skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way I think of it is that friendship of yore was designed for a harsher, crueler world, with serious limits on how much one could broadcast.

Today the opportunities to connect are plentiful; going online can feel like you're at a 24/7 party with a constant stream of new guests and new ideas, so long as you put in the _effort_ to set it up that way. If the only thing you do is add a few acquaintances to Facebook, the article is correct - you won't get any value out of it. But a strategy that has more specific goals in mind than "be friends" is only empowered by the social tools.
Software Realistically Adds 3-D Objects to Old Photos
You know that "uninhibited behaviour" is a result of a serious mental health problem (bipolar), right? Being mentally ill isn't really a lifestyle choice.
Google Founders Offer "100%" Funding to Save Hangar One (with a Catch)
Thank you for your response. One thing I love about Hacker News is the frequency that you get to engage in actual discussions with the authors. I am somewhat weary/apprehensive of your style, but I must confess I find it rather intoxicating.

I certainly plan to read through more of your postings and archives.

Most of all, I am glad to hear you adjust the message to the audience. I would expect nothing less from a marketing savvy individual but it is still comforting to read.

Good luck with your fight, it is unfortunate that so many industries continue to cling to outdated business practices and models.
I only got paid the first 1/3rd, and walked away from the second 2/3rds after we were almost complete. Writing that honest letter cost me $42,900.

Maybe I'm a jerk, maybe you want to defend how badly traditional publishing treats their authors and staff (do you really think they can't do better? much better?) - but yeah, I walked away from around $50k here, and the writing was already agreed by agent and editor to be excellent at that point.

Principled stand, man. Most people don't get it, can't get it. But I think things need to improve, so I'm going to try to force things to improve.
Really hard to judge this without seeing the letter the author was sent. If "repayment... more money than you even got" means pay back the advance plus interest because the book is being cancelled, this seems entirely reasonable. If it's "pay back the advance plus a million dollars because we feel like being unreasonable", that's a completely different story of course.

But it's definitely pegging my crazyometer.
"Increase Linux's usage share, and we will see a greater share of Linux exploits and malware. Case in point: Mozilla Firefox."

Well, that is the main line a windows apologist would use. This does not make the main point invalid. Hospitals and such professional institutes can use a less known OS. Because what they mostly use is a dedicated crapy VB application.
Yet, I think main problem here is not the OS but archaic Windows based Desktop applications.

I can offer one exit from this mess,

1- Switch all your apps to Browser only.
2- Use dumb terminals (dump windows OS and office if possible. too costly)
2- Use a cloud service or a browser based server application that has a web interface for your documentation needs.
I immediately checked my "Other" messages, and found messages from:

- a cute chick who said i'm handsome, sent 3 months ago

- a guy who asked about wavecom modem, found my name when he googled about the modem

- a long lost friend

- random guy (but not spam), sent last year

Oh my.
Notice the quote "I'm not going to pay the California wages".

Keeping salaries low is clearly a priority for these people.

I have a strong feeling this might be a fluff piece to increase the H1B quota.
What if it was a 100k bond, refunded after 5 years of proven good behaviour? (good behaviour = 5 years continuous employment, clear crime record, etc)
Read for yourself -

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and...

I think it was raw, honest, and necessary. Maybe too mean? But again, it was 100% true.

> If it's "pay back the advance plus a million dollars because we feel like being unreasonable", that's a completely different story of course.

Ah, you missed the context. My agent was telling me that if I don't shut up and agree to terms immediately, I have to pay back his share of the advance to the publishing house. And I negotiated him up after he signed me from the standard 15% to 25% because I like people to be well-played. He didn't address when things were bad, forced bad terms in the contract to go through, didn't negotiate in my favor, and now threatened me... the whole industry is scummed up, man. People need to know what really happens - there's lots of stories like this, but most get hushed up.

> But it's definitely pegging my crazyometer.

Yeah, mine too. But don't you have to be a little crazy to walk away from a guaranteed $42,900 and fight a multi-billion dollar corporation with a massive legal team?
And horseless carriages used to be less reliable than horses. The problem is the longstanding nature of the policy. They were paying a team of 6+ techs, surely they could afford a process-review/technical updating meeting once a year? And surely there's a better way, such as standardizing on a brand of NICs and of switches, and being done with it. If you can't push an update to the machines to prevent this anyways.

Besides, it shouldn't cause cascading failure so the worst case scenario is a tech call, the same as for an unplugged cable.
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Probably not when there are free alternatives like http://www.ideaoverload.com/
On Black Turtlenecks and Einstein
> although reliability is nice ... UDP

Would you not use send() with MSG_DONTWAIT? You get the reliability of TCP and you get feedback if there is any potential blocking. (But I certainly am not a socket guru.)
That's not what he said.

