skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was the top story on HN at the time I made the comment, as a result of my comment enough people flagged it to push it down.

As per the quality thread the other day I think there is a view that voting isn't working, and we should figure out how to improve quality. This is my contribution :)
LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph
Our son was born exactly three weeks ago, and I work from home. (I'm assuming you're the dad in this scenario.)

For the initial recovery period I found that being in the same room or nearby out of a desire to be helpful was a bad idea. (I don't want to seem like a jerk here, but I have things that I absolutely have to get done. No paternity leave for me.) Simply because my wife knew I was there, she would ask me to do more and more small things for her, i.e. walk across the room and get that blanket for me. Frequent little distractions are a productivity killer. If I was downstairs with a baby monitor, the requests would be a little less frequent. The optimal solution (if I wanted to actually get anything done) was to work outside the home but within about 10 minutes. This way, if she really needs something, I'm a phone call and a short drive away, but generally she has to remember to ask for things she needs when I'm home and non-essential tasks can wait.

So, I'd recommend finding a place close by where you can work on your own, and take breaks every couple hours to come home and help with anything.
> I'm sorry, I know it's fun to bash on managers but they exist for a purpose

The point is that it's possible to run a company where managers don't have a purpose and aren't necessary.
Banners and such are PUSH for a customer, he didn't do any action to call the stuff in his eyesight. Coupons are just tingling at the side and if a curiosity makes a user to click on it, this generates PULL effect and he is more likely to engage with a coupon. Or in the other words, this means coupons are a holy grail of advertising :D
The rise (and fall?) of firms in the 'government' 'data' space
This is why I hate the 'star' review system. It very often leads to users trying to 'punish' the maker of the product, and creates an incorrect perception that the product itself is flawed. This might be a great book, but someone browsing through titles will only see that it has a 1-star rating and assume it sucks. I really think there'd be a lot of potential in some sort of hybrid review system that could weed out these sorts of garbage reviews.
There is nothing you can do to make management decide that they should cut a large number of jobs. Seriously. Some things just can't be changed from the bottom up, this kind of thing (where you'd be taking away people's jobs) needs to come from the top down.
Fog Creek and 37Signals are probably more alike than either of us would care to admit (ha!) and I could see Joel writing a very similar article a few years ago when we had 20some people at the company. But what works there, or at FC, is not a one size fits all answer.

Having managers when there are 10 people are at your company makes no sense. The hierarchy starts out flat, you add a few more people and you're at 20, and the idea of making someone a manager seems like a waste and something a 'BigCo' would do. "We need people who get stuff done, not people who sit around doing nothing but managing", you think. Then you get to 50 people and everything breaks down. You wonder why people are frustrated they can't get things done, while other people are doing things that embarrass your company or compete with other things you are doing. And you realize your company isn't a special little gem that is wholly unlike every other company in existence. You need management.

Just make sure you give the devs a professional ladder and compensation structure that doesn't involve moving to management, because managing isn't something everyone is good at or even wants to do. And make sure that management knows their job is a support role to the people at the company who are making things happen, not the other way around.
This is slightly less spooky than BigDog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
I disagree. I'm the most passionate guy in the universe but in the end all of my passion has to create return on investment.
I got this book a good few years ago. Most of the book is really good and interesting, but overall I'm not sure I liked it, but maybe I missed the point or something. I should reread it sometime and see :)

I did love the setting though - a world where Babbage had completed the analytical engine and computers (mechanical, steam powered ones) were unleashed on the world a hundred years early. Some interesting ideas are explored.

As for other books, I actually enjoyed some of Gibsons newer stuff (The Bridge Trilogy: "Virtual Light", "Idoru" and "All Tomorrows Party"), though I've seen a lot of people say non of his other stuff was as good as Neuromancer.
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, by Ricardo Semler. Costs $10 at Amazon. Worth it.
Please tell the CSS story in detail, it won't put us to sleep, it'll make us feel better about our job :)
More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality
Here's my experience trying to bring this to one of the offenders' attention. He actually attempted to justify it.

http://eric.newcomer.org/jamplay-defends-storing-passwords-i...
Steps to Improve the Quality of K-12 Math and Science Teachers
they have the "distressed" style for that
This is exactly why I left the Android world. These kinds of engineering blunders were acceptable to vendors.

Apple's no golden child, as this bug demonstrates, but they're orders of magnitude better. HTC probably would've just let it be, in all honesty.
What happens if budget isn't passed by Friday midnight and government shuts down
Saudi Arabia to build tower twice the height of world's tallest building
An interesting question, and one that is more relevant to this community, would be to ask about being approached by investors.

