skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No offense, but how old are you and are you not a native US citizen?

I am curious because your comments, and the way they are worded make it sound like you are not from the US and you are young.
GitHub Cofounder Tom Preston-Werner on Founder.ly
A "slightly enlightened 9-5" is close, but I think falls a bit short of what I was trying to communicate. I was an entrepreneur working to build something that I hoped would pay off big. I was working for the future, not the present.

I woke up, realized that it wasn't worth it, and decided to change.

In doing so, we discovered that by working with like minded people, building honest relationships and banding together with the same goal, we got the best of both worlds.

To your point about "job shops", I would agree that as a business model they have certain pitfalls. However, there are "job shops" that do run well, and we're one of them. The focus here isn't on the business model, but on what we deliver to our employees. That's what matters.
The Side-Track Trap
Just an example...

When I used Google AdWords, 30% of the clicks came from Google "content partners" which where nothing more than link farms. I'd say that was a significant source of revenue for Google... So much so that Google even put up its own parked domain service to further its profits.

If Google was "good", they would have either got rid of this 8 years ago, or never got into it in the first place.

Don't underestimate the amount of revenue Google generates from fraud.
Does it make a difference that Amazon delivers e-books over a cellular connection I get for free, while Netflix delivers them over a cable internet connection I pay $100/month for?
That's way overstated. The "curation" that is required here is, "Here is a list of domains that appear in court orders. Don't send ads to them with adsense, don't accept ads linking to these domains, drop them from search rankings." My reading of the law as written doesn't require more drastic action, such as scrubbing out links to them from blogs.

That is, it isn't Google's responsibility to figure out who is infringing. It is Google's responsibility to take a list given to them by US courts and follow a set of directions.

Not a pleasant task, to be sure. But it wouldn't break Google's bank account to do it.
The order of operations was:

* Twitter supported basic auth only.

* Twitter forced all new apps, including native apps, to use OAuth. Existing basic auth apps were allowed to continue working without modification.

* Twitter rolled out xAuth specifically to allow native app developers to provide non-shitty user experiences.

* Twitter finally forced all apps off of basic auth. I don't think there's a single native app that chose the web-based OAuth workflow over xAuth.

They were at one point in a position to move forward with only the OAuth web flow, but they chose to roll out xAuth after they were requiring all new apps to use the OAuth web flow.

Now they're taking away privileges from xAuth apps without providing a solution to the problem xAuth was created to solve in the first place. And they're giving developers 2 weeks to figure out what to do and do it.

It's not surprising that developers are upset.
Citation needed.

Citation given:

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/feat...

I am also very familiar with the gifted education community and numerous families of people who have been identified as gifted learners, and the research finding reported in the article submitted to open this thread rings true, based on my experience.
How living in the moment keeps me sane and productive
OSE Development Crowdmap
If you boot from the Scientific Linux cd with the "upgradeany" kernel boot option, you can upgrade CentOS to SL in-place.

Afterwards, check for CentOS specific packages with rpm -qa|grep -i centos, then check for problems with package-cleanup --problems, then merge changes with updatedb; locate rpmnew; locate rpmsave.

If you yum upgrade shows you any problems exclude the problem package then run yum upgrade again. yum upgrade --exclude "nss" -y

It's been pretty problem free for me so far.
While I agree there's definitely more to the holistic experience of UX than simply designing a UI after "frontpage" tutorials (really now comparing balsamiq or keynote wireframes to frontpage 101 is a little insulting to those tools)

A non-technical co-founder doesn't necessarily have to be a business person, they could be a designer, a product person, or other type of hustler.

The main point I think is show don't tell... there's also no one "right way". I would think people would use language in addition to pictures.

If it's myself and a technical co-founder sitting in a room, I'm probably going to use both the white board and my voice to get my idea across.

I'm sorry you got the message from the article and my comments that I think UX is easy. I know first hand that's a difficult thing to do right (and even then after you a/b test things you think are right, they turn out to be wrong :P ).

I'm just saying there are some great tools available for expressing yourself. I wouldn't call anyone cobbling together a song with garage band loops a necessarily a bonafide serious musician, but I recognize that the barrier to entry is much lower for expression.

shrug Maybe I am taking for granted my (self-assigned) proficiency in my target market's language and treat it is a given...
GNOME Discusses Becoming a Linux-only Project
Ask HN: Finding the Girlfriend a Career?
I am a software engineer who likes working in the fast pace software startup world, and somewhere along the way I meet this amazing gal.

