skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also got a ton of hate for being a paid game, with their expansion pack it was a total of $6 if I recall. This got them swarmed with a ton of angry people giving them one star reviews. That's very telling of what the mobile game market is like. Also I feel like part of why iOS turned out to be such a large chunk of the revenue is because of the large time gap between iOS and Android release.
I personally would love to just work on a laptop and have "docks." I'd like my "home" to be in a public area so that I could come in and socialize, but I'd like private rooms where I could retreat for quiet time.
Time to start wearing scarves + hoods + sunglasses, watch_dogs style.
Tech Culture and teaching K12 CS – Kids these days – they don't know nuttin
That depends on what you consider their height: the height of their power, or the height of their culture — which I would argue happened at different times.
I find there's a trick to reading stack traces that actually makes them not so bad. If you focus just on lines that reference your classes, there aren't that many lines to look at. From there, you can usually see the point at which the error occurred and ignore all of the lengthy Clojure runtime lines higher up.
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Hardly delusional and seriously un-fun when you are on the receiving end.

When my son was 6-ish and my daughter around 1 years old, we got a visit from DFS(like CPS). This was 8 years ago and the amount of rage it brings up in me is immense. Being immediately threatened with your child being taken away for refusing to do ANYTHING that they ask is ridiculous. I'm sure it is there to be able to have some power over the deadbeats, but when you think you are a normal family doing nothing wrong, it is pure rage inducing.

They tour your entire house. They check your fridge and food preparation areas. They check your yard. They interview your kids wherever they are. So if it is at school, guess what, they school now thinks you are a craptastic parent because only some shithole would have DFS called out on them. Of course, that rumor-mill then goes full force. We were never treated the same by anyone at the school ever again. Our kids never got invited to any more parties. No one there ever wanted to set up play dates anymore.

When the DFS agent finally gets around to telling you the reason for the visit, it is an anonymous complaint. That's right. Anonymous, even if you are proven to be completely not in violation and it is some crackpot calling them up to report you, you will never find out who that person is.

Ours was anecdotes and funny stories we had told some neighbors. Like the time that our son took off his dirty diaper and painted a wall with it, including behind a shelf that he put back and we didn't notice for a month and as such hadn't cleaned until then.

Yeah. Our life got seriously messed up on something we had no way to deter or counteract. Crazy neighbor could call them again anytime and send our lives on a spiral.

Hit by a meteor. I would have much more preferred that as I would have a chunk of meteorite to sell.
I don't disagree, but there is a scale issue Radio Shack has. As a quick example:

Population of Toronto, Canada: 2.5 million.

From http://wheretobuy.klab.ca/ I see seven stores mentioned for electronic components.

Population (not including the large college population which perhaps adds another 33%) of the county where I live: 155,400.

Number of Radio Shack stores at present: 3. (There used to be two more.)

Even assuming the list for Toronto is only half of the relevant stores, Radio Shack would have to close down a lot of stores to resize similarly for the hobbyist market.
or any Playstation 1 emulator
Do any of the employees get excited about juice bars, or is it just the management trying to use juice bars as a decoy.

> (I want $100K salary right out of school, it better be $140K in a year or I'm jumping ship.)

Professionals get high pay. Software engineers get pay in this range, and it's bizarre to scoff at pay concerns when you are arguing that employees are unprofessional.
I agree, but I get most of the same out of Ruby even if might be slightly less readable (or ugly Ruby code).

It's nice that the mentality comes out of using certain languages though.

also http://tomayko.com/writings/awkward-ruby
Well yeah, but arguing programming languages is what we do - it's like talking about sports for us, isn't it? :-)

You're right of course.
They also managed to piss off many of their original customers by charging them for the Forgotten Shores levels. When the original was released, the main menu indicated that there were going to be more levels added in the future. Many people were under the assumption that the $4-5 they'd already spent on the original ten levels would've included the the cost of the additional levels that was advertised in the main menu. It didn't and then ustwogames got upset when they started getting one star reviews for their bait and switch.
People don't pay up front for games anymore. They need to make a MV 2 that is free with a few levels + IAP to unlock the rest. That way more people can get hooked to the game mechanic and decide to upgrade.

