skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote my own web-based editor to write Closure: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly): http://docbookeditor.appspot.com/ Unfortunately, it's in a bit of a state of disarray because in Google's process of migrating from Docs 1.0 to Docs 2.0, they basically screwed over all the GData users in the process, which broke my tool. But as explained on the site, I made it possible to write in a Wiki-like language that looked something like the final product (using HTML/CSS rather than plaintext, saving a lot of TeX compilation and context switching to look at the generated DVI).

My editor can export to either DocBook XML or HTML, so I used the former to publish my book and the latter to publish essays on my web site. I also added support for slurping in source code from my repository so that I could be sure that the code samples in my writing actually worked. This was a bit of a pain, but definitely paid off, as readers are often infuriated by code samples that don't work. So far, no errata for code samples have been reported: http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=0636920001416
I would recommend buying an Aoyue temperature controlled soldering station (http://www.amazon.com/Aoyue-936-AOYUE-Soldering-Station/dp/B... $39.99)

It doesn't cost much to get a great iron.
11) He gets lower salary because he negotiated higher benefits instead. More options, for example.
so as long as your contribution covers the bandwidth cost you should be good.
I thought it interesting that the KIIP founders were from digg... I wonder what their thoughts are about Kevin. There were some not-so-nice things said about him previously from some of the net eng team at digg.

What I am interested in, is these guys that founded KIIP and raised ~$4MM, would they work with kevin again, would he/did he in any way advise them? Do they respect him?

This article is BS, it would seem to me given what this article states is that MILK is a PR firm. A Kevin Rose Promotion company.

MILK may stand for MANY IDEAS LIKELY KILLED -- as he seems to be fond of the idea of killing ideas, rather than making them.

Further, everything I read in that article was yesterday and reactionary. To ponder badging and IRL couponing when the market is littered with companies doing that suggests that there is no profound technovisionary there.

A me too with money, a little lab used to promote a bunch of experiments much the way a trust fund kids dabbles in various professions before realizing the only thing hes really good at is partying, womanizing and spending money.
Or a signal that Linux users are willing to pay for quality software?
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Either that or the slim chance of payoff combined with huge payout made it worth pursuing. If nothing else it means some lawyers get to have their name attached to a litigation suit with Facebook's name on it. Even if they fail they can use it on their resumes. As can the company for seeming willing to tackle big challenges.

This is all devil's advocate stuff mind you.
This happens every bundle. Most people in my experience have concluded that

1. Linux users having fewer games to choose from so they are willing to pay more for whatever games do come out

2. Linux users want Linux to seem like a viable platform for gaming to encourage more game development for Linux

3. There's probably also a competitiveness to seem "better" than Windows users.

See e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004968
Agreed, charisma can be a huge asset. But it is not necessarily an indicator of a good entrepreneur, and it is not a pre-requisite. I think the other 2 traits are :)
Well, Little Boy was undergoing nuclear fission which releases far more energy than some radioactive materials.

Fukushima is much better contained than Chernobyl; namely, the whole plant isn't on fire, spewing massive amounts of radioactive gasses.
Most of these hacks (and the comments in this post) miss a crucial point about standing desks. They are supposed to be ergonomic. [1]

Putting your laptop on a bunch of boxes puts a lot of strain on your arms. Of course this also doesn't work if you have a big display on your desk.

I'd be interested in hacking a standing desk that is

1) ergonomic

2) offers support for both laptops and big displays

3) has a usable keyboard drawer for both standing and sitting position

If all else fails we'll just make a living selling desks like that. (and no, geekdesk does not meet all requirements)

[1] http://www.infologix.com/images/usr/ergonomic-computer-cart....
I interviewed with one of the bigger org's at MS in Seattle about a month ago, they told us that they would be unable to give us feedback if we didn't receive an offer. I suppose different branches of MS could do things different?

Fortunately I didn't have to worry about that, starting this summer :)
Well, it's a nice fantasy, but first line of story says, "of 3.5 million people."

They may be employees somewhere - but not all employees of the state.
No, because the rebound velocity doesn't depend on how far two bodies intersect.

To answer the wider question - when a contact is detected, you can immediately calculate the new velocity of the two bodies. Then you move things around to be nonintersecting. Then next frame, everything has the correct velocity.

(In fact, this will be done in two passes. Collision detection will generate a list of contacts, containing properties like the initial velocities of the two bodies. Then the collision resolution phase will change the velocities.)
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Texas has a current population of 25 million, now compound that over decades (since it includes retiree databases).
One of the things I told the last Google guy who called me was that I do not want to live in a place with a crappy climate: Dublin, Zurich, London, etc... Sorry, life's too short.
You can drag files to application icons just fine in windows. You can't drop them on taskbar, but can on desktop (which you can embed into task bar to have immediate access to all your desktop icons with other apps maximized).