The problem is that she has asked me to help her, but it's hard to help a gal who does not know what she wants to do, or what the right thing to do is. She only really knows that she doesn't want to keep working at her retail job any longer.

She like many who graduated in 2008 has found it hard to enter the work force and has been working at her college retail job since. She has moved through the ranks at the store, and I have already suggested applying internally to corporate to try out some other career with the company. I thought she might have a better chance with a company that loves her already.

The hardest challenge is in providing support and help without doing things for her. In other relationships I have found too much help in this area just drives you apart, and I don't want to come to a point of constant tension on the issue. I would like to either help or listen, but doing both, when she does not follow up on advice is driving me nutz.

What advice can you offer a guy who is trying to help is amazing gf find her professional interest while she has a full time job she has become fully dissatisfied with. Mostly because it's not that mentally stimulating.

She is also considering grad school, but I worry that is not the best use of time/ money if she is not sure what she wants to do. School is a very non-profitable way to find one self.

She has natural talents with language, writing, and conversation. She does not want to sell people things.

Again, any advice would be grand.
I dont know why, but I always seem to have a GAG reflex every time I try to watch mixergy videos. I really want to watch it.. but I just cant get pass the gag reflex and I end up tuning out and turning it off.
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This is how a programmer I deeply respect described her more aggressive years. (Piss and vinegar)

She attributed the same notion to a young programmer I hope will be able to make an impact on other coders.

Sounds like it might (piss and vinegar) might contribute to people hackin' stuff out that hadn't been tackled before.

I got pissed at Emacs the other day and solved a problem that had been bugging me, for example.
The CentOS team, particularly Karanbir Singh is doing a disastrous job of keeping people informed. Check the official Twitter stream:
http://twitter.com/#!/CentOS

Lots of promises, nothing delivered. CentOS 6.0 is already six months late. The project will either die very soon or be given someone else to lead it. Dag would have been perfect.
wouldn't the biggest issue be that to have a standard api for multiplayer games would be that each game has their own specific rules. If you are just talking about matchmaking, then look at open feint.
Oh how my hopes rested on Reiser4...
The question is, is he really buying? Or just saying he is, as an experiment to see the effect on the incredibly unstable bitcoin market?
pretty pumped to play with the Echo Nest's API
That logic is flawed.

Delivering the goods is not the only thing that costs them money, and, likely, only a tiny fraction of the costs. Without further arguments one must assume that that DVD more or less has a similar size web page advertising it as a 99c book, that page gets the same number of views for every sale, help desk and accounting costs of a DVD are about equal to those of a 99c ebook, etc.

I do not know how large those costs are, but it might be possible to get an idea from Netflix data, if it is publicly available. How much profit do they make per $8 customer? I bet it isn't $7.95.
The One Thing Every Affiliate Needs
You don't need a credit/debit card. At least around me, iTunes gift cards can be purchased for cash at pretty much any supermarket or pharmacy or convenience store.
Startup Accelerators: Better than an MBA. Every. Single. Time.
How are tablets going to replace conventional computing when they don't have keyboards and we don't have a superior replacement for the keyboard as yet?

I'm genuinely curious, I type at 1/10th my normal rate on my iPad, I can't fathom working on it.
An example of the forces involved on the steering wheel - Petrov's crash earlier this year where he jumped the car and the steering column broke: http://videos.larioja.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=343...
given the forces involved I'd be surprised if a driver at this level would fail to notice that the flap hasn't closed just by the feel of the car.

however, if the flap were to open while the car is grip-limited due to lateral load...that would be unfortunate.

(actually, this has already happened a couple of races ago but I have forgotten to which driver)
Client side localStorage tutorial
4 part tutorial explains how to use HTML5's localStorage feature
Intel was nowhere in the server market 15 years ago. Let's see where ARM is in 15 years time.
A friend of mine lost nearly everything selling Yahoo! short in the bubble. He kept saying, this is riduculous, it can't go on. Eventually he was proven right but the window was longer than he imagined. By the time Google went public he got a second mortgage on his house and bought as much stock as he could at the IPO and held on to it. (I do thing he sold it in the high 600's).

On the apocryphal teenager story it would be helpful to have a citation since there were many stories of pump-n-dump artists in the dot com days, however most of them involved people doing actually sketchy, probably illegal things (like sending email spam to millions).
100 million in t-bond & index funds and take a vacation.
I suspect its probably more that they don't keep up with this stuff on daily basis like us. Android, iPhone, Windows -- to them Windows is as popular as those other two brands.

