skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how obvious some things are in hindsight. I never once thought there'd be an issue with a 50/50 split; but yes, no one person has power of veto. Interesting about vesting equity though, I'd not heard of that before (naive much?).

There's a twist to the tale though: we haven't incorporated a company yet. No shares have been split; we've just got a verbal agreement that we'd divide them up that way. If I wanted to do a Zuckerberg, I could quite easily register the company and put myself on as the sole director.
"If the Chinese censor the Internet, why can't the US?"

Because we have constitutionally guaranteed liberties, which are ingrained into our culture. Ever heard of the first amendment, moron?
Thank you @JoshSusser for finding this diamond in the rough. What would we do without waterfall development!?
App Store Spam - 28 identical apps, one developer
This happened in iOS 4 as well.

In fact, it happened to me on WinMo phone years ago.
Of course! It's been a while since I've done much javascript and I had forgotten about setTimeout. And your do/while loop in the R() function is much cleaner than my hack. :)

One thing I noticed is that you're setting the timeout value to 350-s.length*5. As the grid is 16x16, the maximum snake length will be 256. Multiplying the length by 5 will soon make the game humanly unplayable somewhere around a length of 60.
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> It drives me insane when my mom sends out announcements to her five siblings and their respective families who all happen to have iPhones. I never see the end of the conversations.

I've been there too and wanted to throw my phone against a wall. It's like being stuck in a chat room that you can't exit. Hard to believe Apple didn't notice this.
Just wait until one of Google's self-driving cars is used for a heist.
Exactly this. Since quitting Facebook a month ago after noticing it was driving me nuts I've been happier, more productive and a lot closer to my closest friends. YMMV, but for me it has been very positive on all aspects of my life.

Perhaps this is a sign that Path are onto something - for people like me at least. (I had been very skeptical before)
lol. lawsuit in 10... 9... 8...
Same for me, but using http://tomatoes.heroku.com
Sweet! Let me know - Oakland Local folks may be interested in helping out.
Can't wait for FOSS ENYO!!!! =)
That's a pretty old idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen

It's how the Duck Hunt gun works.
The OS X menu fade is a good example of a well thought-out UI animation.

Note that the menu does not fade in, since this would actually slow the user down.

Contrast this with certain other implementations.
A lot of people are like Jimmy the bully in Big Bang Theory:

'When asked how that would work he replies, "How the hell should I know. That's why I need a nerd."'
Make it a "My Life is Awesome since I Quit Facebook" movement. Now we're over the top.
Yeah, this is the part that's concerning. That and you might not even know it's a group message.
FTA:

“For perspective on why this matters, consider that many Facebook engineers spend their days developing PHP code in an endless edit-reload-debug cycle,” Evans said. ”The difference between 8-second and 5-second reloads due to switching from hphpi to the hhvm interpreter makes a big difference to productivity, and this improvement will be even more dramatic once we enable the translator.”
It's absolutely true that Facebook encourages a sort of 'happiness' arms race, where most people seek to convey the brightest possible interpretation of their own lives to match the same projections they see in others. That isn't Facebook's fault (insomuch as they actively encourage this), it's just a natural human reaction ported to a new context and environment.

The reason this hits the HBR crowd particularly hard is because it adds another, ubiquitous front to the battle of positive image. It used to be, you only had to be an assertive, bright, shining star when you were around people or talking on the phone. Then you could go home, pour yourself a belt of Glenlivet, and be miserable for a while to blow off steam. Now you have to keep it up ALL of the time, on a medium that's everywhere and never stops. It hits hard, particularly when you're a hard charger whose career depends on being perceived as relentlessly successful and upbeat.
https://github.com/hpwebos/webos/issues
In all honesty, I think antirez is a great example when it comes to open source developers who take into account needs that are more than his personal needs.

In fact, the linked article even underlines this: he perceived a user need for a Windows port, took it very much into account, and carefully wrote a blog post about why he chose not to go down that path.

I may believe that some assumptions in that blog post are too strong, but I very much think that even writing the blog post shows that antirez cares very much about stuff he's not personally helped by.

So calling antirez "short sighted" because of this is, well, IMHO, a bit beside the mark.
It would be, in effect, a Bill Brasky or Chuck Norris Facts sort of situation, except YOU are Bill Brasky.
Python 2.8 +1
Go easy on the cassia cinnamon though - it contains coumarin, which is a known hepatotoxin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin#Toxicity_and_use_in_fo...
Public stocks and the like are heavily regulated. If we let random people invest in startups, a bunch of people would get scammed out of their money, then there would be calls for more regulation to protect investors, which would only serve to hurt startups. Meanwhile, none of those little investors would make any money because the median startup is a bad investment (vs the median public company, which is an ok investment). Nearly all of the startup returns come from a small number of outliers, and those outliers will most likely continue getting funding from larger investors.
THAT'S SOCIALISM >:(
Your government is a government just like the one in China. There are cultural differences, of course, but both governments are run by human beings.

