skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that I don't see that happening but it's always from people I don't know and never talked to in real life or on the internet.

I have this strong feeling it's a loud minority. It's the same with real bullying, the bullies think they behave normal but the majority think they are bullies.

edit: changed majority to minority:)
Digg's gets a new VP of Engineering, Ben Folk-Williams
It's not as good! You can get it from the original formula easily, but not vice versa.
NX is Free Software (previous releases were under the GPL). It's widely used at Google (they implemented their own NX server: http://code.google.com/p/neatx/).

Why are you wasting time posting on HN about how you're too lazy to evaluate technology solutions properly?
It strikes me as more analogous to using j = sqrt(-1) so that it doesn't conflict with current: it works fine, but you're never going to get everyone to do it because people want the papers to stay consistent.

Actually, in this case, there's a particular discipline that's especially inconvenienced (physicists, due to the torque conflict). Contrast with j: there's a particular discipline that benefits, and they use j=sqrt(-1) all the time.
This line in the last paragraph sums it up:

"Stop reveling in the misfortune of others."
I guess this is material for Microsoft haters? That's about the only actual technical information I could see other than "here are the stats" and "we screwed something up" ... Well, glad they fixed whatever it was!
Oh, that was not what I meant to say. My point was just that, because skype and its protocol are closed, Linux users are stuck with their horrible implementation. If it was open, there would at least be the possibility of a compatible, decent alternative being developed.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Thanks!

I've gotten a fair bit of negative feedback on the homepage and am looking to re-do that completely soon. We'll work to add Twitter auth soon, and maybe Google soon after.

I would have changed it before submitting to HackerNews, but was afraid of never submitting. This is great encouragement, thanks.
VPN support must be drastically updated. I have to have my machine dual boot windows so I can log into my company's VPN using Cisco AnyConnect. I would love for Ubuntu to solve this so I no longer need Windows. Ever.
"where the majority of the wealth has been held almost exclusively by a homogenous segment of the population who have used this wealth and influence to socially and economically stigmatize the other groups to isolate them while profiting at their expense"

What about the vast majority of the wealthy that have earned their money through hard-work and success? Are they somehow doing everyone less fortunate than them a disservice solely because they have wealth?

I also don't see how Japan is any different. There are just as many wealthy people in Japan as there is in the US.

"This has led to a perpetual stimulation of racial, ethnic and economic strife which when given the chance to manifest itself unpunished, will do so and on a large scale."

It's because some cultures continue to spawn uneducated people that decide to loot and steal when they think they can get away with it. Look at the culture in Japan: Most families, even when they are poor, are educated and instill that education in their kids.

Another problem is broken households. Having kids at 16 years old with no father around is only going to decrease the chances of your kids success (and your own).
Amen. It's hard to relate to the author when he starts off like this:

That last story just arrived in February. You probably already know that since I'm sure one of your friends "liked" it or tweeted it #assjokes.
OK, but there are degrees of subtlety though. A casual fan might see someone score 40 points in a basketball game and say "wow, he must be a great player" while a hardcore fan might chime in and say "actually he's way overrated. He's a poor defender, way too selfish and lazy in rebounding." but the fact remains, if you score 40 points a game in basketball, you are at least a 'good' player at your level. I can say that categorically. Can we say "If you X, you must be a good programmer."?
That comment:

"The problem is that when people start mouthing off about factual issues they don't know anything about they can cause a lot of damage, so crushing them is often a necessity."

Is exactly the type of thing that comes from the hive mind, and is why it's impossible to be a dissenter. It's usually "you don't know what you are talking about," followed by bashing until the person takes their ball and goes home.
How often do people actually make this error? I make all sorts of errors of that class when doing math by hand, but I've never once been off by a factor of two because the formula calls for 2pi.
Sorry - I thought you meant

"thousands of people were killed - but one person survived, therefore a miracle, therefore praise god"
Interesting, however, I would question the quality that comes out of longer work weeks, see many previous discussions on HN.
A few well conducted, in-depth interviews with people who use the competition's product should give you enough ideas on what the market really wants. User research does have its place :)
At 25 I was a one-time college dropout, husband, and father just finishing my bachelor's in Linguistics and working for $8 per hour at a textbook typesetting company.

At 30 I am a husband and father with a master's in CS making software for Amazon. Except for mortgage and school, we are debt free.

But the big question is how you define success, which is only a couple of whys away from what the meaning of life is.

If you don't have a reliable, justifiable success metric, you can't be successful. But you can keep chasing rainbows.
Thanks for writing this Chad, well worth taking 15 minutes to read. As you said, the writing has been on the wall for the past year at least.. and I have to ask, why did you continue to bother?

