skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how much literature, and how much history, and how much music, and how much sport.

I'll never be a top flight athlete, why should I bother to exercise. I'll never perform music for others, why should I bother to learn to play. Answer: they enrich my life, they make me able to do things that I otherwise wouldn't think about, and would escape my notice entirely.

Similarly math helps me to think critically, and makes me less likely to be taken in by the blather and spin of the politicians.

If you want a populace that just accepts the "facts" and "statistics" ladelled to it, and which can be taken in repeatedly by con artists and tricksters, by all means stop once they can count. And why even both with that? Who needs to be able to count?
I think it is worth coding the working mvp , even though you know that it is going to be re-done if you take off. This will help one to demonstrate his seriousness and something visual to show when he/she pitches to developer/co-founder instead of pitching a random idea.
The "Don't try hard" + "Muhammad Ali" combination isn't accurate. He pushed "hard" beyond limits, both in the ring and out of it.

If you read one his biographies containing details of his bouts and you'll know what I mean.
Yes the 14 day trial is a nice touch for Fedora 14! Probably not worth holding out for the next release to get the extra free day :-)

I like having root access, its one of my main gripes with some of the larger cloud vendors I've tried in the past.
Never thought about this :) Thanks! I will surely change it if your comment will get few upvotes :))
I would say start with small producers and learn from your experience.It's always better to make mistakes with the small players before swimming with the big fish.

In terms of your homepage and conversion rate, you have five call to actions with two sign up for free buttons. I would consolidate these to the one or two most important ones to make them more effective.

Congrats and good luck!
I did the same. It's different when Hulu does it while I'm watching a show I want to see, because I already have a level-set that the juice is worth the squeeze.

I think that, for things like this, the videos should be either inline, or as a commercial, interrupt halfway through or so. I'm betting that would considerably minimize bounce.
I don't think we should refight the question of encapsulation here. Some people think encapsulation-by-convention is adequate, others don't.

I'm also positing Crockford-style modules.(Since it's pretty clear from the context that I'm following Crockford, you might assume that I know about the Javascript/LISP connection.)

The question remains: is repeated use of "this"

this.Mill();
this.Drill();
this.Fill();

simply semantic vinegar, or does it suggest that the object is not doing its job -- or that we need a new object?
Interesting. I wonder whether the crypto is done in software or in hardware. If it's done in software, that's not so bad, but reversing hardware at that level isn't my strong point. Now I want to do this even more...
Good idea with making the whole images clickable. Thanks for the feedback!

I didn't really think about the posting time...d'oh
Or even just a niche payment card. "Any payment method" includes things like a Macy's card, or the stored-value cards some subway systems use.

Obviously a reasonable person wouldn't expect to buy a video with a farecard, but that just means you'll be getting complaints from unreasonable people, which are the worst to deal with.
Living in Atlanta for 4 years while in college at Georgia Tech, I can basically corroborate on the opinions here (except the funding ones which I have less information about).

My overall opinion about the city is that it in a lot of ways is looking to other cities for inspiration, believing that Atlanta needs to become a major city of influence and prestige on the country and the world. With that goal, however, there's currently far too much "us-too" leading to posturing and materialism and burnout.

Underneath that exterior, of course, there are a whole ton of people in art, music (huge underground music scene on the east side), and technology (lots of engineers and young doctors) doing wonderful things. I think it'll come as a surprise to many in the city that should that side of its culture ever take hold that they might have a chance of actually developing a unique city identity.

I'll also reiterate the point that Atlanta feels like a collection of unconnected neighborhoods instead of a real city. The place was burned down twice in history and rebuilt ostentatiously under the influence of zero central planning. Roads meander oddly and there's a demand for a car given the inadequate public transport MARTA provides. Traffic on the major in-city highway, which is a perpetually under construction connector between two major out of city highways, is almost always a parking lot and that spills into the city making rush hours tricky at best. I managed to bike everywhere which is adequate but not immediately safe. It can also be a bear to have to go 15 miles up and down hills to get to your favorite bar or a concert.
ooops, my apologies...
It's quite logical. Apple is really better at User Experience than Enterprise level solutions. Getting rid of distractions will reinforce their main business models.
thx, just added
He stress on Networking. I know networking is useful, but most of the time I find it a waste of time. You can simply find a problem, figure out a solution and build it with a partner. Then charge for it, either online (SaaS) or offline (uISV). Use Google Adwords to target your audience and keep at it if you are profitable.

No Blogging, Twittering, reading Tech Blogs or all that crap. Just focus on your product and give value to your customers.
Thank you. Some really good points to think about.

However, wouldn't all this mean that one is not sure of what he/she wants to do? Shouldn't you just stick to a couple of languages and become very very good at it?
Yep. We are in exactly the same situation. Even moving to 2.4 looks to be a pain. The only brightside is that it's not THAT big of a framework, so patching it is not too bad. But still...
Always relevant, which is the brilliance of it.

