skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have included such stats in my ebook. Not sure if I want to publish it so widely.
War story ahead:

1. Google.
2. The only useful result is a Google cache with a pastebin with a stack trace similar to mine.
3. Examine the pastebin stack trace.
4. Find an embedded userid.
5. Google userid, find github account.
6. Msg user via github.
7. Get response, user doesn't remember solution but remembers they got it from IRC.
8. Search IRC logs.
9. Find response with a link to a commit.
10. Apply the change locally.
11. Profit!
This is generally good advice, but redo tries to do something else: it actually tests all your shells, and picks the one that supports the features we're expecting. That way we can set a minimum baseline.

All the features in the article are tested by redo, so at least in your redo scripts, you can assume those features are available. Maybe someone can generalize the "redo-sh" feature somehow.
Did you throw ideas off the wall with the non-smokers too?
It's not about the font display it's about accessibility and usability (being able to process the text, seo, copy paste etc)
Google and StackOverflow are kinda the same step. I don't think I've ever gone to search specifically on StackOverflow, but google finds the answer there quite often.

I think this is a natural extension of the work programmers do these days. We don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out a better compression algorithm, but we sure spend a lot of time trying to figure out why some third party tool is throwing an error after upgrading some other third party tool.
whatever it was, seems to have been fixed now. I just refreshed the blank page and it all came up fine. - HTH
As long as I had smokers in my team, I used to go outside with them with a coffee. I had the fresh air without any harm to my lungs :)
I run CoderStack, a developer job board (currently UK focused) we have lots of startups advertising at the moment:

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/startup-jobs
Justice is not perceived as a service rendered to paying customers. Misbehaving policemen, prosecutors and judges have legal armors that makes it nigh-impossible to punish.
As often as possible (usually at lunch, happy hour, or while playing Street Fighter II), but we would try to avoid disturbing people at their desks unless it was urgent. Of course, there were some people who never came out to lunch or happy hour, and they probably did end up being out of the loop a little.

It kind of reminds me of what someone told me once: "If you don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, you're probably a pretty boring person."
Would be nice to see more SaaS vendors dropping true data about their API usage
I would just like to mention, that in order to really take the pain out of portable scripting, the easiest way to go is python scripts - and forget about the differences between win32, bash, csh and the rest.
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The link appears to be broken now.
This sequence helps not to:
1. Reinvent the wheel
These appears to be his apps:

https://market.android.com/developer?pub=KreCi.net

You can get rough download numbers from the stats on the right-side.
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Ask HN: How much is a utility website worth?
A friend of mine (for real :)) received an offer to buy a website he owns and he's a bit lost as to the valuation of the deal.

The site is a certain utility application in use by users all over the world. The service is free, the site requires minimum maintenance, and the sole source of income is AdSense.

100% of incoming traffic is organic, and the site is ranked 4th on Google for the site's keywords.

Raw data:
- 6K daily absolute unique visitors
- 110K monthly absolute unique visitors
- $1200 monthly revenue (AdSense)
- Google PR 6

Any thoughts on how he should approach this proposition? How this deal should be valuated?
Testimony from the victim is considered evidence in most court systems. I wouldn't expect a jury of average people, especially back then, to be aware of the cognitive biases that made the testimony so unreliable.
I wonder if it would be possible to write a chat bot that gets the StackOverflow crowd to code for it. It would keep asking questions and nagging for code examples.
Huh.

Mine is:

1. Think

2. Read the API docs again

3. Google/StackOverflow (since google usually points to SO)

4. Think

5. Give up and go play a game for a while

6. Think

7. Another reading of the API docs

8. IRC (I really hate asking other people for help, I really need to get over this problem.)

edit: formatting.
Really depends if your surrounded by coworkers who are amazing at what they do or you feel way above your team and assume it's safe just to go to Google and get the answer rather than whatever a coworker comes up with or thinks is the right way of doing things.
DNA evidence should not be used as the sole basis for a conviction. From what I gather, DNA collection and processing is still done on an ad-hoc basis, with no standards and auditing.
I used to do that when I was in the Navy (I didn't smoke at the time). I was working nights in the server room on an aircraft carrier and didn't get to see the sun much.

It wasn't exactly encouraged to take random breaks all the time for no reason, and you can't go up on the flight deck during flight ops, so at the end of each shift I would go out to the smoke deck with my friends to look at the water and get some sunlight.
In my experience, for team of good programmers working hard on some problem/idea smoke breaks are incredibleproductivity boost. When we had actual office and were mostly working from there, even some non-smokers regularly accompanied us to smoke breaks because that was perfect opportunity for informal chat about work.

