skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not amazing. It benefits Matasano more than it benefits any individual team members. It would be ridiculous not to have the policy; people would deliver crappier work for clients and waste everyone's time bugging us for books. In the worst case, one of the managers might get a bug up their ass and start thinking about what books people should get; calamity!

There are a very few conditions:

## Terms and Conditions

### Limits

This benefit includes no stated specific limit on the number of books you can acquire or the subject matter they involve. We'd like to keep the policy as simple as possible.
Our only request is: please intend to read or use whichever books you acquire. If you think you'll want a book on Clojure programming 6 months from now, consider waiting a couple months before getting it.

### Multiple Copies

Please do not obtain more than one copy of the same title, unless you've lost or somehow destroyed your first copy.

### Ownership and Sharing

When you get a book under this benefit, it's your book. It belongs to you.

At the same time, we hope books acquired under this benefit will help build an office library. If you're not using a book, please give it a home in the office library.

We'll provide a wiki page to register what books are available in the library, so you can easily tell whether you should look for a title in the office or go ahead and order it.

If you know the library has a copy of something you want, please use the library copy until you're sure you need to own your own copy. We are not asking everyone to share a single copy of the IDA Pro book, but we also don't want to buy 10 copies of "Designing BSD Rootkits".

### Crazy Ridiculous Books

Please do not use this benefit to try to acquire collector copies of first-edition signed Knuth prints that cost $1000, or, for that matter, to acquire professional books (like ANSI standards) that cost hundreds of dollars. If you need a book that costs hundreds of dollars, use "How Do I Get Books" option 3 and talk to Cory or Dave; we'll figure something out.

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Nothing in there says you can't use this policy to buy Denis Johnson's _Tree of Smoke_ to read on the train. Nobody has, but if someone did I'd probably just smile.
There were some great investments out there in March of last year. P/E ratios were in the single digits, some companies had fallen by massive amounts but were still solvent.

Then the rally came. Ford went from less than $2 a share to more than $10, Seagate went from $3 to $21 (though back down to $11 now). Wells Fargo went from $8 to $32.

Those are the great deals people talk about in history books, but they're mostly gone. The last 18 months have seen huge infusions of capital into the market to keep things going. As a result, stocks have bounced back.

Also, no one is really fearful like they were in Oct-Dec 2008. Those days where everyone wondered who was going to collapse next or if the government was going to bail out entire sectors, that was fear. Now people are just pessimistic, but they aren't scared the world will collapse.
Head's up: You probably shouldn't have a testimonial from a guy who hasn't used your site in months (Prakash)
Yes, but the graph has it at $6,000 billion, i.e. $6 trillion.
I thought I recognised this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889522
Break Glass in Case of Google Turning Evil
I have yet to link up my credit card to the Android app store. I'm definitely not going to trust Facebook with that information.

(And especially among Facebook's first users, I don't think you'll find many willing to trust Facebook as a money handler.)
Mobility and information are big factors too.

In the Great Depression, a poor person or a farmer out in the middle of nowhere couldn't just hop on the web and make themselves more employable (or market themselves), or drive 50+ miles on well-maintained highways and interstates to other opportunities.
That is great! I didn't know about Cmd-~ either. Thanks!
That first graph is insane, yet believable.

Here in Chicago, there have been a few layoffs of city personnel, but mostly furlough days. City workers are forced to take 24 unpaid days this year. So our public/private graph probably looks the same.

Comments reflect my personal views and not my employers, etc.
Android, Iphone, Ipad & Blackberry UI psd elements to build UI mockups
When you're working/coding you should never have to use the mouse, except for say, positioning windows, etc.

Use the Keyboard Preferences to add or change shortcuts for your most-used commands. This can be done system-wide or on a per-application basis.

For example, give the "Access Menu Bar" command a better shortcut, such as Option+Space; give Window Zoom a shortcut (I use command+control+Z), etc.

In your most-used apps, explore the menu bar to see what keyboard shortcuts are already available, learn them, assign shortcuts for commands you use the most.

And make sure the software you write can also be navigated using the keyboard, assign thoughtful keyboard shortcuts, etc.
Sure, TN is easy to get (I've had it) but there are two major restrictions:

1. You cannot apply for a green card on TN visa
2. It has to be renewed annually, and you have to demonstrate continued strong ties to Canada (bank accounts, family, etc.), so US immigration would no doubt get suspicious if you kept renewing
Mozilla Releases Fenec Alpha for Android and Nokia N900
Super cool... really!
Parking in Chicago next to my office costs $25/day. (The train costs $5/day for me, but I'm unusually close to it).
You can post binary via Twitter, yes.
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Otto von Bismarck was also instrumental:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Bismarck.27s_...
Ah yeah good catch...
Not to mention the first graph would be far more useful if it displayed relative job losses rather than absolute.
Actually, the right to privacy has nothing to do with whether a law is just or unjust. I think we'll see an element of that creep into the law as they very concept of privacy erodes. But the basic idea behind privacy in the Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure context is that police ought to be subject to oversight (by the courts) so that they don't become a menace.

