jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They might have an issue with another company, Vendr.tv, a food review network.
You're not mistakenly thinking that 37Signals was liberated by VC, right? They were self-funded with consulting work. And David was just a freelancer for them at the beginning.

"Can you imagine if the team at 37 Signals did corporate consulting? They wouldn't be rock stars, they'd be design whores with no blog..."

Lots of people who have "real jobs" also have outsized online presences, have gone on to fame and relative fortune because of their off-hours OSS contributions.

Adding VC to the people who don't, sure isn't going to change their path.

I agree with your definition of entrepreneurship - a chance to lead, to do it your way, to have a voice in your own destiny.

Which is why I'd never, ever, ever take funding, and risk having to manage the expectations of someone whose goal wasn't a fabulous business, but the biggest/fastest exit possible.
Three of the last four bug reports that I've written have been totally ignored. Two were on a google group, so it's possible (but unlikely) that they just drifted off the front page before anyone qualified saw them. The other is just sitting in the issue tracker getting no attention.

I spent a good chunk of time in each case trying to figure out what was causing the problem, and I'm definitely less inclined to go back to those projects now.
And that, my friend, is a totally sustainable residual-income-based business model too.
I see http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-strawberry-shortcake has 4 adsense units on it. Adsense says you're allowed a maximum of 3.

Something I'm missing? Or is there some special Google deal by which you can add more than 3 and get away with it?

In terms of user experience, I think the ratio of content to adverts on that page (Which you seem to cite as a good page) is way out. Tons of adverts / cross promotion etc, and a little bit of content in the middle.
The important difference is that with A CBM64 or BBC micro, you turned it on and typed.

10 print "I am great"

20 goto 10

Now after it has booted and you have logged on and started the visual blah IDE you start programming with

from microsoft.java.net.jrhvbieurbv import sun.microsoft.jobs
security model com.apartment.nice_view

#include <stdio>

public virtual void extern _main():

And tell little jonnie that he isn't supposed to understand any of those words - they are grown up computer stuff, he should just type in whats in the book.
You might be interested in http://tryruby.org, then. ;) Or Hackety Hack, which contains it.
I almost got jealous, but just yesterday I ran across an article of yours while fixing some messy PHP UTF-8 bugs (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/turning_mysql_...). Then I realized that you've busted your ass a lot more than I have so far to achieve what you've achieved. Just serves as more inspiration :)
It's also acknowledging that our thinking is partly shaped by our terms. If you think in terms of Java, you might not see an elegant functional solution. If you think in Haskell, you might not see an elegant imperative solution.

The known unknowns are like a door you haven't opened. The unknown unknown is not even realizing there's a door. It's a thrill to discover such doors.

It makes me hopeful to think that just a couple of steps off the beaten track, there are miracles that the mainstream has not dreamed of (nor me). There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Such is the motivation of a would-be scientist/inventor/entrepreneur.

One may laugh at such incompetent people as in the article... but how do we know we aren't incompetent? One way is objective tests: If we can pass a maths test, we likely know some maths. If our programs behaves as we predict, we likely know some coding. Another way is to consult with a community of people reputed to be competent, and ask them if we are.
Universities do this - notwithstanding the study in the article - hopefully at least at the postgraduate level. I may be stupid, but at least I'm state-of-the-art-stupid. Of course, there are famous examples of radical scientists, scorned by the scientific establishment, who turned out to be right... (though perhaps famous more due to their appeal than their frequency.)
Proverb traditionally attributed to the Chinese:

He who knows and knows he knows,

He is a wise man; seek him.

He who knows and knows not he knows,

He is asleep; wake him.

He who knows not and knows he knows not,

He is a child; teach him.

He who knows not and knows not he knows not,

He is a fool; shun him.
That's not a long CV, that's a short autobiography.

Lots of fun anecdotes, though. I like the idea of Gerry Sussman doing horoscopes for dinosaurs.
Tom Clancy's Endwar had quite prominent voice recognition interface.
Thanks for the citation. That same article says that "at least one study has found that it's possible to teach these visuospatial skills." I can interpret the result "males in the study did better at mental rotation tasks" to mean "males brains are wired better" or "males have better math educations". Both interpretations fit the study evidence as presented.

The 3rd part of the linked article even says:

"So it appears that there are a wide variety of social factors that affect (or are affected by) sex differences in math and science. Because of limitations in the way these studies can be controlled, it's difficult to say that discrimination or differential treatment cause the sex differences we see in math and science."

Overall, the linked articles do not support the hypothesis that "men's brains are wired better".
See my other comment about this not being an API level decision.

