skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they'd shown entrepreneurs success level on the graph . . .
What a mentally ill conclusion to jump to. If this opinion is founded on news and blogs, its not founded on very much at all.
That's a truly ancient web page!
A bigger problem is how awful the development tools are.
i feel like many people prefer "programmer" to "engineer"
That's the feel I'm trying to capture, but in a more structured way so it's more generally effective. I learned that way too. Typed in a game where a Donkey had to dodge cars, all written in BASIC. Reams and reams of paper. Line by line.

But, to be honest I also had some original aptitude, so I got lucky that this worked out for me. Expecting other people to just "type in a load of code" probably won't work the same.
I had forgotten how oddly compelling that creepy dancing baby was. I hate it, but I can't help staring at it.
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This is a big part of it. When I'm helping somebody with their computer, I always tell them that they can't break it and not to worry about it.
Absolutely correct. If the company wants a three year commitment from their employees, they should be willing to reciprocate. Sign the employee to a 3 year contract guaranteeing they can't be layed off or fired. Seems only fair.

"But wait" some will say. "What if the employee turns out to be a dud? The company needs to be able to cut their losses!!". True, but what if the employer turns out to be a dud? Shouldn't the employee also be able to cut their losses?
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Resigning in person is even better if your boss happens to be abusive, manipulative, or otherwise you feel like a face-to-face encounter is going to escalate in the wrong direction.

I've done it, and boy does it feel great to put a jackass in his or her place.
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Would you say they got their money's worth, then? It seems to me they started with more problems than the other systems you mentioned, so they had a need to spend more. My questions are whether they have achieved the same level of absolute security as the other platforms, and whether they could have achieved what they did while spending less money on a more targeted or efficient approach.
I prefer the spinning floppies, horned Bill Gates, and Alanis:

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...

I think I just signed HN's guestbook.
Or by a 25 year-old on myspace today.
By your very logic, it should be fine to release or terminate people by e-mail. I would bet that if the tables were turned, and Calacanis had terminated Evan by e-mail, that Calacanis would be taking even more heat than he is now.

Call me old school, but the best to worst order of quitting (and on the flip side, firing) is this - face to face, telephone, e-mail only if it's impossible to arrange the first or second.
They just bought what is said to be one of the most talented engineering teams when it comes to cloud based music services. If apple was petrified, they are no longer petrified.
> it lets you, when first introduced to a topic, play around with it

This is not how students are taught to use calculators. I agree with you though; Maple, Mathematica, or (say) Python is much better at this than any graphing calculator.
I'm not having this problem. Are you on a public computer or maybe pg was doing some updates?
Though people do clearly get fired by email, I personally think employers have a greater obligation to be courteous about firing than employees do about quitting.

People have given me notice via email before, and I think no worse of them for it.
1 thing a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup.

Learn How to Code. Simple as that.
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The funny part is that the 'spinning' hit counter is probably not spinning fast enough to match reality.
I prefer Weave Sync (http://mozillalabs.com/weave/), as it syncs settings, open tabs and browser history as well, and since, like Xmarks, it encrypts everything and lets you use your own server. I hope that Weave Sync one day makes it into Firefox trunk, as it's an extremely useful extension that goes well beyond what most bookmark/password sync extensions do. Sadly, it is limited to Firefox and Fennec right now.
Amazing! I've honestly been looking for a tool like this for years
> learning to do proofs properly are important only for those who will become academic mathematicians at universities.

Learning how to motivate and explain mathematical relationships and structures is essential for anyone who plans to work with them later (or frankly anyone who plans to be an informed citizen). Without a demonstration of such ability to explain on students’ part, I doubt that any “mathematics” has in fact been learned.

Normal 14-year-olds are plenty capable of understanding the construction of straightforward mathematical arguments.

> demonstration of proof in geometry class is both elegant, precise and appropriate.

You show me a widely used high school geometry book that isn’t completely full of time wasting banality and pointless over-strict over-regimented rules for students to follow, and I’ll be amazed.
I can provide you with a potential counterexample. Acedemics were never important to my family growing up. School was viewed as a waste of time. I wasted a good portion of my life doing manual labor jobs.

