skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice! I just switched our company blog to posterous a few days ago. The setup was a breeze, adding contributors was simple, and posting-via-email is just oh so nice.

Only thing I'm not a fan of is the theme editor is kind of slow if you're doing your own HTML, but that's understandable at this time.
Nice move. But the community and dashboard are what make tumblr good. I use both actively.

They should make it easy to import my entire dashboard. They could also turn the Posterous dashboard into an rss reader. That would be incredibly useful.

Reblooging is better than comment moderation administrivia.
http://www.thestartuptoolkit.com? I've found it very useful and a clever design.
I was shocked when we felt it in Milwaukee minutes after already hearing about it.

But apparently at 6 km/s, it would take a full 3.5 (edit: more like 6) minutes for the seismic wave to travel from the epicenter to Milwaukee.
LeadsCon: a crash course in “show me the money”
Hey CaptainCrunch, FYI Ottawa != Toronto
(I'm sure you knew that, just saying)
Sounds a lot like what Redis is doing with Redis Cluster, except this one is already in production.
The difference between a magic wand and an iPad (fiction)
Oh thank god the internet is safe
Well, unless your head isn't shaped that well (or has moles, scar, prison tattooos...). Then shaping it is much more of a bother and you look more like a conehead or Quasimodo than a Buddhist monk. Or even Moby.

But yes, as the other maintenance-free option is more and more turning into a skullet for me, I guess I'll have to go that way, too. There's a shaped Remington Hair clipper (looks like a curved electric comb) that worked well enough last time...
Knowing that a particular interface is almost completely accidental...

Yes! A lot of interfaces are largely arbitrary fictions! If more people understood this, there would also be fewer fan boyish arguments.

Also suggests a metric/strategy: minimize the amount of fiction in your UI and maximize the fundamental principles. (Example, sliders are well understood, because most people understand basic geometry.)
We got this:

"Recognizing that many of you may have childcare obligations that may create a personal challenge for you please seek approval from your manager to deviate from the above and don’t allow your personal schedule to take priority over your need to support your team’s efforts to service the customer."

A lot of people where I work didn't particularly like the tone of that.
I see your point, but disagree about the 'matter of months' part; we were discussing the Apple tablet here last year, iPhones have been out for a few years (as have some other niche multitouch products), and the tablet + stylus concept has been on the market for a decade. So I had expected other players to offer up something even if it was only to stake a claim on behalf of their brands.

In other words, not to be compete or beat with apple technically in the short term, but to deny them marketing hegemony. Perhaps they'd rather wait for the initial iPad thunder to subside, than risk being tagged as 'a poor second best' in the first lap of the race. I suppose it depends on whether one feels engineering or brand positioning is the biggest determinant of long-term success.
I was thinking that if any company required photos with resumes, that they would get into trouble if they kept picking white males.

It would be interesting if people could submit resumes anonymously, without a picture or name.
Like all things supposedly "intuitive".

What's intuitive? It's all learned from something. We can't even pick our nose when we're first born, we have to figure out how to move our arm.
I don't know, personally, I'm frustrated by Posterous too.

They're adding one useless features after another, but that email posting still cannot get even such a basic thing as paragraphs right. Just piles of br's after each line. And they are converting every nonascii character to HTML escape sequences. So after each post, I have to edit unreadable crap full of HTML escapes to put there at least that paragraphs (because otherwise, with larger font sizes, there'd be line break because of whole text-field width and then, after just a word or two, because of those hard breaks in HTML).

On the benefit side, there are things like TypeKit, which seems quite useless to me, as I couldn't find any way to explicitly display only fonts that have Czech diacritics characters, which is essential to me. Facebook like buttons that I don't want… And so on. It's quite tiresome. At first, I liked Posterous because it was easy to setup and worked really well, but I'm getting quite weary of all those, seemingly unimportant, deficiencies.
Which starbucks? I was near one too :)
No, this site would let you pick links on your site that you can attach a little notification that says "click me to go to the next step", so you could build a whole getting started guide using it. It's hard to explain, without seeing it.
Video: Amazon CEO Bezos' advice to the class of 2010
From the comments:

My sister used to work for a large multinational that pressured people to come in on Saturdays. The employees would come in but they would work on personal tasks like paying bills and balancing their checkbooks. It was all for appearance and it just pissed off the employees. She left the company after this pressure started. Part of her Saturday "work" was looking for a new job.

In my experience this is par for the course. Sure, you can force employees to spend more time in the office, but past a certain point they'll just find ways to satisfy your crazy demands only in the most technical sense possible.
Felt it here, 40 mins northwest of Detroit, MI. Didn't recognize what it was until I saw this.
Appearance doesn't matter, and in the post, I don't think I ever said it did. (In fact, what I said was, "it wasn’t his pretty face that was the deciding factor; he was a very qualified candidate who would have passed our screening regardless".)

