skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nicole Sullivan has nowhere near the experience in CSS as Douglas Crockford has with JavaScript. Compare their writings and their talks on their specialist subject matter. Also compare what their peer say about them. For Crockford the negatives are his opinions as to what constitutes good JavaScript, but not against his knowledge and experience.

Peer review is also an essential component. Crockford's contentious points are his opinions as to what constitutes JavaScript best practice, but his underlying knowledge and understanding is rock solid.

I've found Nicole's understanding and knowledge of CSS falls short of the standard necessary to advocate CSS best practice with tools such as this. So she's failing at working with the strengths of CSS.

Pick your role models carefully, and please, don't follow blindly.
SAP's lack of openness is a huge problem, and will continue to hinder its development. Not only does the license cost millions of dollars, but then the enterprise that purchases it has to hire dozens to hundreds of expensive consultants to actually implement the behemoth. And if the company wants to actually understand how to use the system, they need to invest in expensive training sessions because any sort of public documentation (or documentation shipped with the system) is far too vague to actually provide usefulness.

I tend to think that the lack of openness is done on purpose - that is, SAP depends on its consulting partners to help sell its software, so they need an incentive to sell it (not to mention, SAP has a consultancy itself).

SAP has tried to evolve recently with new developments like HANA (mentioned in the article) and MII (tool used to connect manufacturing systems and provide real-time KPI dashboards), but without a more-open ecosystem that enables learning and innovation, it will continue to stagnate as modern technology overtakes it.

The biggest hindrance preventing companies from ditching SAP for a modern system is the fact that SAP is so complex and can handle so many business scenarios. Although it stands behind the curve in terms of technological innovation, it has decades of business specific functionality built into the system. That's the main reason, in my opinion, for why enterprises haven't jumped ship.
Nellie: School CS Education in England circa 1969 [video]
This has nothing to do with outsourcing as outsourcing is usually done on a contract basis. This is a way to stop people from being employed by a company in a different state.
It is very easy to fat finger the "flag" link as a user when browsing from a phone.

Any thoughts on a mobile skin to HN that removes flag?
I investigated further and that is in fact what happened. Youtube.com mistakenly got marked as a spam site. I unmarked it, so you can submit your video now. Sorry about that.
This is awesome. My only concern is that I'd end up interviewing with the same companies in the same format anyway. If that is the case, I'd just be making it easier for the hiring side but not gaining myself any advantage.

I suppose people who don't interview well (like me) would benefit from some facetime.
Anyone else notice that their logo is extremely similiar to Delicious' logo.

PixelJET - http://public5010.thepixeljet.com/demo/buttons.png

Delicious - http://l.yimg.com/hr/15213726/img/delicious.48px.gif

Looks like a cool service though. I'm not trying to knock the idea at all, I just couldn't help but notice the similarities.
<rm -rfi> -i interactive mode man is here to save the day - now you can put up to 50% more blame on the end-user!
In that case, I would consider doing what Matthias did for for his game [1]

The computer will present you with a random historical
stock chart of an actual large cap (S&P 500) security,
without telling you which company and time period the
chart represents.

You are then given the opportunity to reveal the stock
chart one day at a time, selecting to "buy" or "sell"
the stock at various times. After a maximum of one year
is played for the security, the actual name of the company,
and what time period the graph was for is revealed...

You are rated on how much profit you made over the days
you were invested... [compared] to a strategy of "buy and
hold" on the stock.

[1] http://chartgame.com/
I would find this useful. Having a HN member in good standing submit the job sends a positive signal about the position.

(shameless plug: http://eupathdb.org/ is hiring a front-end developer, see http://bit.ly/kYH9zp for more information)
FF4/Win7 and FF6 (Aurora)/Win7 - no way to print to PDF natively. I still need to use a virtual PDF printer driver.
Sounds like good way for rural states to further depress their economies. You'd think they could use all the tax revenue possible. Having a telecommuting worker pays property tax, income tax, and spends their money at the local food establishments. All this without having to give "tax intensives" for a company to move into the state. What could be better than that?
It is. In the future, the you'll find a link to the comments on the description of the feed.
Not Netflix, But Rather Poverty is the Bane of Comcast et al.
One day I'll make a mobile-optimized version.
You know being an introvert or extrovert isn't a binary thing but rather a spectrum. If you want to find out how you are on that scale you can get do a Myers-Briggs personality test to get a rough estimate.

I'm squarely in the middle myself, I enjoy being by myself for periods of time working on my own stuff but after a while I need to socialize, and when I've socialized I need some me-time again :)

I just hope people think they're introverted because they lack social skills, being uncomfortable and not enjoying certain social situations doesn't mean one is introverted it only means one has to improve one's social skills.

