skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why Google insists on staying in such an expensive place, rather than moving. Some possibilities:

1. There are synergies to having much of the staff working together at the same place. And the only place an employer the size of Google can find enough staff who are up to Google standards is the Valley.

2. Once you get to the Valley, anywhere else is cottage country. Google is by necessity somewhat geographically distributed, but its senior management is completely centralized. Last I checked, all the SVPs were in Mountain View. It's easy to mistake the best place for the only place.

3. Google started in the Valley and grew up there. Moving their main operation anywhere else would be very disruptive. Getting employees to move is hard at the best of times; getting highly sought-after engineers to move away from the center of their profession, where they have many many options should they decide to stay, would be brutal.
Amazon drops Fire Phone price to 99¢ in front of Apple announcement
Firefox is doing awesome work and had something similar in place a while ago. But there are some significant differences between these two.

* devicePixelRatio emulation. If you have density-dependent assets (srcset/image-set()), it'll retrieve those. You can also pinch-zoom and it'll behave like it does on the device, it's easy to see that low dpi assets are not sharp.

* viewport emulation. Whatever values you have in your <meta viewport> we honor and apply the same way.

* Network throttling, the interactive view of media queries, device presets, UA spoofing. Geolocation and accelerometer sensor emulations.

That said, Firefox has an easy screenshot button that we like a lot and will add something similar. So you can get a png of your site, but within the actual device. Maybe a nice shadow underneath. Something to drop into an email and send around. :)
Apple live event
THAT is what stops you?
I spent a couple months working at a company that had almost that exact business model. We just used normal, cheap, thermal receipt printers attached to a Raspberry Pi.
Left Brain Right Brain
Right, I should have noted that, thanks!
Reading about neovim is very cool. It's nice to see such an actively beloved open source project which is all about modernizing an old tool (and that means 90% "backend" stuff), and it's a big breath of fresh air to see how well organized they are.
It ran for several hours like that and never deviated from the original "circular" path. Unlike the other attempts, which were all much more elliptical. I guess that's kind of how planets would stay in a stable orbit though, having the right distance and speed for their mass.
Desugaring as a Language Feature
Well, if they find that someone abuses company perks, they can just take them to a meeting and politely explain them that they can either play fair or say goodbye to their job. It's not neccessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Venture Investors See Wave of Tech Cash Coming from the East
As I understand/recall it, discounts for paying in cash were always permitted by the merchant agreements.

As of early last year, credit card surcharges are also now permitted by Visa/Mastercard: http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/checkout-fees-charging-credit...
> Why? I assume it's because it's human nature and it's the cycle that seems to happen for things that are different

When it comes to the in-groups, it's not really bullying. IMO, it's more like a fitness-test, i.e. subjecting the new person who wants to be a member of an established group to some difficulty, so that the person is tempted to give up, and only those that really want to become members are accepted.

For example, I'm less than thrilled by the current campaign of "more women/kids/blacks/lations/people" in tech, because I feel that all these people just want to be programmers because of the money. I didn't want to become a programmer (I actually wanted not to become one), I just spent so much time in front of a computer that I learned a lot about it. I will never be able to regard someone as an "equal" (true geek) that just got in for the money. If you compare the current craze with 5/10 years ago (before the big salaries started), there is a huge difference in attitude towards the geeks, which makes the general public's motivations painfully obvious.

Another example: I'm not sure if that's a true depiction of Jews, but when Charlotte (from Sex and the City) decides she wants to convert to Judaism (to marry a Jew), she is turned away 3 times by the rabbi, before they let her start with the process.
Then how about "wealth" or "stuff"? I wouldn't call a tank "treasure".
I've had this done, it's concerning to say the least. Not being a new-tard, it's easy to see how this information can easily be used for nefarious purposes. Sometimes it seems to unavoidable due at some stores - I intend to try to prevent stores from scanning my id.
If you have to resort to living in your car while working at Google or other such big companies, there is something wrong with the way one looks at life. Unless there are exigent circumstances, like you were bankrupt for whatever reason, or you are a fresh grad with nothing but time on your hands, this is not ok.

work is not everything. there is life to be had
There was an excellent VisPy talk at EuroSciPy, not sure if Enthought has already put the video on youtube. The team behind VisPy is excellent, and they are doing really good work of making OpenGL usable from a high level language.
The throttling combined with disabling the cache make this a really handy tool for testing 'mobile'. I agree with the emulation comments — this doesn't replace an emulator and it doesn't replace real device testing.

This should be about getting everything working across a variety of viewports and ensuring a fast experience which I think it does a great job at.
I believe Satoshi Nakamoto is zohar002. This is my belief... At least for now!

http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Hyper+Lemon+Buster+Cannon/t...
What Happens When Things Don’t Go as Planned?
The Network Effect
The Evolution of Photo Sharing
That float is also known as a rip off.
Referenced article mentions a case where some random critic on the net criticizes a CEO who writes books touching on recruitment issues from the candidate perspective, claiming they are a recruiter. Random critic essentially argues that CEO is not a programmer since they don't have code.

