skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was, but if you can show me a person that deals well with failure then you've shown me a CEO or saint.
Very cool. Where are you located?
"Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when goths discover brown"
OP is right about tech/development managers needing to respect estimates but wrong about Captain Kirk.

Captain Kirk pushed Scotty because Scotty was an extraordinary man capable of doing much more than he admitted, if the matter was urgent. Kirk pushed Scotty when he felt that it mattered to the safety of the crew or to others whom they were protecting. Sense of urgency is important both in getting customers to buy and in helping boost team morale, as long as it is used in moderation.

Few ever doubted Kirk as the leader of the ship, and I think even Scotty was entertained by and admired his tactics and style.
Yahoo Mail Beta Rolls Out Worldwide
the language has been improved to the point where most of the issues people have with it are aesthetic

Now, let's not go too far.
Clicky: http://uptimerobot.com
I don't think they disappeared, they just went into "blog rolls"
Forget Facebook and MySpace – Wall Street Journal Shares Your Information Too
Changing Development
I wasn't trying to make assumptions of sexuality. This is HN. I was more concerned about him falling in love with his computer. Or a startup. Or minecraft.

If you fall in love only when things are going well for you then that may be a significant reason you believe that the median love interest won't work out.
I'd love to know what sort of infrastructure you're running this on.
I'm in a course for my Masters for library school that deals with similar sorts of problems in maintaining and preserving for the "long term" digital materials.

From your site it sounds like you wrote a script using wget to harvest the files and another to check them against versions that were still up. What do you do on the server end now to ensure that the files are still working correctly? Are you running periodic checksums on them or the like? Finally, are you looking for any help from an interested novice?
This seems like a monster profit center for future government. Just set up the laws so that you have to look up and pay dozens of little fees in order to have the law protect you from trolls. The trolls are incentivized to troll, you are pressured to pay up, and the government just sits back and watches the money roll in.
So the ads would be in the notifications? I don't see anyone clicking on them if their site just went down.
any more than robber is just rob with er on the end of it

But one steals by threatening violence and the other clothes you against your wishes.
Not the same thing, but the Cintiq is a monitor you can draw on, which is pressure sensitive and lets you use whatever desktop-grade software you want. I enjoy your drawings and explanations quite a bit; you'd probably find a Cintiq, even the smaller (awesome) one, to be the most natural drawing experience a computer can currently give.
> It is unethical to use this software on one’s children without letting them know.

I disagree. If you had written "spouse" or "significant other" or really any other adult I'd agree with you, but I don't think you can make that absolute statement when it comes to (minor) children.

Letting the child know about the monitoring software would be the good and trusting thing to do, but "unethical" overstates the case significantly. I can imagine cases where it would reflect poor judgment or be inappropriate to snoop in this way, but I can readily imagine scenarios where it would be unethical NOT to secretly monitor a child's communication.

Part of a parent's job is to keep their children out of trouble until the child is old enough to do that for themselves. (Another part, as you suggest, is teaching the child how to do just that.) Absolute statements about privacy kind of go out the window when you are talking about a relationship and responsibility of that nature.

It is not hard to imagine a child (not every child, but certainly some, especially in the "tween" age range) that has the capacity and desire to hide some communication from his or her parents but lacking the judgment and life-skills to keep themselves safe from harm when doing so.

Suppose your child is engaged in inappropriate or damaging behavior such bullying/being bullied, involved in self-harm/cutting, drug abuse, illegal activities, or things even more sinister. If your child has the desire to hide that activity from you, you could tell your child about the monitoring software but then they'll be careful to find another channel to communicate about this activity. Alternatively you could not tell them about the software and have some additional insight into their world whether they want you to have it or not.

Look, it wouldn't be my first course of action, I wouldn't do it without provocation, and I would be very very careful how I made use of the information, but I wouldn't hesitate to violate my minor child's privacy if I thought it was important to protecting her well being. Monitoring text messages is nothing, I'd read her diary if necessary.
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The inability to find any joy in anything ("anhedonia") is one of the markers for depression. Be on the lookout for others (increase or decrease in appetite; increase or decrease in sleep).

Depression can come in response to specific ("depressing") circumstances or events, and it can come from hormonal or biochemical conditions. Depending on cause, different professional routes may be helpful.

Other contributing conditions (e.g., social isolation; career confusion) may be addressed well be a counselor worth their salt. [ Keep in mind that how 'loudly' you complain about how awful you feel will affect how much the counselor accelerates (or not) getting you more significant/experienced assistance. ] The 'right' counselor should be able to convey to you that they take your issues seriously and that they genuinely care about you and finding solution(s) that work for you.