It's not that the US government couldn't behave like China's - so far they've just chosen not to go quite that far. They seem to be on their way though.
Pardon the snark, but it sounds like a lot of people are either easily addicted or have poor time management skills.

Facebook is a social networking site. Others exist (though it is the biggest). That person who almost got hit because they weren't paying attention to their surroundings? Is that Facebook's fault, or is the person just easily distracted?
The Swiss Government Is Preparing For The Collapse Of The Euro
If ideas are worthless, then every 'smart nerd' should be extremely successful. We all know that's not the case, so we should also know better than to click on articles with such myopic titles.

'Vision' and 'idea' are essentially the same thing, and the author admits vision is necessary. Why is it that everyone tries to separate the two? Because that makes it so easy to write a contentious article? How unoriginal.
Who needs the new economy? (2001)
Ok, call me childish but I found the title not only funny but completely appropriate for the acerbic tone of the article.
>Engineers do not gather in a room and summon ideas to their pre-existing code.

Everything we build is on top of pre-existing stuff.If there was no mysql/php,there would be no facebook.If there was no OpenBSD,there would be no iOS.If there was no dns there would be no Google.

The mentality that anything is possible and you just need a nerd to do it is exactly the reason why I have a hard time working with non-technical people!
I think he means that they feel sheepish about not having done more research about the name "Amber" before the announcement.
Oh! I appreciate the apology. Very much, in fact. Also, if you felt I was rude back to you at some point, please know that I did not intend for that either.

(offtopic) Really, it's this stuff that keeps me on HN. The ability to shake hands and move on is quite seldom on internet forums.
Nope, it has nothing to do with the commonalities in people or roles, sorry I wasn't clear. Let me try again.

It's a knock on all rigid processes and dogma, not agile in particular. I trimmed the rant down by taking out the sections that rip into UX firms, with their Big Upfront Design and cocky rockstar designer personas, but it could just as easily been about them. I only cut it because I thought the parallels were obvious with the diagram on the Epic Consulting website.

What I'm saying is that if waterfall means people are grouped together by specialty - programmers with programmers, designers with designers - each group is run by one dominant process suited to only one of the specializations, and each group tends to work in different stages, then both traditional UX design and agile development are run as de facto waterfall teams, whether by explicit hierarchies or simple stakeholder buy-in.

Consider this - what's the difference between:

1) a PM spec'ing things out in advance and basically telling everybody what to do and in which order.

2) an agile shop coding things up on the fly and telling the designers to run after them to clean up the visuals without making major changes, so they might as well be building to a spec.

3) a UX firm mapping out how the product works before handing off to peon engineers that can't make major changes and might as well be building to a spec.

To end on a positive note, there is one other solution to expertise, by the way. It's grouping teams by product, not role, and figuring out an interdisciplinary way to work together, rather than running the entire team by the methodology of one specialty. That way you're picking good ideas from across different processes and adapting to the company culture to boot. For example, TypeKit does daily stand ups at 10:05am every day and that's an aspect of agile that they've liked enough to use for the whole company, but I'd be surprised if their designers were checking their art assets into Pivotal Tracker or the programmers were writing up UX journey maps of each user persona.

Steve Jobs always liked to describe Apple as the biggest startup he knew and a more accurate description would be that it's a collection of startups, with each one focused on a single product. Seems to work pretty well for them.

EDIT: fixed a few formatting errors.
Ideas are not worthless if you have a strong understanding on why your idea will work. They're worthless if you think they're cool, creative, and don't stop to analyze the weaknesses of it.
Just as a FYI, the animation is by NMA, which is a Taiwan (the non-communist China) based animation studio for a Hong Kong based media conglomerate. This is not from the mainland.
is it a Samsung...?
What exactly is the point of this?

If it's to protect users from malicious code then make it an opt out policy.

If it's to allow them to just remove stuff at their whim then why does it exist?

this is why I don't like app stores. We are taking steps backwards with this garbage.
"Google

Startup America Partnership participants will be able to use Google advertising platforms like AdWords and Boost and receive a $1,000 Google match for every $1,000 they spend."
>I shudder to think what could have happened, had she delayed the exam.

There's a good chance nothing would have happened. Screening programs massively overdiagnose non-malignant breast cancer as malignant: http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b2587.abstract
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
The MacBook Air is my personal preference. Your points, all seem to point to the Air except for the .7 Ghz,

>There is a difference of .7 Ghz between. It is that big a difference?

no.
That's a good question. I thought Zed Shaw had licensed lamson under those terms, but I see nothing about that on his github right now.

