skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pour it on when the Teflon is hot. The liquid is permanently trapped in the micro-cracks and bubbles formed by the cooling Teflon.
If that person is not a technically and socially genius person, he would be eaten alive quickly by politics.
You'll be able to post us checks for deposit.
LinkedIn is good as far as it goes, but I wouldn't call it a complete or ideal solution to the hiring problem. Worth using - but also worth competing with.
Making the dot operator act bind-like in C#
Was thinking the same thing. We're using both Salesforce and ZenDesk, and our strategy is trying to co-locate as many of our 'services' as possible, reducing the number of systems, logins etc. Still don't think we're ditching ZenDesk...
And once more, while we were discussing about a new language to replace javascript, some folk wrote a kickass software program in C++. :)
Also neat in that video is Daniel Hills and the connection machine.
So nothing? Streams, multiparts, gzip, that is all in Connect/Express. I'm sorry but adhering to some spec that few people use or care about is hardly an advantage over Connect. Wouldn't it be trivial for Connect to adhere to the spec anyways?

tjholowaychuk has done extensive testing/benchmarking of Connect/Express. I'd really like to see some benchmarks and code coverage.
But that 260% type is also the same color as the top bar so it blends in. That's just poor design.

This is the internet, people don't read walls of text. If that's a weed out feature then you're doing it wrong.
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Yeah, I guess I assume any developer has some online "drive", be it Dropbox, a NAS or just some web based storage. That's all you really need for a git repository.
How could a startup take that sort of chance on someone, though? Hiring and firing is the most important job you have as you scale beyond a small team. A big mistake at this early stage could sink a startup, while getting it right could be the key to explosive success. Without a portfolio, you're guessing.

Also, someone who excels in the corporate world, where there are a dozen people working on the website, a dozen people working on any given project, and a couple of managers to make sure it all blends seamlessly, may not do so well in an environment where they are expected to create and deploy without guidance or oversight.
Perhaps there's more to this once you get into the app, but I just don't get this. Instead of writing my accomplishments and skills on a boring resume or online profile, I get to write my accomplishments and skills on some fun virtual notecards? I can get about the same level of fun by changing the font to Wingdings on my resume, with the added bonus that it's still a resume in a format that's still more likely to be used than the virtual notecards, Wingdings and all. I just don't see the benefit.

Also, I signed up for the beta without specifying a Twitter account and got a picture of a chimpanzee holding a gun, which seems to be some sort of error page, although a ridiculously bad one (the error div contains "[object Object]"). I'm guessing that the site requires access to a Twitter account and is piggybacking its authorization on that. For better or worse, this guarantees that I won't be using the site, as I don't have a Twitter account and won't be creating one anytime soon.
Thanks for mentioning family - I hadn't considered the issue that it's not just the developer, but spouse and dependents that could have preexisting conditions that make them uninsurable. So the number of qualified persons who could not take this job because of the insurance situation is even larger than it might seem at first.

I suppose for employers this seems like a great way of saving money. I don't really see not offering basic benefits that are standard in the field as progressive though, but perhaps you were saying so as a sort of joke in which case I agree it's a funny thing to be doing.
The goal is to make networking easier and less awkward. Thoughts?
Let's face it, LinkedIn is just a place to post your resume. But how do really you meet new people and build meaningful relationships? The problem is that meeting the right people is hard. What if we could help match you up with the right people based on your interests and goals? Then, based on your location and availability, we would even set up the meeting for you! All you have to do is click "Accept" and then attend the meeting.<p>This is what we're working on at Netply. As we build out the full product, we are still looking to help you find the right people, make matches, and test our idea / algorithm. So if you're interested, fill out our form at netply.com and we'll keep you updated!<p>Would love to hear your feedback / thoughts in the comments below!
Big flaw #1:

When I land on that page from a link, it is not immediately obvious that I am looking at a job posting.

You should always always always let me know what I'm looking at within 0.5 seconds of me glancing at the page.
I'm suffering from a quarter life crisis (I'm 20.) I think a lot of people do. They just never talk about it.

It takes different things/approaches to motivate people. For me, inspirational speeches work really well or knowing that your manager is actually interested in your work.

However, it does sounds kinda odd that he didn't take the equity... He might just be an immature person that doesn't want to take responsibility. And this could be for various reasons completely outside the work environment that you have very little control over.

I think that just talking to him and asking what's up and what's going on is the best solution. Maybe he just needs a wake up call? The sincere, "I'm worried. What's up?" usually works pretty well?
I have seen Web Developer used when someone is looking for both design and development. People do not understand that it is very difficult to be both good at design and good at development which is very frustrating for me.

