skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it adds value but I have also created a richer survey here (https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey...)

The raw anonymous results will be shared on HN in a few days w/analysis.
Wall Street Lobbyists Aim to ‘Reform the Reform’
Phone interviews aren't that bad, IMO, with proper use of http://i.seemikecode.com or something similar. But when there's a language barrier of some kind, they're definitely not going to be as useful.
MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey: Twitter killed blogging
So you end up with salary data, but you have no way to analyze it in any way, for instance to answer "why do some people get paid x and other people get paid y?" So what's the point?
May want to clarify what domain means in order to get useful values for that.
I'm not sure the point you're making, but I should have said "phone interviews, at least for me, are a waste of time."

I would have brought you in face to face... a recommendation from someone already working there is a very valid positive signal.
In what way are they double-dipping? When you buy things in CA you're supposed to pay sales tax.
I would like a different SpringBoard in which there's just a single vertical scrolling list of icons with the app name to the right instead of the current horizontal pages and app groups. This list could be sorted by last-used-date or alphabetically. Hit the home screen once to go to this list.
I am convinced that it is useful. I do it every day :)

Without going into specifics, think of this data as just another signal to use in ad targeting. Maybe users in certain regions are more likely to purchase a product? Maybe men versus women, people who have kids, people in certain income ranges. We ad people use all this info to eek out performance from campaigns.

Google is going for the holy advertising grail with +
For comparison, a visual guide to the Android's home button: http://i.imgur.com/JHlPD.png
Better, if understanding that customer's requirements involves engineering something. This "maybe you can engineer, but I got 'wide ranging experiences'" shit has got to stop. You can't get a liberal education in a classroom - you have to go out into the world and teach yourself.

(Social science undergrad/MS, FWIW, with plenty enough shakespeare and philosophy classes)
Except contractors - good contractor in the UK makes £300-£600 day programming
"For now, the Radio feature will not be available for U.S. users."

"The radio feature will eventually be available. However, I can't say exactly when that will be. Be reminded, that Spotify is not chiefly a radio service. The lack of a radio feature for the time being is a factor of licensing agreements with the rights holders but it will eventually be available.

So the lack of a radio feature in no way limits your ability to search for and play the song of your choice. Just to be clear, when the time comes, the absence of a radio feature will be available for free as well as Premium users, as it is not typically one of the main benefits of a Premium subscription. "

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/radio_mode_missing...
Experienced Android developer looking for something different job-wise
I'm an experienced Android developer based in New York City looking for a different work arrangement than the typical full-time office job.

I've been developing apps for Android since day one of the operating system. I've published a handful of apps under my name and built some serious Android software for my previous employers.

There are too much interesting things happening in this world and life's too short to warrant spending all day every day in an office doing the usual boring routine.

I'm open to any out of the ordinary work arrangements. If you're thinking of anything other than the full-time office job, please reach out! For starters, I've been considering becoming a freelancer but I'm thinking there are more options out there that I'm not aware of yet.

I understand that not everybody will be able to appreciate this, but that's the thing, I'm looking for people who get it.

This is written from a throw-away account because I'm employed at the moment.

I'm in New York City.

You can email me at androiddeveloper@thisisnotmyrealemail.com. Yes, for real.
we really don't have anything like that these days

Check out Halting State by Charles Stross and Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.
An Overview of Riak's All New Java Client
Yes, absolutely. What would be the point, otherwise?
" if you want to stamp out all this zeal and prejudice, you start with YOURSELF."

You're talking to the person, rather than the point. In fact, looking at your original response, it is constructed to do the same thing.

I'm done here.
Some years back there was a discussion of how Free Software was saving IBM's research labs.

The problem being that there's a lot of cool stuff you can work on at the labs, but unless there's a $50m or $100m market for it, there's no interest in productizing the project.

What creating a culture of allowing work on Free Software projects allowed, among other things, was satisfaction and motivation among the lab engineers in being able to produce work which, even if not immediately transformed into IBM products, was available to others. Some eventually did get rolled in to at least consulting services work (particularly in the Apache space).

Sounds like your F100 was all about killing golden-egg laying geese. And I understand your response entirely.
Twitter Drives 4X As Much Traffic As You Think It Does
This is true, but what the states are trying to do is patent nonsense.

True:
"[W]hat these states are trying to do is consider Amazon's independent affiliates a physical presence for Amazon in that state."

Also true:
"[H]ow [a customer] found their way to Amazon and made their purchase isn't relevant."