I live in Indiana, in the middle of the sticks. There's farms on 3 sides of us, with a smallish forest on the 4th. Cell phones go in and out regularly (we live in hilly terrain). We have no high speed internet, nor does our house have reliable 3G service. AT&T is due to roll it out within a month.

Deer are the most common pest. I've had 3 totalled vehicles because of them. The next are the wolves and coyotes we have. A few years ago, a mailwoman was attacked by a pack of wolves and dogs. We also have rattlesnakes and cottonmouths along with various other not as poisonous snakes. In our area, we also have black widows and brown recluses.

Admittedly, I only live maybe 50 minutes away from Indianapolis (via I65). But even a half an hour out of Indy can leave you in some ass-backwards part of the state.

And honestly, many people I know locally choose to be ignorant. I tend to think it's an American attitude against "bein dem smart types", and not just Midwesterners.
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I have a voodoo doll with a fake 2 million dollar note attached to it - and the doll is stabbed with a flag as well. This is the doll: http://www.voodolls.co.uk/en/art/gordon-moneymaker.php?grp=1...
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Actually, if I remember correctly from his interview on the WTF podcast, his father is a programmer and Louis was always pretty technologically adept. E.g. he edits his TV show himself on his MacBook.
VC Nick Hanauer on why his taxes need to be raised
What one hopes is that they might have clerks who can help them with these things. In general the Supreme Court justices themselves are not people I would choose to look to for gurus on technology.
$1M is the amount you need to invest, not spend. Not sure what the expected value of that investment is, though.
How junior? And do you know if the hire remote for a probation period?
Talking to other people in SF about the city always strikes me as somewhat Stockholm Syndrome-y. People take pride in paying $2K for an apartment on a street where the police warns you to stay inside because two people got raped blocks apart in the same week. It's so surreal.

Oh, the crime isn't so bad. Everyone knows to stay away from the west side of Dolores Park! The crackheads in the TL won't bother you unless you show fear! Haha! Another person got shanked on my block this week - if only they were as street smart as the rest of us! I deftly dodged a piece of human shit on the sidewalk on my way to work without missing a beat, how delightfully urban-sophisticate!

I've never before lived in a place where violent crime, rampant substance abuse, and extreme poverty was treated in such a blase way, and often glorified as "vibrancy" and "color". The more I live here the more I feel like people here have these giant goggles on that only allows them to see the charming mini-muffins, startup parties, and great coffee.
The fact that you found a job in Hawaii at all is impressive. I lived there for 3 years and left for LA due to lack of jobs or community surrounding the web.
No.

Because an idea is only a fragment of the necessary vision to execute and on it's own represents something of virtually no value.

I realise that the vision is supposed to be brought by the purchaser who sees the potential in the idea, but my problem with this is that without a deep understanding of the problem that the idea solves I could never do justice to the idea.

I would be more interested in purchasing for $10-a-piece well described problem spaces.
I like how you answered Mykel Nahorniak on TC. His business struggled with "having all the events", you guys just changed the perspective to, "not all the events, just the best ones for you".
So surprisingly -- ot not, depending where you come from -- it comes down to the question of management: put a developer to a place they're not suited for, and they'll tank in terms of productivity.
Wow! Never thought it will make it to the first page.
Since I am new to the whole android development. Can anyone suggest how to promote this app besides advertising it/sending an email out to friends and family?
I will really appreciate it.
How do you know with such certainty that what he wrote isn't what he thinks?
They had to have a 12 year study to determine this?
this game can be played created creatively - it's over 10 years old and has a following of at least thousands today in 2011

http://www.project1999.org/
American-Western State and Media's Influence on Anti-Putin Moscow Protests
Been there too, which is why I like stored procedures now (testability, clean code, predictability).
>well and after all that investment the person leaves for better salary/etc

They could offer them a raise based on their new value? If this company can't pay people well or offer a good work environment, how are they going to get senior developers?

> (any NoSQL/Hadoop) can be picked in a week

I can't believe there are companies looking for people with a "week" of experience in NoSQL who aren't mid-level developers already.
Even then, you're looking at similar economics. HBO is willing to pay you $X for your special because you have an audience that is worth (at least) $X to them.

For a lesser known artist or comedian, you lose the power of the distribution channel, but you gain in margins. The opportunity for cross-promotion in the form of an opening act is still alive and well, and I don't see why it can't continue in a digital form.
I like this self-referential bit on the Terms and Conditions page (in the Disclaimers section):

https://buy.louisck.net/terms-and-conditions

"WE DO NO PROMISE THAT THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT, SERVICE OR FEATURE OF THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE"
A very good idea, in my opinion, but I think $100k is too steep. Make it $50k and I would support this. I see that there are lot of negative commenters on techcrunch, particularly from non-americans. That's also interesting.
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Facebook has announced that as of February first remove profile pages opened for applications. How do you prepare for this and what should you do now?