I think it's a legitimate practice in the field to look at whether someone develops actual code and if their code works in order to evaluate whether or not they are actually a programmer. This is because there are a lot of posers and incompetents in the field. Seeing actual code and/or projects the person has built cuts through a lot of Big Talk and claims.

In this particular case, the CEO has listed on her site several projects she developed herself to solve real world problems. This is solid evidence that she is in fact a programmer. Therefore, the random critic's claims are without merit.
Just make sure it's a camper van and not a van ;)
David Blei – pioneer of topic modeling – receives ACM award
PSO was playable just fine offline and split-screen however. And if anyone is interested SCHTSERV[1] is a PSO private server that is still up. They have gamecube, dreamcast, and PC clients.

[1] http://www.schtserv.com/
> This is possible, but rare. If your GPS navigator requires "cloud maps", it will be useless the moment its provider goes out of business or turns off the v1 servers in favour of v2 servers.

I have a 10 year old GPS receiver in a box, with no way to update with maps from Garmin, not because Garmin went out of business but because they just choose not to support the device anymore.

Do I want to spend hours trying to figure out how to update a 10 year old device? Or would I rather spend $100-$200 on a brand new one with the latest maps?

Obsolescence isn't a bad thing, its how we move forward. We just need a clean process to recycle the waste that process generates.
I'm in the same boat, buddy.
feels
Moto 360 needs charging absurdly often
> and that's a good thing because there doesn't seem to be a lot of dedicated "software development" majors in existence.

Actually, I think it's a bad thing. The sooner Computer Science and Software Engineering become separate disciplines, the better.
Organized Chaos Makes the Beauty of a Butterfly
So I am trying to restart a blog using org-mode. I think it is the way forward. Right now, I meaning using it as one subset, a markup language to convert into other representations. I know org-mode is more featureful than that by a long shot. I am just curious for this use case for the reason below.

Having said that,I am more interested in why, despite the Church of Emacs and Its Holy Love of Parens (that is a joke from an admirer, btw), why pure sexpr is not the way forward for a markup language. I decided to look into them recently, including cl-who, Scribble (CL, Scheme, and now most popular Racket variants), and other sexpr markup languages. I did so thinking that, if you want to have a ground-up markup language to convert to anything, would not sexpr-based data be the best for the iconicity Lispers crave. Is it not that far removed from XML+XLST for this very reason.

Does anyone have full-bodied markup that uses sexpr as a source and translates to everything? I think this would be quite compelling, well maybe only to Lispers. Would there be a desire for such a thing?
Hope that this is better code than the OS Ultima Online stuff I looked at years ago. Which looked a lot like decompiled binaries, even the original code…
There are many stereotypes that go along with being a programmer that are negative. There are stereotypes that go along with being a recruiter that are positive. While gender may have something to do with people thinking she is a recruiter it may not be the main factor. If you meet someone who is well spoken, well dressed, writes books on how to interview, knows how to talk about code, etc. might there be a greater chance that their job is something other than writing code every day?
Rakuten of Japan to Buy Ebates, a U.S. Rebate Site, for $1B
Incredibly impressed.

I'm at work, and it's working superbly, with no noticeable lag or stuttering. I... I should stop.

Great work!
Agreed. When the initial fundraising campaign was happening I figured it was just going to fizzle out eventually when the guy driving it got bored. Boy was I wrong... this is a seriously organized effort.
I use ZFS on Linux for my file server. One of the nicest things about it is that the caching algos actually work - they're resilient to scans, so I can, for instance, have an intensively used database file that remains in RAM, even while & after doing a linear scan over a large number of files (eg during rsync). With the standard Linux page replacement algos, linear reads will flush the stuff you're actually using out of the page cache.

The fact that the caching algos are so good at keeping things in memory is why everyone gets hung up on using ECC RAM with it.
I'm curious why the weather argument comes up so often. Aren't we, as "software people", under a roof and in front of a screen most of the time anyways?

Then again, I'm "deep inside" Europe, so I have no idea how bad the weather over there really is.
There's loads of info on packaging and presenting your deal to investors-- spend some time on this project, you can totally hack this on your own.

Book recommendation, Oren Klaff's Pitch Anything! http://pitchanything.com/book/
Thanks for raising this point. It's absolutely correct, and I agree with both of you.

