skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One quick suggestion, for Step 1 - use IP to geolocation and show visitor's country by default. Can improve the UX just a bit. :-)

I'd call it extremely well thought-out (even if not fully implemented yet) and way too cool! (I noticed some fine mod rewrite work there - super cool.)

With travel sector being one of the largest money spinners online, I'd say just floor the gas pedal on this, like now - I can already see the major (and not-so-major) online travel booking portals scrambling to license this from you.

ps. Give a serious thought to patenting this, urgently.
The economy needs to grow, consequently developers are always going to feel pressure to make new products and improve current products. The question I have is, is it better to make products that empower antiquated markets (anything to do with a fax machine) or develop for new markets (skype) or invent your own market (?).
GWT has to be the weirdest project ever. Imagine you were forced to work as a LISP programmer, and out of desperation you would write a compiler that compiles Java to LISP, so that you could continue coding in Java. It's almost like that.
He's not really talking about current vs. next, but what I made vs. what users want, which is probably the number one problem for makers.
Agony is when you get stuck for 14 hours in a stopover on a journey with 4 legs instead of no or 1 stopover.

I had 9 hours in Taipei once and couldn't leave the airport. So insanely boring.
Right, we can list a dozen or two Windows products that were possibly competed with unfairly by MS. Over a period of 20 years.

The vast majority of MS Windows software products fail for reasons other than the platform vendor screwing them over intentionally. MS has known from the beginning that the success of Windows was primarily dependent on ISVs developing for it.

The XBox and MS Phone stuff seem like different things entirely. XBox is specifically not intended to be a general-purpose application platform. I can't imagine the MS Phone will ever require more than a free download SDK to develop for it, although this "marketplace" is likely to be a more reviewed ecosystem.

especially if you have an open source license for your app that MS doesn't like

It's not a question of MS not liking it. GPL, especially v3, is designed specifically to prevent binary-only app distribution which is the app store business model.
Having just finished my annual re-reading of Peopleware, I'm gonna pick up a copy of this book to see how it compares in its conclusions on the topics covered in both books.
This is pretty much all I carry on a daily basis. I hate having things in my pocket, so the abundance of smartphones (and specifically Android due to it's functionality) has made me a very happy geek. No more notebook, no more diary/calendar, no more anything. Just Android + gtasks + a few other apps.
Plugging the gaps in WordPress security.
Building a Facebook Application with Sinatra
Nitpick: It's "GitHub", not "Github". Also note the date: 20 Oct 2009.
I really like this. Do you have the ability to bring smaller destinations in to the mix as well? (E.g., Moab, Aspen, Zacatecas, Mendoza, etc.)

I agree that there are too many questions. Ideally, I'd like one page of questions, with options to "refine" once I see the results. I think that having shorter questions with standard answers (e.g., "must"/"nice to have"/"don't care"/"don't want") would make it easier to quickly go through.
In my experience the spare laptop + Boxee + Netflix experience has been awful and I instead just go the spare laptop + Netflix through the browser route. If the D-Link hardware Netflix experience is as responsive as the browser experience, I'm sold.
>What i don't understand is that you keep saying he was not motivated by self gain... people do things for their own satisfaction...

That's a different kind of self gain than the one I was talking about. There is no need to point out/talk about the one you mention - every action anyone does is/can be argued for self satisfaction/gain of some sort - since everyone does it already. Yes I agree with that one. However, the gain I'm talking about is taking away a physical object away from someone else for the sake of gaining possession of it. Again, this is not what motivated the kid to break in and obtain a copy of the source code. However this type of gain is exactly what motivated the guy from Roosevelt's story. My original reply was trying to point out this difference.

>...you cannot recognise the significance of actions beyond their physical consequences.

Yes I can. Not only I can, I am also making a distinction between the actions with obvious physical consequences and the actions with less/no obvious physical consequences. It is you who insist on generalizing the two into the same thing and cannot see the (somewhat subtle) difference.

>The only way he could fail to be aware of the negative repercussions is if he accidentally took the source code and thought it was something else. He clearly did know what the code was, its value and why it was protected...

I beg to differ. That is just one extreme way. It is definitely not the only way he could have failed to be aware of the negative ramification. This is where evaluating his intentions/motivations is helpful. He loves the Valve company. He wants to play this game that he's been waiting for 4 years to ship. But the game keeps on getting delayed. He wants know the progress of the game's development. So then he decides looking at the source code is a good way to achieve this. I think it's very reasonable to argue that, "Had he known that by doing what he did would only further delay the game he wants to play and cause his heroes a lot of trouble, he would not have done it." The ramifications in this case is not as nearly as straight forward compared to breaking into a factory for the sake of gaining possession of the factory's secret plans. I really hope you can see this difference.

