skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not an article about how amazing Slack is. It's an article on Slack's founder - Stewart.

You're coming at the "value add" from a very technical perspective. Which is fine, but it doesn't add weight to the argument. Do you think that a significant percentage of Slacks user base even really know it's based on IRC? Not too many of them are firing up irssi, pining for a better web based IRC client. Indeed irccloud has been around longer than slack and has nowhere near the adoption.

The product is solid. The brand is great. Nobody* gives a shit about the protocol sitting behind the glossy surface.

*Nobody meaning a significant percentage of paying customers.
Wheter the new one is actually better is ... debatable though I guess... and the new one is an even worse montage... 2 laptops with so little space between them that the mouse sitting inside that space is quite unusable...
I love how summer students produce twice as much data as Nobel prize winners :)
Start another fund to bring back the head of everyone who released / maintains this. Who would you rather pay; crooks or vigilantes?
People are sensitive about karma scores. Moreover, this site actually grays out downvoted comments, sometimes to the point that they're nearly unreadable. This is not consistent with the premise that votes are just to accumulate the distribution of opinions on a topic.
I could see, for 3, granting the stipend paid for by a tax on remittances.
Raya – Real-time sound simulation library for games [video]
Getting Started with Node.js for the Rails Developer
Yes, endgame knowledge is hard to encode succinctly. Clearly having separate piece tables for start- and end game would help a lot, piece tables too, but apart from that I'd be interested in ideas :)
If split screens are your thing, it might be worth it to try a Tiling Window Manager. I agree with you that Sublime doesn't natively have enough split screens, so I use XMonad, and split them and organize them as I please.
Loaded Episode 3 “Head, Shaft”
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (if expenses are covered)

Technologies: PHP, Python, JavaScript

Resume: http://olsansky.sk/Martin_Olsansky_resume.pdf

Website: http://olsansky.sk

Email: martin@olsansky.sk

I've been working freelance jobs for a bit and I'm looking for something more permanent. I'd like to work in a team, teach or learn from other people. I am willing to learn new technologies.
Only after he died. Before then, HN wasn't too thrilled with his tactics.
This article implies that the codes for communicating with Prospero may still be available:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2034379/Quest-revive-space-relic-lost-1996--British-launched-satellite.html

Also, this blog post from 2012 says they haven't given up:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121026003633/http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/prospero-satellite/2012/04/04/long-overdue-update/

I can't find anything more recent -- but doesn't seem entirely hopeless.
What is the purpose of the paragraph numbers that hide/appear with mouseover? I found it to be a distraction.
+1 Bandwidth for video is not a problem in the city.

Plus this seems like the sort of technology that may even make less bandwidth congestion. It might even speed up your archaic internet connection.
Twitter has a many-faceted, hugely complex architecture that to my knowledge still includes Rails.
compared to the other software out there that does the same thing, it's very expensive:

- Hipchat: $2/user/month
- Campfire: $1/user/month
- Flowdock: $3/user/month
- IRCCloud: $5/user/month

I've trialed slack, and it's Hipchat (or IRC) with a point and click configurable hubot. The price goes up as you add more features/integrations to the bot. I didn't really see any other important or useful features that hipchat doesn't already have, certainly not worth the added expense.
I just updated my GPU drivers using the xorg-edgers PPA on Ubuntu 14.04 (https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa) and now it's a lot better. Dragging the map, there's a small delay before the map moves, but when it does it's smooth. I remembered that I was having problems with Google Maps, as well as other Web GL stuff, so I figure there was a bug in my drivers.
It seems like rails in 2.1 has improvements in garbage collection, definitely need to learn more to high scale rails.
I'd like to point that there's some shifts after analysis of MH17 data: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25147-focus-f...
Indeed! :-)
There is no practical or commercial motivation for IB on consumer devices. Sure one may make a case that a home server or a media center can use IB to stream photos and movies to other devices. At this point, we have to stop and think like an average consumer and not an IT professional. And an average consumer prefers no wires forget running copper or fiber. And what benefit would it offer over wireless even if they were to run the cable? None from the consumer perspective. You can stream HD over wireless without any problems.

Sure, we all prefer wired over wireless when available. But not in home, and not by an average consumer.

Intel will integrate IB with their future processors, but they will not be consumer based SKUs.
Query Execution Paths in a Distributed Relational Database Environment
Or crowdfunding.
One thing that Stewart Butterfield did that changed the web was www.the5k.org.

http://www.the5k.org/about.php

They made people rethink what can be done with the web, and it brought out a lot of creativity.

For example: My favorite was the 2001 entry "fully functional 5k calendar".

https://web.archive.org/web/20021027194935/http://entries.th...

