skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to contrast that with current HR practices. Why is it that HR departments (as far as I can tell) focus on hiring "the best" or "the best available", while it would be more important, easier and cheaper to simply avoid "the worst" (aka this guy).
Maybe now but they have innovated in the past, and Nintendo still does to a certain degree.

It's not like their society became more conformist all of a sudden. In fact it was probably even more so a couple of years/decades earlier.

Look at the manga industry: there are mangas that touch on virtually any genre. That is a testament to the creativity of some of the people in this land.

I am not saying they will become as creative as the people in SV but I believe they definitely have the potential to bring innovative concepts to life.
Don't believe Apple's line about pixels not being visible at retina dpis. Single-pixel slivers of geometry are still very visible in non-AA 2x resolution, and much more annoying (for me at least) than the smoother lower res with antialiasing.
NodeJS article/blog module. Think Ghost.js but more in the form of a module (not only a "package/platform"). I'm really just building it for somewhat selfish reasons; be a portfolio piece, run a portfolio, to speed up a high-traffic blog and to experiment with ways of creating content more efficiently for users (Such as built in infrastructure for adding article templating + web scraping + markdown for text bodies and comments etc.).

Ideally I'd love for there to be a way to explicitly modify database structure, easily and predictably, and have it all just work in several SQL dialects, so that you could meld the engine and the admin interface etc. to any project whether it's a blog or not. I feel like most of these bloggy engines make database structure either invisible or too difficult to understand and minipulate.

Definitely want to open source it proper, build it to be extendable etc. Don't care about competing with anything else, just want to be another option out there. Nothing all that special but maybe my use-cases will create something that fills a niche.
This is a difficult problem with too many complex human factors. The guilty actor may have a conscience, but without suitable creative channels, opts instead for basic survival in the organization by whatever means necessary. Or they might just be an asshole whose crowning meta output is exposing a broken organization.

An idea I have thought about is having a culture of individual demos. Being put on the spot sucks, but taking responsibility and pride in your work is an important step to encouraging those who do to grow and shine, and forcing those who don't out of the shadows. Demos do not necessarily have to be presentations on stage under a spotlight - they can be of any format including videos, drawings, research papers, or distributed software.

For this to work though, the demos cannot just be some adjunct ritual to the organization's "real work", with the sole purpose of name and shame. The demos must be the byproduct of your entire work in the organization. What sprouts from the individual demos, may lead to improvised teams for larger projects, but the demos are always the driving force, there to empower the individual and their ideas.
Instead of improving their algorithm, they now manually punish sites for not obeying.

They definitely also work on improving their algorithm; it's just that often the algo does not automatically penalize or ban a site, but rather flags it for human review, which certainly makes sense to me.
I've found myself using Facebook less and less the older I get. I used it every day in high school, relatively often in college, and barely go on anymore. I have an account simply because I have to. Its always changing on me, there's a bunch of new stuff that I have no idea how to use, and my news feed is a bunch of annoying gibberish that I don't care about and don't feel like spending the time to improve. I'm not sure if I'm the norm or not, but if they're starting to lose the age segment I personally was most active in, that can't be a good thing.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years. On the plus side for Facebook, they own Instagram, one of the things said to be gaining the market they are losing, so they can still reach it. However, it remains to be seen how well they can monetize Instagram.
Have you given martini a try?https://github.com/codegangsta/martini
Dieter Rams talking about Apple from the documentary Objectified.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahtHKCQUD2k
Although the Apple commentary put this in troll territory, I'd have to otherwise agree. The monitor definitely doesn't say 'high end' the way the Apple or other expensive monitors in the market do. They really couldn't give it slicker design that doesn't match their $299 monitors? http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=us&l=en&s...
Satoshi also mined using a lab of computers so could have done it afterhours on a campus somewhere which explains the time difference.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one. Basically all social events are organised on Facebook with my friends because of how simple it is to do so and everyone uses it, general purpose chatting is also done on facebook to save credit

Source: 17 year old Australian
Code formatting (custom vs standardized) impact on productivity
So, Facebook isn't anymore a cool new thing teenagers obsess about. Wowzers!! Does that really surprise anyone? It's not exactly a sustainable niche, kinda by definition. The real question is whether those teenagers, once grown up and less interested in beingt cool and different from their parents, will start seeing value in what Facebook offers, i.e. whether network effects in social media are cross-generational. I suspect so, since generations are not in fact discrete.
There were a lot of problems in the early bitcoin client Kaminsky saw the refined product after Gavin, Satoshi and many others contributed
I see no numbers anywhere. Just breathless rhetoric labelled "insights". Where is the evidence?
I'm in the UK and do voluntary work with teenagers.