On the other hand I have seen teams that don't talk shop on smoke breaks. It seems to me that this can be effectively used as measure of team's proffesionality and motivation
Unfortunately second hand smoke is just as bad as first hand smoke.
Managers often have to sit in a configuration that keeps their monitor away from prying eyes. Just scanning my inbox headers when I was managing would have shown things that were sensitive (HR, like disciplinary action or re-orgs, and legal, mainly related to acquisitions), and just forget about during review season when I had to fill in feedback, raise, and bonus numbers.
I disagree - school is an excellent place to learn skills, especially if you do sciencey stuff. It teaches you how to question things fairly and appropriately, and how to do and dissect research.

When I left tertiary education we were all sitting around doing the trendy thing and bemoaning how university had been worthless; we couldn't remember any facts. Then it dawned on us that we got insights into industry, learned how to communicate professionally, learned how to find the truth or the most truthful path, how to research, how to critique work, learned how to better collaborate with others, gained a small measure of self-direction (tertiary is the first level of education where it's up to you to show up), tastes of politicking and how to survive it, professional ethics, so on and so forth. Occupational skills were learned in addition to all of those. Part of the above meshes with culture, but they're all tangible if non-obvious skills. If you want someone to do a root-cause analysis, you're not going to turn to the dropout unless he's talented and a passionate self-driven learner. Most folks are not this.

As always GIGO, but you learn a hell of a lot of skills in tertiary education, they're just not all in 14-point font on your syllabus.
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Well, since I'm french, it was easier. There is a new status called 'autoentrepreneur' and it makes it quite easy for people to start a business (very little tax as long as you don't make more than 80000 euros a year, don't have employees etc).
For css -webkit-font-smoothing you may try between "antialiased" and "subpixel-antialiased", then there is css text-rendering: optimizeLegibility.

Also you should notice a bug in Safari for OS X that turns off antialiasing: http://seanmcb.com/typekit/webkit-antialiasing-test.html

Google has free webfonts that are already prepared for including in different browsers, you may consider them: http://www.google.com/webfonts, also there is http://www.kernest.com/.

FontSquirrel was already mentioned in this thread.
At Sampsonia way in Pittsburgh, they staged a bunch of interesting scenes - fun stuff! http://www.streetwithaview.com/
I'm always amazed by how many people claim to have learned so little in college. It's not that I don't believe them; I just had the complete opposite experience. Perhaps I'm just slower than most here, but I studied science and engineering in school and it was HARD. It took so much effort, but I learned a ton. I'm a programmer these days, but most of my analysis skills come from the education I got in college and grad school. I've learned a lot since then of course (especially about how to design code), but I attribute most of my (modest) successes to my education.
The simplest way to keep your customers on the same page during the project
Right... deliverability... getting emails to your users can be maddening or it could be cheap to do it through MailChimp or other alternatives. I wouldn't even think of running my own mailserver these days. But that fits my own specific situation and probably fits most others.
No, you don't get to call something propaganda just because you disagree with it. Plenty of people can come up with proof for all sorts of points of view, I don't think you're special here.

Edit: The other side can say the same thing, and now you're stuck with two ends who call each other propagandists and thus refuse to take each other seriously, which is a stalemate. What good does that do anybody?
kreci, wanted to thank you for sharing your income with us; it helps everyone else figure out what they are doing right/wrong or at least have a point of reference.

You mix the income reports with self-promotion just right so you get visibility to the things you want to promote (ebook) and give us visibility into the things we are interested in (income).

Also had no idea iStockPhoto brought in any money at all... interesting!
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Nothing about his description really does it for me except the prospect of being able to play Skyrim on my work machine when it comes out.

I don't like open spaces, but being all alone in an office seems pretty horrible as well: Wouldn't you rather work from home, then? Ah, you say, but then people can't knock on your door to ask questions. Which, again, seems like it's making things worse, I don't want to sit in a closet waiting for people to knock on my door...

Around here we work on laptops, coding questions are handled via irc, most of the devs (not that many, <10 total) share a room but there's plenty of space for going elsewhere to get privacy when the hack is strong.

edit: laptops with monitor/keyboard at workstations, that is. I don't want to imply that everyone is hunched over a laptop all the time.
An aggregator for aggregators?

Looks nice and solid, but where's the added value?
For non smokers, you can always try drinking large volumes of water, the frequent bathroom & refill breaks can help replace smoke break time.
I used to do large amounts of programming on paper while commuting or waiting somewhere, but in retrospect I threw most results of that away and did in completely different manner when I got to computer. (for example, I wrote most of the macros in dfsch's standard library into my notebook in interpreted code, only to rewrite them in C when I started to actually implement that). But even in that case, programming without computer caused actual boost of my productivity. Unfortunately now I don't have much opportunity to do that and you inspire me to try to somehow make time for that again.
A lot of us New Yorkers use the Freelancers Union for health insurance. It solved this exact problem for me. They're more of a service platform for independent workers than a union. They've got health, dental and 401k plans.

http://www.freelancersunion.org/
What $480M of Gross Revenue Looks Like to Groupon
I guess remote-jobs.com petered out?
thanks for the feedback, it helps a lot! You're right on point 1 and 2, point 2 it's because I used a template from themeforest. This is a MVP and in a second iteration I intend to redesign the site, with less clutter.