At the template level and JS library level we're not doing any magic. Javascript allows keys of object literals to be written without quotes when they aren't reserved. We didn't implement a layer on top of Javascript enforcing otherwise.

There is nothing controversial about this.
Because it will take decades for any lawsuits to make it through the courts. If they were to lose such lawsuits,
by that time they'll have already pulled out enough money to cover the cost of the lawsuits with the rest just being gravy.
It's fine to marshal public money to spur greater debate, but 6) is a tax on free speech.

In other words, he's proposing that you can only speak your mind if you also cite opposing views. Once you allow that, then you can go further and restrict speech on the quality/quantity of opposition presented. It's reckless to even consider such restrictions.
You still haven't answered my question.

Getting fat is for many a lifestyle issue (a bad lifestyle is what you alluded to in the first place). It may be partly genetic in that some people only have to start worrying about their waistline in their thirties while some have to do so in their teens. It is not clear at all that baldness is a lifestyle issue.

Noone mentioned short men.
Unfortunately, I was lost as well. I have no background in quantum mechanics. I can't help but feel that was needed as a prerequisite to appreciating this video. Sort of like a beautiful analogy. It falls part of you don't understand the concept to begin with.
That is some seriously high valuation given Uber's current (and even projected) numbers. But I understand what Google is trying to do.
I would agree that the self driving car business will take a lot longer than we think even in places like Silicon Valley. Still it is a plausible future although I believe people will still like taking taxis.

Disclaimer: I will be working for Hailo soon, the London start-up which is Uber's competitor. I believe both companies have their strengths and tackle different bands of the same market.
> Based on what?

Common sense and experience with mail servers.
Actually, you can do that. I wrote a tool to allow replication from MongoDB to TokuMX: http://www.tokutek.com/2013/07/tokumx-1-0-3-seamless-migrati.... It doesn't allow TokuMX instances to satisfy write concern or to participate in elections, but you can slave a TokuMX replica set off a MongoDB replica set just fine, and this allows you to do a rolling migration where you replace one secondary at a time.
I'd actually forgotten about that - but I still think the point about markets, and indeed brands, applies. From the perspective of a consumer the fact the the Porsche holding company owns a sizable chunk of VW probably doesn't register.
This article stinks. Someone seeking means nothing. Juilan's official response: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/71lsqt

The main point is that it is against EU legislation for arrest warrants to be made public. Every attempt at contacting the wanted person has to be made. This suggests shenanigans at some level: bad journalism from nytimes/the swedish tabloid pushing the agenda of the Pentagon, or some form of corruption/incompetence of government officials in Sweden.
For context: Press release from Assange's lawyer:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/71lsqt

Quote: "Despite his right to silence, my client has repeatedly offered to be interviewed, first in Sweden before he left, and then subsequently in the UK (including at the Swedish Embassy), either in person or by telephone, videoconferencing or email and he has also offered to make a sworn statement on affidavit. All of these offers have been flatly refused by a prosecutor who is abusing her powers by insisting that he return to Sweden at his own expense to be subjected to another media circus that she will orchestrate. Pursuing a warrant in this circumstance is entirely unnecessary and disproportionate."
How does this compare to _Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 2nd ed._ by Stevens? (Aside from being specific to Linux)
I feel a bit for Martin as a non-native English speaker. It can be very easy for the native speakers to dominate a discussion unintentionally (and even when trying not to).

The impression Erlang gives me is one of being almost an anti-language, emphasising the system at large and discouraging over sophistication in the details. I think the point Joe Armstrong makes about hardware interoperability is telling. His vision of software is one much closer to hardware and the networking. Though I think the fact that there is an awful lot of unnecessary complexity in software it does not mean that sophistication and complexity is not sometimes necessary. Not that he ever voiced that, just sometimes in the process of advocating something pluralism can get left out.
There's no mention in this post about controlling for extraversion. A narcissist is an extravert, almost by definition, and because of that the NPI test they linked to contains many questions that really address extraversion (e.g. 1, 6, 7, 10). So non-narcissistic extraverts would score higher than introverts on that test.

When they say that the most productive group was half-narcissists, this also means it was half-extraverts.

Extraverts, compared to introverts, would be better on average in both those scenarios: at pitching ideas (appearing "more enthusiastic, witty, and charming") and generating ideas in groups. Because of this, it's hard to say what role narcissism played, separate from extraversion.
I am amazed that there would still be discussions about what OOP is or is not.

The only agreement seems to be around "polymorphing" -- the ability to define a behaviour that works consistently over many "things" that share some similarities. Good.

But the root of evil comes back to very initial definition of what an object is:

An "object" is something very concrete, it is not a mere "thing", it has:
- an identity
- a state
- a behaviour

Is a "hello" an object? No, no more than 9 or any number is an object, because these beasts are "values".