One day, I read a book on IQ and took the IQ tests in the back of the book. The description next to my score said something like "With this IQ, you can be anything you want to be". Regardless of the accuracy of the test or the description, I was inspired and have since gone on to do some great things.
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I have a younger cousin in high school right now who's just starting to show some interest in an engineering career. It could be interesting to try to use this to teach her to program. Tempted to try over the summer and then blog about it. I think she's thinking either computer science or electrical engineering, might be a good way to sway her over to my viewpoint from my father's...
I disagree. I don't find many similarities between what I do and what a "real engineer" does. I do not consider myself an engineer; I write software. Nowhere in the 18 years I've been doing this for money have I met anybody that could explain what software engineering really is. Without a definition, the term to me is meaningless.
You raise a good point re: assumptions -- I think the hidden axiom is "The bible is the literal word of God. Therefore, if there's a contradiction then my idea of a perfect God is flawed, and probably doesn't exist".

Maybe I'm naive, but I cannot fathom how someone could -really- believe the world was N thousand years old (when there are trees 5000 years old!), and not as an elaborate way to defend their faith.

In this context I think "believe" means "hope" -- "I hope the world is 6000 years old, because I need to reinforce my axiom of literal biblical truth" vs. "I believe the world is 6000 years old, and would bet money the radioactive dating on this piece of rock will say so (or that this tree will have no more than 6000 rings)."

The separate question is what you call someone who easily believes / defends ideas which are easily disproven -- if not stupid, then gullible? Naive?
i'm on a computer at work. it's been happening quite consistently for several weeks now. i'm the only one that uses this computer.
How's your experience with vserver? I use openvz. It's ok...the technology works, but the docs are less than desirable. I'd switch to vserver if I could maintain the same experience.
I can't quite grasp the message that you're trying to send here. Is this supposed to be a jab at 'the media?' Or is this supposed to be some sort of pro-mental-health message?
Engineers precisely specify a problem and then build a solution that's correct to within a tolerance. I'm afraid I don't see the resemblance to programming.
I'm no big fan of Calacanis, but broadcasting a private discussion with your soon to be former employer isn't necessarily going to work in your favor the next time you're looking for work. When I recruit people, I do the standard Google, Facebook, Linked In, and Twitter searches.

If a candidate had no problems revealing information about his/her previous employer, whether justified or not, I'd be wondering about what else that person would be willing to reveal. There's a permanence to publishing this kind of information on the Interwebs, and it's not always going to work in your favor unless you're at the rock-star level of talent.
How Gilt Grew Sales from $25 million to $170 million in 2 years
Exactly how much money did you make from it? and have you been able to sustain the same kind of returns on other projects since then ?
"Non-engineers are not 'designers' by default." Amen to that. This would be a great subject for its own post.
The key is to avoid making a screwed-up corporation with its records in disarray. In particular, keep a detailed ledger of of all shareholders and what they own (!) and write bylaws that provide for a merger/stock-swap/sell-out without needing the signature of every shareholder. IP assignments and records are also important. The nightmare scenario to avoid is a missing shareholder or inventor derailing the IPO/sell-out.
Hmm...doesn't seem to do anything: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...
Ugh... reading this later:

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On my iPad my finger is many times the size of the voting arrows. Your pointing device on your netbook is pixel accurate with pre-click position feedback.

But beyond the clicking, I think the reason I like the native HN app on my phone is because it makes better use of the pixels. On the web page there are great swathes of pixels that are not contributing. I'm not as sensitive on the ipad, but paid my $3 because the author promised an iPad upgrade, and HN on a small screen could be $3 better.
While the computational benefits are certainly nice, I think that Mercer's theorem is much deeper than that. It says that any [positive definite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive-definite) function is an inner product, though the space of that inner product might be infinite. The consequences of this go much further than just speeding up algorithms-- we can take plain old linear methods like SVMs and apply them to any data type on which we can define a kernel. This is huge, because it allows machine learning to break free of the vector world in which the algorithms are classically defined. Want to classify gene sequences? You don't have to hack them into a fixed-width vector, just define a string kernel for genes. Want to classify fragments of lambda calculus? Just define an appropriate tree kernel. It's wonderfully powerful.
Clicked 'Get Started' thinking that would give more info. In Chrome, there's no way to exit that dialog and return to the main screen (no exit button, no cancel button, Esc does nothing). Overlooking something so obvious makes me distrust anything else the service might offer.
or you could hold out for the soon to be open editor position at gizmodo
The idea that once you launch your product you shouldn't need funding doesn't seem intuitive to me. Sure writing code is hard, but there is a lot that goes on after your initial launch, and a lot of these things cost money (like sales, marketing, etc.).
This happens to me at work too. Your company is using a caching proxy of some sort. If you hit the browers refresh it should show your data... Sorry I can't give a better tech explanation, not my area of expertise
Although the concept isn't new (I have spent several days scrolling in http://yourworldoftext.com/ ), applying it to a game platform like this is very creative.

