skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how you think justdazzle.me will make you rich, or even make you money at all. It's just you playing the lottery and lowering your expected outcome — and the expected outcome for playing the lottery is already negative.
Specifically this line:

> I still prefer Python as a general purpose language, but Ruby on Rails is a better solution for web development.

I can understand saying that coming from a PHP background, or if all you've ever played with in Python was a micro-framework like Bottle. But I don't see anything that you mentioned that isn't part of a Python web stack using something like Django. Hence my question.
Definitely need to show how old the tweet is in days. Every job I clicked on was expired.

I do feel that you have built something quite useful.
IOS 5 officially out
But you'll have a tough time finding libraries when you want to prototype your new feature really quick... ;-)
I used to do this for a long while, it's the main reason I have showdead on. I'd periodically check /newest and noobstories and noobcomments for spammy or otherwise harmful posts to flag.

Yet I recently lost my flagging privileges, probably because I flagged the entire front page on Steve Jobs day.
Giving Back Is Getting Ahead: Three Tips From Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics
I had a brief conversation yesterday with Hiten Shah, and wanted to share his views on generosity and helping others.
Apple Releases iOS 5 with Wi-Fi Syncing, More
If this is the case then I actually consider this OK. I wouldn't consider the biometric facial recognition data 'mine'.

However I would take offense to Facebook selling that particular data more so than most other data they have on me.
Apple iOS 5 Released  ~ THN : The Hacker News
Monsanto is one of those rare companies that is so fucked up that it is hated by both socialists and libertarians.
Really happy that they've made branch switching easier. It was a pain in the previous version.
About 2 years ago, I was looking at a forum that looked like the one pictured and thought, "Why would anyone let this happen to their forum?"

Signatures started as a way to putting personality into your post, and they still are, but it's gone way overboard. Many forums put a reasonable limit on that stuff now. 2 lines, 100 characters, etc.

I never looked at StackExchange as a solution to that, though. Forums were for everything from chatting to problem solving, and are usually conveniently divided for such. StackExchange is just for problem solving.
There's nothing ethically ambiguous about Monsanto. You'd be hard-pressed to name an organization of any ilk that's actively perpetrating more devastating evil.
Apple Releases OS X Lion 10.7.2 w/iCloud Support, Safari 5.1.1
I agree. It doesn't seem so outrageous to me that, after sending a CD worth of data, they drew a line.

At a certain level of detail, what they report back is going to start revealing internal secrets and IP, such as data models or algorithms. And given the volume of data that they did, provide, I find it plausible that they've drawn the line in an appropriate place.

The headline is sensationalist scaremongering. A careful read shows that it's not the data itself that's IP, but that the form in which it's presented reveals Facebook's IP.
It's great to see that there are other Wesleyan tech entrepreneurs out there. I moved to Madison, Wisconsin after graduating from Wes, so I didn't realize there was such a big Wesleyan tech scene in NY.

That being said, there are a number of great start-ups coming out of University of Wisconsin, supported by a really exciting entrepreneurship community here. There was a TechCrunch article a while back about Wisconsin start-ups and Capital Entrepreneurs, a group that really supports the start-up community here in Madison (http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/wisconsin-land-of-beer-chee...).

Start ups from public institutions are out there! 94 labs, a Wisconsin incubator program that I went through just graduated 14 companies, many of which had founders from UW schools.
The cut, fit (tighter or looser) and details such as pant length would date it pretty well. There's no such thing as a standard suit.
Pager duty for developers?
"If there is no way to demonstrate the objective reality of those things, they are by definition in the realm of mysticism."

Sure, that is your classification of concepts. However, know that your classification using semantics does not negate whether or not the actual reality exists. Furthermore, they cannot be demonstrated with current tools. Electrons were not able to be detected thousands of years ago, but now we have the tools to prove their existence. This does not mean electrons did not exist prior to our development of tools to detect them.

