skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's why we don't have anyone fixing bugs encountered in software we use.

Please.

PS. Who cares about perfect? You can't have perfect, and that wasn't my point. Please reread.

PPS. I'm happy to see you're invalidating all the subject of my current work (carrier-grade systems) based on what's good enough on commodity systems. Extrapolating is bad.

PPPS. Sarcasm tags are so 17th century Protestant.
Read the productivity bible "Getting Things Done" (GTD), which outlines a systematic approach to get yourself more organised and ready to take actions.

If in doubt, just google "GTD" to find out more. There are tons of third-party applications to help you implement the system
stop reinventing the square wheel, please.

i don't want to play a game that looks like it's from 20 years ago, the only difference being it runs EVEN WORSE than it did on a 486.
> Sure, there are appropriate discussions that can take place over the phone, but in this industry it's usually a good interpersonal vehicle, but a horrendous way of coming to decisions or communicating ideas.

I very strongly disagree with this. Email correspondence is subject to subpoena; there is some stuff that just should not be said in email for liability reasons. It's also easy for someone to miss something in a longer email, or for a couple people to have to go back and forth several times to clarify a point or explain incorrect interpretations.

Phone calls are very useful when they are supplemented with note-taking, especially in the context of work tickets * . You communicate ideas more quickly, you are completely in control of what is on the record, and it's much more difficult to have misunderstandings.

* At my current job, when we have a phone call we record in the work ticket a summary of the relevant (non-sensitive) details of the discussion along with the deliverables.
EatingWell Media Group is seeking a sharp mid-level web developer to assist in website feature development and optimization of EatingWell.com as well as Linux/Unix systems administration experience to help improve our growing infrastructure.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of development with Drupal and/or other web programming language such as Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.

• Experience with large-traffic sites and how to optimize them.

• Experience with UNIX/Linux environments for tuning multi-server deployments of Apache.

• Experience with networking concepts.

• Some experience managing MySQL servers and clusters.

• Familiarity with cloud-computing solutions, on-demand
scalability.

The successful candidate is required to be nimble and effective in a deadline driven and fast paced environment. This position is in our Charlotte, Vermont offices, about 25 minutes south of Burlington on Route 7. Not a telecommuting position, so candidates must be local or willing to relocate. We have a lively staff in a dog-friendly office near the Charlotte beach, and we are often pressed into service in the EatingWell Test Kitchen tasting new recipes. We work hard and also have fun!

Please respond to jobs@eatingwell.com
Get Inspired, an Interview with the Developers Behind the Dribbblr iPad app
Tapmates Inc. is a privately held company based in Central Europe, and made of of 10 employees from Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States. They entered the App Store with Cookmate followed by many client apps. Their latest product is Dribbblr.
Teachers can definitely have a large impact. But students spend 80% of their time outside the school. You could have the best teacher on the planet, but if they're not getting reinforcement from outside the system, there's not a lot you can do. If three wheels have their brakes stuck, it doesn't really matter how fast the fourth is turning, you're not going anywhere. It's not that we shouldn't work on our schools, but we have to approach raising children holistically - it's not enough to have them in school for 6 hours a day for half the year, we need parents to be involved and we need to make sure those kids are getting a basic level of stability outside of school.

Then there's the Hierarchy of Needs issue. Before you can really learn and grow and develop, you have to fulfill your basic needs. If you're starving, then the only fractions you're able to focus on are fractions of a sandwich.
In Android dust-up, Google exec tweets to tell Steve Jobs what 'Open' means
Is there anything wrong with doing both?
I'll not speak for everyone else. But, for me, your point got lost in the righteous indignation that came in subsequent replies in the sub-thread. It is very difficult to assert humility while maintaining an impression of the same. I only started replying when you made this about identity.
It would be counter-productive to say anything bad about seed investors who own 10% of your company, on their news website.
Ireland also has a 'pension is based on last year's salary' for many public sector workers.
It's not just a statistics problem, it's also a logic problem. I don't think it's in poor judgement to assume their audience, given their function and distribution channels, are largely Chrome and Firefox.

