skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not Chrome, it's Firefox. Looks the same on my machine as well, all jaggedy. I'm using FF 36. Let me go update and see if there's a difference...

No difference on 37. They just look terrible. http://i.imgur.com/exrS0u9.png

EDIT: Wow, looks like turning ClearType OFF makes the font icons look much better: http://i.imgur.com/dwwagZN.png

Interesting.
I'm not counting FourSquare out yet, just because of the strength of the data they have. Of course, that makes them a very tempting acquisition target, and I expect it'll happen sooner or later.
I got into WoW for a couple months just before the launch of the newest expansion, though I fell out of it in favor of a few other games before the expansion came out. Even if you're not into the endgame grind of the modern MMO (turns out, I really wasn't, as much as I tried to be), there's just a ton of fantastic content to explore as you level up a character. It's definitely worth picking up on sale and just maxing out a character to explore the world. I plan on getting the new expansion and leveling through Draenor next time I've got a lull in my games backlog.

There's also some great articles about unfinished content in WoW, like this one about a half-implemented zone with lots of lore around it, giving it a particular mystique: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/05/wow-archivist-the-karazha...
When do we stop keeping up with popular music? Well, I guess it depends to a great deal on the day of your birth - seriously! The pop industry is like every other industry in that its products (songs) are defined by the last game changing technology. Whenever a new paradigm shift occurs, two things are given:

1.) incumbents who rely on old technology are not all too creative (and this for already quite a while). As with other mature products it is not so much about creativity/expressing yourself but optimizing processes. At this stage (and many people don't agree with me here) a MBA could become a pop music producer as everything is set in stone by now. Things just need to get done causing minimal costs. At this point "pop music sucks"

2.) New artists enter the scene. It is again about making the perfect product. Every few weeks you hear something really exciting. At this point it does not matter whether or not you master the new technology. What matters is that you are truly expressing yourself and this (thanks to technology) in an exciting, new way. For example, the Beatles weren't great at using the stereo field but they started to use the "modern studio" as an instrument. A few decades later, another major change in technology occurred: Producing records in your own bedroom became affordable. And so Rave music was born. By now, electronic dance music (at least the currently popular form) has matured. As a result we have (imo) to listen to shit again.
I wouldn't want someone to get the impression I completely write off interviews as a way to assess the potential in someone. It's been around forever, and I don't see it going away anytime soon.

Also I don't think my comment implies that outgoing / social people are bad at what they do.

I wouldn't think too hard about the correlation I'm trying to make. Really my point is that the skillset you need in order to "pass" an interview is far different skillset in many cases than what the actual job requires.

Same with politics. The irony is the skillset necessary to "win" an election is far from what is necessary to do a good job once you're elected.

EDIT: Also, I would clarify that the context of the original thread is about hiring a software engineer at Google. The interview(s) necessary for hiring for that position I imagine could not possibly be conducted in the proposed "2 minutes at the beginning of the interview" I was originally replying to.

I have no doubt that there are plenty of positions that an interview can be conducted in 2 minutes, but software engineer at Google I doubt is one of them.
Pretty much everything about Google is either hilarious or sad, depending on one's point of view.
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Liberland – A Git versioned country
That office makes me shudder. I feel like I live in a palace in my cube.
Only if the company consists of people who aren't developers. For a while google didn't even allow windows on site, and if you look at stackoverflow statistics you'll see that Linux has as much usage as OS X amongst programmers.
> Haskell types are ... hard. Imagine a Ruby or JS programmer trying to use Haskell and getting frustrated when they have to, you know, actually care what they're doing.

IME -- and I used Ruby and JS a long time before starting Haskell -- you have to care about types in Ruby and JS, too, and, if anything, its more mental load in the dynamic languages, because you don't have a compiler pointing out your mistakes for you, you just have to reason through things manually when your code doesn't work as expected -- or think things through very carefully on your own so it doesn't break unexpectedly.

Though some of the error messages produced by Haskell compilers -- well, GHC in particular, don't know as much about others -- can be downright cryptic, but usually they'll at least point in you in the right direction.
"You landlubbers are tougher than I thought. I'll have to improvise!"

Mr Smite - Deadmines
> a few people have publicly challenged some important patents with the intent of making a quick buck by shorting the patent owner’s stock

This is exactly the type of thing we should encourage. It gives companies a strong incentive to avoid filing frivolous patents.
BU's Emerging Startup Scene
Same. Had a quick look at the doc, the reference and the about. No where is "evidence-based programming language" explained.

I tried the online console: "Error: Could not connect to server". Great.
the data isn't periodic. its just a stupid display choice that actually makes it harder to see the slope of the graph
QtSharp – Using Qt as a GUI for C#
I played WoW a lot when I was in University. I find it really incredible how much nostalgia I'm feeling looking at these screenshots. I reactivate my account once a year or so just to fly around for a couple hours.

