skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or how about changes to the desktop site, where now clicking an image in a tweet actually makes it smaller most of the time. Gotta be one of the worst designs I've ever seen.
ESP8266 is amazing, but I think it's problem is that it doesn't have CE certification, which will make it harder to sell devices with it on-board.
That's not always the case, though. I have a friend who works in public accounting who actually does work 80-hour weeks during busy season (i.e. just before taxes are due) and spends pretty much that whole time in the office from what I understand.
When has Apple ever released a bad product in the first generation? In the 21st century, at least?

I waited for second generation for the iPhone and iPad, both far more radical steps than this little Macbook, but the first gen products were spectacular.

(edit: My most disappointing Apple product in the past 15 years has been my iPhone 6. Jobs wouldn't let them make it wider due to handling issues. Without his restraint, they made it wider. Now I have to have a case and drop the darn thing all the time. Never had that problem with other iPhones.)
Very good points made there, especially on the support costs that I'd not considered. Free users are expensive :)

Thanks for the response
run in 'Lite mode' if you are browsing on a potato.
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For such a simple effect, it works really well. Did you write your own easing functions, or did you use one of the libraries like Tween.js?
If you look in the archive you'll see that many of the questions are answered with "yes". Perhaps a qualified yes, but still a yes.

"Is animal testing still common?" - "So yes, animal testing is, unlike the animals themselves, alive and well."

"Is there a case for legalizing prostitution?" - "We need to protect the women involved to the extent we can and not just drive them underground. If that means decriminalization plus inspections, licensing, and other bureaucratic accoutrements, spare me the moralizing — that's what we should do."

"Has anyone gotten hurt or killed following bad GPS directions?" - "A Senegalese man driving through Spain wasn’t so lucky. He was following GPS directions at night when the road just ended, his passenger said later. He drove into a lake and drowned."

While I think more are answered with "no", it's not rare enough to be a shocking surprise.
I am very happy with my 11" MBA. Except I could use a larger screen and a higher screen resolution.
I wonder if the 12" is noticeable slower than the (1.7GHz i7) 11" MBA.
>f you want to be at the table, you need to be in the cool kids club

While this is true, the fact of the matter, is people like to do business with people they trust and they tend to trust people like them.

I don't think it is as nefarious as you make it sound, but it is a problem because it implies it isn't based on merit, and while there are circumstances that it isn't, a lot of it is. They are where they are based on skills and experiences, but the barriers to entry are high because Fortune 50 companies aren't just handing these jobs out to people they can't trust.
What you won't find is a chip with 444 bytes of memory. That would be a killer (not in a positive sense).
The only problem is that quick prototypes and temporary solutions have a habit of becoming permanent, especially if you are understaffed.
The entire market is subject to the reactions of tweets.[1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/market-quaver...
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Just fyi, you have a typo on your "What can I bring to your team?" page. You misspelled "radically" as "radicaly".

Otherwise it looks great -- good going! Very impressive for a high-school student.
The open data is coming from the cities that are open sourcing it. For now it's very limited I found. UK on the flip side was pretty impressive, the government is providing a feed for the whole country all in one place.
Not too familiar, is there any way NASDAQ could take a hit for this?
Repeatedly posted from below: http://goo.gl/RtVgTd <- Page 21, sorry for Russian source. It takes 4000 saplings at once, and goes at 6 km/hr, can plant every at 0.5m, gives you 12K saplings/hr. You have to recharge it with cassettes with saplings.
There's no need to ban the rest.

Prohibition is what is causing this problem in the first place.

If you legalize marijuana, would be no profit to be made in coming up with new synthetics and without a profit motive, only researchers would do it.

For example, since the end of alcohol prohibition, how many cases are there of people being blinded by methyl alcohol from bathtub gin?
I hate to reply to a post like this but maybe I can help in some small way.

Everyone should remember that the best ways to truly be an individual lie outside of items you can purchase or even your skin color.
You're saying if Twitter/Nasdaq had released their earnings as originally planned after closing that they still would have lost $8Bn after opening?
>'Pretty' Windows apps, in particular, are a royal pain to create. Unless, maybe, if you target Metro.

1. Learn how to work with XAML

(1.5. Know how to make good looking UIs)

2. Done.

Really. If you're forcing yourself to use WinForms, you're doing yourself a disservice. Any Windows Dev that wants to push out good looking application should learn how to use XAML. You can even ignore the databinding part if you want.

That said, TextNut looks an awful lot like OneNote UI wise.