It still irks me when biases are so general and aimed at an entire set of people. I know I do the same internally for some populations or interest groups, but it still makes me mad when I see it done by others on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference, etc. I'm probably guilty at some level too sometimes... :/
Man 3D Prints USGS Earthquake Data for Last Month’s Napa Quake
I'm guessing his assertion that the person of interest is no programmer has more to do with Gayle's book being full of platitudes and errors than her sex.
Eliminating Legacy Code at Osper
Unintended consequences of genetic testing
Unlike Anything They Have Ever Seen Before
...so, if I'm understanding this correctly, you're ultimately just saving local, DRM-free copies of music downloaded from Spotify?

Is this basically just Napster in 2014?
Thanks gregcohn, I read this article last night and now am convinced that this isn't good practice. I was surprised that the company that went ahead with these guys actually did because they had been around for sometime.
That doesn't seem to support music you already have though, which is a pretty big feature of Cloud Tunes.
Eventually, all the current minorities, including women

Women are not a minority; not in the US nor in the vast majority of countries.
As an executive at a nonprofit, I was renting an apartment several blocks from my office. The apartment building was purchased by a developer who proceeded to convert them to condos. I was offered some money (I think $1500 or so) to end my lease early. I was planning on leaving the country in a few months anyway, so I took the money, and just moved all my belongings into my office.

I stored my clothes in an otherwise-unused filing cabinet, took showers at a gym a few blocks away, and slept on the floor, with just a blanket and pillow. The biggest problem was laundry; the nearest laundromat was pretty far away and I didn't have a car. I ended up strapping a sack full of clothes to the back of my bicycle and riding a couple miles to the laundromat every weekend.

I had a private room with a door that closed, but everyone at the office knew what I was doing. The only conceit was that I claimed that it was only temporary until I could find the right place to move into; in reality I found it so convenient and cheap that I stayed for over a year (until I did, in fact, leave the country). One Friday night, I even had a friend stay over; he slept on a couch in someone else's room.

Our organization rented a suite in a larger building, and every morning when I woke up and went to the restroom, I saw other people seemingly doing the same thing. One guy even went to the restroom every morning in a bathrobe. From about 6-7AM it reminded me a truck stop restroom, with people brushing their teeth and giving themselves sponge-baths at the sink. There are zoning laws that prohibit people from sleeping in offices, but I think the property manager didn't really care as long as everyone was reasonably discreet.

There were a few significant disadvantages. First, there was no kitchen. I had an electric kettle that I used to cook ramen, which I would add eggs and canned meat and vegatables to, but that was about it, except for eating out. There were plenty of nice restaurants nearby, and I had plenty of extra money from not paying rent, so it was not a huge problem.

Second, personal mail. The US Postal Service has a policy of not forwarding mail, addressed to an individual at a commercial address, to a residential address. This meant that when I forwarded my mail from my apartment to my office, I couldn't later forward my mail from my office to somewhere else.

Third, the gym was not open on holidays. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, I went to my parents' house anyway, so I just took a shower there. But for other holidays like Labor Day and Independence Day, I had to do without a shower.

I would do it again. Actually, I would even consider just renting an office instead of an apartment to live in. Generally speaking, office space is cheaper, easier to rent, and more centrally located than housing. These days though, I'm married, and my wife would not be so enthusiastic.
LOL scammer :-p
Giving the Milky Way a New Sense of Place
I have an equal distaste for exploding offers, but I'm not sure this will get the desired result :)
I wonder in how many years we'll be able to play WoW or GuildWars2 on our browsers.
So her talk was on tech interviews and someone thought she was a recruiter? Doesn't seem that big a stretch...
Show HN: 3D Print of the South Napa Earthquake
thanks - makes sense
So I guess The Verge doesn't care if I copy-paste large chunks of their articles (along with their copyrighted photos) on my web-page? Good to know...
Show HN: JQuery-slowlane
How have you handling it so far?. I'm turning 2 months today. I been reading and documenting a lot on free time but still not enough.
But is it, performance-wise?
How will ZFS compare to btrfs?
Ask HN: High paid job with low accountability?
This question is a bit toungue in cheek, but I am wondering if it is possible to shape a career towards the title goal.

I am pretty successful in my current work life - Under 25 with a 100k ish total compensation. I've always pushed myself, but lately I just feel lazy.

I've heard stories of boring positions in big companies where you don't have to do much of anything, you don't learn anything, and you don't advance, but you can collect high salaries if you get the position and there's not a lot of work expectations.

Is there a way to reliably get a job with a decent salary, but one can coast along doing very little from 9-5?
I have a bit of tape on the back of mine to corrupt the scanner.

Sometimes people are required to see the ID. No worries. If they go for the scanner, I ask them to return it and use another method to complete the transaction, or cancel the transaction.

The tape is there for the ones who ignore me, or move too quickly.
I generally agree with you, but it (likely) refers the the archaic (and somewhat romantic) phrase "blood and treasure"[0] commonly used to describe the cost of war for a nation or state.

