skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's (toJson foo) on the entire data, however complex, as long as there is a sane way to jsonify it. For example, if the data contains functions, there's no default way to convert it into json.

And also, deserialization is going to be more concise in Haskell because type inference decides which type to deserialize to.
Felt annoyed with the video, couldn't tell for how long it would keep going. But nice resolution in full screen.
Web developers are learning the basics of scaling. Hell, this guy is learning right now.
IBM is a great example of reverse diversification. At one time, it looked like taking over the world (buying Rolm etc), but after the crash it has been selling off divisions on a regular basis: PCs, printers, drives etc. These were once considered core businesses.
Story time.

One time, I wore a suit to an interview (where the recruiter forgot to tell me to wear casual) and was literally mocked for doing so. Not just a good natured ribbing either, this was a good five minutes of really angry tear-down. And this was no startup, they had probably 200+ people. I got to stand there in front of maybe ten interviewers getting "dressed down" for my attire, like some sort of boot camp grunt. I lost all respect for my interviewers at that moment. If a group is so single-minded that me dressing up a little "too much" gets mocking, I'm happy working elsewhere. This same group also picked on me for using Linux instead of a Mac.

If conforming is so important to a group that someone dressing up or using a different OS is so offensive they cannot even pretend to be decent people, I'm happy to see that signal as early as possible.

But please, if you find yourself acting like this: turning down (or even openly mocking) candidates for their formal attire, please consider that you are hiring people who disregarded common wisdom about interviewing. You are hiring people who, when dealing with something as important as interviewing, decided "it's recommended I do x to increase my chances, I'm too cool|awesome|unprofessional to bother with that!"

That doesn't mean mock someone for being sloppy either, I'm just tired of clothes being such a big deal either way.
Whats the difference to the regular facebook app? It just looks like a new UI for the apps newsfeed to me.
If "everyone else is white" then why should they catter to the non-white demographic? Should they spoil everyone's fun to make a minority feel "included"?

I understand that the STATED purpose of the event is not "being white". But an unstated and real consideration for people attending is the opportunity of being with one or several white friends. Not everything operates on the "stated" level.

A better way would be to have several types of such events, cattered to the different demographics. And if some demographic is not big enough to organize one, well, sometimes in life your tastes are different than most people's and you have to accept that.

caveat: to cater
This is very annoying on Spotify itself as well. If you use the 'radio' feature (basically random tracks based on some genre/artist), it often repeats the same track over and over, from different releases.
If I had a billion dollars to my name tomorrow I would probably not change a thing. My passion is coding. I would still find a job where I would feel like a valuable member of the team. I would still try my best to be better tomorrow than I am today. I would still live in my apartment, drive my old, beat up, car.

My computer would probably get an upgrade or two tho.

All I need from life from here on out is to be able to code, and enough income to sustain me. I have no dreams of owning my own company or getting rich. So I am pretty close to my ideal existence :)
I can't remember the last time I went to a conference in Atlanta and saw drinking events scheduled.
Because the reason he made it is probably that he wants it to be used. If it can't be used that is bad.
I wonder what 53 will make of Facebook's choice of App name?

http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
On the whole, I agree with this. Unfortunately, as programming has gone mainstream, so too has its culture. In London at least, offices and coworking spaces seem to take more inspiration from Mad Magazine than Xerox PARC, like somehow we'd write better software if we were just a bit more wacky.

I for one would love programming environments to look a bit more grown up and less like a frat party.

edit: changed 'creative' to 'wacky'
Are we already out of original app names?
I don't know, "Seaching for Sugarman" is a pretty good Rolling Stones approximation. Adam Sandler made a pretty legit music career out of stuff kind of like this.
Happened to me as well. Can't understand why huge companies with a wide variety of visitors use techniques that deliver sub-par experiences so often. I'm running the latest version of Firefox with a $2k Macbook Pro.
seems ok here and my pc is not that great.
(chrome/win8)
How relevant is this for an aspiring graphics programmer just getting started in the midst of modern APIs, hardware and techniques?
Ah, that explains it! Thanks.
Yeah, see my comment on this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7150242

Now I just ask everytime, "tell me what to wear". If there's no recruiter, I'll cold email. Stupid clothes.
Does seem like a fluid UXD. Shame android is second class citizen again, and you have to be on facebook to use it.

