skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few websites that will do you small runs of custom playing cards, if that helps. (easy to find via Google) I haven't encountered anything for printing custom game boards and cardboard cutouts, unfortunately.
He's in that job because someone hired him. Either he was hired way out of his depth (not your fault, but not his) or he was decent when hired but is so burnt out that he needs direction on simple tasks that he would otherwise be able to figure out on his own.

What the OP describes is the micromanagement death spiral. Manager controls employee at an insulting level of detail, sucking all autonomy out of the job, and infantilizing him. Employee becomes disengaged and shows symptoms of mild depression, including taking too long and needing too much assistance on simple tasks. This impels the manager to ratchet up the micromanagement even further. This is actually a mild, sub-clinical mental illness pattern-- anxiety/OCD traits for the manager, depressive behaviors for the employee. Whose fault is it? Both sides are to blame.
The biggest reason to go with a publisher: marketing and distribution are much easier for publishers with a large stable of books and ongoing relationships with resellers than for lone authors.

I said a bit more about this, in the context of ebooks on a writers.sx thread: http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/1002/publishing-a...
all I'm asking for with Javascript is a shorter function keyword. Let me have

dosomethingasync(f() { });

With a language so dependent on callbacks, anonymous function are so verbose.
Sure, I think it's fair to say YC skims good teams off the top and the average goodness of the remaining pool is decreased. I'm not disputing that. I'm disputing the idea that the negative signaling for a team that doesn't make it in is as strong as the positive signaling for a team that does.
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<quote>there's no way they can find out (legally)</quote>
Really? Is that really true? What about all the forms one signs, allowing for background information check (education, employment information, etc)?
This headline is linkbait. While there is a quip about "child soldiers" I don't think that's really what the article is about.
How's this look? http://www.thegamecrafter.com
While it's true that Microsoft has tended to favour 'programs', the term 'applications' and 'apps' has been used generically for years. The earliest reference to the term in Gogle News is a paywalled article in the Washington Post from November 1990, which discusses PC Magazine shortening 'applications' to 'apps' because the word is too unweildy.

I think "app store" could be seen as analogous to "media player", a generic term Microsoft coined and popularised.
Http://www.bizontv.com/2009/10/news-tv-chanel.html
For most purposes, yes. But the author called out news reporting that quotes these "stats". Its important for journalists to understand the differences.
For most people, yes. I think the all-in-one packages of phone, mp3 player and camera has put a dent in the bottom line of any low-end single-use device. I bought a Kodak Zi8 back in '09 and to be honest I've only really used it once. The camera on the iPhone can't compete with it, but for a multi-purpose device I'd much rather have a GoPro. I guess Flip failed to take notice that a niche was driving the market.
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It (nginx) is bsd licensed. If you don't like the development model, you can always fork it on github, or start a company that develops and supports a closed-source fork.
Try CoffeeScript.

dosomethingasync ->
#etc
Yes, OpenBSD misc.

So for HMAC. I've looked at it more and I think your point is valid (even tho it's not very likely to occur). I may add it as an option. I don't really need to use it in the traditional sense (shared secret, integrity, etc) I only need it to better resist the length-extension attacks you point out.

Can the key and the message be the same? I'd rather not prompt the user for a base sentence and a key/salt. But I can't find anyone using HMAC where the key and the msg are the same. I thought you might have some insight into this.

Edit... here is a traditional HMAC (I think):

echo -n msg | openssl dgst -sha1 -binary -hmac key | openssl enc -base64

Here is how I would need to use it without changing functionality:

echo -n msg | openssl dgst -sha1 -binary -hmac msg | openssl enc -base64

I'm not sure this is proper from a cryptographic perspective.
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Is it ML week on HN? Sounds like everybody has got ML envy now..
The topic makes FB sound deceitful, but they don't hide this information, it says it right here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/

The number shown is the sum of:

-The number of likes of this URL

-The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)

-The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL

-The number of inbox messages containing this URL as an attachment.
Hah, I wish, I dout anyone from YouTube will even notice it :P
Everybody asked that question in the late 90's about tech stocks, and in the 00's about Real Estate. I don't know of a time when everyone was asking "is this a bubble?" when it wasn't in fact exactly that.
9) The interviewee's friend could have been quoting his after-tax and/or after-loan take-home salary.
My most common annoyance about Javascript is the lack of bound methods like in Python Ruby etc. When you specify callbacks, you always have to provide the value of 'this' as well. If you forget, it's basically random and you're in for some heavy debugging.
Arguing which language is better is like trying to place a total ordering on the complex numbers or figuring out if the hulk or superman would win in a fight, futile. Each language is different and excels at it's own niche.

