skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Languages and frameworks could also be listed in the order of SLOC.
> ... oh wait, you said 'thousands of dollars in UI testing.' :)

Or in the case of GnuCash, any UI testing at all :P (Ok. That is not really true. The UI is not that bad)
The failure of print to convey the richness of language is not unique to sign - we're just used to the limitations.

Consider the difficulty people have with expressing rich communication via email compared with vocal conversation, and again compared to face-to-face communication.

It is fascinating that additional factual details can be conveyed in sign, but it is inaccurate to believe that print can encapsulate the richness of direct personal communication.

kb
If you're not getting credit for the undergrad stuff, could you go through some of the OCW stuff instead?

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
New algorithm tells website when their security is breached
Hire me as your boss. We write a contract. The contract stipulates that you have complete ownership of the idea, I get profit sharing for payment, but if you don't execute at a reasonable time pre-negotiated then I can throw the idea out there to have someone else get this project coded--with you still retaining complete intellectual ownership of the idea but they are added to the profit sharing pie.

=)

Logically your reaction will be heck no because you can do it yourself and keep all the money to yourself, but you have just then created a paradox because this is exactly what makes you execute and seems to be what is preventing you.

That was all in hypothetical fun of course but I think would work in practice. Sometimes people don't need to find or "hire" co-founders, rather a "boss". But to overcome your biggest challenge, which is yourself, @JonnieCache and others here definitely know what they are talking about.
Fortunately we now have widespread data: URIs, so the GIF/PNG twiddling can be done in the client saving even more time! (But please don't.)
Curiosity apart what good could it do us to discover or be discovered by aliens?
>We are indeed small and insignificant, but alone? Doubtful at best.

If we're the only (or even just one of few) intelligent beings (!) in the Universe then our significance is huge.
I would assume Github has a cache, hard-refresh and it should be there now.
However, with open source, I can almost always get some support.

One bad side effect of the FOSS movement is that customers are now conditioned to expect that open source software literally means free software including free support, free updates, and free bugfixes. So when you do try to build a company around offering support and timely bugfixes people don't think they need it.
I think there's a mismatch of scale in this conversation. Many of the free apps I see and use are small scale operations. It's just my theory, but I think an issue being masked here is the fear of rejection, For these small apps and utilities, the fear of support and returns is exaggerated in the mind of the developer before they ever occur.
More useful than I thought it would be. Cheers!
On the similar note, try this LinkedIn Resume builder - http://resume.linkedinlabs.com. It's pretty cool and useful too!
Check it again, there are examples for you to peruse. Or you can try this one: http://resume.github.com/?raganwald
You've submitted this twice so I flagged this version.
edw519's waiting for the next Perl [1]

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1 Where "Perl" stands for your epiphany of choice, slaying the twin dragons of monotony and repetition while riding in on a linguistic unicorn of intrigue with teasing hints of familiarity. And sigils -- because tagging's always been underrated.

(P.S. I'll trade you for my PHP crap.)

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EDIT: OT: Have you ever gotten used to Textpad 5?
I've done the same thing before, and only recently have regretted it. It's much easier and less uncomfortable to accept what they're offering, especially if it's the amount you were anticipating, but if no negotiating was required, you definitely could have gotten more. Yes, you got what you were looking for, but could you find something to do with $5000/year more? Definitely.

I find most people (at least in the US) are uncomfortable negotiating, since the only times you do it seriously are when getting a job and buying a car. So long as you don't resort to the "Fuck You", negotiating is a professional thing to do and all will be forgotten once you come to an agreement and start the job.
Seems like it's not a cache issue, just the fix doesn't quite work.

I'm seeing the updated version of http://resume.github.com/js/githubresume.js (with the changes shown at https://github.com/resume/resume.github.com/commit/f046b8af6...) but it's still not working quite right.

For example http://resume.github.com/?rupa is generating this HTML:

I blog at <a href="http://http://un.ix.io" title="my blog">http://un.ix.io</a>
My younger sister refers to this as "Percolation", as do others (http://www.learningassistance.com/2005/june/percolation.html).

Sometimes, I need to sit with an idea for a week or so before taking action, and the product is great, albeit somewhat rushed. This gets me in trouble on occasion, but less often than one might think.

I've found lately that working piece by piece well before deadline gets about the same quality of work done, but I also have bigger projects and more generous deadlines now.
Best book on the knack for getting money is "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis, founder of Maxim magazine (worth between $400-900M, that's what he says in the book): http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp...

