skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, we just have the video right now, but we hear you loud and clear. Lots of people asking for this. Nerds aren't great at putting together marketing materials. Who knew? Thanks!
fucked-up Emacs config my ass. In all likelihood I've been an Emacs user much longer than you and happen to know quite a bit about what's frustrating common (and not-so-common) Emacs users. Such configs are designed to spare them the effort it took people like to me to develop them and achieve good productivity. And I don't feel that anything is lost on them - since everything is still there... Such configs are just useful starting points - they are not set in stone...
The PM's job is to clarify whatever questions the engineering team might have about the details of how the user will interact with the system. She has to have it all figured out to be able to pull her weight on that kind of engineer-heavy development team.

Generally speaking it's difficult for everybody on the team to know everything about the little details, and it's good to have someone with that picture in mind.

I hear that Pivotal Labs for example always require there to be an on-call PM when they work on their contracts, to immediately unblock progress.
I was surprised to see Uber on this list. I just won some credits to Uber and they informed me that they are still in beta so the wait times could be a bit longer than expected as they smooth things out. This is for Uber service in DC so maybe they are already well established in San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston and I am just unfamiliar?

How large is Uber? Is it really likely that Uber will IPO?
Ted Dziuba's take on Hubot
The irony of your reply is that this is probably what he would have said (or anyone else writing this blog entry) 10 years ago. The point of view he is writing from is 10 years later...

I am not explicitly saying that you would for sure agree with him 10 years from now, but I want to at least suggest it's a possibility.

For what it's worth, I run a software company, in which I sign paychecks, and I think what is said in this posting is pretty smart.
As I get older, writing stuff down pays bigger and bigger dividends. I have a series of "notes" files on various subjects, which I keep on Dropbox. When I learn something (especially something undocumented), I put it in the right file so I can find it later. I've become much more productive (and less frustrated) as a result.
These Nursing jobs are lucrative
Culture is often inherited along with genes.
(In case it is not crystal clear, the whole point of the article is that he used to be a Mature Programmer a while ago, and is now in a post-Mature-Programmer phase.)
I suppose it's because the guy is black.
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First of all, I was explaining my experience.
Second,I know it is a proof of concept. Still, I don't think it really does prove any concept, since the results are not reliable at all. A proof of concept, requires to give you a reliable results, hence a proof.
A five minute video on how to make really great passwords
http://sandiego.startupweekend.org/2011/10/21/swsd3-wrapup/
When Pivotal first launched they had a free version for a while before started to switching pricing. Now, I understand there is a big no-no about raising the price later. However, I think there is a world where they can offer:

A - personal free accounts. Or free account for team of < 2.

B - announce the price but provide a 6-9 mont grace period just so they can get a nice momentum.

Now, they might be charging from the get go for fundraising reasons. Basically so they can go to investors and say: look we got X number of real paying customers in Y months. Which makes a real good case for getting investors.

That said, I love the UI. But I wont invest anytime on it yet, unless I know I can use it for free for a few months, or if there is strong social value that proves it can really help projects and requirement gathering process.
The abstract demon head at the top of the page?
Typo? Replace "self moderating" with self-moderating".
Thanks for /.
Probably one of the "Powered By" logo's http://www.freebsd.org/art.html#POWERED-BY
I think race acts as more of a red herring when it comes to this matter.

Agreed. Allowing elite universities to continue to serve up this shadow-play of a sorting function has led to a perverse credentialism that often fails to reflect the actual performance or qualifications of elite graduates.

And even if I were to concede that admissions to elite schools should matter, this thread's focus on URMs reminds me of the joke that was circulating earlier this fall, punchline: 'Watch out for that URM guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/golden1.htm
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I don't understand what he's asking for at then end:

| Is there artwork that doesn't include horned creatures that might offend the ignorant or superstitious?

as in, I still want to offend her, but also want to change the logo?
Does anyone know why it's taken so long for progress to happen in battery technology? Obviously, I get that it's not that simple, but is there a specific limitation we keep running into a wall here?

I know they mention price at one point in the article, but for something that's bound to have a massive impact on a huge variety of industries, I can't imagine that the money hurdle is insurmountable.
Exactly. There is much joy to be derived from a codebase that works, that is maintainable, and that is understandable.
Its very very hard to find a good/great program/product manager.

I've only known one in my 10 years as a programmer. Some tests to use to figure out if someone is a good product guy:

1. Ask them if you can meet 3 users who are willing to use your product. If he can get you to meet 3 - you've probably got a good product guy.

