skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the same thing with Safari and FF on OS X, then I remembered that I have blocked just about every backchannel between web pages and FB that I could find.

Are you using something like an AdBlocker script to block Facebook Connect or an extension like Facebook Disconnect? When I turned that stuff off, I was able to import a few hundred contacts...
Ironically the task of scheduling threads isn't one that is particularly parallel, but I think the point stands.
We did! I'm not going, sadly. I am forwarding this thread to Don, however.

I don't want to take over this thread with personal convo, but drop me a line and let me know what you are up to via email!
"Assuming that's true" is a big caveat, there.

People have been bandying the 10x-100x saying for years, ignoring the fact that perceived productivity differences between employees are hugely subjective, and nearly impossible to quantify, in any case.

As a constructive proof of this, consider that borderline prima-donna personality type we know and love: management (or those simply jealous of his stock options or reputation, but who don't know him well) might consider him a "rainmaker", the big kahuna, etc -- the classic "10x" employee. For a while, at least.

Whereas those who have worked under (or with) that person for a while might have a substantially different evaluation (more like -10x). Either because they've deal with his morale-squashing abrasiveness... or because they've seen his handiwork up close. Enough to detect, let's just say, a bit of a disconnect between their material output, and the superhuman gravitas projected onto them.

Also, while it may be arguably more true for tech that intrinsic employee values greater than other professions, there's not much basis for believing -- as many hackers seem to like to believe -- that this is something uniquely, or nearly uniquely true for tech people.

There are all kinds of professions (not even professions that have outlandishly high salaries) where it could easily be said that certain employees contribute greatly more than others -- bartenders, chefs, and (though some may laugh here) schoolteachers come immediately to mind.

Yet even though competition is sometimes quite fierce for these star performers[1], no one in those professions is in the habit of saying "so-and-so is 10x, 100x more productive than your typical bartender/chef."

So to a large extent, I think the whole 10x/100x thing has a lot to do with the current zeitgeist -- and the fact that a lot of tech people, frankly, have incredibly inflated egos, and easily imagine themselves in that rarefied 10x/100x category.

And not so much with the incredible, intrinsic business value of high-performing engineers.

I mean realy now: 10x? Okay, maybe. 100x? Come on.

[1] well, maybe not for schoolteachers, unfortunately.
ClickToFlash has a lot of the same benefits as uninstalling Flash when browsing in Safari.

http://clicktoflash.com/

And be sure to opt in to YouTube's HTML5 trial:

http://www.youtube.com/html5
> If this is representative of his work these days, he should preface it with something like "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV"

Really? That bad? Care to explain?
Not much, it says more about your personal preferences than it does about web design.
But isn't this the point of Basecamp?
Sorry, wrong link - the URL used for the iframe embed version (which I guess is what you'd use to include the video on a regular webpage, rather than the link I previously posted) is http://www.youtube.com/embed/--pSWLEVGhY

On regular Safari pretending to be an iPad, this plays the video in Flash player; on a real iPad it comes up with the "install Flash" message.

If you view source on that embed link, near the bottom you'll find a JavaScript array called FORMAT_MAP, which is empty. On a video which is available in HTML5 formats, this would have multiple members, containing the URLs etc for the video in different formats/quality.
Or it could be that there's a lot of not-very computer/Internet savvy people using the application during the week, and that their browser of choice is IE.
For the record, i'd be willing to sell all my work to this end, if anyone is interested in botting FTP. Shoot me an email if you're interested.
This is a good example of the value of passion in starting a new enterprise. And timing.
From an article I read earlier today:

"Follow competitors’ ads around the web. Search for competitor names, features, products, etc, or get their keywords from a keyword research tool.
Look at the search results for their name and main keywords. Are there any sites there that have AdSense? Any blogs that have written reviews of a competitor’s product? Those are all prime advertising opportunities."

http://insight.io/blog/2010/11/startup-marketing-lessons-lea...
I feel your pain. I had a similar thing happen with my AdSense account. They said they had detected invalid activity and my account was closed. I appealed once and lost. Even though I hadn't done anything wrong, it wasn't worth the energy to me to fight for it.

