skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me pass along "Art & Copy" as a suggested movie for those interested in marketing. They talk with agencies both for Apple (Chiat/Day) and for dairy farmers. http://www.artandcopyfilm.com - and on Netflix instant play.
Rights not violated if police install a GPS device on your car
I've been using tmux instead of screen lately. It's nice to have window splitting built in. http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
We have common stock just like the founders. How could they increase their value to us without increasing it for themselves too?
Another PSA for Stack Overflow.
Why Smartphone Adoption May Not Be as Big as You Think
This same thing is also an extreme Liberal strategy. Sorry, I can't remember the name to look it up.

The theory is that you can so overload the government that it simply can't stand up anymore (like the USSR I suppose). It crumbles, and that gives you the opportunity to erect a new one in its place, doing away with all those things that stand in your way, like Constitutional restrictions on the government.

UPDATE: the name is "Cloward-Piven" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy#... ), see my follow-up below.
Only had a MBP for a few days (first Mac), but isn't Safari tab-cycling also via Ctrl-Tab, and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to go in reverse? At least on the laptop keyboard, involving the square brackets would necessitate a fairly long stretch, or using both hands?

Being new to the Mac, I'd be happy to hear more shortcuts!
Ask HN: Are any of you resorting to Quora instead of 'Ask HN'?
This week I have found that asking questions on Quora and digging into certain topics has been extremely rewarding. Love Hacker News for its original purpose, but it seems that the Q&A on Quora is much better.
Improve Quality Of Life And Age Gracefully With Exercise for Older Adults
Not that I'm an expert on this sort of thing, but I'll bite.

* Get a good lawyer if you don't have one already. If they're a Silicon Valley company, consider getting a lawyer at a top SV firm (Orrick, Gunderson, Wilson-Sonsini, etc.) and asking them to defer fees until the acquisition goes through. That way, you're not out anything if things fall through. (Ask for a referral to an attorney on HN and I'm sure you'll get some good connections. I could refer you to a few.)

* If it's primarily a "hiring bonus" acquisition, it might be cheap and easy to do. In other words, if they mostly want you and your expertise, not (just) your product, they're less likely to screw you.

* Even if you really want the deal to go through, don't stop everything and wait for that to happen. Keep moving the business forward as if nothing will happen.
How do I track that little Facebook “Like” button in Google Analytics?
I don't understand what you're getting at.

Your Index page is for selling your product/service. Your About page is for telling your story.
Works in India as well, but this is really old news.
He's wearing shorts!
E-pact.net Begins Offering Free Subscriptions
e-pact.net is a free site that provides an online application for users to store personal asset information, in a secure easy to use interface. In case a disaster strikes, or a theft occurs, the user will have a comprehensive record of their personal assets immediately available to them. They can print reports for their insurance company with the click of a button, so that claims can be handled quickly and easily processed.
I will chime in my 2 cents, or coffee advice.

Tarsnap should white label the service and keep the existing pricing. It will increase their volume drastically and the really low pricing will allow a lot of people to build a very profitable business on top of the service.

Someone then can charge 20$/month and a buck a gig for storage with some flashy mac/iphone/ipad app and kill it.
In some ways this was the exact same problem the colonies were having with Great Britain -- taxation without representation.

Interesting idea. The American Revolution dealt with geographical representation. You're making an argument for temporal representation as well.

This seems worth some pondering...
Google Buys Angstro As It Furthers Social Strategy
IPO's are down all across the market, and I don't think it's just because the market is tough. With all of the regulations (Sarbanes Oxley, etc.) and liability (SEC Investigations) associated with being a public company, there are significant downsides to anyone hoping to run a streamlined, efficient business model - it is especially tough for fast moving technology companies.

We sold a prior company of ours to a public entity and stayed on board for a few years, and the red tape / liability overhead and constant short-term goal focus it forced us into was enough to get us to move on to other projects. Being a public company sucks. I think that's one big driver behind all of these private equity firms with multiple billions of dollars to spend. I hope the trend continues.
Personally, I'd really like to see a way of giving people the ability to share eachothers posts on diaspora (with posters consent of course). Metrics for posts could then be measured and displayed, and a whole new golden age of blogging/microblogging/online-publishing could be born out of this.

Also, there's got to be a better way of connecting people of similar interests via groups than the current model.

Also also, please consider musicians in the melée!!

god speed diaspora. I for one will be joining asap.
It's easier to start high and lower than start low and raise
Chrome will use gpu to render pages
Certificate and Custom Pocket Folders Are Educationist Products
If you want to get your educational targets accomplished then you will have to make use of custom pocket folder straight away. Online printing company offers full color folders printing to its valued customers worldwide.
Did anyone actually make this claim here? You quoted two words out of a comment that said quite a bit beside, including:

"Sure, they're not at all reflective of 'real programming' nor are they necessarily particularly challenging, programming wise."

