skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sentences make more sense in context. In this case, the context is under the tongue-in-cheek reference to the "well-equipped greek" which is someone who, presumably, wants to have all the "must-have" gadgets. For someone who considers that list of gadgets "must-have", I'd argue that both cable and smart-phones are certainly at the very top of the list.

Your point, then, is that you aren't one of those "well-equipped geeks" who must subscribe to everything. Neither am I (is anyone?). Neither of those bits of information undermine the point he is trying to make.
Would you have spotted the fraud?
I think I've tried that and run into trouble; possibly it would stall or get confused or something, and I have nothing installed.

Instead, I first install the key stuff (wget, bash, whatever), making sure it is saved to disk, and then go back and gradually add pretty much everything.
"MeetTheBoss TV is where future leaders learn."

I think this is a bit ambiguous and sounds kind of marketingy. What does that it exactly? I think something along the lines of " learn how to be a better boss" or "how to climb the corporate ladder" or something along those lines would be better.

I like the design though. It seems very clean.
While I like the general point of the article (just tell me what I care about), there are those of us for which the particular example doesn't exactly work. I walk ~ 3 miles a day to and from work in Chicago. I have a thermometer outside which has a digital display inside of both the temperature and a digital "weather boy" whose clothing indicates how to dress. I check this every (winter) morning. The weather boy is ok, but is not nearly specific enough: a few degrees in either way can easily mean replacing a sweatershirt layer with something warmer, adding a scarf, wearing long underwear, etc. At this point, the pure number is far more important to me than any cute graphic could be.
Really appreciate your thoughts Erik. The "premuim" area makes sense - this is definitely on our roadmap. Love the idea/look of moodle will review this further. Partnering makes huge sense for quality additional content for the premium subscribers. Thank you
Are you doing anything to nurture these two extremes? Or do they just come naturally to you?

Your comment reminds me of a discussion I had with my cofounder long time ago (yes I have tried the startup path multiple times). We were discussing how this pattern of wildness, of strong desire to produce things follows an almost relaxing, reflecting period. The discussion arose while we were learning about the coding and refactoring cycle during the extreme programming days in Karlsruhe, Germany where I used to study.
Hint: it's not about evolution, or cosmology. It's about respect for the scientific process.

Cultures that have respect for the scientific process thrive.
Cultures that don't, don't.

It's that simple. (The US is actually a rather startling exception, if you look at a graph of popular religiosity versus any number of metrics of a healthy, successful society.)

Ah yees, the folks who think that fire can't melt steel....

WTF...?

And yes, ghosters and the like do push things on the public schools.

Gonna call "citation needed" on that.

About the closest thing I can come up with is the occasional group of morons demanding that schools shut down their WiFi networks due to allergies to the radiation, or what-have-you. Same stupidity as religion, different manifestation. It all comes down to lack of respect for processes that actually improve our lives, in favor of ones that contribute nothing but BS.
So what about real-life? If I'm hanging out in public with some shady characters can a credit agency ding my report or 'worthiness' based on that activity? It's in public just like my Twitter posts so what would be the difference?

This really should be illegal if it's true, and I'm not certain of even that based on this one article. Would be nice to see some sources/corroborating evidence.
I say it is a better idea to use a well-developed presentation system (like Wordpress) and if you don't like using its user interface use a replacement user interface (example: MarsEdit). Then you are only being heterodox in how you produce articles, but not in how you serve them.
I'm a terrorist (and so are you)
My life as a wolf
http://jacquesmattheij.com/I+am+a++terrorist%2C+and+so+are+y...

I think that should answer your question.
Turn this into a service.
To be specific: flying and spending 300 days/year on the road is abnormal, and will always be. It may become more prevalent, but it is at least cost-constrained to the margins of society.
p7zip's LZMA can be parallelized, and it has plenty of tuning knobs.
There are other LZMA implementations, too. You want Markoff chains for
really repetitive data.

The big disadvantage is that p7zip doesn't really do unix pipes,
courtesy of its dosbox heritage.

Shameless self-promotion, though weblogs are different than database dumps:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060821
all of which they stole from this poor fucking guy

It's the same hair, and sort of the forehead, and that's about it. Complexion, nose, mouth, eyes, ears, and facial hair color are all different.
Java, Postgres developer job. Location? The South Pole
The basic premise is that a predator does low-risk deals
with a large upside. And they can do that because they are well-informed. Turner knew he can use his billboard business to advertise a TV station. Paulson buying CDS's
because his research showed the real estate bubble was about to burst.

It's an interesting thesis, though it does suffer from survivorship bias.

I thought the most interesting part was data from the
book, "The Illusions of Entrepreneurship",
by Scott Shane.

