skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One secret to having a good developer experience in any company is having a very small decision "surface area" for the developer. By that I mean, he/she only needs to talk to 1 or 2 people in order to make a decision. A small company has this sort of environment naturally but a "big" company can somewhat duplicate it by having a small team with a great manager.

The reality is that large companies tend to have organizational reasons not to hire the sort of people that they say they want.
For example:

They express the desire to hire the top 1% but of course they can't or don't want to pay a salary in the top 1% - perhaps they've never paid that much for a developer or maybe it wouldn't be fair to the less talented or more exploited devs already on the payroll.

They say they want "smart people that get things done" but they aren't prepared to give them someplace quiet to think or resources they need.

Heck, sometimes it seems like HR's job is to keep the best people out. Do they really want someone exceptional even brilliant? "Oh no, we couldn't hire him, he doesn't have a degree."
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And if you bought ANY dock (desktop, car) for your other 200 nexus models, get ready to buy a new one for the latest one.
Hey Leo, we consider ourselves an industry site where the readers are primarily game developers, consumer-facing mobile app developers, advertising networks or the platforms themselves.

DAU and MAU is common parlance in the community, but we'll break it out in the future! We try not to focus on less meaningful stats like installs or downloads if we can. Those numbers can easily be manipulated or be poorly representative, if the app has a bad retention rate.
Investment in China: What I’ve Learned & Unlearned
Pretty neat, but needs a chat window or something. I just found myself painting messages ;)
How Brands Can Engage and Not Annoy People on Mobile
It makes no sense to shoot for profitability when you are growing rapidly. Yelp has only just started expanding outside the US. It's cash is much better spent on growth than sitting in the bank.
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These social norms were formed when people didn't have the wealth or the technology for effective birth control. Once that happened, the sexual revolution happened. Cultures are self-modifying based upon changing conditions.
Short term missions
Interesting, but it needs more recent outrages.
I was painting a guy then someone did a dog, then someone painted the sky, some trees, and someone was starting to do an elephant but i got disconnected, if you saved that image please share!

EDIT:

here's how it started

http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/221.jpg
Humble founder who does not even consider himself an entrepreneur
Who decides which candidates get public money to spend?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/06/04/...
As far as I know, 3 sigma implies 1 in 370, not 1 in 100. (Still insufficiently unlikely for a conclusion.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68-95-99.7_rule
The quantitative proteome of a human cell line
You can absolutely have race conditions in Erlang, along with deadlocks too.
Do You Need a Network Newsletter?
This is very nice and solves the exact problem I have.

Two questions:

- How can I send it to my MailChimp list of beta testers?

- Can it be posted to a blog/page (maybe Posterous or Tumblr will accept the email and auto-post)?
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No offense, but did you read the review? Every single review, including this one, has called the complaints about saturation and Pentile effectively silly at this pixel density. Even the pixel density is barely different than the iPhone, a tiny percent. The size, I'm totally there with you though.
http://colorillo.com/ does the same thing, using HTML and JavaScript with no Flash, and it allows arbitrarily many participants at once.
Sorry to be negative but could you please read some history books and figure out that the idea that the US is the poster child for freedom and liberty is just propaganda and rewriting history.
The people in the US believe in freedom but the government, military, foreign policy and bureaucracy have almost always been quite authoritarian. And I hope you can see that from the outside it's hard to see the people and easy to see the actions of the government.
Interesting, didn't know that - good tip
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It really wasn't difficult to find out about them.

Heh. You live in a large city.
Just make lots of short bills instead, or make a sort bill granting vast regulatory authority to another group. Congressmen are clever and they will get around arbitrary restrictions like that.
White Girls Rapping about Windows Phone 7 Is Worse than Your Parents Having Sex
So why are none of the heavy users of Perl willing to stump up some cash to fund its development?
I have looked at screens with a similar pixel density and didn’t like it. I haven’t seen this phone yet but I plan to.
Had better luck this time:

http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=231
Writing like Hunter S. Thompson is not something you learn, it's something you let out.

Most people can learn to sing well enough so they don't annoy the congregation, but most people will never develop a voice as distinctive and recognizable as Joe Cocker, much less develop that exact voice.

Most people can learn to write well enough to communicate clearly, maybe even enjoyably, but most people will never develop a writing style as recognizable and ground breaking as Hunter S. Thompson, and any attempt to mimic Thompson (beyond college creative writing classes) would be annoying and embarrassing.

EDIT: I do not mean to say that the post author's writing is annoying. My comments are only related to the idea of learning to write like HST. Some day I hope to learn to write well enough to communicate clearly.
This makes me think of how Facebook removed the "Sumbit/Post Comment" button from comment forms. I'd argue it's not obvious that hitting enter will do the trick because enter is for starting a new thought on a new line. They've replaced the natural enter-for-newline with the shift-enter (even more un-intuitive). This has caused me no end of frustration as I accidentally submit unfinished comments and can't submit them at all on the numerous occasions when I repeatedly hit enter with no effect whatsoever. What was wrong with having a button there? Please can we have it back?
http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=233
But the bill would give software companies the same tools to go after warez sites too. Why wouldn't Adobe want to be able to crack down on sites that distribute cracked copies of Photoshop? Or Microsoft with illegal copies of Windows or Office?

That's not to say this is a good bill. It's not. But if it's in the interests of companies with significant IP to protect to support it, companies with significant IP to protect like Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple can be expected to support it.

Their support is really that simple.
Note that the product came first, then the compiler.
Any registered candidate would have to get funding for public funding to make any sense. Since the registration is already in place, there you go. If you can't get your minimum signatures to register, you don't get funding. Seems fair to me.
Basically all smartphone and tablet manufacturers are guilty of this exact same thing. (Except the Galaxy Nexus and Rezound)
This is just another illustration of how a group of people are trying to change the internet at its core while obviously knowing nothing about it. SOPA is ridiculous.
Yeah.. I'm still trying to figure out how I should tackle the issue of just trollers. I was considering as soon as the current user wants to draw with a different person, they'll never get paired up with their previous partners for as long the session on the website lasts for. And it just keeps track of who they rejected.
http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=235

This was a really fun thing and really creative picture imo!

Wow, some of the other links here are terrific. I'm amazed two random people have enough dedication to build such detailed stuff.
I love the fact that the reviews seem to be fanboy (girl) and drama-free, and that the devices are evaluated fairly on their merits, regardless of their sources. The reviews are detailed enough to be useful, while more-detailed reviews like the multi-pagers at Ars and Anandtech can be overkill, for me.
Yep that's pretty blatant.

I could see them re-designing it soon to something that's more uniquely them. That solution was probably just a quick and dirty attempt.
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The article acknowledges "...so there’s about one chance in 100 the result is a fluke." and then this from a particle physicist..."I’m not betting my pension on this result standing the test of further data..."

Why is this article getting so many up-votes?
I thought the article was pretty clear in attributing the poor streaming to extreme incompetence. The poor quality is concerning not because it's part of a "two-pronged plan" but because it's indicative of Congress's poor grasp of internet technology which is particularly jarring in this context.

Additionally, just because the poor quality wasn't necessarily malicious does not exonerate the committee entirely; the tone of the article is still warranted because the end result is the same regardless of intent and because expecting a watchable stream in this day and age is more than reasonable.
Hey JoshTriplett,

Colorillo does a pretty good job at real-time drawing collaboration. There's a bunch of online-real time painting programs out there, like Flockdraw or scriblink. I purposely coded it to have the users pair-up to kind of emulate Omegle or Chatroulette.

The only reason why I didn't decide to make this application using HTML and JS is because I wanted to teach myself Flash + AS3. This was my only 2nd project in flash. I'm definitely planning on porting it to Mobile once I have free time.
They need to work on making this page (http://www.android.com/about/ice-cream-sandwich/) look more appealing. Those images are pretty tiny and the text just dominates. I'm all about reading features too but I like to see the UI.
To me, Quora has been sort of a game since it started. It has a lot of hidden/clever game mechanics underlying the design. I think this is one way that the company can start helping create an economy to pay those that create and donate the content that makes the site go in the first place.
Exactly.

Who is to say that these same measures could not be applied to Google itself in future.

With such statements that amount to political activity by corporate vigilantism, it is going down a slippery slope.

This is the kind of idea that you expect to see endorsed in a Third World country or authoritarian/statist regime, not a supposedly advanced country built on advanced social constructs.

For example, if copyright infringment trumps all other activity in society including whistleblowing and journalism, then this should be enacted in law so that everyone can understand their rights and responsiblities. A group of companies differentially and unilaterally using their corporate or monopoly power to eliminate businesses and organisations is an example of the market creating rules for society instead of the other way around.
But you're forgetting that this time it's different. With social networks, you don't need a business model. Because of the network effects, and increasing number of mobile devices, they will be able to leverage the cloud and produce real-time location-based analytics. So, as you see, Yelp doesn't require a conventional business model to have a multi-billion dollar valuation.
I highly doubt Yelp pays people to review...anymore. They did when they first launched (they've admitted to this), but with their brand recognition now, paying people to review would be a giant waste of money. That being said, they haven't reached profitability yet, so who knows, maybe they are making this bad decision.
What's with the table as a picture?
Yea, but that canvas effect on the homepage more than makes up for it.
Pretty cool. What's the technical stack behind it?
Ban corporate donations, and limit personal donations to a relatively small sum. Ron Paul for example is getting millions every month from donations made by people alone. This should be the status quo, not the exception.

But most politicians right now they know they couldn't gather as much money as they'd like this way, because they know there aren't that many enthusiastic people who love them enough to give them money. So getting money from rich people or corporations is a shortcut to being elected.
Ask HN: I'm about to sell my startup for a lot of $, what next?
I'm a programmer and know nothing about money management. From the sale I should get between $10m and $20m. I have seen a tax lawyer who suggested an approach centered around setting up a limited partnership. However, I have no idea how to evaluate his suggestion's merit. I would like to educate myself, so I can recognize BS, but I have no idea where to start. Suggestions?
What other 720p 4.5" Pentile displays have you seen?
Google revamps android.com - makes it use 80% CPU on a Macbook Pro.
I can respond to his comment from my own perspective. With my own customers, I have a policy of accepting blame for everything and always working to fix pretty much anything.

This, semi-regularly, results in customers who notice this policy and take advantage of it. You end up in a situation where you either have to piss off a customer or do mountains of work that have nothing to do with the scope of your product simply because the customer is convinced its your fault (or he's a dink that knows if he pretends its your fault, he'll get something out of you).

My biggest falling is that. And unfortunately, I feel that the customers who are like that, are also the ones who make the biggest noise. I'm in a relatively sensitive industry where my customers tend to be doing a lot of research before picking my product, so I can't afford to have any bad noise floating around.

Just an anecdote/personal vent very related to the discussion.
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SOPA Doomed? Pelosi, Issa Speak Out.
IPad Rumor Mill Indicating Smaller iPad Mini Coming
I'm rating this as a 10 in software in the current crop of phones, particularly against other Android offerings. Who knows what this will look like when Windows Phone 8 and iOS 6 are out. -by Joshua Topolsky 6:17 PM

I think it makes sense.
Yeah, that was a weird editorial. Especially considering that B&N has said that you can only store 1GB of non-B&N-purchased content on the device itself. Anyone ripping their own content or purchasing unprotected content elsewhere will likely make heavy use of that SD card.
WTF Mobile Web
How Storifying Occupy Wall Street Saved The News
Josh Topolsky Reviews the Galaxy Nexus
The key thing is that his ambition is not to achieve something, it's to "be the top 1%".

His ambition is all about being better than others.

Healthy ambition is an ambition to create something beautiful, to help people, to deliver the total solution, to live up to your own standards and values.

Unhealthy ambition is to dominate other, to be superior, to make the most money, to look the best, to constantly compare yourself to others.

People who constantly compare themselves to others usually do have inferiority complexes.
>I don't believe that the public can honestly expect them to act any differently so long as their behavior is in accordance with the law -- even if only technically, and even if the law should be changed.

Corporations are composed of people, and I expect people to act morally. Laws are never going to properly capture morality, to put it another way legality is a weak indicator of morality. I humbly submit that it's not OK to be a sociopath in the service of a corporation, just because legally corporations are allowed to be sociopaths. People are just people, and should use their consciences.
Looking ahead to the next ca election with 2000 candidates... Give each candidate enough money to buy a tv ad and go bankrupt or give each candidate a nickel? I can't envision this system leading to more informed voters.
EE generalist? Write C or Python? Work at Bump's phone-to-place group.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Sure, only selling things makes revenue directly. However, policies abridging freedom help both companies scale--by attempting to lock users into their platforms and making it difficult or impossible to not buy their software when getting a new computer, both companies get more people to spend more money.
Haha, welcome to the wonderful world of HTML5.
Wholes Greater Than Parts
The url alone is worth an up vote :)
Battle of the Clipper Chip
It's because they are a performance hungry company. I thought it was quite obvious by now.
It's up! There's now a .wmv for download. That was pretty quick.

Thanks to the staff who are responsible for this. Much appreciated!
At the same time, the people using native clients are the same people who can run up a $5/m VPS and run ircd with unlimited clients.
I am with you on that one... Extortion and abusing small business is their core business.
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What I often have silliness & profanity (in addition to useful information) in my commit messages?
Amazon did the same thing, if you remember their end of Q3 statement -- instead of profit, they re-invested in themselves (probably Kindle related purchases to have a bigger Q4).
Do you have a friend or family friend that you can ask for some guidence, like who you need to hire to help guide you through the sale?

I'd definitely be after some professional advice (and making sure they are on your side!).

I assume you may need a lawyer to help guide you through the sale (and they should help catch any BS)?
If these businesses learn anything (Yelp and Groupon I'm looking at you!), it should be that quickly growing a sales force that is paid on incentives is difficult and should be closely managed.

Otherwise the newly minted hundred(s) person salesforce, most whom have less than 1 year with the company, will sacrifice the long term success of the business for the short term success of commissions. Translation: cut ethical corners.

I cannot even imagine how difficult it is to recruit, lead, and manage a salesforce of hundreds of people that are all brought together in a period of months.
The impact of SOPA on the health of online buyers.
People are addicting to writing reviews -- some have as many as 3000, with "Elite" being the only reward.
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Oh! Glad finally someone asked. The front-end's using flash w/ as3. It was the 2nd project I made using flash, so it was really exciting when I was scrambling across the web for resources. The original front-end the client was actually layering each stroke on top of each other, so what ended up happening was the client would crash after 20ish minutes of moderate use. So I fixed that and ended up using bitmapping to handle the screen. I had a bunch of other features that I disabled for this release [opacity and the undo function] just because they were too buggy.

The server's running I believe CentOS 5.6? or .7? And it's written in Java. Anywho when there's incoming information it stores the coordinates that are being drawn into a buffer. If the buffer becomes full then it shoots it out those coordinates. There's also a 50ms cycle that checks the size of the buffer, so even if it's not full, it'll shoot out the points.

-edit-

I mean, for now the server architecture can handle light load but I definitely plan on implementing a more scalable solution if I get more traffic.
They've also redesigned the whole Android.com site.
"It's all personal, every bit of business. . . . If a bolt of lightning his a friend of his the old man would take it personal. . . . That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal. Like God. He know every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes. Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." -- Michael Corleone
Don't call it a tablet: the Kindle Fire reviewed
Explorations in Go: solving the Instagram engineering challenge
The weird thing for me is that the font on that page renders horribly on Chrome for Windows but looks fine with IE9.
A more interesting question would be how do you evaluate how much you get to write off you taxes? Adobe is donating presumably because they believe the current value of it is low, but just as easily they could argue that as a mature platform it is worth hundreds of millions.
Don't forget decent but obscure.
It seems like it would.

The security advisory made it seem like the way they were returning an error was inadequate - perhaps there was an insecurity with cookie stuff being sent back?

But yeah, this seems like too big a hammer to fix that problem...
A chart of the rise of Stanford football
Aww just had a good sesh where we drew (I think) a guy with a poster about looking both ways before crossing the road. Accidentally clicked leave.

This is fun, and I understand the idea of communicating through drawing... but I still find myself wanting to type at some point.

Maybe if you hang out for x seconds, you can text chat?
"Cesarean section results in regicide, 30 years later."

"Rebellious teenagers escape parental control."
Appreciation Is The Key To Motivation - Sports
I had a great time playing with this tonight, got into a virtual cartoon "fight" creating super-heroes and so on. Great app.
But you're forgetting that this time it's different.

I'm betting this quote was used in the Color pitch-decks to Venture capital prospects.
Aaron Swartz Gets Indicted on More Charges in Connection with MIT Break In
Maybe you don't get it? I'm guessing that's the case since you're using an extreme example.

The point is, the levels of radiation experienced in back-scatter scanners is several thousand fold LESS than that experienced while in flight. Both are total body exposures, although one could argue that the exposure times are different.

Either way the exposure is well below the limits that cause concern, therefore my original point (that low levels of radiation may be beneficial), still stands.
to late to edit: "This doesn't gel with..."
Since when are such cynical attempts at humour posted on hn? Best not to read something like this if you want to stay motivated enough to do the work required to get "post-revenue" whatever that means.
Yelp Files for IPO to Raise $100 Million
Thank you! All this positive feedback means a lot :D
I was looking for my drawing on his images folder when i got this
(NSFW)
http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/245.jpg

Not my drawing by far but hilarious!
That question doesn't specifically address what happens after the course is over. I'd read all of this before, and that's why I was asking for a reference. Oh well, thanks again.
I was debating whether or not to add text chat, but I think the general consensus so far from people using it is they wanna talk. I'll definitely be adding it in the near future!