2. Ask them how people make money now that your product doesn't exist. If they say they've actually tried to do this without your product and show you how they failed, they are probably pretty good.

3. If his documentation that he shares with you is a single prioritized list of features with measures/time built in so he can re-prioritize the list then he's probably a good product guy.

Essentially he will take complete and utter responsibility for the product from upper management.

Very rare to find.
I think it was intended like this:
that doesn't include "horned creatures that might offend the ignorant or superstitious"?
Got as far as the sign-up. I'm already skeptical because of all the other options available and I'm already pretty happy with what I'm using. When I saw that I had to enter a credit card during signup just to try the free period, I closed the browser tab.

Getting even just an email address from someone is very valuable. Why turn anyone away by requiring all this other stuff? Why not have the person simply enter an email address and then send a password via email or something? That's a 5 second sign-up process. Then you can have the user fill out the rest of the info during some sort of "getting started" process. Let the user fill in this info on his own interest in using the application (within the actual application.) Filling out a sign-up form is not interesting. It's more like a leap of faith that the application will be interesting enough for me when I get into it that it will reward me for the effort of going through the sign-up process.

Do you really have such a high volume of sign-ups that you have to do beta invites? I wonder if there is a better way to handle these things. Perhaps you could have a system where the feature gets auto-enabled as needed? My problem with beta invites is that for most services, by the time I receive the invite, I have forgotten what the invite was for and I ignore the email.

ETA: Look how scrumy.com does their process of getting a user from using the app to sign-up. Maybe not perfect, but far better than most I have seen.
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Misparse; you're reading "artwork that (doesn't include horned creatures) [and] (that might offend)", but it's intended as "artwork that (doesn't include (horned creatures that might offend))".
Ask HN: Product first and API later or API first and product on top of it
In scenarios where a product and its api are equally important what is the best way to go forward?

1) Focus on product and build api later.

2) Build an API first and product on top of it, using that API

Also, I wonder if social networks like Google+, Facebook or FourSquare use their own API. Do they have separate codebase for API and Application?
I read it as the author wanting to still display some sort of badge to credit the hotspot as being powered by freebsd but without the possibility of offending the customers...

For example, one of the old badges without bestie the mascot. http://www.antbomb.com/sources/powered_by_freebsd.gif
You confuse mature programmers with mature marketers.
Most Asian cultures hold filial piety as one of their highest values. Parents wield tremendous power over their children and use well-established and ancient psychological ploys to control their kids and obtain obedience.

These are facts of Asian culture. The traditional Asian family is organized as a well-oiled, top-down controlled authoritarian hierarchy. Chinese and Japanese cultural norms today are patriarchal with men ruling over both their wives and children.

A huge portion of Asian immigrants have kept this authoritarian family structure. This is not controversial. The Tiger Mom is real.

Asians themselves who follow this strategy are not shy about its authoritarian nature. Their values hold that parents and elderly are wise and should be obeyed with little questioning. They believe children should have little self-direction for the benefit of the child.

In conclusion, you find it offensive because you're clueless. The Asian people I know who subscribe to this style of family structure are comfortable with it and aware that it is authoritarian. "Authoritarian" is only pejorative to those who find authoritarianism distasteful.

Read Tiger Mom - it's an accurate portrayal of cultural differences.
I would have loved to known Goldman's #1 pick or top 10; instead we're given an alphabetically ordered laundry list of 32 startups.

This is just Goldman boosting everyone's ego.
>The assumption that people of a certain race are defined by the same experiences is exactly racism

That's not what's being implied, nor is that implication racist. What's implied is that people of a similar ethnicity who have similar profiles on a college application probably have a similar backgrounds. This is both logical and entirely not racist.
Everything will offend someone. This person probably had a bad day and would have complained about something else (and threatened not to stay) if the BSD logo hadn't distracted her first.

Self-censorship to appease the tiny number of people that are crazy is the worst form of censorship. There is no appeals process and you can't measure whether or not your censorship is effective. All you're left with is a world that consists only of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I don't want to live in that world.

Don't change your personality because one person might not like you. Is it worth making the world a worse place just to get a measly thousand bucks?
I suggest this piece [1] by David Leonhart. As he points out in the final paragraph:

[...] all else equal, a low-income applicant was no more likely to get in than a high-income applicant with the same SAT score.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/economy/25leonhar...
I have to object to your post because you're arguing against some general situation which does not apply here. Charles Bloom is a great programmer. I've seen his code.

http://www.cbloom.com/3d/galaxy4.zip

http://www.cbloom.com/misc/index.html

etc.