>so i don't see how what he did was any different from someone breaking into a factory and stealing secret plans

I think I've already done the best I can to explain to you the differences. If you still cannot see it then you are just going to have to figure this one out on your own/with someone else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dichotomy
That might be a good place to start. I notice coders often tend to engage in this kind of over generalization/all or nothing thinking.
One thing I'm considering is either solr facets or a structured auto-completion like soulmate [1].

What's your opinion on the later ?

[1] http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/announcing-soulmate-a-redis-bac...
I'm a big fan of Building Scalable Web Sites - it's a bit old now (it predates cloud-computing-for-everything) but still very relevant if you're just starting to learn about this stuff. It's basically everything the author learned scaling Flickr from a tiny site to several hundred million photos.
For all those who downvoted this how do you 100% 'solve' spam?
I think they're telling you to find a new place to work.
I'd probably call it a logarithmic function where dying is a problem in more than just a "boundary value" sort of a way ;)
Lawyers Using Facebook Research For Jury Selection
Was there anything you did as far as negotiating the salary at the new job or did they offer you that much straight up?
when you figure that out, let me know. I have only been able to get partial work from home here in Houston, and that is usually given grudgingly and to your detriment to follow rigorously.
That's good to know. From the article, it sounded like hashbang URLs were the default/preferred method of handling navigation.
I live in Mountain View, and the only thing I think this is missing is the outdoor activities that living in the bay offers. If you enjoy hiking checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_Creek_Reservoir You'll be able to see PA to SJ when you get up high enough.

If you dirtbike, check out met-caf or make the trek to Hollister. Totally worth it.
How Many Investors Is Too Many?
If you have nothing to hide then why encrypt what your doing, but honestly anything you do can be possibly misconstrued in some way and you never know what can come bite you in the butt later on.

"The FBI knows that most services are not going to be using full end-to-end encryption, and as such, there is not much to be gained by fighting a public battle over encryption backdoors."

Either way, I rather have the FBI have to get a subpoena in order to get the non encrypted data sitting on a hard drive on the other end then to easily be able to listen in on what im doing just becaue they "suspect" that something might be going on.

It allows me and the people to haver their right to privacy.
They can sell other places, but not promote those other places within the app.

They could offer their subscription on their web site and collect 100%. Their app would then be required to offer the same subscription deal as an in-app purchase for the same-or-lower price, and then they would collect 70%. The app could not refer users to their web site for purchases.
Assuming they did that, I'd imagine a scarily large percentage of those emails went unread.
Faustian bargain.

From the original article:

"Often juries offer opinionated people like that the perfect opportunity to wield their influence,"

Exactly.
Anyone else notice the first comment on the blog?

I think the counterpoint is an interesting one: SF is an expensive place to live, and I've never been a fan of California's politics (an opinion, obviously). Meanwhile, Texas is a beautiful state with millions of people, half a dozen top notch universities, relatively low taxes and a definitively cheaper cost of living (outside of Austin proper).

I'm sure SF is nice, and I've love to visit... but there are more places to work than just there. I also find it interesting that geography plays such an important part in the startup culture when we're all sitting infront of multi-megabyte connections capable of HD video and chat.
I love that they list participation in 4chan as a plus, under "participation in the social web" (http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qw49Vfwo&...).
Thanks!

On the synopsis: well in some (too frequent) cases, the synopsis was just several pages long, so the related books and quotes were really, really hidden.

I need to find a better middle ground.

But in all cases, thanks for your critics, it will only help me make the site better.
Parents go through this phase when their kids are 0-5 where they are already aggravated and think complaining about toys/diapers/preschool/food is interesting and funny. Other parents in the same situation might find it interesting, I know I did. I also know my kids liked certain toys but not others when they were little but they always preferred pots and pans and cardboard boxes to their toys, which quickly got sent to Goodwill.

Then, when your kids start to think for themselves it's amazing how quickly they figure out whether something is lame or awesome. And it's not at all obvious to me where my daughters draw the line. They think Justin Bieber is lame and Lady Gaga is awesome (no big surprise there) but they also think Doc & Merle Watson playing "Twin Sisters" is awesome.
Another insightful text about the software process used to create the Space shuttle software systems: http://www.sinz.org/Michael.Sinz/Software.html
"Singapore"

... has a price- and service-controlled market, set not by the healthcare industry but by the Singaporean government (you know, the guys that cane graffiti artists and banned gum-chewing?) They also provide government subsidies to citizens as well as permanent residents (though not as much) for their compulsory Medisave program. So, their invisible hand is very visible and it's called "their government regulates or pays for alot of their care".
Not really, a simple "No." in response to this question isn't negative.
This was years ago but I mention it since the demand for developers was similar.

I was going from a really low-paid games job to doing application programming for a large startup. Game programming tends to have even more depressed starting salaries than usual, although this was back when everyone was still salaried.

