skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leading a tech company and starting one are two entirely different things.

Sounds like what you are trying to do is start one. The issues of a non-technical person starting a tech company are many and have been discussed here before.

If you're starting a software company and you can't contribute to writing the software then you are bringing very, very little to the table in the beginning. Your theoretical business skills won't matter much until you have a product. And you can't do much to contribute to that.
I've had a couple of experiences where a startup hired contractors initially and then brought in staff as things ramped up. Though the contractors are indeed often great developers, they rarely have an insight into the business because they are not involved in the industry and since they will be on to the next gig after yours, they don't have any real need to become an expert. For that reason and also because contractors are writing to fulfill contractual obligations - they tend to write exactly to spec, which can sometimes produce an application that isn't very good. Because actual programers assigned to our project would revolve in and out it led to inconsistency and jumbles of technologies that causes major headaches for the next phases of development. There tends to be a feeling among the staff developers that the contractors don't care anything about maintainability because they never have to deal with that aspect. They are long gone to the next gig and it's not their problem so they just want to get things working as quickly as possible.

Building a startup is a time when you are finding your way and you really need people who are interested in the details of your industry. People who will look at a spec and notice things missing, or improvement to be made.

I do think that hiring contract programmers can be good and I do so myself. But I limit their involvement to smaller sub-projects that can be written to spec and easily plugged into our app. I've done that with visual components, things that require specialized knowledge of an open source framework or really complex math algorithms, etc. It has worked very well in those cases.
Nope, never have. I have 99 problems but an ad ain't one.
kinda, all browser plugins blocked with click-to-play in chrome, which hides most of the annoying flash banners
Damn you, XKCD!
Really excited about the pi, I can see lots of hackers doing interesting things with these.
I've personally been aware of the back story and facts behind maybe a dozen different US network news reports. In several cases I knew the people being interviewed.

Every single time, the news, as reported, contained glaring factual errors or lies by implication that were introduced to make more of a story. In many cases it wasn't an issue of a reporter misunderstanding the story, but rather an issue of "let's take these facts and meld them into a more compelling story."

That kind of blatant disregard for truth and pandering for ratings has no place on public airwaves.
It's just my humble opinion as an internet marketer :) i'm not related to CNET atm, worked there as tech for some time. And i think it's really an ingenious idea with wrapper, maybe not so good with all that toolbars.
Maybe it's crapware and they lose like all geeks, 20% publishers and 30-40% users maximum - they still will be like x10 profitable than before. Don't get me wrong but Google wasted like hundreds of millions on unprofitable YouTube, and now they airing this shitty advertisements that are so fucking annoying %) luckily there are all theese adblock extensions out there.
Ghostery, Disconnect, FlashBlock, AdBlock, and in some browser profile: NoScript & RequestPolicy. I whitelist trusted sites.

The online ad ecosystem is out of control with surveillance: data collection, tracking, device fingerprinting, aggregation, de-anonymization, etc. (and data volumes).

HTTP_DNT=1
Although I've built WP themes and have "dabbled" in Rails (building a blog like everyone else) and consider myself more of a front-end guy, this seems like overkill to me.

Not to mention most designers I know would look at this and roll their eyes.
Sad Web IPOs 2011: LinkedIn, Groupon, Angies, Demand Media, Pandora, Zillow
I block almost everything. Before I switched to DuckDuckGo I even used Opera's "user css" feature to block the promoted links on Google.
Google Android: The Accidental Empire
Facebook and subscriptions
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This is a good overview, though as one minor quibble, the critique of "rational agents" is separate from the critique of equilibrium models: even if all economic actors are rational agents, that doesn't imply that everything converges instantly to nice equilibria with an absence of feedback loops, attractors, and the other typical nonlinear-dynamical-system pathologies. In fact most agent simulations in AI that use rational agent models still find all sorts of that weirdness going on.
I wonder if people who use adblocker are more likely to answer this poll than those who do not use adblocker. I guess we can't control for that, but I feel like it might have some bearing.
Banner ads pay my salary, so out of professional courtesy, no.

It's very easy to voluntarily blind yourself to ads. Plus, if I see something egregious on my employer's site, I can let them know.

I use Ghostery to see who's buying data from whom.
College: The biggest scam we'll ever buy
Now we just need ultra highspeed NFC and your entire computing environment can be initialized when you make your first gesture on a touch screen.. or a really fancy replacement for a finger-print scanner for unlocking/imaging your laptop..
I don't block ads because I feel guilty when I do, however, typing this out makes me feel ridiculous.
Google Love Graph
Search on Google for below string

(sqrt(cos(x))cos(200 x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5
Oh yeah... plus hosts file blocking of the most egregious servers and DNS blocking of the most egregious domains.
1.5 * 10 = 15 MB, not 150 MB. So you can actually fetch 166 such pages unmodified.

