skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I partially agree with the OP.
It's easy to say execution is everything.

I have an honest question for you guys.
I am working on a project that needs design help. I am a coder and could use a designer. The one I could afford and connect online is another programmer with decent design skills. (he has a decent portfolio).

My project is not rocket science but it has some novel elements to it. How do you make sure that someone you outsource it for few hundred bucks is not gonna steal your idea and launch it themselves? Especially when it is someone you've never met.
I2P's Syndie (http://syndie.i2p2.de/) seems like exactly what you're looking for.
100 Light Bulbs Brain Teaser
Good Programmer
There is a line to be walked, though. Don't outsource anything key to your business, but don't waste time learning anything that is ancillary to it.

Technologists love to "find the answer" to technology problems, but startups need to quickly find the answer to customer pain and spending a week figuring out <insert unknown, complex tech> to build some connector that is valuable but not pivotal to your business is the wrong side of the line to be on.
I'd downvote if I could. If you have to tap a guy on the shoulder to tell him is code is broken, you're not working with a professional.

Distributed teams are glorious when you weed out the jackasses. And in the meantime, remote guys are comfortable with much lower salary. That seems useful for a startup trying to keep costs down?
As far as I can tell, Twitter was built on the idea that (some) people want to get advertised to by the brands (corporate or personal) they admire. Until Twitter came along, the "best" way to do this was basically through giving over your email address and waiting who-knows-how-long for a who-knows-how-lengthy newsletter, and hoping they don't sell your contact information to spammers in the meantime. Twitter enforces brevity, which encourages timely little facts rather than big, polished PR-jobs, and it's a pull-based, rather than push-based model, meaning that you can always unsubscribe from anyone whose channel becomes more noisy than signally.

Twitter boomed primarily because its target early-adopters were precisely the kind of people who already had lots of followers to advertise to (celebrities, reporters/bloggers, "personalities", etc.), and who wanted a more streamlined, more informal, lower-expectation medium to push out their little updates. Twitter was such a channel, but although they were on it, their users weren't—so, since they were all of the getting-the-word-out bent, the next thing they all (simultaneously) got the word out about was Twitter itself. If not for this clever bit of social engineering, Twitter would never have become the "thing that comes after Facebook in 90% of sentences about social media."
No, it was something else.
And I should add that the prospects of finding any meaningful amount of shares, while much better than finding a block, are still quite low. My GPU can find a couple of shares per minute in a good minute, but it operates at 55.5Mhash, over 10x faster than my CPU (i7-2600K). Consider that most are going to have really slow CPUs and share the processor power with other heavy applications (Flash games), and you might get one share from the best computers in an average 10-20 minute visit if you're lucky. Shares are worth increasingly little and it depends on how you calculate what each share is worth (since btc generation is really totally based on blocks and each pool decides the value / share on its own, etc.), but I really doubt this is a viable replacement for advertisements or any other money-making endeavor for anyone, even the largest websites where people spend lots of time (Facebook, gmail).
Bridal gowns in Maryland
Lily’s Bridal - Maryland Brides #1 Choice for Bridal Gowns, Bridesmaids dresses, Wedding Dresses, Prom Dresses, Mother Gowns, Veils, Tiaras, Headbands, and Jewelry.
I'm still looking at late applications now so you can still apply, though I'll likely stop by end of day tomorrow. The review of late applications is stricter than during regular application time so the odds of getting an interview are much lower.
internmatch.com
Buy a stiff spring mattress then put a thick memory foam topper on it. You won't notice the difference between it and the $3k+ Tempurpedic mattresses and you'll spend a lot less.
Plan B is a vacuum in a lightweight super strong carbon fibre shell.
Solid-State Batteries High-energy cells for cheaper electric cars
Patriot Act extended four more years, USA in fourteen year state of emergency
Even that's not enough. He's assuming most people in Congress and the Obama administration give a damn about the effects of piracy on artistic expression, or indeed what is in the best interests of society. They don't. It's sad to see someone so naive in that position.
Built by Twitter employees... with Facebook Connect!
LinkedIn IPO: How much everyone got
If you ask me, it's another homerun for Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and not to mention Reid Hoffman.
How can we look down on governments that have kept their country in a bogus "state of emergency" for decades to restrict rights, when the US is kept in a state of emergency to restrict rights via the "Patriot" Act for over a decade?
Without knowing anything about what has really gone on a Blippy, I would question whether they asked anybody else if Blippy was improving their lives.