New-business success is clearly correlated with the size
of initial capitalization. The data show that organizing as a
corporation is best. But failed entrepreneurs tend to organize
as sole proprietorships. Writing a business plan is a must;
failed entrepreneurs rarely take that step. Taking over an
existing business is always the best bet; failed entrepreneurs
prefer to start from scratch. Ninety per cent of the fastest-growing
companies in the country sell to other businesses; failed entrepreneurs
usually try to sell to consumers, and, rather than serving customers
that other businesses have missed, they chase the same people
as their competitors do. The list goes on: they underemphasize
marketing; they don't understand the importance of financial controls;
they try to compete on price.
If you make valuable contributions to the forum on a regular basis, and include an unintrusive link to your site in your signature, you may get many more clicks over time.
Compression at Internet scale
Can anyone recommend a good introductory book for learning Clojure?
A practical boarding pass redesign
NoSQL: The Dawn of Polyglot Persistence
Would you have linked if she wasn't cute?

Would you have linked if she wasn't an ex-googler?

Why are these facts relevant?
We're not ideal superhumans. For any one of us, being in a stimulating environment makes us better. And a library unfortunately doesn't provide it. Not that books aren't a good companion at any time.
The unions got us overtime, breaks, lunch and vacation. As a result, we created a two-class system for labor laws; management and workers. However, white-collar workers qualify under the provisions previously reserved for management so the laws created to protect labor no longer apply.
Publicly traded companies need to have carefully set up internal controls and audit trails on anything that can materially impact the company's financial position. If you are a web-based company, this would include the process of releasing to the website.

I do not see how to reconcile these controls and audits with the ability for developers to release main to production whenever they please. There may be a way to do it, but I don't see how.
No, not anything in particular. It's mostly natural because if I spend too much time in the "just work hard" extreme I get burned out eventually. I'm also too antsy to spend a lot of time in the learning extreme because I like to see concrete results eventually. Since I'm comfortable with my long-run track record of learning and producing, I never let myself feel guilty for doing either extreme.

The only other factor is time of year. I tend to learn during Christmas because when I was in college I used that time for reading and reflecting between semesters. I still get the urge to just sit and read and explore around that time of year.
Charlie Rose: a conversation with Malcolm Gladwell
Summary: because YouTube pays the labels part of the ad revenue for videos played on youtube.com, but not for embedded videos.
Actually, I thought I remembered seeing last summer that the tapes were recovered in Australia. I searched and found this article:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/110442/WORLD-EXCLUSIVE-N...
Will look into the video scrolling...that shouldn't happen at all. The US centric comment makes perfect sense as this is our target market.

It seems we need more of a call to action at the end of the video to pre-empt registration to watch the whole video. The idea of showing the difference between unregistered/members video lenghth/breakdown of topics is great and one I would like to implement. Cheers
In consulting, it's usually not your employer that pushes you. It's your clients. In a startup, it's either your investors or your customer (hopefully). Either way, there's always forces that want you to execute instead of learn. There's no direct visible gain from you learning. It's like climate change. It's important, but noone in power cares.

I totally agree with your long term statement. And I do also agree with you on the fact that just learning without execution renders your learning useless.

The thing is, how do you juggle between these two extremes?
@imp notes below:

"I let my own ambitions determine which zone I'm in, and they last from a couple weeks to months."

The cycle seems to come naturally to him. For others like @Ixiaus it takes more conscious effort (I assume, since he quit his job to be able to learn the things which matter to him).
How To Fire Someone Without George Clooney
yes 404 pages can be cool. see http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/24/creative-404-error-pa...

there, now I am ontopic so i can afford to rant: why is this interesting?
Does your site use the Stack Exchange platform, or is it just similar?

Also, I think your site would benefit greatly from a visual design overhaul, seeing as you're in the fashion/style industry.
It's a waste of space to have everything installed. Besides that, you risk conflicts with versions of stuff you compile yourself from source.

Package management is a great idea. It's a shame so few OSs have anything like it.
Mark Volkmann's Clojure page is a nice start:
http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

(He has a bunch more content here: http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/ )

There is only one book out there currently, but it's pretty good: "Programming Clojure" by Stuart Sierra (there are 3 more coming, see below)

http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure

--------------------------

Upcoming books:

○ Clojure in Action - http://manning.com/rathore/

○ The Joy of Clojure - http://manning.com/fogus/

○ Practical Clojure - http://apress.com/book/view/1430272317
When I saw the low-end of the range was $208 for all that stuff (80% of which I don't have) my first thought was "how cheap!".

I pay more than $208/month for just 2 of those services.

