skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept seems quite interesting and useful. The real problem, as others stated, is that maybe Dropbox will implement something like that quite soon. As for pricing I think you should charge less than the same amount of space is charges at Dropbox.

Anyway, congrats for your great project. And sorry for my english.
What would Apple's incentive be to do that? Both Apple and Microsoft have too much to lose if a big budget software maker (ie anyone selling stuff over $50) left their platform. Microsoft will never risk driving Electronic Arts into Google's arms, Apple will never risk sacrificing OSX's image as the "platform for creative people" (which would indeed happen if they lost Photoshop and ProTools). The %30 cut of app sales is a blip on both companies' balance sheets.
This also applies to the over-18ers. It's excess effort to put in a real dob.
Apparently people working in the tech sector don't use CareerBliss (the source of this article). I'm guessing Web Developers that the article don't want to be programmers but learned stuff as they went along.

Ex. My hometown's local newspaper has a website, has to be maintained by someone, maybe he doesn't like programming?
Tell HN: Freelancers -- Watch FU Pay Me by Mike Monteiro
In reading the comments of "The Great Lie - Lorem Ipsum" in regards to the necessity writing copy for the web, a large chunk of the comments mentioned that clients are often late with copy, would often bad copy, and often would passive aggressively force the designer to write copy.

Context (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3013196)

Don't let this happen to you. These are contract and pricing issues. It's not OK to let a client push you around, force you to do copy if you don't want to, or pay you less than they should for a service.

A strong contract is in place to protect both parties from either scope creep or excessive charges. If there's a pain point in your day-to-day work cycle, put it in the contract and have the client compensate you for it.

The video "FU Pay Me" by Mike Monteiro of Mule Design explains this better than I can, and comes from the experience of 10 years in business.

You can find it here (http://www.doobybrain.com/2011/04/07/fuck-you-pay-me-mike-monteiro-on-how-to-get-clients-to-pay-you/).
In my humble opinion, blackboard and the like (moodle, sakai...) are mainly useful for core classes that have a lot of students taking quizzes or writing papers or doing readings.

Faculty and instructors, I think, sometimes forget when they have academic freedom to teach their course whatever way they see best (sometimes they really don't have this choice though, like for much government/military/corporate training). They can use stuff outside of blackboard if they wish. Also though, they may not have the time or skill to set up their own online course tools.

There are alternatives that many faculty are embracing such as wikis (wikispaces, etc.), blogs (wordpress), and even some universities are exploring more decentralized or cloud-based alternatives that don't box you into a walled garden, like wordpress hosting, drupal tools (harvard's openscholar), google apps, and see what BYU is creating (although I'm not sensing that it will be open sourced): http://learningsuite.byu.edu/ (described in the educause article below)

The newest LMS tools like Instructure (and the newest version of Blackboard) are basically trying to emulate Facebook, for better and for worse, with dynamic streams of information and connections to social networking tools. Some believe Blackboard will not dominate the market for much longer: http://mfeldstein.com/emerging-trends-in-lms-ed-tech-market/

Anyway, there are plenty of articles exploring the effects (negative and otherwise) of learning management systems like Blackboard: http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterly...
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ar...
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ar...

Unfortunately many academic IT departments are primarily just consumers of vendor technologies, they aren't big enough nor do they have enough money to develop custom software tools. Purdue and others are some exceptions: http://campustechnology.com/innovators

An even bigger problem is probably that most faculty have no training in instruction and pedagogy and learning theory and design. As one person put it, "College teaching may be the only skilled profession for which systematic training is neither required nor provided–pizza delivery jobs come with more instruction." See http://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/50-examples-of-the...
Here's my response:

Either start your own company or find a company where you can be yourself and ship code and not have to worry about 33 lessons.

In this day and age we shouldn't have to worry about things like hairstyles and asking what turns out to be a stupid question.

If you're a superstar at shipping great software then nothing else matters - at least that's my experience in two billion dollar software companies.

Perhaps that's part of why they got to such a big scale.
The CurrVita package also has a documentation that's worth a read for everyone writing a resume, not just users of that package.
I guess when you know how to design efficient processes better the aggravation from dealing with irrational people and inefficiencies is magnified.
I'm going to work this up in to a blog post, but here's what I've got so far:

http://i.imgur.com/o5FU7.png

Unfortunately, we cancelled our streaming subscription, so I can't actually see my streaming history. The only streaming title I recall watching in the last year was "God Grew Tired of Us". The other films either weren't available as streaming titles when we rented them, or we (my girlfriend manages the queue) weren't aware that they were available instant at the time of scheduling.