I wouldn't say the only purpose of innovation is to relieve pain (even if I did just say it ;). Rather, humans are motivated by fairly basic things, and reducing pain and increasing pleasure are pretty much at the top (details come in defining those terms). If you can't identify what is going to motivate people to use your product, you are in trouble.

When I posted the parent comment, I thought about pulling out the reference to Blippy, because they may have done everything right and just had craptastic luck.
Internships.com
I'm looking forward to buying some put options.
$4.30 microcontroller dev board
The fact that a tree builds itself out of thin air is one of my favorite tidbits of knowledge. However, this kind of metabolism is only used by plants. Humans, as all animals, gets their building blocks from what they eat and drink. All the oxygen we use from the air we breathe is exhaled as carbon dioxide.
I just wrote up my experience in trying to get a job with the Apple store: http://1every.blogspot.com/2011/05/employment-process-at-app...
I love lean startup methodologies and all but cmon...
not even a small description of how? Not a single screen shot?
How do we know it is even by twitter employees?
Not even that much.
On my old laptop I get a little more than 1000 hash. Assuming that average computer is twice as fast as mine we get 2 khash/s. Inserting it in the calculator [1] shows that it would take 6068212 days on average to calculate one block of 50 bitcoins. That is 332.5 years per bitcoin. At current rate it means $0.02 per year.

[1] http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/old_calculator.php
Optimal brain damage
The Hiring Process at the Apple Store
If you ask me, it's another amazing homerun for Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and not to mention Reid Hoffman!

And assuming that the stock price goes up pass the $100 mark, this will put Reid Hoffman in the billionaire club.
http://jobzle.com/
Online Florida Advanced driver improvement couses
EasyADI.com specialises in driver improvement and traffic school courses for Florida drivers. Apart from ADI, we offer Advanced driver improvement courses in Florida. FOr more Details Visit Us
Huh, after I signed up with Facebook they had my real email address. I haven't worked with the Facebook API for a couple years but they didn't used to give third parties access to the real email.
Minecraft GLSL mod demo
Hot Armistice News, Current News Stories: The Mentalist
Sounds like a straight ripoff of David Weekly's Up For Stuff.
I think there's a bit of post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) going on here. When you read the complaint, the narrative description of what went on is less than coherent. the amended complaint I linked to in my other post doesn't include the emails, but the original one (below, pp 24-27) does, and her correspondence with Facebook doesn't seem to include any mention of Obama, hate pages, or indeed her personal disability problems (as opposed to the fact of her account being disabled).

Unless there's something missing on the blank pages, I find it hard to blame Facebook for thinking she was anything more than a spammer or completely indifferent to the ToS.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36038284/Young-v-Facebook-Complain...
Twitter indulges people's need to feel like they're being heard. Giving people a voice is a very powerful tool.
Doesn't work in Chrome dev. Insecure media access?
yes! i'd love to see a sin city meets bladerunner kind of thing but I'm gonna be pessimistic and expect demolition man...
"Thursday’s announcement includes Kindle Singles, which are shorter pieces of writing, like a Fortune magazine article, and “no doubt helped them reach that ratio,” said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information."
Mumbai Escorts | Female Escorts in Mumbai
Established in 2000, we represent models in Mumbai. No.1 Mumbai Escorts provides a highly confidential service with a guarantee of absolute privacy for both our clients and the Mumbai Escorts we represent.Mumbai Escorts, Female Escorts in Mumbai, Call Girls in Mumbai, Escorts in Mumbai,Mumbai Escort, Escort Services in Mumbai, Mumbai Call Girls
What about the bias that comes from having worked with someone for a few years, and knowing without any doubt that they are awesomely gifted, loyal to a fault, and willing to dive into the breach for the common cause? You cannot figure that out with a sterile interviewing process.

