skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keith confirms he wasn't there: http://www.quora.com/Keith-Rabois-were-you-at-the-dinner-mee...
How about a choice about buying a premium app Android Phone, or a bare Android Phone so I can put what I want on it?

How about a choice about being treated like a hyper-consumerist customer who buys buys buys versus a consumer who wants a piece of technology to wants to use it the way he wants to?

How about a choice of getting a device that works with the features the developers built into it instead of locking me out of my purchase, and billing me to use every little feature?

How about actually giving me a choice and not just saying you are?

Oh wait, you're Verizon.
Haystack project finally withdrawn.
> Enjoy this article about how a 37 year old manual laborer who came to the country at 21 just bought a condo in NYC for $1.4 million.

They wrote an article about that and published it in a newspaper precisely _because_ it is so vanishingly unlikely that it could happen, for the same reason that a dog biting a man is no story, but a man biting a dog is. Boring stories don't make it into newspapers!

Poor people face a vastly different set and far more constricted set of choices than the rest of us do and are armed with much less knowledge. Be nice if more people realized that.
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Oh, to go back to the 8.3 days... 11 ASCII characters is enough to name your files, right?
If record companies go around hiring artists to make music for them, we should fear for the quality of music.

They already do that...
Awesome! One thing that jumped out at me (especially when comparing the Vimeo / YouTube skins) is that the play buttons are not anti-aliased. I highly recommend making them inline base64 PNGs, so they look smooth as well as still being optimized.
i had a similar business idea in college. breakfast express, an all day breakfast delivery for hungover college students.
is it possible that this is another case of lifestyle entrepreneurs who enjoyed the product but never really wanted to get caught up in the SV/ VC model? and without them there to carry on the vision, and thereby no real product strategy, creating this mismatch of four synergistic products, it was always to struggle?
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10 points just for mentioning David Foster Wallace.

Long read, but worth it... I don't have much comment -- it sounds pretty much spot on.
I'm in your exact same situation, man; I've developed in php , python (with django and webapp) and little webapps in ruby with sinatra. I begun with rails 3 (and rails in general) two weeks ago, and am feelin' the progress rather slow. I think some of it is due to the usual learning curve and the kinda hard to find documentation and broken plugins. I'm starting to get it, but I'm also being tempted by the fact that I read the documentation for padrino (www.padrinorb.com) last night and felt that I understood more than what I have gotten from rails 3 in two weeks. So, you're not alone, and, if it weren't for the fact that padrino is really new and doesn't have as large a community as rails, I would have made the switch without hesitation right away. Still considering it, though.
I disagree -- I can't imagine that Arrington will hold those names back. He's a journalist first, and increasingly, what seems to be a sort old school one -- he's there for the story.

Right now, there's no need to drive traffic with names -- he's got today's scoop. Give him time.
wonder if this influx of NYC bankers will be better or worse for the consumer internet world - don't know if the ethics and values of banking translate to those of web startups.
A bit amateurish, no?

That scene could be straight from the script of a rather poor B-Movie...

I find it hard to imagine a group of grown up investors behave like that.
Good point. Tumblr is a lot faster than Posterous. However, it is only at about 50 percentile comparing to other sites over the Internet while Posterous is below average - in other words, Tumblr's performance is only about average. Both have lots to be improved.
Read Manufacturing Consent or any of the books that have been written about the MSM since then. It's very much about old media verse new media.

If this were the NYT they'd probably tell Arrington he couldn't run the story because it'd interfere with either their ad sales or else their access to sources. For example, just look at how/why they covered up their knowledge of the warrantless wiretapping until after Bush got reelected.

Whereas with Arrington there's no one to tell him he can't do it because it's his blog, and because he's not part of some mega corporation the chances of a story like this killing the revenue of some part of his empire are infinitely lower.
It's even worse then that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
That slightly larger in disk size logo on the main site could be hiding a tracking token for you....
Are you learning Ruby at the same time, or do you have prior experience with the language aside from RoR? Ruby "feels" quite different from PHP, so if you are tackling it in addition to learning Rails, possibly it would be better to stick to Ruby tutorials and scripts that run locally, then stepping up to learning Rails.

Also, if it's Rails that's giving you trouble, have you considered starting with a smaller framework like Camping or Sinatra? That feeling of none of your code working can be frustrating, but maybe it's because you missed some of the beginning steps with Ruby and it's making things more difficult than they should be!
i use a ff extension called better privacy for managing flash cookies, it comes in handy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/
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The research proposal is an important element of research paper writing. If the proposal is not written correctly it will be rejected. Hence, you need to ensure that you are familiar with the writing of the research proposal. This will ensure that your proposal is not rejected.
I support the second amendment and all; I think its a more important part of the American psyche than most people realize.