Incidentally, the problem with search-and-seizure jurisprudence is that every time the Supreme Court hears a case on the subject the defendant IS guilty--the debate is over whether the evidence of guilt is admissible in court. That makes it hard for the Court to turn a blind eye so they tend to expand the law in favor of the police every time they get a new case. The alternative is to free a known criminal. It takes guts to hold police to a principle when the immediate result is to free a criminal.
A lot of great tips here. I tried hard to get used to things, but I always felt that I was fighting the Mac window manager. I now have Virtualbox running Linux on my Mac. In full screen mode it is the same as running Linux. I use Xmonad, a tiling window manager with great support for keyboard shortcuts.

My other pain point was that Mac doesn't have autocopy, although I am not sure if that is good or bad for your RSI.
It IS the HBR...
Cindy Padnos on Women Venture Capitalists [video & transcript]
That only makes his pricing model worse, not better. He's doing $3/user (ie: not enough) and managing to chase off serious users by forcing them to think carefully about the pricing.

Here is a hint, Colin: any time a prospect says he's "run the numbers" on your pricing, you just received a strong signal that you need to simplify pricing. Purchasing decisions should be made in the limbic system.

Think about it: if you charged $5/mo and put an obscenely high cap on storage for the $5/mo account, then by your own math you'd be hugely improving your revenue, and at the same time you'd be charging half of this original poster's pain threshold number --- which is referring not to crazy encrypted backup solutions but to things like to-do lists!

At EnterAct, the ISP I ran tech-ops for, my old boss Mike Cloran came up with what he called the "5/30" pricing scheme, which we used to great effect to grab customers from other ISPs. Other ISPs were either metered (which scared the shit out subscribers) or flat-rate (which chased away light-users). The 5/30 plan was: $5/mo + $1/hour, capped at $30.

This is actually not a great deal and it is not particularly sophisticated (it is... wait for it... a capped metered plan). But it simplified the buying decision for people, addressed their perceived risks, and made EnterAct seem even more flexible than it already was.

Pricing is the hardest part of product marketing. There's a reason why established companies don't let just anyone do it. Your pricing scheme punts on it.
This is also what experience gives you: the ability to predict where problems are likely to crop up so you can avoid them.

Easier to not inject a bug in the first place than to try to find it later.
Samsung Tab(let): Android 2.2, Video Calling, and a 7″ Screen
Samsung tweeted out a nice teaser 5 minutes ago of their up and coming debut into the Apple-dominated tablet market. The Samsung Tab will be available on September 2nd, and everything else you need to know is either in the title or the video below.
From the article:

roughly 80 cents of every government dollar in California goes to employee compensation and benefits

So that's salaries as well as pensions (and salaries will be making up the lions share of the 80%).

To quote Felix Dennis "Overhead walks on two legs".
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How many people do you know are un- or underemployed? (The latter are those not making what they were making despite trying, most especially those not in a full time permanent job but instead working part time, contracting, etc.)

For the next step of the discussion, see this remark of mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639188
I have a feeling these graphs do more to explain the problems that Berkeley professor wrote about (http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students...) than the explanations he proposed.
> One option he proposed is for companies to come work at the Facebook office for a few days next to the API team so they could get help and give input during development.

All things considered, that's pretty awesome. That shows a complete good-faith approach to doing business. As much as people say Zuck is a dick, this is a really cool idea. Everybody wins.
Mysterious Russian 'Numbers Station' Changes Broadcast After 20 Years
Too Many "Tourist" VCs? Fewer big exits than total number of VC firms, 2001-09
I assume you're talking about Metra? The el costs me $4.50/day or ~$80/month for unlimited. Although that's extraordinarily cheap compared to parking!
You know what? Newsflash to all the brilliant people trying to make a mint by playing S3 middlemen... You're one free-software client from being irrelevant. $10/month is enough to motivate me to hack in my spare time. At $3/month... meh, maybe I'll scratch a different itch.
Yes, I'm in the US on a work visa, and I'm talking about the EB-2 category, which has less of a backlog, apparently. The EB-3 is less preferred, and is in that 7+ years range.
Only if you include the decompression algorithm in the text to make it self decompressing.
At least with version 2.7, I actually really enjoyed looking at the Scala standard library code when the documentation wasn't sufficient for my needs. That's no knock on the scala documentation either, as I frequently look at the JDK standard library source code too. I've also had a couple of similarly positive experiences digging around the Lift code.

