skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Merb gives you that, with the basic Merb stack. And then when you change your mind later, that's cool too.
Jacket == turtleneck?

Edit: I noticed the jacket when watching the Next keynote presentation (I'm a sucker for YouTube related videos :)
You just used 3 sentences to say that.
I always tell clients launching a website is like opening a business in the back of a burned out warehouse (the marketing soft sell)
The "bigger, safer" sites do not include Google's Content Network.

Our ad spending is going to remain about the same, but it's going to be targeted much more narrowly.
Interesting how apparently adventurous parts of life and safe parts of life are mutually exclusive.
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All the other bureaucratic positions made out of thin air have worked out so well for the American people so far that I just can't wait to have my life more regulated in new and interesting ways. How exciting! I'm always so happy when we finally give power to a single individual to let us know the best way to spend other people's money. Life is so complicated with people arguing over better ways to do things with their products and services and all that rubbish. I'm genuinely looking forward to VictoryOS and the new VictoryBook laptop that the Ministry of Technology has in store for us. They will likely be leagues ahead of all the other horribly sub-par technologies we're forced to put up with today.

Personally, I think our new Chief Tyranny Officer should be someone who has the following qualities:

- extensive experience forcing other people to do their bidding
- no regard for civil liberties
- a deeply flawed understanding of technology
- passionate interest in maintaining and extending her power
- desire to get filthy rich by propping up companies and providing subsidies to suffering industries

Well I guess we can just put about every name of Congress and the Senate in a hat. In fact let me just reflect that it is truly amazing to think that we live in a time when almost all our representatives share such patriotic qualities. 2009 is going to be great!
The nice thing about cars is that drivers of automobiles don't usually drive on the sidewalk at speeds up to 25mph in crowded areas while talking on the cellphone at the same time. Or if they did, they would at least get fined.
I used to ignore articles like this... "I'm not color blind so why should I care?" But, I've found that considering color blind users helps me design interfaces that have better contrast and are more quickly scannable, which ends up being better for all my users.
I'd vote for myself if I could, I'd love to do it! However, looking past the Nanoscopic chance of that happening, I would have to say Bill Gates. Gates, while aging, is a powerful and loud person when it comes to the use of technology in a modern society. He understands not only the needs but the potential for technology in our world. Unfortunately, Microsoft being the mammoth it is, you haven't seen him much able to maneuver it over the past few years.
I agree about the lack of insight. The reason I posted it here is to hear the counter arguments and even voice my own. Uncov is incredibly annoying to me, but I feel like it is more beneficial to have a thoughtful and contradictory discussion about it here than to leave it unspoken. That's part of the beauty of HN.
Good analogy. It pretty much hits the nail on the head, question is... by Tiger was he referring to another larger company or is he talking specifically about the colorful names that Apple gives its OS X models?
Rolls-Royce brings propeller engines back in vogue
Adventure requires exploring the unknown. Thus, you never know whether you will be taking the "safer" path, but that's the fun.
Irony: I can't view this link on an iPhone
Merb is not at all positioned to make you pick, it simply allows you to choose.
I agree with all of this, but I don't think Gates will accept the job. He's very committed to his foundation, which is a much bigger opportunity for large-scale benefit to billions of people than CTO of the USA.
Very cool. I was just about to ask if someone knew of such a tool. Thanks.
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Microsoft helped price his skills, and their value will surely not diminish in three years. So, it is more like putting off the opportunity of making $300,000 now by three years. Having accepted the offer now could have made him more risk averse three years down the line (in the face of a more tangible opportunity cost in terms of lost paychecks).
In fact, it is a very rational choice if your window for evaluating expected outcomes is five years or more.
There is definitely a bubble forming. Look no further than Facebook, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation, negative revenues, and no business model in sight. CEO Zuckerburg says that for the next few years he is more worried about growth than turning a profit...well he can say that because he has a healthy cash reserve and therefore the time to come up with a business model. So for at least 3 more years their plan is to lose 50+ mil a year while they come up with a way to make it all back. This is an example Google set that everyone else seems to be content to follow. That is why fb's valuation really irks me.

Even though Facebook is arguably the premiere social networking site in the world they have been unable to figure out how to make money. It is one of the big questions in the Web 2.0 world, especially with social networking- we have users, now what?