The Randi challenge is a great point and I have already thought of reaching out to Robert Bruce on his forum to ask him why he himself does not submit a proposal to the institution, seeing as how he is an advanced projector.

Personally, I am in the beginning states of consciously projecting and controlling the astral body, my fear usually gets in the way of completely separating, though I have floated out of my body and into the ceiling, numerous times.
What's there to like about R?
RIM MD Stephen Bates was just on a London TV channel and gave a fairly dumb PR performance which is odd because he does much better on pre-record http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15272310

I'm not an addict but a lot of my friends (in Africa) are and they are so totally pd (and some are losing actual business) that they will be acting on their iPhone desires very soon.

Anyone here know more about what's really going on?

Anyone with the ear of RIM? A refund would really go down well with my friends.
I used to think that i was only few of those who had bad experience with Amazon, but whoa there many more out there who had bad experience. Couple of points i want to put here:
1. Amazon.com was not fully migrated to AWS till 2009-2010 for sure, though the migration was on going during that time only.
2. Agree with nirvana about getting page late night and work on fixing bug (Also even on Friday night and on many weekends)
3. Also one more thing which i want to point out here is: developers are going on oncall duties every now and then for 24X7 and 7 days a week including Saturday and Sundays. And you are not getting any benefit/compensatory day off on weekdays. (I heard yahoo pays their employees extra for being oncall)
"....apparently I'm destined to slave away at C++ legacy code all my life. Which is really what depresses me."

Good lord, man. Do you realize how in-demand great designers who actually know how to code/talk to coders?

Even if you don't want to do web app design, plenty of people survive working in art galleries/museums or as pure commercial graphic designers/illustrators.

Lastly, you're not destined for a damn thing at the age of 20 (or any other age). I graduated with a psychology degree and worked min-wage/retail for 3 years in Anchorage, Alaska. I then worked the graveyard shift at a residential treatment facility. I've since built and sold 3 startups (one a venture-backed YC company). My dad was driving a cab at 35 and retired an SVP of Sun Microsystems (he spent lots of time with Steve Jobs, Ross Perot, and Ron Conway in his career).

If you talk to people in their 30s and 40s about what they were doing when they were 20, I think you'll find that the majority of them have reinvented themselves a few times. Figure out what you want to do and take the first step in that direction. Then take the next. You'll get there!
Show HN: I built Scrolldit.com, endless Reddit scrolling
I'm still confused. I'm neither an iOS nor and Android developer, so maybe this is not a confusing situation to them. But:

> What we mean by single backend is you can have one backend and you don't need to know whether you are on an Android or iOS platform. You get the same analytics.

I can't fathom why a backend service would ever not work this way.
Startup Jargon Series: DISRUPTION
Seriously, bad managers delegate? That's probably one of the most important things for a manager to do.
Absolutely. I used to commute in southwestern CT and it could easily take 90 minutes to drive 15 miles. It was sheer misery and I soon resorted to taking the train even though it meant walking 1.5 miles.

These days I have a 25 mile commute from a rural area to the suburbs and it's 55mph most of the way, very little traffic, pretty scenery and very relaxing (except in the middle of a snowstorm!).
Could it be that it is not the information per se that is IP, but the actual type or structure of the information?
Correct. The richness of the Javascript environment for Googlebot is probably a more significant discovery than the POST requests. I previously pretty much assumed that bots didn't really run Javacript. (Or at least that they would kill network access before running it)
Robin,

Nice, simple idea - solid MVP. Good use case for text processing too because the domain of candidate phrases, patterns you are looking for is relatively small :)

Here are UX some suggestions:

-It will require some effort, but you should try to surface companies as tags if you can. Will be a popular feature...We did this at my last startup Tracked.com and it was a really popular. You can start by getting a list of companies via Crunchbase API and then use that set to do the entity extraction.

