skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only have about a ten minute drive. It's pretty short.
If you are on a contract (which from context I am guessing is full-time per week, short-term), you can take vacation before or after the term, right?
Introducing CoffeeDOM, a JDOM fork for Java 5
That's a start, but I'm not sure I'd trust the UK any more than the US.
No doubt Google would be glad to develop and update Android in the same way... if we could only get the carriers to step aside.
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Sort of. The difference is that some benefits are linked to length-of-service or continuity-of-service, so an unpaid vacation in the USA can scuttle your health insurance, equity vest, 401(k) match, etc.
The Canary build goes out automatically without being looked at by a human, so there's a very real possibility that it will be unstable. Currently there's some strange crasher in the PDF viewer, for example.

You can install Canary "side-by-side" with another channel, so you can switch back to something more stable if canary goes pear-shaped.
Use it only when you need a new tab/window to open and nowhere else. You don't want to try and make a user's life easier by guessing if they'd open a new tab, because some won't want to.

The only place I've used it in months is on Facebook iFrame applications where otherwise avoiding it would cause a larger page to load in a smaller area and get cut off.

As another poster mentioned, it would be good to mark as opening in a new window with an icon or text. When it's a small bit of information (like a couple paragraphs of help text), I always appreciate a modal window or tooltip first.
Thanks for the advice... It's a pretty relaxed and understanding environment here, so I could head home right now if I felt like it. Coming back from a vacation though makes me feel obligated, and I don't like to slack too much, even if it's tolerated at times.

I'll be fine though. I just wanted to see how others handled these sorts of things. This was a fairly serious relationship, but I can't imagine how hn'ers who've gone through divorces, bankruptcy, or other more serious issues have been able to cope and maintain productivity.
How does this compare to Propane? Propane has a Cocoa + embedded Webkit view, like this app. It supports Growl. It supports multiple Campfire sites. It has configurable message alerts. It supports drag-into-window image uploads. It does not, from what I can tell, support "replying to users" (but then neither does Campfire). It's more expensive ($20), but if you use Campfire regularly, $20 is still below the noise threshold on cost, and if you don't use Campfire regularly, $4.99 is a lot to spend for a niche chat client.

I'm assuming there's a direction you want to take this app that is different from the direction Propane is already taking, and I'm curious about what that might be.
The title is a strawman. I don't think it's particularly controversial to say that flash sucks, and Apple is technically justified in not supporting it on their devices.

But that's not what the issue was. The real controversy was Apple's decision (via a revision of its developer agreement) to ban the Adobe flash-to-iOS translator. That is a huge problem, and I don't see how "Flash sucks on android, see?" has any bearing on it.
Unfortunately, some of use take negative vacations between jobs, cashing out unused vacation on Friday, and starting a new job on Monday. It's only a month or two later that we realize our mistake.
This sounds like a horrible way to live.

There's more to life than business, and no matter how hard we work or how few vacation days we take, we still die the same, so why not enjoy ourselves a bit?
Somebody needs an infographic that includes Redbox, since their focus on one new releases surely has a huge impact on the Blockbuster revenue and customer base.
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Or do you just accept that you're new and don't want to push things by asking for more at the onset?

You raise an important point. There can be a bit of that. For example, negotiating additional vacation time when you start a new job can hurt you a year later when you take that vacation and things aren't going well for the company. It can be viewed negatively by management and it might bleed into other considerations, like raises or promotions. Screwed up, I know, but it happens.
Toyota cars to be driver's 'friend' in social network service
Re: "switching between accounts a pain"

Not sure if most of the switching is between email accounts, but if it is, I've been using the 30 day free trial for MailPlane (http://mailplaneapp.com) and have been pleased with it.

I'm going to pay for it when the trial is over ($24.95).
I can't understand why anyone would downvote this comment. I can see how one could disagree with it. But it's clearly a good faith comment.
I've been working for myself for quite a while, and I even made some apps that were along the same lines at one point and did well off of them. (much better than this)

But I wasn't shoveling them out, I was spending some time on them and making them great.

There are lots of ways of making money, lots of ways to work for yourself, but that doesn't mean they should all be lauded.

There are a dozen broken screen apps in the Android market, I bet there are a dozen for all the apps he's made. I mean this is just spam in the market man.. come on.
> Three day weekends with an occasional week or two off between gigs always seemed like enough.

For a long time, as an employee, I used to do that. I usually took a couple of weeks off over Christmas and New Year, but rarely took more than a day or two consecutively at other times of year.

I had no idea what I was missing.

Since going freelance and starting my own businesses, I've taken week-plus holidays several times, sometimes going abroad (which I'd done very rarely for much of my adult life) and sometimes just getting away from the job to spend time with friends or simply retreating away from life in the fast lane for a while.

