skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that that was his point, really. If you hire a manager who cares more about his career than the company, then the employees under him will think "Why should I work hard to make my boss rich?" If you hire someone who cares about the company's goals, then there's at least a chance of them thinking "We're here to accomplish something great, and my manager is my partner in achieving that, someone who can help remove obstacles in my way."

For this to work, it has to extend all the way up to the CEO, otherwise somewhere along the chain, someone is going to think "Why should I work for the company just to make some other guy filthy rich?" That's the basis for building a company culture, though.

This is something Google's done particularly well, at least so far. I never see Larry or Sergey crowing about their billions or talking about how they built the company - they're always talking about how much more we (= everyone) could be building. By and large, that extends to all the senior executives.

When you don't have that, you end up with a culture more like Enron, which had employees that were probably as smart as Googlers yet was famous for its dog-eat-dog individuality. We know how that turned out.
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Here's a fun idea: split players up into multiple teams i.e. only pixels of the same team can make formations, and points are awarded to each team as a whole
On the other hand, if someone has been lying all their life, if they're ever going to tell the truth, it's going to be on their deathbed.

This idea actually appears in our legal system: in court, hearsay (Person X testifies that they heard Person Y say something about Event Z) is usually rejected because there's no way of knowing whether Person Y was lying, even if Person X was truthful. But there are exceptions for circumstances under which Person Y is considered likely to be telling the truth. One of them is a dying declaration; statements made on a deathbed.
Which gender is the 'wrong' gender now?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-revi...

"There are just so many things we wish Fusion Garage did differently with the JooJoo. Even putting aside the fact that Apple's $499 iPad brings more to the table than just web browsing, the JooJoo is less portable, has a worse (if larger) screen, is unintuitive to use, and ships with half-baked software."
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I find it just as plausible as the idea here that it makes you more morally judgemental of others. If it makes you more judgemental of others, it might well make you more judgemental of yourself.

I don't know if we can necessarily cut street crime by handing out free showers to bums and thugs. Might be worth a try.
My friend is learning jujitsu and totally loves it. I haven't yet got around actually doing it myself but should be fun.
I'm still a little skeptical, simply because what people say and what they do often aren't in complete agreement. There are some people out there that will cynically talk in terms of personal advancement all the time, but when it comes to actions, they tend to do the right thing even though they grumble about how it's not to their advantage. And then there are people who say all the right things, give all the credit to their team, and yet when it comes to actions, they'll do what advances their career over what advances the team.
This "team" ambition depends equally on the environment as the candidate. I agreed strongly with this article until I realized that I was assuming an equity-for-all startup, rather than the much maligned office job.

There is definitely a personal component too. I've seen people co-found a company only to wreck it for personal convenience, and others who will work well beyond their contract with seemingly no incentive.
From the article linked in the original post:

They helped distract outsiders from the truly profane event: the growing misalignment of interests between the people who trafficked in financial risk and the wider culture.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli...

That's the real problem, and that is where proper regulation can help.
Congrats! I'm reading the railstutorial.org book now. Thanks for making the book free and available on the release of v3
That's quite a WOPR of a discovery..
Even after using linux command line for years it is always useful to see how others use it. I tend to overuse perl regex's to massage the data how I want it and underuse awk.

my norm is
cat file | perl -p -e "s/.from ([0-9\.]+) ./\1/g"
to get the ip out of the same datafile.

regex's seem to help with messy data or data that contains inconsistent delimiters.

(some of the stars got stripped by HN so the above won't work)
Or even:

User.where(:name => "david", :age => "> 29").limit(20)

Although this way you'd have to parse the '>' out of the second K-V.
The gender that's the opposite of the one you were originally attracted to. (I put it in quotes so that it wouldn't be read as a value judgment.)
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"Merb was starting to fragment the ruby community as it became a more and more viable option and I did some personal heavy politicking to get it merged back into rails so we could take on the world instead of infighting within the ruby community."

Interesting, if disheartening, perspective.

I much prefer to see greater diversity within a language. I want to see more frameworks, more exploration, more choice. What some may call fragmentation is in fact rich and vibrant and valuable.

And the idea that there is some sort of battle going on among languages, that Ruby needs to "win" against Java or PHP or any language, is truly perverse.

I fear this battle mentality is by no means a minority opinion among Rubyists.

