skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more.

What's worse still is that a lot of these people have figured out how to game the system.

At my previous job (big company -- 175,000 people), we had a lot of "senior" staff floating around, and the common thread among them was an inability to learn anything new. They were doing things the same way that they had for years -- and most of the software that they'd had a hand in was very brittle (loads of tightly coupled "components") and inefficient.

Their approach was to do basically nothing until the project went to crunch mode, then bust their butts in Hero (tm) mode, and the management loved it -- especially as the company foolishly brought more and more managers over from amazon, where heroism + round-the-clock babysitting are standard operating procedure.
Mmm, I think I'm getting it. So it's the idea that they actually have something to lose, instead of just doing the "normal" things and thereby not having to incur this risk of pain?
> the advantage of turning the other cheek is it frees your mind to think about productive things rather than unproductive ones.

Your definition of "productive" has the same bias.

Turning the other cheek is by origin an alternative to an eye-for-an-eye. For a mind that can only be freed with an eye-for-an-eye settlement, turning the other cheek won't do it. But an eye-for-an-eye approach can be productive:

And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he bent with all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.
Sorry, didn't know. Trying to edit my title/description - how do I do that?

And to be honest...I just wanted to know about peoples experience with codemyconcept. I like there prices. I saw psd2html also who looked good, but they were too expensive for me. But any other recommendations that's cool too.
Already: iPad$ greater than iPod$, iPad$ = Mac$ / 2
You could also (theoretically, haven't tested it all):

- watch Hulu, when you're not in the US

- use Spotify when you are in the US (and you use a UK box for example)

- bypass your university firewall

- in general secure your connection in case you are using an open network
What modules are loaded? Can I load more? It would be nice to, say, code up a quick Parsec parser to show to coworkers.

(OK, I just use my local ghci for that... but still...)
Ask HN: Hacker Houses with Vacancy? 
Hi YC,

I'm working on a startup and I want to move to the Bay Area to network with potential partners and investors more easily. I have about six months of funding. If I don't raise more funding in about 4 months, I intend to look for a job (also a good thing to do in the Bay Area).

In particular, I am interested in moving to Mountain View or San Francisco. For the good of all of us looking to relocate to the Bay Area, how about a thread for the Hacker Houses in the area that have a room available?
This is a really good essay. Absolutely spot on.
"What a load of crap. I have worked for the same company for 12 years and have provided more value every year."

It's not crap, you're the one who's fortunate.

I can say with complete certainty that I've added next to no value to most of the companies that I've worked for that some random bozo hired off the street couldn't -- because most of them resist anything like good engineering. They just don't understand it, and they complain about (and penalize) programmers who aren't writing code when those programmers are asking "What's this thing INTENDED to do?"

No programmer, no matter how skilled, can add any value to such an organization. They're ass-in-seat jobs even though the hiring staff pretends that they're programming jobs.
UN MIX PERFETTO TRA VIVERLO E' SOGNARLO QUANDO PASSA
Original poster asked about enterprise webapps. Those that I've used are quite huge.
If anyone is interested in further reading on the subject of ideas and how to manipulate the "drifting" of them, I suggest reading "The DaVinci Method". A decent amount of research has been done correlating the tendency to be distracted with creativity, the rationale being that these people have less control over their thoughts.

Those with ADD/ADHD among other "disorders" tend to be more prone for an outside-the-box thought process.

Some things you can do to stimulate your Alpha brain waves, which give you adequate conditions for what Paul Graham calls "drifting" include walking barefoot on grass, and staring into the darkness while laying in bed before falling asleep.

I tend to have a lot of abstract thoughts, some brilliant and many more ridiculous, and I have benefited greatly from writing them all down in my phone. Translating them into english is extremely beneficial, and it's surprising how easy abstract thoughts are to forget. I would suggest this for anyone who is in any field requiring an ounce of creativity.
Dreaming, a technique employed by Warriors to achieve a "dreaming body" or "Double". The technique requires the apprentice to see his hands in sleep dreaming. Once the hands are envisioned the dreaming process has begun. The "Double" or dreaming body is a metaphysical manifestation of the self that can be employed by the dreamer to do any number of tasks. Individuals within the realm of the Tonal (day-to-day conscience) would see the "Other" (also known as the "Double") as ordinary persons or as other metaphysical (see philosophy) beings. Seers, would see them as very bright luminous beings, brighter then their human luminous counterparts. As such the dreamer and the dreamed become one but not in the same place or time. Dreaming might be compared with experiences such as lucid dreaming. Through the art of "Dreaming" Naguals theoretically can shape shift into numerous forms including but not exclusively the following: coyotes, crows, and non animals.

