skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like school, I'm not planning to drop out, but this guy isn't convincing anyone. His basic premise is that school is the "safer" path - something that I don't think the Zuckerbergs of the world have ever found terribly appealing.
Have you considered that doing something scary might be a good thing?
I didn't upvote you because in this specific case it is relevant. If someone's website exists to highlight design and the linked article is design-specific, I think it perfectly legitimate to point out that the design of the site, while arguably pretty, is a usability nightmare and this site fits in that description.

I'm sure it looks great on the designer's computer, but he needs to learn the painful lesson that not everyone is viewing his website on a monitor of the exact same resolution and gamma he is using(I would guess a Macbook of some type considing the gamma and resolution (laptopish) that would be required for the site to be at least somewhat reasonable to use). If he can't get that right, how can we be expected to listen to him on issues of design or UX even when that just involves him showing positive bias towards various existing designs?

If the link were to the blog of some programmer who was writing about some advanced algorithm that would be a totally different situation but it isn't. And in that case we'd probably point out he totally doesn't understand big-O notation (if he clearly didn't), regardless of how useful his algorithm actually is, for similar reasons.
And I was in denial about that for a long time too!
One of my favorite lines from rap music for entrepreneurs: "If it ain't about that dough, ain't about me neither" -- Lil Wayne
Except Apple didn't put NT on its computers.
Here is my honest first impression. I'm not trying to be complete or imply that these are my only issues. It's just a sampling of thoughts I had.

The typeface with its wispy horizontal strokes is murder to my eyes. It's an extremely poor choice for on-screen legibility with such a text-heavy resume.

Wall-of-text syndrome, compounded by poor typeface legibility and total document length.

Who is your audience? As an engineer, my overall sense is that I wouldn't hire you for a very technical role. If that is a correct assessment of your skills or if your intended audience isn't engineers then that's okay.

One thing I noticed was your bullet point on fixing a cron job. You stumbled upon a bug with, as it turns out, important ramifications. The way it's written makes it seem like you're trying to bullshit non-technical people into thinking this was a technically impressive feat rather than a stroke of luck. I get you're trying to make a case for your value to the business, but I frankly find it odd.

You might want to proof-read it better. As a random example, "document how everything service worked" clearly has something missing.
So what's your plan now? :)
Submitted before, possibly many times, but I've only found two with a quick search:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1908449

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1906855

No discussion ...
The assumption is that people who have purchased Nokia phones in the past will continue to purchase Nokia phones with Microsoft software on them.

Marketing will sell a few. Brand loyalty a few more... but if MS fails to deliver compelling software or Nokia fails to deliver compelling hardware, they aren't the third horse in the iOS / Android race. They are nothing.

Combining two companies that have failed to prove themselves in the smartphone market doesn't make a great smartphone.
The description of ideas as property doesn't need to be a modern concept for one to believe that the concept has led society astray, or that the analogy between tangible property and intangible ideas is more heavily abused now than in the past.
A picture right as it senses deceleration would be cool, at the apex of the fall, just to see what the phone could see at that time. Video might be fun also, though I don't know if watching blurry spins would be all that enjoyable in actuality. The 3G is the only one that doesn't have real video capabilities, though that's nearly deprecated anyways. Last I heard, Apple isn't going to update it with the next major update. Whether that update is 4.3 or 5, I'm not sure.

To the OP, maybe you could use what you learned about using the accelerometer framework to make an app that background updates the movement of the user, and tracks approximate G-forces of elevators and driving, for example?
Can't be "must vote that down because the entirety of the argument is 'M$ is always posion' and that falls just barely short of my standard for HN discussion."
Hmmm... you've just reminded me that I ought to be drinking more milk...
This is a false dichotomy that sidesteps the question, "Are universities a place where the brightest students, regardless of which campus they are attending, are able to actualize real world goals?"

In many cases, for a person who has real conviction and skill about what it is they do, dropping out is merely the path of least resistance.

For the 'regulars,' the ideal should be for universities to offer the resources to students who are passionate about their field, and not saddle them with administrative barriers in the name of 'getting a degree.'
I'd recommend spelling out "Seeing Interactive" rather than using the initalism when there's no context to know what you're talking about.
I don’t see a reason to complain about it. Ignore and move on. Again, it’s not advice, it’s a neato visualization without any claim to expertise. It stands on its own.

