skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A major factor here is that they were steering the ship to crash right after they leave the office, trying to repeat the political disaster that happened to the UCR in 2001. Unfortunately in economy, when you know/think in the future something is going to happen, it affects the prices today.

The devaluation, denial of inflation and expenditure of reserves paint a bad picture: they dont intend to change the direction of the ship, at least not yet.

Of all the issues the US has with the political system, i wished we had the strong institutional presence they have. Politics in argentina are so cultist, and they always centralize power in a persona or figure. There's never a discourse that says "we are going to do this, so in the future this wont be corrupted, or this will be measured independently" etc. I havent heard that in my entire life.

To explain the basic consequence of that to a typical american: there is no future planning in argentina. There is no forecast that ever spans more than 2 years, and those ones venture in black magic. Everything has to be about immediate effects because nothing is built for the long term.
Because "any developer" of course uses a system with a motd. Or wants to be reminded of all todos whenever opening a terminal.

What's with this HN hype of turning "Hey, look, I do X" into "if you're a Y, like I am, you should do X"?
Yes, but it took something like 100 years after Bach's death before people generally believed it to be awesome IIRC. There were doubtless composers who were more popular at the time that we've never heard of.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just thinking that it'd be better to keep everything and let the future decide.
But for what i remember, neither illustrator or photoshop cs5 alone did fit in that.

EDIT: http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilt...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362428,00.asp
Seems to me a person with a single 1000-unit achievement would look better than a person with 1000 10-unit achievements if you ask about their single biggest achievement.

Maybe I coded an iphone app. Meanwhile you coded an iphone app, and fixed bugs in a huge legacy codebase, and did hiring and code reviews and mentored new employees, and contributed to open source projects, and introduced your company to source control and automated testing, and masterminded a trivial code change that made the company a million dollars a year, and you spend your free time running a programming club at a local orphanage.

If we're competing for a job and we're asked about our single biggest achievement, we'll both say iphone app. An employer who wants to accurately gauge who is the better employee should probably dig deeper.
Typical vocabulary is smaller than that.

And pass phrases will tend away from words like perspicacious.
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Uhm, yes?! Because, like, it's their damn job to break crypto?!
Show HN: A bread machine website
Yeah but would that have made a good blog post for HN?
In this context, yes. Precision jumping and strafing-while-turning-while-firing are basically impossible with touchscreen controls; at least I've yet to see them done well.
would have loved to be in the room when they realized what had happened
If you'd watched the video, here's a paraphrase:

"We watch the kids play, then we talk and they decide on the rules. They respect the rules better then".

Adult supervision at schools is pretty common, even in the deep South Pacific.
I've validated it myself for an argument when the comic was published for the phrase "correct horse battery staple".

First character is 4 bits: c = 4

The next 7 chars are 2 bits/each: "orrect " = 14

Characters 9-20 are 1.5 bit/each: "horse batter" = 18

Charactes 21-n are 1 bit/each: "y staple" = 8

No bonus for including both upper and non-alpha chars.

No bonus for passwords of length less than 20 chars, not containing dictionary words, because the password is longer than 20 characters.

Total entropy: 4 + 14 + 18 + 8 = 44 bits of entropy.
Microsoft backs off on Metro
Gregarious device use should sort of be on the decline. To the extent security matters, any ol' device is less and less of a good idea.

Still, I'd like devices to be able to ask my cell phone for authorizations (maybe with a complicated enough UI that the cell phone can limit the valid time of the auth).
Oh God.
I also like how such rather large changes are being introduced in a language that has been in production for many decades. That is pretty remarkable.
I never bought into the XKCD 936 concept. Imagine using 20 web pages regularly, and having to remember 20 unique word combinations of 4 words.

What I do is the following:

I have a function that reliably converts the name of a service -> some string, easy to compute in the brain

passwords are
salt + f(service)

where salt is a strong string of characters for critical services (financial, personal info, etc)

and a weak string of characters for stuff i don't care about.
> To stop or severely impair The Guardian's ability to report classified materials.