How soon it happen, how often, what they said or offered, etc.

There must have been a stampede of VC's and angel investors after the stories of his success in beta were published.
But last I checked it only worked with the 32-bit version of Outlook and who runs 32-bit anymore?
The Four Steps to the Epiphany - @sgblank

Built To Last - Jim Collins

The Purple Cow - Seth Godin

The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki
Money Flows To Mobile Startups
Japanese-designed "in-wheel" electric car motor boosts efficiency
+1 "managing isn't something everyone is good at." How many bad developers get moved to management to keep them from causing trouble, and then cause even more?
Jason seems to imply that managers are useless when he says "We do not have room for people who don't do the actual work".

I think this is very naive of him, and a little selfish. He's enjoying the title of "President" which, to me, is a purely managerial position. I doubt if he considers himself useless, but he's happy to label other managers useless. I might be wrong, but it seems that he's either too selfish to see other people take away some of his control or he's afraid to tackle the problem of a growing company. Both of these will have negative consequences in the future.

Just for the record, over my 14+ years in a technical field, I have been a manager for 5+, and have given up that title twice before to focus on more technical work.
India has no welfare structure, zilch, zero, nada. More than half of population has no sanitation, lot of children are seriously suffering from malnutrition; and good schools are available to few.

If you are an entrepreneur in India, most probably you were lucky enough to be born in 20% of 'richer' family of India, and more often than not, a failure might put you back with the rest 80%. That is too much to bet, especially in a place where start-up in Silicon valley sense is quite difficult to setup.
Upon further googling, you seem to be correct. Apparently the people designing WISC-R never bothered to read up on the theory of intelligence.

This isn't even a new idea - it dates back to the original Spearman paper from 1904. Start reading on page 65.

http://www.similima.com/books/psychologybooks/psych7.pdf
"And because we don't have a marketing department, we don't have a chief marketing officer."

37 signals is amazing at marketing. Their blogs. Their books. Video Lectures. Mission statements. Guest posts.
You're referring to Dunbar's Number:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
We're looking into it. Thanks for the good wishes.
Just don't succumb to Perl.
Venture Capitalists Aren't Investing In Black Entrepreneurs
Yes, if someone breaks into the server, and changes the code for the login process, they can get around this. But that's always true. The server is a higher priority target than a single account. If your scenario requires breaking a higher priority target than the one in question, it's not really a security hole.

Similarly, someone can compromise my account on a Linux box if they get root access. They won't know my password, but they can change my password or just replace the login program with their own. But we consider getting root access a higher target that compromising a single account.

In other words, this is begging the question.

edit: I must have responded to a different understanding.
I agree with this. Our daughter is 10 months old now. Originally I had a separate home office, but even that wasn't separate enough for me. I felt compelled to help -- it's tough to be at home, knowing that you can get up and help, and not do it.

Now I have a permanent desk in a coworking space that's five minutes from home, and it's better for everyone.
iTunes for Recipes Launches with All Star Chef Cookbook for #Japan
It's funny, I've just gotten a Cherry G80-11900 TouchBoard keyboard and I was thinking how much it's like the RM 380Z keyboard I used at school...
First, I had to make it clear to my family that when I'm working, I'm working. I have a separate work space so they try not to bother me when I'm there. You could also try other indicators when you're not in your workspace...where a "work hat"? :)

Second, I head out to a co-working space or cafe a few days a week. Getting out of the house for the change of scenery is a huge energy boost and it helps to interact with other working people.

A couple of notes of taking care of the baby while working: (1) The newborns are on short cycles but if they're mild babies, you actually do end up with lots of time on your hands. You just need to be focused and get to your task right away since you'll likely be interrupted in an hour or so. Break things up into 30min-1hour chunks. (2) I tried taking care of our 6 months old full time while working at the same time -- doesn't work. I got maybe an hour of work done a day. If this is your scenario, hire a nanny!
A lot of large scale web apps use something like Node or message queueing along with Rails in an event-oriented architecture. An API request comes in, routes through a queue somewhere to get committed to a data store and also put in a cache. Then a web request comes in, Rails grabs data from the cache and then renders it with all of the Rails goodness for html generation, restful routing, etc.
"Ultimately, an impressive college credential from a good college serves to a prospective employer as an extended IQ test, a sort of legal signaling device."

