skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew this would be a common issue, so I specifically wrote the book under the assumption that busy professionals would read it. I also dedicated a chapter to the issue of producing content on a regular basis.

Your question is covered amply within the book, but the gist of it is that you need to take the following steps.

Step 1: Have the right mindset. Blogging is not optional for your business. Inbound marketing is an extremely cost effective tool to help you promote your business. To ignore it is to to leave money on the table - and potentially a lot of it at that. Blogging, for your startup, is a marketing activity.

Step 2: Schedule it. Do you code just when you want? Do you answer support emails whenever the mood strikes? No. So if blogging is a serious component of your business, you need to schedule time for it. OK, you're busy, we all are, but can you spare one or two hours a week? Set that time in your calendar. That allocation is sufficient to publish at least one post per week.

Step 3: Write it. You just had a pop up appear from your online calendar that says "Write a post titled 'How Coach to 5K changed my life'". Good. Now sit down and start writing for an hour in order to complete the post. The more frequently you do it, the faster you'll become. The book suggests several techniques for focusing (including the Pomodoro Technique), and includes a large list of suggestions for dealing with writer's block.

Step 4: Promote it. Use an hour, usually much less, which you booked ahead of time, to promote your article. I dedicated Part 3 of the book to this topic. Just follow the steps, it's all written down and ready for you to avail of.

Other parts of the book will guide you in terms of strategic decisions, and the chapter 11 (which is in progress at the moment) is going to be solely dedicated to aiding startups in promoting their own products.

Your concern is valid for sure, but I believe my book will squash it out and put your mind at ease well before you finish reading it.
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That's... extremely informative, I'd say.
That's coincidental. I once made a Linux kernel function hijacking module and I had the exact same idea. Well, without the freezing of other (kernel) threads, I didn't realize the problems yet.

Now that I think about it I'm even more surprised it worked in the first place. I thought Linux had w^x protection?
One of the reasons I ditched Mint was because it was 2-3 days laggy due to having to scrape and process the data from my bank. I have yet to find anything that beats simply recording all my expenditures in a spiral notebook and reconciling it with my bank's online account once a day. That, plus "When I get paid, I pay my bills first". How simpler could it be? (Frost Bank in Texas, here)
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Ten percent of all the photos we have were taken in the past 12 months.
After watching the video, it reminds me of the iPad. Doesn't do anything you couldn't do before, but it does it faster and in a more attractive and pleasing way. These improvements are so great that it becomes a qualitatively different experience. This looks about as much nicer than Mint as Mint does than my bank website, and that counts for a lot to me. I'm eagerly awaiting a chance to try them out for myself.
I think there is another big problems with the "mini-Facebook" live feed in the top right corner which I haven't seen mentioned much:

What is the usefulness of this information? Why am I supposed to care that College Acquaintance A commented on Person I Don't Know's photo? How is this useful to me? 80% of the items in the live feed are noise like this, and 15% of the remaining are items that I can see in the main feed itself.

This, along with the Read/Watched/etc buttons just seem to lower the signal-to-noise ratio.
Sorry about the late reply, but yeah, that's entirely correct. It's pretty sweet.
FTA, quoting Red Hat's Matthew Garrett:

Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader. This means that kernels will also have to be signed.
Pipes Dataflow Framework
Skype for iPhone users can have their address book stolen with a chat message
Read up on the "Uncanny Valley" again. Your example is one of the cases that lead to the development of the hypothesis in the first place. (The concept dates back to 1906 with a German paper.)
I love how the action unfolds at the end, each show competing for most buzz across Twitter while the tweets are streaming by! Nice work on lining up the commentary with events from the Emmys!
Nobody seems to have picked up on the "external" spam filter part of the response.

My guess is that Y! uses some somewhat dodgy external providers of spam/content filtering. Historically, external providers that block inappropriate sites have considered such lists to be their proprietary information, but when those lists have been revealed, they tend to have a pretty heavy political agenda.

Peacefire has some reports that detail this:

http://www.peacefire.org/

(So, I think the reason for the Y! block was likely an unaccountable third-party, but I think the Twitter block is pretty odd.)
The thing being claimed as Open Source is OpenFrameworks (https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks/), which is MIT licensed.

However the source for FaceTracker looks like it's "please email us" - so the licensing for that isn't clear. The end result could be (legitimately) proprietary, as long as they supply the MIT license notice.
Why aren't the videos embedded simply from Vimeo? Why do I have to wait on "uploads.notempire.com"? Not to mention that it's not behaving very "empire"-like.
Yes, it is an actual bank. With an ATM card (and no fees). You are right the demo on the website didn't hint to that too much, but perusing through the site it becomes a bit clearer.

