skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, obviously they do - but the cost to Walmart of a single employee leaving is negligible, while that to a small store is a serious loss of investment.

Walmart "cares" only in the very large aggregate.
IMHO it would be much more productive to use/improve existing build tools. Such as Tup http://gittup.org/tup/
I come from a family of educators & private school owners, and if a teacher cannot handle a disruptive class, then we change the teacher. Children are ALWAYS disruptive. It's the natural state of things. Some teachers can solve the problem, and some can't. If a teacher cannot solve the problem, it's not the fault of the Government, or the Community, or the Principal or the Students. It's the fault of the teacher. It's her job to learn the techniques to handle such situations.

In our private schools, we simply swap out the teachers. In such schools where the teacher cannot be changed, one can ask an assistant to sit in, or send the teacher on more training courses.

A teacher is to train students, and part of that is making the students respect education enough to sit down and listen. If the teacher can't do that, then sorry, but that's not a good teacher. If the teacher realises that a particular class constellation does not work, then he or she should do something about it, not blame an invisible 'system'.
How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped (PyCon 2011)
I think it's okay to smack the reader in the face with all sorts of knowledge provided you're sufficiently up-front about it, make sure there's more to the book than that, and give the other side a fair voice. (MoR!Dumbledore, MoR!Quirrell, the Lady 3rd Kiritsugu from Three Worlds Collide...)

I suspect that what goes wrong is not writing a philosophical treatise in the form of fiction - what goes wrong is that the One True Philosophy is treated as a Mary Sue within the context of the fiction.
> It is embarrasing for the company but really this move won't change anything financially for either party.

I beg to differ.

National news about a security firm being hacked for its confidential IP can't be good for future business.
Google To EU: We’ll Consider Changing The Algorithm
While we're talking about DAWs I'd like mention that Ableton's Live features a much better approach with its UI - In my opinion it's one of the most intuitive interfaces in a complex and professional application. Everything is where you'd expect it to be, no nonsense, all flat.

Windows Phone 7 is, as mentioned, the other great example. When it comes to the user interface I'd replace my iPhone UI with WP7 without hesitation. I'd even go further and say that Metro is the UI that needs to be introduced to the next version of windows. Zune was a nice example of how this could work on the desktop. That said I hope Apple goes a similar way and finally drops that excessively shiny, glossy Aqua look. While the Mac is my favourite platform i don't think Apple deserves its reputation as inventor of cutting edge interfaces.
Verizon iPhone: dualmode GSM/CDMA chip
Why is it bad design? Have you ever expected it to do something, and it didn't?
Good News: Google Exec Wael Ghonim Released in Egypt
Seriously, as soon as he said he was hosting his code there I thought "Well we found the problem, end of post".
How to Write Maintainable OO JavaScript Code
This is similar to the "quality without a name" as described by Christopher Alexander. Btw, his seminal book on patterns is totally worth reading - the GoF patterns seem bland and uninteresting in comparison.
Cyber Security Challenge Xmas Solution
Yeah, there totally should be a class on how, as an slightly above average programmer, to use open source projects representing man-decades of work by geniuses and millions of dollars in corporate investment to avoid any technical challenges and slap together a website in a few weeks.
I've read the book twice once at age of 17-ish and once at 22. I got very different things from it each time. I don't think that I learned some specific knowledge or skill from the book. Rather it provoked me to look differently on many things that surround me. What I found works best for me is to read few pages, select the most important thesis he is making (because he states a lot of things all over) and to write a short essay on the topic.
However, at some point I got lazier, and the book became more narrative, so I switched to reading the book.
I had a chance to hear Bill Capodagli give the closing key note at a conference and subsequently read his book, The Disney Way. He managed 35k people, if I recall, and considered his competition to be Europe, not Six Flags or some other amusement park, as Disney World is branded a global destination. He stressed the importance of everyone partaking in the customer service role in the company (keeping the magic) emphasizing that the best marketing plans can be instantly derailed by a customer coming through the gates to a dirty bathroom stall. I guess you want your customers to be able to go back home and say "I had a great time PERIOD," versus, "We had a great time, but..."
I got in. I'm planning on going and attending as many sessions as I can. My work training budget is empty so I'm self funding. (flying in from Austin and currently trying to find a couch to crash on.) I'm not going to lie, the supposed HW freebies of previous years helped make my decision and soften the blow $$ wise.
It got sold out in 56 minutes! What a bummer. I don't care for the swag they give out, I was looking forward to meeting the people.

