skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have also been developing software for a long time. What I learned at digg is that technical debt matters more, and becomes more of an immediate problem, if you grow insanely. If you have a 100 sympathetic people using your app, it doesn't really matter if there's a few rough edges in it. If you go from 100 sympathetic people to a million or so in six months, you go from "work on it as you can" to "we will be screwed if its not fixed immediately."

Even more so, if you end up being an acquisition target for companies like Google and Yahoo (who want to read your code), then it becomes "this will cost us hundreds of millions of dollars this week if its not fixed now."
Off-topic: Thought I would mention that I dropped Readability for Readable. What's great about Readable is that it allows for a fully user customised layout.

http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
Thanks!

You can actually get a shareable URL for each item you share. Just right click on a file and select Copy Public Link.
Exactly. As devs testing should be an ingrained habit, but it's not just the code and the user experience that need testing :D
There was never anything resembling performance reviews at digg, while I was there.
Big, Big Loss for Righthaven
Reddit is a weird example. Making a code base a platform requires time and effort to be spent on ... Well making it ready to be a platform. There are a lot of things you don't need to do if your code is limited to your team and it's internal processes.

There is a diagram explaining this in the mythical man month, but I don't have my copy handy to give a reference.
College Students: Where are you interning this summer?
I'm still deciding between multiple offers, but I was wondering where other HNers are going to be interning this summer.
There is also a 'perception of value' effect. If something costs more, it 'must' be better. For something like a finance app that probably works in your favour, since charging too little makes you look dodgy. :D
He speaks the truth, I don't see any problem with what he said.....this happens.
cool concept, i've been using http://www.bmrk.it for a bit, it's simple and unobtrusive with a similar goal as your service.
1000 Google Talks videos now on YouTube
Exceptional has been a pretty useful tool for us.
Of course, Blu-Ray is digital. What it really comes down to is that 1) existing broadband in the US is too pissweak to stream anything even resembling the 40Mb/s Blu-Ray datarate; and more importantly 2) nobody cares. I mean, I care — I spent a good part of my life's blood (metaphorically speaking) getting those iTunes HD versions to look as good as 3Mb/s of H.264 can, and I can't watch HD TV programming, let alone SD without griping about quality; but for the average consumer, convenience (1.5Mb/s < SD basic profile H.264 streamed from Netflix) trumps all.
+1 innumerate
Etsy store rips off artist. Regretsy proves. Etsy twiddles thumbs, drinks tea
From the FAQ: "Files never touch or pass through our servers."

Peer-to-peer transfer has some speed benefits, but completely avoiding a server-based fallback seems more problematic. The sender needs to be online when the recipients are downloading the file. People increasingly use laptops/tablets that spend much of their life sleeping (as opposed to always-on desktops). Am I missing something?
Code in the Hamptons
Here are some great resources we've been referencing:

Founders Agreements:
http://www.yourlegalcorner.com/articles.asp?cat=corp&id=...
http://blog.optimalupgrades.ca/2010/01/founders-agreements-2...
http://blog.simeonov.com/2010/02/22/startup-founder-agreemen...

Others:
http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/7-legal-documents-fo...
http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/the-when-to-incorpora...
http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-star...
This is why I donate money to the EFF and the ACLU.
What does "you struggle to find mention of anything before 1998" mean? Google an event which occurred before 1998 and you'll find plenty of information and analysis, much of which I wouldn't call trivial.
Watch out, PayPal: Facebook gets serious about payments
I can tell someone hasn't read The Mythical Man-Month.
Try this: On your VCR and/or Blue-Ray hit STOP STOP PLAY. In many instances it will skip the previews and go straight to the movie.
A. Why is it so hard? California is an at-will state. You just fire them.