I think there's a lot of truth in that. When faced with a choice of 40 devices and half a dozen operating systems, people who don't know buy what they do know, even if it's just a name.

And then after playing with the phone some of these people walk out with it.

I visited the store specifically to try one out, but they didn't even have a working WP7 demo unit on display. He said it was 'out the back somewhere, charging', which is UK phone shop code for 'my manager sold it on eBay'. Regardless, it sounds like some of their WP7 customers were willing to buy before they try.
Yup, I should have mentioned that.

I thought I arrived at this idea independently, and then was surprised to see that it featured in the book.

OTOH, considering I've read every Iain M. Banks book, it's a bit silly to talk about arriving at a conclusion independently (rather than having followed the same path).
C Is The One True Language : C Craft
Malcolm X Online
FWIW, blekko lets you disable use of Facebook likes data. Opt-outs are good.

I don't really look at likes data as improving the quality of my search. I think of it as asking my social graph what their opinion is. I expect that to tell me what's popular, not what's best.
Video discussing lotus's steering wheel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Zkbbfygjw

and one with Lewis Hamilton discussing his - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMvt0rO20g - though he does get talked over in Italian (I think it is).
Sure, but it would be so awful to watch that it wouldn't survive longer than five years. Schumacher's Ferrari domination years were just terrible for fans.
Odds are the two numbers are highly correlated - consumer electronics depreciate fast and nobody likes to keep inventory around longer than absolutely necessary.

Unless MS is pulling some really sketchy shenanigans stuffing the channels full of WP7 phones that won't sell (that retailers will push back hard against), "shipping to stores" is a not-terrible approximation of "sold to end users".
I'm not so sure about that. There is a lot of stuff on track outside the racing line. Especially at the end of the race. The amount of rubber that ends up on the track is just ridiculous.

http://www.autocarindia.com/files/images/19_0.jpg
Hypertable 0.9.5.0 "pre5" patch release available for download
that would be boring since it would basically mean the biggest wallet always wins. by limiting the cost and finding ways to equalize the cars, we get more exciting races.

as for innovation: there is constant innovation. unfortunately teams are not in the habit of telling the world about parts you don't see.

btw, the other day I learned that they use 3D printers to manufacture parts for the gearboxes. 3D printers that can can print metal parts. (I'm not sure if they use titanium parts, but according to a guy from Cloudfab, the titanium 3D printing process produces results that are superior to casting)
US salespeople aren't steering anyone to feature phones -- they are directed to pitch everything a smartphone can do to sell those lucrative data plans. This does not make them unethical, that's how sales works in every industry.
This is precisely why us Emacs users have been advocating org-mode for years. It can make generating tables, creating outlines, headers, emphasis, etc. all automatic and easy, (Most editors don't have support for markdown that makes this automatic.)

Best of all, org-mode syntax is just ASCII like Markdown and your grandmother could open it in notepad and understand perfectly what you're trying to convey.

Article about Org-mode that shows some common use-cases:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9116
Actually you do want to slam on two pedals, let me explain:

You slam the clutch pedal with the left foot, and the brake pedal with the right foot. While the clutch is pressed, you shift to neutral.

Depending on the speed, you can make the wheels stop rotating while the car is still moving, something that damages the tire. ABS brakes mitigate the risk of this happening.

So the correct technique involves that the strength applied to the brake pedal is more or less proportional to the speed, braking very lightly when the speed is low. This will make the car slow very quickly, in an emergency situation.

Other possibility is when negotiating a corner where you know you don't need to shift speeds. Therefore you can brake a little with the left foot while having the right foot on the throttle and simply accelerating on the corner exit.

This is in contrast with heel toe down-shifting, where you need to use the left foot to control the clutch pedal, and the right foot to control BOTH brake and throttle pedals.

Finally, the nice thing is that you could be doing all three techniques in a single lap in a track.

Edit: linky http://flyingpigpedia.wetpaint.com/page/Driving+Techniques
yes, that is exactly what he is doing.
Don't forget that Basho, makers of Riak, is in Boston.
Javascript
I always write some code in javascript but I relegate it in a corner because I think is not a serious language. I'm wrong, javascript is going to be one of the most important language for years.
Almost.

They all suffer from inflexible data models (how many are using SQL and rrdtool in that matrix?), death at scale (what happens when you go from 10 to 500 to 3000 to 10000 servers? across three data centers? and transient xen servers?), lack of UI design, and community involvement (because of that massive comparison grid).