Just add desktop as a toolbar on the task bar, uncheck all the text and make it take full line, so as not to conflict with running apps. Then drag files onto those icons and they will be opened in new or running instances, whatever apps are designed to do.

Edit: so it looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15669592/taskbar.png
By 'native' they mean built for Windows without any cross-platform framework getting in the way.
Wasn't posting it as a knock on rails; simply thought it was interesting since Twitter has been one of Rails' examples of big projects.
I'm curious, what is the licensing on the included Jack Claw source code?

Could I mod it and release it? (Commercially?) What about the included media?

PS. Attempted to get answers from fronzebyte via the in page "chat with frozenbyte" widget. Not much help from them at all. Kind of discouraging.

Heya, curious about the included Jack Claw source--whats the licensing on it?
→Would some one be able to mod and release the source? With existing media assets? How about commercially?
→(Not that I want to buy the source, compile it and sell it) But was curious about utilizing the engine and assets to create a different game and how release options would be liited (or not)
→limited*
Joonas/FrozenByte: I suggest you to go to the frozenbyte jack claw forums and ask about the stuff there.
→Where would that be?
(no answer)
Related story from yesterday's National Post:

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Innovative+innovati...
Teachers, Workforce Commission, Employees Retirement of Texas.

All Texas employees, it's not private workforce.
I think it's particularly rude to criticize a non-native speaker for their lack of proficiency in the non-native tongue, outside of fora where proficiency is to be expected (e.g. translation, creative writing, literary criticism).

To my mind, it also shows an insular anglosphere-centric perspective, one to be avoided.
Neat hack, but certificates can be had for free nowadays[1,2].

[1] E.g. startssl.com.

[2] Of course, this means that the CA system is broken - you can't do any serious validation for $0.
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You don't need to go back to 1936 to find examples of this behaviour. Try talking to an African American who was involved in the struggle for civil liberties in the 1960s.
I was also surprised about the detailed feedback. I was not expecting that. It was too superficial to help you to improve. I can say that I interviewed for Microsoft Dublin.
I seriously woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking how I need to send my 84 year old grandma more postcards. This is so perfect for that.
How much of Flow’s nearly 900k of (minified!) JavaScript
do you think is the application developers filling in
the deficiencies in Backbone?

I'm trying really hard to resist saying something overwhelmingly snarky about SproutCore apologists, but this article is trying to be a slap in the face of Backbone.js, and libraries like it ... so if you want to have that discussion -- bring it. You think 843K of JavaScript is too large for a truly comprehensive and gorgeous app like Flow? The SproutCore hello world app for a broken-looking table view weighs 717K, when measured in the same way.

But there's a bigger question here, when picking on a library that's only been around for 6 months: Has anything on the scale and professionalism of Flow ever been accomplished by a SproutCore app, in SproutCore's 4 years of existence?

I think that the proof is in the pudding:

http://www.sproutcore.com/showcase/ (2 of the 4 belong to the SC team)

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#examples

'nuff said.
I would like to use this service from my Camera Roll, with or without Instagram.

I guess I could go to Target or Walmart and print via Bluetooth from my iPhone for pennies, write a note on the back of the picture, and then put a stamp on the picture and send it to family/friends.
Link to download: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Info/Downloads/Default.htm...

Let us hope this means Microsoft is going to commit to a more continuous release cycle for web-tech.

I count this as 99% good news, with the caveat being that it if done wrong, it will just be more fragmentation we have to worry about.

Even still, fragmentation in the IE9+ Era shouldn't be as bad as the fragmentation between say IE6 and 7.
Well, the legal sector isn't doing too well right now. Perhaps DLA Piper has too many idle lawyers right now - at least this is work.

Not saying that this is the case, but it's possible.
Are there any plans to expand your service to europe in the near future?

I can't download the app in the german store right now.
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The only remote chance I can see DLA Piper taking a troll case like this is if they negotiated some very significant % of the settlement likely to come of this.

Thinking that they would not get 50% or 84% of zucks shares - but 50% of $XXXXX millions of dollars is significant regardless.

They must have at least enough of a case to make facebook shit cash their way.