Sorry to riff on your meme, but dude, typing at your computer with your gun in your belt, that's seriously low-class. Almost as much as telling everyone about it.
i was thinking the same thing. not ONE of them managed to get his wits together and say something to make it look at least a teensy bit less suspicious?

seems like it would have been prudent to have even just a bit of a cover story prepared, considering how easy it is to bump into other folks in the industry at any time at any place within the city.
So by default, I should be browsing every site in Incognito/private browsing mode, then.
I also recommend learning Ruby before Rails. I tried it the other way and was often very confused as to why something would work or not because Ruby and Rails both do a lot of things that seem like magic to a new user.

Plus, hacking in Ruby can be a lot of fun. There are a lot of really neat tricks you can use to do really cool things.
Can you comment on the impact the affiliate program has had on your sales?
And this is an excellent example of why I have NoScript installed.
Agreed. I think some mix of declarations and automated (regression, etc.) testing is probably most practical. I like randomized testing, as well.
You've performed some artful misrepresentations there; the labor statistics you cite, for example, don't actually agree with your characterization, since the definition of "working" used by the BoL is at least 27 weeks in the labor force in a given year. So apparently, to you, someone who works 26 weeks (half the year) and gets laid off "doesn't work at all"...

The housing data is a similar problem. That "2 rooms per person" statistic is correct, but is the wrong statistic, since the Census Bureau defines the statistic by saying:

Rooms counted include whole rooms used for living purposes, such as bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, recreation rooms, permanently enclosed porches that are suitable for year-round use, lodger’s rooms, and other finished rooms. Also included are rooms used for offices by a person living in the unit.

Thus a four-person family in a one-bedroom house is "luxuriously" enjoying two rooms per person...

So how about you try again and get the numbers and methodology right this time?
If you're the best player on the team, (and the team is one that just laid of several of your co-workers without severance), then I'd assume you know you're good enough to job working for people who aren't assholes?
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Seems like this will be pretty effective even if widely known, since clearing one of these 'cookies' will require deleting a lot of info, including some you were probably using.

You'll be simultaneously clearing history and cache, logging yourself out of every site you're logged into, clearing all offline state in every web app you use, etc. Most people won't want to do that often.
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a breaking story would name names...him not naming names just means he can use this as a hammer to get better terms for Techcrunch(either I get exclusive to every deal you guys do...or your names will be posted)
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Ouch.. it was looking good and I was considering it for my own startup thingie :)

Any good and cheap Microsoft hosting you can recommend? (as in the 5 to 10 dollar a month range)?
Once TypePad got going, my impression of Ben and Mena Trott changed for the worse. There was the incident where Mena called out someone for being an "asshole" at SXSW

Lol, I'm kinda surprised people still remember that, it was me she called out. It was at Le Blogs (which was her own conference, surprisingly).

For me SixApart failed because the founders lacked vision as they were not entrepreneurial types (your outline is spot on) and their success was all very accidental (and somewhat opportunistic by the folks that put money in to the company).

The best thing Ben and Mena had going for them was was that they were normal folks who represented the community, just like Matt Mullenweg over at WordPress. But the money people sidelined them rather than letting them find their own voice.

Switching Movable Type from open source to proprietary and then ultimately back to open source killed the project and in many ways is what made me move over to WordPress.

Finally, the company was awkward at business. You are right, I was a customer at the time of the incident (I was responsible for a large UK broadcaster's purchase of Movable Type) but the product (when MT was proprietary) had a crazy price point of $3000 (roughly, I think) - too cheap for enterprise and too expensive for small bloggers.

It's a shame and I feel sorry for those concerned despite what happened 5 years ago.
I wouldn't put Case Western in the category of Blub U. It's a solid, possibly top tier, tech university.
Mostly agreed, but I'd suggest that, instead of The Bell Curve- which is full of highly questionable and mostly-discredited pseudoscience- you instead read Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man". The most recent edition, I believe, has an entire chapter devoted to dissecting exactly what's wrong with the arguments presented in "The Bell Curve".
The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Because this was the "Original Bike Shed Email" that gave rise to, oh, http://www.sheddingbikes.com.

I think this was posted more in response to Zed's popularity now than because of Parkinson's idea as demonstrated on the FreeBSD discussion.
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> Flash Cookies

Firefox has the BetterPrivacy extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/
What's truly disturbing is that this absolutely meets a need for a paid gig I'm working on now, where the client wants persistent identity tracking for the purposes of marketing and analytics. (I'm part of the problem, aren't I?)
Will that defeat Flash storage and the PNG caching trick, too?
Instead of trying to do what you want to do, even if it is simple and you know what you want to do should be easily doable, try some tutorials.