I know nothing about this guy's skills other than what his resume says. But, what I do know is that he's a person, compared to every one of these other resumes that are an abstraction.
Android Scripting Environment brings scripting languages to Android.
We felt this in Grand Rapids, MI. I was on the 6th floor of our building at the time and the standing dividers in the office were swaying back and forth by about 2 inches.
I'd venture he is talking about a short buzz like a military cut. I generally put the number 2 comb on the clippers and have at it, leaves about 1/4-3/8 inch. In the winter I let it get a little longer, go to a #4.
Had not the time to search through the codebase, but the source include 10 folders, a sysadmin's hell, some with software in C, some with software in C++ and some with python code, one of them is a folder named 'mencached'.
Two Must Read Graph Papers
A lot of stuff can work as objects; in fact in many cases an object can be the smallest (or simplest, or most logical etc.) piece of code.

But not everything must be abstracted :)
Amazon has the power, and have used it, to remove books from your home that you have already bought. That's insane!
Yes, in Ottawa - Near the epicenter.
The anonymous submission thing is interesting to me, despite the fact that I liked the photo idea.

I would genuinely be interested in participating in an experiment to compare all resumes with pictures versus all resumes that are anonymous. I would like to be the subject...to review the resumes and see if I'm biased or not. I think that would be interesting.
Pretty much what I do, except switch to #4 in the winter. And use the tapered ones around the ears.
I was going to make a crack about the Ottawa Senators, but realized how much Toronto Maple leafs suck...
That's horrifying. I can't help but wonder if it's not carefully crafted to ring true to everyone in the manner of a horoscope.

Doesn't everyone have a tough job now and then? Doesn't everyone have rough relationships with friends or family when the counterparty is down? Who among us only associates with well-adjusted people and companies?
Midtown. We're in the old Sacramento News and Review building across the street from Mr Pickle and Peet's.

We'll be doing something for Second Saturday next month, so stop on by!

edit: 20th and J
Memory is the New Disk for the Enterprise
Looks like someone needs to read The Mythical Man Month.

(I know TMMM is about specifically software engineering but for a CEO to think that bums on seats==productivity is fairly depressing)

On a aide note - Americans! Move to Europe! Our economy is collapsing too but we're having a much better time watching it happen...
We felt it (mildly) in Allentown PA - there was enough concern to evacuate the office building.
Second that. A couple years ago, I've had a conversation about video resumes with the owner of a company that centers around job search for recent college grads. He actually floated the idea to his lawyer and the laywer nixed it for reasons you've mentioned.

There is a workaround however. You can include a link to LinkedIn at the top of your resume, and upload a photo to your LinkedIn profile. That's what I do.
Trying to find some sense in this, I guess the chemistry work was focus on developing new types of drugs, which should have make him so rich, that he got mad thinking about the money's about to earn.

Otherwise, I see no reason for a person to be that nasty.
Klout:  Enunciate
I'm pretty sure Apple would pick profits over both.
I'm not so concerned about people gaming HN with the button, but rather a decline in the quality of content which gets submitted.

It seems PG does lots of algorithm work to keep the community active and engaged with data that is actually of interest.

Is there some way we can flag links that are sent via a button link and compare the number of up-votes to those submitted directly via the site. That may give some insight into the value of the share buttons to the community.

I'd prefer to not jump to conclusions re: the effects, lets get some metrics and see what is happening.
At one previous job of mine, the CEO banned me from wearing a sport coat to the office. He thought it was 'bad for team morale, like I thought I was better than everyone else'. Pffft.
Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4 delay
Definitely felt it here in Vermont.
The Internet is full of less than stellar people. Don't let them get to you. It is just not worth your time or energy.

You really don't need to defend yourself here.
again, that person had to have text-ed you for you to be able to reply.
Honey, I Shrunk the Beowulf
That was exactly what I was getting at. It's also not a matter of "is it technically possible" but (s)he claims that it's a popular choice. I don't buy it, but would love to be proven wrong.
The timing for me is interesting as I was just about to start up a cassandra setup here. This might be a better fit for my particular needs if I could get it running. Unfortunately, I'm having a difficult time figuring out where to start. A general getting started guide would be very helpful.

- The FAQ on membase.org is empty and the wiki does not appear to be populated with much content (i.e. 'Directions for working with the membase source and descriptions of the components in the source will be available soon').

- The google group does not appear to have significant content besides a 'Where's the ruby driver?' post.

- My work blocks IRC, so jumping on freenode isn't an option.

- I tried downloading from the northscale.com site, but for whatever reason I cannot enter the required fields on the download form (in Firefox 3.6.4).

