skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story is literally the first time I've heard of this site. Is it really popular enough to demand payment for reading the articles?

Looks like it was started on Dec. 04, 2013 [1] and has been subscription-based from the beginning. $40/mo or $400/year seems like a lot of money... any indication that they break news before any other site?

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/Letter-From-the-Editor1
> All software related to security should be open source.

That's a very common and dangerous misbelief.

Security products should come from a trustworthy source. Open source doesn't imply trustworthiness. If I were to screw you, I can very well do it with an open source product and pre-compiled binaries. Some people will rebuild from source, but a vast majority will use binaries provided assuming that since I'm all "open source" then I must be trustworthy. Hell of an assumption to make if I am not.
World’s Most Expensive Superman Comic Just Sold for $3.2M on EBay
> making an offer (and landing the candidate) is the exceptional condition

> In other words, odds are that you are not going to get the job.

The first is true but it doesn't really imply the second:

In my area, the active jobseeker population for development jobs mostly consists of a gigantic, persistent mass of sub-competent developers (you know if you aren't one) and people who are always on the lookout for something better. Anyone else gets picked up pretty damn quickly. If you're in the latter group, odds are you are going to get an offer (of which you will reject the majority). I suspect companies that think they're being more selective at the hiring stage are probably just being capricious; it's not easy to judge the quality of your own hiring process.
Their recent acquisition of HBO content has me using their streaming service pretty regularly now, but I'm almost done with The Wire now so I'll probably be using it less in the near future.

In the past, I have purchased currently running seasons of shows that I don't get on cable, like Doctor Who, Top Gear, and Parks and Rec.
Sounds like something out of Richard K Morgan's "Market Forces" actually.

But that's assuming life imitates art. Clearly it's the opposite - as books like John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" seem to indicate.
> One way is to look at how long people spend reading an article away from Facebook. If people click on an article and spend time reading it, it suggests they clicked through to something valuable.

uh, so they are tracking off page duration now?
Thank god.

I was sad to have to unfollow "Wimp.com". It was (and I guess sort of still is) a site that would upload 5 new videos a day. They'd be anything from funny to cute to jaw dropping to inspiring to just plain interesting. But you could pretty much bet on them being great.

A few months ago they decided to turn their titles into clickbait. It was so incredibly frustrating to see them go down that path. I don't know if their quality bar for videos also dropped, or if that's just my disappointment seeping through.
Have you tried Droid Sans Mono Slashed? I find that the slashed 0 helps readability quite a bit.
Of course! "perfect is the enemy of good"

Minecraft itself was a clone of the game "infiniminer". Whose developer had given up and stopped work after the source code was stolen.

When I think of the rise of Minecraft I am drawn to a few things he did differently.

1) He set up a way for customers to pay him for the game early (as soon as he had a minimum viable product). This gave him tons of feedback, money to keep working, and incentive to keep going because people were constantly asking him for features and tweaks.

2) He employed a simple and fun mechanic that allowed users to create their own things in the game (forts castles etc).

3) all of the content is procedurally generated. So every time you play it you get a different experience to some extent.

4) From very early on you would get weekly updates pushed out constantly adding new features. For most people new things were being added far faster than they could get bored with them.

5) it ran everywhere.

6) He didn't focus on graphics. He made design choices that would drastically simplify development at the expense of quality and/or performance. This lent itself to a blocky 'style' that was both easy to handle and visually unique.

What do you guys think? am I missing anything?
I think that ascribes too much intent to the situation. Maybe they're just bad at hiring.

Fundamentally, they do this because they can. If all candidates were like "who are these clowns", after the first month of the process, then Google would have to change the process.
Azubu (and their korean counterparts) are implicated into some very shady business. I wouldn't support em.
I found these hilarious: https://github.com/xNotch/dark/issues
I would fund research into self-reproducing robots. I would then launch them into space where I would use them to mine the asteroid belt, shooting materials back towards earth where they would trapped in earth's orbit and safely dropped into the atmosphere. I would use the profits for philanthropic causes.
For the most part I think you're right, but give them a chance and check out some of their excellent documentaries:

- https://news.vice.com/video/the-islamic-state-part-1

- http://www.vice.com/the-vice-report/saving-south-sudan-part-...