I'm glad I can still do this, but it concerns me that this generation of online-only games won't be relivable decades later like the games of my earlier childhood will always be.
Ask HN: Markdown-like structured document format
I'm writing some legal documents, which I want to post in GitHub so that people can track history and so on. The issue I'm having with Markdown is that it doesn't support numbered lists with letters, which are typical for legal documents. Also, it doesn't support references to other pieces of the document. If I insert an article, I need to change all other article numbers and references manually. I looked into Legal Markdown [0], which is an extension, and it addresses some of the issues but leaves others unaddressed. Any suggestions?

[0] https://lmd.io/
Less is more (2013)
Well there's this case, which got a lot of HN coverage:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/16/silicon_valley_415m_...
As if synchronizing files is useful only for the desktop.
Low Overhead Task Execution in Java
I'm still trying to figure out what an "evidence-oriented programming language" is...
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Here's the explanation of the "evidence-oriented" wording for people who also had a hard time finding it: http://www.quorumlanguage.com/evidence.php
The site is back up. We had attempted a hotfix that did not deploy correctly to the front end. In terms of comparisons, while we do not like to mention competitors in a negative light, we can say that our data is returned in milliseconds. Additionally, our coverage is extremely accurate and built from authoritative sources. We also provide a more robust set of data-points that are not offered by those services.
If you're translating into text that's meant to be readable, it seems like you need to add a few items to your dataset that give additional information on natural language.

For example, I added some information in the example below about which pronoun to use based on gender. Would be really neat to have this sort of information built into the tool.

Input:

{name: "James", age:"30", hobby: "running", genderWord: "his"}

{name: "Erin", age:"28, hobby: "cooking", genderWord: "her"}

{name: "Owen", age:"3", hobby: "playing chase", genderWord: "his"}

{name: "Luke", age:"1", hobby: "reading", genderWord: "his"}

Example:
James is 30 years old and his favorite hobby is running

Output:

James is 30 years old and his favorite hobby is running

Erin is 28 years old and her favorite hobby is cooking

Owen is 3 years old and his favorite hobby is playing chase

Luke is 1 years old and his favorite hobby is reading
A product.
Over 40, still enjoying new albums, artists, and genres. I hear about this a lot, but it didn't happen for me. I blame being a band student, as well as my general love of getting into new things.
Tyria is not as robust as Azeroth.

What does that mean?
Holmes and Watson – How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Law
If you want to make a change to the syntax, it needs to be backed by empirical evidence.
But it also seems hypocritical. Because they aren't being attacked, are the other methods okay? In terms of raw brutality, drones are hardly the worst thing on that list.

Points about cost-per-life taken also ring hollow, the U.S. military budget is virtually unlimited, it's not cost sensitive in that kind of way.

Drones offer marginally more safety for operators, but no theater the U.S. is engaged in or is likely to be engaged in is likely to offer resistance to any of the other methods. And other methods also offer similar safety margins for operators. Ship-to-ground missiles for example, offer virtually the same risk as drones.

I'm not saying fighting drones is a pointless argument to make. Each of the methods is open to criticism, but by only attacking one, it reeks of a kind of protest fadism - of losing the plot. Is the problem killing people, or is the problem killing people with drones?

Here's an alternative scenario for why drones are actually popular with hawks, and it's not safety or direct cost: they offer vastly longer loiter time and better real-time surveillance over an area compared to any other method or group of methods, which means they provide greater targeting and attack opportunity on the off-chance a difficult to find target presents itself.

To go with your analogy, by not attacking the entrenchments, it signals to the hawks that it's okay to keep sending raiding parties, because they'll eventually end up fortified.

I appreciate this discussion by the way.
I deliberately don't look at the ads. If one manages to slip itself into my view, I take it as a personal offense. Meaning that if your precious ad manages to "build an awareness", it's the awareness you don't actually want as it's attached to a negative emotion.

So tell me again what's the purpose of forcing an ad down my throat, an action that is guaranteed to piss me off?
Many comments here use the phrase "best practices" as a means to shut down opposing opinions or practices. That feels very wrong to me.

I am often heard saying (in classes, public presentations, etc.), "I don't like the phrase 'best practice'. It implies that someone knows your requirements better than you. So I don't use it. What's 'best' for me might suck for you. So I say: the best practice is, in many cases, simply to have a practice that you and your team adhere to. One which meets your requirements, now and foreseen."

Class-itis, div-itis, selector-nesting-itis... They all have a place in the Real World.
I have been a kid of the 80s Punk and New Wave era. I never liked Pop Music. I listen to new Indie music all the time, but Pop Music drives me nuts as much as it did when I was a teenager.
I hate the fact that it pollutes my Dropbox history though.
Why haven't there been any diesel-electric hybrids yet? It seems like the perfect application for a small, 2-4 cylinder efficient diesel driving a light and compact neodymium generator. Trains and ships and submarines have been using diesel-electric hybrid power for over 100 years now [1] , so it blows my mind that this technology is still considered novel / new / and isn't totally refined yet.