While I can't find a use in the wild, an example of a license I would consider to be:
* open source
* prohibit for profit use
is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

You are welcome to say that creative commons is not open source (many people whose opinions I value highly feel that way), but it is commonly described in those terms (or at least it was when it first came out while I was in college).

Also, here is a plug for the world's greatest license (I'm tragically not affiliated with the author): http://davispj.com/2010/02/19/agpl-not-awesome-gpl.html
Or just randomize the order you hold them in.
Google Launches Schemer, an Activity Recommendation Engine
Sure, we all go through life via a form of trial and error, learning from our mistakes.

Personally, I think the fewer times you have to go around that wheel, the better.

I don't want to diminish the technical excellence of the achievements touted, and as a coder of primarily compiled languages, I would welcome any such improvements in the compilers I use.

However, my larger point stands-- which is that if a few seconds shaved on the run-debug loop is really a big deal for your total productivity, it means you're looping too much.

Trial and error is a fine way to learn a language, or to debug truly mysterious issues, such as those that exist outside of the abstraction layer you're working in. But in my opinion it's a poor way to work. It means that you don't understand the code you're writing.
Meh.

Who needs the new economy?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3336286
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING AND FELT IT REPEATEDLY TAKE MY FOCUS AWAY FROM THE CONTENT AND INTENT OF THE POST WHILE I LOOKED AROUND MUSING ABOUT WHY HE WOULD MAKE SUCH AN ODD CHOICE WHY NOT ALSO BREAK PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMER RULES
Which websites autocomplete with one letter in your browser?
Having used both, I strongly recommend the Air. It's more than capable of being one's primary machine for web development and the difference in portability and daily speed is dramatic.
Danny Choo: I Don't Need to Rely on VC
Nokia switching to an open-sourced WebOS would never have happened. They already had a beautiful, slick and usable operating system, and at least some kind of a strategy of bootstrapping it into a viable ecosystem (using QT on Symbian as the incentive to develop for QT on Meego).

It's still hard to say whether the decision to basically can Meego and bet everything on WP7 was the right one. But at least there was some kind of a case to be made on WP7 having a larger potential ecosystem, and Microsoft being willing to give Nokia huge bags of money. For WebOS it would have been a case of downgrading in every important sense. No real eco-system, no in-house experience, no other company backing it, no real technical advantages over Meego.
Disclaimer: I'm on a UX team at Microsoft.

Regarding the transitions - often times an animated transition is used to mask program latency. Unminimizing a program can use an animation to mask the time it needs to possibly read from an on-disk cache. The use of them is especially evident on phones, which make heavy use of transition effects. Swoop ins and other animations will often give the program around 500 milliseconds before it has to be responsive. It gives the illusion of things working faster than they actually are. With larger memory stores and SSD's becoming more common, many of these animations are no longer absolutely necessary, but on older systems they help tremendously for the user experience.
simple recipe for being miserable:

1. make yourself belief that "the social network [Facebook] has taken over most aspects of our personal and professional lives, and is fast becoming the dominant communication platform of the future." and "that \"quitting\" Facebook altogether is unrealistic"

2. be miserable

Disclaimer: i've never had a Facebook or any other soc. network account (beyond Linkedin), so use the recipe at your own risk and YMMV.
Backstory: As an anime fanboy I've always been impressed by the quality of dannychoo.com -- so out of curiosity I wanted to know what CMS he was using and I came across this amazing post he wrote a few years ago. This section really hit me:

"The extra income is good because I dont need to rely on venture capital or angel investment. One of the reasons why I am leaving a full time job is because I want to be my own boss - taking VC or AI just means that I would have a boss who sits elsewhere - worse still - s/he would own a certain percentage of the company and be breathing down my neck making sure that I make good use of their money and not buy figures ^^; I hear a lot from entrepreneurs who have taken VC and they advise that if you dont need it, dont take it. While many VC startups do well, many go sour because of the involvement of the VC. One ends up trying to produce results at the VCs request instead of being able to focus on what the company originally set out to do."
Ideas are not necessarily worthless; it's just that so many people place far too much emphasis on the idea with no consideration for the cost of execution. Unfortunately, the backlash to this flawed assumption has caused the pendulum to swing too far in the other direction, where "ideas are worthless" has become a sort of mantra. The problem with mantras is that they are oft quoted, but rarely contemplated.

Ideas come to nothing without execution, but execution will have no direction without an idea to foster.

The real problems come when someone trades the weight of the idea against contributing work. The extreme of this is an idea guy who "does the hard work" of coming up with the idea, then expects his partner(s) to do everything else while he sits in an armchair sipping a martini.

