to spin off the devtools.

F# is better Scala than Scala, C# better Java than Java. Both suffer from a meh runtime (compared to other offers) on non-Windows platforms.
There are lots of problems with it. Here are a couple:

He uses poor OpenGL practices, and sees poor performance as a result. He also designed the entire product in a way that makes it cumbersome to mod, without a consistent interface or a logical way for mods to work together. Modding Minecraft as a whole is one big hack.

I'm more familiar with the networking side of things. The Minecraft networking protocol is a mess. There are 9 or 10 different ways to encode a vector in the protocol. He made up "Named Binary Tags", a dictionary serialization format, which could have better been served with existing tech. He frequently misuses signedness in the protocol. He made up another obtuse dictionary format for describing entity metadata. He screwed up backwards compatibility for the only thing that needed to be backwards compatible - three times. His colleagues later screwed things up even more.
Red Hat releases OpenShift Enterprise 2
If you are paying for 2 indie artists, why not just support them directly by buying music directly from them?
>He is a terrible, terrible coder. Minecraft was (and still is) an unoptimized, poorly designed piece of crap when he handed it off to the rest of Mojang. The DCPU-16 he designed had many flaws and his assembler for it threw out assembly convention.

Notch is inspiring to me the way people like Carmack are not, because I know I'll never be a Carmack -- he's operating on an entirely different level than me. But Notch was able to change the world as a regular programmer plugging away. What he does not seem hopelessly out of reach of my capabilities. You can have a huge impact just being 'good enough'!

(and 'terrible' is hyperbole -- certainly most of the programmers around me at work could not get a 3D engine with Dart up and running in a week, or design a cpu and assembler -- even bad ones.)
Note that Scala doesn't implement general tail call optimization; it only applies to direct self-recursive calls (as far as I'm aware). By contrast, on .NET F# implements true tail call optimization, including cases where the call is statically unknown at compile time (as in `let apply f x = f x`).
dickwolves.
Or support them in ways that actually net them any reasonable amount of money, buying merch or tickets.
In this case, I see an analogy with the whole "Do it manually with a few customers" advice for startups that pops up from time-to-time. You write the damn code from scratch and see what gameplay is interesting, then you can write tools within that domain.
Well, yes, I used an IDE in the Turbo Pascal/Turbo C++ era from which John Carmack comes

DJGPP and RHIDE as well.

It was not common to use a separate editor apart from the "programming environment"
Then Google/Facebook/Microsoft/whoever is without that talent. How does this prove there's no shortage?
Don’t Start a Company, Kid
Funny how people recommend writing X number of words per day, but no one ever recommends saying to program Y amount of lines each day, as it supposedly builds bad habits.

Why wouldn't writing X number of words per day build bad habits as well? Honest question.
Please do! I look forward to it!
The trace cache on that chip likely stores a u-op trace that includes the target of the call instruction, which means the memory subsystem shouldn't even need to fetch it separately since it'll come straight back from the trace cache right in line as part of the instruction sequence.
Bitcoin for dummies
This assumes that you can afford a senior DBA and have time to deal with a junior. And the senior has teaching skills. And so on. I'm not sure apprenticeship works in some industries.
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This seems like the holy grail and I will definitely do the free trial to test it out but at this point I am not getting paid for my website development efforts so I'm not ready yet to pay a monthly fee for this (just hacking on something for myself).
Why Drones Aren't Ready For "Prime" Time
Many ARM processors are in order. Also Itanium.
Creative Commons Version 4.0 released
Ask HN: Any alternative to gumroad?
I want to sell ebooks/templates.
I'll admit, I had to look up what a cross join was, despite being quite familiar with the subject once I understood the terminology. I'm sure you apply much more rigour to your hiring process, but at the same time, it is difficult to know who is throwing out great candidates (I'm not suggesting I am one) over silly little things like this. How do we know if people are hard to find because people are actually hard to find, or people doing the hiring are terrible at their job?
Live Q&A with Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun
British news staff may face terrorism charges over Snowden leaks
that's how Google Play does it :)
That's the funny thing about anecdotes. You get to cherry-pick examples and make broad allegations from those cherry-picked examples. I'm a self-taught developer, and I've worked with plenty of "credentialed" developers that were either lazy as hell, having only gotten into software for the money, or were flat-out incompetent, again having only gotten into the industry for the money. That doesn't mean most folks with degrees are shit developers, it just means those ones were.