My former boss actually predicted that I "could make twice as much somewhere else" when I left, and the new employer in fact offered that straight up.
I am all for services that help us find plane tickets in a lower price bucket, but how exactly is this different from ITA's new matrix interface and OnTheFly app? I guess understanding how you position yourself differently from ITA will help.
Two metrics of interest here- a) when is the rate of new submissions lowest; and b) when is rate of visitors highest. There is probably some correlation there, but due to submission rates throughout the day, the sweet spot you're looking for might not be exactly at the peak of web traffic.
BoxCryptor: Easy On-the-fly Dropbox Encryption
Down? I'd love to check it out, but I'm getting a "We're sorry, but something went wrong." message every time.
So....who else held out on the first generation and is planning on buying? I'm in.
Yes, but come on - they can detect when you read the email and send you a few more, perhaps with differing titles and such.

That just seems like such a crappy way for them to go about it. 3 months to get everything off? I'd have suggested 6, with a concerted campaign to contact people aggressively - perhaps even reach out to geek networks like HN to help get the word out, instead of a non-alt graphic on their site only.
I'm curious to see how right the rumours are about the new design. From the case designs which have leaked, the iPad 2 is significantly thinner, with two cameras. I'm also expecting a dual core CPU and 1gb RAM, dual cameras, but no "retina display".

If it really is as thin as rumoured I'm impressed.
EU based jobs would be highly appreciated.
I didn't say he never disagrees with Apple. I said that he frequently does agree with them and that he often goes to absurd extents to justify positions that seem contrary to common sense. I said that he used tortured logic to arrive at these positions, and that he can be counted on reliably to agree with Apple.

Glenn Beck occasionally disagrees with the Republicans too but I bet I know how he'll vote in most elections.
Wow, didn't know you guys had a dev blog. Awesome!
This is an anticipated -- but still interesting -- move from Amazon, especially given RedBox's anticipated challenge to Netflix as well.

Obviously, Amazon has the resources and connections to push out to a larger audience immediately and I'd be surprised to see them "lose" given the leverage of the deal -- Amazon is offering this VOD-service on top of Amazon Prime, so customers are getting more value.

The coming months will tell if the cost will eventually be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher Amazon Prime fees or by branching the VOD service into something new and independent.
The picture isn't actually for the March 2nd event.
Unless it doesn't impress...thinking seriously about it.
The Age of Curation
NASA Winner: 25 lb, 7 inch, MYT engine 200 hp at 150 mpg
The Surprisingly Easy Way the Gov't Could Implement an Online Identity System
I don't considering that photo is of an invitation from a past event, "The image above is from one of my favorite previous save-the-dates."
I don't think that's right about calls- I regularly call people I know are invisible on Skype and it rings. If they are offline, it says so (almost) immediately, with no ringing.
The first gen ipad produced an amazing increase in my productivity. Topping the first gen will be a feat.
ExtJS 4 Models running on NodeJS server
Is Zoho Projects scalable to larger enterprises? full review
I'm pretty sure it was http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/

I'm embarrassed that I don't remember for sure. I was mostly guided about by my friends that trip.
So this means there is a business opportunity for another social networking site that can both offer pseudonyms as well as deal with the problems you mention (which btw, are not exactly solved by Facebook's policy, though they are discouraged).

I agree Facebook is unlikely to ever rescind their "real name" policy.
I've been using http://tablib.org/ for awhile now to read in tabular data. With this summary fn and a few other functions to simplify the process of aggregating data into useful views I think you've got a winning solution to the author's complaint.
“A community for programmers, designers, and IT professionals to share their work, get feedback, post links and learn.” Ok, it will be obvious that it is a community, and the work they share will for the most part be in link form, and the whole idea is to get feedback when you share Seems really to be ~ "for geeks with links, to share & learn"
What's your auto insurance company?
There's not really anything the FBI could've done in this case. Nowadays all you have to do is be able to use Google - you can find complete guides on how to set up encrypted hard drives, email servers, etc. Stopping a semi-intelligent criminal from doing so would be very difficult.
Hackers & Founders NYC Meetup #19, 2/24
Companies are having a tough time getting comfortable with remote developers.

Perhaps you could email a few Austin startups, tell them specifically what you'd like to help them with, ask to work remotely, and offer to visit their office once per month or quarter.

Austin has a growing startup/tech scene, and they're having a bit of trouble finding developers to fill the demand, so they may be willing to be more flexible.
Behind the scenes of a big site's redesign process (Thrillist)
To clarify, I have been approved for private insurance at different times (three times actually) over roughly twelve years with intermittent times of receiving benefits from employers - I have worked off and on as an independent contractor during that time.
I've been working remotely for 5 years doing all sorts of web development. The two things that have helped the the most are:

1) Open source contributions.

2) Personal projects.

I still haven't made any money from any of those but putting them in the emails I send to offers found on the different job boards have always put me ahead in the line of people applying.