Roughly how large is a TechCrunch page with Ghostery?
It is :-) at my first job we had a wave tank that was driven by a computer driven servo - it would be quite posible to write code to tell the servo to travel full distance in 0 time - which would have crated a wave so powerfull it wold have flooded our lab.
That's a good idea. Were you thinking it would be a showcase site? (kind of like a http://dribbble.com for wedding planners)

There's definitely opportunities here for someone who wants to take the ball and roll it.
Pragprog Magazin 2011-12 [HTML format]
It has occurred to me before that those of us who use adblockers might prefer that they remain unpopular, because it's not clear who would win if the adblocker arms race really heated up. Might be that some of the "no" answerers are actually just concealing their true nature as adblocking zealots.
Which CNET office do you work at: NY, Kentucky, or SF? ;)
I used to. I'm not bothered by ads much anymore and I don't frequent sites with a lot of annoying ones. I guess I appreciate advertising more than I used to considering I use it personally, and I like to support the sites I love that rely on it.

I did start using Facebook Disconnect though.
On the contrary, I am an experienced systems operations engineer, and know only too well how badly excessive and/or misdirected risk mitigation costs companies.

I have never been accused of being too reckless, however. Developers I've worked with would be happy to relate what a pain in the ass I was about thorough testing and documentation of behavior and risks.
I use a heavily edited /etc/hosts file, based on http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/.
Facebook bringing subscribe buttons for websites
PHP was on the right side of history in history, in the 1990s when it was a new product. Today? It has a lot of competition and is dropping in popularity, although it is still good enough for many purposes. PHP is open source so it will be around for a while.
Problem for me is not seeing ads, it's that they take too long to load and block the rest of the page. Perhaps strictly a browser problem, but until a better solution I just use
vi /etc/hosts
Japan's Answer to Next Tsunami? Mini Noah's Ark
Yep, but without a subscription to a blacklist. I only block things if they turn out to be too annoying. As it turns out, most of the things I've block aren't ads but are annoying images, javascript, and UI clutter.
Hey thanks for mentioning Ghostery -- I never heard of it before, and it looks neat. I'm using ABP, NoScript and FlashBlock myself, and I think Ghostery will make a nice addition to my line of defense.

(minor nitpick: it would take roughly 83 pages, not 10, to reach 50% of your 250MB limit)

[edit on my own math. heh]
> Having a good IDE is very nice, but a text editor and a bunch of command-line tools can get the job done. (With that said, I definitely missed VS.)

When you're trying to attract developers, "get the job done" doesn't cut it.

I'm not a big fan of Xcode and Eclipse, but they meet my functional requirements without hoop-jumping.
Ads, unless they're really huge/obnoxious/blinking/etc don't bother me as I don't even see them. I don't really see advertising when I'm outside walking around/driving/etc, either.

I've had people argue that I probably do actually see them and they're affecting me, but it's certainly not affecting my spending habits, as I don't really buy much of anything.
The trend I see is that the "extra-native" features that these DSL style frameworks were adding are now being taken care of by compile-to-js languages (CoffeeScript, ClojureScript). The question is whether this is advantageous. Certainly it removes a big dependency on the client side but this is at the expense of an extra mental leap during development. I think we'll start seeing big advantages when the debuggers work properly (http://www.meetup.com/Coffee-Script-New-York/events/41391392...).
Why do people need IDE source control integration? On windows there is a perfectly good explorer integration, on OSX there is perfectly good command line.
Explorer integration on windows beats any IDE integration simply because you don't need to launch IDE with a correct project/workspace just to see if you have local changes or something. Once you have multiple sandboxes of different projects of a decent size, IDE integration doesn't cut it.

(and an unrelated rant: how come xcode can't build two completely unrelated projects at once?)
What is it like when your Quora answer unexpectedly goes viral?
Wordless, at its core, is just a big set of helper methods, plus a way to compile SASS/Coffeescript without the need to open a terminal, plus the embedded Phampl library to write views. So yes, the theme depends on the plugin, just like any other Wordpress plugin.
That's not obvious; if the "post-PC" world has kicked in by 2013, Windows 8 may not be that big.
It might have changed, but when I paid for it during the first month the Android Market existed it was $25 for life. It's more of an anti-spam filter than actually getting users to pay.
Has Microsoft said they would be the only provider of Metro apps? I thought I heard something about sideloading, to allow corporations to distribute their own, internal Metro apps.
Shred - a simple/fun/easy HTTP client for node.js
When something not turning out "as you expected" means that there is a high potential for death or injury to /an uninvolved party/, then absolutely you have failed in your responsibilities, especially when it is something that your planning or contingencies could and should have accounted for.