Nobody claimed Project Euler is the way to become a great programmer. I would roll my eyes at your mistake, but I don't roll my eyes at people's mistakes. I try to help them correct them.
They're all betting they can sell those bonds on a liquid market a week before the market officially wakes up and realizes a disaster is coming.
For example, there are few farmers in the government employ.

If only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy
I use Eclipse as my main development environment. I'm familiar with vi, I use it regularly for sys-admin stuff, and used it extensively a while back in college.

As far a text-editor goes, I'm 100% sure that vim/emacs power users are extremely productive (And I'll wage that this video isn't the best example of productivity vs. a GUI).

What I haven't been able to figure out though is the workflow of vim users when working on real projects, not a single source file.

I rarely spend a lot of time writing code in a single file. I often have to navigate the project folder structure to look for stuff, I need to compare files, work with the source control and so on.. all of this I feel I can do pretty efficiently from within Eclipse.

So how do vim/emacs users do? I presume it's all command line and a lot of typing. Am i wrong?
Nope, thankfully I don’t have a need for it.
Here's what gets me:

The disconnect between that video at the end of his presentation versus Apple today.

"Think different... as long as we approve your application for download on the app store."

Admittedly a pretty cool video though.
It's also what the OpenBSD team uses, and has been given a good security audit.
People think it sounds kinda cool, and if Apple if secretive it must be good, right?
> It may not seem fair to change the rules on public employees, but effectively the rules have changed for private employees

It's possible this has happened some places, but not at any major companies I know about. Companies that have phased out defined-benefit pensions have generally not done so retroactively, but only closed them to new hires. Phasing them out retroactively would be a breach of contract, since the employee performed work for you under the expectation that you'd honor the employment contract they signed, including the pension terms. Pension is a kind of remuneration, so you can't decide not to pay it after receiving the work.

Much easier legally to simply stop making those pension promises to new employees, but not breach the ones you already made.
This is the reason my replies on that topic focused so much on total outlay issues, rather than education spending directly, which seemed more directly on topic. I had a hard time expressing my logic, but it was pretty much the issue of the amount of spending on potentially useful things getting crowded out. It's easy to frame it in terms of people not wanting the government to have their money, and I felt the professor tried to establish that with some of his phrasing, but that's not the real problem that needs solving. The problem is allocation.
this is incorrect information. There are lots of countries in EU that still require visa.

EU is trying to make US treat it as a single entity ( http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114061 ) but for the last 4 years they've pretty much failed to do so.
...like the time my co-founder and I adopted a dog together, dropped out of law school, and quit a high paying banking job...

This sort of definition of "tough" seems a bit insulting to bouncers, cops and cage fighting champions. Like how the nerd definition of "risk" is an insult to soldiers, parachutists, and Evel Knievel.
Employees are the biggest expense for any business, not just governments.
Hey Tom, too long between nights out on Russian Hill :)
I can't remember if we talked about it, but you should look at the E3 visa - no cost for the company, and relatively straightforward process at the US Consulate in Sydney. The main gotchas are that you need to show either education or equivalent experience in a specialised field related to the position you list for, get a Condition of Labour Application completed, and be paid the going market rate for the position. It's a special visa for Australians under the US-AUS free trade agreement, and the number of people who apply each year is way under the quote.
I was told the Melbourne Consulate isn't so straightforward, so do through Sydney. In the interview they were ok with us basically taking an australian company and expanding it to the US so long as you are upfront about what you're doing. If you can find a US board member and have US shareholders then that seems to count in the interview.
Retain some non-dilutional ownership, if you are pre-revenue beta and they are throwing 6 figures and a job, then they think you have some gold there. Retain 5% to 10% non voting interest, that way they are not worried about your politics in executive leadership. Basically you become an employee with a hell of a bonus plan.

No to the full source code, I would bind then with a non-compete if they are insistent on seeing all of the source code. If they are concerned about code quality, a module's code base should serve as evidence of the overall code quality.
An update on JavaOne
It looks like the server just died. The post is mostly this video:

http://vimeo.com/14481789

Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do."

Brilliant
Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
Fennec 1.0 and 1.1 were released earlier this year for Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 (Nokia N810 and N900): http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/

This is the first alpha of Fennec 2.0, which will be released for Maemo 5, MeeGo, and Android.
The low-paid immigrant farm workers effectively being paid by the government via subsidies count as "private-sector" employees for statistical purposes, though.
I wonder what happened between then and now. Seems like a different company altogether.
Fennec 1.0 for Maemo was released in January 2010, before Dolphin had add-on support.