I think the real difference between the good developers and the bad is more a result of "passion" for the field. If your only care is about getting the job and the salary that comes with it, you may very well spend a lot of time and effort getting to that point, but you probably won't go beyond that. On the other hand, the guys on my team, myself included, are all passionate. Now that doesn't mean "slaves away for ungodly hours" or even that they spend their time working on side-projects. The common-denominator is that we very much enjoy the line of work. We try to be "craftsmen" and not just a desk-bound office rats. Some jobs allow you to get to a point where you just don't have to put forth much effort unless you actively try to be the best. Software development/engineering/<term du jour> is not one of those fields.
Due to you post relating to musical instruments I will forever have this mental image (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/7-1937/pl...) when I think of Scala -- 11 Musical Instruments at ONCE! So Elegant!
Satoshi and the New Gold - A children’s story about Bitcoin
Why does it feel so much like a scam?
What do you mean by "The JVM could implement tailcalls via analysis"? Offhand, I can't see a way for this to be practically viable, but I may just be lacking imagination.
PAYMENT

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1. Use Hola Unblocker to initially view Spotify.com.

2. Register an account.

3. Disable Hola Unblocker as you only need it for registration.

4. Once registered, download Spotify.

5. Buy a gift card online (I used to maximuscards.com and jerrycards.com).

6. Redeem gift card on the website for your premium subscription.

7. Google "Latest Spotify APK".

8. Download "Easy Installer".

9. Open that Spotify APK with Easy Installer and install it.

10. Register a new itunes US account.

11. Login with it on your iPhone -> download Spotify and login.

12. Login back to your regular Canadian iCloud account.

That's all.
And if he had spent his time first becoming the perfect programmer (according to your standards) he probably wouldn't have bothered writing Minecraft in the first place. This type of attitude, and the lack of tact it's usually accompanied by, is by far the biggest issue with the programming community at large. I say this as a "terrible, terrible coder" who entered the field despite the fear of being labeled one.
Amazon Lockers have saved me numerous times. So very convenient, and I hope to see them expand a lot more than they already have.
500/6 pills is also way more than the lethal dose in a dog or human. And I wonder what exactly a "similar sized animal" is, since a pig is ten times bigger than a dog (20kg and 200kg according to Wolfram Alpha).
How "dumb mistakes" can lead to costly Bitcoin losses
this is awesome. the colored pixel brush is my favorite.

this is a nice example of what i like about programming most visualizations in general. it's fun and easy to brainstorm. change variables and logic until you end up with something you like.
We haven't officially announced it yet, but we've been working on a sort of replacement for datatables, that's more fun to use and easier to customize, called Dynatable. It also has searching, filtering, and paginating, and supports using templates for reading and rendering, such that it could be used to make interactive lists, grids, charts, etc.

http://os.alfajango.com/dynatable if you're interested in checking it out.

EDIT: I don't mean to hijack this thread to just plug our project, just seemed relevant to the parent content. I actually really like the idea of modular single-purpose javascripts that are really well done. The issue becomes when each library has to duplicate functions from other libraries due to them being intended for individual use. For example, I imagine a lot of functions in listjs that duplicate some of the functions in jquery (I haven't actually looked through the individual functions in listjs yet, so this is just conjecture), which is great for the times when you're not using jquery, but other times, it's just a bunch of duplicated code.
To me this could also be prima facie evidence of possibilities outside of the one you listed.

(1) You're company maybe an undesirable place to work. In Fresno, CA there are couple self described big-name software firms that fancy themselves "local google". Only willing to hire the best and brightest as it were. But sadly for them, the best and brightest aren't cutting it for them. They verbatim claim the same thing you are now, good salaries, but no one coming in for an interview is worth it. The real truth is that the word has gotten out: their products stink, they treat their employees like children, and their competitive salaries are not that competitive in the larger market. The so called "best and brightest" just avoid their front door.

(1b) Just highlighting something in part 1. You are getting what you are paying for and that means you are not paying well.

(1c) Your other employees suck. I don't want to work at a place where people are rude or incapable or working in teams, or simply bad at their jobs. It makes my experience worse. Whenever an interview goes well, I always ask to meet the rest of the staff, if only just for a second. To see what they are like.

(2) Your interview process is flawed. Assuming (1) is provably untrue, then it might be time to take a good look at the interview process you are employing. I've been through so many interviews where it was clear that the (wo)man doing the interview was simply looking for someone to solve exactly one problem, or the name a specific function, or the input format for a function in a given language, or for me to suggest a specific solution(and no other), etc.