To me "don't fill holes" says it all. Use Twitter data, but don't be a "Twitter company". If a one sentence description of your company includes the word Twitter, you're in the wrong business. There are many uses of the API that Twitter isn't going to touch. Is Twitter going to build a Zite like app (recently launched news/reader iPad app)? No. Is Twitter going to compete with StockTwits? Not a chance.

Ideas should center around a general need or want. Then see how Twitter, Instagram, other APIs can be used to leverage those ideas.
I think if you believe that the current trends of the tech industry are towards less original derivative content, then you would have to accept the essence of this article. The Valley is, and has been, an allegory for the tech industry. Perhaps this is the moment where that stops being true.
Video of Japan Skyscrapers Swaying With Earthquake
This is really nice -- much easier for a photographer like me to use that Kuler or the alternatives.

I have a question though: is it cool to use "All Rights Reserved" images on Flickr for something like this? Clicking through some of the photos shows that they're marked as "All Rights Reserved".

I'm asking because I made the decision to not use those on http://viewfinder.io/ based on the fact that I'm not a lawyer and prefer to err on the side of caution.

However, if it's not a legal problem to use copyrighted photos I could have much more data to play with, so I'm curious.
I think you're probably right. I think people don't necessarily associate ridiculing someone on the internet with bullying (in many cases because the target of ridicule isn't there interacting with them).
He was elected President of the United States - I'd say that should count as successful in anybody's book. The metric isn't 'effective' :)
and various dialects that people believe are C.

To be fair, the SO question specifies "using C or C++", not just C.
You've studied a cleaned-up, simplified (and likely ossified) version of economics so far. Economists analyze market power all the time, and game theory is a good suggestion. Putting it all together in macro terms is difficult, though.

I think you may be interested in the older version of economics, political economy. As I understand it, political science is all about analyzing power relationships.
Recording top web content into podcasts
My problem with this is that filters (e.g. search, tagging, ranking) give the same result without destroying information which is not, strictly speaking, noise.
I think a comprehensive discussion includes the large moral impact: causalities from tsunami. I believe the article was pretty apathetic to this matter, and the high-number of causalities may conflict with the premise that everything went as planned. You said more can always be done, but I would like to know what. I think it is pretty self-righteous to prioritize our media-distortion matters over this question. Perhaps I had poor choice of words, but I believe this does not entirely invalidate my point.
That looks to be because the jack is an AV jack, not just a simple headphone jack, where the connectors are arranged such that when you plug headphones into it they only make connection with the audio part but when you have the right cable (with a much longer connector with more segments) it would make connection with both audio and video out, but each have their own separate physical connectors.
Since we're talking about giving feedback, I think a more apt analogy is what happens when people with Honda Civics want to race.

Australian billionaire Kerry Packer was a notorious gambler. A legend about him is that at a poker tournament, he was challenged to play a high-stakes game by a Texan who bragged, "I'm worth $60 million." His response was to nonchalantly pull out a coin and ask, "Heads or tails?"
Second-year salary for early employees?
If an early employee takes a deal involving salary and equity, what is their second year's salary? Is it a repeat take on that equity, or just the salary? What if the salary was cut to increase the equity, does it revert to the non-cut state? How long does the equity take to vest? What are the standards here?
Google gets into the NoSQL Game [pdf]
Was that too simplified? Sources. Basically, soil enrichment, the "choking" of other plant vegetation if fires do not occur at intervals, etc. Its the same argument of overpopulation of deers = starvation of deers, since we've taken out the natural predators of wolves in many area's, hunting is a necessity.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q8755xw004285060/
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/46.html

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/forestfire1.html
"Forest fires can have beneficial effects. Charcoal enriches soil, and some plant species flourish in the wake of conflagrations. The cones of the jack pine tree, for instance, will not release their seeds unless exposed to intense heat. Sequoia or Douglas fir trees grow best in open sunlight areas, such as those cleared by fire.

Natural fires also remove dead wood and tangled brush. For these reasons, the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers 17% of all U.S. forest reserves, often allows fires, especially when started by lightning, to burn in carefully monitored areas."

Edit: The Parent (up deus) post stated "Nature ruins its own shit right?" not necessarily if you look at the world as an entire ecosystem. I guess I am confused as to its upvotes, when it means absolutely nothing.
Not that you should take my advice, but I'd listen to your customers. It sounds like you have a good product and they just want more features. Being an enterprise app, you're safe from Twitter's growth for the foreseeable future; they still have a lot of consumer holes to fill.

Going the multi-platform route is overrated in my opinion. You'll just become the lowest common denominator between the two. Either become your own platform, or really nail what you're doing on one.
There's a huge difference between "You're wrong and here's why", and "You did X??? What are you, stupid? You suck and you should just gtfo because you'll never amount to anything. You'd be so fired if you worked in my company. Bullet. Brain. Make the connection."

