skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the last MS kool-aid I bought was the copy of DOS 5.0, and back then I didn't know better.

I'm a bit suspicious about the "CEO == sociopath" meme. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, and never attribute to insanity what can be explained by malice. Lying to cover yourself certainly doesn't come close to my definition of insanity…

My point is just that at least Gates seems to have made an exit, and came out somewhat well-adjusted. Maybe the billionaires form of survivor's guilt or seeking repentance comes into play, too.

Ellison is from the same tribe (and time) of monopolist software companies, and doesn't seem to be able to let go. And if I remember correctly, he's older than Gates, too.
I think that advice applies even more at companies like Pixar. But think about what the advice is really suggesting: demand your worth, ensure your skills are still marketable, take responsibility.

If you're working at Pixar, chances are you are still advancing your skills. You are still marketable. But if Pixar suddenly stagnated, if your advancement stopped, and you were no longer staying up with the market, you have only yourself to blame. Why is it "even more important" at Pixar? Because they are so well known, it's important to evaluate where you are.

It's the same for people from Google. Google offers a great work environment, but people still leave. Why? They outgrow Google. They take responsibility, and move forward.

As long as your employer is still pushing you forward, by all means stay. The advice isn't to give up on something you love that is helping you. It's when it stops helping you that you need to evaluate that relationship.
The most bizarre thing is that they don't all appear to be normalized to point North at the top.
No, because you have used their service and owe them money for that service. In the case of zipcar, if the service has not been used, or there are no outstanding charges on the account, automembership should fail gracefully. Cellphones will not cut off your account if you are late paying, but you owe the money for the time service was provided.
Yes, that jumped out right away. Really weird.
Tell NH: $1.17 .com at Godaddy
HN, the recent FP article about getting a four letter domain inspired me to find one. A quick google search for godaddy coupons found me the "FALL99" promo code which gave me a .com for $1.17 [1].

The catch is that a credit card must be used (Paypal not accepted) and only one per customer.

I did not create this coupon, I do not profit form it, I just wanted to share it with other HN readers.

EDIT: This coupon expires after 10k registrations or Oct. 5 whichever comes first.

EDIT: Found the info on Godaddy.com:

"Register or transfer any available .COM, .US, .MOBI, .BIZ, .NET, .ORG, .CA, .CO.UK and .IN domain for just $0.99!
Applies to the first year only of new or transfer registrations. This offer may not be used for renewals, bulk registrations, premium domains or Sunrise/Landrush domain registrations. Limited to one order per customer, expiring after 10,000 redemptions or on October 5, 2010 (whichever comes first). Discount will be reflected in your shopping cart; cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or promotion. Customers may not use gift cards, PayPal® or AliPay to redeem this offer.
* Plus ICANN fee of 18 cents per domain year when applicable."*

[1] http://livecodes.blogspot.com/
I have a stack of print-outs of xkcd's tech support cheat-sheet [1], that I give to the person.

On some occasions, they actually have an interesting problem, but, the other 99% of the time, I just save my time by handing them the cheat sheet.

[1]: http://xkcd.com/627/
The iPad is transforming media firms, and frustrating them
Things I've learned from hiring interns for IBM
This is a bit tangential to your point, but if my math is right and your $90K/yr .NET developer is spending no more than the typical 30% of income on housing, she's just paid off a $300,000 3-bedroom condo (approximately $2250/month payments, ignoring taxes, insurance, association fees and all that jazz). Even in this depressed market, that's a steal in many (possibly most) large markets. While the odds of hitting the startup jackpot may be low, you may be overestimating the benefits of the nose-to-the-grindstone approach.
That's quite the recommendation of Charles. If you're not taking all of his time, I may have an analysis job for him.
I've never received a new CC# for a lost card. The 3-digit security code on the back did change, though.
How-to get that guy as your mentor
Ask HN: Link to your Github 
It would be interesting to see what HNers are working on, also to see their style of coding. So if you don't mind, leave a link to your GitHub.
If you have no revenue none, if you have revenue you get to keep 8% of a significant portion of it, instead of giving it to the government.
I'm not sure she and her husband would make it past a credit/employment check to satisfy a landlord.
Let's leave the string issue aside. It has nothing to do with the point I was trying to make. Consider the example I gave in another reply:

class Point { int x; int y; }
class Rect { Point a; Point b; }
List<Rect> list ...

In Java, this list of Rect objects contains three pointers that a functionally equivalent list in C++, C# or Go would not have to hold.
Yes, it is quite the recommendation, he's really good.

I'm not going to 'claim' Charles' time, if he wants to take your job I'm perfectly ok with it, it's his time after all, so that's his call to make.
Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client
.apk: http://gluegadget.com/hndroid/HNdroid.apk

Screenshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amir_mohammad/sets/72157624870942817/
And if they use Macs and I have no idea about them, then what?
> My bet is the only reason he is not a serial killer is because Microsoft has been more fun.

