skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a no brainer. Go home and work for your dad, learn some business chops and earn money.

After a few years you'll have earned some strong managerial skills and have accumulated a nice financial buffer to do whatever startup you want.
Guess I'm buying this book. It'll be my first time to buy a book during first release. Good marketing by the publishers. This is sort of like Freemium model, no?
In my opinion, Unity does a better job of getting out of my way and doing what I want to do than its predecessor. And I've been using Linux as my primary desktop since 1995...
FWIW, I had been using Gnome 2.x full time on my desktop since 2004, had tried Unity several times in 11.04 and kept coming back to Gnome, and most recently switched full-time to Unity with 11.10. Now I really like it.

Unity is very keyboard friendly:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...

Everything I need is now only a few keystrokes away, and I like that Unity 'gets out of my way' at all other times.
Shorter NY Technologists: We have no theory of social change.

Which, you know, is fine. If you think the way to change the world is with your "subscription-based site for fashion essentials" I say let a thousand flowers bloom. But you should think twice before mouthing off to the NY Observer, because dismissively asking "what does #OWS even stand for" sounds a lot like "what is Twitter even good for". It's a marker that you haven't been paying attention.

Down at Zucotti Park, people understand that in addition to the decisions that people make individually as consumers, there are also decisions we make collectively. And there's more to politics, which is just the name for those decisions, than policy. Ten-point plans are nice, but the #OWS protesters are making a powerful move just by drawing attention to a set of issues that haven't been on the mainstream agenda. Middle class incomes have stagnated, social mobility is down, Wall Street appears to be back at business with little restructuring, unemployment is at 9%. The protests say, so a political system otherwise ill-disposed to address those issues, that they _matter_, and that there is a constituency to fix them. To their fellow citizens, the protesters are saying "these are serious problems, and we should care about them." If you can convince people of that last bit, and #OWS has momentum on that score, the policies will follow.
Most first class mail isn't touched by human hands until the mail carrier puts it into your mailbox. I'm guessing that you could ship a machine-sortable as a parcel with tracking if you brought it to the post office, but not when it's being mixed in with a thousand other machine-sortables in the out-going mail bag. You don't want to go through each machine-sortable letter to see if tracking is required. I suspect this is less about bureaucratic complexity and more about dealing with a corner case caused by operational efficiency.

edit: Jacob on the consumerist thread explained it better than I did.
"I suspect that letters (or flats) are processed through equipment that doesn't scan the barcode for the delivery confirmation system. Only if your letter is really a package and doesn't fit through the equipment that processes letters does it go through the package system which does scan the barcodes."
I'm relocating to the Bay area in December.
Because at some point, the team gets so big, it's harder to weed out bad managers.

Additionally, managers are human, and will make mistakes. Often it's like the frog-in-the-pot story--you don't notice the little mistakes, only the sum of their results.
I heard a similar one, about a woman who had learned from her mother always to cut the ends off the roast before putting it in the oven. One day, teaching her daughter about how to cook a roast, her daughter asked why, and she realized she didn't know - so she went to her mother.

Her mother said, "I always thought it was for the taste, but I learned it from your grandmother; we should ask."

So they asked the grandmother, who said, "Oh, when your father and I got married, all we had was a very small roasting pan, so I cut off the ends of the roast so it would fit."
Is searching that bad? Personally, I find pushing the windows button on my keyboard and typing what I want (just like I do in Win7) is pretty convenient.
Ubuntu has been losing that plot for a long time. Remember when they shipped a version with essentially broken audio? Because they decided to switch to PulseAudio?
On the contrary, Unity is the very beginning of Ubuntu. For the first time I feel that Ubuntu is the easiest to use of all 3 major OS's I use daily (OSX, Win7, and Ubuntu).
Yeah this is how Intel describes VTune's operation as well. The trick is that you can't make the measurements from inside your own code, you have to have an external process doing the interrupting. As a newbie I didn't know this. I took an internal framework meant for very coarse level profiling and applied it at an absurdly fine level. The result was spending much, much too long trying to make sense of the numbers.
On cryptography and dogmas
I remember with those old vending machines with the circular rings - sometimes they get hung up. Someone buys a packet of chips but it just hangs on, and that someone misses out. Passers-by sees it and they try to get two packet of chips, so they pay for another packet of chips. Of course - now two packets of chips are stuck. Sometimes this can go up to three or four.

What I used to do when I see it is spend a minute looking at it, buy a packet of chip in such a way that all two, three or four packs fall down, then hand out the "free" ones to people watching. :)

Now that vending machine technology has improved, I do not see many of these "opportunities" anymore, but sometimes you see the odd one where the door is jammed and there are several packets of chips behind it. I get out my metal ruler and fix up the door, then pick the packets of chips up.