That's not even considering broken models for alerting (a server dies at 3am -- should it page you? no, because you have 200 of the same servers in the same roll. the load balancer will compensate.), historical logging, trending, and event aggregation/dedup.

It's a big problem, but making flexible tools from the ground up with sensible defaults can go a long way towards helping everyone.

We can fix this. We can make the redis of monitoring.
I read that cramer said that linkedin was very overvalued. With that in mind, I would probably buy the shares.
> I would like to either help or listen, but doing both, when she does not follow up on advice is driving me nuts.

So she doesn't follow up on your advice? I get the impression she might be looking for an easy way out.

What you ask is, as they say in Spanish, "la pregunta del millón" (the million dollar question).

Although I don't have any career advice for you, personally, I wouldn't stress over this kind of situation. If there really isn't anything (immediate) that you can do, be honest and tell her that you can't help her.

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
SNL's Stefon version of Mad Libs
The closer I look, the harder it is to see (unless you zoom into the pixels and look at the colour fringing). But just glancing, it's clear to me that the "Anti-aliased" text has a distinctly fuzzy outline, while the "Not anti-aliased" text appears much more crisply.

At a glance, and as a Windows user, I prefer the "Not anti-aliased" rendering; as the article says, it is actually anti-aliased, just not sub-pixel anti-aliased. With the text size so large, I don't think sub-pixel anti-aliasing is doing it much favours.
I thought this might be interesting, John Cassisy at the New Yorker claims:
"One more cautionary note: Don’t take too seriously the headlines you will see about the market valuing LinkedIn at $8-9 billion. Using the oldest I.P.O. trick in the book, the underwriters only issued 7.84 million shares, thereby creating an artificial shortage. Even at $90 each, the value of LinkedIn’s publicly issued stock is just $706 million. The $8-9 billion figure comes from taking the market price and applying it to the rest of the company’s common shares, more than eighty million of them which haven’t been issued yet. It may well be several years before all of these shares are trading on the open market. At that point, we will have a better idea of what LinkedIn is really worth."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/05/li...
Talk by Jeff Atwood, Stack Overflow
thanks, I'll update the post
This shows actually that people buys the unit and not the Operating System. They'll walk to a shop, try a HTC phone, like it and buy it.
I am not about now but there were a few. Google css xss.

There was/is(?) the background-image on visited links "hack". Put simply, you could specify a background-image on a link to, let's say, facebook.com and you would know if the user has visited facebook because they would have loaded the image.

I'm pretty sure today's browsers don't let you specify background images on visited links because of this.
well, that's the whole point.

due to the aerodynamics you generally need a 1 to 1.5 second per lap speed advantage to pass a car. as soon as you get close to the car in front you lose a lot of downforce. this would not be a problem if the cars were always moving in a straight line.

to even out the playing field DRS is activated if you are closer to the guy in front than 1 second at a certain point on the track. once activated the DRS system can be deployed beyond a certain point.

the alternative is to keep the wings and have parades with almost no overtaking. or no wings, which would mean no more exciting 5.5g seventh gear turns. which would kinda suck.
Rich-kid sociopath slimeball is trying purposely to disrupt a burgeoning digital currency.

Nothing to see here, move along, etc.
Over 2000 signups!

Lots of ideas under way. Will tell more when I send out the first mail.

(Confirmation mails slowly getting out)
In "A Colder War" by Charlie Stross, Cthulhu runs the souls it eats:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

Edit: this is a rather splendid wee story where "weakly godlike agencies" are treated like any other strategic cold-war weapon, leading to an even scarier version of the Cold War.
The full set of photos is here: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/mississippi-flood...

Amazing.
Tell her to start a blog. Tell her to do it not for the money, but to explore her interests through her writing. You'd be surprised how much people find out about themselves just through the simple task of writing down their thoughts.

She might have to work at the retail place for the time being until she finds her calling (for money).

I guess she could also seek career advice from professionals. It might be worth trying just to get an initial bearing.
Not unsurprising.

There are probably many companies still relying on Win Mobile for tried and true outlook and exchange integration. While WP7 (and iPhone) promises the same the phones are more expensive, new and untested, and won't work with the custom legacy software built for WM.
Lesson here: be human. It seems the response capitalism (among other things) has taught us is a stance of defensiveness, even abusive.

But this guy dug deep and figured what the heck! Lost a bit of money and made someone happy. And it's not even Christmas