However, the way a string is implemented is probably an object at some level (this is not true of a number, CPUs can deal with them directly). But this is an implementation detail.

Unfortunately the essential difference between what is a Value and what is an Object is poorly promoted/teached. But this is improving thanks to functional languages.

In a perfect world there would be "things", that are either "values" or "objects". In the imperfect world of us we have "objects", that are more or less mutable.
They're pictures of naked children.

If an underage teenager texting a naked picture of themselves qualifies as a child pornographer, a TSA employee storing pictures of a naked child certainly does too.
So give them different jobs.
for one thing statistics don't really encompass A.I., computer vision etc.
I work in a printing plant that has a great deal of tech from the 80's and 90's. Nothing amuses me quite so much as pulling out a damaged obsolete board the size of a pizza box and replacing it with a micro-controller board the size of a playing card and a single screen's worth of code.
I've only left a job because of the boss one time. The other times were mainly because I was either unhappy with my role in the company or to pursue other career opportunities that presented better/more diverse challenges and superior compensation packages.
That's reasonable for the most part. Another, probably even more common case, it that someone's professional identity and work will often be pretty well documented, referenced, and discussed--while there will often be next to nothing about them personally. In fact, I'd say that was the norm for pretty much any executive, researcher, journalist, etc.
I suggest that you consider birdwatchng because you don’t need any equipment to be a birder. Sure, binoculars help, but they aren’t actually necessary. I had been birding without binos for about 5 years till my husband gaved me ATN binos (https://www.atncorp.com/smart-hd-binocular) as gift for our 7 wedding anniversary.
Not sure of the point you're making but he is analogous to a financial services advisor who is in awful financial straights but tells clients how to manage their money.

If you can't live what you're paid to advise others on, then you aren't worth your salt.
But here is the problem.

Conspiracy theorists are assuming the conclusion before the evidence is in place. You know just like religious people can make anything seem like an act of god. Or believers in Nostradamus make everything seem like he was right. The list of alternatives stories one can make in retrospect is more or less limitless.

If you have already decided that the government are conspiring against their citizens then you will take any weird phenomena and use that as an argument for you case.

But you could might as well make another conclusion far less spectacular yet as horrific. For instance that the US government knew something was going to happen and they let it happen.

This would be a far less outrageous claim to make even though it's really pretty much wrong.

Conspiracies look like those that Wikileaks expose once in a while. They aren't well orchestrated, they aren't masterminded, they are messy, with lot's of potential leak risk and more importantly they are very small in scale.

Yet wikileaks have managed to get a hold of that.

One would think that if there are people who leak videos of US pilots shooting down journalists, there would be people leaking a far greater story, requiring a far larger conspiracy involving thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people.

One would also think that if the government really was that great at covering up something a huge as 9/11 then they wouldn't make stupid mistakes like the ones that the conspiracy theorists seems to attach themselves too.

In fact one would think that if they made such fundamental mistakes as those that seem to be used as a proof for the conspiracy then the likelihood of the conspiracy being leaked would increase by many many factors.

Unpleasant to think about? Yes for the conspiracy theorists.

A reality: Very sadly yes!
You still need a rooted version to access the Android app store (and probably always will since they won't want people buying this to install other eReader apps). It's a shame they need a whole new app store mainly to prevent access to a handful of apps.
Are we talking about the same store?[0]

[0]http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BKS&t=1y&l=on&z=...
Alexy, was this message you received published in a public forum or private correspondence? If it was normally a private channel, does Mr. Stallman have a standard policy of accepting that his private emails may be published? If not, did you set that expectation?

I don't want to jump to a lot of conclusions here, but what I'm seeing is a real lack of sincerity in your actions by writing him an open letter instead of sending him a private email, then publishing what appears at first glance to be a private response.

I may have it wrong, so please set me straight: Are you really trying to influence him, or are you using him as a foil for sharing your views with us?
Its three. Crows can count that much.
Scraping photos is a lot different than scraping data, I fully agree.

But for the pictures, I am using Flickr's API, and it's not illegal. I have read the terms carefully, and since the site it not a commercial one, I am well within the public API terms. I also link to and credit the source on every photo, as I know each individual has the rights to their own photos.
There's another part of the story which is left out. Only women get the code. At first it wasn't this way, but eventually they discovered that by only giving the code to women, it kept the space much safer for everybody. Of course some women do share it with me, and they know the code, but there are many codes, and if one is abused, you're code gets reset. If you share your code with the wrong person, it might get reset. So you have to be careful about who you share it with. Once you're locked out, you've got to ask around to get a new code.