Also, it still looks like android users expect free-ish games.
I wouldn't care about any of this if I could just lay my own cable between any two buildings in town without having to hire at least one lawyer and at least one lobbyist first.
I used to ride my bike out of the county when I was in Elementary school. The worst thing that ever happened was that some redneck threw a beer bottle at me and knocked me off my bike. I got his license plate number and phoned the police. In the semi-rural area I had managed to bike to (about ten miles from my house) the police could care less about why I was biking, They thanked me for the info, made sure I was ok, and sent me on my way. Phoned my mother later (i borrowed her cell phone so I could call home while biking) to tell her that they caught the guy and were charging him with assault of a minor and DWI. I just had to speak to an officer on the phone for about 10 minutes and that was the end of that.

Now we apparently are considering taking children away from their parents because they were allowed to be 1/2 mile from their homes unattended? Was I born in the last decade where one could experience childhood?
I lament this fact constantly. As a child I was super free-range. We would leave our house at sun-up and just had to be home by sun-down. We would explore for miles and miles. I'm so sad my children will never experience this freedom.
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8663729
The Case for Minimalist Socialism Through Cryptocurrency
I am definitely not anti-vax.

Having been on the receiving end of this BS, if there was a way I could sue my neighbor for defamation over their false complaint to win something back, I would.

But since restitution is not part of the law, this is a wonderful tool to bully your neighbors with.
As a former C# guy who moved to the web, I can say with confidence this is true: TypeScript is a great language for building great web apps.

My "Show HN" submission yesterday[0], the web app for helping homeless youth find beds and shelter[1], is written in TypeScript.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8886588

[1]: http://ysnmn.org
Clojure is definitely my favorite dynamically typed language. I also think that its community has a world-class aesthetic sense that other languages (looking at you, Haskell) could stand to learn from. Take maps as an example: Clojure has {"one" 1, "five" 5} and Haskell has fromList [("one", 1), ("five", 5)]. Clojure's syntax is a lot more attractive. Clojure has hyphens and Haskell has camelCase. Again, Clojure wins that one. Also, Leiningen is probably the best build tool I've ever used. I also think that Clojure has a great UX sensibility: once you get past That One Thing (parentheses, which are not as bad as they're made out to be) it's more readable than Scala and arguably Haskell. You can also make Clojure blazingly fast for a dynlang, although with some loss of aesthetics due to type hinting and array bashing.

There are two issues with Clojure (3 if you consider static typing a hard requirement, because core.typed is brilliant but probably not "there" yet) and both come from the JVM. The debugging experience is still pretty bad; although I dislike debugging in general if it can be avoided, and that's why I've gravitated toward static typing (catch bugs early). The second is that the JVM itself imposes a ceiling on how well you can do performance-wise, and can require a fair amount of configuration in production. Of course, Clojure may be off the JVM in 10 years and, even if not, it's still a great language in very many ways.
English might be German, French, etc. influenced, but it's nowhere as straightforward as German. Also, it is no surprise that it's about as difficult to learn as a foreign language as Xhosa.
Perhaps it is a niche market. That said, I was really looking for some brick and mortar resources for a ham radio, some coax, and some resitors/circuit kits the other day. I actually thought of RadioShack, but thought "no, I'm not looking for a cell phone."

There is still a market, though small, that RadioShack gave up on.
>>Riding the bus? It could automatically pull up the bio of a person sitting next to you.

I'm pretty sure this is a good reason NOT to give Glass to the masses.
I am in a room full of people, none of whom are working on anything related to what I'm doing. The idea that my seating will help "foster collaboration" is ludicrous. It's all about maximizing the number of warm bodies per square foot.
In Japan I believe it's a legal requirement for cameras to emulate a shutter sound for privacy reasons. I want that, too.

Oh, and I that my consent is required before somebody does face recognition on me.
Any feedback on documentation and general usability would be appreciated. Do file Issues on GitHub if you find anything.
Since when do "People of Substance" resort to ridicule? An actual person of substance is off building the thing they want to see in the world and ignoring the games of status-obsessed people.
While the point behind posting these entrance exams is often to make a commentary on a decline in education standards, I'd suggest that it really shows nothing of the sort. The exam is, in fact, rather easy and simplistic, and only seems difficult because of different priorities.

The grasp of Latin and Greek required for the language portions is minimal. This is particularly the case because, for the translation portions, all vocabulary is provided, including words that should be instinctively known by anyone with any grasp of the languages (esse in the first question!? καἰ?). Any foreign language test today would be significantly more difficult.

The mathematics section looks intimidating only because it involves dealing with difficult numbers by hand. There are specific techniques that would have been taught to work through such problems efficiently, but teaching them now isn't particularly useful. Conversely, the more conceptual and abstract questions are very simple: asking what a prime number is? Asking why exponents are added under multiplication?