I guess, then, by your logic, if no-one was responsible, there will be no compensation, right? After all, not their fault that a cannonball just happened to rip through someone's house. What an outdated idea, indeed.

(Though of course, in reality, the production company / insurer will probably pay for all damage and some compensation while trying to make the homeowner sign a document stating that they accept no responsibility or liability and that it's a goodwill gesture).
I sometimes use FlashBlock so I can start/stop Flash as needed.

Otherwise I use a HOSTS file to block ads. Works great for Mac OSX as well as Windows 7.
"Bystanders" is probably the wrong word. I meant people not participating in the filming.

The failure in the stunt was that the cannon fired at an unexpected angle and the ball did not embed in the berm as they expected. If they had chosen a location where a ball fired at maximum velocity and at the worst case angle could not hit a person, that failure would have any negative consequences. So (I think) it was reckless to try to manage the trajectories at a less safe location.
The only hardware where you cannot do this will be Windows 8 ARM tablets.

I don't think is set in stone yet. AFAIK, the classic Windows desktop and associated APIs like .NET have been ported to ARM. For example, Microsoft has showed desktop Office running on ARM last year.

There seems to be some internal debate at MS about whether to ship Win8 ARM as Metro only, with the classic desktop included, or even both (i.e. have two SKUs and let the OEMs choose).
AnandTech says the new 20nm part is designed for the same 3K-5K as 25nm.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5193/intel-and-micron-imft-ann...
May I ask why you use both FlashBlock and NoScript? I haven't looked too much into the former but it looks to me to just have a subset of the functionality of NoScript (which I do use).
I'm using ghostery to block pretty much everything, but I'm not happy with that solution. Blocking all advertising isn't what I really want to do. Yes ads are annoying, but I consider them payment for the service.

What I cannot accept is ad networks, social networks and anlytics tools tracking me all across the internet. Unfortunately tracking, advertising and analytics are too intertwined to be more selective. At least I haven't found a way yet...
I hope Jamie's walrus moustache is okay.
I don't use ad blocking software because (1) I'm in marketing and (2) it's nice to know which companies are making moves.

I do opt out of Google's targeted advertising, and I definitely use Facebook Disconnect. All of my searches also originate from DDG, even if I throw a !g on the query every now and then.
This seems to fall squarely into the uncanny valley for me. The heads just don't fit quite right with the rest of the bodies.

Not to mention the whole problem with potentially basing the image of an attractive woman off of mannequins. I ask, with all the sarcasm I can, weren't the models skinny enough?
Used to be the first thing I install, but no more. There was a transition period where I would not install it but had a flashblock; my reasoning being that the flashblocker took away most of the really annoying ones. My new policy is a clean install. So many advantages: I rather like experiencing sites as intended (as well as supporting sites) rather than trying to force my will onto sites. I used to run into so many edge cases where the adblocker/flashblocker would break my experience. And if sites truly offend me with their ads, it is no skin off my nose. I just don't visit anymore.
Gotcha. Thanks for your reply. Do you have any plans to include some sort of "conversion" functionality that turns Wordless themes into standalone themes that dont' require the Wordless plugin? I could see a lot of people who make and sell Wordpress themes using this like crazy, but the dependency might turn away most of them.
Written World
I've worked in Moscow ^.^ all tech staff has been outsourced to different countries - Germany, Russia, India and etc.
Yep ... Good stuff. I also used AdMuncher. Just awesome and fast.
>Is it really "abstract thinking" to accept an arbitrary "medically-established ideal weight range"?

It is abstract thinking as opposed to concrete thinking, because you are imagining a hypothetical child with a certain build, (or is it a set of children with a range of healthy builds?) and comparing your child to that, as opposed to simply comparing your child to the other children you see in front of you every day when collecting your child from school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_object
Family and startups do they mix?
I agree that there are many developers like that, who don't jump at picking up new technologies, but I don't think those are the type of developers a startup like Digg would hire or attract.

More often, I think companies struggle to pick up a new technology than developers. When developers pick up something new, they usually dabble and start small, but Digg wasn't in the place where it could dabble and start small. When a company needs to pick up a new technology, they aren't doing it to dabble so much as fill a solid need.

They needed expertise in other places, so they needed to hire people with those skills already rather than wait for existing devs to get them and stumble along the way.
I don't use adblock, but if I'm loading a page and it is sitting there waiting for <some ad server>, I'll go and kill it in my hosts file.

I don't mind SEEING ads, but I am certainly not going to wait for them.
"...just to keep one disease under control."

