skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm that too being a ms partner and having partecipated at some of their university labs.
Their main goal is "We want you do some amount X of apps. It does not matter if they are all rss reader or just flashlight apps, you have to give us that amount X."
I was not happy to hear that and also tried to discuss about it saying that I would prefere to focus on 2-3 apps making them great against just maxing X crap apps because I have not enough time until the deadline, but they just told me that those are orders "from above" and to focus on some great app just AFTER I made the X amount.
How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7160544
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Please grant camera access to use appear.in

I have no idea how.
Are you talking about this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUl1DFBKdv8
Not everyone lives in a top 5 city where there are multiple job offers coming in every day.

I used to think "what a big hassle" about those companies that would make you work a contract basis at first. But after several months of thought, I realized, "hey, if I were to suddenly lose my job, it would dramatically reduce my life-stress if I knew there were a few companies out there that the unemployed could excel at apply for, and that would provide me some income while I was looking for jobs."
I use the !hn bang syntax on DuckDuckGo daily… Here's hoping it stays available.
> What it offers that none other language offers AFAIK apart from lisp is foremost live coding. In case you are not aware live coding simple means to code an application while the applications runs.

You can do the same in Ruby with (the very much Lisp and Smalltalk inspired) Pry, though probably not as advanced.
Pharo and Squeak use the CogVM , its a VM that supports JIT compilation and as such is very fast. Its not as fast as Java because afterall Java is static typed. However there is a way to get even faster than JAVA code.

Pharo comes with a library named "Nativeboost". Nativeboost is essentially an inline assembler. But unlike C/C++'s inline assembler of using assembly syntax, the inline assembler of Nativeboost uses Pharo syntax as each assembly command is a Pharo object like everything inside Pharo. Also because VM will stop all execution when it executes assembly code, you can enjoy raw machine code speed. Thus you can have Pharo code that can outperform Java code. If Assembly is not your thing , Nativeboost can be used also as a FFI to call C dynamic libraries. Currently C++ is not support because of name mangling but its possible to compile a C++ library as C library to be used by Pharo. Also Nativeboost's FFI offers support for Objective C as well.

There are also two projects to run smalltalk on Java, one is called redline smalltalk, the other's name eludes me now. There is also another project to bring Smalltalk to Java including even the Smalltalk IDE called "RTalk". But that project seems to be vaporware for now.
I humbly disagree. Dating is different because rejection is felt more keenly -- by the asker and by the typical askee.

If a man does as you suggestion, he is making the woman reject him multiple times if she does not want to go out with him (which is the most common case) and he is putting the conversational burden on the woman to explain whether the rejection is only because she has plans that particular weekend.
Likewise, I continue to find myself shocked whenever I see developers' resumes that don't list even a single project they've worked on.

It's part of a bigger problem seen here in Europe (at least for those who don't move away.) Online work profiles like Linkedin are an obsession here -- and these sites are all oriented around highlighting school and businesses associations, instead of around the list of projects one's worked on. Useless for hiring.

This illustrates the two very different approaches to the problem of getting hired:

A) If you convince school to certify you -> you will convince a company to hire you.

B) If you achieve relevant work -> a company will hire you to perform more work.
Well sure, if you've interviewing folks without many/any accomplishments under their belt, that question wouldn't work as well.
Whoa. Those are eerily similar.
Everyone deserves a second chance, except sex offenders.
Bitcoin is not the solution. Good HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100394 (search for the bitcoin threads)

EDIT: surprised that someone downvoted this comment.
> equivalent specific impulse of ~1x10^12 seconds

this is so much more than pretty much anything else it's hard to comprehend why there hasn't been a billion dollars put into it just to rule out the possibility that it could work.
The Lowballing of Kodak's Patent Portfolio
Argentine government is especially bizarre because the party system has historially not made any damn sense at all.

People used to give US politics flack for having clear cut left and right parties.

But the Argentine party system has typically been liberals (UCR and allies) vs. nationalists (Peronists and allies), with each having left and right factions, but also factions based on personalities, and on support/opposition to whatever the most recent dictatorship happened to be.

So, if you met an Argentine and find out only that he is a member of, say, the UCR that gives you as about as useful information as finding out someone was a Democrat in 1955, when that might have meant anything from a John Birch society segregationist to a left social democrat.

That's a big opportunity for corruption, in both the Argentine and historic US cases.

Things have gotten a little more 'normal' since the Kirchers have been so polarizing and the old parties have broken down some. But it's still in my opinion a source of great inefficiency not to have a well-established left-right party system.
Workers bought sugar from supermarket to slow cement flood on Victoria Line
Yes, they do. It just is not codified in a single document.
Easy JavaScript concurrency with generators and promises
#rust on irc.mozilla.org. They're a super helpful bunch.
It's not just Argentina, it's most of south america.