Gazing is another form of "dreaming" and is a waking meditative state.

"I am going to teach you right here the first step to power. I am going to teach you how to set up dreaming. To set up dreaming means to have a concise and pragmatic control over the general situation of a dream, comparable to the control one has over any choice in the desert for instance, such as climbing up a hill or remaining in the shade of a water canyon. You must start by doing something very simple. Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands. Don't think it's a joke. Dreaming is as serious as seeing or dying or any other thing in this awesome, mysterious world."

DON JUAN MATUS, Journey to Ixtlan
While changing your top thought directly may not be feasible, I think you can at least adjust the weights on various competing thoughts. For instance, my aunt is the president of a teacher's union and she recently recruited me to work on their website. She's paying me $25 an hour. I can feel the money pulling around my ankles like quicksand. It would be dangerously easy to get sucked into making web pages for the rest of my life. I tell my friends about the job and they say, "That's great!" and their respect for me increases palpably. I can tell they don't really understand startups and hacking and have been thinking of me as just being kind of a bum all this time.

But I tell myself: "This is not what I want to do with my life. I'm doing this as a favor to my aunt. I'm doing this on the side, just to make enough money to keep working on the stuff I really want to work on. That is my real focus, designing web-pages is not." And then when people say, "That's great!", I tell them the same stuff I told myself. I think saying the words out loud to others helps me convince myself on a deeper level.

So maybe by affirming your own values you can allow what you really want to be focused on to naturally rise above the petty stuff.

I also agree with disputes being a huge distraction. One guy I used to work with is extremely contrary by nature. He would argue with anything I said, seemingly out of habit more than anything else. After arguing with him, I would invariably find myself turning over the argument in my head and having a hard time focusing on work. Eventually I decided the guy was hurting me more than helping and that I needed to stop working with him. There were several other factors involved, but that was a big one.

One way to avoid disputes like that is to be single founder. Or at least seek out a co-founder who is agreeable. I watched an interview with Larry and Sergei the other day. They were asked, "What do you guys argue about?" and they seemed kind of stumped for a moment before one of them said, "We don't really disagree about much..."

This essay also helps explain the vague sense of frusteration and despair I feel whenever a friend wants to visit, or whenever I need to visit my family. Inevitably interpersonal relationships end up forcing their way to the top of my brain. Living a monk-like life of isolation is the best way I know of to focus on real problems.

Lastly, I think it is possible to do "ambient thinking" intentionally. Just sit or lie down somewhere comfortable (but not so comfortable you fall asleep), and do nothing for several minutes. Time passes amazingly slowly when you're doing nothing, so you don't need to worry about wasting time. Your mind will naturally start defragmenting itself and playing with various ideas -- at least mine does.
If you're looking for a challenging engineering job, the Contagion Health team is truly awesome. They think big, and with Andrey you will learn a lot.
PayPal’s merchant services business has grown by over 40 percent year over year

The reason Paypal is growing so fast is their rates are extremely competitive if you play by their game. I really feel for the guys like Braintree who are trying to do it right but just can't compete with Paypal's rates, particularly with Paypal offering the same qual and non-qual rates.

I've used Paypal Merchant Services for several years and each year grow more fed up with the practices. Just a few include charging .5% extra if you do not include Paypal Express button in your checkout, keeping the 30-cent transaction fee on refunds, increasing the chargeback fee from $10 to $20, and not letting you export subscription cc info if you want to move your subscriptions to another provider.
Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks [pdf]
Woukd this use an actual holga lens? I thought the project would require the design of a new lens as they dont make holgas anymore.

If you get a new lens you can easily get all the distortion and vignetting you want on any size photosensor. Those are very easy to achieve getting rid of them is the hard part.

Also it should be noted that vignetting is a much bigger issue for digital cameras than it was for film. Most modern professional and semi pro cameras use on board electronics to get rid of vignetting. So vignetting is pretty much guaranteed in this simple design.
What a marvelous paragraph. It almost makes me want to give Taleb a second chance (Fooled by Randomness did nothing for me). This is a sharp observation:

Glander is what children without soccer moms do when they are out of school.

I'm reminded of someone (maybe John Taylor Gatto) who wrote about the education he got as a boy from long hours spent at a pond.

Also interesting that while he addresses the lack of similar words in Arabic and Italian, he doesn't mention the lack of such a word in English, which of course is the only reason he's writing the paragraph to begin with. "Idleness" is loaded with a Protestant strain of the moralism he's objecting to. I suppose colloquialisms like "hanging out" and "chilling" convey something of the idea, but lack its generative core. "Reverie" comes to mind as having a similar quality; telling, perhaps, that it too is French.
metal
> amon amarth
> dimmu borgir

hah, naw - my favorite is music without lyrics. Seems to make me more productive.
Yeah, people weren't up for any investor humor today. Investors are serious business. I learned my lesson. :)
A patent should only be allowed on something fundamental, conceptual, highly novel, and unprecedented, and there should be a significant burden of proof on the patenter to prove all that.

