skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people confuse leadership with being a jerk or making arbitrary decisions. That kind of abrasive approach is far more likely to result in a failed project than a successful one.

On a complex creative project like yours, it's far more important to make sure the lines of communication are flowing and the right people are talking to each other. You can't micro-manage everyone's work, but if you have good people on your team and your people are talking to each other (and listening to each other) on a weekly or even daily basis, a lot of problems will sort themselves out.

Make sure everyone's work is reviewed on a frequent basis. It's far less painful to tell someone they've gone down the wrong path and wasted a week than a month. The shorter you can make that feedback the better. (Take a cue from Pixar, where they review work in progress daily and have a culture of constructive criticism.)

The key thing you can do as the team leader is to build a bubble around them so they can do their work uninterrupted. This can mean anything from arranging for food and snacks to reducing unnecessary meetings and outside distractions to making sure everyone has all the computers, software and tools they need to do their jobs. Work hard to eliminate low value work such as voluminous requirements documents that no one reads or long boring reporting meetings where everyone is tuned out with their heads in their laptops.

Sometimes to do these things effectively you need to stand your ground, but there's no reason to be a jerk about it.
Find the Best Photo Spots: Interview w/Founder of Picaspot.com-Juan Jose Reyes
Dangerous Reflection (about ActiveRecord mass assignment vulnerabilities)
I find it's not the 15 or 30 minute builds that are a problem; I can usefully context switch to something else, get it done and come back in that time. It's the 5 minute builds that are the problem. If I know something is going to take between 2 and 5 minutes, chances are I'll crack open Chrome, hit "news.y<enter>" and lose the next 30 minutes until noprocrast kicks in.
I admit that I don't have statistics [edit: on libraries], but most libraries in the world are not large or in the US, and JSTOR's prices for a "small" library in "the rest of the world" are much, much larger than [edit: wrong — comparable to or perhaps a bit larger than, but not much, much larger than] their entire budget. Check out http://support.jstor.org/csp/PriceCalculator/. This code (for Chrome) gives me a yearly price of $81162.70, although it hangs the browser for a while first:

function mouseEvent() { var event = document.createEvent("MouseEvents"); event.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null); return event; }
function each(list, thunk) { list = Array.prototype.slice.call(list); for (var ii = 0; ii < list.length; ii++) { thunk(list[ii]); } }
each(document.getElementsByClassName('expand'), function(link) { link.dispatchEvent(mouseEvent()) })
each(document.getElementsByClassName('e-only'), function(link) { link.dispatchEvent(mouseEvent()) })
This is beyond belief. If the prosecutor tries enough charges, some of them will stick, especially before a jury who may think this is a hacking case or a file sharing case. He'd do well to avoid the "hacktivist" label in court.
You don't have to be a jerk, but you may find it difficult to be a friend of anyone on the team.
I think the tablet to phone ratio right now is such that it's not that big a deal which it represents.

That's not to say Android tablets won't take off, just that in the numbers that have been published until now they're not selling that well and the phones are selling like hot cakes.
>First of all, there isn't enough evidence to say whether that's because of privilege or because women are naturally more intelligent than men.

I'm amused. Does it matter which is true if men aren't getting the education they need?

>Men still run the world.

Also an old, old statement that reveals why we need to get rid of gender as a real concept. How many men run the world? Not most of them. In what sense does it carry to include the homeless and the destitute who are men in the same group as those who rule?

>We should also make sure we don't forget that women are an oppressed class

HERE. Here it is. This is the error in your thinking.

All people are oppressed.

But when you start categorizing people into those who are Allowed To Be Recognized As Oppressed and those who are Oppressors By Association: They Have A Dick, you're making arbitrary distinctions that are inflexible and rigid.