What was great about these is that they had functionality. It was the start of client side web-apps. I think without that contest website, a lot of these great creators wouldn't have gotten the recognition that they have now.
My point was that even though OpenSSL documentation is bad, enough people understand how it works that using OpenSSL may be preferable to designing a new API... unless/until you have the resources to design a better API.
That design has also been altered by India to consume the plutonium by-product, using it as fuel.
This is a great read, though I think the author could have dove a little deeper into the apocalyptic bleakness of 2300AD. (As mentioned, though, he wrote an entire book on the subject (www.amazon.com/Chrono-Trigger-Boss-Fight-Books-ebook/dp/B00J9VYD72/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407430124&sr=8-1&keywords=Chrono+Trigger+book), which is definitely worth checking out if you're a SNES RPG nerd like I am.)

If I were to throw the term 'retrofuturism' at a SNES game, though, I think I'd have to pick Earthbound/Mother 2 -- the 'juvenile future' described by the author fits perfectly in this world of star-shaped robots and perfectly spherical flying saucers.
I think you mean ruby 2.1
Probably to help someone know what paragraph you're referencing if you're having a discussion. I could see it working better if it only appeared when you hovered over to the left of the paragraph.
Please mark in the title that it's about BLE, not the "usual" Bluetooth. Those are two different technologies.
Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?
I've worked as an analyst for a VC ($200M under management, so not huge nor small), and I can honestly say that you could find better advice by perusing the business book section of your local thrift store.

Part of the problem is the number of "dumb luck" one-time entrepreneurs that make it into VC Partner positions, that think they can extrapolate and apply their limited experience to anything under the sun.

Overconfidence in their own wisdom is hugely problematic, and most of them don't know the line between mentorship and being a de-facto CEO. Very rarely do you hear "I ran into a similar problem and this is how we solved it". Most of the time it is "Do it this way, just trust me because I had a $15M exit back in 1998", and occasionally it becomes "Do this or else we'll throw you out."
Questioning a downvote in an attempt to learn should not be downvoted... as it does contribute to the overall intellectual quality of the site. There are some very clear reasons for some comments to get downvoted. But some comments get downvotes for no obvious reason. Complaining about them is not helpful.

I don't think requiring a comment to downvote would work either. Of course if people did comment things like "idiot" and "shill", then those comments would rightly be downvoted for name-calling and personal attacks. That would just be a mess.
It is not that there is no markdown / formatting allowed. It just is, that it is so very very limited:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Esp. the "no links in the text-field, but in the comments"

It is successful :-)

pg knows

It would be easy to implement some more primitives (and make them translate into HTML)

It MUST be intensional
I've been building out a similar MVP with church planting in mind rather than Missionaries, however I've had the thought that Missionaries could utilize the platform as well. I'm working with Several church planters and a Church planting network to validate the idea right now. I'd love to hear more about your findings and see how we might be able to help each other.
Yep. The main function is to situate the reader if they get linked to a "supernote" like so:

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-jap...
So if you ask a direct and explicit question, and someone takes the time to provide a factually correct answer, you think it's then OK not to acknowledge in any way, manner, means, or form, that they spent time providing you with the knowledge that you had requested?
Author here. I'm sorry things are not working out. I'd be very interested if you could open a report with the position involved. Sunfish move generation is tested pretty thoroughly, generating tens of millions of positions and comparing with other engines. But of course it's still young and glitches may happen :)
Ostia Antica [1], was ancient Rome's harbor 19 miles southwest of the city

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_Antica
Not to mention that by the time that twitter needed to scale rails the framework itself was very different and a little less powerfull. That goes to ruby as well.
I was the lead instructor for MakerSquare's first cohort, and I've also taught shorter, on-site courses for clients like Comcast (Lord forgive me), Huffington Post, and LinkedIn. I'm also exclusively self-taught, no CS degree. Here's my take.

You need to know your own learning style to make the decision on the investment. I'm pretty obsessive and learn things better on my own working towards a goal than I do in a classroom environment. (I was homeschooled, so whether I thrived in a homeschool environment because my brain works this way, or my brain works this way because I was homeschooled, or some of both, I'm not sure.) This plays out into my real life, too—my wife has found if she sends me follow-up emails on some things, I'm better able to act on it, as I have a lot of trouble retaining auditory information. (She is very gracious.)

But many people thrive in a classroom environment, and for them, a coding school and the energy of being in a room with 30 people driven towards a common goal makes starting the journey a lot easier. So, analyze your own learning style from the past, and weigh this into your decision.

Another angle to consider is that being in a program with MakerSquare is like getting into YC: it buys you access to a lot of wicked intelligent people who you might not get to rub shoulders with otherwise. I know some really, really smart developers in Austin. Many of them mentor MakerSquare students, and the students are privileged to have access to their time and expertise. If I could go back to when I first started learning and pay $20K to have these guys mentor me, I would do it in a heartbeat. But if you go this route, make a conscious effort to seek out their help and learn from them.