- http://www.vice.com/ground-zero/mali
There is a certain stigma associated with lifting weights. The trope of "jocks v. nerds" is far from dead. I will agree though that its a shame that the voice of dissent has to be "artofmanliness.com".
At least for acquiring companies, Amazon has better reputation in keeping them as it is, instead of tearing apart and integrating into something else. Twitch is a great service though~Good luck!
I'm sure they A/B tested it.
McDonald's Faces 'Millennial' Challenge
Aim for the Balmer peak.
Now I see why he was pushing so hard for 0x10c - it's the game he wants to play, a game of experimental live-coding AI.
That's great that you're still hacking away at it. Same here, I've applied about 4 or 5 times? I lost track. I've changed a lot, so has my project, but things have also stabilized as I learned how to push this forward. At this point, it's almost a ritual just to apply because it helps me think about what I've done and what I need to do next. This year I'm too busy to spend days on the application but hopefully all the prior practice helps. Regardless, it's ready to submit so I'll meet my quota for this year. :-) (As soon as the submit works but maybe it's just me.)
The driver wasn't signed by Microsoft, but VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA.
I'd argue that both criteria needs to be met :)
and he's worth like a million million bucks, yet still does what he loves, and gives $ away to his team, like keanu. may he live as long
I also think of George Lucas as a good model, too -- looking at all the things he created that came out of Star Wars (Lucasfilm, ILM, Pixar, THX, etc.)
Sounds a lot like SMS conversations.

It might as well be a different language in a lot of ways.
My hope is that Guido's plan to incorporate the type declaration module (`types`, a subcomponent of mypy) will encourage the Python team to clean up the issues brought up in TFA.
Ralph Lauren debuts iOS-connected fitness and health tracking Polo Tech t-shirt
I don't get people watching single player games but I watch people play competitively to keep an eye out for new strategies and I also have some teams I'm a fan of.
To some extent, I think that is not a bad thing.
The point of this post is education. The author is trying to de-mystify garbage collectors. His approach - which I think is a good one - is to present code that is quite simple, but still meets the criteria for being a garbage collector.

This is a pedagogical technique. Your points are valid, but they also ignore that the author is trying to teach concepts through code. That often require simplification.
his minicraft certainly was, but also super-engaging
Thanks! Yeah, I definitely wanted to lower the barrier as much as possible.
Joel Spolsky over Fogcreek does it (I know because I see the photos they post on facebook of the lunches).

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-price-of-dev-happiness-part-thr...

They always look absolutely amazing.
Offer the building's super the barometer, if in exchange he'll tell you how tall the building is. [1]

Did the author of the article not bother to investigate the actual answer?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question
"What? Me worry?" - Alfred E Newman (YC applicant for the 10th time)
Clicked, watched someone's screen reading the same messages I was reading with "Bubble butt" in the background for 1 minute, then closed and commented this...
You may think that you'll vote to stop this, but you won't. Think about the consequences of your position for 5 seconds. If modern law cannot guarantee people's freedom from large-scale violence, then nobody, not me, not you, nobody, has any use for modern law. Abrogating law to prevent these things from happening, hell, even committing massacres against their forces, is perfectly acceptable behaviour. Islam does not fight with a distinction between civilians and military. So it's impossible to hit one and not the other. That cannot reasonably result in not hitting them. You may not agree, today, but if these things keep expanding like they have in the last decade, you will agree before another decade passes.
Brace yourself for another Cold war.
Amazon sells digital games.
> Why to sign up? As a registered user you will be able to perform more searches for free. No spam.

Making you sign up is not unreasonable. But I find this text annoying. Yes I can perform "more" searches for free if I sign up, meaning more than zero.
I'll respond to your points, but was the ad-hominem really necessary?

> In the end, natural language assumes a broad swath of "common sense" that computers do not have yet.

Absolutely. I'm not at all saying that we'd have had this last Tuesday if we'd just take our heads out of our asses - I'm saying it's something we should strive toward and not ignore.

> Many of the problems arise in the ambiguity of the human-human communication.

Human-Human communication works, and works well - once again, we do it every single day, all the time.

Do we encounter problems with ambiguity? Sure. But they are by far the exception and not the norm. After all, forms get filled out, Driver's licenses get renewed, complicated Starbucks orders get filled - these common use cases work.

By contrast, have you ever had this fun experience with a terminal program?

> quit

Unknown command: "quit"

> exit

Unknown command: "exit"

> shutdown

Unknown command: "shutdown"

or my favorite:

> quit

Unknown command "quit." If you want to close the program, type "exit."

Simple English statements like these work extremely well in human-human communication and do not work hardly at all in human-computer communication. I'd just like us to get from A to B, that's all.
Can anyone explain why the Qt DLLs are offset in size? I compared them to Qt 5.3 and even replaced them and app works fine with original Digia compiled versions. Maybe it is the digital signature? I just recall a trojan people used before by re-compiling the Qt Libraries with malicious intent.
Michael Crichton's novel Disclosure had a few funny scenes about their VR system having a 'puke factor' as well...
I've never been to Burning Man. Is it still the same event, or at least similar to, what it was years ago or has it been overrun by "The Man" as I've heard so often? It would be disheartening if that is the case.