B. I completely agree with the idea of making B players into A players. It's called "management" or "employee development." It did not exist at digg.
There has been a good deal of talk over the years of making form controls stylable[1]; a few, like buttons, already are, and WebKit has some vendor-specific extensions for things like scrollbars[2]. But it will take quite a bit of work to hash out standards, and a lot of implementation work in all of the major browsers to get it there. The WebKit scrollbars use a whole bunch of pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes, but there's also a possibility that the functionality for reaching inside controls and interacting with their individual parts may be exposed through a shadow DOM[3].

As mentioned in the shadow DOM post, there's a lot of work needed to be done discussing, standardizing, and implementing these features. I'd encourage people interested to get involved on www-style and public-webapps at the W3C, and the WHATWG mailing list (avoid public-html at the W3C, it appears to be purely political at this point), or get involved in one of the open-source browser engines implementing experimental versions of this stuff to give a starting point for discussion.

[1]: http://goo.gl/i1eL9
[2]: http://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/
[3]: http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/
How Software Will Redefine Networking
The 4-Way Battle to Control Your Digital Wallet
1. Donate to the EFF and the ACLU.

2. Encrypt everything. Or at least something randomly. Even the NSA will have a hard time cracking AES 256 when large amounts of traffic are encrypted.
"is there a process by which you can weed out the good Civil Engineers from the bad ones"

Yes, this the process of licensing. In those professions you mentioned, all people who (legally) work in the field must undergo a process of training and subsequent certification. This includes both work experience and exam requirements over the course of several years prior to certification. Yes, there are people that cheat the system, but the licensing exists to weed them out and protect the consumer.

Software "engineers" undergo no such process or requirements. I can learn ruby in my basement in a year, call myself a software engineer, and get hired building any number of apps. Is my work critical enough that someone may die if I am not certified? Usually not, so the need for certification isn't as strong. Nor have we had the time to develop such continuously relevant certifications in a field that changes several times a year.
The Most Common Soft Drinks include Fanta wallpapers 
The most common soft drinks include Pepsi and Coke etc. People love to take soft drinks in celebrations, greetings and in routine as well. Coca Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Rubicon Mango, Mountain Dew.People use to enjoy drinks every now and then but some people usually stick to one drink.Fanta was created as a Coke substitute during WWII.A worldwide study found pesticide levels in orange and lemon drinks sold under the Fanta brand, which is popular with children, were the highest.Fanta Orange is a very aggressive drink with much more carbonation than Orange Crush.
Why would the people in charge in Pakistan want to do that? We're funneling them billions of dollars in aid money, they're a client state of the US.

Aid was cut off briefly over 30 years ago when their nuclear program became public, but started right back up again so they could back the Taliban against the Soviets for us.
Great leaders figure out how to effectively work with "B and C" grade developers. Good leaders simply try not to work with them. Poor leaders blame them.
And since this is likely to get some downvotes, I will tl;dr:

It's VERY provable that an Etsy seller is stealing material and selling her own goods. Then taunting the original artist. When hundreds of complaints are made, Etsy ignores the userbase with a message telling them they're using the flagging system wrong.

Nothing happens to the thief.

So, ${SocialSite} is ignoring the user base reporting a user abusing another (The original seller ALSO sells on Etsy), because their FORMS are wrong.
Very, very bad style. 2 weeks is mostly not enough time between work and life to finish the thicker books. So one ends up buying loaned books you otherwise wouldn't have considered.

This is a really stupid move and I implore others to make it known via the Helpdesk.
What about a small frame that lingers on the page for about 30 seconds after you click the bookmarklet? It would look something like this: http://imgur.com/6ZFhE (frame is on the right-hand side near the top).
I'm sorry, but I can no longer delete my comment, or else I would. I just thought it could be of use. My apologies.
>iCarc is geared towards a fairly niche market, so I decided that having more buyers was better than having a few at a high price.