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#First_funct...
On a related note, WoW has plenty of private shards where you can relive old WoW content. Everquest has one too, Project1999, dedicated to the first two expansions only.
OTHER PLACES: A series celebrating beautiful video game worlds
That's something we made on purpose. We believe feature requests and issues should be treated differently.

In our vision, an issue refers to a bug in the software. It doesn't need voting: it's up to the developers to figure out the gravity of the situation (or to an analytics tool that gather how many times a given issue arises).

On the other hand, a feature request refers to a new capability of said software. It then makes sense for users to vote, because, as a developer, it's hard to know which feature is the most expected.
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I took a class on child abuse while at college. To say it had graphic recountings of abuse would be an understatement. It was one of the most extreme experiences I had during my time there.

On the first day, the professor told the class that we would be getting into some pretty extreme material, and if at any point someone needed to leave class or even skip it, to just let him know and schedule some one on one time with the professor. That seems to have worked as a good solution. Far better than banning that class or censoring material.
My WoW experience started with Vanilla. Long hours were spent but I had so much fun. Looking back, I had so much free time and no concept of getting older. MC raids were a blast and getting ganked in STV was a daily occurrence.

Today, I'm nearing my thirties and can't seem to get into the game for more than an hour at a time. I'm a very happy homeowner, married and kids are in the plans in the next few years. I have other interests now that take up my time and grinding for drops for hours on end isn't in the cards anymore.

I logged in recently and found it so different. Cataclysm was my last true experience with WoW. I played MoP, but only for a few weeks. The magic was lost for me with flying mounts and easier grinds. It's heartbreaking to a degree because I loved this game and really want to get back to it. I suppose those years are long gone, but it's fun to think about.
Some types of work would definitely survive in a copyright free universe. But many wouldn't. You wouldn't have full time authors. Musicians would mercilessly rip off each others songs.

Forget about tv, high budget video games, movies, etc. That stuff takes serious investment to make.
Apparently there is a class-specific (monk) 50% EXP boost¹ too. Also you can pay $60 for a character boost² to lvl 90.

I wind up playing for a few months each time a new expansion is released, sometimes jumping in for a month if something interesting happens. (For example, WoW will be aping Guild Wars auto-scaling in the next patch, experimenting with 'Timewalking' weekends.)

¹ http://www.wowhead.com/spell=130283/enlightenment#comments

² https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/world-of-warcraft-serv...
For one the iCloud leaks had not one thing to do with cloud computing. Nor did the dropbox one you linked. Those were application level problems, and could well have occurred with on premises based storage (obviously with a public interface for an icloud issue).

Sure. But the difference is that if you manager your own storage, you know what backups are made, etc. Dropbox claims that backups are made, but these users lost data regardless.
That WoW > Guild Wars
That was the intended meaning :-) Do you guys have any suggestion on how to remove the ambiguity?
Good to Great is a flawed book
Oh, I think I see your point better now, and I agree with that. But I was focusing on the horrifying deformities as something that can legitimately be a problem in a workplace, not incidental nudity.
That said, I think Rust probably will need to improve on two fronts:

1) Better binding to C++ API

2) Compiling via MSVC on Windows. Windows is a bit of a red headed step child for lots of projects and Rust won't have that luxury
Names of settings, GW and Warcraft respectively.
Try soundcloud.
Shellcheck is excellent, especially since syntastic will use it without any configuration.
It looks like Java 1.1 UI from 1996.

But thanks for the suggestion, it might be useful.
They would know because they would have registered their project on FeatHub :-)
A great series exploring game worlds and other virtual spaces is Andy Kelly's OTHER PLACES: http://www.otherplaces.co.uk/

His videos are both tranquil and surreal.
Looks interesting but sadly I couldn't find even one example of how evidence influenced the design.
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Can anyone post a link to a RubyGem written with a Rust extension??
It seems they're trying to design a programming language based on usability studies in academic literature?

These feels like a terrible idea. Language designer now equals literature reviewer. But who knows, maybe they'll come up with something good?

Some sample code:

text dna = "GATTACA"
text msg = "Welcome to " + dna
output msg

Unfortunately the interpreter at [0] isn't working ("Error: Could not connect to server:")

[0] http://www.quorumlanguage.com/documents/hourofcode/part1.php

EDIT: fix code formatting
For those unfamiliar with the interview process at Google, you meet with several people over the course of a day.

What's more likely is that you had some positive scores and feedback from several interviewers initially. Then, the remaining feedback from the other interviewers came in a little later and was below the mark. Interviewers have focus areas typically, so it's not uncommon to see candidates do very well in one area (e.g. culture fit) and poorly in another (e.g. technical ability).