Hopefully if it does pan out as well as the video shows, other apps like flipboard will start incorporating its flow.
It counts sub-string frequency, not word frequency. Try "a,b,c".
Exactly - as the article points out, without released voice recordings (if they exist, which is not a given), they can't prove that they didn't. Haven't similar things happened before with paypal though?
This was back when they made good food. Now, they make utter junk.

I might not have been clear in my previous post. I was burning 4k calories a day. 3/4 of a large pizza wasn't even half the calories I needed just to get out of bed the next morning.

I ate healthy most of the time, but there were days when I'd put down 4 Big Macs for lunch and be hungry by dinner.
Full article for anyone curious: http://ge.tt/2O8mr1H1/v/0?c
> Offices and coworking spaces seem to take more inspiration from Mad Magazine than Xerox PARC, like somehow we'd write better software if we were more creative.

I get what you are trying to say, but as a guy with a degree in arts who considers Alan Kay one of his big heroes (if old and grumpy), I have to protest against the implied definition of "creative" here.
I hope this runs well on android.. considering how bad their android app
Scaling, like security or maintainability, is a really fluffy and cross cutting concept. It's hard to get it right without having a gradual increase in load. So talking about the "basics" is a bit unfair, I think.
Really good to see more products/tools in this space. I don't mind the whole Docker/Chef/Puppet + scripts approach, but it's not for everyone.
I think it was the Chrome 26/27 era that finally drove me away....

Understood re Firefox 26 multi-process support, but it makes a big difference to resource consumption. I've not had any problems but if necessary you could kill the browser thread and restart excluding the bad tab....
Or Flipboard about everything else.
I pretty much abstain from alcohol, and despite my abstemiousness never have I once taken umbrage that others like to drink when I happen to be around. It's quite sad that someone should get so worked up about something so trivial.
On the first time, I wondered how the Paper creators manage to create a Facebook page without the Facebook branding, then realized it is Facebook's thing :-)
Why is it shame its from facebook? FB has been at the forefront of awesome UI design concepts for al long time, specifically in mobile.
Yeah, I changed the word to wacky, because I think that's more what I was trying to say.
I'm sure there are a lot who wouldn't care, but MANY would leave (including myself), and recruitment would dry up. It would be a disaster.

Despite what hacker news comments would have you believe, Google is (in my strongly held opinion) a force for good in the tech world, and very genuine in what it tries to accomplish.

Becoming a patent troll would undermine that sentiment.
None of the conferences I've been to (in the U.S.) have been like he describes either. The post is from 2012, and if I remember correctly, especially then, there was a stereotype of the Ruby community for having more than it's share of "brogrammers," so maybe it's a community thing?
That is exactly why my parent and I are correcting the title based on the content.
open your linked blog article and see the note at the top ;)
Is there a service that tests the scale of web apps? I'm not thinking of software, rather a service that web developers could use to test their app with simulated "real" traffic..
Take that, Princeton report!
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Maybe the problem is with the choice of conferences to attend, not with people attending them?
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Thanks a bunch! SICP is my current course literature at Linköping University.
Although I'm not particularly familiar with the latest in US trademark laws, in most European trademark cases it can be argued that the name "Paper" is too descriptive to be defended.

At the same time the fact that both are in the general category of "apps for the curation and creation of content", the confusion in the market is definitely going to be there.

Curious to see how this is going to turn out...
this looks like an idea that was tried so many times and people just don't care. I think about smart tags in GMail here, or circles. Most people simply don't micromanage their data flows according to topics. Maybe I simply don't get the difference here, but if I am right, then I am deeply disappointed and frustrated to see people spend money and smart developers' time into ideas that already failed years ago.
Makes me wonder how well the moto devices are going to get android updates now. To this point they've been right on top of it - now under Lenovo, who knows.
What happens when there's a problem at the interface between your favorite compiles-to-javascript language and javascript? If you don't know javascript, how are you going to debug and/or fix that? I've never used coffeescript or clojurescript, so maybe they're so thin that this never happens?
I tried three different browsers. Opera was very laggy, Chrome just showed one frame and Firefox was moderately laggy. Resizing the tab helped a bit. Audio was choppy as well. My HW specs are far from low (though it is not a gaming machine either).

I couldn't pause the video, fast forward it or even see any indicator of progress. I didn't even expect volume settings.

Considering all this, the page is simply horrible. It might look nice (on paper perhaps), but the UX is the worst. Visuals alone don't make good sites.
That's part of the problem though: socializing is a really big part of a lot of conferences, and if the people you want to meet are all in a bar, getting a drink, then it can be really hard to say "y'know, I'm just going to get me a sparkling water".
>If "everyone else is wasted" then why should they catter to the non-wasted demographic?