Ironically, I think part of the reason they are so popular is because they have no business model. Like many popular web sites, users can get a whole lot of value for free. The magic advertising pixie dust dollars are disappearing fast, so relying purely on serving ads is no longer viable (unless you are Google). Running a simple web forum with a lot of users is one thing, but the magnitude of data being shared on Facebook is unprecedented really, and arguably should not be free.
I just ran across an algorithm that does just that: http://www.vischeck.com/daltonize/
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Couldn't agree more!

Looking to integrate this service into my blog now.
I might get flamed for saying this, but I really enjoy using blogger. I have my blog at a standard domain name, www.charlesju.com, and I have that domain name go straight to my blogger account. I think Blogger really provides everything you need for a good blog:

1. Analytics through Google Analytics
2. Some extra $$$ through AdSense
3. Auto-saving editing for blog posts

I just go tired of having to constantly worry about upgrading my Wordpress plug-in or making sure I pay for hosting and all that jazz, I'd rather just let Google take care of that stuff for me.
Considering that you sold Gravatar previously, this was probably less of a difficult decision for you than it would have been for many. For others who are 29, married and thinking of starting a family(not saying that you are), a guaranteed > $600,000 (salary + $300k) over 3 years might not be such a bad thing
I think I broke it... :(

http://www.markovable.net/markovme.php?initial=a&length=...
Lower stock price means the strike price of the options has been cut, which is good for new employees. Your total profit on options is numOptions * (stock price - strike price).

Unless they've reduced the number of options to compensate. I don't see why any company would do that though - it's not like writing options at a lower market price costs them more, accounting-wise.
And a crazy apple fanboy wants to vote my opinion down - why dont people like me just get it already.

I guess these ads have an audience after all. But then it is a waste of the apple advertising dollar to preach to the choir.
Display Ads will fall sharply in 2009 -- Good
I've dreamt of Tetris...
Tom,

I only know you through your service that has made my transition into the Rails world infinitely easier. I commend you for your efforts and producing a web application that actually has a business model and yet helps the community at the same time. I'm probably going to sign up with your service as soon as my projects jumps into Heroku (they don't use SVN, they use Git).

Tom, you might be one of my new role models, but dude, get a real blog going, I want to subscribe to you!
TEMPEST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
Or perhaps startups are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get?
She should be delegating all technical decisions to you. That's a part of being a leader. It requires leadership and knowing when to trust and delegate to your team.
Nobody wants to be 24% partner? I find that hard to believe. I hire people offering less than 1/10 of 1% of equity and I am able to hire and retain absolutely amazing talent.
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Why on earth would you think that someone discussing their Retention Bonus would have any relevance on what yours was? Just like there are employees of a company who receive $200K/year and those who receive $50K/year, there are those who receive $300K Retention bonuses and others who receive $20K retention bonuses. Or receive no retention bonus and are put on "Transition Plan" - or hell, are just laid off outright with 2 weeks severance + vacation. (I've always thought that that 160 Hours of vacation everyone in the valley stocks up on is a way of adding 4 weeks of severance as they eventually get laid off)
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I think the Javascript frameworks will move us back in the direction that he was describing.
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This type of engine is quite dramatic looking:

http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL1689/10590113/19957526/3259...
That's pretty much one of the permutations that success can be.

You get enough money, you say fuck you to the industry, and you do what you couldn't when you were working hard: enjoy life.

Of course, that's not always the best way. The best way (in my opinion) is to make a lot of meaning WHILE enjoying doing so, WHILE amassing wealth.
One very cynical view is that Apple is mostly in the business of selling 'Taste'. As such, confirming to customers who purchase many, many Apple products over the years that they are somehow better than those who lack their refined sensibilities is not wasted money.
What's the least well known, but most impressive, intellectual game that has a dedicated following?
During the time I worked for US Airways, a Boeing 757 with a Rolls Royce engine lost a ball bearing and all the oil dumped out of the plane. This is known as a "significant event." The pilot kept the engine on so it was destroyed by the time the plane landed.

The investigation concluded that a mechanic had probably made some type of mistake in maintenance. This was the most likely cause because there was no evidence that strongly pointed to any other cause. It very well could have been a mechanic's fault, but there was something fishy about the whole thing.

I'm not nearly as comfortable flying as I was before I had that job.
What would be the problem with this getting on the App Store? As far as I can tell, the guy is just controlling his 802.11 wirelessly enabled garage door via his android phone.
Somewhere in the analogy there needs to be the hope of getting rescued by the Tropicana Bikini Girls World Tour Luxury Yacht.
I think you may be too young to remember what Microsoft was like in the 1980s, but this isn't true. The companies had very different personalities. Apple was always about making great things, whereas Microsoft's path was to ruthlessly exploit the monopoly that IBM dropped in their lap.