Both are uncompromising. Only one is civil.
Think of it as evolution in action. (And I shall take this whole post as a call to clean up my act.)
I guess your right.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/quake-japan-nuclea...

And then later.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/13/japan-quake-onagaw...

Which at least points to the uncertainty and conflicting messages. But it's good to know that the situation has stabilized and it now is clear that it does not face the same difficulties.
Scala. Fare Thee Well
yeah, because causing the collapse of the USSR is a trivial accomplishment?
more like a high ratio of one person's preferred signal to other signals
Could be that holders considered there positions when the first news broke about there being materials in the wild. Arguably the big fallout, if any, will be in the further ongoing analysis, and if anything, although doubtful, makes it through the legal system about the allegations, or persons involved.
Wow, you just put exactly what I was trying to say into a single simple sentence. Thanks!
I have no idea what this is about. Might I suggest that you submit things that are largely self-contained, or which contain a pointer to context? At least a comment about what you think is a problem.

Something. Please?
Bayou: Replicated Database Services for World-wide Applications
I've used ubuntu on servers before and it is quite painless. You've inflicted a fair ammount of pain on yourself by running a graphical interface on a server.

As others have stated, spending 15 minutes learning about the linux commandline will save you a ton of time, effort, and pain.
True. At a glance I'm suspicious that some might truly be in neither, but I'm not really bothered to check.

Any Language Lawyers around?
A great product.

I've been doing web design since 1997 and this is one of the most useful online tools for colour inspiration I've seen.

Your naming structure for the downloadable swatches is a nice touch.
A look at the new features in Kentico CMS 5.5 R2
As someone who occasionally finds myself nitpicking things (mispronunciation, you're/your, etc), I don't do it out of malice. In fact, I often like and agree with what the person was saying, I was just bothered by that minor issue.

Just pointing out a nitpick by itself sounds harsh, though. Instead of just posting "It's 'you're' for the contraction of 'you are'. It's easier to remember if you think of it as just replacing the 'a' with and apostrophe.", I always try to add my positive thoughts as well, even if I feel they add very little. For example, 'Great post, I know exactly what you mean when you say some people are just overly critical for no reason. One thing, though...".

Obviously, this will still make me sound like a nitpicking asshole at times, so I try to avoid the the truly small corrections (you're/your, its/it's, grammar/mispellings in general). The key is to point out that you aren't dismissing or ignoring the rest of the work, and that the nitpicks you had were really the only part you disagreed with.
Why Not To Send Your Kids to College
Windows 8 'Aero Lite' details and images leak
Bad choice of words.

But--try to find a sentence like "Mercurial and Git differ only in nomenclature and interface." in the CvsConcepts page.
Nuclear power plant accidents: listed and ranked since 1952
Angry Birds Rio : Amazon Appstore Exclusive
Reagan was elected as a two term president and remains one of the more popular presidents in recent history.

Reasonable people may respectfully disagree about whether or not he was a good president and whether or not he took the country in the right direction, but I think anyone saying he was not a successful person is using a very different definition of "success" than the common meaning.
Never used Lightroom, but the presets on http://goo.gl/wQ0PV seem to be formatted in json.

Seems like this presets can be created easily from a list of colors.

Interesting application.
A Guide to the Lean Startup Bundle for the 1st Time Founder
Great site. I used to own audiolizer.com that did the same thing but with less features.

One thing that worked out really well for us was allowing users to import their itunes libraries/playlists. You just need to parse the iTunes XML and map them title/artists to YouTube videos and users would be able to import thousands of songs in seconds.

A few questions:

- How do you plan to make money?

- With YouTubes new song filtering, a lot of songs aren't the original pitch anymore- how do you deal with that?

- Have you considered using the Grooveshark API?

Good luck with the site!
Great post Chad. I work for an SF startup and have been trying to sell my house in Texas for 6 months. It's ridiculously frustrating and stressful. Best of luck on your house selling!
This is precisely the advice I give to M.Sc. and Ph.D. students/candidates. Write. Write lots. Write every day. Write now. Right now.

Learn the craft of writing now, while you have time. When it's time to write your thesis, it's too late.
And I didn't realize you were the duper until later.
Makes sense that with more data about the physical orientation and characteristics of the device, a better signal attenuation attained and the network can be optimized. However, I don't see the logics of actually implementing such a scheme will be overcame, and ultimately this would have to become a part of the core communications protocol with the tower.
Of course writing an article in Slate (including photos of the childhood "friend") pushes the whole story from obscure Internet news (which I hadn't heard/cared about) into the mainstream...
Interesting - I REALLY like the homepage! I like the orange/red -- it gives me a good feeling.

I agree with some of the fonts and field sizes - but these are actually relatively minor things to fix. I think you are on to something with this and wouldn't go changing too much until you've had a lot of feedback to support it.