This is self-fulfilling. If you create an environment that repulses non-drinkers, you will only have drinkers to cater to.
I don't think this is a thing specific to tech, I'm not sure about the US but I'm in the UK and at every company I have worked at (including non tech companies) "social activities" has always been synonymous with "drink excessively".
The problem with interview questions like this is that it looks for code-monkeys. I'd maybe have questions like this if I were hiring an expert consultant to crank out some short-term JavaScript for me, but for filling a slot on the team....probably not....as there's really about 10 other things I'm more interested in (assuming they have the necessary technical chops, which I feel these questions don't really answer).

"At this point, if the candidate is doing really well, I'll ask them to implement currying arguments."

Why? If they've already proven enough tech knowledge to do the job, why continue to ask more questions that might/might not use to server your hiring decision? (It sounds like you'd continue a different direction if they couldn't implement with currying).

EDIT: I'd probably not be really hiring a short-term consultant like this either, though, now that I think about it.
I'm impressed by how much CPU this website is able to use. It pegged all 8 cores at 100% while I had the website open on firefox/win7
This is just what the mind controlling parasites want you to think.
Sounds like a personal problem, because no, it's not hard to say that.
There's a world of difference between being excluded because you are of a certain gender, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation and because you don't like a certain beverage.

Hey, I don't like the naive techno-optimist prevalent in many technology events, but that doesn't in any way make me excluded. It just means I might have a different attitude and hold a minority opinion compared to my peers, and that I find myself bored and wanting to leave listening to some Singularity Guru. Same thing goes with alcohol: if you don't like, don't drink. If you feel like the event is too immature, don't show up or organize your own events.

The reason there's so much alcohol (though I haven't really come across the binge drinking he's talking about) is because it acts as a social lubricant, which turns out to be useful for many people, plus it's a nice freebie for companies, just like pizzas (don't eat it if you don't like it).
I'm excited to give this a spin, and that's saying a lot considering I haven't touched FB in a few years now. It's nice to see them innovating with new ideas and products, instead of iterating on their existing main platform.

What's interesting is that their mobile strategy involves grabbing as much of your screen real estate as possible, with the FB app, FB Messenger, Instagram, and now Paper. I guess that was obvious when they tried the whole Facebook phone thing.
I think I've seen two other reports of thefts involving this particular make of violin here in London in the past year or so. It really is a very high profile instrument.
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I think that depends on context a lot. If you've got room to roam a group of drunk people that keeps to itself is rarely a problem. I've been to conferences where the party was in a small, crowded and loud area and I just didn't feel good because I couldn't move away (although I do drink).

On my own conference, we take great care that beer is served in open areas and that everyone can choose where he sits around. That works very well. It is an issue, it is one that can very easily be solved with a bit of open-mindedness a bit of care.
Ah, the old "we only hire people with experience" topic. Same question as usual: Where should they get that experience?

Answers I usually get:

- "on their own": You want to tell me that someone should learn on their own how to go through all phases of shipping a software without guidance? And you think that will produce programmers who know how to do that 'correctly'? I'd like to advise you that playing the lottery has comparable chances and that you should try it.

- "at our competitors": That will only 'work' if your competitors don't have the same same idea.

New answers are very welcome, the topic seems quite stale to me.
Sorry, but I don't agree with the premise and the first line of your comment. Much of the rest I do agree with.

The NHS (not "the government" - which is an emotionally charged noun in this sort of circumstance) is selling the data. They are in financial difficulty, yes, but they are also responsible for broad social-health in the UK.

The NHS is in an almost unique position world-wide, in that they have access to high quality data that can dramatically improve health at an international level. They aren't, however, a research group. Companies just do research better than government departments, and finding a balanced way to improve access to the data and improve social health is critical to the NHS's future as the population ages.

This is why they are selling health data, imho.

I think there's a balance to be struck. The global and NHS specific improvements in health need to be balanced against individual privacy.

Unfortunately, the only way to do this is through "pieces of paper" (again, an emotive term).

It's also worth mentioning that many of these pieces of paper have already been in place for years, where they have been sharing hospital data. So to some degree this extends an exiting structure that is already working. It's just more emotive to many people since it involves a centralised location, and their local GPs.

I'd rather have a centralised location with oversight fighting down a multinational, than my local GP trying to manage legal contracts with them.