There is not a single person on this earth who does not experience oppression. A person who does not belong to any of your protected classes will still be oppressed by your exclusion: or what, did you think it didn't count if _you_ oppressed someone based on what sort of person they were?
There's a horrible misuse of the word "taken", when "copied" is so much more accurate.
Google Ventures, like 500 Startups, is one of those funds that you have to be invited to pitch for?
"The only charge for using this API is a 5% fee per purchase."

https://sites.google.com/site/inapppaymentsapi/home
If speed is important, why the copying of the data? Only 'slightly' non-portable:

int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
{
for( int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
{
((char *)argv[i])[-1] = ' ';
}
size_t len = strlen(argv[argc - 1]);
((char *)argv[argc - 1])[len] = '\n';
write(1, argv[1], argv[argc - 1] - argv[1] + len + 1);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Does not render properly on webOS. =(
So far, the only thing that the native client seems to enable you to do that the web client doesn’t already do is dealing with photos.
It's definitely illegal, but some are trying to paint it as not sketchy, in what I think are disingenuous ways.
I took photos of individual ingredients and then I composite them together on the sever according the ratio's you specify. That was really the core idea that made me want to do this site. There are other custom trail mix sites, but none of them let you SEE the mixes you create until it arrives in the mail...
Yes, a surgeon who worked in Nepal for charity for 10 years told me that his impact would have been greater digging ditches for sewers. Open sewers are a serious health issue in third world urban centers, enabling disease to spread quickly.

The article is misleading in using the world "toilet" - the serious problem it addresses is sewage, not toilets.
How does Google pay 2.4%?
So while we're contrasting Apple and Microsoft, here's the first bit of copy on the Signature page:

"New PCs may come filled with lots of trialware and sample software that slows your computer down and makes it a pain to clean out all that stuff, just to get your new PC up and running, so we do that for you!"

Not only is that a hilarious contrast of the typical Mac/Windows out-of-the-box experience — right from the horse's mouth — but it's also quite poor writing. Whereas, Apple seems to have consistently excellent writing throughout their websites and products.
Asterisk in objective-c
I suspect they got hacked. Their site always responded, but every time I logged in I was logged out within seconds, and the only way I could log in again was to reset my password, after which I'd be logged out again within seconds, repeat five times over a couple of hours before I gave up.
Has Square made any money yet, enough to put even a dent in their $169M funding? Trotting out companies that haven't validated their product with the public and haven't made much money seems like something that would happen in a bubble, not a boom.
Except your homepage says subscriptions are coming soon
hahaha yup. +1 for nailing it.
if you're a silicon valley boy w/o any links to the mob, you're pretty much screwed. Bitcoin to the rescue? Who knows =)
There are no legal mechanisms, but showing support for someone that intended to destroy the value of their publisher's copyright would probably displease their partners...
She responded:

I am Pavel's mom who was born and raised in USSR. I don't think that being an engineer was the only route for a woman to become educated - women could become doctors or teachers as well. As a matter of fact there were more female doctors and teachers than male. Accountant degree was also very popular and obtainable among women.
I think that credo may be right - it is societal and cultural pressure that prevent girls from going into these fields.
Wow, I love the UI but I found it a bit buggy (show new task when I click on tag)
It may help with traffic jams a little bit but sadly it won't eliminate them — the problem is that many drivers ignore traffic lights and/or "block the box". Other solutions like raising tolls are politically too unpopular right now, and I don't expect that to change. And of course sadly there's no money to improve public transit even though it's badly needed.
A more straightforward chart: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/07/aapl_revenue_by...
Is Google+ a Jumpino rip off??
Study: Facebook at bottom on customer satisfaction
To be fair, people have been predicting both sides of the coin for a while. People predicting success on hacker news tend to get upvoted, and people predicting failure tend to be downvoted, regardless of the reality of the situation.

Right now Apple is doing great. I would still question the sustainability of this business as an investor. What's next after ipad?

Long term, 5 years say, ipad/iphone margins will evaporate and Apple will need a series of "big things" to fill in the gaps to even have a flat growth curve to justify their market cap - that's my prediction.
My understanding of how that works (which I admit is an outsider's understanding) is that PC vendors subsidize the price of new PC's by installing crapware on them.