Ocaml has functors and modules and polymorphic variants and compiles to very fast native code. F# has more libraries, units of measure, and better support for parallelism. What is innovative about F#? Getting proper generics on a runtime like .NET is not something to scoff at. F# was one of the first languages to support view patterns - pattern matching on objects. Balancing OOP with functional, as well as very smooth interop with .NET is its own accomplishment. Leveraging a language that balances FP and OOP well will lead to a powerful style of language that simply is not well explored at the moment. Scala is another one with this feature.

Actors, First Class events and async can have you write code that is either parallel, reactive, concurrent or asynchronous easily. Workflows (monads) are also innovative and with inlining you can write succinct code that is faster than C# in certain cases.

As someone who is using F# to write some machine learning code (as well as thinking about approaching genetic programming, something dead easy in F#, with category theory in mind) its future plans on typed datasets in the language are intriguing.

As for Linq its innovation is that it is a generalization of list comprehensions. Here is what Erik Meijer has to say:

"A lot of people, when they hear LINQ, they even think about "It's something that has to do with SQL and databases". I don't think people realize that any type that implements these sequence operators you can write queries over, like in Haskell, as long as you are going to implement the monads type class - you can do binds, return and so on. All that's comprehension and it's exactly the same here. It will just take a little time before people have discovered that and they will write the most crazy LINQ implementations.

These things take time and I think it's good that they can get used to it in its current shape for lists or for collections that they understand. They will go on and do state monads and exception monads - I don't what - because if you look at the sequence operators, they are the monadic operators. What is also interesting is that, besides "select from" and "where" we also have "group by" and "order by", which are not in Haskell's comprehensions. Then the funny thing is what happened is that the Haskell guys saw that and said "That's quite useful". Simon Peyton-Jones and Phil Wadler wrote a paper where they improved the Haskell comprehensions with things from LINQ, so it is a nice circle going on where the languages influence each other and get better."
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What I took away from this was the rather specific info that the PR firm made up (so far as I can tell?) a story about students using these as notes books.

The reason this is interesting to me is that I can see why journalists would use that much more than a generic press release about a new book.
The problem is publications like Forbes and Businessweek know that their readers gobble-up linkbait stories about teen entrepreneurs who may or may not be the real deal and even know what they're doing.

There are quite a few successful and talented teen founders who never get mentioned in these publications, precisely because they don't have the papa at AAPL or ORCL or GOOG, and they don't go to all the nice parties to hang with the adults and network. Some I know of personally come from quite humble backgrounds, yet don't advertise their own age as a selling point while developing their product as it tends to distract from the actual product and value of the company/startup at hand, and instead devolves into popularity contest with little actual value.
Except that Javascript has lexical scope. Use the var keyword to define local variables.

foo = function(){
var bar=0
return function(){
bar=bar+1
return bar
}
}
baz=foo()

baz() // => 1
baz() // => 2
baz() // => 3
bar; // => ERROR: bar is not defined
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Conan, what is best in #{javascript syntax highlighters}?
I've recently come across this even in the non-profit world. The organization has grown rapidly, and had a large degree of success, primarily due to the entrepreneurship of the director. He dives in, get things done, and has an amazing ability to keep track of details.

But now the org is big enough that this doesn't really work anymore. It's not one guy with three hats who needs clear direction, it's professionals in their fields doing what they know how to do. The website guy knows how to find a new host, the researcher how to plan a research project. Getting involved, especially when they already have a manager, is beyond micro-management.

It's hard for those with an entrepreneurial spirit to switch roles, though. I completely understand the mentality that pushes you to get a grip on everything... but your employees also want to have a grip on everything that they do.
Seems like nonsense - always does when you resort to first principles.

I like to wonder, how do we know space is expanding? When particles get further apart, do they also grow in size? Then how would we know they are further apart? The entire system got bigger, including the ruler.

I know, we measure light and that's the ruler. So light doesn't expand too?
you are missing the point, is not about money is about repect and professional esteem, if you are a husband and your wife tells you she loves you you will be very happy, but then you find all the other guys she is screwing around with (and loves more than you) and nothing has changed between you two but now you are pretty angry aren't you?
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I recently interviewed for a job at a web agency that I was perfect for; literally, the job listing described my resume. Consequently, I nailed the interview. He asked me what my salary requirements were and I told him; he said he'd run it by the powers that be. It was clear they would offer me the job, the only question was the salary offer.