A company does not have to guard against 'bias' other than racial, religious and that sort of thing. 'Bias' towards (or against) people you know is called knowledge.
"As far as I can tell, Twitter was built on the idea that (some) people want to get advertised to by the brands (corporate or personal) they admire."

i'm not sure i believe that this is the idea that spawned twitter.
Mln
OPWELGFL;SGL;SGllL;KSDL;KL;lkmkl,fds
Silverstone - BMW M5 vs Williams F1, from 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkC70iFcJ04&feature=fvwre... lap starts at 3:30
Mluxuryauction 
Mluxuryauction presents an exclusive Auction at 28 Fairway Point, Newport Coast on Thursday June 9th. M Luxury auction is partner with Auction.com, which welcomes millions of visitors to its site each day. You can register with us as it is completely free and attend this auction.
Learn or outsource? where's the right balance...
What's your advise for someone who can't program, although wants to build an online business.

I have a technical (network/security) background and have recently taught myself perl for a side project. I'm also learning php basics to fix a whole.

There is a difference between stumbling through perl/php to fix a problem, and building an successful web application.

The obvious answer would be to partner with a programmer, that aside.

Should I be thinking of learning/outsourcing?
With offshore pricing so competitive this would seem the option if I can manage the process.

Concerns: In the YC application, this is flagged as a concern (http://news.ycombinator.com/s2011form).

"Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders? If so, how can you safely use it?"

Concerns: I could pick up RoR or run with PHP, although learning from scratch my code is going to be messy and sometimes completely wrong. I accept this is part of learning to program, but my goal is to build a business not become a programmer.

Paying for outsourcing isn't an issue.

Has anyone got experience or advise I can learn from to get the right balance?

Cheers

M
I assume you're testing on an Android device then... I don't have one to test (but I will soon), so I'm not surprised it doesn't perform well there.

Anyway, the current code is trying to replicate the feel of iOS scrolling. An Android implementation should try to replicate the feel of Android scrolling, which is much different. I will get around to it...
The original article makes a good case about why they need to change. They have had some serious misses lately, and some of that may be attributed to a broken hiring process that emphasizes coding ability above all other considerations.
The inflammatory title of my post did bleed through the content a bit, didn't it? I just loved the quote. Mea culpa.

At some point, indeed, behaviour becomes so bad that you have a moral duty to stand up to it, even if it means burning your bridges on that project. Your examples in these comments fit the bill.

But discovering that someone on the project is not a nice person, and someone you wouldn't want to hang out with? Even though they're a Coding Deity? I don't know if I'd work on any large FOSS projects if I drew the line there.

Maybe your experience has been more pleasant, or your classification of assholes more sophisticated than mine :)
You should read the article, and then form an opinion. If you're really curious, try to figure out what information was released by the umm "non-conforming" admin about other Anonymous users/members. I don't know the details, or care to know, but it doesn't sound good.
Rather editorialized title ...
Erm, 100K is not small town America.

I grew up outside of a town with 5K people; it was the largest town in a 50-mile radius.

Small towns have under 1K people, at least where I come from.
Although this trips a few ethical flags for me (should we be taking advantage of the deluded?) I kind of love it. It makes me wonder if there are other services atheists are particularly suited to offering to fundamentalists.
It's also nowhere near as bad as heineken.
By "Twitter was built on use-case X", I meant "Twitter built up most of its early user-base by doing X, and became popular because of X", not "Twitter was conceived in hopes that it would work for X."
It's 100% fact?