I was getting chips that aren't "mine", but at the time I really hoped I was doing a public service when I was fiddling with those vending machines... (there's a little show-off element to it. ok, more than a little. :) )
My understanding is that with a bundled plan, updates do not count against the data budget for this device.
On the week of Newsstand's launch, downloads of NYT's iPhone app jumped 8,500%
Not ironic. Sad. Pathetic that our patent system is so broken and abused by folks in the software space.

As per usual, these companies don't share a single line of code, and Kickstarter was in business for years before this guy's patent was even approved.

But somehow, he can claim to have invented crowdfunding for creative projects -- USING A COMPUTER.

BS.
Have you tried reading a PDF on a kindle? It works. technically. But it's not pleasant.
You should never remove code that you don't understand. And when isn't it a priority to "not break anything?"
To those familiar with car history, there's a striking similarity between the Jobs/Ive duo and the Daimler/Maybach duo:

Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach lead the automobile industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s just as Jobs and Ive lead the computing industry in the late 1900s and early 2000s. Maybach was the engineering genius who pioneered countless innovations in engine design, while Daimler had the intuition to get the right products to market and do the industrial power play.
What use cases for TCP do you envision where WebSocket won't be sufficient? It is quite possible to speak standard protocols over WebSocket that are typically spoken over TCP.
Why is raising money celebrated more than making money?
Ten Tips on How to Get the Entrepreneur X-Factor
OWS not having a message is not an accident or a lack of planning...it is the plan. They're taking a page from the book of Obama(and other politicians) by making OWS a blank slate on to which to project your anger and unhappiness with the "current system". This became clear to me after I became upset with their slogan "we are the 99%". I'm upset because its an attempt to steal my voice. I am part of the 99%--but I am not with them. They are attempting to speak on behalf of everyone and what easier way to do that than to not have a list of demands that can only serve to alienate your supporters and fork the movement?
Groupon Files for Discounted IPO
The Problem With Client-Side Analytics
With Xubuntu, I couldn't get the external monitor to other mode than "clone". Searching for how to solve this mentions xrandr... and then I went back to Windows.
I would assume over time that geo-location coordinates will get more accurate and that there will be an assumption of which place you frequent the most will be given priority over other apps.
Security fixes are back-ported regularly for Ubuntu releases and if you are really concerned then use the LTS version that will have 3 years of support.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
2400mAh DELL 02MTH3 Laptop Battery
In Los Angeles this really means Santa Monica and maybe El Segundo. Basically closer to the ocean.
Please stop making startups and begin to be a game changer.
The key ingredient for great innovation is not great ideas but great innovators. And what makes a great innovator is a rare combination of passion, skills, tenacity and fortitude needed to slog through the process of prototyping, testing, refining and rejecting ideas until they hit on a combination that works.
Ah! I'd read the other day that Nook owners could "read for free" for one hour in physical B&N locations and I couldn't figure out what kind of weird incentive that was. I pictured them being allowed to browse the physical books.
That doesn't sound like it's at odds at all. The point of the article is that you should investigate why something was done in the past so that you don't keep repeating the same thing even when it isn't necessary anymore. All of the things in your quote are still required and shouldn't be removed.
When you work at a high profile company, anything you say about another high-profile competitor must be very considered. Steve has always been more frank than most commentators in Google and other high profile companies, but even if the previous post hadn't gone public, a story about Bezos did need to be considered. And full respect to him for saying this much.

For a company so successful, one hears very little about how Amazon runs internally. Looking forward to Steve's next instalment.
Iterating over sparse arrays in Javascript
Can you give me some detail on which parts of alt-~ are buggy to you? I'd like to pass it on the team (And yeah, me too, it's my favorite).
That's not the question he asked. It took me about 10 minutes to learn the Unity keybinds, but a few days to reach my current level of productivity. For instance, I experimented with a few tiled arrangements of console, emacs windows & firefox. The best turned out to be different from before because of the ctrl-alt-numpad shortcuts. They sound like something a tiling manager would have -- Unity really gives me the feeling of stealing from the best.
The only valid complain is about the hidden launcher on the left - I often open it when all I wanted was the back button or resize a maximized window from the left margin.

As to recommend him another OS? Get a Mac. This way you'll complain to Apple and I won't pay attention.
Evidence for an Electromagnetic Theory of Consciousness
Right, which is why you don't just remove the onion because you feel like it. In that story, he found out why they used to put the onion in and determined it was no longer necessary.

Moral: if you don't understand code, don't change it, understand it.
I totally agree. I am simply predisposed. These days I like to think I'm a little wiser, thoughtful, and empathetic than I was as a kid, so I walk things through a little more in my mind. :)
I am a linux n00b too. Last weekend, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 is a shiny new Intel i3 machine. Just started learning the Unity interface. It is very difficult. The alt-tab does not show the each window of the open apps. The windows of the same program are clubbed together. WTF, how do I select them?