I think this severely understates this "one disease". Malaria is estimated to have been the cause of death of 50% of all humans who have ever lived. While it's obviously much less deadly than that today, it's still a severe disease and merits heavy countermeasures.

Sickle-cell anemia is my favorite illustration of just how awful malaria is. This disease is caused by having two copies of a particular gene. Without modern medical care, the sufferer dies quickly. A single copy of the gene, however, confers resistance to malaria. In parts of the world where the sickle-cell gene is found, malaria was so devastating that a gene which had a 25% mortality rate in children where both parents have it was evolutionarily selected for, because the disease it helped protect against was even worse.
Adblock Plus, NoScript, RequestPolicy - the latter also helps against privacy problems with Facebook-like buttons etc.
VCS integration:

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/

Profiler:

http://developer.amd.com/tools/CodeAnalyst/Pages/default.asp...

http://www.codersnotes.com/sleepy/

x86-64 compiler:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8279

All are free.
I agree with you darksaga. This plugin is not for every designer out there, and it's way too difficult for a PHP newbie. But, for people who already know these languages, it's an incredible timesaver. So that's its target.
that's a steal. 81% Discount.
I am very surprised to hear this given your expertise.

I would have imagined you visiting every website with at least two browser at the same time, at least one of them blocking all ads and then some.
Why don't you just learn to program? It is not that difficult and in a startup everyone needs to code. Engineers learn business skills all the time but it is strange that the reverse is not true.
It's funny. Since I removed flash from my main browser (Safari) the internet is much less annoying. Also, on the iPad it's fine to browse around (alas without any ad-blocker)
I block ads, and am seriously considering putting ads on my next website.
My only defense against hypocrisy is that there's nothing stopping users blocking ads too. Obviously if enough people did block ads, I'd have to rethink the biz model.

I don't feel this is particularly evil - just trying to get by...
Yeah I'm still on my first coffee. Good morning and thanks for the math :-)

Example:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/03/siri-experiencing-its-first...

Without: 275 requests, 2.85 MB transferred

With: 76 requests, 1.72 MB transferred

Here is the shocker: ACTUAL ARTICLE SIZE: 163 words, 971 bytes. That is a 0.034% of what was actually downloaded.

I know that browsers cache stuff. But a lot of these are dynamic resources that get loaded anyway. There is also the fact that caching on both the iPad and Android is horrible. So this really adds up on a mobile device.
I can't imagine life not being that way. I live in NYC and can walk to everything important, or take a short subway ride to anything else. I've gone months without getting in a car- if I ever move I think I'd miss that a lot.
First I used AdBlock and FlashBlock.

Then I used AdBlock and NoScript.

Then I stopped using AdBlock. What a shock that was. NoScript would still catch the nasty stuff and block those talking Flash ads, but it was much less noticeable.

I don't use an adblocker now because it makes me feel out of touch with the reality of the regular user. I've been reconsidering lately, due to the proliferation of web crapware like Facebook like and Tweet buttons.

Ideally, I'd like something that blocks the incessant tracking of my web usage, uses aggressive caching and placeholders to boost performance but still lets me see the web as the regular users see it.
There are plenty of MS employees on HN. I'm curious...what makes you think someone who works on translator is less likely to know what HN is?
For what it's worth, my startup (Mobile Web Up) uses Python 3 almost exclusively. Our core product is basically a very specialized web server built on Python3+WSGI.

There are some rough edges still. Our (marketing) website runs on Django, using Python2.7. There's been enough progress Py3k support for django recently that I'm hopeful we can migrate that by mid-2012. And I'd love to have solid Py3k support for a couple more libraries, like boto for EC2/S3/AWS.

All in all, for the particular things we need, Python 3 is practical now. We have paying customers whose services run on software written in Python 3.
The investment accounts are really just a bonus, but it's really useful to have the checking account and all credit cards visible in one place. The checking account is where money comes in, and the credit cards are where money goes out, so seeing them together makes things much clearer. I also use multiple credit cards for purchases, so I can't easily see all of my purchase activity in one place otherwise.

Additionally, having everything consolidated means I can do a quick check on recent transactions several times a week, instead of just looking at things when a bill comes. That means that it's much easier to detect fraud, since the activity is fresh in my mind, and takes much less time to notify the institution of the fraudulent transaction.
You could view it that way, but the fact remains that they dispatch on completely different information. Overloading dispatches on compile time types, multimethods dispatch on run time type tags. This distinction is important. Are you saying that you are going to ship say a C++ compiler with your program so that you can dispatch on run time information with compile time overloading??
Bringing up conflicting evidence in a scientific discussion is denial?
I hate ads with a passion. If I had the power, I'd make unsolicited advertising illegal. If I hear or see an ad, I often make a mental note not to buy that product.