Very good point about the "templates" not being what they want, but on the other hand people are looking for "gift certificate templates" on google quite a lot (that's still a small niche of course). Also people might want to give gift certificates, not sell them.

Concerning the fraud prevention, I indeed didn't do anything specifically for it. For now I assume people can add a tracking number (manually) on the front or back. I don't know how much of a deal breaker that is. Maybe people would like a bar code, or serial numbers, or...
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There are some interesting technical details (including an answer to the ECC question) in the Stanford EE380 video: http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=100...
In my experience, some webfonts look okay at smaller sizes but most of them don't.

Typekit shows browser samples that you can break down by OS as well. ie. http://typekit.com/fonts/adelle-web click on the 'Browser Samples' tab

Look what happens when you change the h1 on custora.com from 50px just up to 51px on Chrome [Win 7]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4129016/50-51.png (it looks a lot better)
I like the ability to have local variables though, which isn't in the POSIX standard. However, the Debian Policy Manual does state that any /bin/sh shell should be posix-compliant and support local variables (along with a couple of other minor extensions). This means I'm fairly comfortable using them despite their absence from the standard. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scri...
Shell script to convert ​font-face fonts on any OS
Work from home is my choice. Privacy, Noiseless space, No Interruptions(Except for kids!), Work at my convenient time and pace etc.
The risk there is that it can take a lot of effort to productize an internal tool. You need to polish it so people think it's worthwhile paying for (good design, integrations, etc.), harden it against security concerns, and so on.
Other analysts and companies in the space agree, saying that Palantir’s revenues were probably around $25 million to $50 million last year...the market for “situational awareness tools” like Palantir’s is in the tens of millions of dollars...

But Karp says that he sees a “clear path” to $1 billion in revenue within the next five years. How close is he to that? Palantir’s 2010 revenue was “significantly north of $80 million”, said a highly reputable source...

Still $80 million or so is a long way from $1 billion. A lot will depend on how Palantir expands beyond its cyber-security niche...Palantir has already been able to line up a number of other top banks and hedge funds...

[edited for specifics]

Depending on who is right here, analysts or "undisclosed source", it makes me think that this whole business of supplying tools to the government is not where they are going to make their fortune. A look at their web page seems to indicate they sell 2 different products, one aimed at the government and one aimed at finance. The government product may be close to saturating the market unless they start to penetrate law enforcement more (there are a lot of police). Their single deal with JPMorgan is worth something like 20% of their revenue (depending on how you figure it).

With 330 employees they have to make just south of $70mil/year. If the analysts are right, they're losing money. If "undisclosed source" is right, they're just making money. My guess is that the analyst figure doesn't include the JPMorgan deal. My bigger guess is that a lot depends on how quickly they can distance themselves from their sketchiness of the last 12 months.

Either way...

"Still $80 million or so is a long way from $1 billion."

I'd say $1billion is a long way to go from Facebook or Google money.
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I applied there a few days ago, I feel extremely qualified for the position but all I got was a "sorry, you were rejected" form email. Not the best experience, sadly.
Go to Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and you will feel very different about this. CMU SCS students must take a number of very challenging classes, including 15-251 "Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science," which really means "Hard Discrete Math." Additionally, many of the courses, such as 15-213 (Computer Systems) and 15-410 (Operating System Design and Implementation) have great practical utility for budding software engineers. In 15-410 you write an operating system kernel and threading library from scratch. If nothing else, the debugging skills learned are of great utility.
I think, honestly, that this is a reasonably efficient workflow. Googling takes the place of 'ask a coworker' in situations where that's not possible.

Really, why spend 10 minutes noodling around trying to solve the problem via manuals/thinking, when you might get an answer in 30 seconds otherwise?

IMO, this post has a bit of "Get off my lawn" to it.

I've always encouraged the people I mentor to ask questions of people who may know before spending lots of time on a problem. You get the same level of learning, you get the same realizations, the only thing you skip is your wasted time.
Based on decades working in the US, don't purchase a house unless you are retiring into it or can switch jobs without moving. Losing (or changing) a job that forces selling a house is a great way to lose money, as they usually come during down times.
CPU speed doesn't concern me, as memory access/front-side bus tends to be the bottleneck in the applications I'm interested in. But non-EEC is a problem. Intel intentionally crippled Atom to not cannibalize its server business. I think a similar platform but with Arm Cortex-A15 would be even more interesting.