Worse still, the moment you cannot answer the question or suggest that a simple Google search would help produce a more ideal solution, or lord forbid simply suggest that an alternative solution might be better, there is this shift in perceived power. It almost seems like the interview process can be an adversarial means of verifying that the interviewer is indeed smarter than the interviewee. At this point during such "skills test" interviews, I politely tell the interviewer that I'm not the candidate they are looking for and conclude the interview.

(3) You haven't gotten the word out. How many people really know that your company is looking for someone (1, 10, 100)? Are you really getting the message out to the greater engineering community. Perhaps you are only reaching a single subset, and that subset is not skilled in what you are looking for.
I'm actually interested in using your site for a quick landing page (for an app I'm developing). I'm checking out the 'Pro' section, is there any coupon code available now?
I think (s)he is hoping that an upgrade will be cheaper than buying whole new license irrespective of the cheap initial price.
I totally 100% agree with you-- there is a crazy shortage of qualified software and IT engineers.

The funny part is the only people who will agree with you are other hiring managers. Everyone else will say you aren't paying enough or some other excuse. They are never sifting through the resumes or sitting through the interviews.

If we ever stumble across a qualified candidate, we make it happen. We just can't find very many qualified candidates.
I'll take gross generalizations and stereotypes for $1000, alex.

Here's a thought: knowing and understanding concepts is more difficult than learning the lingo. Why not just, very respectfully and casually, insert the correct word into the discussion and help the guy pick this stuff up? It's called "teamwork" and it's really quite good at making work (and life) better.

I've worked with too many guys with EE and CE and CS degrees that just totally fall down on the job to believe that a degree is the silver bullet of ignorance that you're suggesting. I think in reality it's about individual drive and intellectual appetite. But that's just my own observation.
are you ok with the vast amount of money and time currently wasted on higher education? do you think the four year degree is really the most appropriate form of training in most cases?
Learning the engineering variety of critical thinking does not automatically translate to politics, social policy, or fiscal policy.
I think localizing it was a big mistake.
I don't even want to know if this is fixed now, but I am fairly certain that stuff written in German Excel didn't work in English installations.
=SUM() vs
=SUMME()
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're running a http://xkcd.com/1288/ browser extension.
None of the media on this page work for me. Links to YT or similar sources?
Is it a skills shortage or a won't-pay-market-value shortage? If more MBA's and the like start choosing silicon valley will Wall Street cry shortage or will they just raise the rates of pay and bonuses? If someone making 100k a year couldn't find a helicopter to buy they would be laughed out of the room if they suggested it was due to a shortage of helicopters rather then them not having enough money to buy. But companies who have every incentive to keep wages down are listened to and believed whenever they proclaim that there is a skills shortage, rather than people questioning whether they're paying enough.
In Rapidly Aging Japan, Adult Diaper Sales Are About to Surpass Baby Diapers
Right. And this was before the Blink fork; they've diverged even further by now.
Is it just me or was 6.3 -> 6.4 release kinda slow compared to 6.4 -> 6.5
I was you 12 years ago.

And it's even worse now.
I'm not sure I was trying to prove that there isn't a shortage, rather if you're only offering a "generous" rate and not the rate that actually attracts people, then you are not really playing in the market.

With that said, what is a shortage? Is there a shortage of Ferraris because I cannot afford one, or am I just too poor to consider owning one? Is there a shortage of developers until every developer is working for minimum wage so that the poorest of poor companies can afford them too?
Mainstream desktop processors? Not really. But there's tons in the embedded and mobile worlds. (All the ARM A7 cores, for instance.)

In order comes back during strange times. Sun switched back to in-order for Niagara, for instance.
Gaming company caught building Bitcoin mining botnet  gets off light
Did a 20min nap 20mins late not count for the cycle?
> ethically

Double standards.
Gene pool is probably very small - if they were introduced with a couple from a cargo ship, maybe microscopic. Little chance for selection to work.
I completely agree with you. Too bad some of the more convenient Amazon lockers shut down. I might have to get a PO box. I'd much rather use something like Luna.
I don't know that a paper delivery route will have a meaningful impact on college tuition.
Some of the Founding Fathers specifically opposed enacting a Bill Of Rights because lack of enumeration might be construed as not being a right, distracting from the main point that the government is not empowered to limit that which, tautologically, it is not empowered to limit. In http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa84.htm Alexander Hamilton contends that a BoR is pointless in that the Constitution strictly delineates the limits of governmental power, and anything not within those limits is by practical definition a Constitutional right insofar as the government has no delegated power to limit it.
Thanks for the clarification. Well, I'll wait for the Revolution then.
Interesting new features:

TRIM Support in mdadm:
The mdadm tool now supports the TRIM commands for RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and RAID5.