I also emailed support a while back wondering if it acts as a layer on top of my existing bank, or whether its a replacement: their answer was "its a complete replacement".
This doesn't exist.

In three years Apple will invent it, brand it perhaps as iStation, and sell it for $10,000 at which point it can officially be said to exist.

It will only run software from the App Store.
I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing a glimpse of her remarkable impact on your life.
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Well you would rephrase it. You could say, "We conveniently have a service center on Main St." (it knows you leave work at 5) "For your convenience, We're open until 8!"

You can let the customer put 2 and 2 together.
Here's at least some of the author's code. Not sure if it's the whole thing.

https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker

Edit: that code doesn't actually cover the substitution. Here's more info: http://vimeo.com/29279198
Neat. Now gear up for some honest feedback on your blurb :)

>A First Look at BankSimple

FB: Ok, though "Sneak Peek" is easier to relate to than "First Look".

>Joshua Reich, Wed September 21, 2011

FB: Ok.

>We’ve been very cautious on our blog and website about >talking about what we’ve been building.

FB: Redundant. Why are you telling me you've been "cautious"?

>Instead, we’ve focused on our vision.

FB: What vision? Mention it. Mention the key value proposition.

> Today that is changing: Below is a first public sneak peek of BankSimple. We think it’s far more powerful to show than tell.

FB: Check capitalization. Focus on what the user is getting is getting, rather than what you feel("we think it's far..")

>And now we are ready to show. We’ve been testing the product for a few months now, and it has been awesome. >The product isn’t finished. It will never be finished. We’re constantly improving. But we’ve now reached the >point where we’ve learned as much as possible from testing internally and in a few weeks we’ll be shipping >
>cards to our first real customers.

FB: Mostly redundant. Only thing that's relevant is "We’ve successfully tested the product for a few months now, and are looking forward to ship it to our first customers over the next few weeks. (Click here to request a beta invite.)"

>This is only the beginning, but it is a tremendous step forward for our company.

FB: This line might be good for boosting the morale at a company internal meeting, but it means nothing to the customer. Also it seems to reinforce the idea that you're not ready yet to grab my attention.

>We will be sharing more important updates with you soon,

FB: Maybe be a little more specific than "soon"? "over the next couple of weeks"?

> but in the meantime,

FB: OK

>we hope that you enjoy this first look at our product –

FB: Redundant. What's there to enjoy?

>we’d love to hear your feedback.

FB: This looks like a call to action, with no visible action button. What should the user do to provide feedback? Maybe turn the "feedback" word at the end of the sentence to a hyperlink that points to a feedback page? Or better yet, use something lightweight like http://webengage.com/ (disclaimer: it's made by a friend of mine).
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GCC, Clang, Visual C++ 11 provide charts where they show how far they have completed c++0x support (renamed to c++11):

GCC: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

Clang: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

Visual C++: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.a...
You could start by toying around with Phyzixlabs Software. It is a platform for building and using academic applications based on Javascript and SVG. The motivation for PhyzixLabs is to make it easy to build and use applications such as these: http://phet.colorado.edu/.

It is a cloud based programming environment so you wont have to deal with setting up your own coding environment which is usually the biggest road block to new coders.

Below are some live demos of apps built on the platform and a couple of video tours:

*Firefox, Chrome,Safari or Opera required.

Spring Mechanics:
http://hadron.phyzixlabs.com/embed/?action=get_main&embe...

Projectile Motion:
http://hadron.phyzixlabs.com/embed/?action=get_main&embe...

Here is an example of the above programs embedded in a blog post:
http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2011/03/public-release-of-simu...

User Demo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZcIMvejVA

Developer Demo: http://youtu.be/wma9MU2e_U0

Feel free to contact me with newbie questions!
Ed.
Except that for pretty much every year it has been in business the revenue and the profits have been growing.
"The 'behind every great man' quote more often than not refers to a mom"

I actually never thought about this until you just said it. I always put it to the spouse not the mom.

It's sad that kids aren't raised like this anymore. In our day you didn't get the trophy unless you deserved the trophy. Now kids get a trophy just for showing up and everyone is special.
My most sincere condolences. May the inspiration she instilled in you be eternal.
Google Guava R10 in late September
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Let's compare it to the iPod, for example. Before the iPod, I played music. After the iPod, I played music - but in a more convenient way.

After this app, I can search my statements in a convenient way. The problem is that right now I am not searching my statements at all. They seem to be solving a problem that I have not had so far.
Foursquare hack switches your profile pic.
I totally disagree. This is a product for real people not geeks. It's the iPad of banking.

Some people are great at managing their money. Most people are not. A bank that designs its systems to suit an average human rather than to suit the bank itself will be a revolution. This is great design finally being applied to something notoriously difficult for most people.

