skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lastronaut reaches 1M downloads in it's first week
Does it strike you as odd that the guys who seem to be the "makers" are dead last on Carbon's about page?

http://carbon3d.com/about/
See also http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/17/app-submissions-on-google-p...

"Google has been human reviewing all Google Play store apps, and no one noticed"
Our crunch mode is 40 hrs work week, no overtimes.
This is definitely something I have been deliberately practicing over the last few years.
>This public space you love never occurred on roads.

You are flat out wrong. Markets, bazaars, strip malls, housing; these are all based on road placement. What happens when a city has a huge celebration? Why, they shut down the roads so people can move freely in safety and merriment. What happens when the government pushes its citizenry too far? Why, take to the streets and make yourself heard!

TBH, i cannot think of a thing/facet of infrastructure that is more representative of public space and socializing than a road. True, steel death machines flying about at 70kph+ is not conducive to healthy neighborhoods. really, the personal car is a huge fracking waste of time, material, and currency.

I think you may, as my father does, believe that the car is some magical device that creates freedom and profits out of thin air. Just look at the commercials; each year we are expected to believe that the NEW one is SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER than last years model WHICH IS SHIT COMPARED TO THE NEW AVENTURAMO by NISSOTA NOW FOR JUST 200%+ THE AMOUNT IT COSTS TO MAKE!!! Truly, car culture is what props up the fallacious American Exceptionalism that capitalists purport.

How sad is it that the most patriotic thing i can do, more than military service or medical aid or child rearing, is to own 1+ cars and make all of the requisite repairs and pay for all of the titling, permits, and insurance?
Nope. I'll add it to the reading list.

However as I'm usually short on time, I'd prefer to just read the scientific articles for myself.

Do you have any notable scientific articles from the book references to recommend ?
Wouldn't second simply segfault when you try to access it?
I wouldn't say that. I know I'm bad at conversation, and I'm always mildly awed when I see e.g. my parents striking up a half-hour long conversation with random strangers in trains. I still have no idea how they do it, and I don't see many people in my age range (20-30) able to do the same.
We wanted to also push out releases faster than OpenBSD's 6 month cycle. Maybe we should have started at 5.6.0. I dunno, hindsight is 20/20.
Owner of several Apple products. I never cared for the idea of Apple pay for one reason. I did not need one more touch point to deal with. People claim Apple pay simplifies buying but I am of the opinion I don't want any more people with that access to my credit information than I already have.

Yeah it might be able to provide a layer of anonymity that Paypal does for online purchases but I still end up with a service authorized to use my card.

What I do want and some CC services can provide is instant messaging of when the card is charged.
On the other hand some people are too socially aware and are worried that they are bad at conversation when they are not.
He's already iterating by using null termination instead of based on array bounds. I am suggesting he do it in the more common way.

On another topic, I have noticed you post this sort of trollish c bashing on almost every hn thread about c. It's fine that you prefer something else, but maybe time to give it a rest?
We don't have junior developers :) He doesn't like mentoring as well, just hardcore development :)
Peek charts 1.1.0 (object-oriented charts based on D3.js)
I'm in agreement. Think of large social sites like reddit or 4chan. I think it would be fair to consider them as conscious entities for the same reason. They can have conversations with themselves about themselves and can even have conversations/interactions with outside entities all driven "by their own volition".
I can't find it. I guess it doesn't exist anymore.
That could be used in-browser as it is right now.

But going to a publishing platform could also earn his efforts some money for a work well done. Open a channel to receive donations (or sells). Supporting the book through economic means might motivate the author enough to see through its completion.
I have no idea what you mean here. Again: who are you accusing of paternalism and why?
19 days is nothing compared to how long it has taken non-linux firewall and proxy vendors to patch things in the past.
My wording not theirs, and incidental to the point I was making.
This test-case regressed somewhere between 33 and 36.
Almost all of the questionably licensed and non-free codecs were removed from ffmpeg years ago. The only remaining bits left are those for AAC support via libfaac, and ffmpeg has its own reimplemented version of AAC that doesn't depend on libfaac.

You might be thinking of mplayer, which has extensive support for non-free codecs, such as the "w32codecs" bundle.
> Will somebody please explain to me why 'ezel' (donkey) is masculine, 'paard' (horse) is neuter and 'antilope' (antelope) is feminine?

Don't worry, Dutch people don't know this either. Unfortunately that means for each word you'll have to learn whether it's a "de" or a "het" word. Something that slowly happens over time as your vocabulary expands. This is one of the main reasons why Dutch has a reputation of being difficult to master.
Stripclubs!
Please don't use this as an excuse to cripple development environments. I have to run other people's bloated software, too.