How about this idea: A parallel I/O Error Conference at the same time?
Stanford, perhaps anomolously, has a number of startup-oriented classes. The one with which I'm most familiar (and probably the one most of interest to HNers) is CS210: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs210/
But you kinda have to know (and care); the Agile words for this are "calibration" and "velocity".
I actually didn't discover it. I had to look online to figure it out. Think too of how one would come across this screen. My goal was to add a home phone number. One doesn't think that you need to change "iPhone" to "Home" to add a phone number.

The older way with the green plus buttons (http://artoftheiphone.com/2009/02/02/how-to-add-prefixes-suf...) was easier to intuit so I'm not sure why it was changed.
It's a reasonable inference that it was working for enough people. Either that or this guy is the only person on GoDaddy Shared, or everybody who uses it is too dumb to know working from not working. Either way the moral seems to be: Not enough people complained to warrant a real investigation.
After a recent HN thread discussion on HN, I migrated all of my DNS names registered on GoDaddy to Name.com.

GoDaddy's commercials are moronic, and that was the principal reason. Their horrible domain management web console also played a big part.

I question the intelligence of anyone who's used their web interface, who's then decided to host servers with GoDaddy.

Avoiding even one incident like this is worth whatever extra I'd pay with a decent hoster.
True, but next year you shouldn't be working for free anymore. There are always going to be clients who care most about getting something cheap or free, and there are always going to be clients who care most about getting something good. Do a few deals for the cheaply oriented clients so you have something that will impress the quality oriented clients and then move up quickly, don't lollygag in the cheap valley very long.
how is this link not related to this story...vote me down more jackasses
golf central station would love to have a table at the conference whether we present or not, who needs sleep when you have this kind of opportunity!

we turned in our application early to launch.is because we feel that deadlines mean something.

pick us for launch con "Are you not entertained"
And what then? The FBI uses the Bittorrent archive instead of paying the company? Please.

100% of my work is government contracting, thats not how this works. The only question is whether the FBI will ever use this company again, if the FBI thinks they are incompetent then HBGary is out of work. But if the FBI still believes they are competent then they will get another contract to find more information even if some of that information is already in the public domain. The FBI won't punish them for a criminal action. At my job, just because something leaked through Wikileaks doesn't mean its unclassified. We still abide by all the rules and you can get in a lot of hot water for talking about something off of Wikileaks that you do not have need-to-know on. It's as if leaks don't exist to the government.

You or I, and many companies would take advantage of the situation and just use the publically available information and not pay the PI firm. But this is the government. They operate in a whole different ballgame with a different set of rules. Anyone pointing their finger and laughing hasn't been through the requisition process, the government has thrown good money after bad in much fouler situations than this.
If anyone wants to read a book on behavioral change, try "Switch" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. It's sooooo goooood.
I have experience in jQuery and javascript, so I'll give you my 2 cents on that, but I'm sure the same can be applied to other frameworks.

jQuery is awesome framework and its core (the way I see it) is simple. It's about:

1) DOM selection, traversal and manipulation
2) CSS manipulation
3) event binding
4) ajax
5) a couple of (but still awesome) utilities
6) extensibility, as proven with very popular jQueryUI framework and a huge number of plugins

You know where I got these 6 bullets? It's from jQuery docs page (http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page) under API reference (in the left sidebar). Why is it important? Because that's actually what the whole browser/DOM/javascript ecosystem should have been. DOM API is really screwed up, that's why we use jQuery (or something else, but I also think jQuery has clearly won the framework war). And to do any of that work, among all A grade browsers is an exercise in futility.

Majority of my work in javascript consists of leveraging jQuery, because most of my work is DOM manipulation. But that doesn't mean I can do it without knowing the language.

My point is: jQuery is defacto the DOM API because the real DOM API simply sucks. It does not replace the need to use the language, it adds value to it.

And maybe, just maybe, we haven't yet seen the best way to work with DOM, or ajax. There may still be posible for completely new framework to emerge and shows us the light.
As someone who made the purchase (proof: the license is a pdf/txt) I couldn't have said it better.

Isotope promises to be a goldmine for experimentation and exploration.
I'm sorry you received such praise for the design of these, you may have been mislead. But yes, it's its entirely possible to hack together a look-a-like design and people will like it, but that does not make it good design. The same principle applies to code for what I hope are obvious reasons.
If you are familiar with ESR's writings you will know that the primary motivator of a lot of people writing code in the gift economy is recognition.

When it comes to recognition and proper attribution therefore, there are no 'just mistakes'. It is like if you go on holiday and come back to find that the bank has misplaced all of your money, foreclosed on your mortgage and now there are a bunch of smelly windows developers living in what used to be your house.

... and when you go to complain to the bank they say "I don't see why you're so upset, it was just a mistake"...

... except that, in this case, every time you ask the bank to put it right and give you your house back, the bank is saying "sure, no problem, but can we talk about you doing us a little favour first?"

