skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows does support long paths (up to about 32k characters): Here is a good explanation from the .net perspective (but the same holds for non-managed APIs): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-path...

Long paths are just most ugly to use:
"Long paths with the \\?\ prefix can be used in most of the file-related Windows APIs, but not all Windows APIs. For example, LoadLibrary, which maps a module into the address of the calling process, fails if the file name is longer than MAX_PATH. So this means MoveFile will let you move a DLL to a location such that its path is longer than 260 characters, but when you try to load the DLL, it would fail. There are similar examples throughout the Windows APIs; some workarounds exist, but they are on a case-by-case basis."
Sounds very American; like the server in a resteraunt being overly nice, making those of us who aren't used to the wallmart greeter style uncomfortable.

Cut the bull; I would rather people be more honest than be more nice (and if they are trying too hard, it's easy to tell). It's amazing how a bit of bluntness automatically influences me and how much niceness projection makes me sick.
Yo: the new app that takes simple to the extreme
NFL players are rarely traded.
Starts with the assumption that brain / brain activity = conscious self.

I am not aware of any evidence that this is the case. (That is not to say that I think the two are unrelated, I just think this assumption ought to be challenged, rather than taken for granted).
#1 reason a company is not a family. You do (or don't do things) for your family despite personal loss because it is good for the whole. That is something most people do not do for their company, nor should they.
An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice
Awesome tweet
Well, it's not like he does any detailed drawing. So his needs are simpler (for Mondrian, even more so, lol).

But check my other comment for Procreate (iPad app). It's impressive what people have done in it, even in 4K resolution.
To be honest, often I found delivering work on time and being easy to get along with trump doing good work to a large degree (particularly being on time). That is to say, if you are easy to get along with and deliver on time, but your work output is nothing special, you can still get by pretty well. But if you are unpredictable or a jerk, your work quality needs to be better than 99% of your peers to get by similarly.
Funny how often conventional wisdom is wrong, and "not being nice" is no different. When you look at the great companies, they were always focused on relationships and generally doing the right thing. Being nice is good not only from a business standpoint, but a personal standpoint as well.
>there is a large subset of potential users who can not be bothered to sign up for your site via email

There is a simple solution to this. STOP ASKING USERS TO SIGN UP! Do your REALLY need to collect the users e-mail? Do REALLY need them to have an account at all? If you do, then when they register don't ask for their e-mail address if it isn't necessary, or at least make the e-mail address an optional field. Hacker News never asked for my e-mail, because there is no need for them to have it. I probably wouldn't have made an account if it did require an e-mail address.
The money comes from somewhere. If it does not come from usage of other services (it does - it probably means their profit margin is fat enough to allow this), it'll come from the funds used for long term investments in their core network structure.
There are some diplomacy AIs - I worked on a simple one as a project in college. There's a standard for communication and a range of bots already implemented. See the mailing list at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dipai/info
LOL, you can't even get your own website working properly (evermore)

And you mention "Fast loading" - that and wordpress do not belong in the same domain.
Sure, it's a trade-off, we probably just disagree about the level of risk involved and the benefits gained.

As you say with FB login there are ways to mitigate that risk, but to take one example - if FB charge for the service in future at 0.01c per use, many of your users will still want to login with FB because it's easier for them, and you'll be stuck with the bill. This happened with sites using google maps in 2012 when they started charging - each of these decisions has to be weighed up individually as a risk, but I think login is too important to delegate to another site and a significant addition of complexity and risk.
Low-Cost Fusion Project Steps Out of the Shadows and Looks for Money
Secondly your page looks like crap on a 1080p screen
The Four Letter Word Missing at the World Cup – It’s not Goal.
Resources for self-funding your startup
It's the same as knowing when to say "No."
Looks good, when will it be available for public beta?
20 code reviews a week? How many lines of code for each review?
If you work with vectors and matrices and do a lot of computations, it is very convenient to be able to express, thanks to operator overloading, the formula you have on paper into code with nearly the same syntax. This is one area where, for example, FORTRAN still shines. You can can really TRANslate your FORmula into code easily.

In the case of FORTRAN it is because the vector and matrices are recognized types, in other language, they are not built-in types but the convenience is added thanks to operator overloading.
What trend, the trend where Amazon is an also ran in tablets, set top boxes and soon to be phones? Apple's hobby TV product which hasn't been updated in 18 months made about the same profits last quarter as Amazon's entire business. Let that statement sink in.

Revenue =/= profits. Amazon is a middleman and are only successful at generating revenue growth because they don't make profits.
Silicon Valley Is Banking On Bitcoin
I have never played this, it sounds great.