Also FWIW he was the lead programmer at Oddworld on games such as Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, which while not particularly well-known to the mainstream is one of the greatest modern console games ever made and which was also very technically impressive at the time of its release. He's also kind of a big deal in the compression world.

If you want to argue specific points he's made, bring them up and debate them on the merits, but don't handwave him away like he's one of those kids just learning Ruby who decided to put up a blog to show everyone how smart he is.
Professional sports leagues aren't the keys to wealth and power in this country. That's why there's a big fuss over college admissions and not about sports.
One of the most important business lessons.

"Some customers aren't worth having."
I'm actually surprised that anyone could disagree with the OP, other than to nitpick. I found most of what he said to be so obviously true as to go without even saying.

Maintainable code is elegant code. Too much emphasis on the straightest line to results results in inelegant code, full of boilerplate, which becomes progressively harder to maintain. The line between elegant reusable libraries and impenetrable abstractions, however, is a fine one, and figuring out where that line is doesn't come without engineers who are willing to experiment a bit and refactor when they were wrong. Understanding of the tools and language features that allow the creation of elegant reusable libraries doesn't come without experimenting with them. Those who don't strive to continually learn new things and grow their skills become jaded with what they are doing, and eventually end up unengaged and consequently less productive, or they go do something else instead. There's a reason that the half-life of being a software engineer is 15 years. (Assuming the 15 year half-life story is true. It sounds about right to me.)
Receiving emails in your web application easily [rails]
Is Bert the Turtle on hand for PR?
http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html
False alarm. I live in China. Just turned off my VPN and I can access the site, download the source and docs.

Sometimes there are regional blocks in some provinces, that may be the case, can't test it. But they are not targeting simple numbers. Maybe some other keyword triggered a dynamic block in some regional ISP's GFW system. You can get those dynamic blocks easily by searching on Google for certain keywords. For the next 3 minutes your Internet will stop working.

If there is any Chinese involved in node, s/he could just write an email to the "internet police" gov't dept and ask them to lift the blocking, if it actually exists anywhere in the country.
What exactly is the point of China's censorship when you can just go to Hong Kong, part of China, and browse a censorship-free version of the Internet?

(Also, how do big US companies do business in China? Are they allowed to VPN to the real Internet? What if someone visiting from abroad mentions Tienanmen Square?)
Your argument strongly misses the mark. While there may be dubious scientific basis for race, there is a very strong sociological importance for our construct of race. This is undeniable. Race as a sociological phenomenon is very real and thus makes sense to address it as such.
Verizon will block stolen phones by ID as well. If you go to buy a used phone you have to call them and ask if it's stolen or not.
Do you mean that forensic is incorrect, or that you don't like to hear it?
I often joke (with myself since I'm sad that way) that everyone must at some point make a productivity web-app. It's nice that Joe has made one that fixes a few things that annoy me about most.

Most are targeted at engineers first (Pivotal), at visually oriented organizers (Trello) or adapted for the specific team that wrote it's methods (like Thoughtbot's).

Luckily I'm at the "tool choice" stage of a new venture so I won't give my team whiplash by trying this one out. If it integrates with Campfire it'd be perfect.
Thanks, this will help out with a hackety thing I've been wanting to do.
FWIW I'm also a DJ and play chill sets for my friends. I've dropped Alan Watts & others during the deeper moments...

Colors and layouts are fine.

I'd simplify your "about" message. Your site is for meditation. Think reverence.

I wouldn't put all the songs on a single page. I'd split them up. One benefit: people could share links to sessions that they like or prefer.

I'd use the homepage to point out new sessions and group sessions by duration and/or tone. New stuff should always be highlighted up top. Maybe add a sidebar to handhold beginners. Something like: try it out, takes < 10 minutes, few minutes to get prepared & 7-minute meditation session.

Then on each session's page, I'd have fun with the execution.

The 60 second countdown prevents new users from previewing the music & knowing what they're in for (right mood, what volume to set their headphones at). A preview would be helpful.

Show the large music image here & allow it to provide focus. Do your set-up instructions (headphones, etc) then "click to start 10-second countdown". Have screen fade to black during countdown and quickly fade back in when it's done. Stuff like that.

I'd also want to know what the journey is like. All new age? Does it mellow for a bit and get energetic again? 26-minutes is a long time to sit for something without knowing where it's going.
This is I believe my first submission to Hacker News. ("Long time listener, first time caller.") This article just outlined a quick and dirty way I got over the problem of me not posting to the blog as frequently as I should. I think this method would benefit others as well

NOTE: I did not outline handling authentication / avoiding exploits. Trying to get Cloudmailin to outline suggestions on that front in their docs.
Actually, I am not sure why you would implement TCP inside TCP. You could have just tunneled the IP packets (raw sockets, or NF_QUEUE or some equivalent) and TCP would have taken care of everything like ACKs and packet retransmissions.