So he gets back to me and says they want me but my salary requirement is a bit high. Hmm, okay, what do you have in mind? He throws out a number that is $30-40k lower than my salary requirement. I laughed out loud and said good luck finding the right candidate.

I found the same job listing on Craigslist the other day. They lowered the years of experience from 5-7 to TWO, and made a bunch of required experience optional. Good luck with that!
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Cisco shutters Flip cam business
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They're "hoisted" and only local to the function, though. I'd (personally) prefer it if it worked like C, and a variable was defined from the "var" statement until the next closing brace. Then you could have a variable local to one branch of an if statement, etc, without faking scopes by abusing closures (eg (function() { })(); ).

And nested loops that both use "i" would work.
I ran into a problem with a tcp connection to php-fpm just some weeks ago: The Server served requests at a rate of about 400req/s for some time without a single problem, until I ran out of useable ports. You won't have this problem with sockets.
I prefer coffee-script. It also works in the browser.

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
The problem I have with this "dissection" is it starts with a concept that Apple has a perfect ad and everything that isn't like it is a flaw. For example, why should the first frame make a strong brand play (after all, this assumes the audience is paying rapt attention from the get go, which I find rare for a TV setting)? Well, cause Apple does. Why do you have to focus on the product and not people? Cause Apple does.

He makes some okay points and Apple does make excellent ads, but the author approaches everything in such absolutist views with no backup but his feelings.
Here's the issue: employee productivity generally falls into four categories: multipliers, adders, subtracters, and dividers. Adders are the "vital force" of the company who "do the work" from a ground-floor perspective, multipliers are managers and tool-builders who make others more productive. Subtracters are the harmlessly unproductive people who don't bother any one but produce less than their salary merits-- they should be mentored and turned into adders, if possible. Dividers are the vampires (severely incompetent programmers, bad managers) who make other people less productive and destroy companies. Fire them.

A lot of these entrepreneurs were great at being adders and decided to start businesses in order to capture more of their value-added. The problem is that, once you're a manager, you cannot help but have major effects on other peoples' productivity and can therefore only be a multiplier or a divider. If you're a micromanager, you're going to end up a divider. These entrepreneurs/managers need to transition from an "adder" context to a "multiplier" context. Unfortunately, this transition is difficult and painful because it requires "letting go" of detailed control; you make more money and have power, but you're support staff as much as you're a "boss".

As much as I find his suggestions impractical for the rank-and-file average people, I think a lot of neophyte managers need to read Tim Ferris's Four Hour Work Week. Their goal should be to enable others' productivity and make themselves mostly unnecessary (as managers). This means they have to trust their subordinates to do good work. Most will, a few won't-- and when the latter happens, tough decisions need to be made (can he be trained? Or do we need to fire him?) But starting from the assumption of "I'm the only person who can do things right around here" is going to lead to failure: the best people leave, the middling people degrade-- when you manage people like children, that's what they become-- and the incompetents don't get found out (and trained or fired) because the managerial meddling makes it impossible to differentiate who is capable and who is not.
Try this:
for ( var i = 1; i < 10; ++i )
setTimeout( function( )
{
alert( i )
}, i * 250 )

You might expect it to alert 1..2..3..etc. It actually alerts 10..10..10..etc.
After having seen a still from an iPod touch, I'm not entirely sure that's an actual advantage over the Flip.
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Software development is like a Japanese garden - it needs to be cultivated in order to bloom.
Sure it is. His normal job is designing/selling novelties like the "Man Controller" which is a non-functional remote control.

This book is another novelty, really. So he got to the top of the charts by playing his strength - novelties.
Inconsistent click-through behavior is a major problem of OS X. (Gruber has written pages about it.) I don’t think it matters whether click-through is possible or not – your preferences will just depend on what you are used to – but the behavior should at least be consistent. In OS X, it is not.
As a kid I was an avid reader of Heinlein and Asimov, and they were always talking about slide rules (Astrogators navigated space with them!)

This was the late 80s, and I couldn't find one. So, I found plans for one in the public library and built one. Later a math teacher gave me his.

Playing with slide rules would be useful. Building a slide rule would be even more useful.
It's not closures that I hope to avoid, but callbacks.
Amazon introduces Kindle with Special Offers for $114
The best way to find out is to polish up your resume and actually see. We only know the value of things when people are buying them. Your time is a free market asset and there is only one way to know the actual value of it.