I've only been to the famous hot tub once, i didn't get the code, but it was really nice. There's a lot to be learned in online communities about how to manage things from the famous hot tub.
If the data is sharded, then the data/server is small enough enough to fit within the individual server's disk and you no longer need EBS to store it.
Yes, but try out a few other chairs of similar quality first. They all have slightly different shapes and some feel better than others, depending on the person. Even in the office I use, we have several batches of Aerons with slightly different feels and features.

EDIT - Here are some other brands that usually don't carry such a price premium on CraigsList:

Steelcase: http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category/seating/task/p...

HumanScale: http://humanscale.com/products/category_detail.cfm?category=...
The thing with Florian is that he's never always on one side of the story. Unlike Groklaw, where they openly admit to being in pain if they have to side with MS on a case.
The problem with trying to start a joke thread isn't that we're all humourless drones, but that it derails the conversation. There's nothing wrong with humour per se, so long as it's used as part of a germaine contribution to the discussion. When it's just a throwaway line like this, it doesn't add anything and simply detracts from the topic at hand.
On the other hand, I can see it makes interviewing a lot more difficult: "I would answer your question, but it would infringe on a patent".
Agreed. Meant the concept, not necessarily the execution. Definitely see the potential, given they continue to improve it.
Where did this title come from? It's mentioned nowhere in the article and is, in fact, inaccurate.
The author spends most of the piece talking about YouTube hasn't made money; but now they have a plan to make money (or so he thinks.) He neglects to tell us how Apple's iVideo will make money. Subscription fees like Mobile Me? That sounds like a niche play. Alas, our guru does not mention how this "YouTube Killer" will hunt and gather the dollars.
Many language designers, including many on Microsoft's Managed Language teams, consider null reference and invalid cast exceptions to be huge blunders.

The "Nice" language shows that it's pretty easy to statically avoid this: http://nice.sourceforge.net/safety.html

The sad fact is that the Java and .NET base class libraries were designed before (1) generics and (2) a generic "Nullable" (aka "Option") type were available. Anyone designing a statically typed environment today should certainly include both and design a compiler to enforce their usage and safety.
I like how roughly 25% goes directly to Bonuses which they clarify as (Executives Only) and another ~15% on "celebratory blimp rides (Execs. only)"... Seriously you could not make this stuff up.
Fascinating.

I have Weiners book "Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" (unfortunately not in the hardback version) and although I don't understand the math in the book I still read it to the best of my ability.

Another book that I did understand and which made me understand Weiners book a little better conceptually was Valentino Braitenbergs "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" a fantastick book for math morons like myself.

Thank you so much for your little story.
ok good to know. I'll give it another shot then sometime soon.
Epic success becomes the best marketing tool.
I guess the point of the article is that when you're doing an invalid cast, you in fact want to get an InvalidCastException, not NullPointerException.
Yep, my point.

They need someone to cut the Gordian Knot and make a clean breast of things. Who was Elop's counterpart over at Google??
A baby. My wife is currently in labor.
I see that it's 32-bit, is the year 2038 problem a significant concern for a device like this?
sorry, thats what I meant by the software (change its ability to understand the rules). IANA link is helpful!
What's odd about an implementation of the Chain of Command?
Generally, women love receiving gifts just to show you care. $50/month is showing a small token of appreciation, from flowers to gift boxes. It's obviously no substitute for the more thoughtful gifts you may give once or twice a year.
Possibly the worst comparison you could have made.
Absolutely. Usually read the comments first, before the linked article. There's nearly always an interesting discussion going on.
Having built a linter and plugins for text editors (multiple APIs and multiple languages to deal with), the number of integrations here is very impressive. With a few more apps covered (email (gmail), phone logs (iphone, android, skype), terminal), you could almost track all your activities related to a client seamlessly without thinking about it.
Test the limits of your speed reading ability with this app: http://spreeder.com (pointed to in the article)

Kinda awesome.
Thanks, good idea!

@tlg we could display an unlogged profile page without hitting twitter api (only based on our database).
It has been too long since I had a fry party. I think I'll try this.

A fry party is exactly what it sounds like. You make kilos of fries and dozens of dips and get drunk on the power.
"But what does it mean to be employed? Receiving a paycheck? RMS doesn't take a paycheck from MIT, so he's both homeless and unemployed by the standard of receiving a paycheck and having an apartment/home. Yet for the right position, he's infinitely qualified."

RMS may not get a paycheck from MIT, but he is making money. He has at least one book for sale and charges for signed pictures of himself.

I am pretty sure he also makes money speaking at various events.
Isn't filtering resumé buckshot sort of HR's core competency though?
That costs money. This strategy is free.