skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feeling Good Together by David D. Burns, which is primarily about the relationships you ask about, but generalizes to all interpersonal relationships, including work and such. My wife and I have both found it helpful for gaining new insight into our twenty-eight-year relationship.

http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Together-Troubled-Relatio...
I think this debate can be summed up as:

Flakes are often Job Hoppers.
Not all Job Hoppers are Flakes.

Correlation, not causation.

Also, I'd like to see some objective stats here like "do companies with lots of job hoppers do better or worse, here is the data"

Vivek Wadhwa cited in his studies job hopping as an aggregate positive for the economy of silicon valley and its emergence as the prominent startup hub.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/the-valley-of-my-dreams-why...
This was exactly the thought I had while reading Patrick's post. What if the sign-up page on the website has a link saying "Ask my friends (on FB, twitter, whatever) if they can refer me."

When people look for jobs, this happens often. Someone you know well works somewhere and you ask him/her to refer you. This makes it much more palatable, I believe even more than the double-sided incentive.

Of course, the downside being only people who end up on the webpage will do this. The double-sided incentive actively seeks to find more customers.
All jobs will suck. The key is to find a way to be happy that doesn't involve basing the entirety of your personal identity on your day job. Or just take lots of drugs.
I'm really wondering why all these graphing libraries seem to be preferring canvas over SVG. Nothing wrong with canvas but doesn't SVG integrate much better with the DOM and aren't graphs a really good example of a vector graphic?
I view it as some yuppy jackass being able to prove he overpaid for a phone that doesn't actually make phone calls.
Software problem?

Though Palm Pre and Pixi didnt sell as expected, Palm's WebOS has received pretty decent feedback from all over.
HHP makes its mobile move; Saves Palm from collapse; Will developers stick?
Hewlett-Packard has stepped in as a surprise buyer for Palm. HP will buy Palm and its webOS operating system for $1.2 billion, or $5.70 a share.
http://coderific.com/
Gangsters??
> he claim by Gizmodo (and presumably the finder) is that the finder called the Apple customer service line and didn't get anything useful, thereby fulfilling the requirement.

> The claim by those who say this was theft under CA law is that this did not fulfill the requirement, since it was found in a bar, and it is extremely reasonable to contact the bartender about a lost item that was found in the bar.

Ahh, thanks for the clarification! That makes sense.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy
Which may mean it is more deserving of an award.
HP: 'We're doubling down on webOS,' Palm: 'That was the whole point'
Akshell - develop web applications in JavaScript inside your browser
"Here in Canada we take the term fairly seriously (it's copyrighted)."

Wow, I can understand a tweet being a creative work and therefore copyrightable, but a single word?
What is meant by privately here? Does it mean you can rate the employers anonymously? Does it mean the ratings are behind a login/paywall? It doesn't make sense if it was completely private, otherwise, how could potential employees benefit?

What's wrong with something like this, for example?
http://www.jobvent.com/
So the police act on an anonymous hot tip

Not unless they can persuade a prosecution attorney, and the prosecution attorney can persuade a judge.
and a sexy man, might i add.
An important topic to keep in mind. We...or a distant future generation...will probably need to develop alternatives and agressive recycling.

I wonder when we will reach "peak peak-resource stories"?
That would take them how long? Buying Palm they get that now.
In September 2009, Palm did a public offering to help payback a large portion of that money to Elevation Partners.

http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=369812

EDIT:
Ouch, looks like they paid $9 per share initially.
http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=246860
Big companies are terrible at solving problems by throwing $millions at them. Depressing, but true.
Ziplock's may be toxic:

http://camping.about.com/od/campingrecipes/a/ziplocbaggies.h...
I definitely think there is a market, as TC has diversified into more of a tech/business blog that includes some start-up stuff.

I think the ability to comment on start-ups would be great, and maybe get more editorial with your writing style.

Take a look at some of the start-up entries on TC and see which ones have more comments, and maybe the writing style will tip you off on what is drawing people in.

Also, take a look at Killerstartups.com. Your site seems more similar to them at the moment. Their visits are huge, I suspect due to good seo, but personally, I'm not drawn to their site. I don't find the quality of the content very good.
Become A Video Game Programmer In Ten Minutes
It's a broader definition of gangster, for sure, but the big PE firms in Russia are largely backed by ex-soviet bigwigs turned natural resource masters. Have you noticed how many of them seem to end up in prison?

Just like American gangsters eventually built hotels and casinos, Russian gangsters are buying up yesterday's big tech names at a premium either as a vanity play, or to diversify by sinking their blood money into foreign businesses that Putin can't touch.
I think the ring it self was supposed to wear down over time.