I say this even though I disagree with the spec rule.
That is a great point. GMail has always been our little secret, but now that android requires one (I think), the userbase is exploding. I am wondering if Google was ill-prepared for this onslaught, never thinking that the popularity of android directly correlates with the popularity of GMail!
Are you paying for traffic or is it organic? Do a cost analysis to see how long you'll last at the current burn rate. Make amends accordingly.
On thing this article didn't touch on was using a platform as a service (like heroku, app engine, azure, etc...) that will scale automatically (in theory). I'ts blowing my mind how many of these becoming available. It used to be that being an engineer at a smaller shop meant programming, architecture, upgrades, etc were all things you had to know. I forsee a breed of programmers in the upcoming years who are able to create and entire multi-tenant application without ever having to work in a bash (or similar) prompt. The thought both saddens and excites me at the same time.... Can you imagine how much more honed your design/development skills might be if you never, at any point in your career had to worry about architecture? I fear that many great practices and design patterns that promote easy scalability and modularity will soon be forgotten with all these 'auto-scaling' platforms coming into play...
Easy to say, hard to do, no? If he could, wouldn't he already be doing it. Assuming that it would actually work better, of course, otherwise there wouldn't be any point.
[EDIT] Just saw your reply to forcer's question. My page was stale [/EDIT]

That storing the participation data in the user's browser is a bit of a red herring for me. Would you please describe the tradeoffs between doing it that way, and doing it Patrick's way?

Also, there's no license. I potentially would like to contribute, but that's a show stopper. Any chance of giving it an MIT lic?

Feel free to shoot me an email at joshpearce[at]beechtreetech[dot]com
"Do not ever work
Picasso used to paint all the time, Henry Moore sculpt the whole day. "

Unfortunately the realities of life indicate that you must work. Most of us spend 8hrs a day doing something we barely tolerate because "do what you enjoy" doesn't pay the bills. Society is not configured to allow such freedom en masse.

"Do not try hard
Let it simply flow. Jimmy Hendrix did not play guitar. He simply let his feelings flow unabated. "

This is nonsense. Jimi practiced often, spent grueling hours in studio re-recording and perfecting. Sometimes even re-recording other band members' tracks himself. He was definitely trying. Hard! He also experienced frustration just like everyone else when learning new material.
To reach the point where you are no longer trying hard, and just letting the "feelings flow", you have to first try hard and practice like crazy.
Most of the time, recruiters end up being recruiters just because they failed at everything else.

Ouch. You cut me deep koevet.

In reference to point 6, allow me to dispell a myth here.

Let's say I am approached by a client who is looking for someone to do XYZ for three months and they want to pay the candidate £500 per day (nice round number).

If you are the candidate, I don't then offer you £400 a day and take 20%. I pay you £500 per day and charge the client in excess of £600. Every client knows that if they want a £500 a day candidate it will actually cost them a hell of a lot more than that to employ them through an agency.

Sometimes, if I have an amazing candidate who has been offered a job but is stalling because the money may not be as high as they would like, if the client won't pay more, instead I would lump another £25 per day to their take home and walk away with 15% instead of 20% but that very rarely happens.

TL;DR: We do not take our % out of your salary. We add our % on top of your salary and charge the client.
Apple's pdf link http://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/L422277A_Xserve_Guide.pdf
Wonderful. Now that corporations grok the idea of reciprocity--a difficult thing to do because of the ingrained internalized tendency of people to submit to unilateral corporate demands, it's time for individuals to demand the same thing from content providers to whom they provide personal information.
Altanta?
So far i got zero complaints at this, but its still good idea to change it. How would you paraphrase it?
Hi - I'm the author of this article over at Smashing. Actually, this kind of scheme of describing typefaces is quite common, especially among the best designers on the planet. If you follow the references at the bottom of the article, you'd find a link to this article at H&FJ:

4 Techniques for Combining Fonts
http://www.typography.com/email/2010_03/index.htm

I quote directly from the article:

"Here, three fonts with distinctive silhouettes have been chosen for their contrasting dispositions: the unabashed toughness of Tungsten is a foil for both Archer's sweetness, and the cheekiness of Gotham Rounded."

Really, there is no other way to talk about wines, or typefaces. It is subjective.

If you delve into the otherwise boring individual minutia of glyph characteristics and try to write an analysis comparing descenders of the lowercase "j" from 2 or 3 typefaces, you'd lose every reader before you got out of the starting gate.

That said, if you read the feedback, a lot of people said they learned something. My goal was to teach something and have the reader come away with a bit of knowledge, however incremental.
You had a choice and you picked coding rather than go out. Once, it's fine. The problem, with the many developer friends I have, is that very quickly they settle in a routine of never going to events, because there is always one more line of code to write.