Friends can provide some of the support and perspective that a professional counselor does, but usually not enough when you've really got yourself into a clinical depression. Plus a professional will have guidelines to know whether you are a candidate for referral to someone who can consider whether an anti-depressant might be worth trying. I'd encourage you to keep looking until you find a professional who's really an effective ally during these trying times.

Thinking of you
jQuery is nice because you can jump back and forth between it and "regular" Javascript. Inside your $(id).click() function you can just as easily call document.getElementById. jQuery even provides you access to all of the DOM level objects in case you want to escape outside of it for a bit.

Most frameworks do not let you do this and you have to actually have to work at it/hack at it to use functionality that isn't provided by them.
Well, one major reason to use jQuery, besides all of the cool APIs, is that it encapsulates most of that messy browser specific stuff you have to account for which is not that analogous to what you have to do with most programming languages.
I'm fine with allowing them to continue, but maybe only in the /offers section, and/or maybe weighted downward in the regular section.
Yes, negotiating is fine. No problems there, it seems from the down votes that everyone misunderstood. I wasn't suggesting that an employee has to just take what's offered or that's it.

But trying to ding me for half a recruiter fee? That's just a scummy gimmick. I'd rather you just asked for $10k more in salary because you thought you were worth it.

Suppose a friend said "I'm going to Outback for dinner, want to ride with me." You go with him, order the same stuff, and when you go to split the check he asks you to pay an extra $5 since he drove. You start wondering, did he just invite me to dinner to save $5?

This is kinda like that. You applied to my company, I decided I wanted to hire you, and now you want me to pay you for having applied to my company directly? That's just shady. Do I even trust that you're going to remain with the company for long enough for this to be worth it for me, or do you just go around trying to ding employers for $10k?

Take my word for it as someone who hires people, don't ask for a $10k bonus because you applied through the website. Ask for $10k more salary instead and explain why you're worth it.
Offer HN: I'll help you learn Python
I've been doing Python professionally for 4 years now, including Django (sys admin to front end), GIS, and some basic machine learning.

Some pre-reading would be most effective so you'll have specific questions. If you already know how to code and are picking up Python, I recommend http://diveintopython.org/ . If you are new to programming, I recommend http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

Email me to agree on a schedule; I'd prefer Freenode IRC if you want to chat.
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Just a FYI, I almost flagged your post, given your low karma and a direct link to your product, I assumed it was a fairly decent product spam. The only reason I did not was because I to the time to read your comment history. If you want to avoid the appearance of spamming, might I suggest next time you post some stats in the post and in the comments post a link to your product to avoid people flagging it thinking that it is product spam. I gave you an upvote for almost being a jerk to you and not giving you the benefit of the doubt.
I only have an M001, which has the advantage of being popular so there are people modding it, and some people working on a clean implementation of the linux kernel (groups.google.com/group/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel)

If you want to do some kernel device driver writing, binary reverse-engineering, or port Android 2.2, those are all good things you can try on the M001 (or the Walgreens tablet, same SoC.)

However, there are better cheap tablets. $200ish can get you one built around the TI OMAP3 platform. One is called the Wits A81E. For a lot of tinkering, that's probably a much better buy - Android 2.2 already runs, you get a Cortex A8 instead of an ARM9 (so it -will- run recent Ubuntu versions), and the OMAP3 SoCs have properly open sourced and mature linux drivers. I haven't actually used one, though.

It really depends on what you want to do with it, I guess.
What?

First, what is stopping wires from transmitting these frequencies.

Second, 300GHz switching speed does not necessarily mean that you need to be feeding info at that rate.
> This is my main problem with this line of thinking. Developers aren't actually developing anymore. They are mashing together frameworks.

Usually you have one framework and then you mash together a bunch of libraries. The framework exists as a way to abstract the most common functionality of your chosen platform. A good framework eliminates a lot of boilerplate without getting in your way when you need to go beyond the common functionality.

The ironic thing about your post is that PHP itself has a bit of a nascent framework quality to it. It was developed before web frameworks of course, at a time when everyone was writing Perl CGI scripts using a bunch of libraries. The revolutionary aspect of PHP and mod_php in particular, was that it had automatic hooks into all the common aspects of the HTTP cycle, including the page metaphor, which meant you could change a static page into a dynamic page with no effort. PHP was state of the art when websites were mostly still just pages. Serious programmers laughed of course, how could you build a serious application in this glorified templating language? So they continued to develop their "proper" frameworks like Struts, Zope and countless others rooted in the experience of GUI developers from ages past.

However as web development experience and understanding matured, there was a widening gap between PHP and the enterprise frameworks. And this gap is squarely where Rails was dropped in 2004. There are so many things that are common to all web applications that PHP doesn't handle. DHH's brilliance was not so much in the details of the original Rails code, but in picking and choosing best practices and unifying them in one package in a minimal way. I think this was instrumental in web framework developers from all languages re-evaluating what was really necessary and what cruft could be eliminated.