There are various interesting ways to tunnel TCP inside many other protocols like ICMP, DNS, etc. The underlying principle is that since many protocols run over IP, as long as you're able to route IP, you're pretty much done.

EDIT: I didn't mean to sound pessimistic. :)
File upload page(http://www.rdius.com/upload) is giving error -

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'> at /upload
__template__() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
Don't paint us all with one brush. I suspect there's a significant bias in observation here because it's the sexy, fun stuff that everyone hears about. There are lots of people taking the profession seriously, but many of them are behind corporate walls or just not focused on making their work look flashy.
Yes, but in this case the hotel is the customer, and the hotel is doing nothing wrong in asking about the issue.
http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html
I'm curious to see what will come out of this: http://www.rimac-automobili.com/concept_one/battery-system-9
Is it worth making the world a worse place just to get a measly thousand bucks?

Removing the "Powered By" makes the world a worse place?

I am inclined to agree with one of the later emails in the thread; "Powered By <blank>" doesn't really belong on end-user pages in the first place.
Quora!! oh comeon...
I will say IBM is run on sticking to procedures and tried and true methods. It may not be the most inspiring workplace, but it gets things done. I can't say it's what I prefer, but just a bit of insight. This doesn't apply to all subsidiaries, teams, and groups, but by and large this is what I see.
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How To Start And Grow To Network Marketing Pro
Show HN: WeatherOrNot? - Zoomable World Weather Maps
This is a small iOS app (iPad / iPhone) app I worked on that basically shows weather on a map (along with day/night info). Just something I made to quickly see what conditions are like all over the world.

http://bit.ly/tUuEKB (app is free and ad-free, more just an experiment than anything else)

Backend is in java (server) and perl (pulling data).

More interesting than the app is perhaps the platform behind it. I hope to introduce other kinds of data to be seen on a map.

Currently getting about 500-1000 downloads per day on iPad. Really just curious if people find anything unique or interesting about this, that might hook them into my app vs another mapping app.
Thanks everyone for the comments. I updated the links and now downloads are working. Sorry for the delay.
Diversity of interests wasn't always a priority in college admissions though. Malcolm Gladwell has a good piece on how the current Ivy League admission focus on non-academic indicators was originally a racially driven policy. One could make a good case that "diversity of interests" is a policy put in place to ensure that highly performing performing demographic can dominate admissions. I imagine colleges con't want that to happen because it would jeopardize the long-term health of their institution.

Malcolm Gladwell's article is here: http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html
Is the women's market limited to clothing and jewelry? You might also say the same about the men's clothing and jewelry market: not so many start-ups on those either.
And the inspiration for the movie Silent Hill.
Daemonization is really something that ought to be done outside the process being daemonized, a la supervisord or (if you prefer Python) something like my own project, finitd[0]. Unless you have something you must do as root before dropping privileges, leave daemonization to a separate, purpose-built program like these. It's the UNIX way.

[0] https://github.com/jemfinch/finitd
Anything But Revolution
Anecdotally, there's definitely some truth to it being a matter of what you've grown used to. I moved from an old Windows desktop to a Mac OS X laptop. I found the fonts on Mac OS X to be exactly as you described -- fuzzy, bold, fairly annoying. After a month of heavy usage, I stopped noticing it. When I visited my old Windows computer a year later, I realized I perceived all the fonts as incredibly jaggy, thin, and hard to read. But after a while (1 week) I stopped noticing as much.
Is that also a matter of marketing? I love printed photos, and have recently starting printing photos books - amazing christmas presents for a start. I grew up looking through our family albums and I want my kids to have the same experience. It may be that there is a renaissance in the printed photo yet to come, and I'd trust Kodak for the technology of that if they could figure out how to fuel a boom.
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I refuse to stay in the same hotel as women who do not have their hair covered!

You are not responsible for their outrage.

'First they came for the hotspots with devil logos on them, and I did not speak up, for I am not a devil logo.'
I pause awkwardly every time I read résumé with the accents.
Sugar Cookie Recipe For Christmas
Around the middle of the 1700s hit German Protestants in Pennsylvania, in an area called Nazareth. They created a sugar cookie called Nazareth Sugar Cookie. Inspiration for Nazareth Sugar Cookie recipe probably came from an earlier, unleavened cookie called sprawl.
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Here's a similar (and funny) story:
http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html