I know this community likes to hate on non-technical college degrees, but the sort of thinking treats "real" liberal arts degrees quite unfairly. Believe it or not, but broad, challenging programs produce a substantial change in the willing student. Like it is often said, the technical knowledge is often better obtained on the job.
I think you're right. Many people are treating Node.js like Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/) and that's not really its intended purpose. It's hard to make requests in a webapp completely async anyway. As soon as you get database transactions involved you're screwed. I fear that too many people hear "it scales" and just jump on board without really understanding the context in which someone makes the claim.
LinkedIn Launches Revamped Developer Platform
What does this even mean? Considering the 18+ year impact that a child would have on one's livelihood/career/business/passions is thinking long term.
The Cloud Computing Stratosphere (Infographic)
Don't kill the messenger?
In addition, businesses that depend on affiliate relationships close down or move shop, and California loses some existing tax revenue.
At Google's scale? Successfully? I find that rather unlikely. If you have any examples of this, please do share. Otherwise, all I can imagine is reducing the depth of the tree, and in some cases not to make it a strict tree, but a somewhat interconnected graph. (that said, throwing people into distinct "manager" and "engineer" bins is disingenuous anyway, a manager managing engineers had better have some kind of engineering understanding)
Definitely a great example... but I find it disappointing that it is pretty much the ONLY example of this kind of company at that kind of scale that is brought up when topics like this are discussed. If it worked for Semler, why hasn't anyone repeated it?
What I find funny is that this would have never happened if they charged the standard $9.99 e-book price (which in itself is absolutely too much for e-books).

The $5 difference is causing quite a stir which I am sure is not worth it in the long run.
"Mr. Hamilton, who had failed English 3 in a conventional classroom and was hoping to earn credit online to graduate, was asked a question about the meaning of social Darwinism. He pasted the question into Google and read a summary of a Wikipedia entry. He copied the language, spell-checked it and e-mailed it to his teacher."

If the goal of the school improvement program is defined as increasing high school graduation rates, there will be strong incentives to allow this kind of academic misconduct. Only if the goal of the school improvement program is to improve student learning outcomes will there be any chance of checks and balances being put into place to make sure the students can think independently. Even at that, those checks and balances will only be in place if the authorities evaluating student learning are not the same authorities running the program. The program has to be evaluated on the basis of independent evidence gathered directly from students in monitored conditions.

That said, I am very happy about the ALEKS online courses

http://www.aleks.com/

my three younger children are currently using to study mathematics in a homeschooling setting. I can look in on their work from time to time, and they can also use the software independently, from quite a young age because they can read well, to focus exactly on the mathematics they need to learn next. The problems are open-ended and reasonably well designed. The theory behind the "knowledge spaces" model for the ALEKS course design

http://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/Science_Behind_ALEKS.pdf

is quite elegant. Based on recent posts here on HN, my oldest child still at home is now delving quite a lot into Khan Academy lessons. I am still making my mind up about how well I like the exercises that go with the Khan Academy videos, which are still undergoing further development.
From the first link: "App to make hiring easier. Enter your jobs, submit, and we auto-submit to all the relevant jobboards that you check. When candidates apply, easily define your screening process and move them through it with your team. Pay X$/month."
At the meta-level, this thread's an example of the potential of a system like Quora. It's been open for nine months and still attracts good new responses that get voted up. The brief bios add a lot, and so do the pictures. If you just want a quick answer, the top answer (or the top three) are fine; if you want to delve in more, all the different perspectives and experiences add a lot of value. Impressive.
Ha! Thankfully, Perl seems to be mostly going out of favor in bioinformatics in favor of a Python / R combo.
Aspose.Newsletter April 2011 Edition is out now
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These look great, though I'm not sure I can justify $25 each on tshirts..

Also, I think this is the first time I've seen a .biz that wasn't spam-related (or is it?!?!)
The secret to Memcached
Why are the parentheses in such an awkward place (Shift+8, Shift+9, or Shift+0)? I don't program Lisp, but why don't Lisp keyboards put parentheses in a more convenient place?

Also, there are quite a few modifier keys ("Function", "Super", "Hyper", "Rub Out", etc)? Anyone know the purpose of all of them?
Build your own AdSense revenue prediction model
How about this use case?

You need to assign a password to a specific user account (they aren't registered, but are seeded into your system). I work on 3 different projects right now with this requirement. In this case, we create accounts for people based on a data pull from another agency, then contact those folks.

I generally agree with you (and plenty of fish is scary how they mail your pass every week or so!), but there are use cases where displaying cleartext passwords is acceptable.
The typical path that many people (myself included) have experienced is: total obsession for 1-2 weeks, followed by rapidly waning interest.