I found it remarkably easy to leave e-mail and phone contact behind, completely, for a week or more. Although I enjoy keeping up with news and participating in discussions on sites like HN, I'm very aware now of what a time sink this sort of social news site can be and how much more interesting stuff I could do without really missing out on anything. Most important of all, I have enjoyed new places and shared new experiences with my loved ones that I would never have done as an employee who used up most of his vacation days on long weekends.

If you're a workaholic and what drives you is business, so that it's almost a fun hobby the way managing investments is for some people, then go ahead and knock yourself out. But I hope anyone who does that chooses to do so in the knowledge of what the alternatives are, and not just because they have so little experience of life that they don't even understand how much more they could do.
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Since this is HN, there's a pretty good chance you're an Engineer of some kind. Where are you (or what do you do?) that companies can get away with this?
Having read all the comments I think I should shift my focus from creating such a blog to developing my personal professional brand in another way. I see now I should rethink my strategy. Thanks for all your thoughts, I really appreciate it!
Yep, I'm in Cary (not that Cary would ever install its own broadband, but I wonder how this will impact Wilson).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328544
By reading the example, I noticed that the word (or phrase in this case) "pythonic prose" is being used as the large word.

The line:
matching_anagrams = getAnagramsFor("pythonic prose")

So, chest, chin, and the other output are derived from the "pythonic prose" literal. So, that should explain the "mystery" word you were searching for.
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It's actually in the rules that you're not supposed to post comments stating the rules. (Whoops!)

So these stories get posted, nobody can post in the comments that the story isn't proper, and the submitter never finds out that he's doing wrong. Especially when people start upvoting stories that break the rules. (Again, because they don't know the rules.)

Most people don't read the rules for a site before they start posting stories and comments. Even if you try to force them to. That's human nature and should be taken into account when designing a site like this.
High School Essay says 
Writing high school essays can be frustrating to many students. This is especially true if they cannot find the right topic to do it. Writing a high school essay can be easy if students paid the right attention to all its elements.
Interesting that now, 4 days later, after a brief runup to $115, LNKD is at ~$86, very close to the opening sale.
Well, in general, I'm in favor of measuring - "thinking" is often a buzzword that means jumping on whichever fad bandwagon you just saw in the airline magazine. It's picking what to measure where some thought is required.
Have you friend in Cary look into Speakeasy DSL. They'll check the line and provision it for as fast as it will go. Before I moved to my current house, Speakeasy was the best among the bad options. (My current house can't get high speed DSL despite being a thousand feet from the CO due to someone wiring 13,000 extra feet of copper in the middle somewhere.)
Technically the author is right but I think that equating "quality" (or even worse perceived quality) with the quantity of colors used is a bit of a stretch.
Even pg seems to participate in political discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571608.

So I don't see how anything can be done about it. I keep flagging away at articles, but I don't know how those are used for moderation. I have said it once, and I'll say it again: problems like these require a strong moderator presence and consistent moderation to be fixed - if they are deemed problems by the moderators at all.
Our lawmakers love keeping us technologically irrelevant. Now if this bill had something to do with College Basketball it would have turned out different. -_-
All Systems Suck
Just to be civilized, here's an explanation of why I downvoted you: I go to HN to find interesting stuff to read and discuss. I don't like this new trend of posting the "TLDR version" (and I have a special loathing for those who request it). It annoys me to have people try to chew my food-for-thought for me.
I absolutely agree, thanks, Thomas. I should better take myself out of the pit first. So, I will go on thinking about how to do that in another way. I think I got a hint I searched for.
I would not mind a split between paid and unpaid vacation.
I see no reason (unless contractually specified) why a company should pay me for not working.

I don't live to work. I work to live.
I've caught some flack on HN here recently for saying it's past time to move beyond C, but this is a great example from the real world. Yes, you can update C code live with the proper magic invocations, but you have to be a wizard and even then probably still a bit lucky for it all to work. Or you can build an infrastructure that at the most primitive layer contains this ability, and then create systems where the programmer is encouraged to maintain the invariants that permit this update, and it may still not be trivial and still requires thought but no longer requires a wizard, so maybe it will actually happen.

And there are just so many features like this that we need to get all the way down to the OS level before we can fully harness them, and we aren't going to get them in C. We need an upgrade of our fundamental programming primitives.
Those articles are fine by me, as long as they remain technical in the discussion.

What I am personally tired of seeing are The Atlantic articles about the "super rich" and whatnot, and other "outrage articles" that should only be on very left-leaning discussion communities.
You can get away with taking a vacation while running a startup. There's an opportunity cost to it, but there's an opportunity cost to everything you do. You just need to do a bit of planning and check in from time to time.

Hell, running a company makes it easier to take a vacation, as long as you've got people you can rely on in your absence. I've done it a few times, and the world's never ended. My cofounder's done the same.