There is also a thing about it being as far away from your 'gold' wedding band as possible, signifying that your primary goal in work should be the work... not the gold.
I think it's "Best" interface-wise. The cards metaphor is awesome.
I could have (conceivably) created an account name "Steve Jobs" and posted under that, which is another way in which virtual social interaction fails people. I've had friends find out that someone had been impersonating them on MySpace. At least in physical interaction, I have to stay logically consistent with everything I've told people before. Online, I could be a new person every day.
That's a very good insight.
Probably a lot quicker than it will take to save the sinking ship that is Palm. Sure this is a market penetration play, but why? Palm was a failure. PalmOS was a failure. WebOS might be cool, but the damage is done. Google is making good penetration into the mobile market, and they didn't need to buy grandpa to do so.
Who is cooler - engineers or physicists? Michio Kaku video
Very interesting. I had no idea there was a market for libraries.
Lots of "sent from my Blackberry" footers in the Enron email corpus (ca 2000-2001)
Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy – Prepare to Fork
The interesting part is the data itself. There’s really no shortcut to just marveling the tables directly.
> 1) As already stated, increasing your range to appeal to a broad cross-section of customers and repeat customers. 2) A good marketing strategy. At this stage I'd say (1) should be your focus but you might want to start thinking about (2) quite soon.

Any one have any good suggestions on number (2)??? I have a few basic ideas, but haven't hit upon anything solid yet.
Airborne wind turbines and personal electric aircraft (PARC video)
The CA shield law doesn't have an explicit exception to allow warrants in case of possible criminal acts by newspeople.

IANAL but this seems like a big "well, duh" concept to me. What if Chen had knifed the iPhone thief in an alley, rather than paying him $5,000? Would the shield laws be relevant then?

The EFF and many other commentators seem to be very confused. This is not a potential "freedom of the press" case, it's a potential "receiving stolen property" case.
I've never had any luck getting a serious answer to that question. It's always hand-wavy fluff.

It's the employer's equivalent of "what is your biggest weakness". It just tests their ability to BS.
That's one application of the Five Whys I'd like to see get more use. At work everyone's more interested in the next bug or feature instead of in how the last one got there. The irony being, of course, that what they're going to get is exactly that--the next bug.

How many "we did this because you were too dang tired" have you seen?
I'm humbled that you think my suggestions to Blippy were good ideas or that they were adopted.

Can I ask a personal favor? The circles I swim in professionally are very important to me: in addition to being respected friends and colleagues, they also do things like e.g. write letters when I need somebody to convince the Japanese immigration authorities that I'm not an undesirable pest who needs the boot.

The professional circles I swim in are largely concentrated in Nagoya, where I worked for the last several years. At a big company. So they'd be folks at other big companies. In Nagoya.

It could be socially awkward if my name turned up next to negative commentary about a big company in Nagoya.
I am really not liking the whole emphasize-iphoneOS-over everything-else direction of apple recently.

When they renamed the company from "Apple Computer" to "Apple", it should've been obvious which way the wind was blowing.

They are not going to be selling Macs in ten years.
GoDaddy v DreamHost
Dear HP:

Please don't mess this up.

You're a storied pioneer in tech, but you got massive and lost your sense of direction. You're about to acquire something of a microcosm of yourself—a company that pioneered an industry but lost its way as it grew.

The difference is that your new acquisition rediscovered its sense of curiosity and turned itself around, too late to save itself, but brilliantly so nonetheless. You can learn from this. Your size has protected you from Palm's fate, but you were slowly headed down the same path, despite even your well-intentioned yet insufficiently-pursued experiments with things like TouchSmart.

While this is a new beginning for Palm, it's also a new beginning for you. What's your tagline again? Ah, yes: Invent. There's never been a better time to make good on it.
That is exactly what Apple is betting on with the iPad
Well, I guess it's more of the delusion of my team at my current workplace that's causing a lot of mental pain. Too many people thinking they are the greatest developer ever and that their ideas are world-changing. The management apparently has similar delusions of grandeur.

After a day of seeing all this and good ideas being scoffed at, I feel so listless and drained that I don't feel like doing anything.
I think a big flaw in this is that a start-up which is 'Sustaining means having better performance than others in its field. Disruptive means it is cheaper and worse in performance, or that it creates an entirely new market.'

But isn't the disruption in the market often the ability to do something better? As the article states, the iPhone was a better mobile browsing device with a better UI. These perfomance features would have Thurston saying that the iPhone was sustaining, but it ALSO is what made the product distruptive.

The performance of sending an email over snail mail was performance, it got their instantly. So that is sustaining. But the speed also made it distruptive.

Am i missing something else?
> If the patents were that easy to work around them, why would Amazon, Samsung, and LG have all licensed them?

If they are not easy to circumvent, why not disclose them, putting to rest all doubt against their validity?

One plausible reason is that, once disclosed, the patents would lose their FUD value. Even if all of them could be circumvented by kernel 2.8, every user running previous, infringing, versions would still be liable until their kernels got upgraded, something that's not always possible. It would require a huge investment to upgrade and certify all servers and appliances.