-Same as above, but for programming language keywords

-Show timestamps of Tweets (you've heard this a lot)

-Make links hypertext (you've heard this a lot)

Thanks,

@mileslennon
It's hard to underestimate how great this deal is.

You get a work visa, office space, support network and enough money for rent reimbursement, basic salary (more than ramen btw) AND with what's left you can hire the skills you lack. All this is FREE, you keep 100% of your equity.

Silicon Valley is of course the startup capital, but until there's an incubator that gives you the equivalent in cash ($100K in SV dollars?) and an instant visa (impossible) without taking equity (hah), Chile is the place to be.
[Slideshow] 4 Social Networking Mistakes To Avoid
I was hoping all Entrepreneurs that run YC companies would have a social conscience.
A programmer had a problem...
I'm happy they obscured it. I always thought it was weird that it was so prominent. For most coders, using github to code (not visitors or downloaders), this big download button was visual cruft.

If your primary goal is to make downloading a zipped copy of your application easy, then sending your visitors/downloaders to a GitHub project page is probably not the best solution.
This article restricts itself to a context where following "zero, one, infinity" results in simpler, more concise code. This is a good restriction. In general, following "zero, one, infinity" will often put you at odds with YAGNI.
Also OS X 10.7.2. Among other things, finally gives the ability to rearrange spaces.
Microsoft Plants Security Scare As IE Plunges To 40% Market Share
RIM's Horrible Year Continues
iOS 5 now available!
TL;DR This article is all about a theoretical future where Apple turns evil and starts making deals with ad networks to pollute your Siri experience.

Pure FUD.
You might with more justification claim that varargs methods are a code smell, as they conflate the algebraic structure of the elements and the operations on them (for example that they form a semigroup with respect to the operation at hand) with the traversal over a collection of elements, thereby grossly violationg the principle of separation of concerns. After all, many interesting algebraic structures are defined in terms of binary operators. If you separate operations between elements and traversal over collections, you can fold any operation over any traversable entity, with just #operations + #traversables functions, instead of #operations * #traversables functions. (You have a similar structure in languages from the APL family, where operators are all unary or binary, and traversal is specified by adverbs to the operators.)

This does of course not apply if you use a deliberately restricted language that has just one type of collection traversal, in that case you are better off with varargs, as n*1 < n+1.
organising them by date, ie Today/Yesterday/Later is high on my list. I figured it would be important for people coming back to the site after an initial visit. But for that I'd need people making an initial visit first hence I thought I'd wait until I'd got some positive feedback before doing that.

Nothing on there should be more than 6 days old which was a guess by me as to how much history made sense to show. Possibly that needs to be more recent even, or maybe ordering by date will just make it less of a surprise when you find one which is gone already.

Thanks.
By itself this device is poorly suited to backup. Specially for their use case. A huge pile of desktop Hitachi disks isn't something you can stick in a rack and forget about, and people like to forget about backups.

Best case: you have someone who's constantly checking/maintaining this box and replacing the drives as they fail.

Worst case: an expectation of a backup, but every time you refer to it, it doesn't work.

Most likely case: A mix of both of the above. Where the box takes a lot of attention, and occasionally works as intended.

The only redeeming factor is that they proclaim all the reasons why this is a poor choice. So it seems someone is at least thinking about it.
Diceware (http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html) is one version. It should be easy enough to automate, if you can get enough randomness to pick each word.
JLM Inspiration
I'm not sure what you mean by saying the law is notoriously slow to adapt, since Facebook is basically quoting the law to the user.

Section 4(12) of the Acts carves out an exception to
subject access requests where the disclosures in
response would adversely affect trade secrets or
intellectual property. We have not provided any
information to you which is a trade secret or
intellectual property of Facebook Ireland Limited
or its licensors.