What other "someone else's" Scala code have you actually had to look at and maintain that you had problems with? In my experience, I only have a hard time understanding Scala code when it is doing something I'm conceptually unfamiliar with, usually something in the functional world that I know little or nothing about.
Exactly, that's an important subset of what I labeled "flexibility".
Seems like he makes a convincing argument to me. Basically it boils down to:

1. California can't afford to pay promised pensions.
2. Public pensions are far more generous than similar private sector retirement options.

I'd like to know:

Are the facts as presented correct? Any errors or misleading statements? If not, then the governor's argument is very strong.

A Republican attacking size of government is par for the course. He assails unions, also par for the course for a Republican. Is he also ignoring special pro-business,anti-tax interest groups that influence his side of the aisle (also par for the course). Having said that, seems to me that assuming his facts are straight that changes are needed.

Personal bias:
Except for first responders, my own perception of government employees is one of rude, under-skilled and self-entitled people who unlike private sector employees don't have to worry about: customer satisfaction, providing value, increasing sales or the company's profitability. In fact, just as an example anecdote, when I was in the military, my experience was that one had to spend as much of the allotted budget or else next year's budget would be smaller. So at the end of the year we ordered a bunch of useless shit we didn't need, created fake orders etc just so we could spend enough to match our budget. The focus wasn't on reducing spending. Seems like government employees fill up some allotted headcount by breathing air, and maybe get some work done sometimes.

I realize that my personal bias is probably wrong, which is why it's called a 'bias.'
Windows had the same problem, except instead of having conflicts between extensions (which everyone understood were extensions to the operating system), installing applications could cause conflicts. Personally, I never reordered extension names to avoid conflicts.
and healthcare benefits, etc
Is there really any language which completely lacks words for left and right? At minimum, people want to distinguish their good hand from their bad hand, or the side of the body that has their liver from the side that has their stomach. I can't say anything for Australian aboriginal languages, but I'm quite familiar with Malayo-Polynesian languages in general (I speak Tagalog and Malay) ... and Balinese has definite words for left and right (kiwa and tengen). And you can elicit these very easily from a native Balinese speaker. Be a foreigner or an Indonesian from another island, ask "where's the bathroom" in heavily accented Balinese, then act confused if the answer has anything about geographic directions.

Like I said, there's no linguistic barrier against giving directions based on left or right in Balinese. It's merely cultural. Balinese people just don't do it when talking to each other. You might say, they demonstrate solidarity with each other against outsiders by using this geographic knowledge which sets them apart. (In Honolulu, which was originally populated by very distant linguistic relatives of the Balinese, the buses run "windward" and "leeward" even in English.) And besides, it's not very deep knowledge anyway --- the direction words are literally seaward-sunriseward-mountainward-sunsetward. What's more confusing is, there's Balinese villages both north and south of the big mountain, and they all use those directional words according to their local geography. Thus the ordering of the points is different. A counterclockwise turn for a southerner and a counterclockwise turn for a northerner take them through the above-mentioned points in opposite orders. I suspect the problem with the Balinese dancer boy to which the NYT is alluding comes from the following problem: his teacher wanted him to do something in a circle and he kept going the wrong way.

Which leads to the final rambling point: you'll probably notice that all the languages the NYT have mentioned are tiny ones you haven't heard of, unless you did a linguistics degree or came from the same province. I highly doubt all the big languages have always been purely egocentric-direction ones. Rather, they became that way when people who came from widely separate geographic areas had to use them with each other. It's easy to keep track of your North and South if you're in the middle of a giant desert or in a village where you've lived your whole life. It's hard if you're a merchant who sailed from the other end of the archipelago and walked down the streets of an unfamiliar port city, and so, you start asking for, and receiving, left/right directions instead.
average cable bill in the US in 2008 was $71.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/196364-Study_Average_Cab...

increases since then seems to be 5-7% per year.

good guess!
> I have been on 6 different visas, over 15 years, I have quite a bit of experience in the matter.
> It's too complicated to explain in a paragraph. It depends on too many factors.

A similar number of visa types over similar number of years and I would go a step further and say that there is no formal solution to your problem. The US immigration system can't handle YC type rhythm and structures.

You'll have to assume you have two operations to run - your startup and your status. You'll have to get knowledgeable and creative in both. Also, as you will work under the assumption that your start-up may fail, you should also work under the assumption that your status will fail and you will have to go back to your home country. Succeeding in both operations is possible, but very hard. Me think the immigration operation is harder....

Good luck.
This list really started on a weird note. First of all, are there any small startups (in the tech sector) that immediately hire a big I.T. department? And whhich I.T. department is just doing virus cleanups and software installs, and thus would be (allegedly) out of work once Macs are everywhere.