I love Google products, but their lack of decent support kills me.
Tagging Seals in Antarctica
Groups Applaud Push to Boost Policing of Web Privacy
National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body Scanners
It really is an eye opener. I was blown away when I started reading about it all. Some good resources if you're interested.

[1] Marks Daily Apple (Website and forum a wealth of information)

[2] Nora Gedgautis Book Primal Body Primal Mind

[3] Robb Wolfs The Paleo Solution Book

[4] PaleoNu - A doctor who pushes a paleo style diet.

[1] http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/

[2] http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/

[3] http://www.robbwolf.com

[4] http://www.paleonu.com/
Mind sharing some of what you think are the important aspects and/or design considerations? I'm really just looking for starting points. We've gone over Amy Jo Kim's video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUt-163gZI) and while it addresses major aspects of game mechanics, I'm more curious about how we should go about deciding 'x' points for 'y' actions and if there are any known/obvious pitfalls that we might not see...
They were probably listed in that order in the documentation, and the javadocs are generated from the source.

It'd be more suspect if they were in a different order, especially if they were ordered as if they were in a hashtable that was iterated over.
I see. An interesting generalization for sure :)
> By design, it does not handle the following tasks:

> ...

> Obtaining libraries (use clbuild, LibCL, cl-librarian, asdf-install, etc. for that)

I imagine one could also use QuickLisp for libraries? ;-)
My friend is in Antarctica doing research and the pictures and video in this post blew me away.

It reminded me how important it is to do things that you are passionate about. If you're not working on important, interesting, exciting projects you need to ask yourself why not?
Google Files Sizzling Answer to Oracle's Amended Complaint
My good friends are doing http://devoteeapp.com/

My other friends are doing a game mechanics platform: http://levlr.com/

Both companies were in last session's AlphaLab class.
Tumblr has 1.2 billion page views on 14 million uniques?
Great Design Hurts: Striving for Pixel Perfection
Tether for Android Offers Another Alternative to Hefty Carrier Fees
John Rauser did an awesome session on Slow Start at Velocity this year.

Steve did an awesome write up (http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/07/13/velocity-tcp-and...)

Google have a really good (in my opinion) initiative to aggressively open up the initial window. Their suggestion is to move from from 4 initial packets to 10.

Really though I think there needs to be some process to assess the right size of the "magic numbers" in TCP periodically without having to redraft/rewrite whole RFCs.
It doesn't always include the latest chapters immediately, but here you go:

http://www.mediafire.com/MethodsOfRationality
I'm not at liberty to share our GA data right now, but we see it for IE 6 especially. IE 6 is about 5% of our total traffic and it looks like the vast majority are people at work.
The Brutal Decline of Yahoo
PostgreSQL 9.0 would have been nice, but I guess that's understandable.

Otherwise, a great release. RHEL is awesome. :)
Sorry about that, didn't notice that it was actually created - I was forwarded to the earlier entry, so I thought my submission was ignored.
Paging Dr. Luddite
This is more of an interesting concern, especially considering how much money Canada spends getting students in. I don't know the numbers for emigration, though. Have any figures?

It's possible that they still stay here, but don't start companies like ATI anymore. Being anonymous employee #5761 at ATI is cool too.
I still email occasionally but only when necessary. That's why I said I'm not a regularly user. My point is that I've never used email for friend to friend communication.
We live in the past here in New Zealand.
Well, he did also write [Are Your Enemies Innateley Evil](http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/)
Roundcube is good and has come a long way over the years.
Apple isn't your typical BigCo though. Your predictions about the existence of bureaucratic infighting and turf politics ignore Apple's nature. First, Apple is run more like an enormous startup. Second, iOS and OS X share a LOT of engineers. You are arguing that Apple's engineers are at war with themselves. Third, Steve wouldn't stand for it.
This is getting a little ridiculous.
"Startups, less than two years old, with very little user traction and no revenue, getting acquired simply for talent, at valuations that give even the front-line engineers a seven-figure outcome."