Execution comes down to playing it smart, and wading up to your armpits in shit. Every founder must have something to contribute on a day-to-day basis to turn the idea into a reality. Every founder needs to do shit work. Every founder is responsible for the product, and must always be looking at it with a critical eye, and discussing any concerns or refinements. Of course, one person needs to be the final decision maker, but everyone shares ultimate responsibility.

Execution and ideas are the chicken and the egg. A bad egg yields a bad product, but failed execution ruins everything it touches.
Larrys,

I left commercial real estate to enter an MBA program thinking everyone would be "like me", extremely interested in business. I was shocked when I got there and found just a small group who got it. Then I went to a major tech company in the Valley (finance internship) and was even more shocked at how few of them got it.

I got an offer but turned it down to work at an asset management company. Finally for the first time in my life I am surrounded by people who get it. (60% don't have MBAs)

An MBA doesn't mean anything except that the person has gone through a 2 year degree and knows a lot of random business stuff (supply and demand, being a monopoly is good, knows how to model a DCF etc.).

That being said, an MBA doesn't mean the person is terrible either. In general, an MBA allows the person to grow a lot, gain some great relationships and helps them communicate with other business people. Lumping all MBAs together is like lumping all programmers together.

Most business people are not great, most programmers are not great. see 20/80 rule.
If you end up changing the name (don't think you should), how about honeycomb.js

Brings thoughts of structure, order and productivity.
The real bailout happened in the shadows, while TARP was publicly paid back. Read: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2587.html
>Pardon the snark, but it sounds like a lot of people are either easily addicted or have poor time management skills.

behold the power of [easy] dopamine.
And porter beers usually have coffee (java) flavors.
fix student loans

I put myself through school on a student loan. I was very grateful for it. I was charged a reasonable tax deductible interest rate. So I'm curious about what is actually broken?
The misery can be avoided. I have my girl print off only the most relevant "wall postings" along with my morning emails. I review these over my after-breakfast coffee or sometimes (God willing) over a mid-morning BM. Either way, I only allocate 15-17 minutes per day to "the web" and the rest to managing my department.
Thank you for letting me know that you're someone who is going to try and psychoanalyze me instead of having a civil debate, I'll avoid discussions with you in the future.
Got my air a couple of months ago and got rid of my desktop last month. The air is all I use now and I love it.
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She Lohan will critique her Playboy publication graphic on Ellen DeGeneres chat display next week.
Smoking appears to offer some mental benefits. Some acuity-related, as described by other responders. I've also heard that smoking has mental-health benefits for some people. (We know that many folks don't respond to existing standard drugs.)

I don't actually care about what the benefits are. Instead, I think that it's important to acknowledge that they do exist.

And yes, benefits clearly do exist for some people. That's why they smoke.
First thought: How could they screw up the keyboard?

Delete right above Return! Seriously.
These terms are absolutely unacceptable: "We may change or discontinue certain apps or content offered in the Windows Store at any time, for any reason."

Reminds me of the Nintendo and Sega emulators in the Android market[1]. Microsoft will be more than willing to comply with takedown requests -- regardless of how legitimate they are -- if it gives them even the slightest potential to put another dime in their pocket. Why would they ever favor consumers who are locked into their devices for 2 years at a time? Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/06/gaming-system-em...
It might sound both harsh and draconian,

Yes, it certainly does.

but it’s a necessary feature of a modern app store.

Really? I don't see anything in the article to support that conclusion.
Wow, I'm surprised that more hasn't been made of the fact that the "MPAA boss" was the Chris Dodd. Pretty amazing that he could go around saying things like this.
Path Menu in Pure CSS3
Ah, well that's unfortunate. Have you got any other managed providers you can recommend?
Reinventing Education with Salman Khan, Peter Norvig, and Sebastian Thrun
(This is a copy of my comment on the original post)
For those that say ideas are next to worthless, when you think about why Google search succeeded, do think it was because of their execution or because of their idea about the importance of backlinks (i.e. the BackRub/PageRank algorithm). Of course, it is a combination of the two, but it is greatly mistaken to think that ideas are next to worthless. I think Daniel Bobke (commented on original post) has it right, when he commented that a good idea is necessary but not sufficient for success. Bad ideas are a dime a dozen, but good/great ideas are rare indeed. Though at times it is hard to tell if an idea is a good/great idea. I think a truly good idea will motivate you to work hard and as Jake Croston (commented on original post) stated drive you to keep going to find the path to good execution, even if you fail at first. Think about it another way: would you rather work for a firm that had (1) a great idea, but terrible execution or (2) a terrible idea, but great execution? I would work for firm (1) in a heartbeat.
Lots of words, but you still haven't explained an acceptable-to-you means of getting them to unlink.
This story occurs a few dozen times a day in the valley, but I guess when it's a cute young girl, it's newsworthy.