Wow!

So I guess the traits of a serial-killer are: lying + no remorse for making a shit-load of money?!?

I guess I must be a potential serial-killer too.
Think it is a about time they did this. There are some major risks with one factor as more and more services use Google as a single signon mechanism. I go into the details here: http://rakkhi.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-dont-facebook-twitter...
Products vs Services - Critical Success Factors
http://github.com/chegra/
Goodbye (Crummy) CAPTCHAs. Hello Ad Dollars?
Customs Officers and Bank Managers have (or had, we'll see in the "post recession era") predictable trajectories.

You could choose these jobs and get predictable returns. A certain amount of money and no more. A certain amount of impact on the world around you and no more.

You do a startup to take a ride off the rails. You'll probably get nowhere, but its not certain. You might make unimaginable money and change the entire world.

And changing the world is cool. That's the hype.
"Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want to get it over with as soon as possible. "

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Apple wants to patent mobile devices acting as Wifi routers
I found it funny when reading the article that the lady took two trips overseas after getting laid off, amongst other things. She didn't spend 4-years looking for a job like the article suggest ("For Ms. Reid, it has been four years of hunting"). No. She's been unemployed for 4-years.

"Stunned and depressed, she sent out résumés, but figured she had a little time to recover. So she took vacations to Turkey and Thailand with her husband, who is a home repairman. She sought chiropractic treatments for a neck injury and helped nurse a priest dying of cancer."

This also caught me by surprise: "And now, her $500-a-week unemployment benefits have been exhausted."

That has to be wrong. Almost 4-years of unemployment? Of course...

"She has since cut back, forgoing Nordstrom shopping sprees and theater subscriptions, but also cutting out red meat at home and putting off home repairs."

I don't mean to sound harsh. I realize that finding a good job is nice. However, I can only hope to learn from this and remember that it's important to always be learning. Never rest.
As I remember many said that Digg made substantial modifications to Cassandra, which further muddies the water depending on which levels of it they modified.

However, the key thing to me was that they were fixing break the world bugs a few days before the release, which tells us their engineering and release management was horribly broken. I don't see how we can blame Java, Cassandra or their modifications to the latter when they ignored clear signals their new total rewrite wasn't ready for prime time.
Takes all kinds. Ok, there's not just a little pride/boasting going on - startup folk are the Tony Hawk of the business world. They want to grind and 360 their way to success, and talk about it.

I sense maybe a little defensiveness - what's the problem with the 90K .Net developer? Boring, that's what. We both know it, there's no denying it. And that's ok, whatever floats your boat.
Linux kernel exploit aggressively rooting machines: check if you're compromised
do you realize 2-factor authentification has nothing to do with changing passwords?
So sharing a crappy piece of code with poor documentation is better than holding out until you can release a tested product? I don't buy it. Case in point: the many terrible suggestions in the PHP documentation comments.
Tell them to go to the apple store.
Definitely. Where I live (Toronto) credit reports used for most things only have information like: "missed a payment in the last 30/60/120 days -- yes/no" and that's it. Pls, as above, most banks wont actually bother reporting a 1-day late payment at all.
Before, after you install it they will call you to support any IT issues. And if you manage to screw things up, expect a barrage of abuse.
The Lisp process to which the author refers is not as stately and merit-based as he implies. In Scheme, the r6rs process was very difficult and divisive, and many people voted in favor of it while very publicly holding their noses. The r7rs process, if carried out as planned, will attempt to avoid the same kind of damage and will result in two language: a sparse core language and a featureful "practical" language. That larger more featureful language will be the one that is more useful outside of language research, and it is also the one that will change more over time, shielding the core language from the need to change. Scheme purists can stick with the core. Non-purists can embrace the featureful languages such as r7rs-plus (or whatever it will be called), Racket, and Clojure. Anointing CL or Scheme (core) as the final arbiter of the value of a language feature is tantamount (bucket list item #73: use "tantamount" in a sentence; check) is OK if it works for you, but it certainly wouldn't work for a lot of working programmers.
Two things stand out to me:

1. Your goals and ideals seem far different from mine. You were taught obedience; while I was also taught to obey my parents and teachers growing up, I realized that everyone is fallible and authority figures aren't always right. It really grates me to just obey someone without a sensible reason. Additionally, you seem content with material happiness (three houses, millions-worth, 3-bedroom condo)... as long as I have enough money to serve my needs, I'm happy spending time with friends or hanging out on a beach somewhere or traveling to new places. I would be very happy to start a small website that I could charge $10 per month for and keep a steady 200-400 subscribers; then I could work from anywhere in the world and have enough to pay the bills. I prefer freedom over security.