Note that if you are using Rails 3, most of the tutorials out there are for Rails 2. This is going to be a rough next year and a half or so.

For Rails 3, check this out if you haven't already. Personally I'm not into watching videos of someone else coding, but maybe you are:
http://railscasts.com/
transcriptions here:
http://asciicasts.com/

Here comes the frustrating part. Unlike PhP, Java, etc. where just looking up stuff online is enough, unless you participate in the various local Ruby get-togethers or have some others nearby that do, you're likely to find yourself in the dark more than you're used to being. I'm somewhat of an introvert, and have a family where I can't be going to these things nor do I want to, but not going to the meetups definitely hurts it seems. Maybe I've bought into the hype too much about how much the meetups help though, and I've heard from someone that some meetups are more hype than help, so if you don't like one group, try another.

Basically, here are the pain points I can think of:

If you relied on it in the past, lack of static typing hurts in the beginning, but not so much after a year or so with the exception of lack of good method/etc. completion due to the dynamic nature of Ruby.

Having wierd bugs because the gem/plugin you are using is incompatible with the version of Rails, etc. is no fun. Read the docs associated with the gem/plugin. Submit a ticket/contact the developer(s) some other way to find out what they use. This doesn't bite as much as you'd think.

Trying to track down what in the heck is going on in Rails, Active Record, etc. can be a pain when something isn't working. I've not gotten good enough to feel totally comfortable with this, but I know people after working several years with it are more at home with this.

Upgrading Rails can suck.

You'll read suggestions that say if you don't write test first, you'll not be able to handle bugs/issues that well. That is probably true, however the team I'm on doesn't pay attention to testing as much as they should, and we get by mostly ok (some tough issues here and there).

Overall, Rails is ok, and Ruby is pretty cool. Also check out Sinatra, etc. Maybe you don't need Rails for what you are doing.
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But if you rebuild python from scratch, you loose every single software packaged by your distribution. If you depend on modules with C extensions, it quickly becomes intractable. Building python is easy - building a recent pyqt on RHEL 5, not so much.

Also, virtualenv is hard to sell for people who do not know so much about python.
Courtesy is courtesy no matter what field you're in. I've always sent a thank you note no matter what. They took time out of their schedule for me, it's the least I could do.

Here's two tips to help you:

1) You can never be too courteous.

2) There is nothing wrong with being the best dressed in the room.

(Note: I've never worn a suit to an interview, but still always try to dress nicely even if I know the company is a shorts/sandals/t-shirt kind of place. In those instances a nice pair of jeans and an ironed shirt usually work.)
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I don't quite get your reasoning here:

> if someone has spent an hour of their time (I don't care if it's on company time) to potentially change my life, the least I could do is take 5 minutes to share a sincere Thank You.

That implies that choosing a slower method of communicating somehow shows greater thanks than would, say, an email or phone call. I suppose to some people (certainly not me), a snail mail letter may seem more personal or professional than an email, but I don't think the mere fact that your message arrives via snail mail vs. email would reliably earn you points with those in charge of hiring.
Very few recruiters pass on the email id of the hiring manger to candidates. Also, many candidates write an email to the recruiter thanking him/her and the interviewers which usually never gets to the interviewers.
I'm a big fan of CurVe: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/curve/

Among its other nice features, it makes it easy to custom compile your CV for a specific purpose.
I know that in Chrome's incognito mode, nothing gets written to the disk at all (including Flash's Shared Objects). So if I open an incognito window, browse, then close Chrome, then open another incognito window and return to the page, does this defeat all this?
Cookie Monster (set to deny cookies by default) plus Flashblock seems to be enough to stop evercookie from setting an id on Firefox for me.
Maybe one day you will figure out the difference between coming "too close", and dropping peoples names at the first sign of a story. Maybe.
Yes, it happens every time — even after restarting the browser.

Short of debugging it properly myself, is there a debug mode that i can enable to get info to help you find the problem?
this is working on FF, Chrome Safari for me. I don't have IE to test
P.S. More details on the actual updated app:
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That's great advice to give your kids, but you should also be teaching them by example that it's never too late to make a change!

If you really want to work for one of those companies, don't wait for a headhunter to contact you! Fix up your CV, figure out a way to get your foot in the door (Hint: You're posting in a community filled with employees of the companies you want to work for. Be resourceful, but don't be annoying.), and brush up on your programming interview skills. It's really not that hard.
The guy hired to write the standardized test is not expected to pay for the spellchecking.