Seven-figure salaries for developers? Are you sure you put the decimal point in the right spot and counted the digits correctly? I find it very difficult to believe that any developer (not a manager, not a c-suite executive, etc.) is making in excess of $1,000,000. Name one. Otherwise, I call bullshit.
Best Practices Blog
Did you put in some chips to become a partner?
A primary reason why a site wouldn't support PMs to markbao@news.ycombinator.com is that there is no access control. The address would get spammed too easily from senders with no affiliation with Hacker News. The current mechanism of only supporting messaging within the site limits this.
Not particularly. What's odd about it?

It's slightly more complex than desirable for good writing, but it's certainly well within normal bounds for size, especially for news articles. News articles do that sort of thing a lot.
I'm a mobile developer who does tons of iPhone work. I buy pretty much every iPhone book out there: Basically, any book over 400 pages that is up to date with iOS 3 is good enough, as the iOS 4 changes aren't really that useful for the majority of people.
You are being monitored
Rabbitmq + node.js = rabbit.js - Messaging that just works
Ask HN: What do you wish you'd known when you were 18?
I've just started university massively overconfidently and have ended up more behind on my work than I should be. That will be under control with some hard work that I'm now started on but I'd like the thoughts of others on HN.

I wouldn't say I've been given the huge shock that people warn of, but I've certainly been shown that the work to stay on top is going to be a lot harder than I had thought. It took me about 5 weeks to get to realising that. I can't help but think I'd be doing better right now if I'd realised that at the start.

So, feeling significantly humbled and ready to accept advice, I'd like to know you wish you'd known.

Thanks for your time.
I mean, in reality TCP congestion control just isn't designed for today's Internet. We live in a world of huge bandwidth-delay products and short connections, the opposite of what was the case when Van Jacobsen proposed it almost 30 years ago (to be fair, it's pretty damn impressive that his basic idea has prevented congestion collapse from recurring despite decades' worth of network evolution). Google's position on window size definitely makes sense in that regard but the very existence of "magic numbers" would suggest that there's room for some fundamental improvement. I think there are some really great ideas in the RCP project [1], which basically uses some information provided by routers to allow all flows to achieve their maximum steady-state fair-share allocation within one RTT. Even if it doesn't see the light of day on the broader Internet, I think it has excellent potential for datacenter networks.

That's article you linked is a really great summary of this issue; thanks for sharing that with me.

[1] http://yuba.stanford.edu/rcp/
yes and we'll now be the generation who cannot seem to reconcile themselves with the newer and supposedly more meaningless distinctions until the next ones come along.
When I've needed to send mail from C, I just call a CLI mail user agent like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailx, and configure it to talk to a local MTA (traditionally sendmail), which buffers messages locally before sending them to a real mail server on the internet (I use authsmtp). Python has a nice builtin library for talking to my local SMTP server like, I suspect, many other modern languages.

There's no technical reason why email addresses like markbao@news.ycombinator.com can't work. In fact, I'd argue Tumblr/Posterous have some of the same core ideas you're proposing.
There is just so much wrong with this article I don't have time to really list it all.

But the bottom line is the author fundamentally misunderstands Apple. They DON'T WANT TO BE MICROSOFT! They don't want to be a platform company. They don't want to run everywhere.

As they've said over and over again they want to create great products. That's their motivation being a platform for Windows isn't at all compatible with that goal.

(Plus as they've said time and time again they make around 1% gross profit off the app store which means it isn't really worth it financially either)
I'm the founder / CEO of Etsy, and I'm good friends with Greg, the fella behind the Mt Morris project. He's an amazing guy. He's well over 6 feet tall, wears overalls every day, and does most of his business from his pickup truck.