I believe the major problem comes from the fact that most people developing for Windows are either doing it for free or for internal tools. There are very few tools that fit Apple's market of consumer focused applications, and the financial incentive clearly isn't there on Windows.
People need to stop worrying so much about what their boss thinks of them. If you get fired, it's probably a sign you shouldn't be working there in the first place. If you don't get a promotion or raise, who cares? Your life won't get better if you make slightly more money.
Talk about being web savvy at intern age..
My daughter is looking for a new Mac, so we compared the other day. I'd buy the new Macbook in a heartbeat over the current-model Airs. If I wanted more power than the Macbook can provide, I'd get a Pro. The single port isn't that big a deal, really. It doesn't need to sit on a charger all day thanks to battery life, AppleTV and Chromecast have replaced wired HDMI, and I almost never use more than one USB device at a time (and if you do, don't you have a hub lying around?).
Brilliant! That is a really good start and it'll probably help me clarify my thinking by writing up a context to the problems for her too!

Some things that are about programming structure are probably on the cards as well as these more algorithm-y questions, but thanks a lot!
All coding, note taking, writing, and drawing happens in Lively Web (http://lively-web.org) for me. It comes with a shell and nodejs integration as well as a websocket-based messaging systems that allows to integrate all sorts of different backends, e.g. Clojure (https://cloxp.github.io).
In the traditional, server-independent, sense? Hard to serve advertisements that way.

There's always a lot of new game studios, but I don't think they count. There's no end-game in games development, no lock-in, no network-effects, no industry-standard-status. A single bad game can ruin the studio.
Actually most are making native mobile apps. I'm a mobile guy making a cross compatible web app. Why anyone would make a native app in our world of ECMAScript6 and HTML5 is beyond me.
I disagree, only on the grounds that Chrome will max out the tiny GPU in that machine when HTML5 videos or CSS3 animations play. Even simple video effects like Expose will stutter. It's a great machine, but the video card is much too weak for the pixels it has to push. Take it with a grain of salt, of course.
Yes, I think you're right on those as well. I remember stable macroeconomic policies being a big one too. We went through some fairly convincing studies showing how damaging hyperinflation and unserviceable government debt can be to an economy.
I think he is comparing it vs 13 and 15 inch Apple laptops.
Nothing to add other than...fantastic! I have to think of ways to use this!
How's your Apple Watch treating you?
Wait, how is this first generation? Do you consider any refresh of an existing line to be "first generation"? What would you consider not to be "first generation".
The easing functions on the demo page are from https://www.npmjs.com/package/eases - ramjet will take any easing function (it should accept a value between 0 and 1, and return similar). For convenience, ramjet.linear, ramjet.easeIn, ramjet.easeOut and ramjet.easeInOut are included, but for best results I'd recommend combining it with an external easing library like eases.
I just don't understand that market. From the article: "(...) Twitter missing market analysts' revenue expectations of $456m by $20m (...)" - so one hour before, everybody was expecting $456m and held the stocks, now it's officially $430m and they get wiped like that? For less than 5%?
Looked up the latest Janrain report. Looks like the trend reversed and Facebook increased their share:

"Facebook is regaining ground lost in Q4 2014, with noteworthy growth in the Consumer Brand (9% increase) and B2B (11% increase) verticals

Google+ saw an overall decrease of 6% from last quarter, widening the gap with Facebook to 8% with a total share of 37%"

http://janrain.com/blog/social-login-trends-across-the-web-q...
we have a hybrid desktop/web app www.iorad.com. The desktop app does the captures and sends it to the web page for configuring.
Kids in low-income countries current go to school
between the ages of about 5 to 11, and then quit.
Whereas in OECD countries, kids are generally obligated
by law to stay in school until age 18 or so (used to be
16-17 but it's shifting up a bit nowadays).

How recently do you mean by "nowadays"? At least in Israel I'm pretty sure school till 18 has been the "default" for 50+ years and I was under the impression this is not unusual for a western country (I've been living in Austria and Germany for almost a decade now & I don't believe I know anyone who spent less than 12 years in school).
Hey kids - important lesson here. You don't realize how hard it will be to receive permission to do work at work. Of course, you will still be expected to look like you are working and to even put in overtime pretending to work.

My recommendation is to find things to do that look like work. If you are a programmer, learn new languages or develop your own projects. If you are expected to write, work on your own blog articles. If you sometimes work offsite or in different parts of the building, go sleep or read in your car (away from where you could get caught.) If you are writing or programming, nobody can tell over your shoulder if it is work related or not. Hell, your manager probably has no clue what you are supposed to be doing anyhow and is just pretending to do his job too. Help the guy out and give him the warm fuzzy feeling that you are working. Telling everyone you meet how much work you have to do and how hard you are working on it won't hurt either.

