skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a stark contrast from having worked at hi5 just prior where I had a killer Macbook Pro, and (2) 1080p 22" displays. Sometimes while visiting dropboxes offices in those days I remember them having (2-4) 27" displays. Just a difference between SV and LA.

At hi5 I remember some nights working till 5am in the morning going home, and then being at work by 10am for a meeting.

At MySpace I tried to get a few people together on weekends to hack on cool demos, but management didn't want people to burn out. They did however buy a few people blackberries and expect them to remote in and fix anything that might be a fire. A few of our team members had them and they would have to log in a 2am and fix shit.

I am still very proud of the work I did there and respect every one of my team mates as fantastic developers. I hope to work again one day with many of them.

If there was one place MySpace didn't fail it was hiring great talent, and bringing them to LA to work. The partying in LA might have been a bit of a distraction but, it's also what made LA a ton of fun. It was so easy to date down there vs. SF where it's impossible to meet a gal.
For me, the biggest improvement in information overload has been simply unsubscribing from any blog that updates more than two or three times a day (Marco.org, keep; TechCrunch, remove).

Instead, I subscribe to their Twitter feed and any story important enough that I missed seems to find its way to me in other ways (e.g., here on HN).
So e-commerce did well because of the spotlight that the bubble put on tech back then that allowed everyone to accept the net as a platform for that action. Any predictions on what the next open door might be? Privacy perhaps?
> Every _developer_ should. No question about it. Sudo should given on an is-needed basis, but ultimately, as a developer I can screw up a lot more by simply writing bad code.

Fair enough.

This, more nuanced point, I agree with.
Poll: How many SLOC your latest MVP contained?
I know that the best strategy is to launch an as minimalistic as possible 'Minimum Viable Product', but it is sometimes really hard to cut features. Sometimes I think that without feature X and Y the product is totally uncompetitive.

Although I know that SLOC is not a very meaningful metric, I ask you: How many Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) your latest Minimum Viable Product (MVP) contained? (count in every handwritten code, even HTML, and of course don't count in any 3rd party lib or stuff not created explicitly for the product.)
Less than 256
256 - 511
512 - 1023
1024 - 2047
2048 - 4095
4096 - 8191
8192 - 16383
16384 - 32767
32768 - 65535
65536 - 131071
131072 - 262143
262144 or more
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Hickey --

"Before Clojure, [Rich Hickey] developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET platform."

Thus it looks like Rich Hickey was in fact a .NET developer at some point, and so Clojure did, in a way, emerge from the .NET community.
It happens around 5-6 PM and it's really noticeable for me.
Frankly what's needed is a minimal linux distro in a VM that you can shove into the cluster. Say a gArch.
Yep that's why I use two different readers for the first and second use...
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It doesn't sound like your story contradicts patio's. He is saying that the game industry is comparatively hard to succeed in. Of course this can be overcome.

But it's an industry where the winners win big and everyone else struggles, not unlike professional athletics. So when offering advice to outsiders jumping in, the advice should be measured. Among the hard-working success stories of those that made it, the stories of those that didn't get lost.
Seed-funded SF startup looking for Front-End Developer to join the team
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We are entrepreneurs with successful exits in the past that are looking to make a difference for charities both local and international.

About you:  You’re entrepreneurial. You want more than work – to be a part of something. You want to join a team who has a big idea and isn’t afraid to chase it at full sprint. You are in or near San Francisco and can meet at our workspace intermittently during the week.

Job Description:

You will be working directly with our designer and back end developer and will be expected to contribute to product design and the experience our service provides. Responsibilities will include:

- Front-end development. Going from .psd to standards-compliant html and css.

- Using Git for version control.

- Participating in product design and strategy.

- Drinking good coffee or tea.

We’d really love it if you…

- write high quality HTML, CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript (jQuery) in your sleep

- know a bit of php

- laugh at cross-browser compatibility issues (don't worry we're only building for modern browsers you will NOT need to make your designs work in IE6)

- have fascinating hobbies you can add to our culture

- apply an obsessive eye (bonus if two) for detail

- are creative yet methodical

- have a basic understanding of what lean user experience means

- were born awesome

- have experience with OO Principals and MVC design patterns

- are fluid working closely with back end developers

- can send us a link to a portfolio of digital creative (looks and works great; modern code and practices, etc) - have experience in a similar position at a fast-moving company. We’d love it if you understand what makes us tick.