Just give devs antiquated test/production rigs. That's entirely reasonable. A particularly frugal employer of mine refused to pay for a web/application server with more than 512MB of RAM. That was a fun job, actually.
outliers

This is very city and country-dependent. In Europe, car commuters aren't an overwhelming majority. The figure for the UK is 57% commuting by car.
> So why go to a big company where they definitely won't believe in you or let you forge your own opportunities?

Do you think that big companies really don't believe in their employees? Is there some "don't believe" switch that gets triggered after the head count gets above a certain level? How do you think big companies come up with new products or services, or improve existing ones?

Does this sound like a company that does not believe in its employees?

http://www.wired.com/2013/06/facebook-hhvm-saga/
The game is, how small can you make a general engineering factory?

You could do the shipping container version now, using existing prototyping tech and some well thought out robots to move parts between processes.

I suspect you can get most of them in one box though, and this will be becoming mainstream within ten years to fifteen.
I read John Carmack say that you could DOUBLE the performance of a game (or engine), if you had a KNOWN hardware configuration.
Unfortunately, your area for San Francisco is 80% water. The more relevant data of land area is more like 60 km^2 for Manhattan and 120 km^2 for San Francisco.

Edit: as a result, your comparison to Pune is significantly inaccurate. Indeed, Pune is only some 25% more dense than San Francisco, not three times as you suggest. This is easiest to check by looking at the "population density" figure on Wikipedia, but it's consistent with doing the relevant calculations yourself. (I checked.)
Everyone else (it seems) complains about how google discontinued Reader.

My biggest loss was google desktop. One of a few brilliant things it did was to pick news to me based on what I had already read (I guess it autodetected RSS feeds in pages I read and used them as input.)

Hopefully this could replace this particular feature.
There is a large difference between being treated as a professional equal, and being treated as potential meat by sex starved nerds...
That's pretty great. It's too bad most HR tools would completely screw that nice formatting, but I'd definitely bring printed copies of that into a dev role interview! That'd break the ice right away.
>As long as they don't follow the Final Fantasy route - releasing the same game on 10 different platforms

Something in the style of Steam's multiple-platforms-with-one-purchase support would be interesting, though I imagine putting together a system for it that reliably works across both Android and iOS would be unpleasant.
Looking at your comments here it seems that you're not really that interesting in keeping him.

Someone suggested 20% time, your response was to say that it was on hold for a year. Someone else suggested letting him work on something he finds interesting for a while, you say that there are a few things he'd like to do, but they're not 100% aligned with what the company wants to do.

Ultimately, you need to decide just how much this person means to you. Do you want their attention 4 days a week, with 1 day being spent on something they find interesting, or do you want them 0 days a week. Either is valid, but you're going to have to choose.
Google Maps makes huge use of government data (particularly in the US where the government makes detailed imagery available under a free license).

I'm also confused what your point is. TeMPOraL expressed an opinion but having this data available in Google Maps and Google now would be strictly better.

That isn't a forceful argument that cities must comply with the demands of Google, but you seem to be answering it as if it were.

Using your words, it's a lamentation that Google provides no service at all.
That doesn't mean you did it safely or efficiently. Most of the other people on here would be horrified that you didn't have any unit tests. In fact, if you had any sensitive user data in your database, you were doing something absolutely irresponsible.

A few months ago, I drove in NYC on a major, two-way road that had been repaved, but it didn't have white or yellow lines on it yet.

People were driving as fast as usual, and I didn't get into an accident. However, I (and the other drivers) were much less safe because we didn't have those lines.

What you're talking about is driving without the lines and without a seatbelt.

Based on your attitude, my guess is that your first 4 years of professional programming didn't end that long ago. That's fine, and you can believe you're super smart and doing everything right (like I did), but you're going to find out that unit tests are an industry standard for a reason.
As a developer, the only times I am bored with the work are when there is nothing that I feel I can contribute or there is no sense of ownership in the work. If you are just assigning your developer tasks all the time, as a developer it starts to feel like you're a computer mouse, being dragged from place to place. It's kind of debilitating because there's a lot of potential and developers have some insight on angles for creative direction that may not be taken into consideration. If there's nothing of value we can contribute, there's no heart in the work.

Give him some opportunities to pitch some ideas, contribute, or find ways to let the developer be invested in the work. If that is not possible, maybe give him some leeway to do some personal projects or side projects for the company.
The book has a Wikipedia page explaining what it is; it is an original scientific work, not a wrapper for other people's articles.
Not when it comes to actual reasoning. Humans really suck at evaluating relative probabilities of things.
Give him 100% freedom to work on whatever he wants for 3-6 months and re-evaluate.
Rakuten Inc. Accepts Bitcoin
Touchposé: renders screen touches when connected to a mirrored display
Are you concerned that your child might have a learning disability?
Let him go on good terms. If he stays with the understanding he can do various side projects on company time you are both compromising. You get half a developer and he still has to do tasks he doesn't want to do. This is a recipe for resentment.