I know it sucks but you can't fix it. The ability to look like you are working while not losing your mind is a critical survival skill. The sooner you cultivate that skill the happier you will be.
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most hex editors will show you the ascii value for hex that falls within the range of ascii, which can be useful to humans.
I get what you are saying, but it is not the content I have a problem with it's the position my body is in to look at the smaller screen. Because it is so thin and the screen only comes up probably 10 - 12 inches from any surface you are working on you have to tilt your head way more than if you working on a 15 - 17 incher.
Single point of failure is that someone who really wants your stuff/identity/what have you will end up taking that RFID chip + body part with them.
Twitter images are totally broken, especially when people want to use them to convey text. There really needs to be a "view original size" that doesn't involve me using the DOM inspector.
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Thanks Bruce. :) Seems my single small VPS is no longer enough to keep up with modern HN traffic...
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Anecdotal, but still relevant. They have typically ended up more expensive than most games for me due to the time it takes for the price to drop down to the same level as a lot of other games, even during steam sales. Even without a price discrepancy though, the reputation of moddability has certainly influenced my decision on bethesda games in the past, as well as other people I know. It's tough for a long time fan of their games to not see this as a way to squeeze extra cash out of their game, especially with the cut they offered modders.
Totally agree! This is my default strategy when purchasing Apple products(Macs in particular).
That's short-sighted -- one of the largest complaints was nefarious users profiting off of the works of others. From day 1 there were free mods being sold by random jackasses whom have no affiliation with the project.

The only remedy Valve offered was DMCA takedown notices or similar self-directed policing.
I don't want to start a "war" about US vs insert-European-country-here productivity but, honestly, do you know anyone who actually does measurable quality work for 16h straight in a consistent way?

American here. No need for "a war". European countries are more productive. Long hours don't work. Most Americans know it, and would agree with everything you have to say.

I would generally agree with you, although I don't think that long hours necessarily signify incompetence. In the HBR article, the sense given is that they signify being bad at politics, and therefore find themselves in a position where they sacrifice too much and only get moderate reward. The people who are good at politics figure out how to "pass", how to get full credit for being dedicated without working unsustainable hours.

It's a vicious cycle: people who are bad at politics put their heads down and work 80-hour weeks, and because they're overworked they never learn how the politics of the organization really work (they don't have the time) and, when they inevitably tire of the nonsense and face time, they don't have the political skill to reduce their effort and get away with it, even though they could probably cut their hourage by 50% at least without hurting the company at all.

The counterintuitive reality is that overwork projects low status, in the US as it does in the EU, but so many people are oblivious to the fact and think that "busy" is a good look on them. (It's a good look to other over-busy, mid-level chumps. It doesn't fool the people with actual power.) There are a few jobs in which you simply have to work 90-hour weeks or you'll get fired (e.g. investment banking's analyst programs) and my observations wouldn't apply but, even in the US, they're rare. This isn't like Japan salaryman culture where average people have to work 14-hour days just to stay put. In general, working in a way that lowers your status, emphasizing availability and sacrifice rather than unique skill, tends only to get you more grunt work.

The irony is that, 10 years ago at age 21, these bankers and consultants were, for the most part, way ahead of people like me in terms of social skills. But after 10 years of doing the true-believer thing and working themselves to death, they've gotten to the (surprising) point where they suck at politics.

This is also why I think it's silly that Americans are so averse to learning "office politics". Academically, it's a disgraceful game, but if being halfway good at it saves you 20 hours per week and gets you the same damn reward, it's absolutely worth learning. The truth is that 5 percent of one's reputation as a strong or weak performer is performance, 10 percent is raw (and obvious) politics, and 85% is the politics of performance that looks like merit to true-believer types, but is usually quite game-able. And there's nothing morally wrong with gaming it; it makes a person more likely to reach a high-impact role with his or her capability intact, and that benefits the company as much as the individual.
Knowledge work is so diversified now, it would be impossible to capture everyone. I was just providing an anecdote as someone who sympathized with the article.
I haven't bought one. Don't feel a need for it yet. I'm not a reflexive tech buyer.
"I can pay those employees at least five times as much"

I understand that as he's talking about five times minimum wage or about $70K/yr, not five times a real wage. Nobody offers five times a real wage. Nobody.

Everyone has their weird false beliefs. Most middle and lower class see themselves as temporarily disadvantaged millionaires and that weird false belief can be very profitably exploited.

The similar weird belief from the upper classes is that economic destruction has been so successful over past decades that there is an infinite pool of infinitely highly talented labor willing to work for minimum wage so anyone asking for more than minimum wage is the cheeky nail standing up that must be pounded down, and its socialism or letting the terrorists win to ever pay someone without direct reports more than the minimum wage. Sure, managers earn millions and CEOs earn billions but conventional upper class wisdom is there's an infinite pool of neurosurgeons willing to work minimum wage for 80 hrs a week while repeating "thank you sir may I have another" as their morally and ethically superior manager paddles them. To some extent you can profitably exploit them by letting them screw up, then offering Very expensive consulting fees to fix the mess they created for themselves. Never, ever work for people like that if you can possibly avoid it, always consult to clean up their messes at like $300/hr.
If Selerity was clever enough to short the stock before publishing this they probably made a nice chunk of change yesterday...
That raises an interesting point. There are actually two different concepts of life on Mars:

1) Life that has a shared lineage with Earth life.
2) Life that is unrelated to Earth life.