For all I know, Facebook may even be obligated to include such a disclaimer about missing information when processing an information request.
I think there's a distinction that needs to be drawn here between data that only has two of something, and functions that only take two arguments. In the former case, you limit the things you can represent and generalize to, and everybody agrees that's not good. In the latter, though, there is the standard notion of folding that naturally extends your binary function to arbitrarily many arguments. In fact, I'd agree with what I think you're suggesting: it's better to define a binary function and let fold generalize it, than to have to roll your own multi-argument function every time, because then you and anyone else looking at it can easily know how it behaves. In other words, I think he got carried away by the end of the article, and his last "improvement" isn't an improvement at all.

(Of course, the objection to data having only two things doesn't hold either if it's a recursive data type -- cons lists, binary trees, etc... -- but you know what I mean.)
eBay, PayPal, Magento and GSI Pillars of eBay's X.commerce Platform
It's a huge deal for your team and investors, but don't expect any applauds.
His point wasn't that Google has no platforms, he specifically mentions a few groups in Google that do get it right and anybody that has used the gdata APIs for those products would agree that they really are quite nice to use as a third party developer when compared to a typical web API.

His point was that there shouldn't be so much variation on this from team to team and they should strive to make these platform services a cultural core part of the company.

I totally agree with his point, though I'm coming from the outsider perspective. I was really jazzed to hear they finally released an API for Google+ and then crushed to realize it was completely worthless for almost any task. They've recently released an updated API, adding in some very basic search stuff.. but the API is still worthless. Hopefully within a year or so they'll have an API that isn't completely worthless, but it would have been nice if they had one from the start and if they internalized the API culture Steve is talking about, this would have been a no-brainer because the API would be an integral part of the service from top to bottom instead of something being slowly bolted on later.
The "recovery": Median incomes have falled by 9.8% in the past 4 years.
It's just another language--jeez. It has some beneficial qualities that JS lacks, IMHO. (These are spelled out in various whitepapers, so I won't reiterate them.)

The sharpest programmers I know, many with C or Java backgrounds, pick up JavaScript and don't bat an eye about it being a "real" language--what does that even mean? It's just another language.
Calling Monsanto 'ethically ambiguous' is akin to describing Hitler as a 'colorful leader with sporadic public relations issues'.
Phoenix Exploit’s Kit 2.8 mini version
If a coworker told me the same thing, I'd ask, "Why?" If they gave me the explanation given in the article, I'd say, "Thank you, that's a nice little improvement. The code is simpler AND more general." Then, I'd go on working, a little bit better of a programmer for it. If I repeated this ritual a few hundred times, I might actually become a halfway-decent programmer. In this field, details matter.
Not technically, although I do have a lot of help.

I've managed to build a good "team" by outsourcing as much as possible. I use Rackspace so I don't have to manage servers or do much sysadmin. I work with a freelance programming firm for things I need done that I can't/don't have time to do in house. I've hired freelance writers to produce content for our art blogs (usually artists. Also-I write for those art marketing blogs, drawing on my 16 years of gallery experience). I usually hire customers who know what they're doing as part time support agents - they work freelance from home via our forums and ticket system.

It's actually getting easier over time to outsource services as more and more Saas and Paas offerings come online (Do you know how much easier storing Terabytes of images is now that S3 exists?). A few Examples: I used to maintain a mail server, now that's outsourced to MailTrust, we outsource customer analytics to getclicky.com, we outsource email newsletter deliver to Cakemail.

Having said all of that, I am starting to look for an in-house developer. There are some aspects of a code-base and server configuration that are hard to outsource to another firm.
Depression comes when your status in life is drastically lowered.

I thought that depression was the result of a chemical imbalance. It might be worthwhile to seek the help of a healthcare professional to help treat it before it gets any worse.
I agree. The headline and article seems more geared to making people draw conclusions than pointing out the reality of the situation.
I used to feel the way you do, before I met my girlfriend and saw myself through her eyes. She felt about my graphic tees and ill-fitting pants the way I did about her MySpace page's design.