I have absolutely no artistic ability the most I can ever do is design something that looks like it was made in 1995. Yet I love the coding aspect and building things.
Another useful application that comes to mind is vehicle wind shields. Combine Gorilla Glass, plastic lamination (for crashes) and layer SLIPS on the inside and outside. Could produce impressive results.
Hi Vannevar,

This isn't an exact science and still has levels of subjectivity that make it less of a predictive tool and more of a simple litmus test for the fit between the startup and our investment focus. Just because we aren't a fit doesn't mean that a startup will not be successful. Many of the companies that score low will go on to do very well, and conversely there will be some high-scoring startups that don't live up to expectations.

Thanks for the comment.
What can't you do with streams in Connect/Express?
Question for those in the know: how tedious/challenging/hard/annoying to work on products that integrate various web 2.0 properties such as linkedin, twitter, facebook? (serious question)
When was this reached? I setup an account a few hours ago and have to wonder if I am the millionth user?? ;-)
And for a single dev who actually has a need to be concerned about all of these things, $200/month doesn't seem unreasonable to have someone else manage it all for you.

The alternative is of course to run your own repo server as you said, which with git can be as simple as just a directory you can access via SSH.
Loved this, would suggest anybody further interested in real data on page load speed to check out:

How site speed impacts conversion rate / engagement:

http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2010/07/01/the-best-graph...

How site speed impacts Google rankings (and tools to asses / fix):

http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/04/official-google...
Thanks for putting the location (or in this case lack of location) of the position right at the top.

I'm amazed at how many postings make this hard to find or leave it out entirely.
I wanted a way to have stuff like this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196031/evil-use-of-maybe...

be more abstract than defining extension methods all over the place. Unfortunately,
my implementation is currently too slow for practical use (the time it takes to compile the lambda is too long, ~0.1 seconds on a relatively modern machine). I think that an evaling tree walker would be fast enough to make this project practical, but I haven't had time to implement it.
It's http://www.yodlee.com/
I'm not sure I see the cost/benefit in it anymore. It was questionable to begin with and has only become more so.

There is no shortage of good options out there.
>Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already.

No way. How many programmers are there in the first place? I bet you it's <100M, hell <50M.

EDIT: Back of the envelope by other people put it between <12M to <24M http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...

Under that perspective, one could say that Github has captured the attention of 4-8% of everyone capable of understanding the app.
Rails for Zombies is a great resource.

The Rails Guides are your holy grails, http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

Read as much of this site on your first day, then go back over it again each day.
JIT compilers allocate executable memory by using mmap() (not malloc(), since malloc()-allocated memory is not guaranteed (or even likely) to be executable). When you map memory with mmap(), you can decide the protection bits (PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE, PROT_EXEC, and they can be OR'd together in any combination).

For example, from the V8 sources: http://www.google.com/codesearch#W9JxUuHYyMg/trunk/src/platf...
Video: OpenPlug Studio Overview with Alex Gaber of Alcatel-Lucent
What I think is great about this story, is that there's nothing particularly novel about Assistly. They entered a pretty crowded market and made better software. That's it. And they're $50 million richer for it*.

Too often we harp on people for building "another [insert existing software]", but there are more success stories here than you'd think.
That's why you should sometimes ignore the "someone is already doing that" crowd when pitching your ideas.
Awesome music game: Tone Matrix
Haven't started real techblogging yet, but I may one day, so PDF for future reading has been already bought. I only skimmed it a bit and didn't find answer to one problem that is bothering me.

What you think about self-promoting vs sharing overlapping issue when same channels are used? Putting buttons allowing reader to link your text on reddit, HN, etc. seems redundant and may even lead to duplicated entries there, which is bad. So should these buttons link to entries author already submitted herself/himself? (Twitter is out of question, as it has a bit different distribution model.)

Advantages of direct linking to particular reddit/HN/etc. entries are pretty obvious and I am somehow amazed not seeing this in the wild. Are there any serious downsides of such solution? Question could be rephrased to: how often old stuff is rediscovered (i.e. linked for the second or more time) on reddit/HN? If it's extremely rare case, then common (at least nowadays) sharing buttons are rather useless.
This is really cool! Very good website design. I noticed on https://www.thewisdomofothers.com/how-it-works in firefox 6.0.2 that step four wraps around in the right column. Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/KAstV

I especially like that you donate some of the profits. I'm looking forward to doing exactly the same.
A webapp like that is possible to make within a day starting from zero Rails knowledge.