If you're desperate for money you can always go to sites like oDesk and applying for stuff there. You'll have to accept $15-$30 per hour (or even lower when starting) but once you get a good reputation you can make a decent salary out of that.

Finally, write me to federico@toptal.com if you have a semi-decent Github profile and I'm sure we can reach an arrangement!
Some of the shows listed in the TV directory (Comedy Central shows, for example) load it in a browser, and you have to manually maneuver a cursor to the fullscreen button. One of the Apps on the box is a simple web browser, that would allow you to navigate anywhere.

That said, Boxee has small handful of shows/networks that automatically switch to fullscreen for you – but those seem few and far between.
Torn between the iPad 2 and the Honeycombs, but definitely getting something this round.
All hockey sticks are.
The first iPad was a big iPhone 3, so this one will be a big iPhone 4. iPad 3 will be a big iPhone 5. Why mess with a successful model?
Somewhere in Cupertino yesterday...

"Tim? Hey, problem. Bloomberg just put some nonsense out about slipping dates. Getting traction."

"Ok. Get Mossberg on the phone."
I've just added an EU-based job, thanks to a coupon from Evan:

http://remote-jobs.com/jobs/30_Drupal_developer
RuPy 11 (Python & Ruby) : Strongly Dynamic Conference
Only if both ends are considered the same or outside of flatland.
Right, but we're talking about innovation, not sociological issues, and I'm not ashamed to be given the opportunity to be on the forefront of that.

The best way for me, as an entrepreneur, to help those less fortunate is to make more money so I can build greater things, and that's at the core of the innovation we're seeing here.
If I do have to communicate bad news over email I generally use a neutral subject line and introduce the topic within the email. My reasoning for this is:
1. There is less chance of missunderstanding.
2. Gives me time to phrase the news in a manner that is less abrupt than would be available in the subject line.
3. I get to frame the news in the manner I desire rather than the recipiant framing the news after an emotional reaction to a subject line.

BUT, I have to agree that bad news should never be delivered via email.
Don't be silly. It's reasonable to plan for disaster scenarios, especially in this case where it's something important, and the probability of disaster is unknown. Do you look both ways across the street, even if you have the walk sign?
You're lucky to have QA people who know C++, I've never met one. Maybe I've been in too many web-oriented startups.
Yes it does. It also can handle ISOs (DVD & BluRay).
I held out. As much as I like dead tree CS books, lugging relevant ones around has become too much of a pain. Add to that the awesome offer from O'Reilly for $5 ebook versions of books you already own, and the ipad becomes irresistible to me.

I've just been holding out for a lighter version. I think the original ipad is just a bit too heavy.
Funny - I had the reverse opinion (having used resque etc) :)
That's the most awesome title I've ever tried to read. What does it mean?
Ok! Now, make the website fast! I use GitHub for my documentation(wiki) and issue/bug tracker, and it takes ages to load those pages. I wanted to complain about it.. wrote a long feedback message, and it took 2mins to post it and then I saw the error GitHub page. How ironic.. The feedback system is too slow to post my feedback about the site being slow.

But, to be fair, it's not always like that. I guess that they had lots of trouble on our server recently and we've just been badlucky.
Yes, incriminate math, that's the way forward.
CoffeeScript + Processing.js == Crazy Delicious
I was confused by this: "The output from the program contains these two lines: APPLY OPERATOR AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1959
THE TIME IS NOW 2/16 1139.5"

It made it sound like the program outputs those 2 lines, which would win any C obfuscation contest.
WSJ Bigotry, Lies and Abuse of Power or a "Range Fiasco"?
You're right about training costs for college graduates. Another thing to consider which isn't directly mentioned in the post is training across a (programming) language difference. If someone is a C# developer and wants to join a company that uses Ruby or Scala, they might be willing to take a pay cut to get experience with new technologies.
I'm in the same boat you are. I love my android phone because I use google apps for my business and gmail for my personal - but I wasn't overly impressed when I played with the Xoom. I love the new format for Google Talk, Gmail and Maps, but the screen quality seemed not as stunning as the original iPad. I'm waiting myself to see the iPad 2, but I will be getting something this time around as well.
The autocomplete is fancy, but it involves: a) typing; b) spelling; and c) using the arrow keys and the enter key. Facets will let you get to the same place in a few clicks. You can always do both, though.
Square Drops Per Transaction Fee
Great! Bonus points for generating a custom feed for a saved search (not much of an issue until you have tons of jobs).
I don't know what to think of Singleton being a trendy idea. Then again, I guess screwdrivers were a trendy idea once. (The hardware thing, not the drink, though it applies there as well.)
A link to a slashdot post about an article is likely NOT HN material.
Thanks for the insight! I agree completely - the only reason I ever did free work for them was because they were literally my first customer ever, and I wanted to keep them happy.
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