It's a very weird relationship to be sure but in a sense bands hire record labels. Session/studio musicians on the other hand have always been work for hire (see Standing in the Shadows of Motown).
So say you want a single video on your the home page of your website to demo your application. What would be the advantage of using this over just embedding a Vimeo video or something?
Someone please explain the finer nuances of the law; I can't see how this is different from professional athletes forming their own association/union and stipulating a "minimum fee" e.g. NBA.
Where's the evercookie-kill script?
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Eventually, you will need copy that explains something to the user. When you do, you will not be able to keep your copy consistent by continuing to use "my".

"If you have questions about your account, call..."
all other things equal

All other things are never equal. Keep in mind that higher pay in some areas is due to the cost of living there. For example, the median home price across the US is about $180k. In San Francisco, the median home price is $600k (http://www.wibw.com/nationalnews/headlines/103474779.html). Everything is more expensive in there too, including parking, gas, food, etc. It might be better to be a developer making $60k in Mississipi than $100k in SF. The holy grail would be to get the job that pays $100k but lets you telecommute from a place with a much lower cost of living, preferably with white sand beaches,
I'm also new to web development (I have no where near 4 years of experience). Do you understand object oriented programming enough to explain it to a programming newbie? If not, you need to take a class. No amount of Railscasts/Peepcode vids/Rails books will teach you OOP, and yet Ruby and Rails require a working knowledge of it. I know PHP is an OOP lang, but you may not have used it that way.
Hooray For Mike Arrington
Funny story: I was looking for a domain name for my blog. I have a Taoism/Zen theme, so I registered a few names in that genre (like "The Tao of Code").

As I was looking around, I tried ZenCoder. I was annoyed to see that it was already in use, but I quickly forgot about it. A few months later, I started reading about them in Tech Crunch and on HN!

I ended up going with LoopyCode.com.
I can't speak for the OP, but his writing actually was very reminiscent of my wife's C-section.

"She cut me open yet?"

"Yup, you're pretty much gutted like a fish, she's sticking in a retractor now. Can't you effing feel that?"

"Nope, not a thing."

"Aand, here comes a head. Kinda gross looking."

"Why's he so quiet?"

"Dunno, she's cleaning out his mouth with her finger."

[Loud, piercing screams] "Yup, lungs work, I guess."

"Dad, would you like to cut the cord now?"

It was really an odd combo of detachment and magical amazement.
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I don't see web startups as inherently being more ethical than that of the average investment bank, but in any case the IT people are not usually dealing with the same ethics decisions as those doing the investing at an investment bank.
snarky aside

No one wants to implement all of java commons-lang in their language of choice because they'd be lynched by the languages users. I no of no other language with a standard library as annoyingly verbose and complicated as java.
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An architect/sculptor friend in Mexico was burglarized once, and when he came home ran gleefully from room to room to find out which sculpture the thieves had preferred. When he found out they’d only taken a couple radios and a TV, he was crestfallen.
The interesting thing is unlike that group of Angels apparently in the bar PG's interests are less about helping himself, and more about helping entrepreneurs. From an essay by PG entitled "Why YC":

The real reason we started Y Combinator is one probably only a hacker would understand. We did it because it seems such a great hack. There are thousands of smart people who could start companies and don't, and with a relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place, we can spring on the world a stream of new startups that might otherwise not have existed.

In a way this is virtuous, because I think startups are a good thing. But really what motivates us is the completely amoral desire that would motivate any hacker who looked at some complex device and realized that with a tiny tweak he could make it run more efficiently. In this case, the device is the world's economy, which fortunately happens to be open source.

http://paulgraham.com/whyyc.html
The problem I have with thank you notes - both as an interviewer and an interviewee - is that not only are they mechanical in nature but also manipulative. The interviewee has something to gain by sending a thank you note.

When all the people you have interviewed send you a thank you note because it's "the thing to do," then it is hard to gauge the level of sincerity.

For me, the enthusiasm and energy demonstrated at the actual interview is far more indicative of whether either party really actually appreciated spending time together.
Maybe. This approach shows some integrity too, though. Not everything has to turn into a scandal (at least if inappropriate behavior stops quickly). Call me soft on crime.
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Oracle was started when Larry Ellison was 33.
Grellas, would there have to be evidence that the participants were acting anti-competitively, or is being in the room enough? Arrington says that a few of the folks there were uncomfortable with what was going on, and were maybe there just to see what was happening.
The Wikipedia summary of Section 1 of the Sherman Act is a decent read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act#Violation...
I think that perl did such wonderful things that no on cared if it was a wee bit slow - also it's been optimized a LOT, and isn't slow anymore. (and still does wonderful things)