You should at least have some persistence to make it interesting, else you'll be twiddling your thumbs for 6 days ;-) and even then...
>Any particular reason?

I'm thinking tax purposes. When you're a small outfit, the extra paperwork burden that comes from hiring people in other countries, without visas, probably would make it not worth your while.
It would be interesting if they charged for these releases to expose the entitlement of enterprise customers.
AWESOME. I love it. Love the homepage layout to, it really explains it while letting you sign up at the same time.
KISS, or KID, in the end, what this really means is, don't try and over architect something for the right way of doing things..

I've recently made the switch from being a high paid consultant, to entrepreneur, and I'm doing the same things..I got paid to come in and fix in my past career. First, get shit to work, then worry about optimizing it. Having the best deployment framework in place, is great, only if you have customers that need deployment.
> All you're saying about the title is that you disagree with it.

Anyone who writes that title is demonstrating significant ignorance about how the US legal system works. Any "legal analysis" by such an individual would have a broken clock's chance of being accurate.

And, the conclusion shows that you didn't get lucky.

> However, general purpose digital computers as we know them today are equivalent to Turing machines,

Yes.

>so it is safe to assume that all software for them is mathematical algorithms.

No.

I can describe any sequence of steps using mathematics. However, that doesn't make all such steps a mathematical algorithm.

If it did, then no sequence of steps would be patentable under the "no patenting of mathematical algorithms" rule.

Do you really want to argue that no sequence of steps is patentable? Or, do you think that some sequences can't be described mathematically?

> The RSA patent preempted all uses of a mathematical algorithm within a general-purpose digital computer.

No, it didn't. The RSA patent explicitly says that it's for a specific use of a given (class of) algorithms, not all uses of those algorithms.
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Registered user accounts (meaning this does not include Organization accounts). We also purge spammers fairly often, so it should be our best guess as to real people who have registered.
Pair Programming. Seriously you get more than just code review.
Just signed up, this is so AWESOME I can't even believe it.

This deserves to be more than a side project.
It's Big, black text on a white background. It ain't exactly camouflaged.
In the video, he paid money to another guy (also at BankSimple). Wonder how fast that goes through.
I think (although I might be mistaken) you mean "too expensive" rather than "over priced", the later implies that you thought you didn't get value for money while the prior covers the case where the cost was just outside of your budget range without taking a position on the value delivered.
>A developer job? It sounds like support/sysadmin.

"Devops" is the way to go these days. Surely they must exist, but I've yet to encounter a <30 person company with a fulltime sysadmin. It's usually "Joe" or "Rackspace". Yes, this is often suboptimal, for sysadmining is hard.

> It's a job, I go there to get paid, not take shitty pay to hear platitudes about how we're doing what we love.

Dude, it's a job opening at PRAGPROG. If that doesn't immediately tickle your fancy, this may not be the job for you.

Admittedly, it probably isn't the job for me either.
Something that kind of irked me about Jeremy Stoppelman's testimony: He failed to mention that Yelp provides an API and, in essence, gives away their data.

If Google was consuming their API (vs. scraping content directly from their site), would this even be an issue?

Let's assume, hypothetically, that Google used the API provided by Yelp to enhance their search results. If Yelp said, "We don't like what you're doing, so stop because we said so", I feel that it would totally be within Googles rights to say, "Fine, we no longer wish to do business with you and will exclude you from our index".

Of course, I'm not entirely sure what the Yelp API of 2010 looked like, nor have I read their TOS. However, I still feel that Stoppelman's testimony did more to remove my desire to ever use Yelp than it did to convince me that Google is this big evil monopoly that's destroying the little guy.
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Cringely had an even better call in February:

http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fi...

He can be a bit of a nutter sometimes but man was this spot on with the Whitman call and Apotheker's hail mary of a huge enterprise acquisition:

"Then there’s Meg Whitman, who expected at this point to have resigned from the HP board to spend all her time running California as governor. But that didn’t happen, so now what is she to do? You can only get so many pedicures. She’ll eventually get around to hip-checking Apotheker and taking his job. Meg can knock back brewskies as well as any man and will probably fill those CEO shoes even better than Apotheker.

I know I am speaking early about this but that’s why I get the big bucks.