----

I won't apologise for the extremity of the above dramatisation either - stealing someone's credit is just about the worst crime in open source.
Where would you submit your iphone app after you've launched?
I think you might be unfamiliar with the term "poetic justice." It doesn't really have anything to do with the justice system, per se — it's more closely related to the common conception of karma or the idea of "comeuppance." Poetic justice is unequivocally a tit-for-tat repayment for misdeeds, not the kind of deterrent you describe.

Also, they already released all the info themselves, so Barr giving it to the police would be redundant.
wow, if they didn't come from such big companies I doubt anyone would pay the slightest attention, the idea alone makes me want to yawn, then I started watching the video and gave up.

How many times have people come up with these super new way to make people collaborate better, only to find that it doesn't work. The last innovation in this field that made any real impact on team collaboration was in the 70's - email.
Personally I don't like it either. Much harder to open multiple articles for later and it loads ones that I don't want to read while i scroll towards ones I do.
In capitalism inept companies go out of business. If you're a security company that just got hacked 6 ways to Sunday, you're inept. Maybe it's time for some other startup company to "make" the lives of i's employees by stepping in to the void and doing the work properly.
Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET)
No big surprise. It only took a few hours for the first Google I/O ticket scalper to surface on CraigsList. And what a deal. Only asking for $5K !!!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/for/2202131748.html
The BBC invented FM? I was not aware of that...
That's very true. But the conjecture that the FBI "won't pay [the firm]" becuase "[anonymous] will give it to them for free" is pure bullshit. Trust me, the company will still get paid.

If necessary, they will change their name.
For now, but support for Mifare Classic is a high priority.
It also seems the same as Action Method. I can't see any difference.
Apologies if I'm mis-reading your post but you sound incredibly confident that its always the teacher's fault for failing to handle unruly students.

Because, when I use the word 'unruly,' I'm including the 6'0" seventh grade 15 year old male student with behavioral issues physically threatening the 5'4" 22 female new teacher in my definition.
As far as I could bear with the unsynced video, it looks like they are trying to catch customers who are used to use Google Wave for project management/collaboration..
Well, for the highly specialized purpose that I didn't know about before you explained it in this comment, your solution works.
"it acually is hard. much harder than you think"

Actually "assuming that behavior change is difficult" is listed as the tenth mistake.
That's a hard question to answer without providing some information on your product/service. Il raises a good question in his post, 'why do you want Facebook fans?.' That answer will help determine how you want to gather those FB fans, because there are a lot of ways to do so and some are not so legit.

But, my short answer would be to leverage your existing product/service to convert your active community into FB fans. Those will most likely be your most engaging FB fan audience and easiest to become fans with the right incentive. From there, your networks of fans will only start to grow.

Sorry I couldn't give you a specific answer, but without knowing your business I couldn't provide a suggestion. In my own community, we encourage the players of our games to become facebook fans through virtual currency, bragging rights, and other incentives.
What a useless article title. Unfortunately, the article behind it also isn't particularly worthwhile.

TL;DR: Someone[1] who did great work[2] on a parallel benchmark[3] was recognized as being good by tbray, who told a Google recruiter to favor them. Said engineer now works at Google.

Unless you are trying to score a gig at the Goog, just skip to [2].

[1|http://www.1024cores.net/home/about-me]

[2|http://www.1024cores.net/home/scalable-architecture/wide-fin...]

[3|http://wikis.sun.com/display/WideFinder/The+Benchmark]
He's a better idea. Instead of choosing a woman whose taste you like, you should be able to choose a woman whose personality / interests / etc you like. Hopefully that'll correlate to you wearing clothes that that sort of person likes?
Totally agree -- you can't always avoid the bad things, but you can change the end of the story that your customer will tell others.

Customers will talk. The question is whether they'll say "This annoying thing happened and I don't recommend them" or "but they made it up to me with ______, and I was really satisfied at the end."
How many students in private schools throw rocks at teachers, and threaten to break their cracker ass in two?

Two part question, if I may - how many students have brought knives to class?
I think you're exactly the sort that Google wants to attract - so congratulations on getting your ticket. The issue is that the structure that means that you're willing to self fund (giving you freebies that refund your cost), also attracts people that Google probably doesn't want there.

Ideally, Google would have just identified you as a good developer and given you a free place, like YCombinator does with startup school.
The most astonishing info here is that this is HBGary that is involved.

Come on, we are talking about the rootkit.com guys. Not taking side is one thing, taking the opposite side is a completely different one.

Pretty much everything I learned for fun about rootkits, I learned it thanks to these guys.