The problem:
The two statements are directly at odds with each other.
Sadly, there is no way to preview the catalog. I have an account and checked your list, though, because I've not heard of the majority of those and was curious:

Soul Coughing - Y
Zyklon Boom - N
Любэ - N
GTA - Only GTA IV and Vice City
Tub Ring - Y (these guys have a great sound, thanks for the heads up!)
ZoomFloppy: USB -> Commodore 1541/1571/1581 drive adapter

http://store.go4retro.com/products/ZoomFloppy.html

I designed it. Board and all software is open-source.
I am well with the program--I'm not the one advocating the use of modernizr or other hacks instead of building HTML that actually works on its own merits. The "HTML5" used by Facebook et al. is a very, very limited subset. The overwhelming majority of their work is valid HTML4! Your argument to authority is foolish.

HTML5 is a perfectly good tool, but relying on it and a JavaScript library to smooth it over because it doesn't fully exist yet is crazy. If you are not writing a web application--an application, not a "website"--and it breaks because someone has JavaScript off, you screwed up. I know that's a foreign concept to somebody inculcated into the bizarre little world of Ruby, but you're throwing simplicity out for buzzwords.

For better or for worse (and believe me, I am strongly of the opinion that it is worse), IE is not dead. These people you presume to teach are not 'opinionated' towards whether people using IE et al. should be marginalized and made second-class citizens. You, however, presume to make a decision for them that they have to make for themselves. And that's not right.
edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml

Then modify:

<frame_geometry name="frame_geometry_normal" ...>
<distance name="left_width" value="3"/>
<distance name="right_width" value="3"/>
<distance name="bottom_height" value="3"/>
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When it comes to hair length, medium length hairstyles are the most dominant as it is a safe area for all types of hair.
Is Canada in the Midst of a Startup Renaissance? Tech
Generating HTML from PDF Files
I looked for both that link and the pdf, but didn't see it in the first 2 pages and New. Nuts. I felt that the pdf had more useful info than the associated blog post, so I submitted that one.
The kind of person that has two-dozen active GH repos is, strangely enough, the kind of person that must be actively challenged at work in order to not get bored with work and spend all their time on open-source stuff. My work bugtracker tends to be sorted so that I can go after the toughest bugs first. :3
I realize this might not be a popular opinion, but Amazon is in the wrong here. For years they have been exploiting a quirk of the way our taxes are collected that allows them to avoid paying their fair share. [edit: that was poorly phrased, but the point stands.]

If the people who live in CA have a problem with paying sales tax, they should take that up with their legislators.
If the reason for the poll is due to hesitant of using XCode 4, don't. XCode 4 offers so much more there is no reason to stick to 3.
The Gaming Strategy Facebook Might Unleash This Summer
I post the majority of my stuff to the public stream, because I use Google+ like Twitter except without the limit on what I want to say, and a much better interface for conversation.
"Our compensation is not based on how well you negotiate or how often you ask for raises... We don’t have a range of possible salaries for every level, we have a single salary, so everything about the system is algorithmic."

Bullshit. Politically savvy employees will just move their lobbying from blatantly asking for raises to arguing that they are on a new "level."

Consider that this document lists 10 different criteria for just the "public artifacts" portion of the ranking, including writing blog posts, public speaking, participating in hackathons, being on panels, and "participating in Stack Exchange." Queue the guy who says his upvotes and tweets bump him to the next level.

And "public artifacts" is just one of FIFTEEN (!) vague areas on which you are graded, including "Outreach," which lists some of the exact same criteria as "public artifacts," like public speaking and hackathons; "Getting Things Done;" "Ships" (how is that different from Getting Things Done?); "Ideas" (sounds objective!); "Extracurricular programming learning;" and "Other engineering type skills."

This sounds like a compensation system that pretends to be far more objective than it really is, which is actually more dangerous than one that acknowledges (and thus treats carefully) its own subjectivity.

(Which happens to be a broader issue I have with StackOverflow itself; much as I love it, the site is plagued by know-it-alls wielding pseudo precise rules "your question is overlocalized" and "not really a question" to delete reasonably compliant content. But that's a whole other comment.)
Ricardo Semler has done this with his business(es) in Brazil. His book about this, 'Maverick' is a decent read. http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl...
I haven't experienced that but the lock button on my iPhone 4 did break. Now the phone cannot be locked manually. I have set the auto-lock timeout to be 1 minute however.
Do you actually have a source concerning paying artists or are you just fabricating everything you say?

http://www.grooveshark.com/labellist
Really? Less than 1k/month here in Brazil? Where do you live? Or do you mean per month?
Users who violate community rules on Google+ can lose all Google services.
nice practice, really useful! thanx!
Or how psychology and behavioral economics professors get you to buy more of their books.
The Inhabitants of Startup Land
I find it interesting that this is a reversal from the days of the spatial finder[1] in OS 9: Apple is implementing the spatial metaphor and people don't want it compared to when they took the metaphor away and people complained.