The race to the bottom in PC pricing basically left them scrambling to find ways to keep their prices low without gutting their already-falling margins.

I don't think Microsoft is in a good position to require PC's to stop doing this (unless they were willing to eat the loss of vendor revenue by lowering their Windows license cost, which would effect their own margin).

I'm left optimistic by companies like Lenovo, who are now marketing crapware-less machines as a competitive advantage (as a byproduct of their Rapidboot initiative), and hope maybe other vendors will try and compete.

I don't remember the last time I bought a Windows PC where the first thing I did wasn't to immediately wipe it and reinstall the OS from an OEM version, although it'd be nice not to have to do that.

EDIT: realized I started two comments in a row with "Yeah,". That makes me almost as angry as if I'd littered the comment with "like, you know"'s...sigh
'Business' does not just happen within the database! You will have to perform logic based on events that occur elsewhere, e.g. on the network or within outside data sources! And to say that something should be done in SQL just because it can is patently absurd--do you know how much performance suffers as soon as you start roping in subqueries and calculated values? Half of the things I listed would require stepping outside of indexed columns in awkward ways--that was kind of my point. Good luck keeping that performant past a few million rows.

In fact, I would love to see you design a query that branches on the condition that the item is out of stock and automatically returns the top 3 equivalent parts for each brand using a junction table containing equivalencies, ordered by a column in the junction table containing the closeness of fit. Go ahead, humor me. Then try to pretend that that query will ever stand up under scale.
Got the discussion from here

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/27103/what-if-google...
Oh, look! Yet another U.S.-only payments solution :-(
While I can't find numbers, I suspect you'd find that one or more embedded RTOS's like VxWorks or linux outships windows by a significant margin - DVD players, TV's, dumb phones, security systems etc. Windows has the crown for desktop OS, but of course iOS won't overtake that without a product shift.
One thing that I'd really like is to hear from someone who's actually set up and used OpenStack. I haven't heard anything about it - good or otherwise.
Someone needs to write

Why not you?
I know you are wrong.

We've hired lots of folks from yahoo to work on infrastructure and one guy from reddit to be a cloud SRE. but we've yet to hire a security guy from sony.
Loopcam — iPhone app for creating GIF-Loops on the go
This website's bizarre mix of imitation and over-explaining reminds me of some earnest but vacuous manual for a foreign knock-off product.

"Press the File menu," I expect it to say, "and a beautiful pull-down fades quickly into view, with useful functions such as New Folder and Close."

Too bad Apple patented calling an address book "Address Book," I guess they'll just have to do their best with nonsense names.
14 Arrested for Alleged Cyberattack on PayPal
At least with Windows today, MS has their hands tied. Anything they do to push vendors will throw antitrust flags.

Their best bet, if this is their core concern, is to move to an app store model, and block these apps from ever making it into the store, so the OEMs can't install them to begin with. But honestly, that's not likely.

At the end of the day the market talks. If people truly value clutter free machines they'll pay for it and OEMs will respond.
for (read_string(s); s.len() > 5; read_string())

or just fix the damned read_string function to return the length read. [nevermind s.len() is unlikely to appear in C.]
There's plenty they could conceivably do with their cash.

See here: http://www.quora.com/What-would-make-sense-for-Apple-to-use-...
Bloomberg begins quest to challenge the West Coast for supremacy in tech
That's just bull-shit. These girls are American Indians and I doubt their parents would give them a choice of either study science or stay at home.

Women in developing countries face the same problem as the women in the US on top of facing the problems that are unique to these countries.
I don't really think majoritarian pride is as uplifting or fun as pride in achieving well despite being part of a disadvantaged minority.

However, we should get rid of majoritarian shame/guilt, of course.
Not as sarcastic as it sounds. Try searching for the tool or framework that you'd like to learn about and read backwards through the articles.