Here's a good Inc. article on it too: http://www.inc.com/articles/2008/07/dennis.html

Utter determination, fearlessness, tunnel vision, and hard work are his answers.
Impressive and I have contemplated such along similar lines before. Well done. Of course it doesn't bring an answer closer, but it is a very rational ideal based on everything we know to be true already. We'll have to have coffee and talk about this sometime if I'm ever in MI.
The Anarchist Cookbook Turns 40
Let's find out!
Many women believe that their ability to "think" while emotional is what makes them the stronger sex. Of course, if you talk to them later when they are no longer emotional, they will admit they weren't thinking clearly.

The same is true for men of course. While most of us refrain from emotions at work, any man who's had a fight with his wife knows he's been just as irrational when the emotions run high.

The important take away: emotions aren't valuable at work.
Funny Egyptians from the protests
Encouraging immoral corporate behaviour is really where you want to go?
It is sad, that a set of instructions on how to avoid unilateral seizure of your assets with no due process for engaging in speech on the internet involves "avoid any presence in the US at all costs, and follow US laws even if you are not doing business in the US."
> What I'm trying to find out is how much of it is just an opinion and how much is proven.

There is no significant difference in functional brain structure or organization to suggest these differences are hard-wired. In fact, most of the brain is still considered a black box and basic research is still occupied with finding out how the basic building blocks interact. Sadly, that leaves people who's job it is to examine learned behavior with a lot of room to assert biological predisposition in an attempt to make their (often amateurish) statistical findings more substantial. They get away with it, too, mainly because their opinions are so popular, and their popularity growths with the number of studies appearing in mainstream press in support of the majority world view.

> There certainly seems to be a behavioral pattern out there.

There are many different behavioral patterns out there and what you get to experience depends largely on the country, cultures and subcultures you are embedded in. I'm not denying that behaviors exist, I'm just speaking out against abusing science to falsely attribute underlying biological causes to behavior that is very likely more learned than innate.

> What do you mean by "somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy"?

I mean the traditional view of gender behavior (which has recently once again become the modern view) is not only imprinting people with a specific bias but also causes humans to behave accordingly. It thus becomes a self-sustaining system, because the more people believe it to be true, the more they behave accordingly, and the more they gather evidence in support of the underlying values. It's a cycle, and confirmation bias does the rest of the work.

> When you said "That is a lie", I saw what seemed to be categorical denial of the claim that men and women have different capacity for compartmentalization and I was intrigued enough by your vehemence to ask you to point me to what made you so sure.

Ah, OK, I misunderstood you there. The statement made in the article is not supported by hard science, as far as I know. This is what prompted me to claim the implication that gender behavior is rooted in well-documented scientific observations and models is indeed a lie. Of course, there are many behavioral studies carefully designed show ...pretty much anything you could ever want. But that's not the equivalent of hard science. That's statistics with an agenda.

Interestingly enough, there was a popular meme in mainstream media about scientific results "wearing off", i.e. becoming less true over time. The results in question used to document this alleged property of the universe were mostly - wait for it - pop psychology studies with agendas behind them. It's telling that these people would rather assume intelligent malice exerted by the universe than admitting their studies were bogus to begin with. These studies are mostly human behavior studies that basically equate popular opinions with universal truths, and then those researchers are shocked, shocked! to find out their results don't hold up over time.
"Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Ga...

And, really, this picture is just a fraction of a fraction of the down payment on the concept of big: This is merely an illustration of how big one galaxy is. There are eighty billion galaxies. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

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[1] Tune in tomorrow for a new estimate, of course.
>We'll have to have coffee and talk about this sometime if I'm ever in MI.

Sure thing. Thanks. :)
Cebu's Startup Community Getting Hotter
Am I the only one that sits and thinks "wait, I can barely get my local AM station to come in clear enough to be understood - how could any signal possibly be distinguishable beyond 1 lightyear?"
I notice emotional attachment at work from both genders.

Those that create subjective work, like designers and musicians, often latch onto their solutions with an emotional vigor. It’s as if they view their work as some part of themselves.
Is the milky way really large or is 200 years a really short time?

Galileo was born only about 164000 days ( ~ 4 million hours ) ago.

And that's already over twice as long as 200 years.

It makes me sad when I think about how a life time is a mere thousand months.
So did I, it's from here - http://thingsthatarebrown.com/blog/2009/05/sample-resume-tem...

All modesty aside, he should mention where he got the template from.
If you've been working for other people for a long time, it takes some serious adjusting to work for yourself.

I also have trouble getting motivated to start on a large project by myself, since it seems insurmountable in the beginning. It helped me to break it down into small steps that can be accomplished in a few hours, so I felt like I was making progress.
If you charged money, that's something people can relate to. People understand the need to put food on the table. People even understand that jet skis are a lot of fun but they're not cheap. Money makes the world go around. So you could charge away with the full approval of every capitalist in the room.