And how will it do that, exactly, when copies of the material exist at its US offices?
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> Answered well, and if you listen to the answer properly, this question will tell you how someone overcomes obstacles and handles adversity.

Only in the specific (and almost certainly relatively narrow) context of the time and place in which the achievement occurred. The question is, at best, a vague and inaccurate heuristic measure of the thing you note. The answer to it, and follow-on questions, may have little or no bearing on the position the candidate is interviewing for.
It seems attacking Adobe shit (by writing a blog post) is the best way to get their correct support.
I wish you'd raised that idea like, three days ago. I would have had time to work on it. :)
Oh, God... Native... just. no.

They make some awesome hardware, but their attempts at DRM made me never want to risk my hard earned cash on them again.
True. Though I think all 3 would fit the AAA MMO description (especially considering that all of them have a relatively high upfront cost), even if they have IAP.
For the chumps (like me) who don't know how to get the perl mcrypt module:

sort -R /usr/share/dict/words | head -n 4
And the competitive community took full advantage of this, because knowing how to "double shot" and BxR made having a battle rifle the only weapon you really needed to beat really anything but a snipe.
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I think a lot of time is wasted on perfecting spelling/grammar because of comments like the one above.

Are you having difficulty understanding Scott's message or intent?
That's effectively security through obscurity. If someone got one of your passwords, he could try to figure out f()^-1 and reverse your funciton, supossing its inversible; that would grant him all of your passwords with the same salt. Specially since you just now published an outline of your scheme.
I think Erlang is sort of unique in this way. Many languages go through a lot of changes when they are not all that popular, and then blow up in popularity and finally have a lot of users who are wary of Big Changes. Ruby, for instance, was around for years and years before it started to get popular because of Rails. Python, too, was a product of the early 90ies, but as late as some Linux conference in... '99 or 2000 or thereabouts, I recall sitting at a BoF table with Guido and just a few other people, and the language not being that big a deal.

Erlang is still not really all that popular, but has always had a lot of Important Code in production thanks to Ericsson, which has made it more difficult to change even though there are some things that even the creators acknowledge as not particularly elegant.
"Downloading pirated content can contain viruses and cause security issues."

twitch attack
Static typing does nothing for hashes/maps. That would only help with attributes on objects.
It seems many think the same way - check out this Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/1vu3gy/sick_o...
What if you are interviewing a kid from south-side Chicago or kid from third world who against all odds went to college?

That is exactly the sort of achievement that impresses us, actually. For example, Qasar Younis started life in a house with dirt floors in a village in Pakistan. His family moved to the US, to Detroit, when he was 7. He appears to have worked his ass off from the moment they landed. We funded his startup, Talkbin, in Winter 2011, mainly because we were so impressed with him. Talkbin was acquired by Google soon after Demo Day, and he is now a part time partner at YC.

(Why do so many people assume that after 9 years of picking founders, we still have huge blind spots that are obvious to them but not to us?)
Future of Configuration Management is Distributed
Pipe it through something that strips control characters before printing perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait
A todo list that only lives on one machine is a terrible todo list. This is 2014.
The missing element for all three of those (which are action games) is latency.

With mobile touch-screen controls the game has to somehow register a button-press as soon as a button-press is made.

But it must also never (to a first approximation) register a button-press when a button-press was not requested (e.g. an accidental brush of a finger against the screen).

It's hard enough to do this anyways, but the "input device" does no favors for the game developer either. There's a reason that input devices on consoles and computers have evolved over the years into the shapes they have, they are meant to be easy to hold in a certain position (so that you always know where the buttons are) and perhaps more important, they have tactile features that allow your finger to quickly find and stay near the buttons. It's the reason that buttons and the D-pad are not fully-flush with the shell, even though that might have been more stylish.

Imagine trying to play Super Mario World with a NES-shaped rectangular controller where there are no tactile buttons. This might have worked if you only needed Left, Right, Jump, but even that game required all of the following for the best gameplay: Left/Right, Up/Down (for pipes and to literally scroll the screen up), Jump, Run/Hold/Fireball, Spin Jump, Pause, Drop Stored Item and Shoulder Left/Right (to scroll the screen). And if the input wasn't right you'd either jump into a spike you had meant to run under or accidentally run off a cliff you'd meant to jump past.