That path made Microsoft more successful in the short term (particularly after Jobs was exiled) but in the long term making good things seems to be the winning strategy.
Well, if you made 50k a year and there was someone in a comparable position bragging about their 200k/yr how would it make you feel? How would your boss take it? How would you deal with the situation if you were the boss?

Companies make offers in confidence for a reason. I'm sure that Tom's business partners wouldn't appreciate him posting about their revenue anywhere public. The same principle applies here.
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I suspect age difference has an effect, here.

Since Netscape was taken down, we've seen a world where hackers can execute an idea and become successful based on their execution, sometimes abundantly so. I do not think it's accidental that this period largely coincides with Microsoft losing their anti-trust case.

Before then, Microsoft would just wait until a market formed, then take it over or destroy it by bundling something with one of their monopoly products. People who had a dream of creating a successful software business knew Microsoft's business practices made that extremely unlikely.

So, yes, many developers who were around during Microsoft's heyday likely are carrying a grudge that must seem juvenile to anyone familiar with the much less threatening Microsoft of today. Whether it's juvenile to have bad feelings towards an organization that snuffed out a lot of optimism and ambition, I'll leave to you to decide.
Color blindness is an aberration in God's eyes. It's a sin, and you are not born that way, you choose it. The internet is His punishment for your wicked ways.

Color-blindness is threatening the institution of sight!
Computerised trading algorithms blamed for recent market turmoil
Hopefully the camera isn't always positioned with the blender in view, as I can imagine the case where the rig never turns off due to the motion detector.
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>My relatively small, non-spammy application

Already sounds like the minority. Glad you're doing well though.
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We have been using Facebook in our interactive campaigns... and it has been consistently performing well on the post-clicks. And since, this is one of the few sites that offers CPC model, it turns out to be quite cost-effective at the end of the day. So, it still makes a lot of sense to include Facebook in the campaign portfolio (if we look at it from a slightly different angle).

We have tasted higher degrees of success when we tried using Facebook for Branded Application. It has been great channel for promoting advocacy. I guess the most critical success factor is how well we can ingrain the marketing message with the essence of the platform!

(Basis the experience on working for interactive marketing in India and HK)
My money's on Marc Andreessen:

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/an-hour-and-a-h.html
Winner of the Loebner Prize 2008. Just push the red button.
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Wordpress - There are a lot of awesome free and premium themes to choose from.
The brokers with hands on their faces blog
the bot is just awesome, just try spending some time chatting
Webby is sort of cool for static sites, but it didn't make a good blog at all, for me at least.
Truth will set you free, dude. Lack of information is how companies can pay one $50k and another $200k for the same work.
I think that in most cases payment-required apps would hinder the whole purpose of the platform, social interaction.

Although, if Facebook did do it, I'd start the "I Am Rich App" only $10,000 to join, who's in?
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Hey, us family men like adventure too! We just can't live in a cardboard box in San Francisco, or pretty much anywhere in California for that matter (my wife was a clarinet major, not a lawyer).

It doesn't take six figures to raise a family, California aside.
Best analogy I've heard for a while.
You can't run your app as a background process in iPhone.
These days I'm not concerned about Microsoft -- the companies that concern hackers w/r/t overtaking their product would be Apple and Google.
This reminds me of the part in "It's a Wonderful Life" where Mr. Potter offers George Bailey a job.

Anyone remember that?
On the technical side, the wifi scanner portion of this hack runs as a background process to passively determine when the phone gets near his house. And background processes on the iPhone are a heartily disallowed by Apple.