In my experience, every time someone leaves another person blossoms and steps up. I've seen "irreplaceable" developers come and go, they were all replaced.
Problems are everywhere as in every other company. We have flat hierarchy, no middle management and almost nobody above developers. They do all technical decisions and decide how to implement features. Features are selected by Product board and developers have little influence here.
If you don't have work that needs his skills (and it sounds like that's what keeps him interested) then do you really need him?
That's not entirely true. A lot of public government data is fed into the creation of Google Maps.
One pattern I've seen often is neglecting the cost of crossing layers. You'll have some tool or service that is used and then some client code will end up looping through hundreds or thousands of uses of it. Meanwhile, the otherwise negligible setup/teardown costs that come with crossing that layer adds up, and you end up with horrendous performance because of it.
Because any other approach, even those with the best of intentions, eventually boils down to the supposition that what you've got between your legs is somehow relevant.

And you know what - on an aggregate, societal level - it might actually be: men and women are not the same, and that's OK. But this is a statistical observation that only applies to the population as a whole and is completely invalid at the individual level. If you feel yourself reaching for this knowledge at that level then evidently you don't have enough good information about the individual in front of you - that is the problem you need to fix.

If we took away all the contextual stuff we know about our founding mothers and fathers and referred to them only with asexual codenames like 'Person X', absolutely nothing would change. If one's aim is achieving equality, the only way to truly do that is to strip away all the bullshit: gender - just like hair colour, accent, and anything else you care to name - shouldn't even register. It's a non-thought.

If that's what feminism is about then I'm a feminist; but I'd never actually call myself that because 90% of the feminism I see today is most definitely not like this, it seems instead to be about making gender register in a very big way - and that's just as misguided and self-destructive as misogyny.
How does this compare to vbcc and pcc?
You've just described the mailing list that de Raadt refuses to join.
I haven't seen it. One can only assume insults like "[violent act] like a girl" is still used among male youth to horrible effect, encouraging more violence and self-hatred.
" So this practice will return soon. It seems he is not ready to wait for several more months though..."

I think that your idea of "soon" is very different from the rest of the world.

To bring the 20% rule back takes 1 minute: one email sent to everybody that says just that.
It's not even a question of there being a conspiracy, it's just a combination of incompetence and apathy. As an example of how easy your scenario is to achieve I received a letter from the courier division of the Norwegian postal service last Saturday. It asked me to complete a form and the form was this:

[ ] I agree to pay a fee (subject to change) and to pay the import tax on the package and on every other package ever.

[ ] Send my package back to the UK and I'll never receive anything ever again unless I agree to choice one the next time.

So, pay the fee and agree to the T&C or GTFO. Having already paid for the item and it keeping my car off the road I was left with no choice but to cough up the (extortion) fee.
>> I assume it is because it includes a 10-pound bag of libraries...

Yes. The biggest source of this problem is that someone calling a function doesn't know how that function actually works and what its time complexity is. Sometimes it's that a function is asymptotically slower than it needs to be, but often it's that writing a composite of the calling and called functions could result in combining an inner and outer loop.

When you use large libraries that do more complex things, your opportunity to optimize across levels goes away because you can't know all the code and where this issue will come up.
Ask HN: How much to put in a resignation letter?
I'm resigning from my job today because, despite exceeding our sales quota for last year by 25%, senior management informed our team that no one would be receiving any increase in compensation, a bonus, or a promotion. Obviously this has had a negative affect on morale.

How much of that should I include in my resignation letter?
We just don't want to have special policies for special people. All developers are equal and it will look strange to give 20% free time back for a single developer and hold this for all other developers.
I always enjoy reading Orwell's writing, mostly for the technical side. It is so fluid and clear. This was pleasing:

It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other,
but it is 'not done' to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times
it was 'not done' to mention trousers in the presence of a lady.

And as mentioned elsewhere, still applies today (i.e. the British media + the BBC's silence over Snowden, D-Notice or not).

A few curiosities from a writing point of view, sticking to his advice about avoiding the traditional elementary school grammar rules:

. 'Every-one' and 'everyone' in the same sentence. I can just about
see how that could have a literary effect, but part of me thinks
it could just be a quirk.

. Starting sentences with 'and' and 'but'. Great!

. A liberal use of commas.

. The use of a single - dash - combo instead of brackets/parentheses.

. The use of the now-American-only: Start everything after a colon
with a capital letter. Nearly everything, anyway.

. The editor's decision between s/or/of should IMO be 'of',
if the style of the sentence is to match Orwell's style, and indeed
if it is to make complete sense.

. The use of 'traduce', to slander or defame, was fun. And educational...

A quote to wrap up this rambling comment:

The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees
with the record that is being played at the moment.

I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom
of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist,
and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply
that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a
period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

Well worth a read!
Here's a bunch of shader code and examples for different tone-mapping operators. I really like the Hejl/Burgess-Dawson one as a simple Linear -> sRGRB-ish output function.

http://filmicgames.com/archives/75
Correction - the oxygen permeable surface is Teflon AF 2400 which is available commerically:
http://www.randomtechnologies.com/
The spacer (initial seperation between window and glass build plate) which determines resin thickness is 8 mil (200 um) aluminium shim stock.
The projector looks like a UV projector:
http://www.ti.com/devnet/docs/catalog/thirdpartydevtoolfolde...

That should be enough to get anybody started!

Too bad the Telfon for a 10"x10" bed, 100 um thick would be 750$ (10 grams at 72,000$/kg).
I wonder if he handed this questionnaire only to the people he had no intention of hiring anyway just as a polite way of saying "No, thanks"
How about asking them what they want to do? Ask them what motivates them? What they want to work on? Making assumptions based on what you think or what other people want is a mistake.
Uptime and performance monitoring, dead simple
I love his Operating Systems book [0] which explains OS Concepts using Minix code

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388
refusal to embrace internet multiplayer

This has its advantages; internet multiplayer is very much at risk from griefers and behaviour unsuitable for kids. And Nintendo are staying firmly pre-teen focused while leaving 'mature' gaming to the other two.
Tessel also implemented a JS runtime incorporating LuaJIT, though they since chosen V8.

https://github.com/tessel/runtime

https://tessel.io/blog/102381339917/a-new-engine-for-your-te...
Agreed. I have a more or less exact idea of what they're doing just from the concept description as I design resin-type 3D printers at my day job. I know this concept has been tried, I think they're just the first ones to have gotten it to work.

The other thing to note is that this only works with a certain subset of polymerization reactions--not all polymerizations are oxygen inhibited so if they want to move into truly water-clear and UV stable materials this design won't work.
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
I seem to recall an interview with someone on the Pokemon team who said that he didn't want to make a Pokemon MMO because he honestly thought it would ruin too many lives, although that story could just be apocraphyl.
Pixel Shaders: An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
Introducing Deep Linking by Bitly
It's not the exact correct answer. It's an approximate answer.
If WSJ does not want to have their content read by non-subscribers, these links are pointless (or spam) on HN.

Can HN do something to convert WSJ links to paywall-bypassing links? Like substitute the google search URL for the original article URL. Or just ban the domain automatically.
I am resigning my position with $EMPLOYER.

My last day will be date(today + 14) % weekend.
BillFront gives app developers and publishers faster access to their revenues
Simplistic model predicting major benefits, while none are likely.

Abolishing rent-control could never take effect immediately, but would be phased out slowly to protect current occupants. Hence, the number of apartments coming on the market would increase slowly, owners could rent this 'new' inventory out at "market rates" ($4, aka the max the market can bear right now and 'the norm') and the best we can hope for is a (temporary) drop or slowdown in rental rate increases.

With a more realistic ratio of people looking for apartments (250 for 100? 500?) there may be no slowdown or drop at all. End result: neighborhoods pulled apart as long-term residents are forced to leave, rents not affected measurably, $4 considered 'normal'.

PS I live in NYC, where local renters compete with people parking their money due to overly lax taxes on non-residents, making it worthwhile to own but not occupy. Many buildings are half empty as a result (many thousands of apartments). Rents meanwhile go through the roof.

A good way to affect housing stock in NYC would be to make non-residential ownership not longer interesting. I suspect the same is valid in SF. The suggestion below of increasing housing stock by allowing bigger buildings and improving commute times seems to be a much better long-term solution.
maybe you should just give everyone 20% time then?

you could compromise, one day every other week?
I'm only competitive with myself -- I just want to learn. I'm not happy if I'm not learning something and practicing some of my skills. But I'm also quite happy lingering on something and really exhausting its depths.

Do you know more than I do about something? There are lots of things that you (the general you, meaning anyone) know more about than me. All I want is to learn from you, and teach you some things that I know (which reinforces my own learning). That's it.

One of the reasons I left my last job was because it was very much a competitive, back-stabbing sort of environment. You could only get "better" in that environment by actively making someone else worse. How that makes sense when your goal is to produce a research product, I'll never know.

I guess what I'm saying with all of this is, I'm happy to see other people admit to the overall viewpoint that you've shared here.
Man who obtained Windows Live cert said his warnings went unanswered
HN: Didn't Java come from bored developers at Sun Microsystems?

Also, didn't Google Maps and also Google Mail, come from a bored developers 20% time?

In line with other suggestions, if you can afford it, give him free reign to do what he wants with a budget too. It may well be the best thing you ever do if he really is as good as you say he is.