I realized that what you wear affects people offline about as much as your webpage's stylesheet does online. It shows your creativity, attention to detail, and sense of design, or lack thereof. What you're wearing is already influencing what people think of you, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. As with all those local businesses that don't think about their website.

It only matters if you care what other people think. If you can afford not to, or only interact with people virtually, great. But, whether you care or not, if you wear clothes that don't fit or the same outfit every day, people will probably think you have no taste/money/fun. There's a reason Steve Jobs used to dress like this:

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-BC890_Jobsda_DV...

You can bet he dressed differently at the Homebrew Computer Club meetings. And nothing wrong with programming in only a towel. Fashion is dynamic. Yes, it's just personal styling, but it's no more "superficial" than your CSS. Wearing a black or white t-shirt/polo/button-down and jeans/khakis is like using the default Wordpress/Posterous theme on your blog.

Does it really take that long to decide what to put on? Vint Cerf found time to dress with style and still invent the internet.

There's a reason software hasn't eaten politics, law, finance, apparel, and hospitality yet. Indochino and Airbnb are certainly a start with the latter two, and no surprise, they dress with style when appropriate[1][2].

[1] http://www.indochino.com/product/The-Ultimate-Navy-Blue-Blaz...
[2] http://www.airbnb.com/founding-team
Halliburton. What do I win?
Why does Techcrunch always offer such exaggerations as "SMS dies today?" I'm curious if people will actually use iMessage very much. It will be hard to keep track of the relatively small amount of friends you know are on iOS5, and people on iPods won't want to rely on having wi-fi for their SMSing.
Re: MacRuby/iOS, you're right, GC problem not solved with ARC after all.
DNAnexus raises 15M, hosts NCBI Sequence Read Archive
Reminds me of what I've been hearing orthodox jews say my entire life about the Sabbath. About how great it is because you are forced to not work at least one day a week and spend time with your family etc. For those not familiar, Orthodox jews don't work from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown and can't even "use" electricity or do any labor etc. If you use a refrigerator it has to be rigged so the light is always on and doesn't come on only when the door is opened. Things like that.

Ref: http://judaism.about.com/od/sabbathdayshabb2/f/electricity.h...
It depends on what you want, maybe they help you in some cases because it costs nothing, or doing so does not touch a "live wire" of corporate policy or government regulation.

But for other matters, HR does pursue their own agenda, not yours. It's important to remember.
Sound like awfully low-level things to discuss, except in the occasional code review where something is glaring. Also, map() and filter() aren't quite deprecated but most would agree that the list comprehension is more Pythonic.
I'm currently a student at Wesleyan, and seeing this article was awfully surprising to me. If we really do rule the tech scene in one of the largest cities in the US, I certainly wouldn't know it from being here. Our CS department is tiny (but excellent) and is focused almost entirely on the science of computing rather than applications of the craft. I've heard of some Wesleyan grads going on to high positions in the tech world but I assumed these were exceptions to the rule.

I came to Wesleyan not because I thought it would have the best programs for what I wanted to study, but because of the student community. I have never seen such a high volume of creative output from any group of people, and it inspires me daily. If there are programmers somewhere on campus that exhibit this level of excellence and inspiration in their work, they've been quiet about it.

Jake, what advice would you have for a current Wesleyan student who wishes to be active in the tech world?

And if you're reading this, other Wesleyan students, can we hang out? I like web development a lot but I'm not smart enough to do it all by myself. Let's build stuff!
Please listen to the famous Stanford Commencement Speech by Steve Jobs. It has helped me greatly in situations I feel depressed about life. I still listen to it again and again! worth every second!

Here's the youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love
Something's borked with your date filtering, because I saw at least one tweet from Oct. 1.
Not sure about "healthy", but "totally normal" or "completely acceptable" instead fit. Also, responds really well to self-guided treatment like cognitive behaviour therapy.
First ASUS ultrabook to market: meet the Zenbook
When I view the listings on the map, the markers need to display an infowindow when clicked.