Full Support of fsfreeze:
The fsfreeze tool is fully supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. The fsfreeze command halts access to a file system on a disk. fsfreeze is designed to be used with hardware RAID devices, assisting in the creation of volume snapshots. For more details on the fsfreeze utility, refer to the fsfreeze(8) man page.

Source: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
"Will Wright doesn't code"

Probably not much now, but Will Wright did code his early games (eg. Raid on Bungeling Bay , SimCity, etc).
On Rolling Your Own
How Lawyers Can Actually Help Startups (Who Usually Can't Afford Legal Fees)
These things should get more upvotes... much more interesting than another Amazon drones article I can find at techcrunch
In many ways, teachers are people who never grew up past high school. They can't wait to go back and do it all again, but as the ultimate popular kid.
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Doh haha you are totally right. Completely forgot about it.

Thanks.
Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care
trigger.io claim it is possible for their apps on Android 4.4 [1] that uses Chromium as basis for the webview, but I didn't have the chance yet as I am still on 4.3.

[1] http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...
he/she didn't exactly mean "2 indie artists"...just listening to bands who had an extremely low percentage of streams on Spotify.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, as this is a USAToday article, but how disappointing that this is just a rant without any meat to it. Sure I agree, abolish the TSA, but the article itself is just a waste of words.
You can't get stuff shipped to PO Boxes generally.
The great is the enemy of the good.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/

Pick 5. Shakespeare is one of my personal favorites.
"NeuroOn has technology that lets you induce lucid dreaming, whenever you want" - polyphasic sleep is pretty interesting, but this is what does it for me... IF it's possible.
I went to Caltech and worked at the JPL prior to going to Google. I can't say my time at Caltech was particularly worthwhile in terms of what I gained.
Can't get a TV delivered to an Amazon locker and its hard to get large electronics out of most office buildings without security needing to clear it with your employer. Amazon Lockers have been great though, although better when they were in Staples instead of 7/elevens.
$50k is also a rounding error in the budgets of national space agencies and private sector players in the space industry, many of whom might be interested in a magical and revolutionary propulsion technology that could - if possible to extend to larger satellites - dramatically increase the design life of existing satellites and reduce the risk of failing to attain the desired orbit.
It's pretty rare! :)
Fireside Chat with Nitrous.io
He probably uses multiple monitors and only streams one (at least he did when I watched). So he might be looking up documentation on another screen.
"Plans are mental masturbation"
Flash Pro adds native HTML5 Canvas export support
> If I read you correctly, you'd love to have the increased productivity of a larger virtual workspace, but today's technology and your need to be mobile keep you thinking it's best to focus on mobility first. That makes a lot of sense.

Yes. Also, as my laptops' screens have gotten larger, my desire for a bigger screen has gotten lower. My first laptop was 13" and 1280x800 and I tethered to a big screen constantly. It was just too small for me. My current 15" laptop screen (which is 16:10 aspect ratio and high DPI) is good enough for most things. The wide aspect ratio is great for programming, since it allows 2 columns of even very wide code.

I do wish I had one screen dedicated to the app/web page/whatever and one to the debugger (code/vars/console/etc.), but that's really the only time I feel even slightly constrained. And like I said, right now it's good enough that I'm willing to trade that last desire for more portability.
Thanks for supporting Renderscript syntax highlighting.

Please add support for building Android projects with Renderscript source files. That's the last reason why I use ADT.
Real problems are hard to solve and no ready way to pay for them. Convenience services have less challenges, and a ready market waiting to pay for them.

If this service was in Seattle (and I didn't live in an apartment complex that essentially provides this service for free) I'd use it.
Sending my name to deep space... FOR SCIENCE!
I know I'll just sound like another grumpy Android user here, but why launch with an iPhone app only? Why wouldn't you start off with e-mail and a mobile-responsive web site? I can't imagine what functionality a native Luna app could provide that couldn't be done over the web.

I know that being in the App Store is a status symbol and so on, but most of my online shopping is still done on the web, and I sit in front of a computer at work - so most of the time I want to interact with Luna I'll probably be wanting a desktop experience.

I'm in NYC, so I can't use the service right now anyway. But if it launches here I'd be an absolute sucker for it, except that I won't be able to use it.