They're like any skill, something you learn by experience and practice. Perhaps the reason that people think many computer-oriented people are introverted is because they choose to spend time in front of their computer instead of interacting with people (irl) and therefore don't develop their social skills as much.
$300 House: Open Design Challenge Winners
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
MySQLdb is written in C. So you're comparing the speed of raw C code to pure Python (which runs on top of that C code). The vast difference in speed between pure C and Python has little to do with SQLAlchemy which I can assure you generates those objects as fast as possible while still maintaining proper behavior.
7 days with a Chevy Volt
US CIO Vivek Kundra to Leave Post in August
Yeah we noticed that about half way through. Logo is being changed for the release :)
Whoops, huge misunderstanding. Apparently this is natively supported by the print dialog in Mac OS X too. I don't usually use Macs but I do now so I thought this was a novelty.

However the print/save feature mentioned in TFA only applies to PDF documents... It doesn't allow you to directly save webpages as PDFs which was what I thought.

Nevertheless it's not possible to save webpages to pdf natively on Windows without software printers such as pdfcreator. That hasn't changed... but would be a nice feature :)
100% with you on this.

The vast majority of twitter users are in it for the promotion. Kids don't need to promote themselves to those outside of their core group of friends/school. That's one of the reasons I think Twitter took off with more mature demographics, where as Facebook started off with much a younger demographic. Honestly, I use twitter like a notepad/news feed, not to disseminate information to my few followers in real time and I admit there is no real value to it.
500+; the downvoting threshold should be enough.
Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic
I hate doing this. I just want to see the comments for an interesting article and end up flagging it. I always hammer on the back button, but doubt it does any good.

I don't know if a single user flagging a post on accident has any real effect, but it makes me feel terrible.
After decades of this kind of stuff, you have to start attributing it to malice. I'm pretty young but even I know about the CALEA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...) from 1994.

Seriously, at what point can we start attributing things to malice? Attributing such large things to incompetence is kinda scary; we're hiring or voting for morons. That doesn't frighten you?
I don't have one handy but I can whip one up a bit later - anyone know of some good free software? Needs to capture 2 monitors.
I don't actually know - I'm running Chrome, apparently it updates Flash on its own. I don't even know how to find out what version I'm running.
In the meantime keep funding fledgling companies and we'll choose from the abundance of HN apps already available. :)
What have you developed in your spare time?
Moda campestre
moda campestre
Do you create your own opportunities?
I think this site would be useful for developers trying to choose web hosting. I think some more information that could be added is what programming languages and plugins they support. Also, it would be nice if you could do something similar for cloud datastores. Finally, it might just be me but I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to a real page so some graphic design tweaks might be helpful. All in all, I think it's useful.
This release fixes the install script; it no longer deletes the /usr directory in its entirety. But how on earth did this get through even basic testing? Absolutely shocking!
I use the safe-rm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/safe-rm) package to help me avoid doing this kind of thing.
I was wondering something similar but for countries. Say that I work for my own company developing iphone apps or something like that. Now I like to travel around so I go to the US and work from there, could it be problematic?
Patents as nukes, and the mutually assured destruction in the mobile world
Taking the Right Road Over the Easy One (or Leaving Corporate America)
i agree with what they did in terms of showing that the security of the government sites, banks, and important sites suck.

but i very much disagree with this. this seems like a bunch of hackers that just want attention. not a team of hackers that want to prove a point of insecurity.

the fact that they specifically don't say the source of where they got the information from is a proof for that
S. Aaronson Talk: Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable
Federal CIO Kundra Departs for Harvard
Yeah, I would like to be able to get everything except for a few keywords.
Aren't they just using the "print to PDF, then show it in the brower" method?
Why business writing is rubbish
Yet another way in which government is trying to thwart efficiencies developed by capitalist activity.
This terrifies me now of every single install script that refuses to run if not root.
This is a little off topic, but did anyone else immediately discredit this article when they saw "to" where "too" was supposed to be? On Forbes of all places...
When I slide to 512MB on the RAM slider, incorrect linode plan is shown.

Edit: Ditto for 256.
Facebook Project Spartan
I see the reality in the Twitter part (even though I'm not a user of twitter myself).
But I think that the Facebook part of that assertion is outdated.

It used to be true that I only had friends on Facebook. But nowadays I have way more acquaintances than friends.
My point is, if Facebook was still today only about people I am friends with I would still use it as much as 4 years ago. But nowadays the signal to noise ratio is way too low for me to really get anything out of the platform:

* I'm reminded of birthdays of people I don't even know how I met

* I see pictures on my news feed from people partying that I don't recognize...