Politics is dysfunctional here. "Socialism" is the default, and the best way to get votes here: welfare programs (that never work) gets you the votes of the poor and the intellectual elite, while a big and wasteful government is the #1 client of the private sector in a weak economy. It's triple win. Then, when the economy fails (because of taxation, evading investment, unprepared workforce) they can always blame on "the man", "USA", "neoliberalism", whatever... And another term begins.

Argentina went downhill because they've been in this process longer. Ignoring the pathological cases (Venezuela, Bolivia), if the other countries here like Uruguay or Brazil don't rev up, we'll have another Argentina 5-10 years down the line. This year the Brazilian government was caught masquerading economic indicators for 2013 to keep inflation inside the goal.
... Suddenly 'Groucho Glasses' became a standard addition to every outfit.

That is a fashion change I could agree with!

Edit: Combine with LEDs for extra fun!
Or you could just get the awesome new Lego Cuusoo set.

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/NASA-Mars-Science-Laboratory-Curi...
School ditches rules and loses bullies
Tried it. Asked my friend to try on his iPhone. He installed Chrome as recommended but Chrome on iPhone is not supported.
Passion is exploitable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpllomiDMX0

i'm not sure if you're being serious but it'll take longer than 20 miutes, more like 6 hours. this isn't a simple topic but the new science on it is compelling.
On the other hand, in my experience, the question works much better when asked in person than in writing. Just seeing the face of the interviewee while you ask the question lets you understand if there is real passion for that kind of job; the answers I get in writing these days (ie by email while screening people) are unfortunately much less telling :(
The irony is, the IBM PC was a very open machine.
The Apple folks were the secretive ones.
As an expression of human rights, the above quote by itself is useless - it is far too vague. A lot of people would argue that the above is totally incompatible even with the US form of government, for example
If you're reversing roles, it would make Apple haters the smug ones...
I should add that, whatever questions I have about the potential technical overreach (and it certainly isn't atypical, I agree) in the described terms of your original policy, I think that both how you appear to have applied it and, even more, how you are now treating the issue are both positive things in the industry
Ask HN: As a beginner in programming, what is more important?
Is it focusing on the logical part or writing better quality of code?
Networks, #networker in ircnet and #ix in /irc.terahertz.net
But then you give up the memory safety brought by C!
Ask HN: Developer fatigue
I haven't managed to write a line of code for quite a while. I think i've burned myself out! The longer I rest and the more I feel guilty about not coding.
Anyone going/gone through this?
Show HN: ourtunes – roll your own music player in a few minutes
Black People And Blonde Hair
Here is a route to interesting reading (or HN karma, if you're into that):

https://www.google.com/search?q="This+question+exists+becaus...
People Explore Abandoned Buildings All The Time. But What This Guy Found… OMG.
Don't you guys have a constitution?
NB: The Diplomat has strong links to the government of India.

It maintains a consistently hawkish editorial stance on China.
The rhetoric coming out of Argentina of late suggests that history is repeating.
An answer to that question is necessary but not sufficient.
First ask yourself, which is more important, the turtle upon which you stand, or the turtle upon which your turtle stands?
Dell Cooks Up An Android PC On A HDMI Stick
no, i absolutely did not miss the point. nearly anybody worth studying militarily, whether a state or non-state actor, is capable of that. 12 guys with plane tickets started the last one. tell the millions of dead people that war wasn't devastating.
Chiat/Day, Apple's ad agency at the time, created the ad.
Yes, it does. Just not one codified in a single document.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_King...
It's not, but then you fall on IE9+ land, and you'll have to check if querySelectorAll returns anything first.

The sibling comment points out how a function silently failing when given empty value can be deceiptive. I guess your way of seeing it would be also in line with checking valid values before using them.

It's a very sane approach, and it requires more care and attention for each step. I'm not against it, but usually I'm not sure to see a real payoff for very conservative programming in front end DOM manipulation, I tend to prefer taking some performance hit and ignore the nitty gritty details as well as the small errors, as long as it can be recovered at a higher level.
Yeah, this is obviously a problem but let's not ignore the other elephant in the room. Here's a search for facebook* on google play. The only reason this post about Microsoft made it to the front page of HN is because of a negative thing about the Windows Phone store. And please don't tell me HN moderators don't remove posts about Microsoft, I just asked something about WP8 a few days ago and within 10 minutes it was removed. Others have complained about it as well. I wish HN would stop being so damn biased.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=facebook&c=apps
3d User Interface
No, one still needs energy to accelerate the particles to actually create an impulse. Think of it as a (propeller) airplane, but instead of accelerating air, it uses the quasiparticles due to vacuum fluctuations.
irc.mozilla.org has a lot of cool channels
No, not a written one at least. Perhaps that's where they should start :)
And as a matter of fact, it was Argentina that fought a war to keep the Fascist dictatorship in power... not the other way around.
Why would one use the Publish/Subscribe pattern (in JS/jQuery)?
Yep. This question is actually:

"Tell me about a project in which you demonstrate the skills and character attributes that I am looking for without me telling you what those are."