To me, Unity is a usability nightmare. As I have recently migrated from WindowsXP, this seems to be very hard. I hope I can learn to live with Ubuntu.

Also tried Gnome 3 shell, but quickly reverted to Unity as Gnome shell was even more horrible.
http://www.readability.com may help with #5. They have a handy bookmarklet too.
I usually call my programs directly with dmenu (or the Alt+F2 run dialog when I'm on Ubuntu), but even I like the way the older Ubuntu versions organize programs in the menu. It's very intuitive, especially if you're not familiar with the system you're on.
Slimv Tutorial - slime for vim
Contacting webcomics was a good idea; thanks. I have already been thinking about cross-promotion through webcomics, too.

It is kind of an all-or-nothing proposition. We just have to hit that sweet spot of a really cool product/game/characters.

And I agree that being a "cool start-up" has some advantage over corporations, too.
What was alt-~ originally bound to? I accidentally bound it to something else.
The fact that you reacted that way indicates that he's not actually as famous as you'd like him to be. If he'd described George Washington as a "famous-ish" general, you'd know he was being sarcastic.
I know there's some world-class coffee in Kirkland, but that might be north-ish for most east-side tech workers.
Steve Jobs Der Ursprung des AppleLogo und The Secret History of Silicon V
Unity’s Technical Lead Neil Patel Talks Plans For Ubuntu 12.04
If you don't like the default window manager, use a different one! Arguably that's the point of running Linux.

Ubuntu is so much more than it's default window manager.
Python is a great language. Simple. Powerful. Easy to read. Why not?

Also django is pretty great with amazing docs. I know a lot of people argue against because the django community isn't as large as the rails community (and it isn't). All that matters is that it's large enough though (and it is). Hasn't failed to answer my questions yet.
This comment from Coda Hale is worth a look: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews/pull/8#issuecomment-248...
Mostly by proximity - had an adjacent cubicle for a while.
I'm in SysEng at 111

--jim
Which was subsequently fixed. That's how things get done with open-source. You make a big change, lots of stuff break at first, then they get fixed over time. Audio has been working flawlessly for a couple years here.
I feel this is a general perception of a leader at any large enough institution. The sense of what they've accomplished makes us perceive them as extraordinary. By the time we get to interact with them, we've created this larger than life image.

Perhaps, inducing that into your team makes you a good leader. Perhaps not.
In China or Brazil, you basically partner with a connected local, and build your factory in a few months.

I really think you are severely underestimating what actually goes into building a factory. It's not handshake and 3 months later something magically springs out of the ground. Most modern factories are into the billions of dollars. For example Foxconn is opening a new factory in Brazil that won't be ready before 2013 and will cost $12 billion.

If you're just producing commodity items then you can buy commodity factory equipment. But high end manufacturing requires specialty equipment (usually from Germany, Japan or the US).

Anyway, after farming, manufacturing is the largest consumer of freshwater. I think the people have a right to know how the water is being collected and how its being disposed of since it is state money being used for the treatment. Unless you preferred the bad old days, before the Clean water Act, where factories would regularly dump toxic waste into the river, the Mississippi and the East River used to regularly catch on fire, and New Jersey literally stunk from all the pollution in its estuaries.
Actually the non-english speakers are split evenly between french speakers, and speakers of other languages.

The discussion was about diversity (and the imagined lack thereof in Canada), not about IQ ...
Operation Darknet - Anonynous takes down child pornography hosting server
Those are some damn nice CNC mills in the background of that photo. Wonder how much use they get.
Do you know any small indie games that succeeded because of an amazing marketing strategy and NOT because of word-of-mouth/social media and the fact that their game is really, really fun?
Deficit's include investments. If China where to buy 100 billion in US stock and then receive payments on that stock forever it could maintain a continuous trade imbalance with minimal impact on the US economy over the long term. In the wider context, with continuous inflation the US can export an ever growing amount of USD without changing the ratio of USD in the US vs other countries. And in those terms there is little reason not to do so as long as other countries want USD. In some ways exporting constantly inflating USD is the best trade relationship possible because you get non US goods for what amounts to free money.
The theory is usually stated as A's hire A's and B's hire C's (because they are afraid of being usurped)
When you get to the app you want, hit alt-` (or you can hit alt-` directly if you're already on the app you want) and then you'll get a preview of all the individual windows.

I made a video on how it works here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHFNnygpvcM
Big advantage for Clojure over what?

The point I was trying to make about parens is that I think Rich is creating a straw man from them. Parens in CL/Scheme don't have any special meaning other than demarcating lists. A Lisp compiler/interpreter just evaluates lists of symbols at the end of the day.
This applies to Silicon Valley in general, I think. We take risks, we bet on long shots, we try to serve markets with zero demand and squeeze blood from stones. We spend money like it was just paper, and when we don't have money we give our time away for free working on things we believe in.