RAM is the new disk.
Good idea, I think it introduces less skew than counting PyPI downloads as many people currently do.
Interesting audience--is there a magazine you know of that aims at the opposite demographic? (I'll take a 1979 Port Ellen and a Casio G-shock any day).
It's not March yet. I think a lot of people wait until the first of the month to read and post to these type of threads so jumping the gun might limit the reach.
Mine is something like this (Where my goal is to get the answer as fast as I can) :

1. Think quickly
2. Search google the fastest possible way (Even if keywords are pretty bad)
3. Search google with the best possible keywords I know
4. With help of results from 3 (In forum/etc.), Research google with new keywords that will improve results
5. Do step 3-4 until I see I can't improve anymore
6. Go directly talking to the best who will know about it. (Which is usually IRC or GitHub issues, etc.)

For most non-trivial problems, I spend times in 1-5. But for lots of problem (like configuring stuff in Linux), I spend lots of time in 2-5. For really rare stuff, I would go up to 6 (Which usually means I found a bug in the library and I'd send a patch).

I'm a bit ashamed by this.. but, I think I spend too much time in 3-5.. after a couple minutes, I think I should just RTFM and figure it out.. but I kind of become crazy and just search search search search until I get the answer I want. Only then, when I have a 90% correct solution, will I read the manual to extrapolate on this. But hey, that's my way.. :)
I've worked in all and can safely say that open plan is the worst by far. I think it would depend on the environment and some open plans may work well. Ours is typical open with only the directors having offices. Having any kind of discussion is difficult as people but in with different work, walk over and start talking about last nights telly and at the same time any sort of atmosphere seems to be brought crashing down by the few people who hate noise. It is a very restraining way to work compared to shared (1-3 devs) private offices. Home working can be good as I often start around 6-7 with no distractions and spli work through the day so I see kids and still get more done than in the office. I can also catch up on a night if I need to.
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This idea that the french canadian accent is cajun is a myth, bordering on preposterous. It's actually based on pre Napoleonic "Royal Court French:"

http://www.republiquelibre.org/cousture/FRANC2.HTM

Sure, maybe two farmers from rural areas of each country won't understand each other, or a second language speaker who speaks in one accent won't understand the other, but otherwise it's simply pretentiousness.
I have to say this was one of the worst/most confusing analogies I've read in a tech article:

"But those customers got tired of using the computing equivalent of a space shuttle to go shopping at the grocery store."

Uhh, doesn't the space shuttle run 386's?
gets a good understanding of the problem

I'm skeptical that sites like SO or Quora foster understanding in in all but the rarest of instances.
I do most of my programming in open space (lobby of my dorm), which I use defacto; my roommate is an incredibly light sleeper, and I like to program late into the night (I'm currently in the process of getting another roommate).

It also helps that we have large whiteboards in every lobby. The people who come back at 2-3 AM see that I've written a lot of code on the whiteboards.
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Are there any remote intern positions?
Sometimes you can tell. I'm very glad I went to university for my undergraduate, and very glad I dropped out of my PhD. My career has been in fits and starts and I've been poor most of my life, but in my PhD I was doing a subject I wasn't interested in and I could see my career path ahead of me - disinterested, unmotivated post-doc, academic politicking with the sharks, no real-world experience with a doctorate in something that was rather tenuous and not useful, trying to hide this fact from future academic employment. Interestingly my first year in industry after dropping out gave me the experience that my topic would have ended in a null finding. The direction of the PhD was such that there weren't many doors opened by it, but once you have a doctorate you're overqualified for just about everything outside the doctorate's field - which sucks if you're not an entrepreneur (like me).

The important thing is to discern the people who say 'best thing I did' and actually mean it with the benefit of self-reflection versus the people who use it as a defence for copping out and not doing the hard yards.
Your claim was that Amazon, by working on features higher on the stack, is unable to work on improving lower performance. You need to prove that there is a lack of engineering resources at Amazon to work on both tasks at once.
So, what do we reckon? Yeti? lol
http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2634959651/1/tumblr_lenaaq6CJv1...
I set the body text to DroidSerifRegular on IE7 for Win and it looks fine:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4129016/droidserif-ie7-vs-chrome.png

Also, it looks like the bottom of the "g"'s and possibly some other characters are getting cut off. It's fixed by adjusting the font-size.
I completely agree. I wrote and deployed a project to Djangy on Saturday, in large part to try out my beta account. It was a simple app, but deploying to Djangy's cloud was trivial. (I think I spent more time figuring out GoDaddy's domain control panel than setting up Djangy.) It's sad to see such a promising service go away.

I wish you guys the best in whatever it is you choose to pursue next.
Jonathan Ive wants to move back to the UK?