I found the uptick in prices interesting, from free to quite a bit above not free[1] I don't know if this is also due to "legitimising" the event with permits and such.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man#Timeline_of_the_ev...
> But in the end it's still javascript which makes it hard to create native and mobile builds.

It's not "still JavaScript." Dart has its own VM and own libraries. Yes, you end up deploying to JavaScript in most scenarios, but Dart is its own platform which can live on its own in the server context and when the Dart VM is integrated with Chrome, on the client side too. I know what you meant, but the way you worded it does a disservice to Dart, making it sound like another CoffeeScript.
Hopefully it's SpaceX. The other two have fatten enough on wasteful government contracts.
The Corps of Engineers was attempting to obey US Law which presumes that any pre-Columbian remains belong to the local tribes who have complete say over what happens to the remains. The local tribes claim the skeleton is their ancestor, and want it buried instead of defiled.

I'm ambivalent. This is very important science, but it comes at a cost of stomping on Native American rights.
Ask HN: Are there any web/mobile companies looking for developers in New Jersey?
I live in New Jersey and would prefer not to have to commute to New York City every day to be able to work at a web/mobile company. Does anyone know of or work for a software company in New Jersey where their product is software?
he just said on the stream he "likes HN but doesn't hang out on HN because there's too many nerds"
Would love a Firefox version!
Why should you have to specify assumptions that don't matter?

I.e. it can be very productive to do the reasonable thing, until it's proven unreasonable.
I also had the issue - no big deal though.
I don't think that's even possible. The best you could do is analyze a program and see if it does things that are "suspicious". Otherwise it's just going to match known binaries/strings.

It'd take an amazingly complicated scanner to detect if GlassWire was, for instance, capturing your DNS requests and sending them somewhere. Or allowing updates to get loaded into its process space. I'd guess you'd need a nearly general AI to determine if any program is malicious.
Not as the person who prompted you to ask this, but let me (rudely) interject and give my own answer, if you'll forgive me;

1. CLARITY is very important. Your workflow and process aside, it's the person on the phone who we interact with and get any barometer into, and this is something I've found very painful in my own experiences with Google interviews, either...

A. They ask a question, or respond to a question in a way that is very difficult to not get thrown by. In my own experience, this was being asked to implement an RB tree on the fly (when I've told my friends inside the big G that I was asked this they always go "wait what", but my hand to god, this happened.), and when I responded with "I'm sorry, that datastructure relies very heavily on getting some very precise rotations right that I simply don't have memorized. Can I look them up and try going from there?" I was met with "Hm, no, let's move on, I would normally just expect my interviewee to just know the answer", a response which, to put it VERY lightly, added insult to injury. Or...

B: Accent. I realize this is probably a sensitive subject, and I don't mean this in a "everyone should speak English flawlessly", but if you're communicating over a more lossy medium like phone, you have to be aware that a heavy accent only contributes to the difficulty in shared understanding, which contributes to feeling stressed and confused, which... etc, back and forth. Multiple Google interviews I was a part of occurred with interviewers I could barely understand, and regularly had to ask to repeat themselves, which I'm sure on some level to the interviewer didn't help impress me to them.

2. Feedback and culture. Despite the above, I had the opportunity to intern at Google. I was always somewhat proud (I promise I'm not trying to dick-wave in this, bear with me :) ) that my feedback from my manager reported me as at or above expectations, however, I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not a good culture fit (Admittedly, I was 'young', and needed a good smack on the head, but it really bites that perception is valued more than contribution, especially when you're not given actionable ways to improve), and never received a single atom of feedback, either in my tenure there or during the interviews ("you could have perhaps solved that like X", sort of things) to put me at ease or give me any sense that there was room for personal improvement. I realize the potential legal ramifications in this, but, it's a problem, it needs to be improved, I refuse to accept that with all the smart people at G a solution can't be found :)

Sorry for the rant, this has been a subject that's been itching at me for a few years now, and the chance to braindump at someone who might actually have visibility into the why/how of all of this is very welcome.
Not sure why this was downvoted! Honestly, that's one of the best uses for Yo I've seen so far.

Relatedly: http://www.earthquakeyo.com/
I found a bug I think is related and fixed it, so hopefully this should work now if you try again.

Thanks for letting us know!
This is an insidious myth,
not supported by evidence.

Facebook gives candidates substantive feedback on each interview.
What this misses is that it can be useful to structure design as a conversation, rather than a monologue.

We often make this mistake with computer systems. I.e. the need to specify everything up front. Imagine a workflow where the process of design is a conversation with the system. To some extent, REPLs capture this, but they're still driven wholly by the programmers.
Most non-tech that I know use FB on mobile with the native app.
You are right about optimizations, there are a lot of situations where type annotations could greatly help the compiler. I just do not have the feeling that performance optimizations in CPython are the reason for Guido's proposal. It rather seems to be motivated for development tooling.