I prefer to use Ramaze for Web development, but I'm glad people can pick Camping or Wave or Wuby or IOWA or Sinatra or any of the dozen other options out there. There are interesting things being done, and not simply so they can be subsumed by some One True Framework.

I was disappointed not to see Nitro get the attention it deserved, to have Chad Fowler tell a conference audience that people working on Nitro should just stop, because "Rails won", was a turning point in how I viewed the larger Ruby culture.

There are many smart, adventurous people doing interesting things with Ruby, but there is also a pervasive cliquishness and neophobia regarding anything that is not somehow tied to Rails.

It's great to see progress made in Rails, but the solidification of Ruby === Rails leaves a bad taste.
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I would argue (as a person who dislike hierarchies), that healthy, grown up person should care only about his very own goals, when working for a company. I am not saying that the goals should not be aligned with corporate ones, yet to care too much about goals of something amorphous, necessarily unstable system like a corp - well it may hurt one's identity, bring a false sense of excessive importance of corporate issues and, brutalize the person by making him/her overcommited to corp and ignoring of needs of people below.

Corporation is a fiction, only individual matters.
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Me too, this is perfect for the literature website site I'm working on.
I'm sure there are plenty of existing challenges, but the author can't really fault people for being good at statistics and acting accordingly.

He is essentially asking males to ignore the current situation so that females can ignore the current situation (and the fact that women in tech are to some degree, still breaking new ground)
Okay, I think I was confusing Mono with Moonlight, which as I see it is not covered by that document. (And Silverlight is an increasingly important piece of the .NET pie.)

Also, given Microsoft's business model and track record, it seems unlikely that .NET is going to hit a steady stable state any time soon, unlike Java which may be stuck at 6 indefinitely. The consequence of this is that Microsoft can break everything, including their promises, anytime they want by bumping the version number and removing the license for the new version. Would it be a good business decision for them? Probably not. But I think this move from Oracle shows that it is a very real possibility, if Microsoft decides they should be taking cues from Oracle (which given Oracle's track record makes a lot of sense, even if this move seems bonkers.)
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The post boils more fundamentally down to hiring managers who have well developed skills of empathy. When people can put themselves in the shoes of others and feel as they feel, its a lot easier for them to act in the collective good. Most average managers I've worked with have competence; the exceptional ones combine it with empathy.
And even for someone who knows all of this, knowing a good guide makes it easy to handle requests for help (often preemptively). This is one I can (and just did) send to a friend who's less familiar with Unix.
"I'm not sure why you think that women perceive colours more brightly."

Well we know for a fact that women perceive colors differently than men because they like different colors than men. It's not exactly clear what the differences in color perception are, but it seems like the drugs that increase men's serotonin levels leave them with aesthetic color preferences that more closely resemble those of women. So it stands to reason that men's color perception is becoming more close to that of women. Obviously there are some epistemological problems with proving this, but it seems like a reasonably good assumption.
I loosely know of Jason Calacanis and don't know what credibilty he has to base these statements on, but it he does raise any interesting point.

What precedent does Facebook have to support the 3rd party developer ecosystem on apps.facebook? /me points at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api*.

I'd be really interested to see what other HNers have to say about what I think is the main issue: given you don't think becoming a facebook fte is your desired exit strategy, what would you do to protect your IP from Facebook?
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The fact that I have to enter the pin and password turned me off. Rebtel is a similar service and they give me a new local phone number for each international number. They are a bit expensive compare to localphone but atleast I don't have to enter any of these pin and passcode stuff.

Also, the free test call does not really work. When I end up creating an account, it says you have no funds. where did test call go?
I'm about to take a semester off to work on a start up company in China. I would recommend doing something with your time that will combine multiple interests. I think doing something abroad would give you 'international' experience, allow you to travel and give you opportunity to learn a new language. As for martial arts, I'm biased, have been studying Ninjitsu (Budo Bujinkan Taijitsu) for the past 5 years. Ninjas rule.
> I'm working at Vmware now on a cloud operating system.