The big hurdle will be in getting this out of the realm of the geeks and into the general public. If they can do that it will be huge and then every bank will copy them.

I look forward to all banks being simple.
Nice format with 30s video pitches
I'm by no means an expert in this domain but my understanding is that that's normally not happening on x86/x64, not even on Linux or OS X. Otherwise, how could just-in-time compilers like Java, .NET or V8 work? Please correct me however if I'm wrong.
FWIW, Banks in for example the UK, already do.

It constantly surprises just how far behind the US is in several areas.
Recruiters really aren't the best route for hiring designers anyway, but you know this. ;)
The Brighter the Picture, the Darker the Negative
What are the reservations in making this service public?

Also, did the github employees know that their IGs were going to be made into magnets or was it a surprise?
I almost totally agree: I think the secret to the iPad's success was it's simplicity rather than being more attractive and pleasing.
I based my argument on the observation that there were alot of hash maps and that alot of things weren't typed. Two things that are very clojury.

Edit: I don't read alot of java code but I guess that Hash maps aren't that common in most java programmes.
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I've done a lot of work with OpenEMR, and this explains everything. heh
Employees that you gain through a recruiter, you will probably lose through a recruiter.

Building a company is hard, hiring lots of good, loyal people in a short time is a lot harder than scaling some software.
For youth between the ages of 10 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death. It results in approximately 4400 lives lost each year. It's important to help them carry their baggage. Service like that is a great idea. More here:

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pub/youth_suicide.html
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Detours is really cool. Last I checked (last year?) it was free for 32-bit code, but you had to pay for or license the 64-bit version. There's an open-source (but not 100% functionally-equivalent) alternative called EasyHook: http://easyhook.codeplex.com/

An anecdote: I've got a Sony VAIO Z series laptop, one of the 2010 models with "Switchable Hybrid" graphics -- that is, there's a switch marked "Auto"/"Speed"/"Stamina" which you can use to switch between the embedded Intel GPU and the discrete nVidia GPU. The laptop itself is great -- probably the best developer's laptop I've ever seen/used -- but drivers have always been a real pain. Anyway, as it turns out, I was updating the drivers last week and just happened to notice the Detours DLL within the driver installer files; so it seems that the graphics driver actually just checks the position of the switch and uses Detours to direct any calls to the "real" driver for whatever hardware is selected.
This recruiter's blunder gave you a great hook for this blog post, which is certain to bring in some well qualified applications. So, in some sense, this was a successful relationship.
I think that I have a similar problem to many other users... It's not that Bing is a bad product, it may be the best thing out there. The problem is that I've lost confidence in Microsoft as a company to objectively serve me information. It's a trust issues that I don't have with Google or Apple... yet. Those companies have their warts too, but nothing like I experienced in the 20+ years I was locked into the MS ecosystem.

As long as a guy like Steve Ballmer is running the company, I will stay far away. Perhaps when management changes down the road result in MS better demonstrating that they are more interested in producing great products rather than gaining market share at any cost, I'll take them seriously again. We're starting to see some of that with windows mobile and win8.
There are lots of banks that could easily outspend BankSimple, what they lack is vision, which is far more scarce than money these days.
Apple does have patents for it already:
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/04/apple-bl...

So it's not entirely out of the question.
I liken it more to a smartphone: before I had high-quality internet access in my pocket, I didn't care about it. It wasn't a problem I was looking to solve or a want I had.

Now that I can search Wikipedia or Google at a moment's whim, I find myself confused when I don't have it.

BankSimple may turn out like this: hardly anyone does this kind of searching and organizing of their bank statements because it simply hasn't been easy enough for anyone to care. Once it is, you might not want to go back.
Pete told me I should carve soap. It took me a while...
"First, if the candidate didn’t have an online portfolio, personal site, or blog, I didn’t want to see a resumé. "

The author is an idiot.

ETA: I had a program manager who thought that having a blog meant the developer was an accomplished/published author. The developer quit for having to work 10 hour days after the first week and a half. Again, idiot.
demand for the iPad 2 made the iPhone5 components (A5 chip) in short supply. I'm guessing the phone design has been finished, and they just were waiting for the supply of components to get better.
Are you saying that one would have the same "problem" in Clojure or is it just in the Java API?
I sent him a "thank you" email for that exact reason. Seriously.
No they don't. I'm in the UK and I know of no bank that offers these services. Did you actually watch the video?

Which bank allows you to:

* Hide money from your main balance for bills and savings

* Create automatic savings accounts on-the-fly for individual items

* plot where each of your transactions occurred on a map

etc

I'm with Lloyds who have one of the best online banking experiences and it's in the stone age compared to this.
The first thought that comes to mind is spills. Spill stuff on a table, no problem, you just wipe it up like any other table. Spill something on a touchscreen and you have to worry about it gumming up the works.
> Bank Simple doesn't appear to bring a whole lot new to the table.