1. The Patriot Act specifically removes rights due to a declared emergency.

2. It's now extended to 14 years total.

Which part is opinion?
Go for all the big companies - they have established internship programs that they recruit heavily for. Try Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and any other BigCos you can think of. That's generally the easiest way to go since these companies make it a point to hire a lot of interns every year.

It is probably way too late to make it anywhere for this summer at these companies though, given their structured schedule in recruiting (the intern season at Amazon has already started).

Talk to small companies. I have a friend who literally drove down the highway with a stack of resumes. He walked into every place that seemed like it would be beneficial to work at, walked in, demanded to speak to a manager of sufficient seniority (didn't take no for an answer), explained to said manager his skills and how he could contribute to their business, gave them his resume, and left.

He's also the guy I know who never seems to be lacking a job.
After logging in via FB, it asks, "WHAT’S IN YOUR POCKET?." Clicking on any of these mobile icons doesn't seem to do anything.
This puts "make something people want" on a whole new level.
Verizon’s Sony Ericsson Xperia, PS Verified PLAY now available for pre-order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
Ask HN: Can we have real discussion about tech bubbles ...
without it turning into "that's what they said last time", "party like its 1999" "its not a bubble if everyone says it is" and other such arguments?

With LinkedIn ipo and bubble talk everywhere I can't help but notice the reality is being drowned with all these nonsensical arguments.

Personally I thought 2x increase was bit too high, then I found this article:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/linkedins-109-pop-on-first-day-of-trading-isnt-close-to-dotcom-era-ipos.html

Firm......................Date..............First-day gain

VA Linux................12/08/99........698%
Exodus Commun....03/18/98........637%
Theglobe.com........11/12/98........606%
Foundry Networks....09/27/99....525%
...

I did a little more research and came across similar "bubble talk" article about Google, from 2004 (Technically there was a bubble, just wasn't tech induced).

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/opinion/google-goes-public.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0223/p16s01-wmgn.html

Is it possible we are shell shocked from the last one and even minor excitement makes us all scream bubble in unison?
Well, editorialized may not be the best term, but you submitted with a title different from the title of the source with information that was not in the source.

If you want to make that point, you should submit with the original title and then comment with the additional related information that you think is constructive to the conversation about the source.
"but my goal is to build a business not become a programmer."

I believe there's your answer. Outsource for the former, learn for the latter.
PlayBook is great for BlackBerry users but results will vary
For Serious: The Importance of Knowing Your Customer
I do $100,000 per month in SEM between Google and MSN. So for me, I obviously don't see value.

But if you want insights into something in particular, I could help out!
> Europeans think its sewer water

That's not completely true, that would be the 1667 ("the kro") and other similar french non-beers. Stella is simply the base beer in Flanders (the base beer in Wallonia being Jupiler). Not good by any means, but still drinkable.
Blart Versenwald II seems to have done rather well though, no?
Pretty skeezy but amazingly efficient. I signed up, they got all my facebook information. I just walked out to my car and it's already placarded with UpFor stickers.
People said this same thing about Zipcar. But, won't the stock price stabilize in the near future to around the IPO price?
This blame the user bullshit has to end. My own girlfriend got a virus (it was hostage-ware to be precise) last year and doesn't visit porn sites, runs up-to-date anti-virus, and keeps Windows up-to-date and patched. She knows better to run random shit sent to her via email. She's very defensive and doesn't even open an email that looks shady. It was probably a drive-by-download, Flash, PDF, or Java, I don't know. Running combofix, anti-spyware scanners, and everything I could find on forums didn't help. She wasn't happy that I had to wipe her HDD.

It is painful to watch her worry about viruses.
I expect that you'll end up getting downvoted by the "carbs are evil" crowd, but I think you're largely correct. Too many people are looking for the magic bullet that will let them remain sedentary, overeat, and yet still lose weight.
It is not. Singapore is, as far as I know, the only country in the world with four different official languages...School officials in the United States whine about a minority of pupils who speak Spanish at home...