What annoys me that this happens all the time. It’s annoying (if there is more than one comment about it) and just not relevant.
This came from one of the better known commercial decompilers. Which ones do you consider 'advanced'?
How are people using these JavaScript templating frameworks? What is the structure and flow of the application? They seem interesting but I don't yet totally grasp what benefits they provide.
The internet was supposed to facilitate telecommuting etc, yet some of the people most in the know - the yc partners - require startups to physically relocate to Silicon Valley.
I am wondering how different it would have been if Nokia went the Android way. I don't think Google would have offered the billions to Nokia though!
Show HN: My little app Owe.to
Now that my little app (http://Owe.to/) got force launched (bit.ly/ePbEb3), would love to get feedback from you all. I'm still a little embarrassed by it but I think it is time to let it out to play.
Yes, but I've also considered that I might be a total wimp. Ugh.
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Clickable: http://owe.to/
Very true. I recently inherited an application at work that has a dark corner where a past co-worker wrote a crappy, I-hope-nobody-sees-this-code prototype. While the code does produce correct results, it's very messy. Most of the people who really understood how it works have left over the years since it was built too. I've been trying to understand exactly how the application works, and it's way more effort than it should be.

The point is this: build your software right. At the very least, only take reasonable shortcuts, and make sure you come back around to fix your crappy design at some point. The longer it festers, the worse it will get.
And that's really the question as far as I'm concerned. I think the author would be unquestionably right 10 years ago. But as Universities have become more self aggrandizing in what they teach the value of that education has gone down to the point where people are now questioning whether an education is worth it at all.

I mean 10 years from now will a college education be devalued to the point of not being worth what you paid for it?

I don't know the answer to that but if I were giving the advice I'd tell students to try the startup community while attending an accredited online institution. You could spend a few hours a week doing that and have a degree in 6 years while still chasing your startup dreams.
Actually, the mess on github is hex-rays.
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It doesn't really matter what you choose, it's more important to simply get going on something. As for "finding yourself" I think being social and doing something outside your usual norms are what point you back to who you are the fastest.

> I'd ride my bike across the continent from Vancouver to Halifax (I don't own a bicycle and haven't ridden one in years)

I can recommend a long bike trip. I rode from Canada to Mexico between September and November 2010. I've been a 'cyclist' most of my life, but don't ride all that far nor often. Take it slowly and build up the miles gradually. I had never done more than a two day bike-camping trip, and met several people with zero bicycle touring and negligible general cycling experience.

I would buy a good selection of maps and, if it's feasible in the areas to be crossed, an Internet-connected device. Couch surfing would be ideal, since it keeps costs down and provides precious social interaction. Canadian camp sites are expensive.

Also, bring an iPod stocked with audio books, courses, or something else to engage your brain (I found a "This American Life" collection invaluable). Music is nice, but when you're grinding up the tenth hill of the day at 3mph, it's nice to let your legs do the work while your brain focuses on what you're listening to.

If you are genuinely interested in this and have no idea where to start, let me know. I think you could get all your touring needs together for $2,000 or less.
As a user of mustache in multiple languages, I believe the most important priority of the mustache community is to have uniform implementations, which is what the mustache spec will hopefully solve.

There are some features that do not seem to be consistent across implementations. For example, partial templates are handled differently in mustache.rb and mustache.js.

It seems like there are attempts to "embrace and extend" the mustache language (handlebars and mustache.js), which is fine, as long as the spec is adhered to and the good features get folded into the spec.
How much in the minority am I for thinking this is a good plan for Nokia?

Echoing my post in another thread, Apple received $150 million in financing from Microsoft back in 1997 in exchange for including IE on the Mac (among other partnership goodies).

If you don't recall that period of computer history (when Apple almost went bust), you may want to watch this Steve Jobs Macworld 1997 presentation discussing their joint venture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY

"Kneeling before Zod" didn't turn out too badly for Apple.
only if you choose to be.
Flagged for misleading title: article is a blogger explaining why he has deleted the Daily from his ipad, not news that Murdoch has shuttered the Daily.
I have no idea if there is a specific non-engineer that this post is talking about. The author of the referenced techcrunch article Bindu Reddy is certainly not a non-engineer : http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bindu-reddy

It also seems to me that this post is criticizing two sentences out of the entire article (http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/13/engineers-startups/)
without properly understanding them with rest of the context. All this article is saying is that due to the market warming up, now is a good time for engineers to work at a start up.

That said, I agree with the point that dbasch is trying to make even though I don't think that they needed to be presented as a 'rebuttal'.
Relax. After a month you'll be in a much better place to evaluate. You should focus solely in that month on doing little things you've been meaning to do. eg. Spending more time with friends / family. Going to see that exhibit you've been meaning to. Watching a movie you just haven't had time for.

I took time and founded a startup but it wasn't until a week ago (9 months from the start that I really found the right niche)

It sounds like your in Vancouver, I am as well let me know if you want to grab a coffee and have a more in depth discussion. Also, have you spoken to your doctor about SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)? Around Feb/March of every year is when I want to make drastic changes to my life, I've sort of chalked it up to SAD and have made a point to get outside during the sunshine more often.