But never mind the fanboy start, it's items like 3, 10, 11, 12 that bother me. Don't let your developers out of the room, ride them hard for the maximum amount of time possible. This is basically the startup versions of the "9 women bearing baby in 1 month" myth. A developer who works twice as long isn't twice as productive. If you manage burnt out people, you'll sell ashes.
There are about a thousand FP programmers to every imperative programmer, if not ten thousands. They use a tool you may have heard of, called "Excel", which is quite limited in scope.

It is an FP subset which is at the same time trivial to understand (much more so than imperative programming for most users!), and coupled with a usable I/O capabilities, is surprisingly sufficient for many uses.

(IDE, documentation, maintainability all suck, though; I wouldn't recommend it as your main FP tool if you can avoid it)
That was before federal workers earned twice as much as their private counterparts.

"Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-workers-earning-doubl...
It depends on the value you get. Some SaaS are free or cheap, they probably cost little to the company, or the company is running cheap (single founder in ramen).

Now for how much a single person spends, it's a different story. Let's assume your target audience is software developers. An average software developer should net more than $5,000 a month. Spending $150, is like 3% of his salary. Not a lot, so he could even subscribe to more services and more expensive services.

If your target audience is Egypt for example, where the developer net $200-$250/month, subscribing to only one service may cost 10% of his salary. So it's a luxury he can't afford.

Bottom of the line, your target audience and market readiness is the one that decide the price tag for your SaaS.
If I'm mistaken and the above is not great satire (or for those who don't know what I'm talking about): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array

Come to think of it, they were very viral. I've got one in my DVD player (the last/best ever made, unit quantities too small to justify an ASIC for one critical function.)
Great article. Thanks for sharing.
One thing that raises my eyebrows is how much functional programmers talk about Project Euler problems. The actual programming for solving these problems is in fact extremely trivial. They require some mathematical insight, especially after the first one hundred or so, and you need to do some external research on Pell's Equation to avoid getting stuck, and you need a fraction library if your language doesn't have it built in. But am I wrong in thinking that these kind of problems are almost no test or strain for your actual programming at all?
if you really believe I am wrong please try and create a rational argument as to why

Your comments in this thread have been haphazard and difficult to follow. You are correct that taxes have deadweight, but no one is arguing this point and it has little relevance to the overall discussion. You started off by attacking the author without providing a compelling argument of his ineptitude. Maybe you are tired or stressed? I suspect that you are being downmodded for being noisy and shallow, not wrong.
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This is exactly what I mean when I say the right to privacy is obsolete - by itself, it's no longer capable of protecting the freedoms it was originally intended to preserve. We need something better.
Other things are more expensive:
Money (interest rates are higher);
Transport (infrastructure is a lot worse);
Equipment (because of a combination of high taxes and import duties);
Security (there's a higher risk of having equipment and produce stolen);
Fuel.
Try to hack up a replacement to tarsnap in your spare time and you are a lot more likely to embarass yourself than to give Colin a run for his money. S3 isn't the underlying value in Tarsnap.
Your down votes signal you read those facts and it upsets your beliefs. I didn't write this for people who agree with my point of view. I wrote this for you. Thank you.
The latest version of screen also supports vertical splitting.
"and tell you why pricing in pico dollars attracts pathological customers who are the worst possible people to sell online backup to"

When I saw the pico-dollars bit on the site I instantly knew this was not someone I wanted to do business with. The sort of person who tries to prove his intelligence constantly rarely has the ability to cut through the fat to get into the meat of the matter. They'll play in the weeds all day long, but never climb the mountain for a good view.

I agree with Patio11, buck up grow a pair and charge good money. It looks like you've got solid infrastructure, it just needs to be charged for and sold.
Stop Being a Wimp
Tarsnap isn't just an S3 middleman. The Tarsnap client-server API is considerably more powerful (e.g., transactions, amortized S3 PUT costs) and you can't replicate the functionality on the client alone.
The blue line and a two transfers. I'm a short walk from the green line, but I I'll pay to avoid riding it.
I know it's "just one data point," but I live in Portland, OR and everyone is hiring. No, seriously, every software shop I know about is looking to hire. Not just boring-as-hell C# and Java cubicle farms, but startups and small companies writing interesting software with Python and Ruby.
Android's browser is clunky dealing with multiple windows. I find occasionally I need to go and close down windows so a new one can be opened. Thing is, I had no idea I was opening multiple windows in the first place. Compared to the iPhone browser's treatment of multiple windows, Android aint so good. Perhaps Fennec has a better approach.
I agree. What tips would suggest instead?
Oh, caps-lock to control goes without saying :)

I do like the idea of a double-pinkey jab as a shortcut.
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