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The Postmark team is absolutely awesome. Forrst has been a happy customer since very early on, and Chris and team have gone out of their way to be helpful wherever possible. It's a huge reason why we haven't even considered Amazon or anyone else.
Entrepreneur Bill Nguyen develops photo-share app
Ours is a case of knowing when to pause, and how to become fanatical about customer development.
> who could have expected there'd be a 9.0 earthquake

Your comment makes it sound like the defect had an incidence, but it's specific to reactor 4 alone, and reactor 4 was empty when the earthquake happened. For all we know putting the pressure vessel back in shape may have had little effect on its resiliency.

Still, of course, a very tough choice.
> "The biggest problem was they didn't allow the developers to have staging or testing servers -- they deployed on the production servers on the first go-around... And all this with no change management or control. No versioning either."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't want your software project managed by non-programmers. Any competent programmer would know not to do that.
I think it had absolutely nothing to do with the technology, but more of the execution. The thing that got me to use facebook is that when I search for some one I knew in high school or from a long time ago. facebook was a tone more accurate then myspace, and the suggested friends algorithm was batter as well. I personally believe that if myspace would have spent more time reinventing themselves early (2004,2005) then maybe they still would be relevant. But when you are as big as they where complacency as a way off taking over.

Beside twitter isn't using .net and we all know the troubles they had scaling.
This changed my view of Google, I thought they kinda aced on those points, being smart & pragmatic, and that that was what made them the place where the smartest folks on the industry wanted to work.
I use different folders for the two types (Non-pro and Firehose (and professional for lead sites))

I hit mark as read on the firehose and lead site ones all the time.
Even without working for Google, I can fully appreciate most of the issues and proposed solutions. Like in any big company, only the people "deep in the trenches" even see these issues, worry about them, and worry why management is so clueless that they don't even see the issue.

However, the key is to understand that these are simply superficial manifestations of a bigger issue: as the company grows in size, communication requirements grow exponentially, and even a slight mismatch in the talents of people will lead to serious issues. I don't think any of the recommendations will work at the scale of 20,000 engineers that Google has.

Take open source software for instance. For a 10 person start up, it works beautifully. Now try convincing 10 other startups to adopt exactly the same set of software, and you'll have a never ending religious war on hand. But you cannot also let everyone to pick their own solution, for then the 10 different groups cannot integrate with each other.

Far too many people keep complaining (I complain where I work for as well :), but the solution is not easy. By far the best approach is for people to realize that there is a need for a company to grow so much, and not anymore. However, human nature will not permit that.
If you can't trust engineers to work in production, then you can't trust their code. Extensive logging, auditing, and granular access control are also critical to making this work in a large engineering org.
Hidden Treasures of the Standard Library
Apparently, this guy skipped "Intro to the Theory of Computation" class on the day they covered the concept of Turing completeness. The notion that there is any program that can be written in any other Turing complete language that cannot also be written in one of the Turing complete .NET languages is provably wrong. End of story.
When one browser (in this case, Chrome) works beautifully and the other browser (in this case FF4) refuses to operate in some capacity then that is most certainly not a problem with my computer.

Do you know how many people out there have the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family for their laptops... a staggering number, I'm sure.
I think I remember around 2005 being surprised at hearing PHP stand in for the P, before that it had always been Perl. Though it probably had to do with the circles you ran in.
Daz, as held by P&G, was filed for in 1941 in UK, class 3 - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=614056.

A company called Mills Brothers BV hold an internationally registered mark "Daz" in classes 18, 25 too.

I'm sure there are several others.
I distinctly remember "this thing isn't going to sell".
Here's what I wrote in the comments section of the blog post:

I embedded the slides in addition to the video, so you could just scroll through them, but so you have it in text here are the 7 points I go through in the video. These are the things I'm arguing we'll see largely integrated by 2015, and will have a massive impact on the way we interact as a species:

1. Data Mashups = Magic
2. Location Layer Grows Up
3. Peripherals Get Smart & Connected
4. Software Rules the Cutting Edge
5. Information: Pull to Push
6. Android + Commoditized Tablets
7. Social + Mobile = Killer Combo
At first glance, I agree with most others that "the idea itself is worth 0%". Having said that, we all know that's not always true...there's a looooong list of ideas that were so brilliant at the time of their inception that - combined with good fortune and perfect timing - the initial crappy implementation had no real negative impact (hello, Windows 3.0, hello Facemash, etc.).