Strangely, I like the "map" function better than the actual game.

Looks like it'll have a great future, but it's not too entertaining right now.
Thanks for pointing this out! Have you tried clicking outside the box? Anyways, we will add a close button to make it more intuitive.
More than a million dollars a year from MovieForumz, primarily using Clickbank affiliate program. I targetted my users who were there to see movies, with an affiliate site that also offered movie downloads/viewing. I tried other affiliate programs like Netflix and Gamefly but it was an epic fail.

I've made more money from my other sites. MovieForumz was one of the smaller earners(except in the beginning, it was pretty significant).
PRIVACY: Where does DirtyPhoneBook get phone numbers to publish?
I'm not sure I completely understand that site. Where do they get their phone numbers?

Also, is there any way to remove a phone number from there?
Why should the obligation be any greater?

Economically, they're paying employees fair value for some specified output. There should be an equal expectation of professionalism on both sides.
Why can't you simply deride the language while praising the approach. Then the adult can believe you aren't being patronizing, maybe the book is, but the book is an effective way to learn. The teenagers can run through it in a short time (or read through it if they should be reading another book), and the adults will be fine. Have you heard how many adults say "oh I'm not very good with computers"? What's there to be good with?

Not that the book is worth derision, just as a tactic for those who take themselves too seriously.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1300409
Given your restriction, I'd say stocks. But stocks are inherently risky. And unless you're willing to put in the effort, I'd recommend you stay away.

Further, many companies have cash and some of it will be earning interest. They will also hold bonds of sorts which would also be earn interest. They may raise money in the bond market which would require the company to pay interest. This would severely restrict the amount of companies you can invest in.

Mutual funds typically don't do very well, not when consideration is given for their fees and their performance benchmarked to the S&P.

I would buy commodities like gold and silver except that they're at an all time high. And what your timeframe here is important.
LLVM is more like a C virtual machine. It's basically there to replace the gcc compiler with a compiler and virtual machine.
especially liked the "Campaign against frames" badge :)
Slate Wars - will any of these rival the iPad?
This would be way crazy for an ad. It was very nice tho. Coming down to play such a humour role in your own company's ad isn't something all executives can/will do.
the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.

That's what they'll teach you at engineering school. Not everyone who is writing software is engineering.
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This looks like a MVP using mockups. How do you plan on competing against Recurly, Chargify, etc.?

Edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1300500
Extrapolating from yourworldoftext, this game could have been more interesting if it was unlimited universe. And the same as ywot, the more people there are the more interesting things get.
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I am applying for a job at a YC company and really, really want to get it. I've been interviewed and am just waiting now; I keep feeling torn between the urge to find a way to show them my determination somehow (terrible first thought: emails) and feeling that this is tacky and annoying. Should I just take a chill pill? For current or future reference, is there any respectful way I can improve my chances?

(Yes, it's my first time applying to a startup)
I've just finished adding support for Account Manager to my site, FireFound: https://www.firefound.com/ if anyone wants a live example.
He seems like the typical self aggrandizing possessive network engineer type to me. If we classify that as a mental illness they'll probably have to shut down the Internet. From what I've seen in the industry it's not uncommon for people in that position with little supervision or support to run amok. Network engineers need to be treated like tolerable dictators sometimes. If someone lets them get out of control bad things will happen. Not defending his actions at all but we could examine any profession and find behaviors that look a lot like mental illness.
Nah. It's like replacing the drafting table with a "look and feel" vision statement, then handing it off to the foreman.
It looks like an interesting concept, but if it truly is going to make it seamless to switch payment API providers they are going to have to store card details (assuming you don't want to store card details and you are currently storing card details on the gateway), since I don't think gateways let you dump the card details back out.

It seems like the main value proposition is you can switch payment gateway providers (or use multiple ones for say canadian/us transactions) without having to move payment APIs. If I'm really trying to avoid having to switch APIs, what sort of gaurantees do I have that you guys will be around next month?