That's where you need discipline. As I wrote a year ago, if you never go to events, set your goal to two events a month. If you go to two per month, set your goal to once a week. That should be enough. You can read the long version at http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/07/09/good-programmers-don..., in the "Four Step Recovery Program" section.
I've been unhappy with X since I learned enough (in the 90s) to have an opinion -- but not for the reason Shuttleworth gives:

"We don’t believe X is setup to deliver the user experience we want, with super-smooth graphics and effects. I understand that it’s possible to get amazing results with X, but it’s extremely hard, and isn’t going to get easier. Some of the core goals of X make it harder to achieve these user experiences on X than on native GL"

My unhappiness stems from my perception that the ways I have tried to customize X and things closely coupled to X (e.g., my window manager) have proved much more difficult (and in particular have forced me to contend with much more complexity) than they could have.
Yeah, I was surprised about that, too! But a fun mini-project, and shows what banding together can do. Perhaps the best result is writing that post got me to surface from a ton of work I've been doing, and get onto HN! I can pretty quickly tell that there are some awesome people here.
It is one of those can't-make-this-stuff-up coincidences, though, that Canonical would drop the X Server on the very same day that Apple dropped the XServe.
That catastrophic climate change is occurring is simply not a given. There are plenty of noted, mainstream scientists who do not believe that climate change is catastrophic, and many who believe that man's impact is not sufficient to affect the environment. If you count Oxford University and the BBC as credible sources, you may already be aware of this.
> ... so that 4-5 years from now you'd be
> extremely in demand, what ...

I can't see how that could be mistaken for talking about a spoken language, but your interpretation has certainly twisted my mind. Thank you.

To answer question I thought the OP was asking, I'd offer COBOL and ForTran. There is still a lot of legacy code out there, and fewer and fewer people who have a chance to maintain it.
haven't been to the bay area, but i'm outside boston in one of the suburbs. i'd be happy to answer any specific questions you have. contact info is in profile.
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My startup is working on fixing this problem :-)

However we're avoiding the contractor market at the moment, because for contractors the recruitment agency often acts as an employment agent as well as recruitment agent (i.e the company will pay the agency and the agency will pay the contractor). Companies prefer this model so they can just have a handful of agencies they can pay rather than having to deal with paying hundreds of contractors directly.

I'm currently playing around with a couple of ideas how to innovate in the contractor market, but essentially they involve minimizing the pain of dealing with recruiters rather than replacing them. Although as my focus is more on the permie market initially, it may take me a while to get around to turning those ideas into a reality !
Possibly. But I know that you don't need a time machine to confirm whether or not advertisers will abuse HTML5+JS. You know they will.

With tongue in cheek, there is no advertisement="true" attribute on the canvas tag. If you were to block CANVAS or VIDEO you'd essentially be halting HTML5 progression. This concern, albeit not backed up with conjecture or reference, is that the use of CANVAS could actually cause some detriment to the HTML5 cause. Why shouldn't we anticipate this probability? Easy: we'll invariably end up with an answer we don't like and understand that an unfavorable result is to come.

The more "Flash is the cause of..." narratives I read, the more obvious it becomes. This fight isn't about standards at all. Flash-driven restaurant sites didn't suddenly become awful. They always were. And Adobe didn't make those sites. Shoddy developers did. iTunes for Windows runs like a fat kid; no one is banging down Microsoft's door about it.

When:

* Adobe Photoshop crashes, blame Adobe.

* iTunes runs like shit, blame Apple.

* a Flash-based site crashes your browser, blame the developer who built it.
I've always wondered about that - to me -10C at ~1000m on a ski slope in Scotland often feels much colder than -35C at ~4000m in the Alps.

I've always assumed it was something to do with the humidity.
Good question. I look at fonts and see overall personalities first and tints and shapes later. The tints and shapes are incidentals in the overall personality, and carry little weight when isolated from one another.

In the same way, when looking at someones face, you are struck with an overall impression first. Then you single out features. I have never met anyone who said, at first glance, so and so has wonderful eyebrows.
It's always been challenging for me to administer a server running any Mac Server products. They've made so many tweaks to do things slightly different that everywhere else, it became quite difficult to troubleshoot.
I am not paying anything for traffic (well except some interesting experiments with fb ads). its mostly from twitter, fb, blogs and google. I do have enough savings and my freelancing/consulting brings me enough, so money isnt an issue here so far.
I've wondered the same thing myself, and I haven't come up with an answer I like. I think the reasons are mostly historical. Conference and journal proceedings are still literally printed, but - at least in my part of CS - most people read them on the computer. I'll print out papers that I think are really important, but I could do that with HTML, too.