It's difficult to respond to your specific examples. Some are completely valid. Some are (imho) not. "Mistakes were made" and mistakes will be made in the future.

It's complicated, and it's a balancing act. Personally, I think it's the right balance.
I'm wondering the same. I never used to see this back when I lived in Europe and I don't see it here in Asia. It's probably fair to call it a SV thing.
It's funny they choose to tease it, instead of aving an 'get it now' call to action from day one [edit: I would have tried it now as I see it for the first time, I'm not sure I'll care for another content feed app in 3 days, especially as it will have discussed to death in meantime]. And I don't get the link between the name and the app. Is it paper as in newspaper ?
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Projects like this confirm my suspicion that traditional academic publishing is going to take a nosedive in the next few years. Working in this industry as I do, I don't see commercial publishers moving quickly enough to change.
Really love the idea of this and can't help but support the general ethos of it, even if it / its descendants will put a lot of us out of a job.
I think the difference here is that Facebook will categorise all the content. in effect they will manage what goes into the Tech or news or Creativity buckets. You just say which you want to see by default.
According to the abstract, a better title would be:

How much more would the average consumer be willing to pay for a given app, if it didn't collect any personal info or show ads?

In that context, their conclusion of "about $5" seems more reasonable, and encouraging.
Indeed. I don't know what's so hard about drinking whatever you want to drink. If you're afraid of being "excluded" or "ostracized", then you'd do well to change who you hang out with.
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This isn't really the same thing, you can't please all of the people all of the time. You could be as try and offer as diverse activities as you like, say drinking/sports/chess tournament and there is likely to be someone who doesn't like any of those things.

A "whites only" restaurant is a different thing entirely to a restaurant where you're not thrilled about the menu.
I've never once had a company ask for a code sample. What's the point in that? Lazy lame candidates will just go copy something off the internet.
Now who do we blame?
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A few weeks before the conference, create a FB group/discussion board/forum/mailing list and invite other people who'd like to abstain from alcohol at WhateverConf after parties. If you're going to WhateverConf you probably learned about it on the web. There's no reason not to use the web to assemble people who want to have alcohol-free fun at WhateverConf parties.
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Considering there's just AppStore logo at the bottom, I don't think they are releasing Android version together with iOS one.
Doesn't work at all without JavaScript - just a black screen. And I don't have a Facebook account, so couldn't look at the mobile version.
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At least they didn't call it 'Papr'.
Most of the simulation results for things like this are dubious at best. Seems like money better spent to me to focus research energy on more useful endeavors. However, some simulations are extremely useful and really do represent reality well.
People get real attached to useless gimmics.

Lots of people are in love with functional programming. Is it just me or is 50 lines of code all you can do functionally? I'm just guessing. I've never heard of a 100,000 line of code functional project.

I've done parallel for reals. Lots of people talk but few of them know.

God says...
like_like wishful_thinking charged small_talk have_fun these_cans_are_defective
Boo catastrophe you_see_the_light gosh who's_to_say You_fix_it
hate could_it_be___Satan absetively_posilutely silly_human
guppy refreshing no_more petty repent services so_let_it_be_done

----

I did a compiler. I had training from a course on lex and parsing. parsing was useless. Most important was being a black-belt asm programmer.

I took 5 asm courses. If you haven't had that many, you are unqualifiewd. Take asm.

http://www.templeos.org/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf CSC226 CSC326 CSE421 CSE422 CSE423, all asm based.
Because peer pressure only exists in high school? And maybe it's not hard to say no to a single drink, but a lot of these events go past midnight, and the reason they "work" is because the next day when you pass each other in the hallway you can say "woah, bit of a hangover too?" and, silly as it sounds, bond over that. Good luck with that if you're only going to drink water, surrounded by people getting progressively drunk.
Why is this crap on here?
Kind of funny that the page is broken on iPad (Safari).
No. Not at all. You could even have a conversation broaching some of these topics in a more casual way and tell if the candidate knows what he's talking about in a lot of cases. Heck, even answers about function arguments could be answered satisfactorily enough if the candidate knew about the "arguments" object.
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If you want another example, checkout coffeemug's cl-cont [1], with the full source here[2]. It's no accident some of the best software like RethinkDB have people behind them that are deeply rooted in the mind-blowing.

[1] - http://common-lisp.net/projects/cl-cont/

[2] - https://github.com/skypher/clbuild.mystic/tree/master/source...