Agreed, except I would substitute "tangible" for "conceptual," as the current laxness in the system could, arguably, be attributed to a departure from a tangibility requirement.
I don't know about that. It's not unPC to make fun of lawyers, but I sure wouldn't like for programmers to be the butt of those kind of jokes.

I actually personally witnessed a trainer on Sexual Harassment Avoidance say "You can't make fun of somebody because they are black, or a woman, but you can make fun of them if they are wearing a pocket protector because nerds are not a legally protected class".

Strangely, my reaction to this was not joy that we are not a historically oppressed protected class. It was more like "Why can't we teach people to treat all their colleagues with respect"?
Chrome (under both Windows & Linux - not sure about OS X) can use SOCKS - I use it regularly.

I'm unsure how to make it do remote DNS look-ups though.

Opera cannot do SOCKS.
Microsoft to employees: 'everybody gets a Windows Phone 7'
Use rsync then. It can copy symlinks and even recreate hardlinks.
Simultaneously reading the iPhone dev book and going through the Objective-C manual from Apple. Objective-C is pretty easy to understand as long as you understand object-oriented programming and have a solid grasp on C. It's just learning it AND the iPhone platform at the same time that is a little harder.
Even better, run the SSH server on port 443. Then you'll be able to tunnel though most corporate firewalls.
"... If you learn to ignore injuries you can at least avoid the second half. I've found I can to some extent avoid thinking about nasty things people have done to me by telling myself: this doesn't deserve space in my head. ..."

Sage advice. It doesn't always work because you can't control what you think all the time but a good, "habit of mind".
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I don't think it is policy (I don't speak for HN)- but I find it really irritating. Thank you for turning it off. I hope people enjoy your article.
I would suggest putting the current banner below the forms and buttons because a) it makes the site look much better and b) people might click it by mistake when they go for the 'Find Someone to Cheer Me Up' button
Apple is “Evil” and Facebook is “a Photo-sharing Site”
Interesting that he uses a space after the #!. I don't think I've ever done so.
For many situations, having really good radar so you know how to avoid stepping in it before it puts you on a slippery slope is the only hope of avoiding the necessity to take a stand. I'm fortunate in that I seem to have a natural knack for such things (and have intentionally honed it with both formal and informal study). Of course, one problem with being good at something like that is that it essentially cannot be proven. Avoiding trouble often doesn't look to other people like one has done anything. :-/
http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/ ?

(from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533796 )
"Ramen Profitable" ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html and "Ideas for Startups" ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
I would suggest that the same people drawn into big companies are the same people drawn to working for the governments. Because they have job safety, are not pushed to hard, have a rigid work boundaries, and can play the politics game.
Actually I'm pretty sure the Adobe Flash plugin will ignore your proxy settings, so it will only work with actual web sites.
Second this. Most of the VC backed and Seed funded startup CEO's I know are desperate for good engineers/developers/designers.

It's a good time now if you are in the job market.
If they are "desperately hiring," why aren't they promoting the positions? Even mentioning them on their own websites? Putting the word out to recruitment agents etc. Just seems strange, that's all.
They don't discuss how the malware got into the ROM in the first place. To me that is even more interesting. Could it be that the malware in the ROM was put there by somebody working for Dell or somebody that had access to the ROM chip manufacturing?
I feel that this concept misses most of the true charm of a Holga. The linked article says "there are some change in functionalities in order to make it useful." Which seems practical, but also kind of misses the point. I still think it's a beautiful homage to 70s & 80s camera design.

Holgas have random imperfections and a total lack of quality control. Every Holga has slightly different level of light leaks, chromatic distortion, vignetting, etc.

Holgas are hackable. People flock them, make light seals, replace the lens with a pinhole, make Holgaroids, etc, etc. It's essentially a plastic box with two moving parts.

Holgas give you no technological photographic control inside the box. You have one (varying) shutter speed or Bulb, two (largely unknown) apertures, and whatever speed film you dumped in it. If you need to adjust exposure then you need to do it when you develop your film, or not at all. This is, in my opinion, both limiting and freeing.

All that said, I would love to see this camera made with a glass lens. A traditionally styled, intentionally restricted, digital camera with a retro look. Provided it didn't cost $2000. :D.