- I downloaded the source, which is broken out into a number of directories - figuring out what the various subsystems are and what needs to be done is going to take some digging.
Here we are in 2010, in a world replete with democratized media, where any person with access to a computer — even without owning one — can sign up for a free email address at any number of free providers, and then sign up for a free blog service from an even more impressive array of providers, and speak their mind and refer to other such pages using the magic of Uniform Resource Locators. And, in this world, we have such an overgrown sense of entitlement that we get upset when someone chooses to reserve their blog as their own and doesn't allow us to take a piss in their pages.

Absolutely incredible that this is called an "inability to respond". Exactly how low does the bar need to be set before one is willing to lift one's leg to step over it?

Gruber links to people who have chosen to respond to him in their own blogs on a regular basis, and this has allowed me to discover blogs I may never have discovered before. It also drives traffic to them that they may never have seen before. What's so wrong with him expecting you to engage him as a peer?
I don't think his goal is to solve the scientific problems surrounding aging, so his science doesn't matter that much to me. Everything he does seems to be an effort to increase awareness and generate interest in a subject (reversing the effects of aging), that shockingly few people think is remotely realistic.

In my mind, he views himself as the heretic leading the charge against the established views of the rest of the world (that age related death is a necessary thing).

And, THAT is what Peter Thiel is investing in, because getting people to start caring about the problem is the first step to solving it. The organizers of the X-Prize didn't build rockets - they setup a prize that motivated other people to build them. And, thus he's created the Methuselah Mouse prize to try to fund a similar distributed effort.

Calling him a quack is inaccurate, regardless of if it's true or not. He's not a scientist. Instead, he's an entrepreneurial spirit who's trying to motivate people to believe that we can change the world in completely new and powerful ways. Just like we always have.
Mixpanel is looking for a great frontend developer
> it would be much better if they just competed by making better phones

They're working on that.

Steve Jobs was very clear at D8 that he believes in market forces. He'll make the phone he thinks is best, and customers can decide.

Mac has gotten less attention this year because Apple is so focussed on making better phones right now (and iPads which share a lot).

Patent lawsuits are just a minor detail and have very little to do with consumers. They'll go away when the laws are changed so companies can't benefit from them. In the mean time, just let corporate lawyers worry about them and don't make a big deal out of it.

Patent lawsuits absolutely do not mean the company isn't trying its best to compete on quality.
Interesting! I've concluded the same thing based on the very scarce info they're offering.
Most people will keep to-do lists, many people use paper lists. The reason why so few have been successful or broadly adopted is because they don't cross the email/task/project problem.

Not all task managers are built the same, but the need a solution is ubiquitous.
I was on the phone with some one in New York, he was very surprised.
Technology development almost always takes longer than you hope/expect. So don't let that be considered a 'failure'.

If that is the only problem you're having, then see if you can scale back on the project, and define what you can get out in the shortest amount of time.

Also, you said you wanted to 'learn quickly from failure'. I hope that is just a language issue. I don't think you want to learn quickly, as much as fail quickly. There is a big difference. Failing quickly means you don't spend a ton of time on something that won't be a success in the long term. Learning quickly means that you gain the insight from your failure quickly. I don't think the second is nearly as important as the first.
I was introduced to Roy about a month ago. Awesome guy with no ego and no agenda who just wants to help. He also took the time to understand the product and logic behind it, which is something few people do. Seriously it was a relief from the usual people we've been pitching lately. Combined with joshu, gabe, jim young, and jeff miller this is a real win for startups.
Professors who treat their grad students like slave labor almost always create their own comeuppance.

See, one day, that grad student will be a PhD. And because you abused him like slave labor, instead of being a peer you can collaborate with, he becomes your competitor.

You find yourself getting less funding and less people willing to go in on grants with you because some young, hotshot upstart took own of his PhD level ideas you don't own and turned it into something valuable. And you're scrambling to catch up.
Showing photo and age will make it stick out but precisely because you're telling them age and (usually also) race and gender you're going to trigger problems due to hiring and civil rights laws, esp if a large corp or HR is involved.

Stick out? Yes. Bad way? Probably sometimes.
But "better" varies from person to person. If I dress comfortably I feel better and work better. For me comfortably != Suit & tie.
You guys rock, thanks a lot.
In the OP's case, it was an assistant Prof trying to move up.
This one: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-LINQ-Language-Integrated-Query/dp/...

The example on page 3 was:

Dim greetings() As String = {"hello world", "hello LINQ", "hello Apress"}

Dim items = _
From s In greetings _
Where s.EndsWith("LINQ") _
Select s

Which In Smalltalk would be:

greetings := #('hello world', 'hello LINQ', 'hello Apress').
items := greetings select: [:s | s endsWith: 'LINQ'].