Who pays for a navigation app?
Nobody wants your old shoes: How not to help in Haiti
Sure these things don't, by definition, implicitly exclude each other, but in practice they do. How much time do you think teacher's have in a day? For proof talk to any good teacher, or sit in on a school board meeting.
You can go several ways on this:

- work for hire (you sign over your rights)

- give them a license, a head start and a discount (you have the rights)

- make it a co-development and give them a stake in the
future proceeds (you create some vehicle that holds the
rights)

The difference between those should be reflected in the price, and that's how you can control the situation to your advantage.

If I were in that boat I'd offer only two payment options, one that looks like they'll have to go and find a second mortgage on their building and another one that is very affordable indeed but gives you the right to sell the solution to others with the exception of their direct competitors in that locality, and only after some time has passed (say 3 months, 6 months or a year).

Having a minority partner in a project like that that has a different core business is a recipe for trouble.
If you are working in consulting for a big corp which used to be a hardware company, then became a services company and is now trying to be a software company, then you need to get out of consulting. The odds are stacked against you and chances are you'll waste your carrier being pushed around from project to project while being treated like a number.

However, an advantage of a large company is that there are many opportunities to do very different things. Look for job rotation opportunities. Seek out R&D organizations and try to move there. If you are so inclined, look for opportunities in emerging products and try to hop on board to help with marketing, sales, or anything business related.
Totally agree on this. I'm on it at this very moment :)

And I'm telling you, even then, convincing managers is not easier than convincing any other investor.
You forgot the best one... this american life
Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches
"How do you create, run, and release a huge effort that might take hundreds of man-years, like Office 2012?"

I think that more and more, companies are realizing that the answer to this is "You don't."

Google Chrome is a good example. Instead of trying to figure out exactly what needed to be in the product, they built a kick-ass updater (which is now open-source). One that let them transparently and efficiently download and install updates whenever necessary, so they could treat desktop software like a webapp.

And then instead of having to coordinate hundreds of man-years of work, they can have small independent teams that crank out a feature, release it, see if the feature works well, and back it out if necessary.

The best way to deal with an O(N!) problem is to keep N small.
Ok. The code has to be GPL licensed, because the webapp is based on an existing GPL codebase.

Do you have any other suggestions for a business model? Alternatives to the iPhone app store? Should I try the Android Market?
What you're saying is similar to what I am trying to do:

Take up projects which are 60% stuff you know how to do and 40% things you'd like to learn (the numbers are just made up, but you get the point). Even better, get paid for learning (e.g. competition with prizes or learning in a corporate environment)
But you can use pretty much any java templating engine. I've been using Apache Velocity for many years, and making it clojure-friendly took only a couple of hours. If anybody is curious I can put up some code.
Not to mention that paying for a 3G data plan with almost any carrier in the US also entitles you to a whole network of WiFi hotspots with no additional charge.

Oh, and I still don't get why cable television is required these days - every show I follow is available online at substantially lower total cost than paying for 200 channels I'll never watch.
Worse if down the road, you find yourself not being able to build the stuff you'd like to build.

Finding a job is hard. Finding your passion is much harder.
Apple to show off it's 'latest creation' next week
Folks, Sridhar Vembu was unknown, or certainly lesser known in 2007 when I first interviewed him :-)

Since then, and especially after this Forbes story, he was in the Economist.

So no, he is no longer unknown.
You can have continual deployment without it being a developer free for all. Features get released as they are ready, there are enough developers that there's something that can go out on a regular basis. Which features those are and how they are implemented and the schedule is still determined by those driving the direction of the company.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060001

Found using SearchYC: http://searchyc.com/polyglot

It would've been found by this idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
Posterous Jumps On The Revenue Wagon; Signs Coca-Cola for Promo Site
How important is meeting in person?
I am working on a story on doing business online and especially over video conferencing, versus in person meetings ... any thoughts on where you sit on the issue?
Well i think consideration should be given to the fact that it's a language project driven by a single individual trying to make his living out of it, not a dbms bought by a multinational company.

I personnally have no problem with that. It's also a sign of the fact that Rich wants to keep a pretty strong hand on what is happening with clojure, and as far as the project is a language project, i find that quite healthy.

Also, imagining that you would have a contribution to make to Clojure, and you'd really want to make it (because you work with it everyday for example). What would stop you to even consider signing the agreement ? (true question)
Well, it's too late to apply.
I'm always terribly suspicious of ATMs--especially those off-brand ones that pop up in random establishments that don't take debit cards nowadays. I understand some businesses just don't want to pay the fees behind accepting debit cards, but I'm increasingly becoming of the ilk where if you don't accept debit/credit I'm not shopping with you. Sure, you have folks that will handle your card and still do nefarious things with it, but at least you're not walking up to a machine prone to this kind of thing.