I really think you are much further along then most people who submit for feedback. Pat yourself and your team on the back and iterate as needed/warranted.

EDIT: Also, I'm a conservative professional, but I actually like the hippie! :-) I also think that will fit the demographic of your visitors too! Just my opinion!
This sounds like a good argument until you realize that the people the geeks most love are all level-headed and good-natured, people who promote the good of all. Often these are men/women who inspired the geeks to be geeks to start with. Example: Carl Sagan.

So for all the geeks who were inspired to become geeks by Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Spock, etc., to fall so short of their ideal... clearly there is insecurity and childishness at work.

Refusal to learn how to treat others well is not cultural, it's immature. Perhaps most importantly, it's total sour grapes compared to one's original inspiration for geekhood.
There's a lot of comments here and on quora supporting the idea that you can be successful at anytime in life. However, I think that by your late 20's you should be well on your way to developing a formidable skill set for achievement in your field of choice.

From what I've observed, success is often a step function and emerges after a critical mass of preparation has already been done. For those persons being quoted as 'making it' in their 30's, 40's and above, there was in almost every case important learning experiences being built in their 20's.

So if you're in your 20s and haven't 'made it' yet, don't be concerned that your time has passed by, but sure as hell don't rest on your laurels. This is the decade of your life when greatness is forged.
It appears to be down :/
Don't worry about it, you guys are fine. The app works as expected and also has the added benefit of the random button, and if you're using any type of metrics (hint) it would probably be a well-used feature. The UX is probably something you guys don't have a lot of experience with but as long as you can consistently provide the functionality you have and scale it accordingly, I think people will like it and find it a lot more interesting than waiting for others to bubble the content up.

Something I forgot: GitHub. it' a great resource and you can add value by listing the user's projects from there. That will give you an easy-import option to seed the app in its early stage. Seeding is important.
It's not that geeks are harsh; it's that assholes are harsh.

You'd see the same kind of dressing down of a sales guy in front of his peers by his asshole boss, who just happens to be a damn good salesman, which makes his attacks all the more withering.

Knowledge dost not the better man make.
Yes. Not only are you working for the bank, they can fire you whenever they want for no reason.
Well, just move the logic into its own function.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void pr(int j) {
printf("%d\n", j);
(pr + (exit - pr)*(j/1000))(j+1);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
pr(1);
return 0;
}
Sorry to be cynical but nothing is going to happen while Hillary Clinton is secretary of state.
How Self-Tracking Can Benefit Business
Agreed. But it's hard because most people are one way communicators. They truly don't listen to the other person they're interacting with; instead they just want to get around to talking about themselves. Actually, that's why Facebook and Twitter work so well - they're self-broadcasting stations.
And for those of you who might be interested, this is effectively a repeat of a post from 18 hours ago, where there is already some discussion and a few more details:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320545

Not many, though. Still doesn't say if remote working is possible.
Creating web forms with LINQ
skype alternatives do have a (small) chance despite strong network effects.

1/ policy makers do not like running a third-party closed-source obfuscated binary with undefined behavior aggressively evading firewalls inside their business or country (in the case of China).

2/ the network effects are not nearly as strong as, for instance, ebay's. i do not care about being able to call random strangers on skype, only about my contacts. the scope of the network effect is to some extent that of a social group, not an entire market.
1. Good point.

2. I get your point, but are you talking about choosing something like achievergradetracker.com for the primary URL?

3. You have another good point, however I think that personal preference is more important than people admit. If we didn't infuse some personal preference, especially for aesthetics, into web design the whole web would look like fucking infomercials, which probably convert like Jesus.
I guess that's kind of irrelevant as a video walkthrough is really something I have no good reason for not trying.
I didn't catch the word "bloat" in the linked article, nor really any hint of such a complaint. Rather, it seems like the OpenBSD has happily announced the removal of C++ in their base because of compilation speed issues.

> Groff was also one of the slowest parts in a full build...

C++ compilers might be many things, but zippy they are not.
It's because feeling that one is better than other people, and feeling worse than other people, are two sides of the same coin. Once you accept the ego's lie that anyone is better than anyone else, you are stuck with both sides of the coin.

Mind you, I don't think one should feel any pity for people who are condescending. I think one should challenge them on their tone and attitude. The fact that they are also insecure may help explain their behavior, but doesn't excuse it.
There are a lot of products that are this consistent, if not moreso. Clothing and cars and big one. Everyone looking to buy a car knows that a new model comes out every year. They know if a model just came out or has been out for 10 months and will be rev'ed shortly. And some people also track when a new design is coming.

But this is less common in consumer electronics. And frankly, this wasn't common until the iPhone. Even iPods didn't get upgraded by consumers much.
From idea to app in less than three weeks