A good interviewer will ask questions like this only having given you enough context to choose the most appropriate example.

A bad interviewer will not, instead believing that the less information they give you the more revealing your answers will be. All they achieve is to introduce more chance into the interview process by leading you to pick less relevant examples.
Now this is good trolling !
AMD’s Revolutionary Mantle
Using firefox (26.0) on OS X works just fine. I get prompted to share my camera and microphone.

Firefox 26 on Debian Linux, however, never shows the prompt. The appear.in page just asks me to use the menu that should have (but didn't) appear.
IMHO writing better code comes with time and practice. So what you probably need to focus on is developing your algorithmic thinking https://www.coursera.org/course/algorithmicthink
Yes, Java had no JIT in 1996... But it had corporate traction, and good marketing ("it's an internet technology!").
Nowadays, I choose the language I want to work with, but I don't switch back to Stk because of speed.
SQL Trick: row_number() is to SELECT what dense_rank() is to SELECT DISTINCT
This comment had me scratching my head. Right off the bat, if you need to run on older browsers, don't use Dart. It's not a secret. Use TypeScript instead. If you need to make a lot of calls into existing JavaScript libs to the point where speed reduction is noticable, don't use Dart. What's so hard to use about js interop? How is it obscure? Throwing out 2MB file size without stating the LOC of the original Dart source is meaningless. I've never noticed long compile times. I do my development in Dart, which runs almost instantaneously, then when all is well, I do a build which compiles and minifies which is reasonably fast. The only thing I can figure is that you're using Dart Polymer, which last I checked, was still in development. My single page app is approaching 10,000 LOC and minifies to about 295K, which is hardly too large. I'm using Dart as a straight replacement for JS and not trying to use the advanced language features, which my explain my more positive experience.
Another good article: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_mantle_preview,1.ht....
See the last time this was discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917740
Balancing on the turtle would be a priority for me
Today you can just follow HaskellTips on twitter. Much less hassle and clutter
Given that physical mobility is down in the US, this means that income mobility for reasons other than physical mobility must have increased.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/why-are-so-many-a...
No. Securing a browser is extraordinarily hard, resource intensive, and thus expensive. I would have a hard time believing any new browser project could outdo Chromium, which is free and run by the smartest team in browser security.

This is a little like asking if I would pay for a more secure Linux kernel, even though there's already a grsecurity.
It really is easy to end up with over 1000 watches in a page if you use any sort of list of length 100 or greater with complex data. Directives like bindonce help cut down on the watches, but it still isn't an easy problem to deal with.
irc.entropynet.net is the server, as for some unknown reason they didn't think entropy.net was a good idea.
Yeah, that's the one. It's a great magazine, too bad about the editor's fetish for that letter since it's not part of the English orthography. I think it's also used in The New Yorker.

sigh Why can't English speakers just be happy with their language without trying to turn it into Latin or German or something else? It's particularly funny with the word "cooperate", since those editors are insisting on using a Germanic orthograph on a Latin-rooted word. Blegh, whatever. I don't usually care too much about language usage, but for some reason this one kind of gets under my skin.
Did you even read the article or just feel like spamming HN with some uninformed snarky comment? I also am skeptical about this and don't fully understand the physics behind it. But I did RTFA and all of the references checked out.
As has been extensively documented, the mainstream kills discussion communities. Being hard to find is a proxy for an intelligence filter. And ones without moderation (such as IRC) suffer the worst.
Isn't the reason actually that people have been "trained" to favour the quick hit instead of actually savouring experiences?
If that is a given, then the game industry is just trying to sate this new/modern taste of esp. the younger generation. The "guilty" here isn't really the game industry then. Who is? No idea... and most assuredly not one single industry or person.
#postgresql and #qgis on freenode can both be really helpful when you are running into problems.
No luck from GP's Firefox OS, but seems to be working on my CentOS workstation. Good job!

LE: I'm actually really, really impressed by this. It's bloody great, good job to these guys and to whoever works on similar projects.
Reminds me of "Smaller than Bloom filters"[1] by Adam Langley (who's working on Chrome).

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/04/29/filters.html
Do we really want another crappy mobile browser and platform to support? We don't need them in mobile space anyways. I don't see a future in Microsoft mobile devices. They really missed the mark while everyone else is on their 4th lap of the race.
yes this looks definitely very close to live coding. If it can replace live objects on the fly even when already referenced by other live objects its live coding in its true form. You just gave me a big reason to add Ruby to my list of languages to learn next :)

I think IPython offers something similar for python too. Its makes me very happy to see live coding making its way through the dynamic languages as I am a huge fan of live coding :)
You'll have to pardon me for not reading the whole article; but you opened up saying you've never even followed this process yourself. That's a big red flag for me.