PS: I might not be a good example of the average user, since I've also been moving from one country to another over the past few years accelerating the process by witch everyday friends turn into acquaintances

EDIT: fixed formatting
looks cool, for price comparison this is awesome.
But, me and probably most serious people will prefer actual users reviews & benchmarks over prices comparison.

- where is slicehost?
- not working on opera.
If the main point is to filter out recruiters, then 100 or 2 years should be fine. There's no need to filter out less active posters.
A home theater PC for the masses has made it stateside.
Do you not find that a lack of wide installation limits its usefulness?
Not entirely true. They are ditching it as a java write-once, run-everywhere for the web platform. Windows Phone 7 relies heavily on it/WPF. And in a corporate environment where everyone will be running IEx, it makes sense to develop applications in it.
OHHHHHHHHHHHH wow .... great link, passed around the office for a few laughs ... this is one of those heart sinking moments ....
My Top Ten Python Web Frameworks 
I have recently revisited all of the Python Web Frameworks that I know of and re-evaluated them for use in a new project.
Reminds me of some slackware install script back in 1999 or so, I think it was for the gnome documentation.

Anyway, it accidentally removed rm-rf'ed /, I only discovered it in time because it gave errors about removing nodes in /proc...
My two cents:

* Cloudorado is a "cute" name but a bit of a mouthful to type/remember the spelling of.

* The other name options are a little generic but of the two I think Cloudcruncher.com has the lead.
You're just encouraging them.
Do you have a favorite? The one I liked and paid for hasn't been updated in a long time and is essentially broken.
Yeah, at this point why would they IPO (except to get rich[er], of course)? Obviously they could grow in some unforeseen way, but if they don't have an ace up their sleeve, what business reason would they have for needing additional capital?
Looks like a great tool. Pixel Perfect will come in very handy.

Some thoughts:
- In FF 3.6 the inspector doesn't work at all - maybe you need an "About" tab with supported browsers etc.

- http://www.thepixeljet.com/preview/ needs a twitter link. I was about to follow @pixeljet instead of @thepixeljet
Ask HN / Review my startup: Clipik
http://www.clipik.com

Clipik is a platform that provides crowdsourced-like video-editing services to all those consumers that

a) don't know how to DIY edit
b) don't have time to DIY edit and
c) have a need for good video-editing services

It's perfect for young families, high school athletics, graduations, family reunions. You send us your raw content and a skilled, freelance editor will convert that content into a concise, shareable highlight reel.

That is our initial target market as we know we solve a problem for those consumers. As more and more photos and videos are generated (increased penetration in devices and user comfort with photos/videos) there will be an increased need for editing video on UGC. There are additional markets that we can attack but we'd like to perfect our offering in our core market first.

Here is a little video that describes it better: http://vimeo.com/19500187

Would love to hear any feedback, see if people want to try us out or answer any questions.

Thank you kindly in advance!
Pablo
Are people really ready to make friends online?
Android Development: Understanding Activity Launch Mode
With a bug like this, an install script without root permissions can still wipe out your $HOME when messing around in the dotfiles. Scary!
They are actually startups tackling the SAP ecosystem with Open Source and/or Saas offers targeting small and medium businesses: OpenERP, BrightPearl, myERP.com
What about happening to answer the phone while on vacation? Or perhaps working on a server that's located in another state?
Ways to Help Entrepreneurs Help the Economy
I think it's more of a different perspective.

For example, for the same question "What, you don't want to go to the Nicki Minaj concert?"

An introverted response might be "Hey I really like that kind of music - I just don't want to go with a bunch of people I don't know that well, having to coordinate rides, having idle chit chat, etc. So I'll probably go on my own, and if I run into you guys, that's great. But if I don't run into you guys, hope you have a good time there."

In no way does being introverted mean "staying at home and read a book" or not enjoying life, etc.

And the rock climbing example, why couldn't you rock climb on your own? That seems like a stupid question, but my first instinct as an introvert would just be to go tackle a big cliff on my own - cause I don't really want to meet a bunch of macho folks that I don't know - you know, people do climb K2 on their own, even though it's dangerous, it makes the accomplishment even more intense.

I've done 60 km-100km bike rides in the dark, in the middle of the night, on my own - just so I don't have to talk to people - so I kinda know what it feels like.
Pandora Pop Is Gone Day After IPO
I probably shouldn't have to point this out but the last time I checked New Jersey isn't in flyover country and it's the only example cited in this article.
An alternative to a mobile skin might be to have the option to "unflag" something. Even with a mobile skin, I could see submissions still being accidentally flagged.
Each word on that landing page is inside a separate canvas tag? Why?

Anyway:
Autoscrolling vertically doesn't work in the sourceview, FF4, Fedora 15.

The features are confusing. It says I can move the design around by clicking 'pixel-perfect', but it doesn't actually move, and it only ever moves the whole thing, not for example just the box.