For all us watchers - it just reinforces the unscrupulous measures zuck took in building this company. Sadly, not too many can say they would have done much different in his shoes, given that he was at the right place at the right time and got boosted by others to the point of being able to run with it himself, he then used amoral tactics to protect what he had built from those who truly did have at least partial stake in it...
I can walk miles upon miles. But standing still for even 20 minutes hurts. This would not help me.
cool, now i can do my homework on the interviewer while sitting in the lobby :)
The big question I have about this article, which unfortunately goes uncommented upon by the author has to do with the accompanying graph. Yes, students loan debt is constantly rising, but so was credit card debt until recently. The graph shows a huge decline in credit card debt. I wonder if this has to do with the economic downturn leading to bankruptcies which can clear out credit card debt?
Yes, this is the thing I like least about Twitter. I feel like I'm navigating two very different hierarchies at once. Even after years of using it I'm still uncomfortable.
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Google the Ikea Jerker desk. They discontinued the standup model - or rather the model that could be configured as such - but you'd probably be able to find one used on craigslist or ebay.

It is designed for this specifically, although it is big, so you need a good deal of space. I've been using one in my home office for about 7 years now.
Ah, my apologies for misunderstanding your comment. That's what I get for attempting rational thought at one in the morning.

Before I learned to speed read the way I currently do, I tried learning using RSVP. In my personal experience I didn't find it very helpful, and my comprehension rates (when using RSVP) plummeted. I'm in complete agreement there.

As to my 1,300wpm, you're partially correct. 1,200wpm is just about the limit at which I can read word by word, line by line in a book, using my hand as a pacer. After 1,200, I stop dropping conjunctions, pronouns, and prepositions, and anything that can be inferred through context or isn't necessary to the meaning of the sentence (e.g. - absorbing key words and ideas, but still more precise than 1/2 a page at a time).

Here's the book I learned from so you can judge the merits based upon something better than my attempted explanation: http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/...
The title is inaccurate. Many of the records where from State run retirement programs, but not everyone affected is/was a state employee. Texas is a big place. The Teacher Retirement System of Texas(one of the affected organizations) alone has over 1.3 million members.
Never saw the appeal of this. Surprised that they lasted this long.
I didn't know Adam Nash worked at LinkedIn. :) Very cool HackDay Project man. This should be rolled out to ROW where it would be helpful. Or is it just the Valley where everyone has a computer in their pocket?
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Did you even _read_ the article?
Even if that is the case, for simpler scenarios, the beauty of RoR out-weighs Java’s performance.
Thanks Brett. I think that's a good point about agencies just selling time. The area of estimation, or at least measuring the accuracy of estimation, is something that a quite a lot of our beta testers have flagged up as something they'd like to see in the product.
I was a big proponent of Tor circa 07-09ish. However, I don't think it's really the best solution out there for those who need/wish-to-have private, anonymous internet usage. There are a number of issues I could list including how slow and unreliable it can be, but the worst by far is the fact that vast majority of the exit nodes are sniffed on or are honeypots to catch dissidents.

There is no way to know who the hell you're tunneling your traffic through, and it's really unsafe. It's much, much more safe to setup your own VPN service on another outside box/server that you personally control and tunnel everything that way.

And yes, don't ever use bittorrent on Tor, not just for the security exploit mentioned here, but the fact that that eats up __alot__ of bandwith and slows things down for everyone, dramatically.

The UofWash project mentioned in the end is a better alternative to straight bittorrent btw, in that there is __trust__ and you know who you're connecting to. Or you could just get an astraweb account, but I digress...
Another problem is that the chair tend to roll away as you type :)

But my current setup works very well (pictured here: http://gregschlom.com/about)

I guess it's just a matter of finding the right height for your elbow.
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The point is that Emile is 50 lines of code and can be wrapped up for any purpose in about 2 minutes (export to some object).

Dustin wanted a different API to call upon, so he had to change some stuff, again relatively easy, because it basically fits on a screen in a text editor.

Let's not forget, all of this is open source, and it's meant for adaptation, forking and to be built upon. (Note that Emile was very much a proof-of-concept, with no emphasis on beatuiful, reusable code; it was written as a teaching tool for a talk on CSS animation I gave two years ago at Fronteers.)
Rockmelt stands alone now. http://www.rockmelt.com/

I wonder how much of this was a result of attempting to rewrite, moving from Gecko to Chromium.
I'm really interested in the logistics for a service like this. In fact, taking any kind of digital content and massively putting it offline is fascinating to me.

Is there a 3rd party service you use to send data via an API and you get back all the postcards? Do you do it yourself with an expensive printer?

I've had lots of ideas in the past similar to this, I never had the resources to follow through. Interested!
This is just the first of a small sample, I've got another 24,000 or so in the 5 letter space. I will be playing with 6 and 7 letter spaces too. Do you think this is a good way to release the information? Prefer another way/format?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a proper ergonomic standing desk have a bar or step to rest a foot for long-term activity?