So your idea may be brilliant...probably not, but maybe so :-) If you have already prototyped it out, have a basic wireframe built, have a good business plan in place, and have some funding lined up (either your own or from some external source) I would say that a technical co-founder would be at most worth 20-25%. From the gist of your question, though, it sounds like you have an idea in your head and that's about it. If that's the case, you gotta find your co-founder and immediately agree to a 50/50 split...maybe give them a 6-8 week 'trial phase' just to make sure they aren't a total fruitcake and are going to bail out on you, then lock it all down legally and move forward from there.

What people are trying to tell you in the other posts is that HARD skills >> SOFT skills when it comes to launching a tech company in the very early stages. Look at your descriptions:

* "business-minded" - hard to quantify
* "action-oriented" - every great developer on earth is this as well
* "team-building" - if you were great at this, your first stop wouldn't be at Hacker News for advice on how to build a team
* "selling" - I agree that this is actually a HARD skill - either you got it or you don't. If you have demonstrated track record in this area, this is your trump card.
* "partnerships" - soft skill...mostly manipulating paperwork with lawyers at the end of the day
* "strategy" - you will easily be splitting this one 50/50 with your technical co-founder

Meanwhile, a good tech co-founder is going to bring:

* Specific dev experience - hard skill
* Knowledge of architecture and scalability - hard skill
* Knowledge of SEO and online technical marketing - hard skill
* Ability to augment his/her skill with other good tech people out there, selecting from their own personal experience or interviewing based on their own skills - hard skill (i.e. business guy has no hope of locating and finding these people, IMHO)

Sorry for the long explanation. Bottom line: you gotta go 50/50. If your guy is not worth 50% in your mind, you have the wrong person.
They really said that? That's just utterly delusional in a Wired on push as the future stylee.

Anyways, to get at that real world data they crave, they're gonna need tons of users, and if they ever get even one tenth of a percent of what Google has I'd be shocked.
Just what I've been saying...

And if the data mining stuff is good, they don't even need you to download their trojan horse. They can just license the tech to Facebook and leverage their installed base.

EDIT: Perhaps Twitter is the best fit as a licensee - huge installed base on smart phones, and apparently can't data mine their way out of a wet paper bag, if the #dickbar fiasco is any indication.
One shouldn't forget about exif data on images.
What browser & OS are you using? When you say "never show", a cookie should be placed in your browser called "swoopshow" (like this one http://drod.io/272U3B1v200k2z1a1v0u ). Could you check to see if you have the cookie? I'm wondering if the cookie's not being placed correctly, or if it's being placed but not read correctly. FYI it does work for me on Firefox & Mac OS 10.6.
To use one of these apps one needs a lot of encouragement, so here's some more: I've been using F.lux on all my machines for several months now and I'm very happy with it. Falling asleep after working on a computer is much easier with it.

I only wish something similar was possible on my iPad…
they're gonna need tons of users

No they won't, they just need to find people with tons of users willing to license the tech (or buy them)
3 Pitfalls of Internally Developed Configuration Management Tools
I still do the odd bit of client work and just deployed a MVP for one (a niche Q&A site). 1376 LOC (not including views, unfortunately, but they're simple). 608 of those implementation code. 768 for test code.
Thanks for the typo corrections, they've been fixed.

"The world" refers to all the dependent google source code. This is primarily google-written code, but includes some open source packages that are used as dependencies.
"Fox was a closed source company"

Wow. I didn't know such a thing existed. Was no open source software used? From databases to javascript libraries?
Thank you for sharing - this is the most interesting comment (to me, anyway) so far.
> Just that .NET is way more popular in the enterprise than on the web

It is a fallacy to think that the web is the only large network that requires scale.

Goldman Sachs alone stores more data than the entire web

The Visa network has had 4 seconds of downtime in decades

Most airline systems took decades to engineer
The first time I was linked to a screenshot of the Windows version by a friend, I didn't even recognise it. :(
The hyperbole around Color sorta reminds me of another revolutionary product from a decade ago:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001/12/03/here-it-is.htm
works after refresh, but not before. safari mac 10.6.
Color App Rip Off Race
Ok so who here's gonna the first to build a Color app rip off concept in weekend? Anyone?
Shock value. Anger causes people to think.
My last comment. I'm sure this will make you guys even more sarcastic, but haters gotta hate: http://jpteti.com/post/4091718756/ipad-followup-post. I hope you folks are glad that I'm no prejudiced (probably unfairly) against all of you because of the behavior of a few.
That should go in TheOnion... not on your blog.
I've done quite a few interviews in my career, and Paul's top notch. Big thanks to him for his care for the industry, and producing a high quality blog in a sea of crap. :)
Is this site becoming Slashdot? Visual Studio does have some features that can make you lazy I suppose. ASP.NET web forms does suck, but ASP.NET MVC is good. Is Java supposed to be better than .NET?
Actually, I think it will be much worse than that. Think: location based advertising. In order to use color you have to allow GPS for the app and, optionally, push-notifications. A perfect combo for pushing ads when you're within X range, etc.