But it's disappointing to see people hoarding knowledge in order to feel important. Guess what: there are nearly seven billion other people out there. A lot of them are smarter than you, at least in some way, no matter who you are. I'll bet that somewhere in those seven billion people, there is someone who could take your research and produce a product better than yours. (No insult intended -- the numbers are just against you.) If you only released the source. So you're holding the world back in order to feel good about yourself. It's still a relatable concept, but now it's a low, dark thing, and no longer morally defensible.
Try this if you want to feel really small AND really big at the same time: http://htwins.net/scale/

WARNING: You may become nauseous, dizzy and afraid if you sit playing with this for too long.
I agree that his name calling has no place here. That said, there's a certain something about your site that leaves me non-plussed. The 'Victory.' bit seems kind of... hrm, I suppose I'd say 'cheesy', although I hope you don't take offense. I did like the article though: it really does seem like some people are money magnets.
Marriage is for the guys now...
I have one free app. It's a loss leader for another app. I know that the popular wisdom is that if you want to get your name out you should blog a lot, but my specialty is creating software, and it gets my name out to my potential customers extremely well.
Rovio explains why Angry Birds update needs SMS permission
"We’re currently spending about $40 million a year on books. And they last about seven years."

And they expect the iPads to last that long? The hardware might, but the latest iPad (or whatever comes next) software will no longer target such an old device.

Not to mention the cost of buying licenses for all the e-textbooks, and the cost of updating them yearly.

Politicians should never be allowed to make decisions that have anything to do with science, technology or medicine. Or money.
All in the name of technology..

Assuming no ETs exist within our 200ly bubble, if ETs somehow discovered our signal and made contact, our level of knowledge would jump a few centuries at least.
I think it says a lot about the technological community that the solution to IPv4 has been around and viable for over a decade, but it's only as we reach the terminal stages that uptake really kicks in.

Same thing basically happened with the Y2k bug - the foresight exists, but the general community doesn't follow best practices and just hobbles along until something has to happen.

The same thing will happen with internet control. Egypt (and Canada's capping) has shown that unless you have the ISPs in your pocket, the internet is highly vulnerable to government control. And government doesn't entirely like the direction the internet is going (eg wikileaks, loss of traditional business models (and thus revenue for the govt's biggest suporters)). The potential to build a viable internet without central hubs is out there, but it will never see uptake until it's too late.
Once Linux became popular and useable, there wassup de.and for a floss kernel.
Not if you have faster-than-light travel!

If they don't, it would seem pointless to contact aliens, by the time they send their ambassador on a multi-generational ship to Earth we humans may have already been extinct.
Andromeda could have been the best SciFi show of all time and the ruined it.

The Magog, the Nietzscheans, the hot chicks. That show could have had it all.
It's great to get feedback on the talk. Impossible to even introduce 0MQ properly in 10 minutes, so this presentation was really just to drive discussion. I'd apologise for the polemical title but that's just how I talk.

To some of the comments here...

- Parallel programming may be taught in CompSci courses, for sure, and it's a popular use for 0MQ, but (a) it's not applied to mainstream application development, and (b) it is not designed to scale to networks of any size.

- The Actor model is not key to building a successful message-based concurrent application, but it's a good example, and helps people understand that there are alternatives to shared-state concurrency.

- It's IMO useless to ask people to learn Erlang or Scala to get message based concurrency. People use Java, C, C#, PHP, Python, and probably still COBOL somewhere. So the challenge is how to give this mainstream a toolset that lets them build large parallel applications.

Perhaps next year at FOSDEM we can do a devroom and take the time to see a real application evolve from a simple stand-alone process into a real distributed one. 0MQ is very hard to grasp as a theory, one needs to actually use it for a few days before the beauty a cheap, universal, fast, intelligent, easy to use, and asynchronous queuing messaging fabric hits home.

Cheers!
I've built quite a few actor systems in C++ for real-time platforms. You use a threading library like pthreads, which works fine in C++, use thread safe libraries, create an Actor object with a queue that encapsulates a thread, and then have your async messaging system route and drop messages in the right actor queue. As long as application writers can manage their impulses to share state between the threads it works excellently. The only problem is usually the shared state inherent in the memory allocator, so some sort of thread based memory allocation scheme works best. You also get to choose your response latency via priority, which is something you don't get with Erlang.
He's getting credit. Some masters programs (like Engineering) require certain undergrad prerequisite classes before he can do the actual masters. OCW won't work because he needs these classes on his transcript.
I am so GD tired of "--- is dead" as the title of what amounts to a rant (seemingly quite factual in this case) based on what someone dislikes about the subject. Cloud Computing is not dead. At worst the media has in their usual bandwagon rush severally mislabeled things, but that has little to do with it being "dead". Is "Hacking" dead? The press in all flavors has gotten this one wrong almost from day one. But (and this is the important part) those who 'hack' know what is going on and continue accordingly. As do those who 'crack' <sigh>. I suspect there is not much to be done about blog-venting, but I do wish that while he condemns the media he realize that he is part of what he is condemning...
There is an analysis of the detectability of human radio signals at:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html