The key part of this post is that it is directed to startups. They're not suggesting they should dismiss IE users forever, but like many comments say it is about delegating resources properly where they matter.
I'm not sure this is really good advice. Networking with your co-workers, getting to know them, and letting them know you is so important, and thats what happens during those lunch time discussions. Also, in my experience, lunch discussions often actually do become very technical and work related. If you aren't there to participate, your opinion won't be taken into consideration. Finally, even if lunch time is your own time, if you are doing work on your side project using computers, software, even office space at work, your employer may be able to claim ownership of your project.
The Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton will absolutely rock your world, going by what you are asking for. After this, go for The Commonwealth Saga by the same author.
You really, really are missing out on a treat, but the best thing is that you have around 6,000 pages worth of epic space opera waiting for you in those books, and I envy the fact that you have all of them still to read - as quickly as you want!
the best solution is to split test both options
VoltDB: 1.2 released, Enterprise Edition introduced
Interesting :) Offering a money back guarantee regardless of whether or not the customer is charged initially seems smart.
He wants his money back because he can't find a job in his field? Has he never met a History major? Literature? Political Science? Economics? Unless the Dean got his wife pregnant, this sounds like a personal problem.
s/entrepreneurial//
Sure it can handle millions of requests a week.

So 1week=7days=168hours=10080minutes=604800seconds

For 1 million requests/week= 1.65Req/sec

For 5 million requests/week= 8.26Req/sec

For 10 million requests/week= 16.53Req/sec

For this kind of traffic there's nothing to worry about. I'm not an expert so someone with more experience can say if this numbers are ok.
Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.
Here's Why The First-Mover Advantage Is Extremely Overrated
I'm asking HN because I'm hoping someone HAS split-tested or can share from experience.
It's a 3D visualization app for a neuroimaging dataset(can't say much more, should be public soon). We wanted to make that dataset available online to a lot of users and provide a good interface to use it. I started building it with O3D which provided a plugin for IE and really good performance but now that Google moved O3d to WebGL I followed. I'd love to support IE but that's not possible with the current tech and WebGL has served us well so I we won't abandon it just for IE.
If he built his side project while at work, his old employer can claim ownership of it if it takes off. Then, not only is he unemployed, but all that hard work has gone down the drain. Bummer!
Mozilla's Raskin Says Product Placement is Coming Soon to Facebook Photos
So.. you can doodle? What else? How do I know you even know how to code?
Functional nerve cells from adult skin cells generated by UConn scientists
If three wheels have their brakes stuck, I turn the car off. I'm not going anywhere and I might as well save gas.

By the way, no one in America (besides anorexic rich girls) is starving. Gluttony is the only food-related problem faced by the poor, starvation hasn't existed for a while.
There's the HackNY hackathon at least:

http://hackny.org/a/

That's happening tomorrow, though, so it's a bit short notice.
Hmm,

I prefer non-asses myself but I think there are other options in the world besides humble and ass ...
Future History series - Heinlein

Known Space series - Niven

Uplift series - Brin

Dune series - Herbert

Mars trilogy - Robinson
I have seen lower-tier VCs who cared not a whit about their reputations take control, fire the founders and do a 100 to 1 reverse stock split in exchange for modest additional funding

So... why was additional funding needed? Why were the founders not able to get it on their own?

I have seen a young founder build up incredible value in a new venture

How incredible? Maybe the partner believed the founder's estimate to be literally that...

I don't want to defend the company described in the OP, but overconfidence is endemic to the startup culture. There's plenty of companies out there with nothing more than a clever gimmick, or worse yet, an imitation of someone else's clever gimmick, and that are destined to vaporize the carefully collected funds of their investors. Is it wrong to act decisively to turn such companies around? Or to collect whatever "value" remains when the end is nigh?