Nowadays Rails is pretty enterprisey in capability, but it still avoids most of the overhead present in enterprise frameworks of 10 years ago. The minimalist torch has been carried forward by upstarts such as Merb and now Sinatra.

The strength of these various frameworks is that they do things that tens of thousands of developers need to do every day in a standardized way that's had massive input and refinement over time. When you use these frameworks you can hire people and they hit the ground running. When you use your own personal library then every new developer has to get up to speed on your dime, and you foot the bill of maintenance yourself rather than gaining the advantage of a large open-source community.
Please don't leave.
Cool, I've got you bookmarked and I'll be checking back in December. Good luck with this!
Oh the teenage humanity! Curse you mhd! Curse you!
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"You say you don't believe that mashing together frameworks is actual development, yet you recommend the jQuery framework for front-end coding. Do you draw a distinction between front-end and back-end - is front-end work not really development?"

I use it sparingly. Mostly because there are many quirks between the various browsers and jquery seems to have a pretty good handle on it. As an example: rather than using one of the many bloated pagination libraries I found based on Jquery, I rolled my own in less code. It ended up much smaller because I didn't have to incorporate everything in the existing libraries. Most frameworks throw in everything, because they have to account for all possibilities, rather than just the ones that you need. You end up with bloated code, unless you know how it works behind the scenes (and many times even if you do, you can't take out the parts that you don't need).
Well, the article is about the author's 10 favorites, not the 10 best ever, or 10 most ground breaking, etc. So, basically an opinion piece....
One idea for advertising is to have users enter details about their hosting company. You would then be able to run analytics on companies with the best measured uptime and promote them with affiliate links. Also for people hosting with "bad" companies (based on your analytic) you can email them an affiliate link and get them to switch.
1 - What if you're not on their subdomain? I have a Posterous blog and a blog on GitHub Pages, both of which have comments. Am I liable if I don't send the government a $105 check?

If so, I might take a page out of Kyle Neath's book and make people email me if they want to comment: http://warpspire.com/ask/
I'm curious -- what is your faith in them based on? I feel sorry for the amount of expectations they were shouldering, but are you being supportive because you truly believe in their (unproven) technical abilities, because you hate Facebook so much, or are you just being nice because startup criticism can be really soul-killing? If a large corporation had released alpha code like that, would you trust the corporation with your data, even down the line? As much as it may be a nice Don Quixote story, results and credibility are the only things that matter here. The four of them are probably wonderful people, but that means squat when it boils down to code.
"Here is my problem. I am a junior in college now, and I have no idea with regards to what I want to do."

I don't have a lot of advice, but I'm fairly certain that this is extremely normal, so don't get too down on yourself about it. At least you figured that out at 20 years old, instead of 40+.
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I was expecting "buy low, sell high"
The credulous replies are disturbing aren't they.
I'm using tuxychandru's grasshopper which does templating (an a lot more - it's a full fledged web server) in a relatively nice way. http://github.com/tuxychandru/grasshopper

Another good approach, if you're looking for something that specifically plays well with node, is to look at the modules page on the node.js wiki - it's served me well.

http://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Modules
"Why do people keep saying Twitter is revenue-free?"

It's TechCrunch, what do you expect?
That's a very nice offer. Thanks for making it.
That's already happened, someone offered a whole pile of books, including some pretty valuable ones.
I have a question about the qual score, for one of my most visited and converting keyword I have a qual score of 2.. probably because it is a broad match term (most exacts are 5-7)
Is there a way to improve this, should I create a separate landing page, I already use the keyword but maybe not enough. loading time score reports no probs.
Loss of blood does.
HML has better ZFS and more drivers for exotic RAID controllers. So, no.
You can reduce this workload by using an asymmetric algorithm like RSA to store an intermediate key.

Post = P
Symmetric encryption of X with key Y = E(X, Y)

Posts are stored as E(P, K_master)
Authorizations to posts are stored as E(K_master, K_reader)

You can trust your friends (that don't own quantum computers) with your RSA public key, allowing them to E(K_master, K_you) data that can only be decrypted with your private key.

It is weak to a known plaintext attack (in which a user Eve with both K_master and E(K_master, K_alice) could attack Alice's private key), and of course weak to an authorized user sharing the master key. It's also weak to copy and paste, just like every other private social network.
I think this is a good thing. I tried Beta 6 just a few hours a go and it is full of issues that stopped me getting back to a workable state (using Firefox Sync). Reverted to 3 and all is good again. They still have some kinks to iron out I guess.
GuyPhone 4 - Working Apple iPhone Costume Upgraded
2010 guyPhone 4 - Working Apple iPhone Costume Upgraded!