Plus remember: if no one has made something yet, maybe you should.
Perhaps add a clear button for both days, pressing the (-) button isn't fast enough. Also, when adding a task while in edit mode the button doesn't show up until going out and into edit mode.
Or you can marvel in amazement at their greed in suing their competitors.
That sort of cheer doesn't make any sense, though. Guys aren't usually the losers of science fairs.
Just searching "Double Irish" should explain it well enough.

http://www.google.com/search?q=double+irish
Clay Davis agrees with you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZI02m7JOE
We have a single LTSP server for the office which everybody works on. It's a 12-core, 44GB server with about 1TB of platters in various configurations attached. I think it cost around $8000 all in.

We do a lot of VM spinning, and it's a fantastic way to do that sort of work, plus managing a single server is much less overhead than managing 6 workstations.
Currently working on a strategy board game at http://multiplayful.com which is a combination of a collectible card game and Go.

It's very much in development.. core gameplay is in place but missing all the collectible and PvP elements and still only has a tiny bit of single player content.

I would forever adore anyone who helped with single player content (AI campaign mode, puzzles, AI decks), game design (new units, effects, playtesting for balance) and art (units, boards).

The whole frontend is just images and javascript animations, with the backend in django nonrel running on appengine, so there are probably also accessible coding tasks that I could easily make use of as well.
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Yeah, I think the model around which Microsoft licenses Windows was designed to be "hands-off" (Anti-trust/non-competitive issues aside), and now they're reaping the results of that.

I'm not going to second-guess Microsoft that it wasn't the right way to do things (their sales over the past twenty years would seem to indicate that it's worked out just fine for them), but it does leave us in an odd predicament; where basically the incentives between Microsoft, the PC vendors, and the customers are not aligned.

I don't know what Microsoft should (or would be allowed to based on anti-trust) do about that situation.
The boss gets to put "lead the conversion to a virtualized environment" on his resume. True story.
ASk HN: quickest way to get involved in Open Source?
What is the quickest way to contribute to OS? How did you contribute the first time? Do I have to wait until I get alot better to do it?
ITRON probably has a lot more installs than all these OSes, although I don't think it's very popular in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project

http://www.t-engine.org/tron-project/itron (with source code)
Please point out the plentiful opportunities for off-by-one errors in Plan 9's echo.c. If you send me a copy of Plan 9's echo.c using stdio I will run it and benchmark it for you.
I've used Wikipedia's Random articles as a source of randomness for some test scripts:

wwwrand() { nice curl --compressed --location --raw --verbose https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:Rando... 2>&1 | shasum --algorithm 512 | base64 --wrap=0 | tr -cd "a-zA-Z0-9" | dd bs="$1" count=1 2>/dev/null ; echo ; }

$ wwwrand 8
ZjBkNjRm

Hashing the Google News home page is good, too. :)
Apple Confirms iPad Eating into Mac Sales
Non U.S. residents can't sell apps on the Chrome Web Store yet either.
Screw owling or planking its all about humaning
Give me $5 and I'll tell you.
If your system has 32,000 processes and you allocate 4 KB to each of them... that's 128 MB. I'm not crapping my pants at that figure because even the oldest machine in my office, an old Thinkpad, has 2 GB of RAM.
Awesome, man. I can't say how many times I've found myself in the same situation. Nice solution, and happy to see there's something I can use in the future instead of writing and rewriting the same/similar logic.
From Apple’s and Google’s Q2 quarterly earnings call, respectively.

Google just announced that they activate 550,000 Android devices per day. That’s in all likelihood (and considering the language) not an average value for the whole quarter but only the most recent value (that must have been rapidly growing during the last quarter). Still, the average for the last quarter is probably over or around 500,000.