As you can see, the vast majority of the content we watch isn't available through a streaming subscription. If Netflix wants me to be a streaming customer, then they should work on getting this content available through their streaming service.
Link here:

http://www.doobybrain.com/2011/04/07/fuck-you-pay-me-mike-mo...
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The case against sugar(s) by Gary Taubes, MA
I posted this because there was a thread on cancer a few weeks ago where it seemed everyone was unaware of the overwhelming evidence that cancer is a "disease of civilization".
Skip ahead to minute 5 when the presentation starts.
There is a decent overview of some of this evidence to that extent up to minute 20. This is much of the same evidence that is cited in Good Calories, Bad Calories if you want to look up the sources.

Some may be interested to continue with the rest of the presentation where Taubes says that high-fructose corn syrup is really no different than refined sugar, but that refined sugar itself is probably really bad.
This is the book used for an Algorithms Analysis class at my university (Brigham Young University), and I have been very impressed so far with it. The fact that it is available for free is a great plus as well.
I'm reading this as:

1) Market, 2) Sales, 3) Hires, which is great. But how do you find that first, incredible technical contributor?
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I'd be happy to get into that first category and then prove you wrong on the flag in an interview, unless step three is the trash...

I personally think it is more about using the right tool for the job than picky-ness. I like the way TeX looks and there are some things that you can do very easily (and maintainably) compared to OO/Word.
Also if they send in their TeX-ed resume as a pdf (and not a sensible format like postscript), it shows that they can compromise.
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No, it's just a list. Look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1521... for example, no full-text download. It's sad, because most publishers allow authors to post a self-generated version of the text (i.e., the Latex output you generate yourself, vs. the official typeset journal print).
I've only bought one Android app in almost two years of owning one. It was an app to track bowling scores and statistics. I just haven't been compelled to buy anything else.
One big issue that I don't see addressed in this article: the plug. I can plug my memory stick and my USB drive into any computer sold today. Presumably there will be USB 4.0 someday, and it will still be plug-compatible.

But Thunderbolt isn't. Apple doesn't seem to mind changing the plug type for every new computer they produce, but for the rest of us it's a bit annoying.
A little clarification.

Really good developers are priceless.

Anyone who is smart knows this. You just have to look at how much companies are willing to pay developers in signing bonuses and retention bonuses.

As a developer you should be aware of this.

Also, life is short.

Instead of choosing a company or line of work where you have to focus on things you don't want to focus on or change yourself -

pick an area you love and where people love you as you are.

Only idiot pointy haired managers would pick a clean-cut mediocre programmer over a superstar coder who doesn't shave.

And in my experience the superstars are nearly always not concerned with GTL (gym, tanning, and laundry).
I agree with your first two sentences.

Why should recursion be out? You just need to be careful with it. Not having an infinite recursion is basically the same problem as not having an infinite loop.
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You could send in a patch.
There are some great research papers in here, many of which have been turned into MS products. AJAX Scope in particular is a really cool idea, though it isn't clear to me if anyone is actually using the Visual Studio plugin they built after writing that paper.
I'm not sure how your comment is substantively different from the article. He seems to cover both scenarios (just the mongodb process rebooting vs whole server rebooting) accurately to me.
Funny that the reporter didn't mention how many times Tara blew off her reservations. Good thing it it's in the OpenTable TOS:

"Your OpenTable account will be terminated if you no-show for four reservations within the same twelve-month period."

So is Tara's "flightiness" something that should be tolerated by restaurants that are paying OpenTable for the lead? In my opinion she sounds like a bad customer that is worth letting go.
I agree with you crawford on most of your points, but why do you dislike ads in loading screens? Personally, I'd rather have an ad in a loading screen (or a non-gameplay screen like an inventory screen) than in the middle of my game, no matter how "integrated" it felt with the overall game.
BackType has been acquired by Twitter.
Ahh, that is super sweet then. Missed the Thrift.
Of course, but the question refers specifically to "early stage", which would presumably cover the year-ish of time during which many startups do have access to a free labor pool.
It's only an hour old - it's not as if this is precise science in any event. Phones with J2ME are very, very widespread. Granted, they don't do much, and are not the future, but it's probably still an interesting space for the right kind of niche product.
Perhaps, but Apple has no "Metro" lockdown - in fact the apps you sell on their storefront for the Mac are the same you can sell and market on your own (for now).