In what other scenario does not disclosing the infringing patents make sense?

My bet is they don't want to court-test those patents.
What don't you like about the people at the new job? Maybe they are not as bad as you think?
Agree, Killer Startups seems to be just carpetbombing with absolutely every new startup. I want VP to be the really interesting stuff; if I don't want to use a site, and can't imagine anyone I know using it, I'm not interested in writing about it.
That doesn't work so well when the customer has trouble giving you an IP address. Our software provided links that would work from inside customer's IP address range, not outside it, so WiMAX wouldn't have been an option, either.
Most people can't tell the difference between a GB and a GHz, but if there is one thing the computer industry taught them, it's that a bigger number is always better. Specially when their techie relative/friend/coworker says so.
WebOS is unique but I wouldn't be generous enough to say unparalleled at this point. I don't think either Android or iPhone have leaped too far ahead in the last year. Android 2.x offers very little in terms of new end user features over 1.x and iPhone OS is evolving at a faster pace but if you take multitasking out of the picture (which WebOS already had) it's only an incremental improvement. The big issue of course is third party interest where the iPhone is way out in front of the pack.
"This deal (...) gives HP all the things they need to go head-to-head with Apple."

Except for the one thing that makes apple products special: Design.
Writing copy to get comments isn't ideal in my eyes. The easiest way to attract comments is to be controversial or confrontational - it's a more tabloid format that is ultimately quite shallow and lacking in journalistic nutrition.

Instead, why not write well researched and enlightening copy exploring the idea, people behind the idea and the execution of the idea. That's certainly something I'd subscribe to.
Then acquire a startup that is inside that business. Take it separated from yourself, but just provide enough money for them to continue working better, faster, with more people.

Tell them what you need. Not interms of specifications, you as a big company are not good about it probably, everything will be too much formal and the resulting code will suck. Just tell your start up the final result, the user experience.

I think this stuff is doable, just can't understand why companies don't do it. I mean if you are going to acquire a company and this is a successful company in its market this makes sense. But with Palm what they are getting is more or less only the technology and the people.
Can't be worse than buying Compaq.
Seen in those terms, and given the speed at which mobile is developing right now, this is worth way more than $100m.

Think of it as $100m for a great mobile OS and $1.1billion for a time machine.
I assumed he meant anonymously.

Jobvent looks like more-or-less the same basic idea.

One issue with translating this idea to startups is that if it's a small enough startup, they might be able to tell who you are. You might be the only person who's ever quit that startup, or there might be few enough that they can tell anyway. This could cause issues where companies threaten to give bad recommendations to future employers if people use the site, or something.
Open source it. It might help other people who want to do similar stuff.
True, but I think Apple sees this fact as a fortunate artifact of history, rather than as a sacred cow that must be preserved at all costs.

Imagine a world in which Apple never created the Mac, but had instead been formed many years later, with the same people, processes, and design ethic. They'd still have become successful at selling iPhones, iPods, and iPads; nothing about those devices really depends on the Mac legacy, except for the fact that their OS happened to have been developed for the Mac first. In that world, if you walked into Jobs's office today and pitched him on the idea of launching a line of traditional personal computers, he'd say something sarcastic and tell you to GTFO. The idea wouldn't merit five minutes' thought.

Hence the company's new name, sans "Computer."
The Radial Basis Function kernel K(x,y) = exp(-(x-y)^2/gamma) is a very general kernel function that can get you this.

Finally, whether you actually get such a classifier depends on your data, and as I had mentioned setting the parameters (like gamma) is not very straightforward. Typically you may have to try with various values and see what works for your data.

Train your SVM (or any kernel method) and see what classifier it gives (run the classifier on data points near the boundary you want to detect to see where the exact boundary lies). This would only be to see how the classification function looks like.
This is talking about a completely different temperature range. What you meant is “cooking your Ziplock at > 195°F may make it melt, and the effects thereof have not been adequately studied”
I'm in Canada, and I didn't have any problems.

That said, it was a waste of $20, I didn't get any sales.
Rule of law means that one should change the law in order to insure that what your scenario doesn't happen, not simply act above it.
Microsoft is producing electronic music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
It's not copyrighted (of course you can't copyright a single word), but it is a protected term. You're not allowed to use it unless you're qualified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_over_the_term_Eng...
If you think anyone at Apple gives a rat's behind what hardware platforms are used to develop iPhone OS apps, I... respectfully disagree.
See what you and your Facebook friends like in common
I'd been thinking about it a little over a month, yeah.
And: test with Windows IE.

And: know the HTTP specs inside and out if you're talking HTTP, don't trust undated/unsigned/unreviewed informational pages (even on a site like w3.org).