And with that, I'm off to go pack - I'm leaving tonight for five weeks in southwest France. (If you live in Bordeaux, Arcachon, St. Emilion, Bergerac, Périgueux, Sarlat, or Biarritz and would like to drink some wine with me, send me an email!)
I agree. There's a fine line between preventing problems before they occur, and wasting time fighting problems that don't exist.

For a startup, I maintain that your time is better spent developing like a crazy person and let the chips fall where they may. (There are extreme cases, of course, but I hope that any customer issues are driving development, since that's kind of the point of a startup in the first place.)

For an established business, a lot more time needs to be spent on the customer's experience and maintaining that relationship.
Very true - I've been following the Wilson situation fairly closely. I've urged the people I know down there to contact their elected officials about it, but got mainly apathy in response.

And yeah, I can't see Cary ever installing its own broadband. Though, the layout of the main roads (cary pkway, maynard) could make for a fairly easy rollout.

Except, well, all those twisty windy mcmansion subdivisions with their eighty page home owners agreements.. :/
The guy is doing a post mortem of his state of mind at the time. Smart and talented people fall into ruts of suboptimal behaviour, and there is tremendous value in frankly discussing it.

Of course, if he still believes his customer base was 'stupid', I guess that's another thing entirely...
The reality of my situation disagrees with your assertion.
As far as I remember, American school kids and students have most of the summer off (unless they go to summer school, ...)
If you're building a business for yourself and your family, but have very little time to actually enjoy time with your family, then what's the point of building the business in the first place?
I find it an excellent shorthand. I don't need to use much brain juice to remember that:

2^10 ~ thousand

2^20 ~ million

2^30 ~ billion

2^32 ~ 4 billion
It's not really useless. The sweet spot is to disable browser plugins in the Android browser by default. And then only enable the Flash elements you specifically want. It works well for Hulu and whatnot.

Now, if the Android browser didn't let me disable everything by default, I would run screaming.

But with the scheme it has, it satisfies both camps, the people who don't want the encumbrance of Flash, and those who do.
Forget the Streisand Effect, I Think We've Seen the Dawning of the Giggs Effect
you can do that only if you are a senior dev.. what do junior devs, recent college grads do?
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He uses her as an illustration of how comfortable, unto bragging, his life is. She's flair, not a "for richer or poorer, sickness or health" commitment. The inappropriate implication of nocturnal habits implies a lack of subsequent dependents. I'll assume a due-every-month mortgage isn't involved either.

This guy doesn't know what stress and depression is, yet I'm supposed to read his lecture on dealing with it? Stress is not knowing if you'll wake up after surgery and see your baby girl again. Depression is being on the wrong side of the >10% unemployment rate. This guy is suffering "micro-burn-out" because life is too good, he's bored of his hobby, and a half-dozen people said "no" two hours after a mass email blast.
You do realize that his posting the TLDR doesn't prevent you from reading the article and having your own opinion, right?

Many people do like summaries and I don't think anyone should be penalized for providing them... Assuming they aren't too off-base.
Same in Lithuania actually. But.. 9-5ers? Do you really have 35 hour work week as opposed to 40 ( (17-9-1h lunch) * 5) or was it just digested for the American reader?
Contract tests in rspec
The use of the Binary Digit is natural in Information Theory, and the use of powers of two that lead to K, M... naturally stems from it. No one is to blame if not the educative system for letting students believe that counting in base 10 is always the best solution.
This is the kind of stuff that Gimp needs instead of playing catch-up with PS.
Getting newbies involved in open source
Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery
They can try and work out who purchased multiple top-end graphic cards. Maybe raid Amazon for a customer delivery list or ATI for a warranty registration database.
Think about your choice of words up there, and you might just come up with your solution.

Force.

As in, my employer is forcing me to take shorter vacations. My employer is forcing me to work my vacations around their schedule.

That's not what he's doing. He's coercing you. It's different. He's implying that if you take the vacation you want, there might not be a job waiting when you get back. The answer to that is "fine".

If you truly don't care whether there's a job waiting on the other side, he loses all leverage. If you know for a fact that you could pick up another dev job inside of a week with a Facebook status update, he loses all leverage.

In other words, the only reason you think your boss can "force" you to do anything is because you've given him that ability. Quit thinking in those terms and you'll live a much happier life.
Yes. It's cute that they think failing to take advantage of a media bonanza is somehow striving for the future.

You can do both.
"Vacation may be the thing for students and corporate drones..."

If your attitude towards people who work for a paycheck is that they're "drones," then you have the wrong attitude to be starting a business of your own.

If you succeed, you'll need employees--hopefully lots of them. They aren't "drones," they're the people who are going to make your company succeed or fail.

You need to learn to respect the concept of work/life balance if you're going to be able to earn the respect and loyalty of your employees. It sounds like you could stand to have a little balance in your own life.