The history and geography section, meanwhile, is mainly concerned with regurgitation of facts covering very narrow sections of the subject. Perhaps the question asking for the difference between Athens and Sparta could allow some deeper discussion, but most do not.

Overall, the test is focused on questions about specific topics requiring memorization rather than questions testing deeper insight and understanding. It's not something that should be looked back on as some product of a better age.
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>Do me a favor, please do not write your configuration files in Clojure as well.

Code is data and data is code. For Lisp programs, configuration is just another Lisp program. I don't want my Lisp programs crippled by a "dumb" config file.
If Google wanted to sell it to the world, they should have first made it without the camera. Later on when people are comfortable with the form factor: add the camera.

This is how we have ended up with mobile phones with cameras that nobody seems to mind about. Phones only got cameras halfway through their life. By then, it was too late to stop.
Phone bug wakes up Australians an hour early
Yes, when you are new and not doing much work, and often asking your neighbors for help (as a junior person should!), the open offices are fine. (But team rooms are better) When you are trying to get work done, not so much.

> we have small cubicle-like mini-rooms ... but nothing stops you from working in there with your laptop.

That seems like a waste of the monstrously powerful workstations with 30" monitors

http://robert.love.usesthis.com/

> Ironically, the major source of annoyance in our floor recently has been the old AC system

If you weren't working in the HVAC room, you wouldn't hear that noise in your office (or it would be muffled)
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> augment human knowledge, intelligence, and sensory in real time

I argue that is primary feature for all the time. Every time I reach for phone (to look something up, check weather, directions, status of things, name that song, take picture, check calander, etc. etc.) I would much rather have that in a HUD, voice controlled or not.

In future (and guess I'm in minority) I would LOVE full mediated reality. Sound suppression/augmentation, ad blocking, alerts of people I know, tags and notes from (geolocated, item/face recognition). So much more. I sort of doubt the tech for this will arrive mainstream in my lifetime. mostly due to low demand and individual impowerment making it anti-commercial.
Internet Controllable Car
Crossing the road is definitely stretching it! We are adapting the website to reflect that. We are already getting a lot of feedback with interesting use cases – it's is going to be really interesting to see what the community that is building around By My Eyes will come up with!
Elon Musk on Twitter: “Will be building a Hyperloop test track”
You misunderstood me. Whom do you consider a truly professional soldier?
In my view it's a marine, a SEAL, or another military member of a modern state.
Heck even a Pakistan army soldier is a professional soldier.

So what drives these professional soldiers is not the paycheck, its the idea of patriotism or that they are upholding some set of values for their country, or the idea that they are protecting their country.
That is what allows them to hang in there when it goes well beyond limits of human endurance.

Refer the marine campaign of Iwo Jima 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima',
where soldiers went for 3-4 months without adequate food, rest or even barely human conditions against a fanatical enemy.
Or for that matter any campaign during the world war. Or any other war worth something for the parties involved.

And my point is you can't get such kind of men or women to fight for money as mercenaries. And if I'm paying for mercenaries I want people like the ones who fought Iwo Jima.

So, if you look at the recruiting for the private armies most of them are ex-soldiers of a nation-state's army.

After a while some guys come to view it as any other profession. And then probably start working for a private army.

But even then I'd be surprised if private armies would be able to hold up their own against national armies or even if their members expect to.
I don't find writing JavaScript to be that hard. I don't get all of these compilers like this one, CoffeeScript, and TypeScript. Are people really that lazy that they can't spend the couple days it takes to learn the syntax and gotchas of JavaScript?
We used MARS[1] for assembly class a couple years ago.

[1]: MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator (MARS) http://courses.missouristate.edu/KenVollmar/MARS/
...after thinking about it a bit more, it could also just be part of an overall propaganda in the "cultural wars". Some people will be against the actions of the government in this case, while others will instinctively defend it. Certainly it is easy to get a

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."

...vibe from the article. Which is not so different from the

"For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States"

...vibe that has also been making rounds lately.
Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests
In terms of revenue, they would still be making much less if they didn't charge for the expansion. You can see most of the revenue came from the initial release of the original and expansion. If the expansion were given for free it may be more like a 3x gain on their investment. If they added IAP for the new levels, they would probably still get the 1 star reviews.
Swift has jumped from number 68 to 22 in the language rankings in one year
Eli Whitney introduced (if a bit dishonestly) the notion of building firearms from interchangeable parts in 1801. So 120 years ago was almost a century after that, so the item in question certainly wasn't hand-made.