Finally, if cost is a major concern, I would look at Austin's MakerSquare program. Cost of living is lower than say SF, tuition is lower (I think, haven't cost compared in a while), and our community is very welcoming to motivated beginner developers.

Good luck! I'm nj@third.io if you want to ask me more questions offline. :)
Perhaps more people would be more inclined to get nudged by Google in this direction if Google got in the CA game and sold certificates themselves, 2048 bit, right on Google Play, Chrome Optimized certs, NFC and QR code-enabled. How about that?
>ten years earlier was not a US plot, yet nobody questions that.

Are you joking? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
FMRI Gets Slap in the Face with a Dead Fish (2009)
FYI, link to book he mentions on amazon, had to look it up as a huge fan of the game, and was a bit dissapointed by the reviews. http://smile.amazon.com/Chrono-Trigger-Boss-Fight-Books-eboo...

Has anyone read and enjoyed it?

(no referal, but is a smile link)
When startups fail – 12 founders, and advice moving forward
While it seems somewhat appropriate that an article about a boardgame engine should appear on a website called 'dice.com', I'm not entirely sure why it's there. It seems to be basically a reblog of SourceForge's August product of the month interview[1], being spun as something to interest people in game dev jobs on Dice.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/blog/august-2014-project-of-the-month...
> Satellaview, a satellite modem launched in 1995 that could receive new game data as it was broadcast. Although the cost of the system and the monthly subscription fees were high, the system was successful—it enjoyed a five-year run before it was discontinued in 2000.

I would never imagine such thing - games via satellite - ever existed, let alone for Famicom!

Living in Japan in the 90's might be have been pretty amazing, it was like living in a retro version of the future. I remember when my friend came back from Japan and brought payphone cards, something I would only see again 10 years later in my country.
I like the post. Is always great to learn new or different ways to solve the same challenge. Great tutorial.
5 Great Interview Questions to Ask Candidates in a UX Interview
I finished a 2-month full-stack JS class here in Seattle in June and really enjoyed it. I am/was primarily a LAMP stack/WordPress developer and wanted to expand my mind and skill set a bit. I was one of 2 or 3 people in the class who had more than a couple of months of programming experience (~ 6 years in my case), the rest were very new to the discipline.

I really enjoyed the process but it's very much a "get out what you put in" process. It was 6 hours per day, 5 days a week with homework. I could easily have doubled that time outside of class with additional reading, assignments, and projects. Still, I attended every lecture and finished all the assignments and now feel much more comfortable with the landscape in general.

The advantages a class has over self-directed learning are myriad:

- Paying for a class provides internal motivation to stay focused
- Someone helps you decide what to learn and in what order
- Most provide job-application assistance (my program in particular did an excellent job with this)
- You have someone being paid to answer all of your questions
- You have specific assignments to complete and are held accountable
- Teaching those around you is the highest form of learning
- You get a dedicated space to work and learn

From the other comments here, I fully agree that:

- 'The quality of the "graduates" varied immensely'
- 'All of the projects were group projects, so weaker students were able to hide behind stronger students' - you get out what you put in
- 'COLLECT AS MANY SIGNALS ABOUT INSTRUCTION QUALITY AS POSSIBLE'
- 'I also learned how to work on a dev team, not just in my app-building silo'
A pardon for an American hero. C'mon Obama, you can do this.
I think "Japanese Retrofuturism" might be as much a symptom of Western culture rather than Japanese culture.

It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate.

I don't know if this represents anything fundamental, or just the influence of a few people like Tolkien and Gygax and how people responded to their works initially. Certainly in real life there was a period where guns and swords competed that lasted 500 or so years in the west and east.
Ah, the old "it's Einstein so it must be right" gambit.

People used to say that about Newton - until experiment proved that he didn't have the full picture.

It's highly improbable that relativity is any different. Yes, it gives demonstrably correct answers, but that doesn't mean that it holds in all cases.

I mean, why would we be even talking about LQG if we thought relativity gave the full picture?

You're right that I was wrong to say it moved from one reference frame to another, which is clearly bollocks - the EM undergoes an acceleration to relativistic mass, then a deceleration.
Hacker news mods have repeatedly said that they only respect professionalism, and they intentionally ban people they feel are controversial to a strong degree. So long as this is true, you are going to lose the passionate 1% of the community. The passionate 1% are those who keep the rest of the riff raff in check ultimately.

As far as I am concerned, "Do you want X? This is how you get X."

If Hacker News wants to have people care, it has to allow differing and terrible opinions. This is the very basis of the notion of freedom and free speech. When you censor the community, the community will suffer.