The sad truth is that, I bet, if it was ever commercially produced then it would be forced to have an LCD screen on the back. I can picture the hipsters crowding around in a bar to chimp the screen, right now...
Sorry, I do not see the problem of actually working and getting paid, while working on your own projects. How else are you living? (You sound like someone out of college who has not worked before, if this is not the case then ignore that sentence. If you have worked, and are taking a break to pursue your startup, then I completely understand.)

Meanwhile you are learning about doing web pages, and more importantly, dealing with clients.

I do like your point that isolating yourself from many distractions really help you focus, but probalby not a good idea to do it for too long.
In my experience, yes. I shifted my ground-state from 90% video games to 33% video games + 66% coding.

It's helped a lot, but I would like to push it further.
For some people, their ground state is aimless coding, or writing, or drifting around some community (e.g., the community of actors, or musicians, etc).

Mine is reading. That's why I went to grad school in English, despite the plethora of articles on why doing so is a financially bad idea.

(Well, I went to grad school because I like to read and because I have a backup plan if it fails.)
Cloud load testing suite can impersonate a million iPhones
I just had a phone interview with Zappos. I mentioned this. Thanks.
Facebook founder may have given up ownership stake
But Amdahl's Law isn't totally applicable in this case, because if you manage to gain more subscriptions via paywalls or whatever, you raise the 3% figure but also the total revenue. It's possible (albeit unlikely) that subscriptions could increase to the point where they account for 50% of revenue, without necessarily decreasing the number of newspapers sold via newsstand or the advertising take.

In the reverse case, where you're trying to reduce one of them to reduce the total, it would apply well; your greenhouse gas example seems appropriate. Or the way the media reports political spending, for example; they like to focus on small examples that people relate to better, which make very little difference individually to the overall total.
Bus driver refusing to drive to PP office claims was fired for religious beliefs
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> we're figuring out that our employers don't like us having 'fun'

No. They don't care whether you're having fun. They care about whether you're doing what they're paying you to do. They want to avoid anything that interferes with that.

> the realization that this is not our parent's world

Mostly it is. You do have smart phones to replace the snazzy digital watches that distinguished them from their parents.
There may be another reason that Paul and so many others find the shower beneficial for creative thinking :

Every home has a built in natural ionizer -- the shower.
This surfeit of negative ions has long been associated with improvements in mood and physical health. Research conducted in the last decade has begun to support the view that negative ions have a net positive effect on health.
Wheres the iPad app?....
Why I Wake up Every Hour and a Half to Check Emails
These days, the ground state of most people is aimless browsing, Facebook and Twitter.

Unfortunately,I am becoming most people and that has to stop now.
Is "man ssh" really that hard? Is it necessary to reproduce the excellent documentation that already exists?
I'm pretty sure Holgas are still being manufactured. I know that they're still being sold. My favorite local camera shop has a whole case of them.
I work mostly on large web apps but that doesn't have much to do with my dislike for IDE's.

The reason I don't like them is that I don't want 90% of what it gives me. My 'IDE' is 1 gvim per project and a terminal app with a couple tabs. I can't think of anything an IDE gives me that I don't a) want or b) already have.
I would say the only startup worth working on is your own.

Working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited - overworked and underpaid. And the worst thing about it is that it's all couched in an atmosphere of guilt trips and taking-it-for-the-team.

I'm sure there are exceptions. I just haven't seen any.

I'd rather work for The Man in my day job in a cold corporate environment where everything is explicit from the get-go, get well paid for it and crank out code for my own startup in my free time.
On the other hand, without the tenure carrot, how could you possibly persuade a smart, successful individual in his thirties to pack up his life and move to, say, Urbana-Champaign or College Park, TX? The biggest problem with the academic job market is how spread out it is; while other professions usually have a choice of dozens of employers in any metropolitan area, very few cities have more than a couple of universities.

Tenure is a fantastic perk, and if it didn't exist, academic salaries would have to be a helluva lot higher.

Now, tenure for schoolteachers, that's crazy.
U.S. States' top law enforcement officials question Google
Actually, I did try it, thinking that I may have misunderstood it for all this time. But no shell for me (Centos 5.5, bash).
Based on my experience as a TA at a top-tier university, there's unfortunately still quite a need to teach 20-year-olds to write in complete sentences.
Tips for a startup infographic
This is exactly why dating women is dangerous to your startup success ;).
High costs keeping software startups from filing patents
I'm really into this idea of lo-fi digital that I'm seeing for the first time in this thread!

I wonder how difficult it would be to create a cheap digital back for a holga? I guess the easiest thing would be to cannabalize the cheapest digital camera you could find, but i wonder if there are any home-brew approaches to the sensor...