Unlike most other products, there is really no room for cost-cutting of parts on a firearm. A dishwasher or vacuum cleaner may be cheaply made and still satisfy use for upwards of a decade until it breaks and the owner, with only mild annoyance, replaces it (speaking from personal experience of late); solid steel components both durable and replaceable progressively give way to breakable & irreplaceable parts, tolerated by society because prices drop. A firearm, however, has serious demands for durability and safety (breakage can gravely harm the user, directly or indirectly), necessitating solid steel parts meticulously milled (or comparably advanced polymers molded to likewise high standards); it still takes about the same amount of work to make one today as 120 years ago, with little room for cost-cutting. That durability also means they don't really wear out (taking decades/centuries instead of months or years), so older items retain their value and stabilize the price of new ones. Ergo, the cost - relative to other invariant standards like mundane labor or precious metals - has remained largely unchanged.
The entire project is Open Source – check it out on http://github.com/bemyeyes/ !
I'm not sure why you'd assume that pair programming and private space are mutually exclusive.
Allowing customers to look like they are surveilling other people was a radically Orwellian-seeming move. It amazes me that Google was OK with this from the beginning.
Now do one on sed! :D
Awesome! Definitely going to be using this the next time I need to create a Reg Exp.
Nothing convinces more than something you've done :)

So I would suggest just putting together your github and list of projects you've done, this should be a list of just the very best of the best, if its only one thing that can be fine as well.

Remember its not a awesome track record people are looking for with a junior dev, its potential and your current ability set and willingness to learn and engage.

We're always on the look out for up and coming talent so just shoot me an email if you get something together, I'd be glad to look at it for you and also see if maybe you'd make a good fit with us.
government needs to GTFO of our lives.

I've been hearing that CPS gets a bonus for hitting their government mandated quota of how many kids they take away from their parents each year.
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Thank you for sharing. I appreciate it.
I found sed great for messing around with SVN repository dumps. Delete a few lines here to remove the commit that added a directory... change a few paths to pretend the files in that directory had always been somewhere else... add a few lines somewhere else.

Sed scripts are a quick way to automate simple edits to large files.
> Adhering to that single rule would eliminate like half of the "context missing" problems with software translations.

Sort of. Almost all the issues I have with translators and context come from the same word being used for different things. This is particularly true for words like "date" and "time", which can have different translations depending on context (is it the time of day, or the time the test has been running?)

So as well as using the same word for the same meaning throughout, using different words for similar-yet-subtly-distinct meanings is also required.
In the last 5 years Microcenter has been expanding their selection of electronics tools, kits, and parts. Not to mention Fry's which has always carried a selection of electronics tools and parts. They've essentially picked up the market that Radio Shack dropped.
This game is terrible, but I played it around 200 hours with some friends. It's quite fun when you do it social, but we defined some rules:

- Never get into servers with more than 40% of the slots occupied (resulting in a lesser chance of stumbling over hackers)
- Keep always a low profile and avoid the big cities
- Go for a safe zone at least one time per hour

It was fun, and I miss those days. Too bad the game doesn't kept us interested on playing it because of the lack of good news. Still I'm pretty sure Sergei made a buckload of money with it.
hence the irony. Let's hate this thing we know about and can avoid, while ignoring the real threats to privacy.
I also find this works well, but I've often had to leave when a particularly loud and distracting conversation starts nearby. So really, the best option is to have open, communal areas and also quiet concentration areas.
Is that 300 KB minified and gzipped? I'm interested in scala.js but concerned about size.
I don't think Google needs to pivot this project to be successful.
I don't think laziness or a lack of desire to learn java script is the driving force for these projects. Rather, its simply for people who prefer a facade of strong types over their java script.
> All of these companies are tremendously successful and produce great software.

Well, they were. More recently (since the headcounts exploded and the open-office fad picked up) they've been coasting along with the S&P500 overall performance and upseting users.

> If you think about working on improving Google search

I thnk about concentrating to deeply analyzing lots of subtle data using advanced mathematics, not spitballing cool ideas.

> Productivity? Or Creativity?

Lots of creativity with no productivity: great idea that never launch, or launch with fatal flaws that never get fixed, and products that get shuttered.

> smart people who are all collaborating

Most humans can barely remember the identities of 100 people at once. How can they be "all collaborating" all day in the office.

Hmm.
My C# skills must be out of date. Previously you had to use delegates and it was pretty cumbersome.