2. In the vast majority of business transactions, one entity is making a profit while the other is receiving a good or service. In the case of employment, the employee is providing more value than he is getting paid for, while the employer is providing a steady paycheck (smoothing the ups and downs) and benefits. By maximizing your value for a company, you're putting extra money in someone else's pocket. I would much rather benefit myself with my hard work.
JQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False
Being Geek: The Trailer
Your comment made me smile. This year I gave up sugar and processed grains and made some interesting observations.

1. Eating wheat seems to cause floaters in my eyes - but only processed wheat. I can eat all sorts of grains from the bulk bin and feel great. Eye doctors have told me they are natural but it got bad enough to make it hard to use a computer. Now I only remember them when I eat something like pizza or bread.

2. A friend from Switzerland won't eat flour in this country. She can't stand the smell (rancid) and grinds her own. She also keeps it in the freezer. It doesn't cause me trouble either.

3. My teeth have never felt cleaner. If I have processed flour or sugar, I actually feel the acid and can't brush them "clean". I've always wondered by natives have good teeth without brushing and modern humans have cavities.

4. I read that wheat has a long history of chemical processing (to get rid of the smut fungus). It makes me wonder if there is a correlation between pesticides/processing and food allergies. (My mom used to say that peanuts have the most pesticides in the US.)
You clearly do not understand the scale botnets can achieve. 35,000 won't do it, no. How about the same coming from several million IP addresses? How about millions coming from several million IP addresses?
I give you an example. Let's say there are 2 mathematicians 'A' and 'B'.

'A' works on different problems each day. At the beginning of the day he receives a task from his boss and solves it during the day.

'B' is experimenting and thinking about really hard problems. There are months when he does not achieve anything, but he learns new things everytime. He develops his intuition further and further, and once in 3 years he proves a really-really hard theorem.

It's not that 'B' is innately smarter than 'A', it is just a different lifestyle, which is in my opinion is much more fun. But not for everybody. We are different.

Unfortunatelly I am doing the 'A' lifestyle by day, but at least I do the 'B' lifestyle by night. It is very tiring (especially because I have a family to support), so I hope one day I will be able to do the 'B' lifestlye all day.
The point is that their current business model (give away the razor, sell the blades) is not the secret of their success-- that during the time they had explosive growth and became dominant, they actually had a very different business model.
Don't take it too seriously. It's a kinda stupid rant. (I wrote it.)
Oh, I pretty much guarantee them I'll screw things up, that's why I have a friend who fixes my stuff for me ;)
Yes. My humble proposal is that it should. Do you think it would be ineffective, or a bad idea? If so, why?
"Why fly to the moon when you can simply stay here on Earth and watch someone else do it on TV? Why run a marathon when you could drive instead? Why read a programming book when there's a perfectly good movie sitting in your DVD player?"

I get asked these sorts of questions about a lot of things I do, and honestly I often don't have a good answer. Why do I keep trying to start a business? Why do I climb mountains? Why do I go to the gym? The best I've come up with is to prove to myself that I can because it's certainly not fun all the time. In fact it's often quite painful, but once you've tasted the elation of success it's like a drug and keeps pulling you back in.
VCs, Sprinting Horses till they Sweat
It does indeed look like a great book - but it doesn't really change the fact that Common Lisp is fragmented and dated.
Depends on what you define to be Lisp.

If Lisp is the line of Lisp, Lisp 1.5, MacLisp, Lisp Machine Lisp to Common Lisp, then Clojure is not in that line. In Common Lisp I can run 50 year old code with relatively little change. CAR, PROG, ..., are still there.

If Lisp is the larger family of widely incompatible languages like Logo, Dylan, Racket, Arc, NewLisp, then Clojure is a part of that family. But they share very little - not even the syntax. Clojure is completely incompatible to any of them - but that's true of each other.
Would blocking canvas be even enough? Or would we need "HTML5 block" to avoid constant annoyance? And what's going to happen on all these devices where we can't install extensions?

That's why I intend to use Opera Mini as long as it works.
I agree with the basic principle but I'm not sure that every mentor relationship should turn in to an equity based one.
When you are introverted like Arrington it probably helps being away from the valley. Also, you don't have to turn down some many meetings/dinners/etc that are not as efficient as the phone or IM.
Stephen Fry at Intelligence2 Debate
Well, that would be a huge improvement.
VS2010 was the largest source repository I've ever worked on. It is structured very similar to Windows, all large projects at MS are as far as I know. It ended up being my job was almost entirely dedicated to just maintaining our branches: pushing our updates up to Main, and pulling in fresh changes about once a week. DevDiv has a term for this: BFD, "Branch Facilitator Developer", which for most teams is a full time job of nothing but merging code. For me it was about 70% of my job. Each branch took about 120 gigs of space on disk, and I regularly worked with about 5 branches. Merging our changes into main was a huge ordeal. We had to merge, do a full stack build (which took about 24 hours), and run every single team's tests, which took another 24 to 48 hours. From there it was a bookkeeping task of checking in on all the tests that failed and resolving them, doing performance testing, etc etc. All in all merging to main took roughly a week to pull off. The reverse was always interesting: pulling in new bits from Main to our branch was like playing Russian roulette, what was going to break this time?