I don't really follow this logic. My experience has been the lower you price your app the worse the reviews. If you can charge a higher price and earn the same revenue, do it. You'll build a higher perception of quality through better ratings and in the long run I think this will earn you more customers.
-babysitting service
-be an aws mechanica turk
-submit content to any of the content farms

does she have any hobbies or interests she can possibly build a product/business idea from?
Do you have other (analog/physical) hobbies? Tie your love for programming together with your other hobbies. For example, if you love soccer build an app that lets you analyze game stats.
If you are interested in Android development, probably you should do some hand-ons. It is just not possible for anyone to put everything you come across in their development into print/words.

The Android Developers website's Dev Guide is fairly comprehensive, you can almost get started in your app right away.
I'm working on an iPad app now. There are many things you need the device for.

First, the lower amount of memory is very important for testing how your views load and unload.

Second I've noticed pretty big differences in how the screen looks on my MBP as opposed to on the actual device.
Is there an option to share sensitive files w/out going through your servers? Just wondering....
Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail (2007)
Gah, sorry for the late response, I just saw this. They just go unpingable for a few minutes. They seem fine when they return from purgatory.

It's always been at random times overnight, so far it hasn't happened when I know there's been load on the servers.
I would say you pick the programming language to get an idea what is possible in your web application and what is not. Meanwhile, never stop recruiting, it is not easy to find good developer.

I think you need a designer too. Most developer an't good at design work. Then you have a decent team structure.
PhoenixFS - a versioning filesystem inspired by Git
Any feedback would be appreciated.
I'd guess most software "engineers" do actually pass such a process. Its called a BSCS. The problem is that the state of the art evolves so rapidly, and the difference between state of the art and good enough 10 years ago isn't that costly in most cases, so there is no real test for that difference.
100000 people pressure Apple to shut down "Gay Cure" App
Have you tried http://historio.us? I just checked out bmrk.it, and Historious is much better in my opinion. Historious' bookmarklet (which mine is derived from) requires no page refresh and doesn't require you to be logged in to the service. They also cache the pages you bookmark so that the bookmarks will be around even if the original sites get moved or deleted.
This is basically what happened with del.icio.us after the acquisition. It was insanely bad.
This is a very well written review with a refreshing focus on generating sharing novel ideas. I have been using a Cr-48 since January and my observations are similar. I need to write a review at some point.

I really like the idea at the end of separating the data custodian role from the web app provider role. This has been mentioned for medical records elsewhere. All of a sudden I realize what Vint Cerf was talking about at Stanford: the lack of APIs between cloud services is a real problem: how can google docs retrieve your document from S3, do things to it, and put it back? What about version control of that document? Should versioning go with the doc?
Founder $ game
fantastic info. as founder seeking cap i was overly concerned w strategic investor which would have limited market opp, i was offered notes but balked as equity would forfeit w non-repayment. ultimatey walked from a jv deal strung us out 16 mos. met an angel at cocktail 2 days later, bluffed on needing bridge loan to get a deal done, got $500k 3 days later. sealed large deal w same investor 6 mos later. would never have happened w out fudging competing offer. founders play texas hold 'em in person to prep for your lifetime elevator pitch
Evernote and Google Docs are my two that I couldn't live without. Especially with Google Docs' new comment system (much more like a conversation, and more unobtrusive), and the Evernote's ease of use makes it a no-brainer.
On the surface, this seems similar to http://www.jawbone.com/thoughts
It makes less sense to look at the total for education because each district largely gets paid out of its own property taxes

In some states, the great bulk of government expenditures for schooling come from the state budget, and the state budgets rely on other forms of taxation besides property taxes. It has been that way in my state since the 1970s, when I was still in K-12 schooling. All states have some funding of government-operated schools by state taxes and all states receive federal government expenditures for their school systems.
This article is so terribly framed it hurts my brain, and my ability to respond.

Even if nuclear and chemical weapons were a pretext to attack Saddam Hussein, the reason the US attacked him was, ostensibly, because he was a threat (defined as vaguely as possible).

The reason why Libya was attacked was that Gaddafi is also a threat.