Another change in the area of ​​Facebook, but this time he relates mainly to developers and users. After a long period, which represented the dedicated profile pages and applications automatically open them herself – stopFacebook support them. In addition, announces that on February 1, delete these pages completely. So what can you do to keep the fans and information?
Changes the rules
The wasted talent in the meeting room
Polyphasic Sleep Cycles Trick Your Body into Needing Less Sleep
How are you going to float a value to the right inside of a native select value? How are you also going to style the value separately (font-weight, color etc)? All that is really available is optgroups vs. options.
I was under the impression that it is illegal to tear up money, is this the case in the US as well?
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The main problem isn't templating engines. And although a better solution is always welcome, a bit of procedural code inside a template is not a big problem either.

The real problem is that so many projects and frameworks don't have a powerful enough View layer that is separate from the (preferably optional) templating engine. In many cases it's even worse, and the templating engine is the entire implementation of the view layer. This pushes a lot of view logic into the templates, where it quickly degenerates into spaghetti. (In even worse cases, any logic the templating engine can't handle gets coded inside the controllers, and view logic starts leaking through the layers.)

Fragmentation into purely static templates is only a solution if you've dealt with with all the other view-related issues, and still end up with too much logic in your templates. And by "too much" I mean that it results in errors and maintenance overhead, not just that it looks ugly.

Intensive use of logic inside templates is definitely a code smell, but you have to be careful not to address the wrong problem. The templating method itself is rarely the root cause.
And if you forbid that in perl and end up having query generation inside the stored procedure, what have you gained?
> How do you know with such certainty that what he wrote isn't what he thinks?

Do you want an actual, serious answer?

So, I try to always get at the subtext of people's words. You never 100% know for sure what anyone else is thinking, but you can put some intelligent guesses on it, and then ask people what they're actually thinking and see if you're right. If you practice, you get better at it. Figuring out what people are thinking when they say something is just a skill like any other, and can be improved by practice.

His tone there ignores all the points that were made, and focuses on the most petty interpretation of my actions. I had research numbers, trends, talked about marketing/distribution shifts, whatever... so what's he really mean with his snark? I'm being really open here, maybe it's offensive, but here's how I analyzed it - I think the emotion is roughly "I don't like this!!" and he doesn't analyze why. He then takes the worst possible interpretation, and puts that up in to assert some sort of... aloof superiority? It's hard to put great words on this, but he's basically writing off everything I said about trends, distribution, agency, everything with a hand wave.

Why do that? Because he had some negative emotional reaction, of course. But instead of asking himself, "Why do I dislike this?" and saying that, he just snarks out and gets passive aggressive. Honestly - again, hyper-honesty - I think it's pretty weak and pathetic. Call me arrogant, say my tone is wrong, disagree with my analysis, call me a dick, say my points are out of touch, whatever, honesty is cool and we can work with. But ["I don't like this!!" -> Snark] is... well, it's weak, don't you think?
I hope you are backing up up those things. If you don't, you should have zero trust into being able to access those even tomorrow. Why would a company like Facebook care about you?

You feel like your memories belong into your control, then why do you give a third-party total control over them?

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
Brilliant. I wasn't sure if he was serious, or if this was a satirical comment on the immigration system.

Then I looked at the title of the post (it's been wrongly condensed here on HN).
He said "a little more". There's a difference between being knowingly irrational from time to time and killing people on a whim.
AMTTLOPW have lost useful messages for months to Facebook's Other Messages, old friends, people trying to get in touch with family members, etc. No spam. I'm pretty find-able through search engines, etc, but people are turning to Facebook first for messaging these days.
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You'd almost have to say that this article is not liable to the least objection!
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The poster is using grep 2.5.3. Release notes for 2.6 talk about UTF-8 performance improvements:

"This release fixes an unexpectedly large number of flaws, from outright bugs (surprisingly many, considering this is "grep") to some occasionally debilitating performance problems."

Current version of grep is 2.10.
While all justices have been attorneys, there is no constitutional requirement that a justice be an attorney, and not a doctor/scientist/business man.

Since justices do rely on clerks, it's not clear to me that an accomplished anything other than a judge could not be brought up to speed on the law.

It is a shame that the justices seem to avoid each other and do not appear to work in a team. Imagine a team of justices that could rely on one being an MD, one being a civil engineer, one being an entrepreneur that could lead/organize tutorial sessions for the others.