The controls on Mario seem complex only because they were so completely intuitive when you were actually playing them but I assure you they were far more difficult to implement than you think. It's not until you start playing platformer games with horrible controls that you can realize the great job done by the development teams at Sega (for Sonic) and Nintendo.
Nope it wouldn't....Spending a couple hours calling support and writing a blog post to whine vs. doing the obvious solution helps make Adobe look evil, since they charge so much for Photoshop and all...
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I've got a passing interest in Erlang, and also saw the existence of Elixir http://elixir-lang.org/ , which uses the Erlang VM. Could someone from either language's community comment on if they see a strong future for Elixir?
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Disclaimer: I'm really having a hard time being empathetic here.

Why do companies chase this market? They're very fickle, and rarely appreciate any sort of gameplay mechanics. These sorts of games devalue the medium to themed Skinner boxes, essentially. I play games to be competitive, and employ creative problem-solving strategies. Meanwhile, loads of companies seem hellbent on removing all nuances from their games to pursue ever-more-mainstream sensibilities.

It's disgusting and patronizing.
Lenore Skenazy (Free Range Kids) blogged about this. [1] A commenter linked to a podcast with the school Principal. [2]

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[2] http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20140127-0909-free_play...
Came in here just to say that. Thank you for whoever posted this and more importantly, whoever wrote it.
It's perfectly secular to advocate abstinence until legal union.

Evil, but secular.
>I think a lot of time is wasted on perfecting spelling/grammar

Are you sure about that? Scour any comments section for 10 minutes and it should be clear that not enough time is being used to perfect spelling/grammar.

>Are you having difficulty understanding Scott's message or intent?

No, but that doesn't mean we should settle for the lowest common denominator.
I think part of the problem is not having a decent try before you buy option in the major app stores. Since the app stores manage purchase and licensing, it would be easy to remove apps after the demo period. The 5+ years of free and .99 cent apps created a psychological barrier that still stands today; thus the rise of IAP.
I'm still trying to figure out just what my reaction to that sentence was. It was some strange mixture of pathos, horror, and, contemplating a world in which such an idea has taken hold, how to unite people against such a thing.
You make it sound like it happened by chance. However, it's more like "Special Forces kill top terrorist in Absurdistan" (as in, went an extra mile, tailored operation, high-value target).

edit: speling
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Be careful if you try this at home; a lot of people have lost money this way. (Not sending change is a common mistake.)
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This is pretty much spot-on. I can't stand CoD anymore for quite a few reasons, but one of the biggest is that they charge money for map packs that are often based on old content. If I'm loyal enough to give you 60 bucks every time you come out with a new game, don't try screwing me out of extra money for maps that I already bought a year ago. Port them for free like good developers always have, or just don't do it at all.

I think valve has done the best job out of anyone when it comes to monetization in Counterstrike:GO. You can purchase custom maps and skins to use on official matchmaking servers, or you get all of the same content for free plus a wide variety of mods and use them on custom servers. They get paid, and the customers still have freedom of choice.
-2th mistake: consider dual booting when trying out a new version of an operating system

-1th mistake: not using the wonderfully powerful command line tools available in GNU/Linux to make a copy of the Ubuntu 12.04 system. Some use dd or dress it up with CloneZilla, others use filesystem level tools like tar then restore grub with a live image. Point is you can always get back...

0th mistake: going out to work without a USB stick containing a known working live image. You can boot of a USB even if the hard drive dies. Plug another USB stick in for storage.

Not gloating, I've made all these mistakes at least once!
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Really?

Maybe it's environment specific, but bloom filters seem to be the "an aglet is the plastic thing at the end of a shoelace" of CS, ie., the "little know fact" that everyone knows.
If it's a question of balancing harms, then even the risk that open discourse, even the "icky" kind, might be imperiled is the greater harm, full stop.