Will it be open source and how does it compare to OpenStack?
Really happy to see socket.io working for you guys. As someone mentioned, not only should it enable WebSocket for Firefox, but also IE6-8, iPad, iPhone, Android, WebOS, Safari 3, and others (even if connected through cross-domain)

Some other projects from the knockout leveraging it:

http://swarmation.com

http://maprejuice.com/

http://demiox-boiko.no.de/

http://piston-hurricane.no.de/

http://nodelicious.no.de/

http://virtual-design.no.de/

http://inflatable-chum.no.de/

http://fragnut.me/

http://braintree.no.de/

http://nodty.no.de/

http://tweetquestgame.com

http://speedo.no.de/

http://piratetron.com/

http://error-500.no.de
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Congrats guys. I really enjoyed - the fact that it is playable (technically and interactively) and built in a weekend shows vision and focus.
The whole reason we have corporations is so that people can accomplish goals that are too big for any one individual to tackle.

If you care only about your own goals, why not work for yourself and bypass the corporate system entirely? It's sorta implicit that someone who's working for a corporation is doing so because they share the goals of that organization yet can't achieve them on their own. (Yeah, I know that's not always the case because some people lack money and don't have the imagination to get it without a paycheck, but you were talking about "healthy, grown up" people here...)
I'm really stupid... what was your point?
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Python is exposed as main webdevelopment tool as it deserves
Did anyone notice that lately Python got a very strong stack of solutions that can be used in web development?

Frameworks and tools like Pylons, repoze.bfg, werkzeug, django reached maturity that allows to do virtually anything without any roadblocks. There is set of good template systems, awesome ORM - sqlalchemy + good standard lib and a pypi for all modules you can ever want. I'm a bit surprised that python is not mentioned often here as a solution to many problems (web)applications face in general - it's wonderfully all purpose.

Is it just because people are more used to ruby/php or python folks don't do good enough job in advertising their solutions?
It needs to at least compete with Java/PHP ect. In order to create a big enough ecosystem to provide all the libraries and core features needed and keep them up to date. As well as have enough people explaining things that new people don't feel overly intimidated.
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It should be some kind of Law:

Anything written in Spanish will eventually be attributed to Jorge Luis Borges.

(Except maybe Don Quixote, which as we all know is the work of Pierre Menard.)
It's impossible to imagine that post being written by someone who was 25. Seriously; go back and read it.
You're essentially using the existence of sexism as a justification for sexism. "There aren't many women in tech, therefore why should I treat women like they might be in tech?"

The reason you should ignore the current situation is precisely because _ignoring it will help change the situation_. That was the point of my post.
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Does playing video games count? I have plenty of those under my belt. :)
The advice I read (somewhere, so long ago I don't remember) is that sometimes when you think you're hungry or craving something, you're really thirsty. This has worked well for me for many years, and usually means I don't end up eating anything at all. Too bad it doesn't help with anxiety.
You do not need to incorporate anywhere in the US. By default you are a sole practitioner or a partnership. But not incorporating is stupid.
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Possibly, but it was a chance to win a $25 card, not one for every participant. I still got very good results, much of which I attribute to Facebook ad targeting.
It really sounds like it's (1) from one of the descriptions: "lol it was easy just spam the space bar with the 3 way swords shooting at every door"

So what you need to do is remove the too-easy strategies while maybe dropping the difficulty of the overall game. Sounds like this three-way sword is too powerful, or the doorways need to be arranged differently. There may well be other holes in the strategy too.

Balance is probably the hardest part of game design.
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For some reason when I start the game I lose connection with everyone after 5 or so seconds (all pixels are at a stand-still after they had been moving). The counter continues to count down as well.

Despite the problems it is pretty slick.

Win 7, Firefox 3.6.8.
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Am I being a nitpicking nerd or does "(100% anonymous & confidential)" seem wrong when asking for my street address and probably logging IP and possibly other data?

I haven't tried to use it but what I've read in the comments here you also ask for email address.

Confidential, maybe. Anonymous, unlikely.
Well, you're right that grub-the-bootloader doesn't have a supervisor to stop it from writing to random places on the disk (since it's not running under an OS), but grub-the-bootloader doesn't actually write to those sectors, so I'm not sure what your point is.

grub-the-comman-line-utility writes to those sectors but it runs in linux userspace so it's really in the same position as the windows programs that also write to the reserved space...
I guess we are lucky that the law in Germany doesn’t follow the the-camera-steals-your-soul-theory with regard to personal rights – i.e. taking a photo or filming in public is never (pretty much, the exception is stalking) illegal, personal rights of the photographed can only be violated by making the photos public (and the law has certain exceptions were making photos public is legal even without consent of all the photographed).