It's easy to criticize the VC guys, and they certainly can act badly at times, but every entrepreneur thinks their company is the best thing in the world - or acts like they do - and can be a little blind about these things.
I'm not missing any point: An ancestor post made the very correct statement that Android's "fragmentation" is also its strength. You went off about how it doesn't benefit consumers.

That is simply wrong.

Sidenote: The phone companies don't customize the handsets at all. The manufacturers do it for them. If the Verizon Samsung comes with a particular app or has a feature removed, it's because Samsung -- an Android partner -- did that for them. It's a small nuance, but it's an important one.
The Opera vs. The Rest argument feels a lot like the endless emacs vs. vi war :)

I have thought this also.

Opera - Vi

Firefox - Emacs

Chrome - Nano/Pico

IE - Notepad/Wordpad
So if Apple is making something useful for users, and users reward Apple for it by buying their products, what's the issue again?
I've employed this technique for the past year and I have found it effective and efficient.

It has forced me to write more concisely and directly the same point in which I was "wordy". There are always times when deeper/richer context is necessary, but that should be the exception to the rule - less is more. When I'm receiving 100s of work emails per day, I would rather read an email written like it was from Ernest Hemingway than Kurt Vonnegut.

You can convey a lot in 5 sentences, as I just did.
More to the point, what's the cost of a Moon base - where a return and even a rescue is feasible - AND a one-way extensive robotic exploration of Mars. It just seems an overly dramatic waste (there will be no shortage of people willing to go) to send people to die on Mars when we can get the same off-Earth habitation expertise and Mars scientific data for the same price or cheaper.
I feel like you're going to run into a bit of a selection bias on Hacker News...

I know many founders of YC companies that ended up not being successful but I've never heard serious complaints from any of them. Some of them have even gone on to do YC again.
Yes, my point was focused on this specific case (explaining why it sounds entitled for a fresh graduate to say he can just pick up anything), not on someone with a very wide experience.

You seem to have neglected the part where I was talking about domain knowledge: I still think it wouldn't be easy for even a good programmer to start coding the control software for a microscope if he has no experience in that domain (DSP, image processing, etc). Even if the language is C, the algorithms require very careful consideration and more than a couple weeks' worth of study. Same would go for a programmer-analyst at a financial company, etc.

For the extreme example, just go ahead and tell a verification engineer that you'll write good Verilog within 2 weeks ;)
>Re: 'just pay your accountant or lawyer', not to pounce on you but this is incredibly naive

It was more of a joke, I was mostly trying to underline that I imagine this to be only for big companies.

Do these guys have a website ?

Anyhow, just the cost of the incorporation isn't the major criteria. I'm looking more at the total cost for such a thing: the total administrative costs over a year plus the total taxes must be well bellow what one would pay locally otherwise it's not worth the trouble.

As most expenses (accountant, rent) are rather fixed costs, this means that the whole thing becomes feasible only for companies that exceed a given income/profit.
Completely the opposite. I've been on HN for several years and am currently applying to YC with a cofounder. Having had the pleasure of meeting pg this past weekend I would say that both he and YC are very open to legitimate criticisms when they arise. YC is all about helping startups to succeed, because if they do then so does YC.
I think you misunderstood when I said you can't be paid more than you are worth; I don't mean that you can't overpay someone, ever, I'm saying that nobody, government or otherwise, can persistently over the long haul pay its employees more than they are worth. I'd say any definition of "value" or "worth" that does permit that is so broken as to be useless. It's simply impossible; a system simply can not have more value flowing out of it than the sum total of the value it generates, the value it takes in, and the value it has on hand, and imbalances in income vs. outflow tend to be able to rapidly deplete the stored value.

That the market is "ridiculously deformed" here is sort of my point, along with the fact that such deformations can not be sustained.
I would always go with 14 day trial. Sometimes I just want to check the app without providing Credit card number, and I almost never try apps that require Credit card upfront.