[1] I can't find a great link to describe this. Suffice to say the paradigm was that each folder had a new window and the windows stayed where you put them.
> Why not the "Function Pattern"?

Pretty sure it exists in assemblies.
Queens / Brooklyn (other than Williamsburg) can be orders of magnitude cheaper than Manhattan.

Colma / South SF / Oakland are probably 30% cheaper than SF. Still cheaper, but not overwhelmingly so.
Folks might also be interested in the PMD string checks:

http://pmd.sourceforge.net/rules/strings.html
Should Your Startup Have Its Own App Store? Insights From HubSpot
> I think the best way to use Spotify is in addition to iTunes.

I agree. I previously used Grooveshark for this purpose, but the number of times I found mislabeled or corrupted tracks sparked me to switch to Spotify a while back.

A win for iTunes over Spotify, for me, is AirPlay. I know I could use AirFoil with Spotify and achieve much the same thing, but then I lose the (fabulous) remote control from iPad/iPhone capabilities.
yep - changed to industry
iOS 4.3 has the four finger gestures to simulate the home button if you enable it, and 5.0 is rumoured to have gestures to replace all of the physical buttons.

No excuse for rapidly failing buttons, of course, but it will allow out-of-warantee devices to continue to be functional without costly repairs, which is good news.
adriand gave a good use case elsewhere in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764241
have you tried putting him into "auto moderation"? that way, if his intelligence level is as low as it seems, then he may believe that his is posting, even though no one else can see it ;) it has worked for me on occasion in the past!
A Detailed Look At How To Live A Balanced Life
An 8-bit computer designed and built by Jack Eisenmann, a high school student
Kiln is basically a bitbucket competitor. It doesn't really change Hg(they do sponsor development ), what it does do is provide a nice web front end and provide the rest of the tools a project would need(through fog bugz) like wiki, bug tracking, scheduling etc.
> It's one of the great things about Git; without it, you wouldn't be able to create commits from a subset of the difference between your working directory and HEAD.

I never understood that. I can do this just fine even with TortoiseSVN. Just click "commit" and select the files you want to include in this commit. I don't see how I need to keep yet another data structure / piece of "state" in the back of my head for that. I definitely don't see why I have to look for an alternate career because of that.

Am I missing something?
Sun Chips get a GREEN while 0.8 ounces of walnuts get a YELLOW label. What the hell?!
I don't think calling email "locked-in" is fair.

If you're using someone elses domain for your email, then you're locked in to using whatever service they choose to assign their domain to yes.

If you have your own domain, then you can take your email wherever you want.
I can understand the argument that you don't want the complexities of dealing with 50 different state taxes to burden the little guy, but what would stop the US Congress from passing legislation that requires any company doing inter-state business over $N to pay sales tax to the receiving state?
Give Windows 7 the Windows 8 look with free theme pack.
What you consider ambiguous many users could consider extremely useful, and the beauty of having the soft key is that if you don't want to use it you don't have to. As for the 'level of destruction' that a back button would cause, it is up to the developer to properly save the state of the application whenever the state of the application / game changes. This isn't unique to Android AFAIK.

I'm not sure if you've used an Android device, and it is quite different from an experience w/ an iOS device, but the inclusion of a dedicated back button really is a welcome one IMO. You have to switch from thinking about the back button as 'go back to the previous view in this app' to 'go back to the previous thing that I was doing'. I think iOS doesn't go far enough to create synergy between apps here (and yes, Android can go too far in some instances) but the point is that the possibility is there in one and isn't in another.
You should look in to Instapaper if you find multi-paged articles distracting. There are other alternatives as well such as using the print page to see all of the text on one page.
Android has lost developer support to iOS due to iPad 2 and Verizon iPhone
Microsoft's desperate claim: A tablet is just a PC
Microsoft's mobile chief Andy Lees turned a few heads this week by declaring that a tablet is just another PC, and that Windows 8 tablets will do everything Windows 8 desktops can do. Given that this strategy has been a total failure with Windows 7, pundits are puzzled by Microsoft's insistence on treating PCs and mobile devices as if they are identical twins. Windows 7 tablets displayed at the Microsoft partner conference this week were clunky, difficult to use and take just as long to start up as Windows laptops. Windows 8 tablets may have better multi-tasking than iPads, but if they crash and force a restart as often as Windows desktops do, sign me up for an iPad 3.
Which is funny to me because this dogma has led them down the path of using arguably more complex multitouch gestures in lieu of the simplicity of hardware controls.
It seems like a huge wave of optimism and progressive ideas sprang forth during the '60s, producing all the well-known quirks and odds of that decade.

Then the whole world seemed to sink back into skepticism and the regular blasé mood.

This is as odd as the rampant insanity that took over the world two decades prior to that.