It's true that Dolphin was the first Android browser with add-ons, though.
Open to the air, in VA. I wonder if they realize we get hit by hurricanes on a semi-regular basis?

I'd love to know where/how the fiber to connect it is coming from out there in the middle of nowhereville.
I knows probably more than 100 private tech employees that regularly make more than $1M/year (salary plus stock/bonus). I don't know any federal tech employees that make more than $150k/year.

Either you only know private tech code monkeys or have found the highest paying federal agency that no one has ever heard of.
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But there are humans working for b2b companies, no?
story > selling
Is this a problem?
> So how do vim/emacs users do? I presume it's all command line and a lot of typing. Am i wrong?

It's not much typing, and it's definitely faster than switching to a mouse. Both vim and emacs have plugins for easily browsing file systems, and through trees of source code. I personally use a separate terminal window for source control, but that can easily be integrated as well. It's probably a similar workflow to what you're doing now, just without a mouse, and with different key bindings.
Here's the real data which is still striking, eg private is 2x the rate of public:

Job losses June 2008 to June 2010

State government

Statewide: -8,800 / -3.3%

County government

Statewide: -18,500 / -5.1%

City government

Statewide: -14,100 / -4.9%

Private sector

Statewide: -1,200,000 / -9.3%

Via

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/23/government-jo...
I see what you mean. There are always things that could go wrong. The API team not fixing the requests isn't really Zuck's fault (maybe a hiring problem or a vision problem). But it doesn't seem like he's inviting them in to steal their ideas or anything of that nature.

He just wants good, honest collaboration that helps both parties.
We generally use Unix as our IDE, yes, but it doesn't involve a lot of typing.

Emacs users can also do everything from within Emacs.
In Vim, FuzzyFinder (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984) makes it really easy to flip between files.

That, and once you learn Vim frame management, you become a lot more productive on multiple files.
This is awesome; thanks for sharing! I'll definitely reach out.
eh... yeh. that accidently slipped by -- just random testing of the webapp I was working on.. ;)
Life After Google: 15 Startups Founded by Ex-Employees
You want rapid personal growth? Be ready to be brutal with yourself.
The rate of one's personal growth is directly proportional to one's readiness to be BRUTALLY honest with oneself.

Yep, brutal.

The more painful a truth about oneself is, the more we tend to cover it up from ourselves and the more ready we have to be, to be brutal with ourselves to uncover it, to accept it. Because uncovering and accepting the truth is quite often painful and the first step to progress over an obstacle.

Of course, this is assuming that there aren't enough of people with enough of wisdom around us to tell the truths about ourselves in sweet and painless way. Some of us are lucky enough to have such people, but do all of us?

One good thing about this is, the more habituated you become in being honest with yourself, the more you will see the gains in being honest with yourself. The more gains you see, the less painful it becomes over time to be honest with yourself.
Yes, but those private employees making more than $1M are probably some of the best talent in the industry, where as the federal employees could have any range of talent from "breathes, and has a pulse" to "rockstar developer."

Also, the private employees when they retire get no health benefits and have to fund their own retirement from a 401k, whereas the federal employees have guaranteed health care for life and a guaranteed pension. The health care and pension alone are worth at least a few million if you live to a decent age.
What spaced out Burning Man revelers all need - an iPhone app
so what happens if one of your most used languages is a programming language?
My definition is different:

When I wasn't outside working in the below-freezing weather, I fed a coal stove through this past winter because we didn't have a modern heater in our workplace. The ash turned my snot and phlegm consistently gray. Things are a little cozier now, but I still don't run the air to save on money - and Beijing is hot in the summer.

Adopted a dog?
Ha yeah right. As if Evel Knievel ever did anything risky...
You're right: voiding other people's contracts because they (collectively) negotiated better deals than you did doesn't seem fair at all. Arnold knows exactly how to push your buttons.
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!" -- Rocky VI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5OookwOoY)
Well, for some values of 'little', in my case it worked out to about $10K / month iirc :)
Please talk to a lawyer.
And http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1583995 too
Ah yes, I never understood why on earth anyone would elect someone to public office that hates government so much they would try to destroy it... It would be like hiring a developer that hates code so much he would delete it from your repository to reduce kloc counts.
Ask HN: Whats the most annoying thing about Netflix (if anything)?
What are your biggest gripes(streaming,selection,speed,etc.)
I just started watching them. While they are pretty math heavy and implementation light. It's a great watch for the morning train ride.
Objects Have Failed:
https://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveFailedNarrative.html
Awesome "Any Given Sunday" reference.. here's the video if anyone hasn't seen it. Watch it and get motivated :-) Good stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs
Would you say they make better products now or when this video was shot? I think that for such a product-centered company, that should be the benchmark.
Hmm,

What does "working" mean if it doesn't mean working well?