According to traditional business management practices, no startup should last more than a couple of months. And most don't. And yet, somehow, Silicon Valley as a cultural economy is the most innovative, successful, profitable(?) place in the world.

What the MBAs don't get is that a rising tide lifts all boats. If my company creates a new market, can't meet demand, and goes under, I can easily find great work with the competitor that put me out of business. Or start a new business that serves their customers in a new market. Shoot, even if all I get out of it is that I can use their product, that's great. I'm still better off, even though I "lost".

And as long as we have this understanding with each other, that failure won't be punished, but rewarded, not with a golden parachute, but with more chances to fail-- then we're not afraid to take risks. We're allowed to be crazy. We're allowed to innovate.

Bet our future on an insanely great new project for which there's no demand, why not? We have nothing to lose. It's just a company, there will be more like it. We might not get rich, this time, but we'll know we made a dent.

Steve Jobs might not have invented that idea, but he sure taught it to a whole bunch of us.
Cloud as a natural progression
Choosing the right cloud provider matters!
In case you haven't seen the long thread of comments on the pull request that lead to this blog post: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews/pull/8
Have you heard about the Peter Principle?

From Wikipedia: "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently.

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

Knowing what somebody is not good at is almost as essential as knowing what people are good at. I guess both Ive and Apple know this.
Web Start-Up Making Reviews Social is in Private Beta
1. There are about 3 or 4 different switchers available in ubuntu -- take a look in CCSM and choose the one you want. But first I'd spend more time with the unity switcher. Adding the second dimension makes switching through tons of windows a lot easier. Hint: press the down arrow when you've alt-tabbed to an application to see the windows for that app.

2. Menu on top is awesome on my laptop, but not so much on my 2560x1600 desktop. Just do sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt to replace.

3. middle mouse button on the icon.
$ pstack PID

Combine with watch

$ watch pstack PID

On RHEL6 pstack is in gdb RPM package.

(bonus: shows all threads)
EC2 instance 3 year cumulative cost comparison
So if I'm on 11.04 and don't want Unity, my best bet is to downgrade to 10.04?
Well, the project has simply transitioned to open governance, which means anyone can contribute and move up the value chain based on meritocracy. So, for example, KDE folks can now directly contribute to Qt and also directly affect its future direction.

Trolltech/Nokia employees remain inside Nokia, and continue contributing actively to Qt (they are the largest contributors by far currently, I remember reading 85% of contributors being Nokia). Nokia continues to use Qt for Symbian/Meego as well as their future low-end platform, which currently only offers J2ME. They have officially announced that Qt will be used for "the next billion" which has been referred to as Meltemi software in leaks.

Blog post explaining this: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/09/12/qt-project/
Gawd. The number of times I've had to implement Yes/No/Other + <input type="text" name="other-foo" />... Yes it can be built using basic elements, but there must be a better way!

Also, while HTML5 supports all the different types you described, very few browsers actually render them this way.

I would also add not just date selectors, but also date range selectors and time selectors as well. These are non-trivial and are so often broken.
> You mean the technical workers have below average programming skills?

I would say the early stage employees more often than not are not as proficient at their jobs as say someone with a comprable job title at a larger, mature firm. And sometimes that does include the technical employees.

In each particular case, you have to gauge the average age of the founders and employees along with the maturity of the market in order to best define your chances of success at a given startup. A retail-oriented startup that caters to an immature market segment is invariable going to be the most inexperienced while a research-oriented startup that provides deep data analysis to financial or biomed corporations is probably going to debug your ballsack while laughing at your resume. Just find something interesting and challenging in between.
Indeed. Industrial design is important and it needs to be given attention from the highest level of an organization.

But this introduces a paradox. If the top levels of your organization do not understand design, then they cannot hire or promote the best designers.
Super-tab shows each window, Alt-tab each app.
Steve Jobs: "I'm going to destroy Android"
That’s a screenshot from the documentary “Objectified”, here is the interview with Ive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fe800C2CU

It sounds like those CNC mills are anything but decoration.
DE Shaw isn't exactly white-shoe.
Apps for Italy - the Italian open data contest
Some examples off the top of my head that use these techniques:

* code generators: Visual Studio, Eclipse

* monkey patching: RSpec

* natural language DSL: Cucumber
Looks like an unfortunate interaction all the way around: I have to admit reading the blog post I felt that the "dogma" lay on the other end of the table...now this link seems to confirm that suspicion.

There is a reason people said, "use bcrypt," and certainly Coda is well qualified to elucidate the details.

Side note: It's a little disappointing to see this kind of negativity shoot up on the front page. But by the same token I'm glad that HN readers are so observant and timf linked to a more complete history of what went down.