While I can't at all say my sample is representative or that I've I polled them to check, my experience is that it definitely isn't dead and buried; these teenagers definitely still use it, and in ways that don't suggest it's just to pander to their parents.

Anecdote not data I know, but the headline conclusion sounds over-broad to me.
which is quite a long way from actually using the term "4K"
Don't forget, those teenagers entire families are now on Facebook. I concede that the actions of teenagers might be an indicator of what's to come, but the world has hardly 'moved on' yet.
In asia it seems that the *most popular messengers also includes some form of "timeline".

Malaysia: WhatsApp
Thailand (and Japan I think): Line

But I guess they are still MOSTLY used for the direct chatting.
I understand the importance of Rails in the Ruby ecosystem, but at the same time, I would really like it not being the only measure of Ruby's performance.
thanks man! fixed :)
Easy to use mail server for developers (Free)
Benefits of prototypal inheritance over classical?
Myspace was a site for teenagers. Facebook isn't. Old people don't give a crap about what the newest fad of the week is.
(I work at Sourcing.io.)

This is a very valid criticism--we need to do a much better job of explaining the service to engineers. Like most startups, we've got a list of things we'd love to build but haven't had time to. With that said, the tools for engineers could certainly have been prioritized. At the very least, we should have added a simple way to opt out. We will be adding this soon.
I'm in the UK and my 17 year-old sister and her friends still use Facebook every day. Snapchat seems to be growing in popularity though.
I came up with a different conclusion from the same study: there are only seven countries in the world.
Unfortunately? Yeah Google deserves to die, self driving cars, actual robots, Google glass, android, search, map reduce etc. Who needs this useless company that doesn't contribute anything to the world, right?
I'd guess Dell simply doesn't care, and doesn't have to since most of it's revenue isn't related to looks at all. Maybe they look at it this way: it's a screen, so 99.9999% of the time you'll be looking at the screen, and not at the frame around it. So we don't spend any time on designing a nice looking frame (besides, nice looking is highly subjective) and don't let customers pay even more for the product because of that.
No statistics on the sourced article, just a bunch of anthropologists' interviews with teenagers that cannot simply explain the whole of this situation. Eternal September has seemed to sweep HN with this garbage somehow making it to the top.
I really hope other countries take note of this approach to tackling the drugs issue.

Luis Suárez has really pulled this one out of the bag.
It's not me, they are stock images. You're right, it does look jarring. I'm currently working on making a number of new products available. Eventually there will be very little duplication on the front page.
Wow! I don't remember that. I guess I didn't have internet by those days :)
Yeah, a "Real Name Policy" will do that to your startup. When everything you say has your name and photo next to it you're much less likely to say anything. Every single one of your personal opinions offends someone or is in disagreement with someone out there and it's only a matter of time before they discover it and discover you. In this case kids' personal lives were being revealed in front of their parents+teachers+bosses and everyone else that's now on facebook.

Maybe if Facebook changed over to pseudonyms and was more transparent with the data they collected on everyone, people wouldn't have so much to worry about.
I personally didnt understand the meaning of the new colors and stuff. For me in win7 chrome its still showing the old design....:P
One can only hope the apple design circlejerk is not going to start now. Also: not everyone likes shiny blinky silvery things.
Think about it from this perspective: Which notebook would Darth Vader buy? A silver MacBook Pro or a matte black Thinkpad?
Yeah, you're right Luke...
Same here ... 24" 16:9 displays are for who? I work with my display, not gaming or movie reviewing.
It's not really about being a native speaker. It's really just about getting used the "lingo".
Recommender systems, Part 2: Introducing open source engines
I am a seventeen-year-old girl. I have no idea eat they're on about. Everyone here uses Facebook. It is not dead nor dying.
Octopress on Nitrous.IO
Wait, so the full, unshortened rendition of "mother" has essentially become a swear word in your language? (Bulgarian?) Wow :-) Language never fails to amaze me.

I see your point entirely, and you're right to complain, but I doubt I would've seen that coming if I were making an autocorrecting keyboard.
> [He] cautioned that computers should not be allowed to have input into our thoughts.

What does he mean? He disapproves of brain-computer interfaces? Google Glass? Our distraction-based use of them (Facebook, Reddit, HN...) ?

Or as a way of redisigning (sorry) our interaction with the world around us? If this is what he means, I strongly disagree with him: computers are probably the most powerful tool we've ever invented, and we're just beginning to understand how we can integrate them well in our lives.
It's confusing, because 4k has been used as a term (not actually that often in practice) in the VFX industry for 5/6 years for the following resolutions:

4096 × 2160 (standard)
4096 x 3112 (super 35)

Then for 4k cameras, the following resolutions have become fairly common for "4k":

3840 x 2160
4096 x 2304

so these days, it's difficult to know what's been talking about...
Are teenagers just selecting the tool that is right for them?