TAMPA, FLA., John Savio (Center), Abigail Gardner (Featured as Apple Employee) This year they're back at it again. John Savio and Reko Rivera went their separate ways. John created the upgraded rendition of the iPhone 4 featured here at 10x to scale, complete with a 40" LED LCD Panel, a Jailbroken iPhone 4, VGA out from the iPohone, LED Back Camera Light, weighs roughly 75 lbs and uses a mini 12v Battery with 2+ hours of battery life. The costume took a total of 3 days / 40 hours to complete.

BACKSTORY -- This all started three years ago Reko Rivera and Bobby Hartman created a wearable large iPhone costume with a real 37" lcd tv. An iPod was attached with a looping video of a real iphones screen in normal use. Last year with the help of John Savio and John Matthews the team created yet another amazing rendition of the new iPhone 3GS. Savio loved the original idea but wanted to take it to the next level and make it thinner and actually work with user input! With some heavy researching and some solid determination Savio finally found a solution. He managed to modify the software on the iPhone to allow a live dual image output to the large 42" lcd tv while maintaining the image in landscape mode. Reko originally came up with the idea and really pushed to see his vision come to life two years ago. This year John Savio and Reko Rivera embarked on different projects. John stuck with his love of apple products and Reko ventured off to explore his love of DJ'ing with a mobile DJ setup.

Photos:
http://tinyurl.com/2dx4jyu

ABC News Story!
http://tinyurl.com/2c3q7g3

MacRumors:
http://tinyurl.com/26ljbzo

Last years video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjBqF...

A special thanks to:
Steve Gardner
John Matthews
Abigail Gardner
John Vd Savio
Jeannine Savio
Joey Primiani
Greg Forlizzo
Rick Proefke

Contact:
guyphones@gmail.com (John)

Music:
Bassnectar - Kick it Complex
http://tinyurl.com/275dxmk (iTunes)
"The implementation of France's new antipiracy law -— which is one of the first in the world, along with similar legislation in South Korea, Taiwan and Britain -— is considered a litmus test by other nations hoping to crack down on intellectual property theft."
I agree but they are pitching it to the consumer web not educational institutions.
Made claims without evidence? I quoted the book with page number.

>(according to code complete 2, pg 470

Go look up the evidence and studies there. Respected book, respected author vs random blogger.

Hand waving? I quoted a book and talked about in a small portion of the post my personal experience on TDD and non TDD projects.

TDD, like everything else, isn't a silver bullet. It's a tool, and one you're often perfectly justified in not using.
AMAZING. Saved me boatloads of time.

Thanks a bajillion!
That's why I'm not going to comment on this. If everyone did it, then it would overwhelm the servers.
David Pogue's take on Windows 7
The new MacBook Air's SSD performance
Americans also support a government-sponsored lobotomy for themselves, to insert Patriotic God-Juice into their heads.

Why is this a surprise?

The U.S. is a success despite the majority of the American people, not because of them.
Where did that closing parenthesis appear from?
i'm sitting on my bed in south yarra now!
Search ads are a double edged sword. They are good because you can advertise and deliver people exactly what they are looking for, but offer them something different and the conversion rate will plummet and Google will penalize you
You know, screenwriters study and obsess over motivations and why people do things as much as a hacker studies and obsesses over how a particular system works.

Sorkin is one of the very best in the world at what he does. Top 5 or 10, easy, and he has been in that league for well over a decade now.

Perhaps the character in the film is more complex than people here are portraying him to be.
Continue with school, it's generally necessary in the States (I don't know about India, though).

Now, I'm basing what I'm about to say on my own experience. It looks like, in part, you may be experiencing burn out. The next break you can safely take (Christmas break? Summer break?), relax. Just ... stop.

Also, what happened in this corporate work environment that made you hate it so much?
What strikes me as ridiculous is that you can't fill out a form online and pay electronically. But then again this is the US government. There should be some kind of amnesty for those that do pay the fee now, so as to avoid this kind of trolling.

The funny thing is that this law is on the whole favorable to innovators, in that if you do abide by the requirements, you'll have the safe harbor from getting sued. If Viacom had its way, the law either wouldn't exist (thereby exposing hosts to all sorts of potential liability for the infringements of users) or it would require things like proactive filtering using fingerprinting technology. Thankfully, they have not prevailed in their lawsuit against YouTube.
Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but so many of those games were great! I could easily name 10 more off the top of my head. Many of these old games still hold up today.
It's the same crowd that says "What do I care about tweets about what people are eating for lunch?"

I figure they're people won't make very good founders and move on.