Is `for i in xrange(10000):` especially optimized in python at the moment? I doubt it and those low hanging fruits could be tackled with some explicit pattern matching. (I probably should do my homework now and dive into the python source code).
VMware buys into Docker containers
Indeed, but figuring this out is trick

In Western countries you'd assume it's a black driver. In a country where almost everyone is black you'd assume a black truck. So the code could have bugs depending on the location/culture (and thus context).
The underlying story for me here is this:

Twitch has the potential to both compete in the same sentence as ESPN ($$$ bil) and provide a new model for content delivery in sports content consumption.
The AI needs to be able to ask for clarification.
So you find a set of keys. How do you return them, if they aren't tagged somehow?
VMware and Docker – Better Together
It has now ended.
I found that article really badly written and unclear, as did most people I know who read it. It seems to be an interesting view, but not communicated well there.
Weed-fs – Fast, scalable distributed key-file storage system
A couple of quick searches indicate that this is a well-regarded application. Thank you for your recommendation.

A quick review of your comments here indicate that you're an OK person. I enjoyed your review of the Highlander franchise, thanks.

I happen to be one of those liberty-or-death types when it comes to software licenses. Doubly so for educational software!

I ... I can't trust a company to educate a child. Their goals are just too much different than mine. [The pessimist in me says that] They'll never provide a copy of their internal design documents so that future educators could improve upon their craft.

A teacher would share his lesson plans, and a Free Software developer would share her code.

I can't send a dime to an educational software company because (apologies to various humans and their families in advance...) I want all such companies to dry up and cease to be, in order that teachers and Free Software developers would have a better chance to thrive.
My favorite: https://github.com/xNotch/dark/issues/13

Note the username.
Mea culpa. Mixed 'em up in my bafflement of his assertion of ownership over a classic mathematical example.
I don't think typing speed factors into it. It's more a factor of cognitive load. While programming you are working at the level of "expressions", and your speed is limited to how quickly you can turn business logic into appropriate sets of expressions. Programming languages that are lower level require more expressions to say the same thing, hence are slower to program in. I don't think it's a controversial notion to say that assembly is less productive than C, which is less productive than Python. The reason is the number of lines (or rather expressions) needed to achieve a piece of functionality. The business logic most definitely does not take the same amount of time when written in assembly compared to python. The higher level languages tend to be more productive, but it is only a given if the higher level language is actually more concise.

Here are some papers that underbuild this argument:
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer...
https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/rerg/amadeus/teaching/seminars/semi...
And for trillion dollar profits, if you're luky to be in the MIC complex. Which is the force behind Euromaidan.
Ha! I've got an 8-yr-old daughter that loves making gameplay videos. "Hi, my name is Isa, I'm 8, today I'm going to show you how I make this thing with Lego"... this year alone, she's recorded about 40GB of such videos. Sometimes she watches similar videos online.

I don't really get it, but she came up with the idea and started doing it by herself. There must be some sort of attraction to this thing.
This restriction is there just for the last 2 hours. You could do 5 analysis without any account before. The reason is that I got a huge traffic from HackerNews and the service was not prepared for such a big load and were (are) there many technical issues. I know, it is my bad but I really did not expect that people will love this service (concept) so much that it will go on #1 page on Hackernews.
Yeah I realized that a bit after I posted my original comment
Surely it's indicative though; a lot of skills are general. If they're bad at recruiting they will probably also be bad at customer support, supplier negotiations, and whatever it is the company actually does.
The Truth about Product Management and “Transparency”
As a regular Chipotle/Five Guys customer, what attracts me to those places is perceived quality - I believe I am getting a higher quality product. I'm willing to pay for it. In order for McDonald's to compete with that, would they not need to change almost everything about their business?

Is it a question of management not being willing, or not being able?
Was not 2017 original plan? Orion is under development for more than 10 years now.
This is key. We don't generally build computer systems that are capable of asking for clarification, but we should.
It's a particular problem with NCD because you don't always know what the compressor is measuring. At least with the L2 distance on a vector you know that those points were close to each other for a well-defined definition of 'close'. If it is surprising that they are close, you might want to investigate whether your feature selection really makes sense for these items.

With NCD the compressor selects its own features in a largely opaque way. This makes it fun to use but difficult to debug!
Small typo on the "How it works" page:

You make up your own reward value per item. If someone find's your item you can choose to release the reward or not.

Should be "finds"

Yeah it's a nitpick but for some reason these kinds of things really catch my eye.

Edit: Heh... and right above that: Nobody can compete with us! We'll give you free tags and therefore free protection of your item's. Guess my eye isn't as sharp as I thought.
books.google.com , which is also the domain name for all of those links. The searches were various combinations of "golden gate" "curvature of the earth" and a few other bridge names.