It's a fantastic game, but you can quickly experience everything it has to offer, and thereafter you can set your own boundaries quite easily. It's really just a great big sandbox with no explicit motivating factors. But if Markus decides to include RPG-like elements some day, we're in big trouble.
Genuine confusion here - are you taking the position that nations should not discriminate when choosing who they allow to immigrate,

My position is that states shouldn't be empowered to allow or deny immigration, because freedom of movement is a human right. But separately, I think it's unjust that laws give preferential treatment for the wealthy (or education status as a PC indicator thereof). (Actually it's not just education; a lot of countries have explicit wealth discrimination in the form "investor" categories, for example the US' EB-5 program).

I have a small-government ideology; I believe laws should have highly compelling justifications, and I consider the two reasons for restricted immigration (one, central economic planning, and two, control of culture) not sufficiently so.
Adventures in Extreme Science
This is kind of bittersweet. While it's true entrepreneurial spirit that they pooled their resources and came together on something new, they could have done the same and helped NYC Startup Job Fair find new space to grow. It's not like the original organizer was rejecting them unfairly, they simply didn't have enough space. Now you have all that energy going in different directions instead of one, and the new group will likely make the same mistakes that have already been made. It's good for the NYC startup community regardless, just how good, we'll have to wait and see.
100 Learnings About StartUps in 20 Minutes (free PDF)
That is a great point. I hope it is structured in such a way so that post-IPO (I assume there will be one) there would be a poison pill of some description to prevent a hostile takeover.

They have a number of government contracts now, in the value of billions of dollars. They have only raised $125M total, so they may not need to raise much in an IPO.
Does anyone know how this compares to fixed-wing aircrafts in terms of energy efficiency?
Denmark does have something vaguely like it, though perhaps not as extensive. I'm on a researcher visa in Denmark (American citizenship), and it went via a separate program that was essentially, "rubber-stamp visas for researchers". I got my work permit by mail, in about two weeks after applying (!).

There are other Special Schemes for people who: have been offered high-paying jobs in Denmark (above ~$70k), who hold qualifications in professions deemed to be lacking available manpower, and a few other categories: https://www.workindenmark.dk/Find%20information/Til%20arbejd...
I find it outstanding that they have 5m users and only 5 support staff!. I would love to know how they manage that.
This is what happens when you bail out companies: you end up with a bunch of dynosaurs stumbling like the savages they are.
It isn't only the iPhone that doesn't have flash. Many people work on different architectures than x86 or x86_64. Some of us even want to watch these cool little bits. I realize that in your world there is only the PC, the Mac, and the iPhone, but out here in the real world there are many things in between. Standards are good and you're right, gif isn't one of them, but at least it works pretty much across the spectrum.
As far as I can tell, this gives anyone the freedom to purchase then give away the software. Meaning that there is no moral, ethical, or legal barrier for the original developer to charge $5 to the first purchaser and for the first purchaser to then give out free copies to everyone else.

Perhaps I also need to be initiated to comprehend this...
Well, there's also worker-run democratic cooperative corporations like Mondragon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

I think the biggest reason most companies don't recreate Semco's example is that nobody wants to think of themselves as expendable, especially people who can decide whether they're expendable or not, as the top management positions of a company are in a position to do so.

By saying "yes, our employees can make these decisions without us, we just have to give them the structure and support to do so", people at the top are admitting that they're not as important as our society tells them they are.

In Semco's case, Ricardo Semler was happy to admit that, because he felt the stress of running the business was killing him, and he welcomed the idea. A lot of people in his position would take anti-anxiety medication and something for acid reflux, and keep going, convinced that their position holding the reins is indispensable.
Well they review it as 1-star saying in essence that it is poor in terms of value for money, while throwing some flak at the publisher for not selling it cheaper. Im not sure what you could hate there - or why you would want to remove it.

If someone found something is poor value for money I'd rather know it before I buy. That kind of reviews saved me from a few bad purchases already.

I do agree there must be some part of "activist reviews" there too, not that they are worth the trouble of weeding them out.
I have no probelem with people leaving 1* reviews without reading the book, just like I have no problem with Amazon removing those reviews (and only those reviews). Yes they are annoying, but they are also one of the few visible ways to protest. While "not buying the book" will probably be effective in the long term, an indivudial non-purchase isn't going to be noticed by anyone.

A similar situation to this frequently arises when big games are released on Steam. Amazon then gets flooded by 1* reviews from people who can't get Steam to work properly on release day or something.

I also find the opposite very annoying: when fans rate something as 5* before it's even released.