I am speechless.
How to pick a digital camera
Landing page webinar: GazeHawk (YC S10), VWO, and ConversionVoodoo this Thursday
And a google TV a couple of months latter
Who is supposed to investigate? The way a lot of these companies work, like DirecTV, is that they know what the practice is, but as an individual you have little power to stop them.

It doesn't have to work for anyone for this to be succesful for GoDaddy. They just have to be able to collect on enough people, with decent churn for new blood.
I think that this book, like Atlas Shrugged, is one of those that can lead to a mental confirmation that what a teenager thinks is the whole truth and everyone else who doesn't understand is just plain wrong. Doesn't happen with every reader, but a higher than normal proportion read it and then turn into single topic lecturers for a while. Hopefully they grow out of it. (I hope I did).
Bockris ... I think I managed to get in too. Got a receipt from Google checkout. Did you get any other confirmation email from them? I have a fear that my credit-card payment didn't go through.
Why now is a great time to be a young entrepreneur
That effort in “market share voodoo,” being propagated by Garner and other
corporate data flack firms, desperately attempts to hide the failure of
actual Android licensees, from Samsung’s disappointing profits to
the shaky position of Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

Hmm. Why did their list not include HTC, who make $65 profit per unit, mostly on Android phones? (cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2172598) It's quite true that most Android mfers are making wafer-thin wargins or even small losses, but ignoring the mfer who is raking it in?

Cherry-picking piece, lots of analytic problems, not really worth reading.
At my job, just because something leaked through Wikileaks doesn't mean its unclassified.

...as long as you're clear that this is merely company policy and is not actually a point of law.
No. The manufacturers that fail to ship a fix are knowingly exposing them to risk.

It is perfectly reasonable to assume that an attacker will be able to attain knowledge about the vulnerability whether or not it is publicly exposed.
I started an I|O ERROR 2011 signup spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/h9KQrR

Please add your name if you would attend such an unconference over the same dates as the real I|O.

I'm recklessly confident that we can find space at dogpatch labs, citizen space, or similar...
Well, one common issue is filesystems slowing down if data structures (e.g. directories) get big. Creating a single file doesn't take a constant number of disk operations.
The model gave examples of competition between man and nature and man and himself only. The piano practice was against the goal of learning a new task and giving up, of believing in self-limitation or overcoming it. It wasn't against comparison to others.
Nokia boss 'plans Great Purge'
Yes, and depending on the email client on the other end, the other person wouldn't even notice.

The only guard against something like this is SPF on the sender's domain and for the recipient's mail server to check (and enforce) SPF rules.
Here's the murder graph from 1920 to present. Amazingly bad spike from 65-95.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_murders.PNG
If a teacher is supported by the government, community, and the principal they can do their jobs effectively. If they still have disruptive class, then that is fault of the teacher.

But even the best of teachers will be helpless if the system doesn't support them. I highly doubt that criminally disruptive students are allowed to stay in your family's private schools -- so you're quite likely already doing exactly what this teacher thinks you should be doing! Your whole argument is disingenuous; the system isn't invisible, your family of private school owners are one such system.

I'm sure lots of people here has worked in a job that changed management and went from having a productive department to unproductive chaos (and vice-versa). The people doing the work on the ground didn't change.
I recommend familiarizing yourself with the concept of rivalrous goods.
This is pure hand waiving. Can you imagine the shit storm that would ensue should a former US President be arrested overseas? US Presidents are provided Secret Sevice detail for the rest of the lives. Bush cancelled his trip because he doesn't want to make diplomatic trouble for the US, not because he was afraid of being arrested. There is not a single government in Europe that would dream of detaining a US President, past or present.
Get truly interested in the project, repeat 7, and become committer - then not only will you have support of all other commiters, but support will be asked from you, and you can even get 9 for that.
I doubt anything will change. We've always had to cope with rising application numbers, and we've constantly been tweaking the system to deal with them. Between more partners, more alumni, and more software, we'll probably manage without any externally visible change.
Your disruptive is most likely different from this teacher's disruptive. Unless your private school has the same requirements and policies of the public school system I find it difficult to see how your comparison and opinion holds any water whatsoever.

Most private schools that I have visited don't admit or will expel any student that is disruptive on a regular basis which would mean the teacher has a way to enforce policy and rules which is different from what the author of the post has to deal with. On top of that most kids that go to private schools have a much different home life than urban schools. It's just not a valid comparison.
Expertise with Win32 internals doesn't make you a competent sysadmin or web application developer. rootkit.com runs one of the worst custom web apps I've ever seen.

If you can't even get GET/POST/cookie escaping correct in PHP after years, you should probably not be building web apps.

It's a shame that their site is so bad when their book is so awesome.