That Gaddafi was rehabilitated at the behest of international business interests doesn't mean that he was any less of a murderous bastard or any less of a social pariah.

In so far as the lesson is "if you're a douchebag (as defined by the UN) the international community may try to pwn your ass", then, sure one might view nuclear and chemical weapons as a deterrent against international attacks.

However it should be carefully noted that in spite of the fact that the Bush administration and a number of world governments asserted and believed that Saddam Hussein had chemical and/or biological weapons, they attacked him anyway.

In other words, even possessing these weapons weren't a deterrent against attack by the US.

Also, please note that giving up nuclear and chemical weapons were never promised as some sort of carte blanche get out of jail free card from the international community. All international agreements are ultimately contingent, the question is how much shit has to change between now and the point where your agreement would fall apart that dictates how strong and resilient your agreement is. Gaddafi's no chump, he knows nobody likes him, or he wouldn't be such a paranoid mofo.

Likewise, Iran and North Korea know how distrusted they are by NATO nations.

North Korea is a particular instructive example, as they did go through a period of disarmament and verification, only to renege on their agreements. They got what they wanted from the international community, and after their incentives changed (presumably things weren't as dire as they were before), they told everyone to go fuck themselves.
OnLive's own microconsole hardware is based on an ARMv5 chip (Marvell ARMADA 1000), so I guess there's your answer?
There's also some great browser add-ons/extensions that act similar to Evernote's "clip to evernote", in that it just saves a webpage to read later. This helps me a lot with productivity, etc...
Self-Publisher Amanda Hocking May Be Close to a $1M+ Book Deal
I think we're probably in agreement here. I wanted to use the president-in-wartime reference to parallel the fuzzy attitudes about teaching that you're objecting to. We'll rally around the flag regardless of who the president goes to war with, and if you ask people about teaching, and they'll tell you they love teachers because teachers love their children... while the reality is that teachers are just as human (and yes, just as venal) as everybody else.

There is one angle I'm not probably not seeing. I don't have kids myself, so I don't know what it's like to leave a child in the care of strangers for seven hours a day. You might have to ascribe positive motivations to those people to keep from going crazy. But then I think about how much unhappiness one incompetent teacher can inflict on a child, and that really gets my hackles up.
tl;dr search engines reframe the types of questions we ask.

And prior to the Internet, the physical limits of information didn't equally determine the types of questions we asked?
I really hope space shuttles aren't built by "throwing warm bodies" at the task.
Staff compensation (and it is an error to assume the compensation consists solely of "salaries") is in fact the major part of the expense of running any school system.
Buffett makes $3.7B profit from $5B investment in Goldman Sachs
I think , there is no B and C , there is only who wants to make his/her product work or lousy dont care guys . It's all attitude .
easy to click link: http://www.speakbin.com
You've either stopped learning or stopped advancing professionally if you don't hate the code you wrote 5 years ago.
I think you're making overly broad statements that conflate legitimate for-profit education with scams. There are many for-profit schools which operate legitimately and get accreditated by independent and respected institutions like AdvancED.
I've got a fairly extensive background in software development and management and the most striking thing at digg was there was no attempt at what's colloquially known as "management," at least up until 2007 when I left.

There was no such thing as a performance evaluation.

The founder and CEO mostly worked on side projects or spent time "taking money off the table."

There were lots of parties and social events.

They could have evaluated mediocre developers, put them on performance improvement plans, and if they failed to improve, fire them. They were too busy.

In the podcast, I didn't hear any mention of what I'm talking about. I heard "we hired too many B and C people."
Stop mryall, he's being a rational adult!

I completely agree, the 'old' model doesn't apply 100% but I don't think that publishers are trying for a new model that's fair. I can give thousands copies for free, yes... But they can SELL thousands at almost no cost. So the whole "You can't just GIVE it away" argument gets significantly weaker.