This is a somewhat disingenuous comparison. A fair comparison would be to compare Indian Americans who speak {Konkani, Hindi, Marathi, etc} at home to a similar Indian Singaporean. Similarly, one should compare Chinese Americans who speak {Chinese language} at home to Chinese Singaporeans.

The vast majority (about 4/5) of the gap between the US and Singapore is well explained by race. Asians (100% of Singapore, 4.8% of the US) tend to significantly outperform others (0% of Singapore, 95.2% of the US).

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...

If you want to look at top schools, we should look not at Singapore, but at Texas and Connecticut. After all, Asians from Texas and Connecticut outperform Asians in Singapore (by roughly the same gap that Singapore outperforms the Asian American average).

I've pointed this out to you a number of times. Why do you continue to ignore it?
I worked in Geek Squad for 5 years (finally started making a enough money doing freelance development to quit this past december).

I've done malware removal on 5-10 computers a day, 5 days a week for most of that time. So I've seen thousands of malware infections on the average consumer's computer. I've seen more different malware infections than just about anyone outside of an antivirus research lab.

When I first started most of malware came from users downloading files from P2P sites. However, for the last 2 years nearly all the malware I found was installed via a drive-by download that happened without user input.

You can talk all you like about avoiding porn sites and installing AV software, but it's not that simple. The majority of the computers I worked on had current AV programs--they weren't able to prevent the infections. The situation with malware and windows is absolutely terrible, and it doesn't only happen to idiots who stuff their drives with porn.

Macs have security flaws--they aren't perfect, but when compared to the malware ghetto I've dealt with over the years, calling this a mac malware problem an "explosion" is just ridiculous.
bitcoins should be used for karma.... e.g. you calculate the real time a user spends on the site, a function of the amount of time typing answers and the upvotes they get, and this results in bitcoin karma.
Red Queen says I am Uncomfortable
Thank you for the effort you've put into your reply.
Why only scientific journals, and not scientific blog posts? Or anything of a technical nature, really? The only major differences there are degrees of implied legitimacy based on the source. And once you've reached "anything technical", is art technical? Opinion with supporting arguments? An enormous amount of HN news falls into that category.

For this one in particular, I'm pretty familiar with the recommendations - reading the article was generally a waste of time, though I admit it was well made. The main useful chunk to me was the news of supporting studies, the link to multimodal techniques, and the list itself, as I've read everything else a dozen other places. As can be said, likely, for many other people who have actually researched intelligence-improving techniques.

I'll wrap up with an anecdote, as that's all that this line of debate can really sustain: for this article, the list really did tell me the most important parts. I would have found the other info eventually, and I have no urgent need for it, so not finding it here by skipping the article wouldn't have significantly changed anything for me.
Curious that the article states both "Vincenzo Natali will direct the film" and "Visual-effects work already has begun."

Don't mean to be pedantic, but it implies art direction has commenced prior to the director actually starting, which surely must be inaccurate. (Enjoyed Natali's Cube.)
We use http://codingheads.com/ always great xhtml/css code
This could be a beautiful film if done by a small production house without a lot of interference "for marketing purposes" and if it limits the use of CGI to internal representations of the matrix.
[AyoCariRumah.Com] Tren Arsitektur Minimalis dan Kontemporer
It's only an service for a tiny subset of fundamentalists. While all dispensational premillenialists and members of the small Millerite sect are fundamentalists, not all fundamentalists are advocates of Millerism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerism
I think that it's reasonable if Apple doesn't want to provide support for fixing malware problems on systems that they've sold regardless of how any other company chooses to handle such issues. Also, this issue is obviously independent of OS as the exploited security hole is the users' lack of understanding. That said, the reason that I thought this article was hackernews worthy is because Apple is encouraging employees to knowingly withhold information about malicious software running on users' computers. I personally find that to be an inappropriate approach in almost any situation. What are your thoughts on this aspect of the article?