BankSimple, unlike Mint/Wesabe, is an actual bank* (*ok not techincally for regulatory reasons, but you will store money with them). You will keep/deposit your money there, and be able to spend it via BankSimple-branded debit cards. Its a whole additional level of integration over Mint/Wesabe, which are just web frontends to existing bank accounts
Interesting, though for just a t-shirt a month, $23 seems a bit steep...
My condolences on your loss. Losing a parent is hard - I lost my father almost two years ago, and I still think about him almost every day. Hopefully the happy memories of her will help you to get through the tough times.
Err, the tiles support icons too. A lot of tiles on Windows Phone apps are just icons. Eg see some at http://www.wp7applist.com/

Tiles are better because you can get to see updates on things like weather etc. without having to open the app. Example, you can have a Fedex tracker app that updates when the item status changes, but without bothering you with a full fledged notification.
$1.1M for Indiana University students' business plans
It is amazing how DFW nails that in Infinite Jest. In the book, people have the technology to use video-phones, but they stopped using it after realizing that video-phones eliminate the convenience of being able to communicate without actually partaking in all other kinds of communication. A silly example: with a video phone, you must be paying attention at the person in the camera, can't talk to someone while clipping your nails.

Also in the book, people started using more technology to cover for these problems, from software that would make you look "presentable" to a complete avatar that would simulate all the motions that one should do while on camera.

In the end, people just realize that no one is actually using the video part of the phone anymore, so they just stop using it and go back to audio-only.

So, as much as I think we will have the technology to fool someone as you mention, I don't think it will happen simply because no one will adopt that technology in the first place.

Kottke also comments on it: http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-on-iphone-4s-fa...
I like the idea, and I'd consider using it (if it was available outside of the US) just as a way of supporting startups. It'd be good if you were able to guarantee more than just the t-shirt each month though. Stickers etc are usually pretty cheap, so receiving just a t-shirt for $23 might not make for the best month. Either way, good luck with it.
Wow awesome explanation - about 6 years ago while hacking gtk+ and Mozilla I used those instructions to hack into the main event loop to get gtk+ embedding gecko 1.7 and had no idea that those my perceived hacks where actually some what valid method for doing what I needed to do - modify how window events from gecko where propagated to gtk+ event loop and vice versa. I think that my bug report is probably still open and might even be worth revisiting if anyone is still interested in gtk+ with Mozilla embedded - would likely need to make lots of changes... Latest gecko is 1.9?? Anyways awesome explanation
For a design candidate? Curious why you think that...

Would their academic credentials have been more helpful?

I also caveated that comment: I may be missing out on some good candidates, but seeing something they've created is the only way I know how to screen design candidates. Perhaps that does make me an idiot :(
At a previous job, when they kept sending crap candidates, we told them we would stop working with them if they didn't filter them properly.

We did that to 3 recruiting companies. 2 of them shaped up and only send decent candidates. The other lost our business.
I couldn't agree more. Granted, I think it will be a much slower process than say, the Digg exodus. I think in the next few months if Facebook doesn't make some drastic improvements (read: simpler), it will be past the point of saving. No turning back.
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There's no actual problem. It just needs to be documented and explained. I'm travelling today, so I can't write the doc till later.
5 Things That Are Toxic to Scalability
Notes from a Q&A session with Matt Cutts
Ed, your moving tribute to your mom reminds us that achievers in life are not only those who build companies or who "change the world" in some public sense - but also all the good, decent, and loving people who spend their lives quietly helping and inspiring others - your mom quite evidently among them. I went through this too in the past couple of years and there are few things in life more painful, even when we expect it. Your mom must have been a very special person. I am sorry for your loss.
Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress
Actually, I really like the stories about his nieces too. He had one about watching his niece learn to cheat that was fantastic.

Re: snark, I wasn't talking about his own snark; that's great. I'm talking about the bits he adds labelled "Pre-emptive snark: [insert snarky thing a reader might say here, plus his response". Maybe I'm mis-reading his attitude towards those, but he seems a bit weary of them.
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$23/mo is way too steep for something like this. If I'm looking for neat t-shirts to wear, I can get shirts from shirt.woot for $10/each, with free shipping.

Call it apples and oranges if you want, but to me, getting a random shirt from a company I've potentially never heard of isn't so enticing at $23/mo.

That's more than I pay for my VPS, more than I [used to] pay for netflix, more than I pay for a couple of t-shirts I get to choose from woot.

Etc. etc. etc.
Isn't this what Valleyschwag did? They went bust, by the way. Be careful.