And you don't have to take any of the offers you get, you can do what ever you like with the information. But if you want to know what you're really worth this is the only true way.
Excellent points. I'll confirm your assumption about BTC's volatility: a single sell-off of ~10k last week took 25% of BTC's value with it. The limited purchasing power of the BTC economy has hindered economic development, but that is to be expected with any new currency.

However, Bitcoin as a medium of exchange is quite extraordinary and has recently caught the attention of Anonymous because of its "untraceable" (term used loosely) characteristics. There is the potential for Bitcoin to cater to a community outside of sovereign banks. In other words, there are interesting possibilities that exist beyond what goldbugs have in mind.
The guys at INRIA (you may know them from Bigloo or OCaml) have a scheme to javascript compiler that works quite well. HOP is made with that.

This short paper: http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/scheme2js/files/icfp2006.pdf elaborates on Scheme to JS compilation and goes beyond. You can actually generate all the HTML in Scheme as well (as done in HOP).

If you download HOP's sources, it's there.
Amazon's posted pictures of the screensavers and new "AdMash" tool as well: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_n...
You should also try CoffeeScript.

dosomethingasync =>
#etc

will automagically bind the closure to the current value of this.
That's because closures actually capture the variable, not the current value of it. They'd be a lot less useful if they just made a copy of the variables...
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Is this an open program or are there any specific requirements?
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I will likely lose a few points for this, but I accept it because it needs to be said. If you are going to write a big article, please have someone with a good grasp of grammar proof read it before you publish.

This article has a lot of good points, but it's much harder to take seriously when it sounds like it was written by someone who didn't pay enough attention in English class. Yes, I realize there's a good chance that this person is a non-native English speaker, but if you want to be taken seriously, that's not really an excuse.

I will leave you with this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-withou...
edw, do this and give this guy some cut. The scribd version is awful (at least on my screen: http://i.min.us/iksKDk.png
I know the $114 price has been criticized, but I wonder if this is Amazon's way of testing the ad-supported model. Perhaps if the $25 is actually recovered through ads, then we'll finally see a $99 Kindle for Christmas.

I do wonder, however, if a Kindle is the ideal device for ads. With web browsing being so difficult on a Kindle versus a proper tablet, it should be interesting to see if Amazon can move from simple "branding" campaigns to actual intent-to-purchase campaigns.
Backstory, anyone?
The idea of surveying before, during, and after book creation looks interesting. I'm not sure if I like it or hate it.

But heck, I'd like to see how this experiment turns out.
It's good to be able to spot noobs, but I don't think highlighting them in green is the way to go. My initial thought was that these accounts were in some way verified or premium. Maybe just appending " [Noob]" to the user name would be enough.
A lot of people have visions, the ones that are able to make them come true are the ones that can focus and work hard with consistent progress on their minds.
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What suprises me is why it took so long to happen:
hacker community + validated model + underserved customers yields YC Reject
My greatest hope is that the makers of node.js will continue to abstain from language changes. Some inconvenient syntax is a small price to pay for the confidence that node.js isn't going to get turned into another regurgitation of Java meets Perl by hordes of perfectly well meaning but unsatisfiable programmers who want everything to work like the things they know. I don't mean to insult the makers or users of other languages, just to highlight the distinction of Javascript.
I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this. The fact that he was arrested for it that shocked me, as if it's his completely his fault his gun went off.
As someone said, this was done for Wii several years ago. I think the idea is more practical for iPad, since you can rotate the screen instead of moving around. I would probably be more likely to use this if the position tracking was done via gyroscope.
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I'll be sure to write a postmortem about how surveying has affected the development and the overall outcome of the project.
Don't get me wrong, this could end up being the best thing since sliced bread, but the advantage of closures is that a higher-order approach can work wonders. Just take a look at async.js.

For me, more interesting than a pure assault on callbacks would be to see if you could handle more asynchronous scenarios, using async.js as a baseline.

e.g. callback waterfall, callback when all children are finished, callback when any children are finished
> Javascript itself has very few faults

Having coded JavaScript professionally and enjoyed it thoroughly for 6+ years now, I respectfully degree. The Harmony project shows just how much work there is to be done to make JS more fun/practical to use day in and day out.
The description seems to ignore elastic collision - contact always occurs on a frame boundary which is noticeable wrong when higher velocities occur. Wouldn't the described solution result in 'sticking'?
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