I think it will take time or better technology to overcome the bias that we have when we see a good looking pdf document. It says "professional" in a way webpages don't, although I recognize this is completely irrational.
He mentioned that 'cap and trade' won't be successful because nobody has the power to implement it.

That's not 'snotty and counterfactual'. Respond to it.
To be fair it goes on to say "Read not what is written but read into the writer’s mind."

Not that I would pretend to know what that means!
Yeah a lot of this is terribly inaccurate and the fact that it's being used to sell questionable advice makes it even more so. For example...

Jimmy Hendrix might have loved to play the guitar but his gimmick was playing it competently with his teeth and I guarantee you that's something he had to work hard to be able to do right.

Einstein did say Imagination is more important than Knowledge but he also said...

knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

So clearly he thought it important to "read what is written" too.
I stopped reading when I hit this gem in the second paragraph:

"The algorithm is truly an amazing thing and, to me, the closest thing we have ever come to something like artificial intelligence"
Because citations need to come from credible sources.
I wonder what Apple uses in their own datacenters then.. They're obviously not dogfooding anymore with all these datacenters they're supposedly rolling out.
I generally offer a period of support for fixes/changes after delivery. If the changes are small (< 15 mins) I batch them up and do them once, or twice, during the period. If they are truly bugs - as in, something's broken and it's my code's fault - I don't charge.

If they just changed their mind about how something should work, I charge.
How could it possibly be socialist for Google not to agree to Facebook's unilateral non-reciprocated use of Google's own social network data? Are you saying that it's non-socialist only if Google simply hands their social network over to Facebook user by user, because even the thought of non-compliance with a corporate policy is necessarily socialist?
I'll add: is this on a permanent webpage? If not, you should consider putting one up.

It's great advice (even to those of us that aren't addicted to alcohol but to other things).
Private mission to space
A Typographic Anatomy Lesson
I liked it but somehow I think its because this advice sounds more like things I would like to believe to be true.
I wonder what it would take to remove the dependency on the .NET runtime. Could anyone with relevant experience and knowledge comment?
I agree the recruiter should be filtering candidates before submitting them; I disagree that it should be by using references.

There's an inherent conflict of interest for recruiters in handling references who are also potential leads, hence it's a situation that they should avoid placing themselves in. If they're going to do it at the very least it should be done by an outside agency.
can make them much more than what we do

Sounds to me like it's time to trade up, get a smaller piece of the bigger pie. Ask for cash + equity swap. Get some ownership in the parent organization.
Tell HN: I made a chalk inspired app that works in browsers
I decided to throw something together this morning since so many people were complaining that chalk.37signals.com didn't work anywhere except on iPads.

Source is available here, do whatever you want with it: https://github.com/mrduncan/marker

Also, I only tested it in Safari 5 on OS X so no guarantees that it'll work anywhere else. Patches accepted :)
I don't do open source licenses, since they just strike me as pretentious. The code is out there on the internet, and clearly labeled as free to use. I don't particularly care if you don't credit me, use it in a paid app, or whatever. It's in the public domain, so go nuts with it.

If you make changes, let me know and I'll see about rolling them back in.
Disclaimer - I know nothing about this and have only spent 3 minutes searching.

I suspect DST is a vector format, but I might be wrong. This site might offer a free converter:

Consider: http://ptf.com/dst/dst+image+converter/

And having said all that, my local shop that embroiders logos onto shirts accepts PNG, JPG, and GIF.
> buying properties which behave like attacking creatures killing your opponent.

I had never thought of it that way. Looking at it from that perspective, Monopoly feels alot like MtG, except with a board.
When did "startup" become synonymous with social internet site that will take years to make any money? I know I'm on HN; my point is that there are startups in all kinds of fucking fields for which this advice is absolutely useless.

That said, not enough CEOs/product people have an understanding of programming and what it means for business.
Oftentimes, in art and design, you can't specify, in a binary way, why something clashes. To your eye, if it clashes, it clashes. You can't really break down an impression into a series of isolated minutia while retaining a sense of the overall.

It's also much easier to define "clash" by simply showing "harmony", which is the simpler, more intuitive approach to take in a simplified blog format.

Sometimes you don't need to know why something is good or bad, you just need to trust your eyes. And if you train your eyes on enough good stuff, the bad becomes blindingly obvious.
Daniel Jalkut on the Mac App Store
This is 6 months old. I'm sure it was posted on HN at the time also.
37signals' Chalk Dissected
Most of the attack vectors for software updates depend on man in the middle (via DNS spoofing), so this would not help right?
I'm as sad about the demise of campaign finance reform as anyone, but there's something to be said for free association. You can make a case for restricting donations and such - but limiting people's right to essentially organize themselves into groups?