I've learned more about business & integrity from folks like him than anyone else.
Author of "Black Swan" fears inflation
Huh? Why wouldn't someone believe that?

Being an unproductive member of society living on welfare sucks money from the state, which could otherwise do things like offer more support (healthcare), improve infrastructure, fund medical research, etc.
Do any of the sites use captcha? That wouldn't stop a human nursing a PC running bots, but it would stop someone starting a bunch of bots, then going to sleep for 8 hours.
I gotta update those docs...
I understand that. If you're making software for yourself, for a business, for deployment on a web server, or for fellow hackers, it's not an issue. However, if you want to make end-user software (games, for example), you don't want to require the user to have a CL installed, or have an executable with a 20mb overhead (see XONG and other games written in CL). Is that more reasonable than what I said earlier?
Do you want SIP and XMPP to work well together? Join SIXPAC
Tea with Paul Graham (audio interview)
UGG Adirondack Boots -Otter
Apple joins Oracle in the OpenJDK project to ensure open source Java for Mac OSX
Nope, he's strictly a builder. I'm the talker. My degree is computer science, but he's a way better programmer than me.

Thanks for your advice!
I'm not a huge fan of flash and while the percentage seems rather huge, at least the problems are actually getting patched.

"Add in the fact that on the new MacBook Air, merely stripping Flash from the default OS X install adds two hours to the battery life"

I'd like to see this test replicated with some other technology filing in the gaps that Flash leaves when you remove it, otherwise this means nothing. Of course doing less will used less power. I suspect playing a video while browsing the web would have a similar (how ever probably slightly less significant) effect.
Is it possible that digestion uses resources that could otherwise be used for thinking?
Hmm, that seems to imply that IE6 is finally going away.

Unfortunately we have to wait for ie 9 to get access to the nice stuff.
Saving the World with Tropo and Phono (Building Transit Mashups)
A split-finger fastball, looks like a fastball then suddenly drops down before it crosses the plate.
SLR camera with a translucent mirror takes 10 pictures a second
Not quite - Jobs and Ellison are BFFs
Take that list with a grain of salt considering they left out rugby completely.
It's embarrassing that professional web site developers are using User Agent String detection to decide whether to serve Flash or HTML5 Video.
Why? writting/drawing on paper have significant advantages that are lost when you write on your keyboard -- this doesn't seem to be that stupid.
FAIL: Bush Recycles Material From Books and Magazines for his Memoir
But because it's fan fiction, I wouldn't object if, after the story finishes, someone produced their own edit of it.
Thanks for the tip. I'm slowly reading this aloud with my wife, and she's pretty distracted with Harry's flaws.
Adobe Flash for Android on Samsung Tab an "embarrassing disaster"
I hope they're successful in getting TSA's ridiculous policy changed. One shouldn't have to choose between being unnecessarily irradiated and virtually strip-searched or being sexually assaulted (in any other context, TSA's new pat-down procedures would be classified as criminal sexual conduct) just to ride on an airplane.
I'm about 270lb construction worker. I have never seen a design in my life. At 15 I got a job as a reviewer because I lived in the sticks I couldn't get anywhere to work to be able to pay for video games and movies - plus I was too overweight and lazy to be up to do a paper route. I did however use ingenuity and talent to start writing reviews, getting free games and movies and trading for what I wanted.

I worked as an electrician at 17 with a licensed electrician. We never did new construction so all our work was after-fact and involved a ton of creative work arounds (I was like 200+lbs, you think I'm crawling in loft space in the eave of a house? No fucking way - genius kicks in fast). I currently work doing siding, windows, soffit and eavestrough. Not only do you have to be able to make your own cappings, but our instructions are literally - "[x] inch insulation, and [x] type siding" for a full house with windows, vents, gas and hydro stacks, pipes, and all sorts to work around. Seen a badly sided house? It looks horrible, and worse you get leaks in your house.