Facebook has this horrible habit of trying to work out what you would most like to see in your feed. It's exceptionally transient.

Teenagers are moving to Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp because they do a better specific job. Switching between apps isn't hard.

However FB is very good for event organisation or even a cheap meetup.com alternative.

Of note I find twitter etc less invasive. When you look at the FB app permissions it really really wants to know pretty much everything that is going on in your phone.
I think Edinson Cavani gave him a hand on that one ;)
I use Blade inside of Laravel. Very light weight.
AFAICS it doesn't meet all aspects of the TV world's 4K spec, specifically the new colour regime. (99% of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_RGB_color_space has to be a smaller colour space than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020 surely.)
but old people die.
This looks like (and looks like it would feel like) knytt.
> I can happily say that he looks amazing for his age (80) now. He's wearing a Braun BN0035 [1] in black by the way.

Huh, that's a beautiful watch, though too expensive for my taste. Did Rams design it? It reminds me to pay closer attention to Braun's objects for their design. This watch was designed in 2012, and here I thought Braun's design heydey was the 60s...

[1] http://www.braun-clocks.com/watch/BN0035
> A quirk of Chilean law makes land, mining and water rights independent of each other. Mr Johnson made sure to acquire all three, particularly the water rights. "In the future, wars will be fought over water," he says.

Sounds like he'll have to purchase some nukes next, then ;D
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personally, I won't use for anything important to my software business on license that is non open source.

Intel, I won't be using it for my money making business. This corporate license thing is so 1990's.

Get with GPL alfaro. You will create way more wealth for the planet that way.
Blender team to make full feature film during 2014-2015
And yet Facebook stock keeps going up everyday

Probably because kids are using instagram which is also owned by facebook, so either way facebook wins. Facebook is becoming increasingly popular among the middle aged and this also is the most profitable demographic.
The Internet Archive says this was first posted in May 2013, not 2005 or 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://unenumerated.blogspot.c...

What's the deal?
4K means ~4000 pixels wide, not "four times HD".

Full HD has a defined pixel size, and they're simply saying that this screen has twice the resolution in both directions.
What makes you think I'm not buying them to use in the shop or at work? There are many industrial uses for such a basic part.

Yes, it's irresponsible to let them get anywhere near children, this includes in the house where they will get all over. They work great on refrigerators. That is until you overload them with pictures and art at which point they fall off and roll away to stick somewhere at baby level that won't be touched by a broom (ask me how I know).

It's also irresponsible to market them as toys.

They seem approximately as dangerous as deceptively innocent looking razor blades. What we need are magnetic toys which are equally or more fun to build with while being simultaneously less attractive to ingest. Surprised the market hasn't come up with something yet.
hackers steal 11 million virtual dog meme coins

the truth is stranger than fiction
Edward Snowden Commits Suicide
See here:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/25/ruby-2-1-0-is-re...
Is this a proper title for a first "post"?
Okay. "Hacker News". That sounds good. What I'm supposed to write for my first "post" ? Do you call this even a "post" ? Is there little things, little secrets, little tips I must know to use Hacker News ? Can you help me ? Is this my last question ?
I have one of those IBM T221 which do 3840x2400 (16:10) on 22.2" (204dpi). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors for details.

These monitors are old, they have a fan, they require 4x DVI achieve this resolution and they are limited to 41Hz screen refreshes (not flickering though). Still, once you get used to truly sharp fonts, you don't want to go back. Can't wait for more of these new monitors to arrive in different sizes, with 60Hz refresh (preferably also offering 1920x1080@120Hz) and with HDMI 2.0. I believe 27" is the perfect size for a single desktop monitor.
me Too.. I was thinking "Huh, why would they try that"..
Is the lack of hardware scaling an attempt to keep the costs down or to 'encourage' people to upgrade their PCs?

It's a beautiful piece of kit. I'm guessing any hardware scaling would seriously impact on the image quality and this type of screen would show up any imperfection.
You'll also apparently be stuck with colour capabilities that are inferior to those of the new TV 4K standard.
Social networking overall has run its course. below are the phases it has gone through like everything else.

1. Initial Launch: OMG! Cool. Signup

2. More people Jump in, it becomes even more exciting.

3. Everyone starts using it.

4. Eventually, excitement starts to fade away.

5. It becomes boring.

6. People's addiction eventually starts to decline.

7. People totally lose their interest.

8. Eventually, it becomes a ghost town. End.

Google+ even couldn’t pass through the 2nd phase.
It is using OpenGL indirectly via the graphics-drawingcombinators library (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/graphics-drawingcombinato...).

Indeed the fonts may not be as pretty as with Cairo etc but on the other hand there are very nice animations when edits make stuff move around.
I frequently hear this and have experienced it myself.