Note that upvoting and downvoting, especially when done via groups of people determined to make their comments be heard, can itself tend to become a type of censorship ( mass downvoting ). Votes should be purely for the benefit of the original authors of the comments being voted on; not to move content around.
I see it as "Let's make it easy for kids to learn programming", so that those who find it interesting are aware, inclined and develop further interst, if they choose to.

I see it less of "Kids to develop awesome Android app", and more of "you can do something simple and interesting with programming"... It's more similar to dacing or Taekwondo classes that kids can easily go and try out.
I have been moving around the map with WASD which has been working fine for me. I wasn't able to get it to scroll by going to the edges.
As one of the 20-something's making cell phone apps, I have to laugh a little bit about how much we get bashed. I feel bad when people get kicked out of their houses, and I wonder how terrible we really are. But I'm not walking around trying to hurt anybody. And I'm reading this article right after the one about the school teacher who showed up drunk and pants-less on her first day of school, but I doubt countless people are going to show up to her house (straw-man, I know).

I feel like this is a classic problem of economic conservatism/liberalism: how should money be allocated to people. It's just really exacerbated by a lot of young people making a lot of money and pulling the divide apart.
Awesome! One of my many unfinished projects was a networked version of The Russian Campaign so that my dad and I could play together.

Looks like there's a Vassal module and we can finally get those games going.
I'm a huge fan of Chrono Trigger, I've played through it multiple times, I just loved it. The author of this article states that he wrote a book about the game. The book can be found here: http://bossfightbooks.com/products/chrono-trigger-by-michael...

I hadn't heard about this before, but I may actually order it, because I like the game so much :)
Makes some sense. Seems excessive.

Not trying to being entirely negative... This is a really great article!
Code quality: speed + comprehensibility
Bad Microsoft Android patents may lie behind Samsung lawsuit
Sorry to say, but writing 3.5 (I hope you mean 3.0) code a year ago mean't you were far behind. I myself feel that C# has not changed a lot in the last 2 years or more. C# 5.0 was released almost exactly 2 years ago, and even that didn't bring a lot of changes ( The biggest was of course async-await and the other one the callerinfo attributes, and that's about it.)
By not testing it in a vacuum, which would eliminate most of the immediate problems with thrust being produced by outgassing from heated wires (10kW is more power then your stove top) or coronal discharge.

I don't know what's going on with whoever is doing this at NASA, but the joke of testing IN A VACUUM CHAMBER while not actually pumping it down is ridiculous. These people are scientists who have access to the device - how did they not turn it on? For lack of a suitable capacitor? That's a nothing part for such a massive potential breakthrough.
Are you sure that the original author deleted the question, or was it a moderator? You may be pointing a finger at the wrong person.
Incessantly saying you're making the world a better place
By the way, here is a link if you want to sign up for a workspace and play around.

https://apexea.oracle.com/i/index.html
Freelance.

Usually firms will want full time employees and won't hire part timers (too much hassle when they can just go for a contractor, hence my suggestion). They don't care about where or when you work if you're a freelancer though, just that you keep the communication up and meet deadlines.

Don't compete with the bottomfeeders when you're freelancing -- you can avoid this by looking for bigger budget projects where the employer seems interested in quality. I suggest Guru as a network.
I know a close friend who went to coding school. She basically wanted to change her career and this was a good way of going about it. Coding schools are usually worth it if you are

1. Motivated enough to make it work - There will be a lot of long hours and toil. You will be trying to cram in a 4 year degree in a 3 month course so be prepared.

2. Question the logic - Programming languages came from humans and not the other way around. So there will be a distinct train of thought to how a system works. Never shy away from asking this. Never shy away from asking the seemingly dumb questions. You will be much more comfortable with a scenario if you know the mechanics of how something works

3. Focus on system design instead of UI - UI and UX experience correlates strongly with experience. System design experience (how do i code this particular component?, Design patterns etc) is contingent on you having strong fundamentals. So focus on that. It will make you a good engineer and not just a coder.

Lynda etc is very self driven and you dont get to have the same immersive experience a la General Assembly. If you do go the Lynda route, try out something like AirPair to complement the experience.
LegalSifter: Find out if your client sent you a fair contract
Google Fit Preview SDK now available
I completed thecodepath.com iOS course (not a fulltime course though) and it helped me alot. Some of my friends who completed Android successfully moved from their current jobs to Android dev related jobs.
When there's talk of making sure the GC doesn't take up more than 10ms out of every 50ms, this is only when the GC is actually happening and not during regular running, right?
You don't ever need to cast from char * to char * . Period.

In 16 bit land the "L" meant something but that hasn't meant anything since long before the API he is calling existed.
FYI Chrono Trigger is available on iOS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrono-trigger/id479431697?m...
Given that VC industry as a whole doesn't outperform major stock indices, it stands to reason that an average VC doesn't have that much wisdom to offer. Nevertheless, they offer financing and potential networks that you can mine.
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