Needless to say I was not completely bowled over by this stunning Microsoft innovation.
Same here. I think part of it is that in CS, at least in my area (AI), there's a sort of "producing research progeny" mentality rather than "having a bunch of low-paid staff" mentality. The way you ultimately put your stamp on the field is that, in addition to your own work, you produce a bunch of brilliant researchers who go on to basically found a "school" of AI strongly influenced by your work/views.

It feels the profs who care that much about hours/wk are ones who really just have a whole lot of gruntwork they want done, and want grad students to do it. That's not really a good way to produce brilliant research progeny (grad students whose PhD consists entirely of doing gruntwork for you aren't the kind you want for that), but maybe in some areas it's the path to fame--- especially areas where hitting on a Big Result is the way you make your career.
Here's a report from Hamilton, Ontario: http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog/1777/earthquake
This seems like a step in the wrong direction. I personally like a uniform interface while browsing synopses of articles from various feeds. I will go out on a limb and assume that the popularity of Arc90's Readability bookmarklet speaks to this.
"I think this parental type action SUCKS. However, what you are doing, as managers, with this company makes me SICK. It makes sick to have to write this directive. I know I am painting with a broad brush and the majority of the KC based associates are hard working, committed to Cerner success and committed to transforming health care. I know the parking lot is not a great measurement for 'effort'. I know that 'results' is what counts, not 'effort'. But I am through with the debate."

This part proves that this guy is the worst kind of douchebag: one that knows what he is doing is stupid and heavy handed, and yet does it anyway.
>Also, "taken advantage of" is exactly the right term in my friends' cases. Both are classic Aspergers cases (actual Aspergers, not just an excuse for bad behavior), and their professors seem to be taking advantage of the trouble they have mounting an effective resistance.

That's just the real world calling, and their refusal or inability to answer. If they were in corporate america, a co-worker or middle manager would steal their work and take credit, or capitalize on their inability to resist additional assignments.

If they were in a start-up, they'd be overburdened and then forced out, probably receiving the lowest equity of anyone and getting even less than out of the deal, because they didn't make any decisions.

Its just a dog eat dog world out there, and if you can't say "No" or take credit for your achievements, you're going to get taken advantage of.
I'm interested.

I'd also be interested in hearing how the CVs look if you kept everything else the same (including the maximum budget) but raised the rate to, say, $50/hr.
I think the article was talking about work wear not golf wear.
12th floor of an apartment building in Woodside Queens. The whole building was swaying.
We are born with a fear of heights. It takes a little awhile to develop object permanence, but there's very little risk of people not getting it. The brain is not a blank slate -- that's ideological dogma from bygone days. Science is showing the brain has a lot of functionality baked into the hardware. Read Steven Pinker's books for the general interest overview.

There indeed is a real intuitive.
That's a good idea. I regularly see people just dropping stuff they don't want to do. One could just create a simple algorithm to work through say a client services team.
Counting from the left may be instinctive rather than cultural
He should just google it or something...
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/723/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455636
Sync Pivotal Tracker and GitHub Issues
And how would you suggest leveraging it for computer interfaces? Putting the dangerous things over the edge of a cliff?
I'm hoping to port it to the CRIO for FIRST robotics, but I haven't looked into trying yet. All my other projects have been relatively minor so far.
Felt it in Ottawa. It woke me up (yeah, took a sick day today), I ran outside and half the neighbours were out talking about it. I tried to call a few people, but for a couple minutes I couldn't get any calls out. It took about 5 minutes to start hearing sirens (ambulances?).

My mother lives closer to the epicenter (north of Ottawa), and portraits fell from the walls and she kinda freaked out.
All you need is a URL and an email address? So, I can automatically import any tumblr blog, even if I don't own it? That's a bit scary.
Never confuse movement with action.
It wasn't wikihow by any chance?
Scientists Create a Much Better Lithium Battery by Adding Carbon Nanotubes
Creation without understanding is shallow. You don't just learn the technique of playing piano and then crank out beautiful symphonies. You don't learn how to draw a blueprint and create world-class architecture. You don't memorize the times table and start doing advanced physics calculations. Knowledge of the history and state of the art is a huge component in creating great things.

And the statement that there's "little practice" in Lisp is a statement about the current mindset of most programmers, not about the language itself. Whether it's useful is orthogonal to whether people use it.
I understand the desire to dominate the market, but isn't it a bit much to call other platforms "dying"?
And you also know that he's an early-middle-aged white male, which likely influenced you to some degree, however minor, in whatever direction. You've even labeled him a "guy". Why "guy"? Why not some other term? A sense of familiarity?

Hence the EEOC issues.
Ask HN: Learning game psychology
I'm trying to get a better understanding of game psychology in building apps. Stuff like HN, StackOverflow, or even FourSquare where people get deeply involved in the community to get points, badges, etc.

Can anybody point to a good resource for learning about this field?

My google searches haven't turned up much, and what I do get is not very deep.