But it’s certainly true that the police can majorly inconvenience you. They can take your camera away and even though they have to give it back to you and are not allowed to delete anything that they can do that at all does suck. At least they cannot fine you or worse.

The most annoying thing is that many in the police seem to be unaware about the law. (They strangely never seem to have that problem when a law gives them more power.) They will lecture you on and on about personal rights even if those are irrelevant as long as you don’t plan to make the photos public. (And even if you, say, documented police brutality a newspaper could print the photo no problem, they would just have to pixelate faces.)
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My Node KO entry is like jsfiddle, but with an event bus and built-in js templates (like erb or jsp). I'll add persistence at some later date.

http://nodeknockout.com/teams/pants-pants-evolution
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"Reaching critical mass" [so customers identify you with the technology/idea] is one way to avoid this.
If you are a Michelin starred chef, maybe, but you can get someone to come to your home and cook you food for less than that.

I cite Yahoo Answers, but it should be enough to illustrate:

a Hog Roast (to feed about 150ppl) comes in at £600, if you are looking at something that includes salads and side dishes etc you are looking at a per head pricing of about £13-£14 per person. For a posh BBQ /Hog Roast with all the trimmings and lots of side dishes you can pay as much as £20 per head.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010030208063...
SEs wrote all code that functioned at my employer, though it is true that management thought this a great waste of resources. I listened to an older SE explaining the grand scheme to make us a software firm without anyone programming in house.
The first thing I'd do is boo you for using Google Analytics. But I forgive you since I don't have a JS api yet. Here's how I handle balancing for my games:

http://playtomic.com/blog/post/9-trickochet-launched-today

http://playtomic.com/blog/post/10-an-update-on-trickochet
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Winer is beyond grumpy. He's pathologically negative about everything. His whole blog is just a series of complaints. He also doesn't seem to program anymore, or know what he is talking about. Why would anyone want to hire him to do anything, regardless of his age? In contrast you have late 40s-early 50s guys like Brandon Eich and Douglas Crockford who are positive and relevant, and do uh, seem to know what makes Javascript different than C. I mean, really...
Cleanliness is just a form of purity, which key value of morality.

Jonathan Haidt's work in this regard is fascinating.
Yeah that "build a product" bit always seems to get missed. I have heard many different non-technical start-up want-to-bes blow that off like that was the easy part and they could just get anybody to do it for them for cheap.
This is essentially the main idea described in Jim Collins' Good to Great[1]. It's pretty boring (to my taste, anyway), but it's also short.

The idea makes sense if you think about it. You're liable to get less accomplished if you spend most of your time covering yourself and positioning for your own advancement. The same applies to everyone else. The hard part, then, is identifying and removing people who waste a lot of time covering themselves and positioning to the detriment of what they're nominally being compensated to do.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/00...
A comment from DHH in the comments of the post:

it long since stopped being about a Rails and a Merb team. Today there’s just a Rails 3 team where everyone is working together for the improvement of the framework.

See http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors?window=this... for work done this year. More than 350 people who has commits this year. No factions, just collaboration.
Can you elaborate on "understanding behavior and preferences" with some example behavior and preferences, please?

There are many bases of competitive advantage, but I don't have a clear picture of this one. The main customer-side advantage I see is that your product becomes identified with the idea/technology in the customer mind (perhaps of a tiny niche) - not that it's better than something else, just that it exists. But there's still a problem of getting to this state.
Very cool.

Occasional bug:
I found myself 'winning' even when I was clearly not part of a pattern (sometimes even totally separated). Running Vista Chrome.
One thing is that it took a long, long time for women to break into medicine and start being taken seriously as doctors. Tech is still relatively young, so I'm hoping that we can start making movements towards that level of parity faster than then several generations it took medicine.
Social media start ups or otherwise, it is rarely about the idea, it is about the execution. If you cannot execute better than facebook you should probably consider selling to them, if you can no amount of idea stealing should prevent you from growing your start up.

And as part of the execution you guard against being locked in to a specific platform.
If you want a job at Facebook then apply directly. Building an entire business just to get hired at a company seems excessive and contrary to the reason most people start their own business.
Although it was important to use the -c flag on uniq for this particular problem, which is not available with "sort -u."

Which I guess just goes to reinforce the Unix philosophy of tools that do one job and do it well.