My point earlier was that, as opposed to a fairly linear application like a web app, in something like an operating system or a distributed database, there's much greater gulf between being able to make a demo that looks interesting and getting the system even barely usable.

The problem is interlocked complexity. In a linear app, you can add code to take of cases you didn't think of. In a complex system, such changes can result in creating further bugs.

If Diaspora folks just start adding more code to make their app not crash under demo conditions, it won't solve whatever architecture problems they have. And the point is that this is an design/architecture/protocol problem, a hard one. Perhaps they've solved that problem and are just putting the finishing touches on the resulting code. But a glance at their video does not give me that impression. It's more "uh, we're putting out what we got ... we can keep working..."

It's like P/NP proofs. If you don't start with summary of earlier efforts, saying why your stuff works when the other stuff didn't, it probably means you just haven't grokked just how hard the problem is.
I enjoyed the article, but does the phrase "Break Glass in Case of Google Turning Evil" even appear anywhere on the page?
Video guide to Windows Phone 7
Both vim and emacs can split (either horizontally or vertically) to show as many files as your typeface can usefully cram in. As a greybeard, I learned the vim predecessor vi, which didn't have that ability, then learned emacs, which at the time (1984) did, so my calcified reflexes use vi first (because there aren't any more Unix boxes that don't have it) but switch to emacs as soon as I'm going to want more than one file on the screen - since (in my environments) emacs is everywhere that vim is, and I haven't taken the time to learn the Vim way to do things. In my opinion, emacs and vim are both superb editors, but both need time spent to get reflexes into your fingers to operate - i.e., they're both "expert friendly", and perhaps "casual hostile".
Seems substantially similar to DTerm -- which BTW, doesn't require SIMBL http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php
Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents
Lawyer up.

Acquisitions can be hairy. My first startup was acquired in a semi-hostile takeover; I'm not able to discuss the details, but I can say that a lawyer (and a trusted advisor-- not necessarily the same person) would be a good thing for you right about now.

Beyond that, I'd think about the bullet points of what it is you are after. 6 digits cash up front is nice, but what else are you looking for?

In the absence of better legal advice, I'd suggest that you definitely want a job contract with a guaranteed sum-- say, 1 year's salary. (If things don't work out, they'll fire you, and you'll be without pay, otherwise.)

If it were me, I'd let them see the full source code as part of a "due diligence", after an initial contract is signed; make sure the "due diligence" has a fixed timeframe, and that there is a penalty for them breaking the deal between the signing and the completion.
Yes and no: Their catalogue is terrible. It reminds me of Joost's selection of TV programmes way back where they couldn't afford any better.

Can anyone find a video that is just slightly renowned?
I'm going to write a little blog post, just for you (and for everybody else that earns money through subscriptions). If it works out you owe me a beer. Stay tuned, back in 45 minutes.
Yep. Look I love platitudes as much as the next guy, but that's all this is.

My entire world is consumed with interactions with business owners (lead generation for the service industry). We work with thousands of small businesses, some "tough" and some not so much. To me the defining characteristic of a successful business man is always "obsessively analytical", not simply "decisive".

Every successful business person I've ever encountered can tell me (to the number) the key metrics for their business on demand. They know that our program is generating x% return on their spend. They know that we're +- y% better than a competitor. They know everything about their business.

When you've aggressively instrumented your business and have a lot of data, it's easy to be decisive. I've also encountered a number of business people who are decisive, but are more or less always shooting from their gut. They don't tend to do very well. For them everything is a guess, even if they're really sure that they are right.

Toughness is overrated. Great businesses are built by constantly trying to assess and reduce risk. You don't do that by being tough, you do it by being fascinated with data.
I knows probably more than 100 private tech employees that regularly make more than $1M/year (salary plus stock/bonus)

Where? Serious question.
When learning, it's easiest to learn one thing at at a time. If you're learning a new programming language or programming paradigm, it's helpful to solve a task you fully understand. That way, the unknown is not the solution, but what the solution looks like in this new language or paradigm.

Most of the examples you gave are applications. They require considering things external to the a core problem, such as user interaction and network communication. Those are like projects in a course. Project Euler problems are like a homework set.
It's in the video.
I have nothing to add but Congrats!!!
Validation of effort is a very read commodity these days ;)