It would be neat if the stuff I select visually on the webpage gets optionally selected inside the codewindow aswell.

Of course, you really really need a search feature for the html window, auto expanding whatever nodes are found.

Also, color wheels for all the CSS properties would be nice.
Also, suggestions, you could make a dropdown box next to each css property that lets a user quickly switch between all possible variations. Like

top: 200px; [x] <- clicking here opens a popup with 'bottom', 'left' etc. On mouse hover, you see the realtime change.

You really need a few IDE features like search+replace and vertical selections for your code windows.

You need a javascript debugger.
There's another hidden cost that they didn't mention in this article: benefits and employment agreement requirements that vary from state to state.

We had a few colleagues that telecommuted from California in a startup that I worked at 2 years ago. Just for those two employees, the company had to draw up different benefits and employment agreements to satisfy the local California laws.

Fortunately, these costs aren't usually ongoing unless you change both on a regular basis.
I noticed this as well, but it could be because of the disk space specified. Bigger drives = bigger RAM instances.
Ugh, I came into contact with Business Bullshit today where my manager didn't want to warn our customers after we found that one of our sites was installing malware on their computers because it could hurt profits.
Are founders of profitable bootstrapped companies the free citizen model?
I’ve been playing around with this thesis for a while because it appears to me that not having intermediaries makes you free from:
1. the pressure of stakeholders
2. their unclear/unpredictable? intentions (risk?)
3. their politics and all sort of things that doesn't help you to stay connected with the audience (or at least not for the right reasons.)

When I think of founders of bootstrapped profitable companies I see people that can really express their ideas differently from other people. Regardless what the law (and ultimately the constitution) say about everybody, they are effectively more free than other people.

Some days ago Derek Sivers blogged about the “home” concept[1] and it made me think about this question. Actually, his story is kind of an example of this model. Then, when he asked for questions [2] I’ve asked him this one and he told me he’s very interested in writing about it (I hope he does!)

So the next thing I think about all this is the social role of startups for democracy. With more citizens like this one should have a civilization of more effectively free people.

This has huge consequences. Startups of this kind are way more interesting than simple personal wealth creation.

Do you guys perceive this too or I’m using too much imagination?

[1] "There's no place like home" http://sivers.org/homeless
[2] "Any questions?" http://sivers.org/aq
Interesting. Your tool confirmed what I already knew: compared to dedicated colocated hardware, cloud servers are 10 times more expensive, at least in my specific case.
I don't remember the exact details, but a few years ago there was a Perl module that did something like:

my $path = something_that_can_return_undef_on_failure;
`rm -rf /$path`;

during the execution of its test suite. The author didn't catch it in testing because he never ran "make test" as root (who would?). But people on the Internet ran "make test" as root, with disastrous consequences.
Having a great presence on social media platforms clearly helps with networking and building personal projects, whether that's a VC fund or a photography portfolio.

These kids will learn the boundaries of public and private sooner and have a great megaphone for promoting whatever it is they choose to do in life.
They've tried all those things, and it's not moving along as fast as they'd like.

Since when has the government decided what to do based on need?
Details Of The Black Ops 'Annihilation' Map Pack Leaked
We need to separate the issue because we have a very different relationship with our neighbors than other countries in the world. We have trade agreements that try to create an economic zone differently than non-connected countries.

We gave 499.4 million USD to Mexico in foreign aid in 2009. Yet, people from Mexico come to the US illegally for opportunities. It looks like we would be better off instituting special programs that target individuals with that money. Special worker visas are not really going to be sufficient (but needed nonetheless).

Just as a basic security measure we need our southern (and northern) borders a tad bit more secure. If nothing else because of the violence spilling into the US (and especially our Native American reservations on the border). It has become a safety issue.
I would say that it's another way for the government to capitalize on capitalist activity.
Sure

http://www.sencedev.com/onlineresume/index.html
reminds me of

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Bourne-Into-Oblivion.aspx
> Big data is sexy. Ruby on Rails is sexy.

This is really a pity, because large companies can gather lots of interesting data. For example, my wife works for a large (European) oil company, which has been in the process of installing SAP (it only took ~ 2 years, with lots of SAP consultants paid at 800-1000 euro per day </sarcasm>).

Anyway, being the big company that they are they have lots of gas stations spread all over the country, in the best locations possible. But nobody is doing anything with that sales data. They could write some heatmaps, make some sales predictions based on how close a gas station is to a major road, see when things change etc. There's no incentive for doing that, because it will either involve re-hiring those consultants at 800 Euro per day or trying to train the internal IT people to modify/extend the existing SAP installation (good-luck with that!)
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How to get 170k users in six months with zero marketing