The ideas that you think are crazy are probably whats going to snap you out of your funk. Think of doing something crazy as making yourself available for new ideas, opportunity and inspiration. I can tell you that if you bike from Vancouver to Halifax you're probably going to meet some very cool people doing interesting things. Those interactions will probably drive your next idea. It will flood your head with experiences and environment that few other people have. I just wouldn't start any big new projects until you've given yourself a month to evaluate in a de-stressed environment.
Yes, I do. Jack's an old friend an another one of the admins for Artifex.org.
There's also a new book out by a Wharton professor called "Getting More" which is based on a class he's taught for many years. Less theory, more practice. There are literally hundreds of negotiation anecdotes in here, from getting a child to take a shot, to getting a raise to winning a government grant. Really good stuff.
But Apple did make Microsoft Internet Explorer the default browser on the Mac, which was Microsoft's battlefield at the time.
Two words: Awesome design.
>> Science productivity is nonlinear.

Maybe you are right, if you try to do it the way the majority does it - brute-forcing and less-efficiently.

As a counter example, a friend of mine was able to graduate a Math PhD from MIT in 2.5 years, and at the same time using every vacation to the max to do mountaineering. One of his tactics is that whenever he does math, he doesn't think about anything else - this way he is not wasting the time.
Why would you do that to yourself?

Unless you have good evidence that you're worse than the average dev in the shop, tying yourself to a scale where everybody gets exactly the same pay is guaranteed to leave you underpaid.

If you're good at what you do, you can make more than somebody who's less good. It's a shame that you have to actually stand up for yourself and ask to be paid what you're worth, but that's the world we live in.

Incidentally, you're not going to be there in 15 years. If you're good (and remember, we're assuming you are), stuff will come up and you'll jump on it. There are certainly people who look for long term job security in this industry, but except in extremely rare cases, those people tend to know that they're a bit behind the curve and therefore would likely not find another job if they had to contend on the open market.
Pick up a new platform... Java tends to drain, come back ready to learn something new.

And if you aren't, get some more sun, by your comments, your body is probably wanting a shift into earlier hours? Get up early and hear the birds chirping without having to rush into an office. I think the same thing happened to me from 28-ish to 31-ish. I went back to school and finally entered the game industry and focused on less, just being good at that. Is there a field you want to get into that you haven't really tried? Just do it, start now in small goals.

Also, set some lower goals for yourself in smaller tasks and get them done quickly. Sometimes you are tied to bigger projects that make the rush of accomplishment numbed from the pain of larger projects if they are longer and less driven by smaller accomplishments/releases. Control some of these on your own.

Also, play some Red Dead Redemption or your video game of choice. They can really help reduce stress and provide escapes to clear your head after a day of work or when you need to shift to relax.
I run a small company and provide software and services to very large players in a conservative industry. We've often offered escrow, it's always been accepted happily. Hence my advice/comment.

YMMV - it will clearly depend on your industry, customer, and likelihood that there'll be a problem anyway.
There is a problem though -- most places don't let you take sabbaticals. You get a couple of weeks off for vacation and the rest of the time you are expected to be there.

So the original question still stands. Please answer that:

> I dunno, spending 8+ hours a day in a bad environment with a soul sucking team is pretty bad. How will tens of thousands of dollars make up for that?

I guess you have to always write a footnote when you discuss this and mention how you'd really need to have a place that also gives you enough time to enjoy all that extra money you'd be making.

The older I get the more I realize that time is becoming more and more expensive. At some point it qualitatively crosses beyond being arbitrarily translated into money.

Is another $30k/year worth working crazy hours in a noxious high pressure environment? When I was 20 I would have said "hell yeah", now, not so much.

Driving 2 hours every day to get to a job that pays another $10k, nope, thanks, I'll pass. I'd rather have the extra time for family or do whatever else I want to do.
It's less about the MS stack (I love the MS stack) and more about the practices, etc.
While you are at it, want to critique mine? http://ronnie.me
I was depressive and was retrenched in 2009 due to the company meeting bank demands. I ended up spending my retrenchment money travelling - I'm from Australia, and I always wanted to travel coast-to-coast across the US. I spent three months doing it, and had a total about about three crappy days. Every other day was awesome, just travelling at my own speed and exploring another country.

I was significantly reinvigorated, and I'm very much the 'sit at the computer' type of person. So yeah, I recommend travel.

Also because when else are you going to get the chance to spend some serious time travelling?
I submitted a similar App in 2009, and it was rejected for the same reasons.
Definitely working on that Internet addiction. HN is so much tougher to give up than other sites though!