The immediate solution is that this guy should have been sent to the sales department instead of given authority.
> Facebook has this horrible habit of trying to work out what you would most like to see in your feed. It's exceptionally transient.

That's a feature introduced not long ago to reduce transience - feeds were dominated by chatty users and apps, everything else got drowned out. IMO it's a hugely important and useful feature that any other feed-based service must replicate unless chooses to be completely transient, i.e. twitter. Facebook is not transient at all - individual timelines still contain everything, and even the feed does not, in my experience, change retroactively.
Hi, I'm the co-founder of Sourcing.io, and the engineer who built it. Stoked that we're on HN, and get the chance to respond to the engineering and hacker community.

Our introduction blog post says a bit more about our mission.

http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world

Believe it or not, I hate 'spam' recruiting emails as much as the next engineer. This is how I feel about them:

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/recruiting-emails

We're not here to increase the spam problem - quite the opposite. We've put a number of safe guards in place against this kind of abuse:

* We don't allow big recruitment agencies known for spamming on the system.

* Our system is geared around referral based recruiting - finding people already connected to your company. For example, promoting candidates who follow one of your engineers on Twitter. This is the type of recruiting we live for and want to promote.

That said, there are definitely some things we should (and will) do.

* Allow developers to see, edit and update their own profiles

* An instant opt-out button

Let me know if there's anything else I can answer.
The hurdy-gurdy has 4 drone strings and 2 for melodies, so it's a rather similar concept to bagpipes with regards how it plays.

Also interesting is the origin of the hurdy-gurdy, the Organistrum: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organistrum
I asked my teenage son (~15) about what he and his friends were using and his answer surprised me - he said anyone using Facebook was "weird" as "it's for old people" (direct quotes). This surprised me as he (and everyone he knows) have been ultra keen Facebook users for the last few years. He's not really into tech apart from game playing and socializing.

SnapChat and a bit of SMS are apparently what he uses these days.
Or look at board gaming in recent year. Japan is certainly capable of disruptive innovation.
Its amazing how badly google lost on this, from a great start.
That's what qualitative research is. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio... &c".
Steam down for more than 12h
Why Intel loves HTML5 explained through a video embeded in a flash player... :-D
See screenshot : http://goo.gl/fwkZve
Intel page : http://goo.gl/sTk5Zo
The steps from 4 to 7 seems to me not to be at all inevitable. Facebook provides pretty solid and sustainable value in allowing you to keep in touch with people you know. It does not require excitement, hype and obsession for that.

Of course, if usage intensity declines, so does revenue (but also costs).
I assume I can pick up the items somehow? The "tutorial screen" only tells me of the arrows, space and enter, none of which pick up items.
Big thing helping the start-up scene

*A lot of people don't have work.
Citation needed. Please provide facts that prove social networking overall has run its course.

Social networking overall is strong as ever in my opinion but I'm ready to have my views challenged.
Very obviously a nonsense figure, would you say? Really, really obviously a nonsense figure with no evidence, wouldn't you say? Really, REALLY obviously? Funny coincidence too, presenting the timescale in terms of generations, just like in the parent post? I wonder if perhaps that's deliberate...

I deliberately echoed the post I was responding to, but increased it, to illustrate that the original statement was devoid of evidence; in essence, the point was to emphatically and obviously have no evidence of timescale in order to highlight the absurdity of the original post's timescale. You did get the point, though, so I suppose it worked.
That's a fantastic display of PostgreSQL skills - well done!
why does it show Cyprus Map whereas im in Moldova?
Thanks for that comment. I had very similar experiences in regards to myself and coworkers. I used to, and to some extent still do, think that stuff I've done is overrated/easy. While some people are seemingly naturals at striking that balance, some have to constantly be aware of that situation and not always default to being too timid. Especially true for interviews as that highly impacts starting salary and so forth. The team-part you mentioned highly depends on the communication culture of the team and the company, wouldn't really work in a "dysfunctional" team.

On the other hand I think that it might be an unconscious defense mechanism for fear of taking on too much responsibility or fear of too high expectations from others.
but young people turn into old people - and, at the moment, at a faster rate than old people are dying.
Ask HN: Feedspot using leaked Adobe Email Addresses?
I just received an invitation to beta test the "new" Feedspot Google Reader replacement, however, the email address they used to contact me was one that I explicitly used only for an Adobe account (using GMails custom addresses / aliases) and the address was part of the leaked password / email address database from Adobe.

The question is two-fold: First, is it OK to mine these kind of sources and second, can somebody confirm the same kind of emails?
most of them are doing well - but NOT in the Zillow segment. It is when you start wading in the murky waters of Indian secondary real estate sales, that you hit all these issues.

My work history is in my profile.
Mixed HTTPS content - Browser security blind spot?