To add a little spice to all of this, it all took place on alpha builds of Team Foundation Server that was being developed at the same time as everything else. Fun times :)
Just to point out: by the definition of a lot of Americans, "travel a lot" is part of the definition of "rich". And it's a big part: most people can't really afford to travel at all. And for some people, "4 kids" is also part of that definition--especially if you treat them right. If you send them to private school, that's certainly the case.

(Personal anecdote which is not data: a lot of my family are autoworkers, and if you asked them they'd say they're doing pretty good, definitely middle class. One of my aunts on that side just got on an airplane for the first time in her life last year, because it was the first time she could afford the price of the ticket.)

This post is not meant to be snarky or insulting at all. But you are in the top few percent of the income distribution, and you don't feel rich because the things you spend the money on are things you think you should have. And you might be right! Because I think a life which involves family and travel would be a good thing, and that everyone should have that. But that doesn't mean most people can have it, or that those who can afford these things aren't rich.
I am not really sure whether this is an interesting critique from a broader Lisp perspective, or a stunningly epic troll to get traffic by enraging Clojure folks.

From my point of view:

* Other LISPs I have tried are not very amenable to practical usage in a modern software ecosystem. Not impossible, just a difficult fit. Could this be fixed? Sure. Why hasn't it been fixed? No idea.

* Clojure is a very practical LISP today, which drops very easily in to a modern software ecosystem.
I rather like http://rsync.net/. My critical, need to keep it offsite data backup requirements fit it well, there's one simple monthly charge and I can use rsync plus a handful of blessed shell commands to manage it. They also figured out a way to support git, which I use for projects that are too incomplete or unpolished to put up on GitHub. I looked very hard at S3 but it's rather inflexible for exactly what I want to do.

That said, I'm only storing my parent's photos and videos of their grandchildren (I'll lose all my media if my apartment is truly wiped out by a tornado, then again I'm unlikely to survive that). If you need to backup a lot of stuff S3 will be quite a bit cheaper (for me either is pocket change as of now).
I wasn't sure where it got the PR (though I assume it's from one of the many 3rd-party services, since the PR is fairly well known). So I went digging. I found this in the extension source code:

this.getQueryUrl=function(){
var b = "http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&hl=en&ch="+getGoogleChecksum(this.domain)+"&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank&q=info:http://"+this.domain;
}

Also, this is what the extension says about privacy [1]:

This extensions's privacy policy is no different than WOT or any other service or extension that is designed to bring you information on the sites you are visiting. Example, when you search on Google, it will always track your IP.
It doesn't access your private data. Chrome shows a warning for all extensions that access browser tabs.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbpojpfdiliekbbi...
I think will be the first time a video has convinced me to buy a book.
What the F-86 can teach us about software development
I don't see how that's "hypocrisy". They're arguing that all people in a bracket, including themselves, should be taxed at a higher rate. Arguing that doesn't logically require also being willing to go it alone. Advocating raising taxes on the rich while hiding their own money in offshore bank accounts to avoid those taxes; that would be hypocrisy.
Startups aren't for everyone, but I was an $85k a year salaried .NET developer and hated it. The money was nice, but the job was unfulfilling and the high paycheck really just left me feeling like I was prostituting myself.

I walked away, launched my startup, and was immediately happier. I wrote this post on my blog about my experience, which might help to clarify:

http://kohari.org/2010/08/24/looking-back/

Money and security isn't what everyone is after. I won't speak for others, but I'm an engineer and I want to build things. More specifically, I want to feel like the things I build have an immediate and significant impact on others, and there's nowhere better to feel that than at a startup.
The problem with coding for someone else (8 year vet here), is that you reach a point where you've seen a lot of hard problems and you start feeling like you are using the same concepts over and over and not really learning anything. So, you start looking for bigger, harder problems to solve, but in Big[NonSoftware]Co, its hard to find an interesting project to expand your horizons. And you can't really take risks, because the company typically hates risk (at least the kind of risk associated with letting some random software guy do something out-of-the-box). So, you stop seeking up within the company and start seeking more challenging problems outside.

It turns out that growing a great business is one of the hardest challenges ever, so naturally, people who are natural risk-takers that really want to challenge themselves will eventually look to create a startup.

Thats why.