One side-benefit of the absurd working hours I put in over the years was that it took away all my time and broke my obsessive gaming habit. I suffer withdrawal symptoms from time to time when I see other people having a nice time at their battlestations, but I like to think I've learned some self-control.
> the client shouldn’t even be downloading a .mustache template — it should download a .js file containing a pre-generated function which can be called with the context, returning the rendered template

This would render browser-side mustache as moot. Now the server side implementations must render javascript functions. handlebars.rb, handlebars.py, handlebars.php, handlebars.cs anybody?
And get rid of the huge sleep deficit that everyone in the western working world appears to have accumulated. 9+ hours might seem a lot, and you might feel like you're wasting time - but really it's your body trying to catch up. Let it.
All this article is saying is that due to the market warming up, now is a good time for engineers to work at a large company.

Both of these are true, so the real fact is that now is a good time to be an engineeer.
That crunchbase link says nothing about engineering, only product management. Am I missing something there?
since when is linux kernel a reference on good code?
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Here's a rap song I'm sure everyone of us here will like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdS3WVYr834
This raises the possibility of us finding out that happiness/nirvana is NP-complete, leading to the mass suicide of the entire human race. That would suck.
I'm in a similar situation. I haven't left work and can't afford to but came very close to quitting even though I had nothing else to go to, just because it was making me sick and so stressed.

I still plan to leave but now am at a point where things are more manageable so I have time to plan what I'll change my career to. Whereas 1-2yrs ago, I was feeling very low, totally tired all the time, quite depressed etc.

Here are my 2 cents and what helped me:

• Try and find a girlfriend, online dating can be useful. Failing that a female travel partner. This is a big one and made a huge difference for me. The first girl I meet was really not right for me, I mean we had nothing in common but it didn't matter. It's all experience. I regret now not taking opportunities to meet girls earlier when I could have, just because I was scared.

• Travel is good, yes your problems will be with you but you will be seriously distracted, forced to look at new things, experience new things and gain new perspectives. I personally don't think it matters where you go. If it were me, I'd go to a few different places with a rough idea but try to avoid planning too much (like me, that probably goes against your nature!).

• Give the computer a break.

• Exercise is all good and necessary but not the key in itself. Though I can reccomend surfing - I started to learn and even though I totally suck, there is something about it. The message is: if you can find a form of exercise you really enjoy, so much the better,

• Don't be afraid to party sometimes, perhaps you don't have the sort of friends to do this with right now. But if you get the opportunity to go out, have a good time and get drunk do it (occasionally).

• Meditation: yep, mindfulness. Try getting some books on Zen, Adviata or by Krishnamurti.
Anything greater than zero is more likely in my book. Most startups can't be automated, though, so are all the jobs. An automated startup equals freedom though.
UI needed work, but it was integrated fairly well with Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube and GMail.
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Very good thoughts! One promising thing about the Internet is the ability to form communities where local interest is too small or sparse. Currently these communities tend to be fairly stable and hoping to grow. But what if there were a way to facilitate ad hoc communities of people at a similar learning level, all going through a particular subject at the same time? You've given me some things to ponder. Thanks.
PG has stated in the past that certain domains with a history of poor content get punished. My guess is that youtube.com is on that list.
Show HN: See what happens when you translate a phrase through 20 languages
I made this "Translation Telephone" game as a demo for a Google APIs talk a few months ago, and people seemed to get a kick out of it, so I've fixed it up with a backend, share-ability, and statistics:
http://www.translation-telephone.com/

Try it out, you can get some amusing results.

Let me know if you have spot bugs or have any feedback. Thanks!
Thanks for reinforcing this view. I want to make sure this is one of the overarching goals, which is why I listed it in the Design Principles.

The difference between .rb and .js stems from JS lacking File.read(). But a 2.0 spec could work around that.
I agree with the poster that NOT all engineers are better off at a startup. It's not a one size fit all type of scenario
Binngle.com -- Bing search engine in Google's very own skin
Always loved Google for its layout simplicity, but lately I noticed that I somehow like Bing results a little bit better, but their GUI sux so much to me and I am used to Google layout anyways. For that reason, I quickly coded Binngle.com -- which is Bing API wrapped around Google simple layout. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
It could be that you were using a lowercase or. It has to be all caps OR.

(lowercase or just uses "or" as one of the search terms, which I think actually is considered a stop word and is then ignored.)

And I'm always a supporter of the more coffee recommendation.
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Ah. That's a shame. I should embed the video into another page and then submit that, I guess.

Thanks.
Clickable:
http://www.translation-telephone.com/

Also check out recent phrases:
http://www.translation-telephone.com/recent