The main uncertainty is at estimating the level of radio technology that can be available to alien civilizations.
Right on. I also think of guys like Warren Buffett or Li Ka-Shing who are insanely competitive and are still putting in crazy hours into their businesses even though they're both in their 80s. They don't live a lavish lifestyle at all and they're not in it for materialism. They're driven by competition and the sport of business, which is what they love.
Here's a YouTube link to the entire Pale Blue Dot bit by Sagan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

Sagan is absolutely amazing. It really does put things in perspective.
Sometimes, a situation is in (desperate) need of some honest feedback.
Human beings are giant incestuous continuum of software firmware and hardware. "Hard-wired" in casual conversation, i.e. this forum, is a very common catch-all for "condition we can't (or think we can't) think ourselves out of."

connotations, they exist.
First thing I looked for is a mention of the digitizing technology...and there is none. Capacitive? Ultrasonic? How do they do it with such long battery life?
Ian Ayre (and others) have challenged the study that Derek Sivers based his 'keep your goals to yourself' talk on - http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/are-public-...

I think the OPs problem is primarily about fear [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185833], not instant gratification. It's necessary when building a website to get a VPS and S3 account (or equivalent) to host the site/files on. I completely understand what you're getting at by suggesting that putting easy things ahead of hard things gives a false sense of accomplishment, and I tend to agree. I just think there's something different at play here for the OP to focus on.

On a related note, I know that Derek frequents this board often and I've had the pleasure of learning from some of his insights along the way. I'd love to hear his reaction to the above article or a link to such a post from the HN crowd.
That's a lot of expense and hassle as compared to saying "no"
So, the article actually argues that a popular tech term "cloud" has become a buzzword (naturally) and so is overused. Well, duh.

Meanwhile cloud computing (being location-independent computing) is as strong as ever, and will remain so.
"The science is clear, for example, that although the female brain isn’t designed to compartmentalize personal feelings the same way a man’s brain does, a woman can--if she chooses--force a calm demeanor when she is starting to feel defensive."

Is that clearly science?
Fantastic idea. "Casual mentoring" like this brings a lot of the benefits of incubators to those not participating in them. I'll echo others in saying that we need more specificity in our expertise and a better browsing system. Perhaps allow people to specify their own "tags" and list their experience on different sites as line items, and then display all that in the browse screen.
Yes, and is this a bad thing?
Missing Egyptian Google Staffer now likely in police custody:
L. O. L.
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/William_Butler_Yeats/3...
Those are not hosting the same languages as Herouku, so there is no direct competition.
For a while, the door reader at one of my banks only looked for the first discernable digit. Insert the card a fraction, and bzz went the door lock.
$ apt-get clean; apt-get update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade

782 upgraded, 162 newly installed, 22 to remove.

Darn, all this terrible upgrading work in Debian. Sometimes I wish I had a real OS. Why can't we all just run WinXP - those guys _never_ have to upgrade and they still run the best OS on the planet!
This makes me immediately thing of the 5 Love Languages:

http://www.5lovelanguages.com/

The Cliff's Notes version is that every human inately responds with various magnitudes to 5 love "languages" - ie, they have specific methods of expressing love that they respond to better than others. The 5, as defined by the author, are:

1. Physical Touch
2. Quality Time
3. Acts of Service
4. Words of Affirmation
5. Gifts

I've seen this in spades in both my previous dating life and my marriage. Once learning about the 5 love languages, I was better able to understand my wife and how she best responds to affection.

Whats interesting about this approach is that people often express their love / interest for others in THEIR love language, rather than that of their partner. Once they can identify the languages involved, they often find that their relationships become healthier because they are "speaking" the language their partner better understands.
Very true.

An important idea, not often acknowledged, is the fear of success rather than the fear of failure. "Oh God, how long before they figure out I'm faking it?"

See the following article: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/08/the_worst_thing_that_...

Note: while I am linking this article for its ideas, this is IN NO WAY an endorsement of the author's somewhat antagonistic and disjointed writing style. Please persevere with it.
The potlach was a tribal event where wealth was destroyed, but my reading of Mauss, etc is that it bought peace within the community by reducing the gap between what people had and didn't have. The power of envy in small communities seems to hold a great negative force, and the loss of material goods in order to reduce envy is worth it for the community in the long term (and in small communities, it's survival for all or for none).