Apple doesn’t publish any such numbers but it’s easy to estimate them. Apple sold 20m iPhones, 9m iPads and 8m iPods. Tim Cook said during the earnings call that about half of those iPods run iOS. That’s about 33m iOS devices altogether for the whole quarter, for an average of 360,000 sold devices per day.
Thanks for the heads up. Hot-fixing now.
That people don't think about human interface guidelines because it's open source software is alarming as all hell.
I don't think hyperlinking is the crime in question for this case.
As someone who does kids games I like the iPad much more than the iPod because of the screen real estate seems to offer so many more possibilities. I also suspect that the popularity of the iPhone for adults is hurting the iPod -- I know I haven't purchased one since the iPhone came out. My guess is that as the iPhone and the iPad become cheaper it may really hurt the iPod itself. And oddly enough I suspect Steve Jobs will be the least nostalgic when it's time to pull the plug...
After years of Lindows and so on, finally a LinOSX.
Google Works to Verify Google+ Celebrity Accounts
I answered this question a while back for an HN member back on the day the article first hit the web. I have a bunch of questions from members that I've answered over the last year that I'm unloading onto my website. I figured its makes more sense economically if I shared my advice openly instead of giving it to individuals specifically.

The problem with googling this is that it only tells you the basic premise and fails to tell you the problems and the reality of actually applying these tax models.

As someone who's worked on these tax models in the past, I can tell you that its never as picture perfect as they make it sound. These companies are always getting audited even though these plans were drafted, approved and done by the "big 4 accounting firms."

It was a running joke that the big 4 plans it and the law firms would defend it. It was like we were self-generating projects for us to work on by creating a new "plan" every other year. The IRS always comes back and audits these clients.
Does it work without JavaScript?
With Double Irish slices of bread and Dutch cheese in the middle, the Dutch Sandwich "leaves no tax behind to taste".
Writing bios in the third person is common practice, it makes it convenient for people who need a quick bio of you to copy and paste.
Please...take your trolling elsewhere.
Got the answer from here[1].

So what exactly did Google steal? The idea of grouping people together is not exactly new, and people have referring to their social groups as "social circles" for a long time now. Honestly I doubt they even saw your site—you have very little marketing or exposure, so they probably don't even know you exist.

As far as I'm concerned this is just sour grapes. To answer your question, just move on. You're reading far more into this than you should, and even if they did take your "ideas" there isn't anything you can do unless you patented them.

[1] http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/27103/what-if-google...
Yes, I had to remove the article from my own blog.
I honestly don't see why we don't get rid of this sort of group pride altogether.
Since the lock is not guaranteed in the code, the variable is globally defined and the code only ever increases it. This means a step in the chain of killing could get skipped, but that doesn't matter, as there's always a more violent option (or just the infinite loop).
"...or if you've gone and apologized to the network infrastructure guys for causing problems..."

Read the indictment. He started on Sep 25th. He was blocked by IP on Sep 25. He switched his IP on Sep 26. The entire netblock was then blocked by admins. To try to turn the service back on for normal users, admins tried to block his MAC address on Sep 27, which worked until he changed it on Oct 2, and then added a second machine on Oct 8.

Your "hypothetical" defense doesn't even come close to flying. This isn't a little misunderstanding; this is network admins blocking access, and being circumvented, multiple times.
Apple confirms Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to launch on Wednesday
It was mentioned in the call that, due to iCloud, they've started deferring revenues from Macs and iOS devices to account for the ongoing cost of the service.
1. Identify something in your life that bothers you

2. Find an OS project working to address that, or an OS project which you can use to address that

3. Scratch your itch!
Wow, abort() is much more polite than I assumed.
What do you want to do? Because open source needs documentation, support, coding, interaction design, etc, etc.

You can even start by helping out with translations
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766678
It's a simple price segmenting. No one says the axis of projects makes financial sense on the expense side. It makes sense in distinguishing the type of customer.

Ironically it's nicely illustrated by the employee/owner of a web agency complaining in the comments. Obviously it worked and Github managed to extract more value from a larger customer.