I sent a tweet to them yesterday, but got no response.
https://twitter.com/#!/tenaciousJk/status/51033367050846208

edit: group response to the below

No geo-ad platform has this low barrier to entry with this high of an incentive. Simply snap a pic and it's recorded and you're "checked in" if you will. You're doing something you want to be doing: recording your event, people you're with, etc. With 4S and Gowalla you have to want to check-in. Checking in is the app - not recording your memory by way of a picture/video. Sharing pictures is the biggest social app on the web.
In my opinion, RSS is "good" for one thing only, which is aggregating a bunch of rarely-updating blogs into a single location to check.

Following something like techcrunch.com in an RSS reader – let alone with unread counts – just seems like madness to me. I realize some people do it, though.

(Incidentally, this is precisely the problem my startup is trying to solve. You plug in your RSS feeds and it will assemble a personal "hacker news" of things you should be reading. iPad-only for now, though: http://zite.com)
Doesn't work with Safari 5.0.4 on OSX.
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Breaking Into the Super Collider
Isn't this the whole point of a reputation system?
Noisebridge, another hackerspace is in SF. (www.noisebridge.net) It's located at 2169 Mission St (Between 17th and 18th)

Drop by. I'm a member and regular visitor.
Is there a transcript / tl;dw? Watching video != efficient.
What gaming of the system?

There's a company. They have an opinion on a piece of proposed legislation. They present their arguments to another organization and ask the other organization to support their position.

That is not gaming the system. That's ordinary participation in the political process.
It's unclear why that should be a board-level discussion in the first place. I doubt board meetings at Amazon or Google involve people benchmarking performance.
This might be difficult.Even though the concept of Color is simple, it seems like they have some complex stuff going on behind the scenes.I don't think you can copy it in a weekend
(The segway, for those that don't feel like clicking through.)
I was pretty much a 100% .NET guy before joining Amazon in January. Without reading a book, I was immediately able to start writing Java at Amazon because of how similar it is to C#.
Don't worry, if Apple acquires them (like they did their last company, Lala) then Gruber will suddenly realize how revolutionary the idea is.
soon it will be all the rage among mall cops.
The Color Of Envy And Rooting Against Goliath: Why others are upset with Color
McDonald's has lambdas? Who knew.
Not to mention that most 'mobile' photos are 'geotagged' with the GPS coordinates.

I think this 'data mining' revelation could just well be the 'death knell' ?
I've had one half built sitting on my hard drive for about a year. Perhaps I will take it in a less creepy and more anonymous direction than what the color people are doing.

It has a horrible (or awesome!!) name and uses GAE as a backend. Which between the blob store API and the geo libs has everything you need to build and host this type of app really cheaply.

So for anyone trying to do this over the weekend I would start with that. The tipfy framework will get you moving on GAE really quickly as well. (tipfy.org)
I had trouble installing on linux and am using the program "redshift" instead.
1) Hacker News is not about getting people to think through shock value. And I think a lot of us would leave if it were.

2) Anger about grave moral atrocities causes people to think. Anger about someone antagonistically phrasing a denouncement of their working style causes people to write you off as a troll and move on with their lives.
My eyes became tired in a few seconds after I launched this app. Warning: it hurts.
Endgame: Real life Control-F
I got laughed at right before our YC W11 interview for my 'sepia-tinted screen'. I live on the east coast, and my clock hadn't changed cause I was still tethering.
"AI is always defined as anything a computer can not yet do"

-- forgotten
Larry Page's new rule: project pitches can't exceed 60 words
They got the funding because the investors think there's a small but non-zero chance that Color will become "the next twitter/facebook". The ROI could be 100 fold.

This is almost the opposite strategy to Yuri Milner, who is spreading his bets out over many companies. However, this strategy is no less valid. I say almost because the investors can make many (tens of) bets this size and still succeed in making money.
Popcorn.js: The HTML5 Video Framework
Thats assuming you want to get all the spatial awareness they supposedly tout....

so, since they believe GPS is a non-starter -- lets do this with GPS... dupe the interface and basic functionality
Moreover, if you did need 1.7oz burgers (Jesus, what a horrendous analogy), the only thing potentially standing in your way would be your own ignorance of the framework.

Sort of like what's standing between this company and some very talented developers.
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