There is only one chance Apotheker has to save his job and that’s by buying his old company, SAP. "
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MessagePack — fast cross-language RPC library (Ruby, Haskell, Python, Java, ...)
Or RepositoryHosting.
I read significantly faster than you can talk, and I don't have tons of free time. Why would you NOT prefer to read an interview, as long as its transcribed properly?
IBM's Hardware Transactional Memory
You say that he has "no real set hours, just that he gets stuff done": is he getting stuff done?

If he isn't getting the expected stuff done, then that is the discussion you need to have.

If you aren't happy with the amount of stuff you are expecting then discuss that.

Some days are productive and some days aren't (and I find unproductive days tend to follow really productive ones). Try and view it purely from an output point of view, and not what his method is.
How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Build A $50 Million Startup
Google updates a bit more quickly so the "interesting" results are below things like this thread. Others...well.

http://i.imgur.com/Ne8bq.png
Exactly. Every startup I've worked for the owners have this weird attitude that their equity is worth something. It's not. It's worth jack shit until the company is worth something. It doesn't pay bills. It doesn't let me buy the new shoes I want. It's essentially an investment. Usually if someone is in the position to invest, they don't need to work a day-job to cover bills.
> I do believe that some proposed purpose can be gotten from the introductory text in a bill.

How about some evidence supporting that belief?

Note that said evidence must somehow distinguish the preamble, which you think goes to purpose, from the title, which you think doesn't.

How about public statements by the authors?

> In some legislation they are incompetent, particularly when finance is concerned.

How do you know? More to the point, why does it matter? What will you do differently if they're incompetent vs they're trying to do something other than what the fluff says?

Surely you're not going with "if they knew better, they'd behave differently"? After all, they keep doing the same things, so they've had ample opportunity to learn (and you wouldn't be the first to point out their "mistakes").

> Marketing it is, but even marketing gives an intent.

Marketing is nothing more than an attempt to send a message. Attempting to send the message "I want to cure cancer" does not imply that I actually want to cure cancer.
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Agreed. It's frustrating that I can pay money to larger companies online (phone, cable, internet, etc.) but I can't send money to another person. Clearly it's technically possible, but the banks don't want to enable this for normal people, so North American's are stuck mailing IOUs (cheques) around.
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Forgive me, but that seems like an awfully cavalier attitude towards a process that you say you're putting a lot of time and effort into, and on which hinges such large investments and potentially large returns. Hasn't anyone there been curious whether the process actually works and how it could be improved?
RAM usage jumped about 280MB when viewing the full size image. No problems with my system choking with 4GB RAM and plenty of programs open (2.5GB used). (Tested in Firefox and Opera, Win7x64.)
Starbucks and Angry Birds - A Match Made in Confusion
Who is playing mobile social games?
The reason they do it this way is because it is much easier to evaluate with confidence the people who come through their network. When sizable money is involved it is really the only way to invest. That's the same reason most people would not send a wire to a "long lost Nigerian relative" - the trust in the people on the other side of the table is low.

That's just part of the game. If you want investment from the top tier find a way to get on their radar through their referral network.

Of course the exception to the rule is to build insanely strong traction, revenue and visibility - via either bootstrapping or a handful of angels. Companies like Storm8, 99designs and a few others would fall into this category. The trouble though is that in many competitive markets the odds are against you reaching that position. If a competitor does raise significant resources and uses them to seize advantage in the marketplace your window of opportunity might close real quick.

That's why it is not necessarily a bad thing that it is Good Fella business. Just figure out how to navigate the system and use it to your advantage.

Be a pragmatist!
I suspect one of the reasons why github just hit a million users is that people use more than one account to get around that limitation.
Its a great insight. What happens when your laptop is 'fast enough' for the forseeable future?
There are plenty of trademarks I think are questionable, particularly ones where a company will trademark a commonly used word for their product (Windows and Office spring to mind, though I'm not anti-MS), but I agree that trademarks are the most sensible of the major IP categories.

Also just practically speaking it is much easier and safer to research trademarks ahead of time and if things still go wrong it is easier to just rename something (especially if you're in an early stage) if you run into a conflict than it is to try to recreate whatever your product is from scratch as you would if you ran into a submarine patent.
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poor little netbook with 1G on this end, it didn't stand a chance.
Mark Zuckerberg Now 14th Richest Person In US
What limitation does this get you around? Private repositories do cost more if you use more private repos, but creating another account doesn't get you anything. Look at our plans — it would actually cost more to use multiple accounts to publish many private repos.
BitBucket is also very nice for students, their deal gives you unlimited private repos among other things, far more generous than GitHub.
Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even heard of git.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographi...