skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy that at all. It's impossible to look at the success The Richards Group has had and conclude it's all "moderately creative trash". More to the point it's insulting to the people who did that work.

If there's a lesson here for the HN community I think it's that there's more than one way to do things. You bristle at the idea of punching a clock and accounting for your time in 15 minute increments. So you shouldn't work there.

At the same time there are surely creative people out there who bristle at the idea of working through the night or on weekends. To those people a workplace that closes at 6pm and enforces a no-work policy after that would be appealing.

The beauty of this article is it tells us both ways work. So people who want to close down at 6pm can start a company and draw other like minded people to them. While people with no interest in that lifestyle can stay away
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This is an opportunity to join a top notch technical team.
The Growing Divide in Ubuntu – Apple’s Methods meets Linux Community
It's not a possibility, because he did not hold them captive. Stockholm Syndrome only refers to situations where people who are held against their will have positive feelings towards their captors.
See what? I can't find what you're referring to.
i also got this warning
Except it usually isn't "uncle bob", it's their biggest customer who still uses IE6, they're losing business, emergency, etc.
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Is this why the ad industry is getting eaten for lunch by Google/Facebook?
Before anyone gets too upset with these numbers, you should go and read about the limitations of using Gini coefficients to describe income inequality. It doesn't tell you what you think it does.
There is a competitive advantage for startups that embrace this. Hipmunk gets a lot of their user experience love by eliminating the single digit content problem that Stephen describes here vs. Expedia, Travelocity, etc. They even have a slide that illustrates the wasted space on competitor sites with color boxes.
That's nice. But that's not what the article was about. It was about how a wine company got an investment from an venture caplitalist. It's nice you got funding and are doing well, but please don't parade around like you're solving humanity's problems by selling alcohol from a website.
How can you stay one step ahead in security for the cloud?
Why on earth would you want to make something HARDER when faced with a large group of people who already think it's too hard or non-relevant? It's not a weed-out contest.

I have an undergrad degree in EE. If someone could find a way to make today's undergrads learn the same material, but have a much easier time of it, why would anyone oppose that? Do I really need to feel bitter because I struggled but a whole new bunch of kids breeze through the material?

Sure, we don't want to waste time, but if the "fun science games" can lead to better understanding of the math behind it so much the better. I once used a weight hanging on a long string held up to my nose as an explanation of conservation of energy: "bet that this weight won't hit me in the face when I let it swing out and back?" "Why didn't it hit me?" "What can I change so it will smack me in the face?"

It's a "game," but they did learn something useful from it.
The reason I advocate vocational style education is that it is inherently similar to SRS. Academic coursework is not, and students won't go out of their way to continue learning from previous quarters/semesters (although this is where CS is slightly different than other engineering disciplines, since you can program for fun in your spare time and it may correspond with what you have learned).
In high school, the track I was on ended with high school seniors taking calculus at the local engineering college. No AP classes were offered where I lived, but I'm convinced that one college level class did more for me than a half-dozen AP classes would have. Especially because it forced my high-school math teacher to think more about preparing students for college-level work.
Brain cells responsible for keeping us awake identified
Samsung goes live with Bada 2.0
Thailand (second-biggest hard drive producer) is 20% underwater.
What, the barrel roll thing? I've gotta say, you're looking at it incorrectly.

It was implemented by a single engineer who thought it would be a humorous thing to do without considering marketing at all.

Or did you mean that them allowing this is the cynical marketing move? It'd make more sense, but I don't think I'd agree with it.
It is a bad idea (since that isn't how it works in practice), but not a bad intention.
Maybe I'm missing something, but recently there has been a lot of work in graceful degradation. Such examples include Modernizr (based upon yep-nope) which allow detection of features and asynchronous loading of polyfils for missing functionality. Missing css3 support for IE6-8 comes in a 10 second fix called CSS3PIE. To use it you add 1 css line to apply the htc to the necessary classes (or all with the * selector) and there you have curved corners in IE6-8 with no additional work.
We tried to drop IE6 support for an ecommerce client recently. But looking at analytics, IE6 customers are still doing 5 figures a month in revenue. The client just can't risk the potential lack of conversion in a site with a 'graceful degradation'. The testing that's gone into making it convert as it has must apply across all the major browsers from which they get traffic.

Shame, it's a complete pig to develop for.

edit: They must look and behave more or less the same. Personally I have no qualms about the IE users not seeing rounded corners on some boxes. As long as they're in the same place and the same colour, etc.
The problem is that it can't really be guaranteed because there is no knowing what you are going to do with it. I could give you a hardened AMI and then you could totally open in up in the course of your development. So it would have to be something like "Here is what has been done to it. Here is how it currently satisfies X accreditation. It is your responsibility to keep it secure"

Given that is this still worthwhile?
Unfortunately, some (very large) corporations still use IE6 across their organizations and require you to support it.
I accept that this quote doesn't give his reasons. However, I have to agree with him. My reasons are that Java is slow and bloated.
Well, Haskell functions are curried, so you could think of the arity as always being 1. ;-)

If you're writing code, you can always use redundant parentheses at first. Then you refactor, gradually removing the parentheses or replacing them with an appropriate combination of ($) and (.).

Another useful thing to learn is how to write point-free code. An example:

strToUpper xs = map toUpper xs
strToUpper' = map toUpper

These are essentially the same function, but the latter is often preferred. Note also that they have the same type, namely String -> String.

If you're reading code and you find it hard to parse, you probably need to read easier code (for instance, from LYAH or RWH), but more likely you need to write more code of your own.
The PI's publications page:
http://sneakers.cs.columbia.edu/ids/publications_l.html

"Baiting Inside Attackers Using Decoy Documents"
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bmbowen/papers/DecoyDocumentsCam...

I'm not sure how this could catch a Bradley Manning without potentially influencing policy thanks to non-malicious users having access to the same documents.

Also referenced in the proposal:

"Designing Host and Network Sensors to Mitigate the Insider Threat"
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bmbowen/papers/DesigningSensorsI...
Windows 8 Tablet and the Nokia's CEO
Mmm maybe with a timeout of a few seconds? Let me think about that.
Actually, Feynman had exactly this criticism of the way biology was taught; that the students memorized way too many things that they could just look up(and this was pre-Google, mind you!)
TDD Best Practices in Perl
Nice, although I find myself annoyed to have to wait after the vote counts to load (they only get fetched on mouse-over, right?)
Best books/ info sources on UI design
We explicitly don't support IE on our heavy JavaScript web app.

Users get an alert saying, "Use Firefox or Chrome. If you want to use IE and are upset that you can't, let us know."

Nobody has said anything about it.

I think so much depends on your audience. Our audience is writers using their own computer. They're happy to use Firefox and Chrome.

I only see IE6 support as a problem for people on corporate machines who don't control their own software.
Linux Mint 12 'Lisa' to Come with a Customized Gnome 3 Desktop
Linux Mint 12 'Lisa' will come with its own customized desktop and it will be based on Gnome 3. The core desktop will be based on a series of Gnome Shell extensions called “MGSE” (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions) that will provide a layer on top of Gnome 3.
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Yeah, but you're saying it makes sense for developers to consider Android to be one software platform when looking at marked numbers. I'm pointing out that this is just not true. It's much easier with iOS, for example, because unless you're targeting very old hardware you can assume everyone is running iOS 4 or 5 (or soon will be), and the screen size is universally the same across iPhones.

If you consider Android a single platform, then the Apple platform should be iOS (including the iPad and iPod touch), but most comparisons of phone numbers don't take these into account at all (for good reason IMHO).
Absolutely true - when you launch and it breaks, you will fix it. When nobody comes you'll have to figure out what you did wrong and fix it and when it sucks you'll make it better. You can't do these things in a vacuum and without real, live people using the service.
Google reportedly looking to get into the cable TV business
That was true before the Seth Cohen effect (or more recently: the Big Bang Theory effect).

EDIT: in fact, I find the those fictional theoretical physicists' grasp of physics appalling — and I don't even pretend to know that much physics!
The tl;dr I got was that high school didn't adequately prepare students for college. Just to have h.s. kids enthusiastic (as someone else mentions in the comments here, high on dopamine) they make things entertaining/easy. While some may argue that college level should have more real world applications, I would argue that high school level should have more hard challenges that fail half the class. Maybe have a class that doesn't count towards your GPA that is super-challenging.
San Francisco to offer free Wi-Fi on Market Street
That's true, only on hover. I did it to decrease the load on the clientside and on the side of Reddit itself, otherwise it is 50 iframes being loaded in the background for each render.
If you tell me the ip I'll whitelist it. pg@ycombinator.com
Poll Everywhere is looking for fantastic JS/CoffeeScript Front-End/UX Designers
Chicago, San Francisco are helpful but worldwide working location is totally acceptable.

http://jobs.polleverywhere.com/apply/OK0BQR/Frontend-Develop...

Front-end Developer/Designer

We're seeking a talented developer to help us build brilliant data visualizations.

Poll Everywhere is the largest text message visualization app in the world. Millions of people have texted, tweeted, or otherwise submitted votes and messages to people running our live screens.

You will be responsible for designing and maintaining our core data visuals. Your real-time dataviz work will be on prime time TV, used at TED, on stage with CEOs that are household names, behind rock stars in concert, on Times Square billboards, and in thousands of PowerPoint slides every day.

Usability is not an afterthought. If the user can't figure it out, it is a bug.

You should be interested in learning or sharpening your HTML5 while you work for us. You have impeccable design sense, and you carefully consider the writings of Tufte, Wroblewski, and Moggridge.

Technical experience should include:

- Previous visualization projects that you can show us
- Proof that you like Test Driven Development
- Ability to use REST APIs
- HTML and CSS mastery
- jQuery, JavaScript

...and at least one of:

- HTML5
- Processing
- Quartz
- Adobe Flex, ActionScript 3

Tell us more about

- Previous visualizations you've built (screenshots are good, URLs are awesome)
- Experience with OSS and/or side projects
- Involvement in the developer community through meetups, projects, essays, etc
- Fun, interesting, or crazy programming languages you've played around with
- Art, music, and literature, or things that fascinate you

We don't care about

- Every technology you've used since you touched a keyboard (like DOA web services and HP Basic)
- Verbose resumes (shorter is better)

Education

We don't really care about your education. Anybody can get a college degree. What we care about is your ability to communicate, get stuff done, and work with a team. If you feel your education helps communicate those traits, tell us about it.

Location:

We have a physical presence in San Francisco and a satellite office in Chicago, but will consider remote collaboration. Don't be afraid to get on an airplane once in a while.

Requirements

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Comp

$70K - $120K salary, determined by perceived talent
Stock options negotiable
Health and 401K benefits available

Application Process

Keep applications brief; we want small resumes with relevant experience. Be prepared to defend any laundry lists of skills. Short but super-personalized cover letters are welcome.

Good luck.
Whats the copyright situation around Reddit posts? Is putting ads on Reddit content allowed?
Who uses smartphones?
Nice product. Awful name.
Not sure, but the ads you see are coming from Reddit itself ;-)
> This is the type of thing that you wouldn't have done 10 years ago because noone would have found out about it.

Stop motion videos and music has been done before. Probably the most well known is 1986's "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. Interestingly, it was filmed by the folks who would later bring us Wallace and Gromit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0
I do not think a lawyer have to specialize in patents specifically to support byzantine laws. I think it is the willingness and propensity to accept laws and regulations for everything.
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Parse adds new query operators
I didn't mean "point-and-clicky" in a negative way; sorry if it sounded like it.

Construct 2 describes itself as "A visual HTML5 game development tool", Impact however is a programming framework. Someone without programming experience wouldn't be able to do much with Impact, but may still be able to make great games with Construct 2.

We're focusing on different target groups and in my book that's great. It's what HTML5 needs to succeed :)
When it comes to producing amazing work, quantity beats quality.

That is, it's better to produce 100 things and throw away 99 than it is to sit around a perfect 1. In the end the quality will be higher.

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2007/02/quantity_e...
Not sure how advanced you are, but as a relative noob, I've been reading, among others, the following sites:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
http://uxmagazine.com/

Smashing has really good books, most if not all you can buy as ebooks. If you want a good overall primer for less advanced UI/UX designers, read the Smashing Book #1

I also follow people like Paul Irish, but that's more for HTML5/CSS3 and front-end dev...
Is VMware's dominance of the virtualization market under threat?
True, but since the current version of SM that we use (1.7) isn't thread-safe all calls to it need to be inside of a mutex to prevent trashing global state. It is possible that with a switch to V8 or upgrade to the lastest SM (1.8.5?) it is possible to execute JS without a GIL, however that is something that will need extensive testing to make sure that it works properly.

PS - It is important to note that the jslock is completely separate from the dblock and it is rare to hold both simultaneously. This means that if you are running multiple Map Reduces, one can be fetching or writing data to the DB while the other is processing the objects in JS.
The "startup kind of person" is ambitious so I'm not sure how many people that applies to.

An ambitious procrastinator...is that an oxymoron?
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As a consultant I am constantly called onto projects that are in varied states of "prototype gone wild" - they seem to already be following this advice on many levels and pay the price later. YMMV
Top (when I wrote this) comment on this thread is, on close read, virtually content free.
oh dang, just lost about 30m. will bookmark.
put option terms only last for 3-9 months. you can use LEAPS which are long-term option contracts with a 2+ year expiration.
Ask Headline: How to go from idea to product (for hardware)?
We all know how to go from idea to product when we want to build a software product. But how do you go from idea to product when your idea is a hardware?

I am inspired by the Nest thermostat:
http://www.nest.com/
s/he's not going/he's going/
Apparently my Thinkpad is an iPad in landscape mode now.
Have you ever talked to an IP lawyer? It is surprisingly difficult to become one. You responded to an interesting point with more superficial innuendo about congress.
No Nazi comparisons? Sounds like something Hitler would say
I've read a few books about the subject. One of my favorites is Designing The Obvious by Robert Hoekman Jr: http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Obvious-Common-Approach-Appl...

It has a pretty good signal/noise ratio.
Why not find an open source project and start contributing to it? It would be a great way to learn new stuff, and to get known in the 'community' (a great way to get a startup job).

Or start your own project - build something purely for fun. Maybe even start it in a different programming language (the one the interviewers keep asking you about).

Do something fun - that's the best way to learn and the best way to get inspired. The rest will come naturally.
The OOP parts in the PHP manual haven't been given anywhere near enough care and attention than the old bits. Unless it's core functionality, good luck finding decent doc for the extensions listed.

Class:nameOfFunction - *the Name of Function purpose*

Some of the SPL classes are equally amusing, especially when you get as far as `RecursiveIteratorIterator` and, to recursively scan a directory (OOP stylee):

$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('/path/to/directory'), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SKIP_DOTS);

Now I make use of that and, syntax aside, it's pretty handy for the stuff you get back from it, but for the best part some of these PHP extensions are a waste of time. There's bugger all documentation and, quite often, they're missing basic methods that you can already do procedurally.

Why would anyone want to spend time figuring out this framework extension, or the OOP PHP stuff like SPL and Imagick, with no documentation, when there are plenty well established ones out there that have mountains of it?
I love my 13" macbook air; screen size seems fine for development for me, though I do have to alt-tab to toggle apps a lot. It seems plenty fast enough (doing rails development). I also have the 128GB hard drive. I don't use this for photos/music, so I don't have much need for more.

The weight factor is more important than I would have thought.
It's memorable is all I can say from experience with this product for the last couple of years. This isn't a product that someone is exactly searching for, so we've seen a high correlation to any name (good or bad) that is memorable to continued word of mouth sales / direct traffic.
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Hey guys, thanks for the help and I much appreciate you making the adjustment. Be careful about posting forced copy on social graphs, I'd learn from Chill here http://www.observer.com/2011/08/facebook-is-slightly-less-ch...
Currently browsing the listentothis subreddit using your website, I must say it is quite enjoyable :)
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I think you nailed it with the IBM analogy.
What did you use to get that grid system that adapts to the screen width dynamically?

Any links to a tut on that?
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Patent claims constructions are carefully written so as to present a decision tree to the court. The court translates the language into that decision tree worded for laypersons; expert witnesses for both sides make arguments at each node of the tree.

A good, simple starting point:

http://www.bpmlegal.com/howtopat5.html
Measuring generously, 284×22 are devoted to news. That’s half a percent for content, 99.5% other stuff.

Alas, it's not such a mystery if you read that as "99.5% profit."
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#7 Don't write a blog post about ways to not procrastinate
Sure it's a possibility, but the burden of proof would be on you to demonstrate that it was Stockholm syndrome. You can't get by just claiming possible scenarios that explain something. You have to actually provide evidence that your claim is true (unless you're defending creationism)
I'm pretty sure rape constitutes being held against one's will.
Absolutely this. The trick is to getting where people see you deliver that one out of a hundred, and assume that your quality beats others' quantity.

How are Jobs' keynotes so well delivered? Repetition, iteration, practice, just like martial arts, makes perfect.
After I found out about bitcoin, it's the first thing I think about when they come out with faster hardware.
That grid system is an awesome jQuery plugin built by David DeSandro: http://masonry.desandro.com
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There're a couple in Germany. The one in Bielefeld has still open seats available :-)
As 'tzs pointed out a few weeks ago, the East Texas issue is something that the America Invents Act (the recent patent reform bill) actually addresses:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3006925
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