If you are playing over email and one person becomes unresponsive, what is the standard thing to do?
Here in UK guys who change jobs most often get the most money: contractors.
Ex-Goldman Sachs Trader Says Bonus Cut to $8.25 Million Unfair
Has facebook ever put up a post mortem of outages?
Awesome colorful Milk Trick
Being nice doesn't mean being dishonest. It means treating people well.
Please explain why it needs to exist? All my packets, no matter what they are, should have equal access to another person's packets on the same network.

I myself will employ QoS so that my packets are arranged how I like them in the bandwidth provided by my ISP.

If my ISP cannot give me sustained bandwidth, then I don't receive proper internet service where anything but browsing and maybe streaming will be great.

In that case, I expect to pay less, not to have the ISP implement some technology to decide my traffic isn't as important as my neighbor's skype chat.
FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket
Maybe you could apply those lessons to this blog entry so I can read it on my phone without a giant blue bar taking over the entire left side of the screen...
Agreed, it sounds like this game breeds interesting stories.
I'm not gonna register just to read some shitty blog.
This is what I see on my iPad.
http://imgur.com/3y4zpXT

I guess there's a seventh lesson they still haven't learnt yet.
True, but responsiveness is totally worth it. For example British "Metro" magazine, just by making it's website responsive increased the traffic from the social networks by 100%. Also there is no hustle with m.domain optimisation.
Yup, still some more lessons to learn here.

Go irony!
There appear to be a number of anecdotes in the book Hatching Twitter where Fred Wilson is painted as the bad guy. I wonder how much of this was for the book, or how possibly I am misinterpreting it.
Thanks. Public beta is about 1 week away. We are ironing out the edges right now, and trying to add some more useful stuff in addition to what you see in the video.
Wow, this is totally the Git Interface of my dreams. Is this just a concept, or do you have a working prototype?
haha. That's embarrassing. That is the default 2014 wordpress theme. Did not think of testing that.
Took the words out of my mouth. Credibility of the article has been diminished by that error.
So you and I are in a meeting and you throw out an idea. Would you rather me a) call you a fucking idiot without even thinking through what you said and move on or b) explain why I don't agree with your idea and let you clarify?

Even if the idea had zero merit, it is still in my long term interest to talk it through with you if I want you fully engaged on the team. The idea could be a teaching moment or even lead to an idea that works.

In the end it is not about being overly nice, but being respectful.
And salaries well above the norm.
Fail at being a grad student? Tons of folks do. Grad degrees have a fairly low success rate and living conditions are certainly one of the reasons people drop out or leave early (the case where the student goes for a PhD and leaves after getting a masters). I'm not claiming it's the only reason, but it's certainly on the list.
A lot of organizations, particularly in professional services, are pretty brutal at maintaining a pyramid shaped organization structure - "up or out" as they say.
In my experience, I've never seen people over 40 have any more issues than younger folks getting programming jobs.

However, the reason you don't see many, is that most don't want that job by the time they are that age. For most programmers, they will hit a glass ceiling on salary somewhere in their 30s. If they want to make more money, and most people do, they transition into management.

The answer to the question, "where did they go?" is pretty simple. Management.
If you want every one of your employees to be a "superstar", just pay them millions a year, and the sports metaphor is a great fit.

Otherwise, sometimes you gotta work with what you've got. In real life, you can't just let everyone go who isn't a superstar, unless people are tripping over themselves to get a spot at your company.
as an outsider, how does the (x)emacs split impede development?

It seems emacs has been steadily, if somewhat slowly, improving (new releases etc).
I'm wondering why sketch is not yet acquired by Adobe...
Droplet Infrastructure: Cloud-Config
I worked at a company once that conflated mean-spirited policies with "just business". The result was a downfall that was entirely preventable.

Vacation and sick leave were combined ("PTO") which meant that you had to take a vacation day if you got sick. The result of this was that people came into work when ill and everyone was less productive. Very little ever got done in the winter, because it was just one constant office-wide cold. (I had so many colds, that season, that I saw a doctor to find out if something was wrong with my immune system.)

Open-plan offices are another penny-wise, pound-foolish institution. They're not used because they're "collaborative" or "hip" but because they're cheap, and they're cheap because they're shitty. The result, however, is high turnover, increased sick load, distraction and antagonism. There's also an overwhelming amount of evidence that open-plan offices hurt the best employees the most, which means you're losing off the top. That's not where you want to lose.

The killer was when it bought (cough rescued) another company and installed the acquired company's upper management. The new regime's first move was to kill the acquiring company's R&D team-- not because it wasn't doing useful work (it was) but because "their side" (the acquiring company) didn't have an R&D team. So a high-performing R&D team that had already built some powerful stuff (and was 6-9 months away from solving an existential-risk fraud problem) was shut down. Those guys over there have too much freedom! They're in danger of actually saving the company! Shut them down, now!