Many of the current justices don't even have courtroom experience.
Really a wonderful idea to make USA the safe haven of all criminals around the world. This is the most brain-dead, totally crazy, utterly stupid political proposal I've read in a long time.

This sort of thinking (money can buy everything), by the way, makes me sick. This is wrong on so many levels. What floors me even more is to see all HN comments pretending that this is a good idea. At least the techcrunch comments seem to get it.
OP needs to upgrade grep to the latest version. He is using 2.5.3, and latest version is 2.10.

Release notes for 2.6:

"This release fixes an unexpectedly large number of flaws, from outright bugs (surprisingly many, considering this is "grep") to some occasionally debilitating performance problems."

http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6249
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Personally, I have none, but starting a relationship with a sign of distrust, like signing an NDA, is NOT a great start. I find that simple friendship and common understanding goes way further in protecting your idea then any contract.
I can see this causing a lot of household problems.
Yes! In fact, in the Q&A he even says this:

Nope. "hquery" is just a library I wrote to do USS in Rails. I believe any language / framework can have its own USS renderer.

I'm totally in agreement on this. Any language or framework can address this very simply - we don't need "one to rule them all".
You're right, outlasting everyone is a way to suck less. But it's not a real way to be the best. Being the best and sucking less have similar starting steps but very different ending steps. Where you stop on your list and write "repeat" is where the journey to being the best just begins.

I don't know about you, but I never want to just be mediocre. I want to be really damn good at whatever it is I try. Even knowing that one of the greats could "come out of retirement" and still out-do me is not good enough for me. That's just patience resulting in complacency and mediocrity.
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There are very few valid cases for stored procedures to generate queries like that. And at least with PostgreSQL, dynamic SQL can be spotted with automated searches pretty easily. It's pretty easy to simply add all filters that might be of interest:

WHERE (date_entered > in_date_from or in_date_from IS NULL) ....

Then you also gain testability. We can write test cases for the stored procedures because they have discrete entry points and make sure they are acting according to spec.
A modest proposal = satire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal.
Thank you for doing this.

Not that I give a damn, quite frankly, about the publishing industry. (I probably should, but I don't.) But the "shut up or we'll threaten to sue you - and just the threat will ruin you for a decade" meme is popping up all over the place (patent trolls, illegitimate MAFIAA takedowns taking years to resolve, and so on), and too often people go the logical route, sit down, and try to piece together their new life from under the boot. Every batshit-crazy shirtless nut we have is one more good role model for how to deal with this brand of thuggery.

So thanks, and keep it up.
I suspect that at this point it will be very, very hard to get the hearts of developers that are not into Microsoft, but I think this is not an entirely different effort of also conquering the hearts of normal users... at the point Microsoft is in how is perceived outside I think they need a spectacular change (a new CEO, with a new message), to publish a new version of the operating system that is not a mess, and then yes, to be more open. I doubt that supporting Node on Azure is going to really help as a first move.
You are Edinburgh based right? Weirdly enough, I'm further north yet it was not as bad here. (Inverness)
Worked for 4 years in SF and left a couple years ago for another job... the whole time I was there I felt like I was seeing a different city than everyone else. For the most part I found it dirty, unfriendly, cold and way overpriced. There are some nice attractions and scenery but the day to day experience drove me nuts after a while. I also got tired of seeing my earnings slowly eaten up by all miscellaneous costs that go along with city living - paying for a parking spot, bridge tolls, extra taxes, etc. will not be missed
Money can already buy you a green card and an even faster path to US citizenship. This article proposes a massive discount on that fee and a streamlined process to boot. Nothing here proposes to get rid of the current system, a system which very much needs to be streamlined. Then again, how exactly should we streamline it? Lots of people hold up Canada and its points-based system as a prime example. Those same people leave out that Canada, in 2010, chopped huge swaths of categories out of that system because they had too many applicants. Whether that same problem would happen in the United States or not is a good question; we have a much larger population/society and much more livable land area.

Yes, it's expensive, and unfair, and even biased. It smacks of pay-to-play and partially dims the spotlight on the US' other immigration problems. Does this mean it shouldn't happen until we can get our politicos to get their heads on straight? No.

(My better half is a green card holder from a not-rate-limited country. We've had more than a few interactions with USCIS.)
Quitting a job you hate is not "taking a principled stand". Taking a principled stand would be if you said "I love working with you, but I can't do it if you're going to continue to (print books on paper made from unsustainable forestry practices | allow the Chinese government to censor books | do other random evil stuff)".

The fact that you wrote a multi-page rant about how much you hate working with them demonstrates that you're quitting for your own sake, not because of any "principles".
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