Also there are situations when you are only a employee of a company, and you want to try some app before you recommend it to management. In that case your app won't even have a chance to be recommended because I can't try app without credit card.

IMHO trial is the best option.
A guess (until Patric comes back): the blue Googles is the internet explorer icon, which is used to start Google (really go Googles website). The green Googles is what ever the hell people use to sign into AOL with, they can't talk to each other because the computers are behind different nats.

I am hoping that the "website number" is not the http adresse, but the number they have to dial to connect to the internet (yes dial like it was 1995 and you could still go on a plane with a bottle of water) because it would be disturbing if the teachers called "www.bingocardcreater.com" a "website number".
I'll not say it's bad experience but not so many responses :(
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772675
All of you saying "this is a waste of time", "you wouldn't take a second glance", etc. are contradicting yourselves. If you "wouldn't waste your time reading it" why did you? And why are you taking the time to comment? You're giving this site the exact thing it was meant to get...ATTENTION. It obviously was written with humor and meant to attract attention. I am sure he would give a potential employer his qualifications (and experience) once he got their attention and they asked. If you're taking this THAT seriously (cough, cough, run4yourlives) you're obviously the exact kind of person no one would want to work for! I understand that you're upset you don't quite meet the qualifications. ;)
I don't see how recommending looking at Scala can be factually right or wrong, your bias may be influencing your bering there. The elegance of a language is subjective. The fact that Grooves founder finds it elegant lends credence to the fact that it is a popular opinion. Still no more right or wrong.
Google Spreadsheet?
Share the transcript?
:) I think it was awesome. Hope someone hires him. Then the rest of us will have some hope
When I try using this, my macvim blows up: http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/147/screenshot20101019at2...

Any ideas?
"If Apple switched to AMD processors, most of their computers would now be afflicted by a performance deficit in addition to the existing "Apple tax"."

Apple could potentially transition parts of its line to AMD processors, without completely abandoning Intel.

It seems likely that Sandy Bridge will be the CPU of choice for workstations, while Bulldozer will be the throughput winner (hence server oriented), and Bobcat the performance/watt featherweight. Of course, none of this is certain until the actual products are available.

Bobcat might not have the performance to match up to Sandy Bridge, but having an AMD/ATI graphics processor could potentially make it a good choice for a souped up AppleTV product aimed a little higher. Ok, quite a bit higher. Serious 3D gaming higher. And I'm pretty sure that AMD would LOVE a design win like that!

The competition from AMD plus the the narrowing margins in CPU's is part of what's leading AMD and Intel toward system on a chip solutions, but although that's bad for the likes of nVidia, it's good for OEM's like Apple.
RavenDB in comparison to CouchDB
Startup generator, nice.
It IS when you graduate. If there are no jobs, there are no jobs, regardless of how serene and abundant or oppresive and anxiety inducing your childhood was.

But I'm not arguing about who actually has it worse. Hell, I think anyone graduating this year wins that hands down.

Humility is an action based on perception, not reality. If you forever had it easy, yet land in a world of shit come graduation day, you become flummoxed and dismayed. That's when you figure all hope is lost and you may as well throw caution to the wind. You're owed more dammit! Why can't others see that?

On the contrary, those that have never had anything are grateful for the little they receive. In fact, some in this boat could use a shot of arrogance.

These are extremes of course, and certainly gross generalizations, but hopefully I make the point. It's not that one generation is better than the other. It's that one started low, and got low - exactly what they expected. The other started high, but is getting low, and that's not what is expected.

When you don't get what you expect, the best place to look for answers is in the mirror. In this case - the solution is to decrease expectations. In other words be more humble.
Why is it that people should expect home pages to be the same pixel-for-pixel between different browsers? As long as the functionality is there, why do a few rounded corners matter?
While that is the De facto rule in career centers, there is a rule that usurps it, which is if it really does distinguish you from the average applicant, use it.
A science built on abstraction can't have tools with enough level of abstraction?