The recruiter shouldn't have lead you on like that. They should know that until all the scores and feedback is in, nothing is final. That said, it is their job to keep candidates engaged. So, perhaps this one was a little over zealous?
Like programming, but far worse.
More like

WoW's world > Guild Wars' world. In terms of gameplay, I definitely prefer GW. In terms of story, world, characters, Wow blows it out of the water. I just struggle to care about anything that's going on in Tyria
One thing to consider is that with so few moving parts, the engine could be made of ceramic and use the fuel and exhaust gases for lubrication directly. I saw a documentary about it in the 90s and remember a guy holding a ceramic piston and discussing it but never heard anything else about it.

I believe the carbon residue acted like graphite. The hardness of the components was so much higher than metal that it was like comparing the lifetime of ceramic bearings like silicon nitride (Si3N4) to metal bearings.
A bit sad/cheeky story from me, but still relevant I believe. The time was around TBC, I think right in the middle of its launch, I managed to hack an account back then of some characters, and thought I'd log-in to have a good time. It was my first experience of the game, granted I never did destroy any characters or items, since it was my first time playing the game, but I did spend a reasonable amount of time in-game -- killing mobs, checking out gear of other people, seeing the chat activity, even the character activity in the World (haha, wow, such a rush of feelings), only a few months later when I got my own account to play with, did I realize what this game is and how magnificent it is -- I'm so, so lucky to have had the pleasure of playing during the original TBC when the game was booming with players and such pleasurable soul, one of the best times of playing any video game in my life, hands down.

You can't replicate those experiences, because for the most part -- it was the people who were passionate about the game, that made it what it was.

I'm sure we all have some stories like this, but I did fucking love this game with my whole heart. From a creative Mage to a passionate Druid.
You don't want to say anything negative about your competition?

Why did you start a new service to compete then?
Apparently they're basing this design on experimental feedback from programmers or something.

I'm skeptical of this going anywhere, but it's an interesting academic exercise.
The fun part is that there is a positive correlation between having bugs and having your code run on a judge.
I have a feeling some vector image conversion software was involved in the process, especially after seeing that Skype logo. He didn't draw these manually.
That's a decision we made on purpose.

We figured out our early adopters would be on GitHub, that's why we started with GitHub login. Fell free to add a feature request on http://feathub.com/feathub/feathub :-)

Also, while we're at it, we could even consider anonymous voting (http://feathub.com/feathub/feathub/+15)

This raises the question of the gameability of the voting, but this could be mitigated using a mixture of cookies, captchas and browser fingerprinting.
Password managers are flawed by design. A master password grants access to all other passwords and creates a single point of failure. I also advise using separate email addresses to avoid having an additional single point of failure.

Have one email primarily for social interaction and create new emails when creating new accounts on new websites with new passwords.

I'll stick with using my own head. Even if that means I'm sending a password recovery request at least once a month from forgetting my passwords and then playing "Guess the Email that was just sent to" for the next 15 minutes.

Chances are if I forget my login, the site wasn't very important to me anyway and it's one less place I'll visit.
> There are just so many moving parts

I found this amusing in the context of SSDs versus spinning rust. :-D
Having played both WoW and Guild Wars 1 (not 2), I think Guild Wars 1 had the best solution of them all -- virtually all the content in the game is "max level" endgame content. They don't use the mechanic of more and better gear as a reward, so content doesn't get obsoleted by that.
Small note: Dropbox has android/iOS/web as well and Drive has web/iOS.

As for the market, that includes a lot of their own employees does it not?

Edit: Not to say that there is a big market or that this would dictate what their priorities are, just saying I'm sure even some googlers would like drive to work well on Linux.
https://github.com/steveklabnik/rust_example is one way to do it, albiet the most complex one: a thin C wrapper over the Rust, which is then a C extension for Ruby. Easier ones are using FFI or Fiddle.
You need to be well-versed, experienced, able to work long hours, leap a tall building in a single bound.
Building something that people can contribute to, not a tossed salad.
Cool tech does not equal good code.
Understand deployment, builds, branches, design, process, security.
Be a one man show if needed, but be a real tech leader or else you will end up being the problem.
There is more I am sure, but that will take you a long way I believe.
Pharmaceuticals are the classic example of why patents are necessary. Billions of R&D to develop a product that can be produced by a competitor for pennies.

But things like complex circuits would see drastic reduction in R&D if competitors could just make a copy.

You'd save money on litigation, but it's not that much considering the size of the industries at play.

And you'd probably see worse products after the short term.
Personally I find the new stuff coming from people's bedroom the best in what electronic I've seen. Reading you I have a hard time understanding if this is what you're referring as shit music, a few examples:

Madeon, Teemid, overwerk, sound remedy