Software publishing freedom exists with equal footing to the locked-down storefront on the Mac.

This is not the case in Windows8. Microsoft will trumpet everything Metro-UI in their new release, and in order to play their game, you need to play their game.
I don't think I would. I guess it depends on what sort of apps run on it. If I wanted to get them something to play games on, it'd probably be an iPad... kindle software runs on there so you get the book aspect. Very expensive gift for an 11yo though, in my opinion.

I'd more likely get an e-ink kindle, not just because I think the screen is better for reading, but because it's essentially limited to books. The built in "experimental" browser does a good job with Safari Online Books now, so I've been very happy with mine.
Far be it for me to defend OpenTable, but...

No shows are a big deal for restaurants. If you have 40 seats in your restaurant that turn say, twice a night and a group of 4 doesn't show up, you've just lost a considerable portion of your night's revenue.

Restaurants are typically living off scraps (5% margins are common), so OpenTable punishing you for not showing up is in the best interest of the restaurants. If you at least cancel, the restaurant can call up people on their wait list and hope to fill the vacancy.

And really, how hard is it to get online and cancel your reservation?
For 5 years now I've been occasionally writing more features for Windows CE based barcode scanners. I wouldn't say that qualifies as "Windows Phone", so I didn't vote for that.

Thankfully by now we are more and more replacing these Windows CE things with iphones plus sleeves with barcode scanners which gives us a nicer API and the end user gets a much cooler device to work with.

The .NET Compact Framework is a beast: It's extremely slow and still it happens more often than not that you need something, you check the documentation, you find it, only to read that it's only supported on the desktop.

And don't get me started on the development/run/debug cycle: Both the emulator and the actual device are slow and after the 200st time that crappy assistant offered me to register my barcode scanner or even emulator(!) with Microsoft, I lost all the love that might still have been left.

Oh. And the SDKs for the scanners have this distinct feeling of being software written by hardware people when I look at how "convenient" they are to use. My personal favorite: The driver that hard-crashes the device whenever you terminate the application from the debugger. Yeah. Hit that stop-button you are used to and you'll have to wait through another 3 minute reboot cycle.

You iphone and android people have it so nice </cranky>
Confusion is bad. It's a shame that Windows' highest cachet titles (pro creative software, big budget games, etc.) won't be Metro.
This article is horrible. It is one of those "X Most _blank_" lists that are only meant to grab attention and bring in the ad clickers. Relevant/accurate content was clearly an afterthought.
Because, not to put too fine a point on it, programmers suck at evaluating patents.

Patent language is pure, uncut crystal nerdbait. If you don't know how patent claims language works (and why would you?), most patents will appear ludicrous --- and that's assuming your programmer patent reviewers even know the difference between claims and background material.

Incidentally, reviewing patents prior to their issue isn't necessarily a win for defenders. I remember reading an analysis showing that defenders stand a better chance invalidating a patent in court than during the patent process. The crowdsourced review process could just end up helping patentholders by providing a first wave of claims strengthening.

It would be far more feasible to fight and win the battle to abolish software and business method patents.
That's pretty wild. Obviously you can do similar with straight up gdb and C programs, but does this sort of thing exist with other languages? I'd be fairly interested in something like this for racket and ruby.
This is really more nathanmarz's Storm more than Twitter's Storm. He wrote it at BackType with the intention of open sourcing it, and when Twitter bought BackType they apparently didn't ask him not to. So, it makes sense that it's being released through his Github account. If Twitter uses it significantly internally, they'll clone it to their organization account, like they did for most of the projects that are on Twitter's Github profile.
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I eagerly await your finding that vegetables feel pain.

I will not be surprised when it happens. Plants have nervous systems and sophisticated sensory capabilities. They don't have voices and their body language moves too slowly for humans to make sense of it without looking for it deliberately (such as with time-lapse photography). Plants display a variety of defensive behaviors.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_...