The 20th century was very very strange.
Yes, we did try that, he always seems to log out and check for his posts and if they are not appearing in public, he just rejoins again.
The buckets might have a Valley bias. It seems the only programmers at SV companies that make less than 100k these days are interns.
If you consider taxes, less than 1k reais/month. I live south, Londrina - Paraná.
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Legal expert dubious on new cramming regulations
> In the postwar era, we [Americans, though I wasn't born, yet] were hopeful about the future.

Not just y'all.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764275
It's not the whole grains I'd be worried about. "Granola bars" are sugar/candy bars disguised with some granola and "healthy" labelling (usually upselling the fiber content).
I live in New Brunswick, Canada and make $45,000. Pretty decent wage around here.
I think what people fail to realize is Android already has the functionality to share or push functionality thats best suited for apps based on context, example as soon as you take a picture, you can push it to dropbox, send it to email, edit it in photoshop.. from a contextual menu and will automatically push that image to the app that you want. So being able to go back and forth easily is a huge advantage in Android.
RIP “The Check-In” - The Future of LBSN
As promised, the next post in the series is up
What WP do you have? My Samsung Focus soft touch button is so sensitive that I hit those buttons by accident ALL THE TIME. That's just frustrating. I'd rather not having any button at all or replace those with press-down real buttons.

Having fewer buttons seem to make interface cleaner and less chance to screw up for users. But again it's a hardware issue for debate rather than software.
I stand (belatedly) corrected.
FOWA 2011: Authenticate your web apps through the browser [video]
I'd be fine working with devs who don't use github, but very alarmed at the prospect of working with anyone who never heard of it (or bitbucket or sourceforge). That betrays a striking ignorance of what's going on in the profession. Actually it might be a decent litmus test, if you have the luxury of avoiding navel-gazing employers.
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Meta:

I would have settled for "always or almost always", "sometimes", and "never or almost never"—the choices and the number of them were a bit confusing, and I don't think anyone keeps a statistical average of the number of times they share publicly to warrant that number of choices.
I think the survey specifically excluded contractors.

In any case, £300-£400 is not unusual for a good, experienced software development contractor in the UK, but plenty make less. You won't normally see rates much above £400 unless you're looking in London and/or at jobs requiring very specialist skills.
"finally, without having to rely on third party libraries such as MigratorDotNet"

Yes, heaven forbid we .NET developers should rely on third party libraries...
Study: Nokia Will Lose its leadership in its Last Territory: Middle East
I live in San Francisco and it is probably 138% more expensive than Miami, FL. A cheapo 1br in the city runs around $1200 a month. Nice places cost $1500-2500 a month. I'm paying $2k a month myself but it's a really nice place w a Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and city view. How much are places in Miami?
Throw the box away; it's not helpful here. What you see when you look through the time lens is a live cat, then either a) nothing happens or b) it suddenly turns into a dead cat. What you don't see is the cat's death, if it occurs. Look at the graph in the article; light moves from left to right through one spatial dimension, and from bottom to top along the temporal dimension. You see the before and after, but not the in-between moment.

Instead of a cat, consider a situation where you could 'use' this time lens, if it operated over human-scale time periods. I sneak the time lens into your party, disguising it as a beer keg. At an appropriate moment, I trigger it; then I rush over to your wall safe, open it and extract the diamonds stored within, close the safe, and return to my starting position. From your point of view, everything is as it was before. Unless you were looking at the clock - in which case you would see it jump forward by two minutes! You realize someone at the party has been using a time lens, and raise the alarm. Suspicion soon falls upon me, and I shamefacedly produce the diamonds from my pocket.

But just as you and your friends are about to lay hands on me, I vanish! I triggered the time lens again, and slipped out between you, unobserved.

Of course, I can't see what's going on with the time lens either, in all likelihood; perhaps I need some sort of ninja skills to move blindly through the temporal hiatus.
Other people on your project are still on 3. It USUALLY works, but sometimes it doesn't to share across versions.
NASA releases iPad app with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping tech
I guess if you tell a room full of engineers that engineering is no longer where it's at, you won't get a lot of applause.

The author never said that there won't be a need for engineering talent. Of course there will. It's just that engineering isn't the edge anymore. The difference between Apple ten years ago and Apple today isn't better engineering. The difference between Apple and Nokia or Twitter and Buzz isn't engineering.

Actually, I think this is what Google+ is about. Google has always had great engineering, but they haven't paid much attention to user experience. Google+ comes out of the recognition that the internet is actually a means for people to connect with other people. So if you're going to focus on that instead of "organizing the world's information," user experience comes to the fore. Sure, the engineering is there, but it's not enough. And sure enough, Google has put a lot of effort into UX in Google+ - everything from interface design to feature selection to rollout strategy. Contrast that with Wave, which was a marvel of engineering, but didn't have a clear purpose.