Also, are you supposed to hold your elbows in that position for long periods of time? I feel like there should be an extension to rest the forearms or wrists.
Interesting comic. I was thinking about giving it to my kids, but it gets a bit too complicated starting on page 4. And there are no simple examples. It would be nicer as a longer series that explained how to make some simple circuits in the same down to earth tone.
As a fellow new grad, good luck man!

I have also felt the hurt of rejection..
I got in a few stages at Google, got dumped.
I made it to a final interview at Apple, and they bailed.
Applied to Pixar, Mozilla, 10gen, twitter, etc... also with little to no word back at all.

Honestly I feel like the #1 thing I learned from my job search is that the interviewer you get has a insane impact on the outcome. This is especially true of technical phone interviews, I felt like I was literally unable to communicate with some of the interviewers at google because of a language barrier. The whole process seems heavily based on luck.
Ask HN: Where do developers find designers willing to work for equity?
Where do developers find designers willing to work for equity instead of pay? I have no funding and my start-up needs a logo and better aesthetics.
As much as I appreciate the content, it feels like maybe Twitter is not the right format for a post like that.
its not clear how long its free and what the conditions would be if you need more or what happens if you go over the not publicly listed quota.
Even if they fail they can use it on their resumes. As can the company for seeming willing to tackle big challenges.

DLA Piper is one of the largest and most powerful law firms in the US, and routinely represents clients such as Wall Street securities firms in multi- billion dollar suits. I think you should click the link above and have a look at the existing resume before making such silly remarks...this is not an up-and-coming law firm in need of wider exposure.

pun intended
The ones that I've seen being put in schools have a little bar to lean forward with one foot. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a lot more comfortable and ergonomic than standing straight.
The Texas workforce commission is an agency that attempts to place unemployed people in jobs. The records they maintain are largely not on government employees.
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This is a pretty general high-level overview on how to scale. Nothing really Python specific besides the web servers. I thought the how to scale Ruby tutorials on New Relic were much more useful and in depth.

http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
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Neat!

I actually got pretty productive with programming on my Treo through VNC (over 2G, not even Edge!). Something that just really has never been practical on my iPhone, due to the virtual keyboard.
A support group for masochists?
I think it's an access thing. Not access just to tools, but access to people who are doing something different. But it extends beyond tech.
This is Couchbase's (Couchone, Couchio) hosting service that has been spun off. It has the same platform, same servers, same employees running Iris Couch, but separate from Couchbase.

Link: http://blog.couchbase.com/easy-couchdb-with-iris-couch
You must be able to browse, read, and understand the underlying source code and programming language of the application being tested.

I have worked on teams at large IT providers where test teams were marginalized because testers were essentially rote button clickers.
So, Milk Inc. won't be doing any A/B testing? Sounds like from the example of "Peeka" that they just decided to kill it because of some early negative reaction.

The whole thing seems odd to me. Why would a productless company be doing this much press, which has centered around the strategy of killing projects early? It must be helping to attract investors. I can't think of a worse message to send to potential users though.
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Ikea sells a "bar table" in the Utby line that works quite well. See:

http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2010/08/on-standing-desks/

I love working this way. My best coding is done barefoot and standing. As far as getting tired goes, in my experience it doesn't take long to adjust. Do be warned, however, that after you become accustomed to standing with good posture, it can be somewhat torturous to sit for extended periods of time.
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Did you read the tweets? The border patrol dudes were former army and sounded pretty personal about it. If it mentioned wikileaks in the dossier (which I presume it did), then these guys have heard of it, and specifically have heard of the collateral murder video.
They'll cut it to fit into your car, but they aren't going to cut it precisely to what you want it to be. At least around here.
I am liking the pugnacious tone. I suspect that with IE9 shipped, they feel they've earned the right to make a forceful argument on how browser development should happen.

"Hey kid. Releasing a new version every few weeks ain't professional."
Okay, I believe you are correct, title edited.
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Hurray, it's the Manga Guide to Soldering. Good stuff, I love these things.

One of the amazing side effects of technical comic guides are that small children, who are not really the target audience, end up picking these up and learning things like Physics, Database Design, and now Soldering.
There's actually a current model at Ikea that works awesomely as a stand up desk: The Fredrik. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00115992

I own one and enjoy it greatly.
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Thank you for the pointer to that ergonomic diagram - I hadn't thought about the requirement that the wrists be about level with your elbows, but it makes sense that you want to keep your wrists straight and avoid stress.

In my case I simply adjusted the height of the desktop and the monitor separately until it felt right and ended up with exactly what's in the diagram. But the various hacks I see aren't adjustable enough to take an experimental approach.

Desk hackers take note of the parent comment! Measure your elbow height and eye level and build accordingly!