Even Richard Branson takes vacations.
I think this is why Germany, Sweden and other northern European contries are able to compete: americans work many hours, but are semi-burned out, so the total amount of work are the same, vacation or no vacation.
Thanks for the chance to try your app. Right off, I love it's look and simplicity. I will use it for the next several days and be thoughtful in the review.
If you pick customers you like, you won't feel contempt for them, and work's WAY more fun.

I don't know Noah, but it sounds like that's why he killed off Gambit and dived into AppSumo.
There is a remote possibility that vetoing the bill would bring enough attention to the issue to force some state representatives to switch sides.
There's nothing savvy about her position. She's not going to be the broadband provider's favorite in 2012 against any generic republican (let alone Pat McRory). And I doubt the legislature gives her any concession at all for the convenience of avoiding another vote.

It's cowardice to let the bill pass while talking about how bad it is. Veto the damn thing. Sure, the legislature would override a veto, but let them. Let them own this bill instead of being complicit in it.

Personally, I'd frame this as an anti-internet-startup bill. Internet startups need the internet, much of the state doesn't have any, and the rest of the state has terrible monopolistic providers.
Do you really think the various browser vendors are going to implement the new HTML5 features identically? Its already a mess. The real advantage of HTML5 is that it will allow vendor lock-in to take place.
Save up for a few years so you can take your dream trip once you've gained some leverage?
The Economic Part of Our Brains
Who linked this piece of crap and why is at the top? Utter nonsense! Whoever shared this, please consider opra winfrey websites or others of those sort.
No doubt it's a spectrum. Like autism, near-sightedness, and skin color. I'm a doc in the military, where there has been a striking uptick in depression and related issues. At some point, in the clinic, you've got to make decisions, and the analytic rheumination hypothesis is useful. Are there other kinds of depression? Probably. Is it possible to get caught in a downward spiral from which one can not escape on their own? Sure. Could the AR hypothesis still be relevant in some of those cases? Absolutely.
If you install the ssh2 PECL extension, the updater will also allow you to update over SSH/SFTP.
To my mind, that's the worst thing about political stories. They're sneaky. Every once in awhile, one comes around that grabs you by the neck and demands a response. Now you've (a) subtly psychologically committed yourself to discussing that topic on HN in the future and (b) sent a message widening the scope of inquiry on HN.

Does Paul Graham really believe Robert Reich editorials are within HN's scope? Organized-labor appreciatin' liberal Democrat speakin': of course they aren't.
Your comment on yesterday's submission "Byron Sonne's G20 Focus Cost Him Dearly" indicates that your politics detector is over-sensitive. The article (and the HN discussion) isn't political in any meaningful way. It's about the law and the legal limits of freedom, subjects that seem (to me) to interest a significant fraction of programmers. The article's protagonist doesn't even claim a political motive. He was just performing an experiment to determine what the law is, while satisfying a programmer-like curiosity about a system's vulnerabilities.

The comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2574877
Eye-opening, in an amusing way:

I sent [Gmail] out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine.
The whole tone of the post struck me as something like, "Hey, it's not like I'm just some stinky nerd." He's got a girlfriend, knows Mark Pincus, can afford a lifecoach...why shouldn't he be a business success? However, I didn't see any reflection on the fact that he's running a coupon site and whether that has something to do with his seemingly-persistent frustration.

Whatever the root cause is, at the end of the day it's something that prevents him from noticing the typo on the AppSumo front page, so the level of detail of self-examination in the post seems to be somewhat opposed to the level applied to the mechanics of the business itself.
Hur kan man hitta ett jobb i Sverige? ;) Måste man talar svenska?
Sorry, I should've read the source more closely. Good catch - thanks.

And for reference, here are 43 two word anagrams:

Phonetics Ropy Phonetic Prosy Choppier Stony Prophetic Nosy
Chipper Snooty Pitcher Snoopy Cheroots Nippy Cheroot Snippy
Porches Pointy Cyphers Potion Cyphers Option Cypher Potions
Cypher Options Psyche Portion Inspector Hypo Copier Pythons
Copiers Python Price Typhoons Prices Typhoon Precis Typhoon
Pricey Photons Coronets Hippy Phonics Poetry Hypnotics Rope
Hypnotics Pore Hypnotic Spore Hypnotic Pores Hypnotic Ropes
Hypnotic Poser Hypnotic Prose Strophic Peony Poncho Pyrites
Ponchos Pyrite Choppy Orients Choppy Stonier Psycho Protein
Psycho Pointer Tonic Prophesy Tropics Phoney Tropic Phoneys
Tycoons Hipper Tycoon Shipper Crop Hypnotise

No doubt everyone will have their favorite.
This is the norm in the UK, companies close over the holidays and there are mandatory holidays that go with that.

Being clear about this with new (and especially young) employees is a good idea as to people straight out of college, it's not obvious.

But there's certainly nothing dodgy about it.