Although technically, vegetables probably don't feel pain in the same sense that meat doesn't feel pain.
It is an interesting concept, however perhaps it is so lo-tech that it needs no discussion.
usually when people post offtopic stuff they post a contorted argument as to why it isn't.
man this was an awesome find for me. thank you.
I got a kick out of this when it hit the web last week and of course forwarded it to all of my dev buddies so we could all laugh. But seriously, who the heck wrote this?

I've had some shitty jobs in my life when I was much younger (including being a sanitation worker) and this reads like someone who never had to work a real crap job.
The C++ programmer who can't get a job is 47. He was unemployed for 10 months and is now considering taking a couse on Java.

I'm 46. I was just unemployed (voluntarily and happily) for 10 months. In that time I wrote an iPhone app, took a Rails course, and generally tried to upgrade skills that had been neglected over the last few years.

I'm employed now because I didn't spend 10 months sitting around in my dirty underwear (they were clean). I learned and I networked. He could have been learning Java while he was unemployed. Or Ruby. Or anything that would increase his job prospects. Maybe he did, but it doesn't sound like it.

I also missed out on a good job because I was a generation older than the rest of the company. They took one look at my gray beard and immediately looked to see if I was wearing socks with sandals. My modern accomplishments had no bearing. I was too old.

I also hit the "why isn't an old guy like you in management?" issue. They weren't convinced that I really like writing code.

So yes, ageism is real, but it's not the only issue. We old guys have to prove that we're keeping up. We need to leverage our vast amount of experience and show that it has some relevance.
No matter how good it gets. I'm going to have a really hard time seriously recommending my team go with batman.js for our next project.
This seems to be a freely available version:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf
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Actually applicants went up quite a bit (well over 100%). My guess is that this is probably from the fact that it takes two clicks to apply.
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PG is of course correct in suggesting that if you want to keep programming, don't accept a promotion to a non-programming role.

That's not what he is suggesting though: His statement doesn't include "if you want". He formulates it as an at-all-costs mantra -- stay in programming, for the worst could happen. It can be absolutely horrid advice to a number of people who would excel even more at other IT roles or management roles (see interesting comment from robertk [1]). I myself was long not considering applying to non-development roles, because many of those great opportunities are more and more looked down upon as "not programming". I know some people who've come as far as "Be Mark Zuckerberg or die trying", completely rejecting any business model that isn't two guys coding in a garage. I didn't actually read PG's comment like that -- I have the utmost respect for PG; but this is the background for why I authored such an opposing comment. I don't actually think the RAQs we are discussing were designed to be put under lawyer-like scrutiny ;)

Depends on what your goal is

Completely agree. Casual focus will rarely lead to greatness.

they should get out of the way and enable programmers to work optimally

For someone to get out of the way, he first has to be in the way. You make the general assumption that a manager is bad unless he actively changes his style. I cannot challenge this assumption for I have no data or ideas on where to find some concerning if managers are universally good or bad. And even then employee satisfaction might not be the only metric to measure success. Although I do think that having fun at work is one of the most, if not the most important metric. Many things would be better if everyone enjoyed their work.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3012765
For a lot of the higher-end restaurants, it's worse than that. It's not like people are strolling into Alinea looking for seats. When a party doesn't show, that table is dead for the entire seating.

Achatz has the right idea in selling tickets instead of booking reservations. The burden of cancellation is now on you, not him. I betcha Tara would show up if she had cash on the line.
The thing with Enterprise software or, any software that finds a niche, really, is that it doesn't HAVE to be brilliantly made.

I'll be the first to agree that Blackboard is, pretty much, terrible. But it isn't cheap, and sells really well. What that tells you is that everyone screaming 'release, release' is right. If your product works and solves a problem, it doesn't have to be amazing to make money.

Their terribleness might open the doors to competition, but they're easily the market leader for a reason.
Others do have the PDF. Seems to just vary. Most of the ones I clicked did have full papers attached.
I wonder if this guy would rather have any of those jobs

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleri...

...I sometimes think journalists make deliberately awful "top x" lists in order to get more views. Rolling Stone magazine does it all the time.
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GDP is currently less than 2%. It is every decreasing for this decade and especially in last few years. Not sure where you are getting your numbers from.
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I maintain an Planet aggregator for tracking Arduino-related blogs that pique my interest: http://planet.nottwo.org

Kinda plain, but works well in my feed reader.
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