I think, however, that the end result will be to ignore the pirates. It makes the most sense. People will always want to get their book "NOW", at launch, from the store, not from hunting around for it.
If you have not done so already I would look at the algorithms that E-harmony, Zoosk and Match.com use to link people up. Because most co-founders will tell you that when they entered into a business partnership it was like entering into a relationship as well. Additionally if you are looking to match start-up co-founders together I think it would be better to focus on close proximity geographic locations, such as Bay Area, LA basin, San Diego.
Except that reddit's in the odd position of having released their codebase as a platform, without having been able to put the requisite time into making it suitable as such.

I watched a documentary a few weeks ago (damned if I can remember what it's called) about Netscape's transition to Mozilla. The amount of effort that went into that transition was staggering. For his part, Jedberg said [1] that preparing and maintaing redditOSS will likely be one of the first projects for their new hires, as it will make development and maintenance on their current codebase that much easier.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345247
Does anyone see a gap here for a PatentWar app that runs on Android?
Similar to drug wars but no drugs, just pools of patents :)
I would like to work for one that does the same. I would imagine whoever audits the big ones like google etc (which would probably be the big 4/5) would be the one you are looking for.
supplementing the math curriculum we use (Saxon)

For homeschooling, I much prefer Miquon Math

http://www.keypress.com/x6252.xml

for starting out my children, and then the Singapore Primary Mathematics materials (which now have an edition aligned to United States curriculums standards)

http://www.singaporemath.com/Primary_Mathematics_Stds_Ed_s/1...

followed up by the Gelfand textbooks

http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Israel-M-Gelfand/dp/0817636773

http://www.amazon.com/Method-Coordinates-I-M-Gelfand/dp/0817...

http://www.amazon.com/Functions-Graphs-Dover-Books-Mathemati...

http://www.amazon.com/Trigonometry-I-M-Gelfand/dp/0817639144...

appropriately supplemented by ALEKS

http://www.aleks.com

and EPGY

http://epgy.stanford.edu/district/info.html
I live in Whistler, BC and I'm Canadian, so please don't take this as being super negative towards Vancouver, but this seems like the other 72% of statistics which are made up on the spot.

How can Vancouver have more entrepreneurs per capita than Palo Alto? Menlo Park or most other Silicon Valley cities?

I'm curious also as to what they are qualifying as an 'entrepreneur'.

But really, isn't the most important statistic which city has the most successful entrepreneurs? and why?
Registering a Company in the US
When you are having your own a new company with esteem and seeking to take your small business to the next level by registering a company in the US.
FreeBSD/EC2 cluster compute
I don't think it's deliberate evil, rather it's the old "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" mixed with arrogance and less-then-steller thinking through of the effects.

You open your platform, and people use it. Then LOTS of people use it. And suddenly you're more powerful because of it. And then something threatens your business. And the executive team go "What? They're using OUR OWN TOOLS to weaken our business? That can't be allowed to happen, cut them off!"

The idea that someone could abuse their business through their API originally didn't occur. Then, once it did, there's a backlash because "They" are supposed to be building "Our" business, not their own at our expense.
The "there's an App for that" campaign by Apple has definitely helped cement that as a possibility. I'm pretty sure when folks use / mimic / parody that phrase, they're always referring to Apple's use, not some generic "app".
On (A) first, not everyone works in California (I don't). Second: "inertia". People get attached to people. People are afraid to rip the band-aid. People think "Oh, this is a critical time so we CAN'T fire him/her now! We'll do it later."

"You just fire them" is the right ATTITUDE, but in practice it's rarely so simple.

Related to all this is another lesson I've learned: In almost all cases when it comes to removing people from jobs, or re-organizing teams, it should be done quickly and decisively. Rip the band-aid! As a leader, you are far better off dealing with a mess that exists ON YOUR TERMs than one that exists on other's terms.

This, of course, assumes you have a set of core principles you both believe in and live by. But that's a whole 'nother diatribe.