On the pure speculation side, I think you would have to be a lunatic to try and push this kind of hack through the App store's bureaucracy. And I don't imagine his particular setup is common enough to warrant it either.
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Except when the crowd is running and screaming.
It's in the company's best interest to keep salaries and bonuses secret, not in the employees'.
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In is long 16 year life my cat never learned that "nothing happens besides the noise" when I was using the vacuum and always ran in terror.
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If it works it kills anywhere.fm's premise since it doesn't require uploads. (assuming there library is fairly comprehensive)

Edit: not that they care now, but its an interesting thought..
Define "intellectual game".
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A nanojerry here, a nanojerry there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/170.html
I'd say the same thing about the presidential debates. The problem is that these cute fights represent a power struggle of unthinkable magnitude and influence.
Keep that site up :) It's a great tool.
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I wonder how they designed it. This looks like something that a GA combined with a CFD solver would create.
what gibberish. the arctic is not a "wasteland". nor is the desert. these are simply environments not suited to unaided human habitation. the polar bears don't think its a wasteland. all that fresh water locked up as ice is what is keeping manhattan from becoming marineworld.
Whatever magic Steve Jobs has, for me it didn't come through in this video; I lost interest about three minutes in. I'd guess his much-vaunted 'reality distortion field' is much more powerful in person.
It's not easy being the most famous comedian in the world.
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s/an good/a good

Jeebus, that's two errors in my own comments I've caught this week. And I'm an obsessive copyeditor.
It's standard in 1.9

That's why I said "(currently)". From the official Ruby homepage: The current stable version is 1.8.7.

making it work in 1.8 is all of 3 lines

I agree, but this still makes it not standard Ruby. The article should have mentioned this.
Ask YC: Is it a good time to go to SV?
I have an offer from one of the biggest companies in SV, for a senior technical position. Is it a good time for me to move to SV and take that chance?
Sell company to apple.
If it is a good offer with a well-established company, what sorts of risks are you taking with that?
Bikes are over-rated as campus transport.

A large fraction, perhaps even most, trips are in the company of someone else. Often said someone does not have a bike. As a result, the combination is the slowest of both worlds - the bike has to be unlocked and locked at the ends of the trip and the distance is travelled at walking speed.

Note that the unlock/lock time exceeds the time saving from extra speed on short trips.
"they would give their left-you-know-what for a 300K over three years offer from Microsoft"

I am missing something here. 300K over 3 years is 100k /year. Assuming you are drawing a decent salary in the United States this effectively doubles your salary. Would you sell your left-you-know-what for a job that doubles your salary?

Some context: I make over 100K US $ (and that is in India. Expenses are much lower here, than say in Silicon Valley. I have many friends who make similar amounts of money).

I wouldn't automatically accept a job at Microsoft just because they double that amount, especially if the alternative is working on an idea/code base I love full time. I could live on about a 1000 $ after taxes (I am single and have no debt) if I were working on something world changing with brilliant people I respect and can learn from.

I am sure I am missing something. maybe the payout is 300 K US $ / year? (though it doesn't read that way) That is more tempting to be sure. Even for that amount I still wouldn't give my left-you-know-what :-)
I agree that they shouldn't be obligated to reveal anything about Jobs's health; I'm just identifying the "private" status of a CEO's health as an arbitrary social convention rather than an objective fact.
Indeed, I had some problems setting up backtype (my coworkers link to our blog as well) but I think they were fixed after I entered my actual name. It would be great if backtype made that option stand out better in UI as well allow me to filter using more than 1 name, other than that the service has been coming together very nicely since its launch.
I know. Not much except that I have to move there and risk their business don't drop 50%. The other risk I am taking is I am leaving a comparable company in Canada, but a intermediate position.
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I have been really impressed with everything coming out of Backtype, keep it up you guys are doing some amazing work.
flying is still safer than any other method of transportation. You are something like 1000 times more likely to die in a car accident.
Jay Fields also has an excellent collection of blog posts on Ruby particularly useful stuff when you are looking into doing better Ruby testing.

Some I have found interesting
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/09/rails-how-we-test.html
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/11/ruby-testing-private-metho...
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/05/ruby-unit-testing-delegati...
http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/01/testing-one-expectation-pe...
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I'll let Calvin's dad speak to that.

http://www.dailyfiber.net/calvin.php?n=1661
But then everyone could get into his house... :)
Based on that, I would say that it is worth it. If they are offering you a job right now, it's not likely that they are considering cutting it any time soon. SV is a great place to be if you want to branch out (I'll assume you do as an HN member), and moving up to senior cannot hurt either.

Best of luck to you.
Why do I want to pay 10 cents to preview songs that I can find on Youtube/Last.fm/Seeqpod/Grooveshark/MySpace/Favtape/iTunes (my preferred method)/Amazon/AmieStreet? Or I can simply download by looking up the album name + rapidshare on Google for free.
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Interesting list ... actually seems like the author did research (on a job board). However, in an economic downturn, will companies really be spending money on widgets and FB apps?

Anyway, I've got 8 out of 10 on the resume.