skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember there's a part of tomb raider chronicles where if you don't pick up a single piece of ammo at one point you end up getting stuck and it's not recoverable.

I don't know if I particularly enjoy this
Hard to detect and annoying, but it's not serving up malware to unsuspecting viewers, or somehow funneling data from Google out.
I remember my dad writing a book in the 70's. My mom would type up each new draft. Over and over, she'd type the whole book. Getting a word processor is like getting a sewing machine in the 1800s.
Slightly off-topic, but I think these are conservative figures:

"Top college computer science graduates may get as much as $120,000 from tech leaders such as search giant Google and social networking leader Facebook, according to Kai Fortney, marketing director for Hired, a Web-based employment service for the industry. Some new hires may receive signing bonuses of as much as $25,000, he says."

Anyone else find them somewhat low?
I was sad that CrockfordFacts.com died - it didn't live very long in the first place, before the domain expired and was squatted. archive.org had no archive of the site in its living state.

Luckily, though, the @CrockfordFacts (unofficial) Twitter bot, while also long-dead (last active 2010), still has its tweets available.

So, with a little bit of JSLint-compliant, Good Parts JavaScript and node.js, I collected up the facts I could still find and remade Crockford Facts, this time a .org.

See: https://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/crockfordfacts.org
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Ask HN: What is some timeless knowledge for programmers / software developers?
I've been doing programming for almost 18 years and learned over a dozen languages and probably hundreds of APIs and libraries over the years. I no longer remember most of it mainly because most of it is replaced by something new. I am at a point where I feel resistance to learn a new framework or a library just because its new. Because i know where that new framework going to end up in a couple of years. I guess its a occupational hazard that our skills needs to be rewritten multiple times during our careers.

So i've been contemplating about learning things that last for decades. Something that does not go away out of fashion in few years. Math is definitely one of it. Once you learn Trigonometry, you are set for next few hundred years at least.

In terms of programming, what do you think is timeless knowledge and time spent learning it is a time well spent ?
The British philosopher John Wisdom comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wisdom
Just compared a bottle of Tide. $32 from Amazon compared to $15 from the store with a coupon. If other things are priced as badly, I certainly won't be bothering with it.
who is going to write performance reviews? Titles or no titles, whoever writes your review is your manager.
The thing that shocks me most in this article is the subtleness of the bug inducing this behaviour: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/182058
So screw over anyone in a lower position than director.
Next up, no more hourly employees so they can work then without overtime pay. (oh wait that is now standard)
Yep! Somebody explained quite clearly the bug over at reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/3104m3/ios_8_insidio...

I quote:

> There is not length property inserted on the object, the jQuery folks had already confirmed that. It is a branch on the form of object that was failing due to a bug in the linkage of a jump. That made that bug very bizarre: you can access a length value by identifier, but now get a length property on the same object.
Deflationary economies are far more rare, and relatively difficult to achieve. Deflation isn't achieved by a lack of confidence in a market, and that's the key distinction and why you'll never find a "deflationary spiral" that leads to the collapse of a country. All you'll find is stunted growth and unemployment.
PODDLE vuln dogs Australian consumer modems
Completely off-topic: Is that firefox? If so, what theme is that?
I think this kind of system usually gives that to a committee. Which is either elected, or drawn from who you work with the most.

Or you write it yourself, and then it goes to the committee for grading.
Look at yesterday's top topic here, the new Facebook office "largest open floor plan office, ever". This sort of disrespect, this sort of complete dehumanization of the worker, it's the new normal. "Our employees are our greatest asset" is just something to print in the employee manual.
3d printed ice cubes used in campaign for Japanese whiskey brand
I had the same reaction. But I think it makes sense. It's basically a distribution center with some good customer service, so there is little use to people adding more value and climbing ladders. Meaning they only need what are essentially entry-level employees. Jobs which in yesteryear would have employed students... But now employ the undereducated instead.

At least they doing it in a nice way. Sure it hides what they are really doing by making out to be something different and fancy, but they are giving the atheists a way out, instead of going for their head (count)s.
Long story short, names are not consistent across socioeconomic groups. That likely plays a larger role than the actual name.
http://www.meteor-tutorial.org/ - highly recommended by me because I wrote it.
GoDaddy is 18 years old, unprofitable, has a mountain of debt, going for IPO
hey rquantz, can you please contact me at weinanas@gmail.com. I have an urgent matter to talk to you about
Those numbers are with hardware decoding, aren't they. I'd be more intrested in something compute-intensive that was compiled to asm.js. I bet they'll last much less.

That said, these are machines with mobile processors and an OS that is tailored for mobiles. It isn't all that suprising that they are more capable than their normal counterparts.
The challenge gets harder! I like it :) This race seems to be all about finding your own limits. Too often challenges have little success in failure.
I have a hard time understanding how meteor is comparable to angular or ember given that it appears to be full stack in every way, whereas angular or ember I can add to my existing stack.

Meteor has always seemed interesting but the fact that it is hosted makes it a non starter. There's too many scaling questions that a marketing site will never put me at ease, I'll need to see some solid case studies and ideally a company sponsor of some sort dogfooding it.

Maybe for an MVP? And even then, I have a hard time justifying it over mocking my data and using something like angular to speed up front end. Maybe I'd use it in very narrow use cases.
Appcelerator announces free Indie seat for community members
Neat. Also, it looks like it defaults to saying a number is mobile if you give it something like NNN5551234.
The real question for me is: Has Tony Hsieh completely lost his fucking mind, is this the future and we just don't know it yet, or is this all part of some elaborate plan to fire everybody or stage some sort of internal company cleansing?

Seriously - somebody please tell me.

I don't get it.
Brilliant idea! I can't tell you how many times I've gone to do some chore around the house and didn't have paper or a smart phone with me to make a note. I only hope they don't patent it such that a generic version of this can't be done. Like, using a few cleverly placed Rasberry PI's that wirelessly update a TODO list on my computer.
China emerges as winner over U.S. in creation of Asian infrastructure bank
Even with formal committees there is always somebody who is really in control. I grew up in the USSR, the country which was supposedly built on the idea of committees :)
Doesn't the new Chromebook Pixel have to USB Type C ports? So precedent exists.
Microsoft Spartan Web Browser Download for Windows 10
Thanks for that link. I might not agree with all views presented, but the question about re-licensing as framed there was new to me. I'm very much pro GPL/FSF -- but when leveraging copyright to achive copyleft, it is important to understand the inner workings of copyright, and as this thread highlights the nitty-gritty of "derived work" and the difference between a liberal license to (re)distribute, versus the right to assert copyright, and thereby re-license.
>But it's still the law, and companies that operate in the US have to comply with it.

It's interesting that you guys figured out how to circumvent the US tax law, by hiding money in tax havens. I guess dodging the NSA warrants is not a priority.
It's like Ninja Warrior (the Japanese version).
What I meant by that was getting to launch your game. The fun part is when you see the Quake 3 launch window.
> In fact, Chrome OS isn't too far from their Java Internet Terminal idea.

That's what I was getting at. That was 19 years ago.

> Not sure why you think they're decades behind.

I was thinking in person-hours. I don't mean to belittle them. But I feel like these are mostly "JustAnotherTextMate".
When you say high paying, keep in mind the jobs you are describing are $250-1000k jobs where everything (work, risk, and blame) is delegated down to the grunt level anyway and attendance is probably 50% at best.
I fully understand that you are committed to the ideal of justice. My point is that reframing an issue of justice into an issue of mental health for the practical purposes of addressing the concrete impact of injustice nonetheless undermines the larger vision in the long term.

The original article is about the "new meaning of trauma", which contests the claim that trauma as the result of microaggressions is a serious and significant issue. You call the author an asshole and argue on the contrary that microaggressions are traumatic, so its clear that you believe its quite important that we view victims of injustice as sufferers of mental health problems. Or why call someone an asshole who says otherwise?

I call this framing injustice as ultimately a mental health issue, and I disagree with it. I believe the focus should be on the question of justice.

Apparently you do approve of treating it as a mental health issue. Probably because you believe it will motivate the removal of traumatizing triggers (i.e. racist and sexist words and actions). In other words, trauma is a convenient pretext for fighting bigotry. Trauma victims are a cause that everyone can get behind. It's more politically palatable.

I have several objections to this strategy. First, it's a betrayal. We shouldn't hide the cause of justice behind a politically acceptable pretext. Second, mental health treatments advocate controlled exposure to triggers, not their removal. Third, true psychological trauma occurs due to events of exceptional violence. If you believe that injustice is pervasive in society rather than exceptional, it wouldn't produce trauma by definition. The model you present, of many tiny papercuts adding up to trauma, runs counter to psychological models of the human brain. Many small mental stresses adds up to habituation—that's the theory behind exposure therapy. The concept of microaggressions in fact suggests that victims are less likely to be traumatized by racism and to view it as normal. That victims of microaggressions are nonetheless upset by them implies that they are not traumatized, but angry, and rightfully so.
Since not many sports news make it to HN's front page, I am wondering why this one did. Am I missing some context or is running just popular among the HN crowd?
I doubt the battery life is any longer than the ARM based competition. "Better" depends on what value you put on which feature. For me, I wouldn't use a Chromebook because Emacs needs Alt and Super keys.
> the fact that it is hosted makes it a non starter.

What do you mean?
right. the end game is before the end of the games. we're on the same page on that.

disconnect on our understandings is that I didn't define the game ending criteria for each example. in chess, it's either a checkmate or a draw that ends the game.

for my examples, my criteria are death for the career, the relationship ending, and the software product reaching the end if it's supported life.
Australia hasn't had deflation because for the last 20 years we've basically hitched our wagon to China in the form of mining exports. During that time (and particularly the last 5-8 years) the rest of our heavy and manufacturing industry has stagnated or died (our last locally made car manufactures are finishing up production in the next few years). Now that China's boom is slowing, and we have basically no other heavy industry left to fill the gap, deflation is a real possibility.
Also, filtering companies appear to be flagging it (maybe based on keyword matches?)

At $employer -

>Content Blocked (content_filter_denied)

>Content Category: "Suspicious"
Eh, I don't see any problem with either open-floor-plan offices or with a lack of managers. And I assure you, I'm quite human. The main reason I wouldn't want to work for Zappos is because I don't give a damn about shoes.

These sorts of moves are usually filtering functions on the types of employees you employ. They'll encourage everyone who doesn't fit the company culture to quit - which, ultimately, makes the company stronger. The beauty of our market economy is that you don't have to work in a company whose culture you find offensive, you can find one whose culture is more to your liking.
I couldn't resist - if you look in the comments to that video, you'll see me listing eight rhetorical devices against Eminem's quoted word "Yo", using the same qualifying standards that the bloke in the video uses (re-using several of the vlogger's own selections).

The video makes a big song and dance about there being so many rhetorical devices, but there's so much padding in that list. The vlogger than quotes a verse from Eminem's Lose Yourself, and states that it only has one rhetorical device - assonance. But you simply can't get assonance without "word choice" and "word arrangement", which the vlogger previously gave as props to his koran verse. It's a pretty cut-and-dried case of stacking the deck.

Anyway, if you're interested, check out the comments to the video to see how I found (at least) eight rhetorical devices in the two-letter word "Yo" that starts the verse. Density of rhetorical devices is the key point of the video; according to the vlogger, such high density either indicates the divinity of the author, or disproves the koran as the word of god.

Despite the lack of logic in the vlogger's arguments, he does have fantastic oration and sounds beautifully melodic as he speaks. I enjoyed the video just for the sound of his talking.
As usual, Maciej was killing it:

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/582619098921603072
"Anyone claiming there is structure, management, hierarchy, concentration of power or obstacles to freedom at Zappos will be summarily fired"

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/582628592179232769
"We’ll know that Holacracy truly works when even the lowliest janitor at Zappos can threaten to fire everyone for not reading a certain book"
Metafilter linked to this Re/code article about the holacracy yesterday:

http://recode.net/2014/10/03/holacracy-or-hella-crazy-the-fr...

A couple friends and I were talking about whether this is a cult. I said it was missing a religion, because it had optimized out the unnecessary parts of a cult. Another said it was the religion of messianic capitalism.
There can be hierarchy without managers I.e. People whose primary job is managing other people.
I've even come to the conclusion that I don't really like dead-tree books any more. I mean, I like them, as a luxury (and I buy used books) -- but since I'll have a reading device/laptop anyway -- any dead tree books are just a waste of resources (trees, print, packaging, transport, storage, transport...).

Now, books have been optimized really, really well -- and actually take up remarkably few resources to make -- but as long as I'll have a device on which to read e-books anyway -- all those resources are wasted.

Just give me a DRM-free epub version, and I'm much more likely to buy your book.
Nice to see that, still can't afford my food tomorrow.
I'm skeptical that your use of "market forces" is distinguishable from "magic" here.
This is poor analysis. Princeton, Cornell, and Penn have had strong engineering programs for many decades now, and Brown has had a very strong competence in Applied Math.

Your broad brush strokes regarding "Ivies" and lawyers are just mugging for stereotypes.
so what happens when there is a successful business, often times people running that business think that just because they've had some good ideas and successes, all their ideas must be good and profound :) I don't get it either, but maybe I am wrong
It is a uniquely difficult and quirky marathon. One of the qualifications is bringing the organizer a pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes, etc.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/sports/the-barkley-maratho...
To further point #2. I think of it like an anthill. The antill might not have any growth if we look at it as a the rate of growth per year, (like we do GDP), but it will still grow in size. Same applies for the GDP of society.
Exactly. Hans Rosling and, well, all the data, make it look particularly dire for the neo-malthusians:

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth...

We don't have to say disproven* I guess, but maybe overshadowed? ie, I want a theory that explains not only population collapse, but also natural decreases in population growth (or sharp decreases not motivated by war or famine) that we're currently witnessing throughout the developed world.

Malthus simply can't explain it and Rosling can. I'm going with the theory with more explanatory power, because that's how empiricism generally works.

* Unless you're talking about the predictions Ehrlich made about things that didn't ultimately happen. Yeah, maybe "disproven" works.
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Debugging memory leaks in Ruby
just kill the whole thing. it's matt answer and jacquesm being trollish assholes. it has no value, not even at the bottom of the page.
The first part isn't super reliable. Historically, CAs have just let you put whatever you want there and only enforced the common name. They're supposed to be cleaning up their act (at least for recently-issued certs), but I'd still only trust it for EV certs.

The rest is all valid. (Unless you assume that the hack also hacked DNS, which is plausible but unlikely.)
> Most APIs seems to respond within 20 to 200ms.

Many of our internal services respond in < 5ms while handling thousands of requests per second. 1ms of routing a big deal.
Holy crap. Zappos sounds like the unholy spawn of a pyramid scheme and a cult.
> The best part about this presentation, aside from the scrollable slides, is that it didn't break the back button. :-)

You and I have very different definitions of breaking the back button.

I expect hitting it to take me back to the last thing I was looking at, in this case the previous slide.
> makes the company stronger

maybe. or just an echo chamber of like minded drones?
It's hard for me to think of anything more symbolic than this which can also pass as believable (action).

Perhaps gov Brown saying he'll skip a shower or two would be more symbolic but also transparent.
It's the natural result of all the hippies growing up and finally reaching "management consultant" age over the last 10 years or so. ;)

There's always been a handful of smallish companies where everyone is skilled enough and get along well enough to not bother with traditional management. And because everyone is highly skilled and play nicely together, they tend to do very well. And since they do so very well, the obvious difference (lack of standard management roles) is obviously responsible and becomes a topic for fad business books and expensive seminars.
I am a wild and crazy guy, I will take the chance that bloviating windbags are full of it.
Meh, the Iditarod is easy. They should do the Antarctica dog sled race to the south pole. Amundsen did that one at the beginning on the 20th century with ease.

I once was in Argentina and met some people who were going to climb Vincent Mastiff in Antarctica. The tallest peak in Antarctica. It cost them something like $25,000 a person to fly their group in. Basically you have to get someone willing to fly a perfectly good long range airplane and land it on a glacier in the middle of nowhere with no hope of rescue if you screw up.. and then you have to have it take back off and get you back to south america. Now that's adventure.
The entrepreneur as a hacker
It also strongly implies that everyday human water usage is a significant portion of water usage, which it isn't. For people who aren't educated about the California water situation, it's likely "raising awareness" of falsities.
How to Guarantee Long Term Survival in the Markets?
Yeah. Some of my friends have been given signing bonuses 4x that amount, and salaries > $150k.
I've been wanting to get into nodejs but haven't touched javascript in years and have been put off by the hassle of having to go through it again tbh.
Could you expand on that thought a little? I'm not clear how Facebook's open floor plan is dehumanizing.
I was going to say, this sounds a lot like "soviets". >.>
> but it can't be anything else.

It can be a deliberate effort by politicians to make it appear as if they are concerned about and actively combating the water shortage, when in fact they are not.
A company is not a nation of people separate from the people that comprise it, it can't have a culture unto itself. What people call "company culture" is just code-word for lazy management at best, discrimination at worst.
My company does this "no bosses/titles" bullshit too. We have, of course a CEO, there is a CTO and a VP and a director of engineering and then me. When I ask for a promotion to Principal Engineer from my current Senior Software Engineer role(that was on my offer letter) they say "we don't have titles"!

It's all bullshit and there is always a hierarchy. My company did it really badly by letting my bosses put titles in their LinkedIn profiles, Zappos may do better in that regard but there would always be someone who overseas you. As other comments mentioned the irony is "the CEO" said all of this!
I just love this:

"A new circle called Reinventing Yourself has been created to help guide former managers to new roles that might be a good match for their passions, skills, and experience. Hollie is the lead link of that new circle"

So, Hollie is a manager of managing former managers' efforts to no longer be managers ?
The Bookya Story
use assertions before you use debuggers.
But if you get enough public attention it can snowball into actually changing what matters.

You tell everyone to think about the almond trees and it's so far disconnected that they tend to forget about it. If it's the third restaurant visit this month they had to ask for water, then they're going to be more accepting of policy to save water with the farmers (i.e. do their part).
> . So basically what I gather is Zappos is trying to find a way to drive down the salary of all employees by removing their titles.

Sounds like you've worked in a "flat" organization ;-)
Yep - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simplewhite/
Should it really be considered a "race" if less than 1% of people finish?
Meteor Kitchen is awesome! After creating many Meteor apps from scratch I have made a template that I commonly use but Meteor Kitchen is even better.