That's almost Poetic.
This isn't a place where you would get an unbiased review of the YCombinator experience.

I have seen some mixed reviews of YCombinator on http://thefunded.com. Or you can search for other sites that compare various funds and accelerator programs. Each have their pros and cons, and you shouldn't expect any one program to be perfect for all startups.
Microsoft announces Office 365
Tory, Kari, and Grant can be thankful this isn't a MythBuster's episode.
That sounds really interesting. For a niche app like that, I guess you would need to run with the best technology available. Hopefully, your users will see the value and not mind switching browsers.
Just don't forget to design for peak, not average (although this isn't PHP-specific).
In fairness, any stuff you don't wish to use doesn't get in the way. I'm a longtime Opera user (I bought a license back when it wasn't free yet!) and I don't use the built in Mail and RSS clients. They don't get in the way and it's still extremely fast. I did switch to Chrome for a while as the Mac and Linux versions were rather unstable in the early 10.x series, but 10.6 is solid again.
I pulled my first pay stub from the Marines (2001-2005). $350 bi-weekly after taxes. 4-years/4-promotions later, I was sitting around $650 bi-weekly when I left to head to college.

We're both trained for completely different purposes. Without a doubt, sending a CHP officer into Marine Corps boot camp would be quite the whirl wind for the guy/gal.
Oh wait, you're right. The other bias, what's it called? The one where you claim that a decision was right or wrong based on its outcome, not based on the info you had when making it?

EDIT: Outcome bias, thanks. I won't remove the error above so the discussion isn't altered.
Could they, cloud, have mentioned the cloud more cloud times in a single cloud press-release?

Cloud.
Yes, but they're pushing this as an open browser standard for all web app stores. It'll be interesting to see Google's response to this, as well as how DRM potentially works in both implementations.
Mozilla Jaegermonkey has beaten Apple Nitro at Sunspier and v8bench
> Code is better defined as a tree.

Or a graph. But the most general and manipulable way to represent this graph really is as text.
If you are able to build everything with a high-scalability mindset from the get-go there is no reason why PHP can't be used to such a capacity. There are naturally hurdles that you will overcome as well - but realistically there will be scalability hurdles in any dev environment you choose to scale to those kinds of numbers.

Remember to cache, load balance and minimize disk i/o and you already have a good head start.

On a side note, Foursquare is using Scala with the Lift framework, not Vala. And from what I understand, Harry wasn't the original developer when it came to the PHP version of Foursquare (and if I understand correctly, the original developer wasn't even an engineer). When the time came to move on to something bigger and better, Harry rewrote it using Scala because of various personal preferences (Java background, preference to compiled and typed code, etc). So the decision to move from PHP because of performance issues may be more related to poor quality of code (as stated in this slide deck: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcbpz3ck_25czcns2c2&...) than the actual platform.
There's probably truth to that. I don't remember Java error output being that bad back when I worked with it years ago. It does seem like many of the lines in Groovy output are groovy plumbing, like which closure was called.
His website now seems to link to a different version of the resume, which would seem to have incorporated this type of feedback: http://www.andrewhorner.com/documents/ahorner.resume.pdf
The only benefit listed here is "the mysteriously wonderful feeling." More often I get the "slowly sinking feeling" of having deleted an important email.

Storage is so cheap now that saving thousands of messages is not really a big deal, and it's often useful to be able to search through everything you've written or received.
Investing in each others YC companies
Let me preface this by saying that this statement in no way reduces the level of effort
I will put into my own startup and that I haven't been accepted into YC yet.

I was thinking of the idea of investing in each others startup's. Basically exchanging 1/2-1 percent (total) equity with other startups you will meet, in exchange for cash/services or stock swap. I wonder if the will be kosher with PG et al. Thoughts?