And for the first skimmer, I'd be suspicious of why they had to put a diagram to show you how to use what should be a universally understood sort of thing now. Slot? Card. The others, no, I wouldn't have caught those. :\
Clojure Allegrograph RDF store Client Interface
The article misses the most important point -- who gets shares and who gets ISOP? In the specific example behind the article, what happens if one of the founders quits? The non-quitting founder is screwed because he gave up half the company equity to a dud partner and has no way to get it back. The company will probably die.

Actual issued shares should only go to investors with cash money, tangible assets, or founder(s) with patentable intellectual property. Everybody else (including founders who may have received actual shares for their intellectual property) should get ISOP shares whose present value, when added to their startup salary, would equal the salary they could make in the real world at an established company. The ISOP should have a small cliff so founders who quit after a few months don't get anything.

In my startup experience, most of them had issues like this with founders payouts not reflecting their fair contribution. In one case, the founder quit after 18 months but the company hadn't issued ISOP so he got his full cut when the company was sold in 4 years.

In another case, founders got stock in direct proportion to what they initially invested in the company. But they burned through the money in three months, didn't get funded, and everybody worked for free for another 12 months before they could start paying salaries. They didn't issue ISOP to make up for the non-paying period, so a founder who invested $20k and worked for free for a year got four times as much as a founder who invested $5k and worked for free for a year.
That is a summary of why you can't embed the video but I'd still encourage people to read the full post if they want a more thorough analysis of the state of the music industry today.
The problem with this article is that the author is basing ownership of the company on things arguably irrelevant to the actual company- qualifications rather than contributions.

For example, his partner may have equal qualifications. But who is to say that his partner will contribute an equal amount to the company?

A better way would be to come up with an agreement on how to evaluate equity X years in the future, based on their performance. This also accounts for future hires who deserve equity. Of course, part of the equity would have to be split up at the beginning- but, no more than 20%.

Why should someone get equity merely because they "worked in film before web development"? Instead, they should get equity because of the awesome demo video they made.

This is certainly harder, but it makes more sense. There's no rush to split up equity- after all, with the odds of flipping a company is relatively low and IPOs being nonexistent, it's something that can potentially be dealt with after a year or two.
This is such a dumb article. The author makes it seem like our hands are tied and we are forced to pay such high fees. No, I'm sorry, those are the fees you have to pay for all those services since you chose all of them in the first place. Consumers have choice and they will pay for the products they desire as they fit in the realm of their--atleast theorectical--budget.
Part of it is that you need to find ways to justify learning things. It's really easy to learn things that have a direct impact on your job. You may be different, but I know programmers who won't even learn things that directly impact their jobs. And unless it will take a very significant chunk of time, it's usually pretty easy to make this kind of learning transparent to clients and managers. You might be surprised at how much you can learn just by spending the extra couple of hours learning to do something the "right way" rather than just sticking to what you know.

Of course, if that's something you're already doing, kudos. Now, if we're talking about things that don't apply to anything at all, your choices are either going to have to be:

1. Find a way to "sneak in" an hour or two a week if it doesn't interfere with your tasks.
2. Learn it on your own time.

If your management/clients aren't going to allow option 1, you may just have to decide whether you want to learn on your own time or if you want to find a job where you can spend a bit of time learning.
I'm curious about the video monitoring on the machines that have been tampered with. What do these security cameras normally see? Do the perps block the camera so it can't see them installing their hardware? If so, couldn't some program be written to determine that the image of a person is abnormal (measure the amount of "whitespace"" around a subject) and trigger some sort of real-time alarm?
is it possible to do some kind of javascript/iframe hackery to make embedding work?
Given how entrenched the ATM card standards are, it will be hard to make fundamental changes to improve security. If one could replace all ATMs in existence, one obvious solution is to issue RNG cards. Perhaps, to make them easy to use, the challenge/response could be electronic ala the "Java Ring" technologies (from TI) advocated by Sun a decade ago.

What could be done given that the fundamental use of an ATM machine (put in card, type in PIN) can't be changed overnight?

On machines capable of displaying pictures, users could be shown what the insertion slot ought to look like so they could compare.

A shroud could be placed over the keypad to reduce the viewing angles available to a pinhole camera.

Could smart phones be used to provide a "have something" security model? Let's say you paid $0.25 less per ATM transaction if you used your bank's iPhone app to generate a unique pin for every visit.

What else could be done simply?
Another site along the same lines (though it could do with a major tidy up)

http://www.doineedajacket.com/dinaj.asp?dinaj=EICK