Of course, the health benefits were shit, which meant that days of work time were lost to haggling with insurance companies and hospitals about bills. Whatever pennies are saved by having a crappy health plan is lost when employees have to haggle on their own behalf to get health care.

Sometimes, cost cutting is the right way to go, but that's rare and usually in a well-understood existential crisis. As in, "this company won't be around in two years unless we're really tight, and here's how we plan to make it up".

I can't respect companies that play against their employees. If you have a crappy health plan, a bad PTO policy, closed allocation, stack ranking, and a bad office space, then you're not playing to win. Instead, you're in the business of competing against your employees, when you should be in the business of excelling at something, and of winning in the market. You only get to pick one, in the long term, in this world.

Unfortunately, for the individual executive, the "be a dick" strategy often works. Most "tech" startups are scams: companies not built to last, but just to be sold to some "greater fool" before it falls to pieces on account of its own sloppy constitution. The individuals who build these crap companies generally get to cash out (or, at least, move on to cushy venture capital jobs) before that happens and, when it does, they can plausibly (if falsely) blame their successors.
Limited human interaction?

Team sports primarily consists of human interaction. You practice with your team, have meetings with the coaching staff, film sessions, team meals, travel together, team training sessions, and that's before you even set foot on the field or court.

And the leadership and communication skills are directly transferable and valuable to a business setting. The business unit as a sports team idea is a bit tired and cliche at this point because it's been a comparison made for at least 50 years.

But that speaks to the cliche's validity. David Foster Wallace wrote in Infinite Jest "cliches earned their status as cliches because they were so obviously true."
Only if your compiler/build process is trust worthy ;-)
What you say reminds of what I've experienced as an American that now lives in Europe (Switzerland).

Soon after moving I learned to not smile so much - I was told that it makes me look simpleminded. Especially in meetings, and especially in meetings with German clients. Meetings are serious and very efficient here. I don't even smile at the beginning during introductions.

I also learned that the German-style of an employee review is quite different than in the US. In the US my reviews always started with the good things I did - my accomplishments, and then the bad things but the focus of the review was on the positive. Here, the review starts with the failures and how you can improve yourself, and then covers the accomplishments to about the same degree that the failures are covered in the US.

Self-assessments are more honest here too. I don't think American's are being dishonest when they assess themselves in their review - I just think that Americans aren't good at critical self-evaluation.

I've worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France and they are all very different from each other. Germans are very straightforward and would be considered 'not nice' in the US. The French are political - they may appear nice while they stab you in the back. Germany-speaking Switzerland is more like Germany, but the Swiss are easier to work with - not as rigid. I only had a few projects in French-speaking Switzerland and only one of those were with native French-speaking Swiss but they seemed nicer than the French.

Frankly, I've come to prefer how things work where I live now. From the outside it may not appear to be 'nice'.
In my experience with other OS' (Windows 3.1 -> Windows 8, Ubuntu 4 -> Ubuntu 13, half a dozen other Linux varieties), I've never been able to open the box and get to work within half an hour. There's always been some niggle. It's a bit trickier now that the dev tools are an optional download rather than a CD/setup option, but in practise I'm usually good to start working with a fresh Mac in about half an hour. With Linux there's a lot more tinkering to get it just so, and with Windows there's generally a lot more to download and configure to get it working comfortably.
Objective-C.

A lot of people suggested I get straight into Swift but some of my clients need help with their existing apps so I chose to start with Obj-C.
Your culprit is:

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background-color: #438EB9;
content: "";
display: block;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 182px;
z-index: 2;
}

I certainly HOPE that isn't part of the default Wordpress theme. I think someone just got a little lazy with their full-height column hacks.
One medallion per cab. One license per cab driver.
This guy managed to do great art in MS Paint[1] but it seems they are making great art despite their tool and probably not going to be a good tool for the mainstream professional.

[1] http://www.themarysue.com/ms-paint-art/
that is basically the "please go away and stop asking" response
I have noticed certain people seem to think 'being nice' equals 'dumb' and 'unexperienced'. Most people are so used to others claiming everything; their time, their concepts, designs,… they think just because you're not an asshole, you're a push-over.
Microsoft publishs JavaScript crypto code for devs
Thanks!

Good luck with iOS. NSScreencast is not as useful as Railscast, but there are some pretty useful tips. For example, I thought this episode was really helpful starting off:

http://nsscreencast.com/episodes/63-from-scratch

I've also been hearing great things about Treehouse, which I plan to use when I tackle Android:

http://teamtreehouse.com/
... or try to solve them.
Haskelier – Haskell for the Advanced Layman
Learn about one of TeamCity's best kept secrets: MetaRunners
Moving product recommendations from Hadoop to Redshift saves us time and money
Hoe energie besparen met een passiefhuis?
Request/suggestion: Can you add Producteev to the list of apps?
depends on the illness. cbd helps with seizures, but not e.g. ptsd
Harley-Davidson’s First Electric Motorcycle Surprisingly Doesn’t Suck
As with all other stuff: it depends.