If history has taught us anything it is that just because it works on paper doesn't mean it works in reality.
1. Communism sounds great on paper, but we know it sucks...
2. Science works on paper a lot, but experimental physicist exist because it can't always work.
3. When Dr. Phil comes out with a weight loss plan, no one with 2 brain cells believes it actually works (cause ya know, he never lost weight on it).

4 (and my biggest point). If it's so great why have you yourself been unable to follow it? Could it be that your process is unrealistically challenging, or maybe it doesn't account for many real world issues. But I'm willing to bet that you think you write great software already and don't need to follow your own guidelines.

The bottom line is that until you become your own activist (meaning you follow the principals rigidly and write good software) you can't preach it.

You don't see people running around promoting a religion they don't even follow.
DC Circuits in F#
This is unfortunately a bug internally in Firefox which affects certain builds of Linux. See related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/12170...
Consumers were not mentioned in the comment. The last sentence talks about "people" which in context means members of the tech press.
Beyond proprietary obfuscation and unverifiability, the paradox is that it would take a lot of convincing before I would believe that the seller of a commercial product had any interest other than selling the commercial product.
His blog[1] has the highlights of this. I've never done any functional programming, but I have worked with electronic circuits. This strikes me as a fantastic use for functional programming.

[1] http://nuggle.me
It was already registered?
Consider Linux on the desktop vs OS X or even Windows. Sure, I use and sorta like it, but I don’t think I could keep a straight face if I tried to tell you it was higher quality.

I'd honestly want someone to elaborate on this.

Personally, after spending lots of time with GNU/Linux and BSD, I find it physically painful to use Windows. Even with the existence of alternative DEs, third-party package managers and whatnot, your entire perception of what an OS should be simply changes after being exposed to the Unix way and you never really go back.
Developer @ appear.in here. For lack of better ways of communicating, at which page did you experience this? We tested it on our own devices but couldn't replicate.
But developing the algorithmic thinking also takes a lot of time and practice. So ideally, what would be the best way to balance them both?
Most likely because of the 0.1N/kW. The best current made RTG's generate about 2.8 watts per kilogram. [source Wikipedia]

Which means based on these current numbers well need 3500 kilograms per Newton of thrusts. This would generate a acceleration of 0.00002 m/s^2 of acceleration. This would take about an hour, and a half to make a 1m/s delta-v course change.

And that's without the drive, communication, heating, or scientific instruments. The drive is VERY low powered. Also specific impulse means little if you don't have fuel, since it determines your efficiency, but this rocket already has 100% efficiency since it has no on-board fuel.
Linux Containers, Docker, and Security
I see how this one interview question is expansive and sets up a line of followup questions.

I don't see why it's a good question. Presume you get an good answer to the question and every followup question. Now tell me this: how much more do you know about how capable the candidate is of doing the job you're hiring for? And, were these questions the fastest, most accurate way of learning that?

I submit: no. "What were the biggest challenges you faced"? How do I assess the answer to that question? How do I compare it with answers from other candidates? How do I track, over time, which challenges correlate to strong performance in the actual role we're hiring for? "Explain your manager's style and whether you liked it"? Come on.

Don't virtually all of these questions ask me to read tea leaves, to get a sense of whether I "like" or "respect" the candidate? That's not the same thing as learning whether the candidate will do a good job.

Oh, and good luck hiring anyone right out of college this way.
For context, my normal desktop environment is wmii running on Linux. I also find Windows physically painful. The problem is that the reason this works for me is that I'm able and willing to put up with an awful lot of bullshit and have a reasonably good ability to debug things when they're not working properly.
Well Explosions in the Sky do pretty well.
We have some guys working on FirefoxOS at our office actually (Telenor Digital does many things). We tested appear.in on a recent build of master, and it worked! Hopefully it will make it out to consumers soon. You can track support through this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011
I agree completely and this has been the main drag I have with bitcoin, people struggle with whole numbers let alone decimals! This will frustrate people to the point of no return. A universal currency system has to be built with the lowest common denominator in mind.
Conquering the Command Line
As far as the two arguments go, I don't see the incompatibility. Can you share your thoughts about this?

If it was a "betrayal" then Nehru wasn't naïve (because betrayal implies deliberately misleading). OTOH, if Nehru was naïve, then it wasn't a betrayal (because it was so clear to everyone except Nehru that something was going to happen).

I think the truth is somewhere in between. I haven't studied it the conflict in depth, but it seems to me that China's policy towards the Indian border region changed (at least partially because of Indian actions), and India didn't realize it quickly enough.