I wouldn't word the restriction as "URLs with null paths aren't allowed to have query strings". I would say, "the shortest legal path is '/'". (That is, there are no 'null' paths. It sounds like some component of their software may have been sending, or expecting, HTTP requests without the '/' that is always present as the smallest legal path-info.
Fixed; sorry about that
They spent an eternity trying to develop a successor to the old Palm OS, then they abruptly threw it all away and created WebOS by sticking WebKit on top of a Linux kernel.

As a result, WebOS has been plagued with performance and reliability problems that they're still trying to address, and that shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with system software development.

They've also had a lot of trouble getting 3rd-party development off the ground.
Happy Birthday Kickstarter
Remember how badly touchscreens sucked before the advent of capacitive multitouch. Until it became practical to build tablet-sized iPhone screens, it simply was not practical to build a decent tablet, period.
Dear Millenials: Your Parents Lied to You
I think the point that DanielBMarkham was trying to make was that, in order for the general person to feel whole, they need social interaction of some kind. You don't see too many hermits in the world. This ability to select our social networks allows us an emotional escape that de-prioritizes building relationships with physical neighbors. The advantages given to automobile travel started it, and the internet has accelerated it dramatically.

I think the "freedom" to choose one's community is at the core of the complete lack of reasonable political discourse these days. It's very rare to see people calmly discussing issues with each other; they segregate themselves into their like-minded social groups, seeking validation for their preconceived notions rather than searching for the truth. When your barber who has been cutting your hair for 20 years expresses a view that you find surprising, you're going to tend to have a discussion with him about it, rather than shout at him and call him names.

Each community, physical or virtual, has its own unique ideology. The difference between the physical and virtual is that physical ones must necessarily be inclusive, virtual ones are encouraged to be exclusive.

Without getting too sidetracked, there is also the issue of the disconnect between seeing words on a screen and knowing deep in your subconscious that your dealing with a real person. Text on a screen is really difficult to anthropomorphize and sympathize with.
I really like how Subscribe & Share are visible on the side as the user scrolls down.
Go Polvi!
Things like this make me interested in Haskell.
For example, what if I could "ask" my social network for a recommendation, instead of having it pushed onto me?

Which scenario sounds better to you:

1) Cindy Smith at George Washington Middle School wants a freebie. She sends an email to her colleagues asking them to sign up. Some do, she gets her freebie. Several colleagues who were not interested in Bingo Card Creator get emailed.

2) Cindy Smith at George Washington Middle School wants a freebie. She sends an email to her colleagues asking if any of them are current users of Bingo Card Creator. No one is. Cindy Smith gets disappointed. No one else signs up. Several colleagues who were not interested in Bingo Card Creator get emailed.
I brought up the US-only issue before on HN and a couple of people reported success using it from overseas. Yet someone from Reddit was incredulous and couldn't understand how that would work.. perhaps I should just try it ;-)
I think what jheriko is saying is, what are OK's success rates? What percent of their user's messages get replies?
No...they wouldn't. You don't get a warrant to find evidence of a possible crime. You have a crime in mind and you get a warrant to obtain evidence to prove that crime. Here's the quote from the D.A.

"Initially it's just a theft investigation," Wagstaffe said. "But ultimately could it lead to more? That's going to depend on what they learn. That's why they would like to be able to look at the computer and interview everybody that they can so they can determine the extent of what's involved."

But see if it's a theft investigation and they thought what Gizmodo did was theft than they had enough to charge Chen for that. He'd confessed in public. They didn't need to raid the house to bring charges against him.

Being they haven't brought charges against him it looks like they were fishing for something that could "lead to more" and that's unacceptable.
I didn't get a good vibe when I went in for the interviews. I didn't think I would fit it very well.
Richard Elmore wrote in 1980: "The emergence of implementation as a subject for policy analysis coincides closely with the discovery by policy analysts that decisions are not self-executing. Analysis of the policy choices matters very little if the mechanisms for implementing those choices is poorly understood. In answering the question, 'What percentage of the work of achieving a desired governmental action is done when the preferred analytic alternative has been identified?' Allison estimated that, in the normal case, it was about 10 percent, leaving the remaining 90 percent in the realm of implementation."
ConjLabs - Now accepting registrations
and a tartan, might i add.
Yep but something really interesting can happen in the process of creating something new. Buying a company that was not able to provide great things for a log time is not exactly exciting IMHO.
I know it does not exactly compare, but they too have purchased Android, not developed it from the scratch.
Does anyone have any idea how it would compare performance-wise to what's out there right now? vs Nginx for example.
Agree. I'm a Slackware user because too many times has Ubuntu booted and showed me a dialog box saying "I updated your system and broke everything; have fun fixing it".

If I wanted something that constantly breaks things and then try to get off by looking cute, I'd get a puppy.

EDIT: s/Slackware/& user/
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Gizmodo iPhone Saga (Flowchart)