Using it for logins is really questionable. But if you are, for example, building a game for Facebook, it gives you many advantages, so occasional downtime is not really the biggest issue. Let's check the things you wrote about in gaming context:

- charging for the service later TRUE (viral is dead, you pay for the ads to get new players in)

- cut you out of a relationship with your own customer - somewhat FALSE (you can request e-mails from your customers, and have a direct contact afterwards). Even with fan pages, they are not cuting you out, but merely asking to pay to get your message to them

- require you to use their store TRUE, but every other platform does the same

- copy your idea and give it for free. FALSE - Facebook never made a game AFAIK

- squezee you margins. TRUE. I do notice that Cost Per Install for my games is getting higher the more I advertize, and that it suddenly jumped from about $0.15 per install to $0.50 per install a few days ago - about the same time when they switched to the new payment user interface.
My #codeyear as a translator
"according to hundreds of PDF invoices also discovered on his work computer" - http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-...

This story came out a while ago, and was a bit light on details back then too. Entertaining, nonetheless.
Prison Labor: Outsourcing's "Best Kept Secret"
"We know that some of the most successful entrepreneurs in tech have been difficult individuals who did what they had to do to get ahead.",

"We know that a lot of investors, VCs included, will do what is required to make a buck.",

"It's conventional wisdom that being nice is a bad idea",

followed by a singular anecdotal data point arguing otherwise.
I'd posit that it depends on the actual business domain. Some are cutthroat and being nice is gonna be a world of pain for you. I'm not doing dry flower arrangements myself, so I wouldn't know. But in my domain (games) being nice bit me on my ass as much as being mean (if that's even an antonym to nice) did.

So, in conclusion, it's a perpetual dilemma, not one-size-fit-all.

EDIT:

The whole article is a bit disingenuous imho. Title might as well be paraphrased as "Be nice or I'm gonna be mean".

Another food for thought - etymology of nice is from Latin nescius, meaning ignorant.
what? all smoke is carcinogenic
Repost of the classic story from a couple years ago. Still makes me chuckle and envious though. Not something I'd do myself though; I like to write code, dislike managing people, and sitting in the office for 8 hours a day watching cat videos would kill my brain.
World Cup in Gifs
Thanks!

I basically started from just Excel/VBA and a little bit of .NET.

Initially, I was doing this along with another project, but during the second half, it was full-time.
Awesome! The "get an email when your job has finished" takes me back to the days of True BASIC on the Dartmouth time-sharing system.
That's a ridiculous way to make a point.

Being blunt and calling someone a "fucking idiot" are not the same thing.
I think it is important to either be nice to everyone or to be an asshole to everyone. As simple as that
Thank you. Switched to the default twenty wordpress fourteen theme.

Murhpy's law strikes again!
Please share your Makefile for LaTeX. I am using a very crude one that simply invokes latex several times.
PyRun – Running Python with a Single File
Thanks iamademar.
This guy sounds fantastically unhappy. Welcome to the hedonic treadmill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
"iBeacon Bible 2.0" to download.
Oh brilliant, I'd be interested to hear how this compares with Statwing, which seems to be going for the same market. Definitely a useful service.
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12 stories about working async and remote
Why Facebook was down?
Producteev is in the list of 2nd tier right now. Will surely keep it near the top of the list in that tier :-)
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How to balance health issues with being a founder?
Sorry for the paste-bin, but I crossed the 2000 char limit and was struggling to edit this down.

I did not posted on my personal blog because I don't want to potential employers or new co-founders to know how in bad shape my health is.
A simple preprocessor for transforming custom infix operators to method calls might do the trick here. Go comes with good libraries to make this, you wouldn't have to invent a new Go parser. There are other preprocessors that you can look at for inspiration.
I assume you're mentioning https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API. After we implemented Web Audio, we deprecated and removed support for the Audio Data API.
I think How to Win Friends is one of those books that you (you being someone in the supermajority of people who isn't naturally gifted at interpersonal relationships) know you should read but you avoid it.

Then one day, you are desperate and you read it and wonder "my God why didn't I read this sooner!"
Here's the thing about being not nice: you can usually get away with it if you're really exceptional, but if you ever misstep, nobody will want to help you out, and some may gleefully put the screws to you. Just in the last couple of years, a couple of acquaintances that had a reputation for being not nice have stumbled career-wise, and unsurprisingly no one was there to lend a hand. Honestly, I was shocked how little time it took to catch up to them.