[0] http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/02/blood-and-treasure...
Hacking Tech’s Diversity Problem
"How exactly would that go? Work -> Get paid in USD -> Convert to BTC -> Send -> your Taiwanese family gets the bitcoins -> Convert them to local currency -> Enjoy!!!"

Yes.

"You can't be serious, indeed the % of people who opted for this solution is probably so big that could feel comfortable in a 24m^2 room."

Here's a thread full of people who have tried this very process:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74952.0

It is quite easy, and more inexpensive than other forms of international money transfer, to convert money between fiat and bitcoin at this point, in many countries. On Coinbase for me at this point the BitCoins are available instantly after purchase. You should give it a try sometime :-)
if I'm any given bitcoin user (which I'm not), what incentive is for me to actually use it for those purposes?

It's "deflationary" and "free" (in quotes because every day new coins are created out of thin air, and because the actual cost of processing each transaction is ~$25-40)

Let's assume it's deflationary. I'm way better off convincing others to spend it while I hoard as much as I'm able to.

The more you believe in bitcoin the less reason there is to ever spend them.
Well management doesnt want outside devices on their network so its hard to test an internal app mean for technicians on a VPN.
I actually went to college with Gayle - she was a TA* in one of my harder, more rigorous classes. I never got to know her personally, but I find it hard to believe that you can talk to her for an entire hour and not figure out that her knowledge and understanding are way beyond those of a recruiter, even a smart one. Says more about the listener, IMO.

Personal anecdote, take it for what it's worth.

*TA = teaching assistant, older students hand-picked by professors to conduct help sessions for the current year's crop, as well as grade homeworks/exams. I.e. you need to do well in a class to qualify.
This looks seriously awesome. Though, instead of investing all the time, effort, and resources it would take to use this you could use something like 6px.io and keep your focus on your core product.
I've addressed the whole "CS is math" thing so much, I wrote an essay on it: http://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/
SEs need to know results from CS. That might be seen as separate, but knowing results and when to apply which, I think requires one to be at least a bit CS-educated. So, no, they're not separate in the ideal case, but obviously, results in CS are arrived at through mathematics and rigorous proofs, whereas resutls in SE are usually produced via code.
How much equity to issue to your board of directors and board of advisors
How long have you been there ?

If you are at a new place, and you don't have a clear view of the overall architecture, which parts are in good shape, which are not, etc, it is natural to be less confident in proposing a solution, particularly if people have been there for a long time.

However, it should not stop you of asking open ended question like "Why did module X have been developed with Y instead of Z ?" You'll probably learn quite a bit on the historical, political or time constraint reasons. And you could stumble upon a good suggestion because no one had the idea or will to change the status quo.

The advantage of being new is that you can assess the code base or practice with a "fresh" look. I don't think that anyone is expecting you to have the best idea on every proposal, you should maybe relax a little bit on the image you want to project. You can't be "the expert" in two months. Try to focus on a very narrow part of the project where you feel you have a related experience or can contribute something meaningful.
Serious question, what is this representative of?

Random internet comments? Unscientific internet polls?

I honestly can't figure out a reason why any of this is any more relevant or scientific than a youtube comments argument about why some band does or does not suck monkey chode.
Robb Stark – a classic example of poor strategy and execution
This has been out for a while on the Chrome Canary release channel (the nightly build).

It's really a great tool, and helps a ton with responsive and mobile development. Kudos to the Chrome team for finally pushing this to the stable release.
Package for Ant Colony Optimization Meta-Heuristic in Python
I think one should spend their time on whatever one is passionate about. It seems some people have jobs which are so interesting and engaging that they are essentially aligned with their passions. I think it's great!
Where is the actual JS code for the client?
My experience hiring from Waterloo co-op is that it is both well run and supports even the most junior students well.

The systems design and mechatronics programs there are very strong. Given that your friend was in a competitive engineering program aimed at putting graduates into good industrial positions, the inability to find a position in two terms is probably a good sign they needed to re-evaluate if they were in the right program for them.

There is nothing arbitrary about this, and they communicate it quite well. It sounds like the system was working as designed, although I understand how this could have been a rough time for your friend. Then again, that's one of the things college is for, and it's hardly a unique situation.
EMV isn't about securing information, it's about customer/card validation - validating that the person using the card is who they say they are. Therefore you are secure from fraud - as you said, cards are hard to reproduce.

You still need the CVV code to use the card number in a card not present transaction. So not to your point, it is rather secure...

EMV would have helped immensely here, especially considering EMV compliant machines are held to PCI standards as well.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the historical usage, and it makes me feel a little better about it.
Scott Forstall Is Human Too
Don't we all have a friend or two who tries to sell you stuff while we're hanging out with friends on a night out?

That's what buy ads feel like on social networks.
He didn't seem to know who he was talking to when he made those criticisms.