I'm 22, in 5 years the only thing I'm unsure about doing in making a house is the foundation. I've done everything else or know I can without a doubt without ever doing it - roofing for example, cover your nails and stagger, I've worked with roofers and they literally aren't that smart. If you can't roof - find a god and pray for help.

In my free time I still write, on a nearly daily basis. Either blogging, or working on a novel or short stories. This writing is usually fed with beer, sometimes rum, always a sugary liquid like pepsi or coke on my non-alcohol nights. I'd feed my other work with booze if I could, but a drunk guy up a 32ft ladder is a bad idea.

I think creativity involves the ability to jump to tools you barely know and to still excel.
For a minute, I thought it was a spoof.

One problem though: It clearly needs a better name. I suspect paper.ly would do the job. Or papr. Then finding venture capital shouldn't be a problem.
My mother used to beat me, until I was big enough to fight back, which I did. Guess which hurt me more?

Her abuse of me doesn't weigh on me nearly as much as mine of her, because in the latter I had a choice. So there you go.
Sure, but then I have to carry around another computer or two when I want to work within a particular assumption.

Now, I can say, ``What if this box were really slow to respond to network requests 10% of the time?'' and just do it.
I cannot rate Erica Sadun's "iPhone Cookbook" high enough: some of the techniques it showed (especially the truly modal alert views) incredibly helpful, if slightly obscure.
A group for those going through LearnPythonTheHardWay?
I was wondering if there are enough people out there learning python through LPTHW to set up a group? I think it would be a great way to help each other with questions specific to the LPTHW exercises. What do you think?
That looks like it could allow extending a practice common in only fairly new startups to more mature and larger organizations. I like the idea of people being able to find things that they want to work on and that they think are important, build teams around themselves and take action. Particularly at the beginning of projects, things work better that way if you've built the right team. Later, you tend to get more pressure from external drivers and end up resorting to "business owners" prioritizing backlogs or whatever applies to your implicit or explicit SDLC or methods.

At first blush, this looks like a way to extend that useful aspects of new teams further by increasing the bandwidth for tracking, communicating priorities and dynamically organizing without losing things. That's how it is different from bug trackers, etc., mentioned in the other comments. It would be interesting to use something like this in a project as mature as 37signals and see what happens.

I will look into it further if it becomes a product.
"InteractiveXML" lets you interact with a video via voice, text
Nice iOS screencasts:
http://suitmymind.com/blog/category/cocoa-casts
I certainly do test on many different systems, but not all of them.

This doesn't take the place of real-world testing. It takes the place of setting up a network and putting a modem between my client and server then attaching a tape drive to my server to see what happens.

So far, it's been quite useful, but I've got a ways to go.
(R)evolution Number 9: Mark Burnett on the Art of Storytelling
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Hives
I think the important takeaway here is that there's someone in the world who's job it is to verify that high-performing entities are indeed human...
How cats master the physical universe when they lap up milk
Agreed. Dataflow is hard to program. A classic Verilog example:

always @(posedge clk) begin
b <= a;
a <= b;
end

You know how SW developers like the teaser of swapping words... This is how HW people do it (and of course, if you had used a regular assignment "=" instead of the non-blocking one "<=", the swap would fail).
Creating "Tweetable Moments": Public Speaking In the Age of Twitter
As it has been said before, ClickToFlash pretends to be a Flash plugin itself. This will send wrong signals to web developers about the installation base of Flash.

Also, YouTube's HTML5 does not cover all videos (esp. those with ads). Install the YouTube5 Safari extension <http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/06/09/youtube5-html5-conv...; and you'll have very YouTube video served to you in H.264, and with a really neat HTML5-based player. Try it and I'll bet you'll fall in love with it immediately.

I would suggest anyone not happy with Flash and want to see it die do as Gruber did: remove Flash and try to disguise the browser as an iPad. Enough people doing so would probably have some impact on the web devs.
I'm curious, what should they be using? The "Accept" HTTP header?
And what do you do when a $50M sugar cube sized processor goes out? Replace it?