One big concern for me is that it seems that if you fold I lose the ability to bill recurring customers unless I store CC data (something I'd rather avoid).
Very cool, but not new at all. There's a 3D online multiplayer game in which all participants edit the world, called Minecraft: http://minecraft.net/

The idea of user-created content in games is much older, player-edited worlds go all the way back to MUDs, MUCKs, MOOs, etc.
Clang is currently the most active LLVM project, but it is hardly the fundamental purpose of LLVM. It's just that C happens to be both the most widely used language in the world and the one that Apple has the most interest in backing.
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apple.com:

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That, or there's good reason for outgoing employees not to have unfettered access to the company IP.
Many of my professors clearly thought it sucked.

But the really good and memorable ones took the job seriously and seemed to have a lot of fun.

Since I was in an engineering curriculum, I didn't notice many unmotivated students. Anyone like that washed out pretty early.

I don't think teaching inherently sucks. I think universities have let people into the profession who lack either the skills or the motivation, since teaching is seen as secondary to research.
If anyone's ever used PHP, this sounds like the worst hire ever. I bet he's a smart guy, but you can gain some insight on his attitude towards development here -- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf

"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I'll just restart apache every 10 requests."
I like the idea very much.

Offering both pay by subscription and pay by transaction. Both has it's use cases. If I was running an ecommerce platform I would prefer to pay by month and if I want to sell ebooks on my blog, I would choose the second option to reduce costs.

P.S: Why do I get a confirmation message that says just "powered by wufoo". Maybe you should add your own message in it :)
This isn't my area of expertise either, but if you add a fake argument to your URL string like "&foo=bar" that should probably force a non-cached version. I'd check to see if there are any extensions available for your browser that do something like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed_Shaw,ah, ruby, ruby,ruby, rubehh, ahhahh.
try jedit:
Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
Too hard to recommend a 'text editor' for all those stupid peoples. Python from Ruby -- clever. As long as I have zed I have a job.
And Steve Ballmer selling Windows XP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0
KDE has had the option of a global menu bar for awhile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu.png

It's not very consistent across applications, though. Hopefully Ubuntu's work here will also help more applications work with other implementations of it.
You can check out this that we have few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282627
i see. i suppose that's why when i hit different links (e.g. ask, submit) i see different karma numbers unless i hit refresh

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I have been diagnosed with Type A in college, and I've got that hyperfocus ability at times. Medication didn't really help me so I stopped. However I recently learned I have Convergence Insufficiency, which can cause you to look as if you're ADHD. So now I don't know.
I've witnessed an ASCII reenactment of 9/11 on that among other shenanigans
That's not the worst hire, that's the normal hire! A lot of programmers are out there that are like that.
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Most people don't even know what Flash is.

I doubt that's enough of a distinguishing factor to significantly change market perceptions.
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yeah, i'm also moving toward facebook only auth.
I used to work with a developer, about 2-3 years ago. He was originally CTO of a startup bought by Yahoo! back in the day (Hotjobs). He'd develop live on the server, no version control, yap at you over IM or across the room to get out of the file that he was editing, restart Apache every few seconds to get mod_python to reload. It was absolute chaos. He's a great hacker and a brilliant guy, but some people are truly shooting themselves in the foot for the sake of being "old school". It all comes down to a stubborn laziness. There's definitely a balance between sticking to what you know and prematurely ejaculating over the latest and greatest technologies. Some people just refuse to use new things.
How exactly is this going to work? Are you just going to be adding as many modules (different payment gateway APIs) as you can?
Yes, "bias" is probably a better term.
I don't really understand why Apple would spend half a billion on buying chip manufacturers and paying their employees. What is the benefit for them to throw away profit and get into competition with part suppliers?

Seems like a poor business decision to branch so far from their core business model - especially in a field where you have to keep up with heavy competition. Haven't they always bought their chips from IBM(PPC) or Intel(newer Macs and ARM chips for iPhone), previous to this?
Firefox is just ridiculously insecure all around as a platform for extensions.

Instead of developing a new least-privilege extension API like Chrome did, Mozilla put in an App Store style review process on A.M.O. for real extensions and developed a new API just for lame themes. They have code signing baked in but don't even use it for their own code, so an annoying 'unsigned' warning is the expected default.

Even with all that, the extensions themselves have highly-exploitable vulnerabilities: http://lwn.net/Articles/348769/

It's probably the best means to get remote code execution on Linux, especially since extensions can bundle native NPAPI plugins.
There might be others that want it just as bad as you. I'd just sit tight (unless you omitted something major from your application.) If you get rejected, then tell them how much you wanted it, and ask them to consider you down the line, and what you could do to make yourself more hirable.
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