#1 would be neat news, but it wouldn't be particularly earth shattering news (hah). As you mention, this would be through ejecta transfer - some primordial bacteria hitching a ride on interplanetary asteroid impact debris.

The thing about #1 is that we're almost certain it's completely plausible. We have extremophiles on Earth that live in conditions just as harsh as some of the places on Mars. The tricky part would be getting them there. Sadly, biological transfer between planets doesn't really help us fill in any of the variables in the Drake equation...

But #2 - that would be incredible. If we were to find life on Mars and we could prove that it had no relation to life on Earth, that forcibly changes everyone's cosmic perspective. Proving that life evolved independently twice in the same solar system would mean the universe must be teeming with it.
My favourite[1] example of this is Givemesport, which matches incredibly misleading linkbait headlines with URLs and on-page headlines that usually accurately summarise the actual content of the article.

Hence "Brendan Rodgers fires another warning to Mario Balotelli about his Liverpool future" goes to the following URL givemesport.com/569986-brendan-rodgers-mario-balotelli-is-doing-his-best-for-liverpool

and you can avoid having to read a lightweight article advertised as "This proves Chelsea will rule the Premier League for a long time" by noting it points to givemesport.com/569959-chelsea-stars-win-fa-youth-cup-for-second-time-in-a-row
or "Barcelona star Lionel Messi did this after being insulted by fan by noting it goes to givemesport.com/569113-lionel-messi-smirks-after-espanyol-fan-insults-him

[1]OK, not my favourite; I blocked them from my Facebook feed
It isn't really possible. Pretty much anything can be broken given sufficient time/financial resources.

The NSA has alot of bodies and money to throw at a problem if they want it gone. Too many to resist effectively unless you are a national actor. It is why them being effectively off the leash is scary.
Hey your resume looks impressive. Can you tell me how you made the resume? Latex or anything? The design and presentation of skills is great! I'm 20 too and want to update my resume.
Teaching vs advice :)

I'm 40+ and find his advice quite good and spot on. Reading and thinking on such matters, and hanging around with wise man (he surely does) will make you grow wiser faster. I don't think there's a speed limit on anything if we're talking about humans. There will always be high achievers like Sam, his career shows it. I learned not to ignore them regardless of age and feel good about it.
That first gen iPhone that came with EDGE was spectacular?
Having sane tools, languages and adequate performance maybe. :)
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$8b was wiped off of the value, but personally I think Twitter was over-valued in the first place. So maybe this brings it more into line with what it's really worth.
Blame it on Apple, they mandate using this button. I understand why they don't want to use prices, because those are localized, but agree that it should differentiate free vs. paid apps.
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Looks like a nice side project. But the first question that popped into my mind was, doesn't SonarQube already covers these rules?
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I bet it works great for Google or anyone else who keeps everything in one big repo and isn't developing open source applications.
BBC is linkbaiting now?

One tweet didn't wipe $8bn off its value, the results did. If the results were released next day, it still would have lost value ffs. I feel angry reading through this and realizing it was a waste of time fluff.

Say what you will, its evident that HN crowd loves sensationalism more than content, as seen again and again.
There are papers going back to at least 2005 (this one, a top search result, is cited 390 times: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/sc2005-distance.pdf ), so it would not be all that surprising if there are some existing commercial implementations. The current rash of thefts seem to come down to the systems being completely naive to amplification attacks though.
The web will eat up everything, watch.
I can think of Dropbox, Slack, GitHub right now.
I like the aesthetic of using Clojure to fix Java.
Wouldn't that be extremely obvious insider trading? (which is illegal, right?)
Haskell and that particular div -> shift trick were two unrelated examples.

The Haskell one is kind of a long story. In short, we love Haskell but a particular inner loop was destroying our performance. We were getting PHP-level performance in Haskell, where normally we can expect Java-level performance. So we took this inner loop (JSON encoding and URL encoding) and built BufferBuilder to solve it once and for all. Now JSON encoding and URL encoding are barely visible in the timings.

The div -> shift trick is worth knowing about, though I haven't had a reason to use it yet.
Much of that functionality has been moved to "search". While I wasn't a big user of Discover and Activity, it seems global trends show on the default search screen.
I don't know if clever is the right word for what they'd have to be to do that. I would guess though, that such a move would have been very obvious and easily discoverable by the relevant authorities no?