skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Foursquare, and I never found it more interesting than just a tool to check-in. And I see no value in that, nevertheless, I still felt LBS is a gold mine yet to be properly mined. And I'm determined to solve this problem! Or the problem of trying to trying to find interesting things around you. (Which is by itself a really different problet FS seems to be solving)

And I'm solving it on the very promise that people don't care too much about what strangers around are doing, but would however be way more intrigued to find out what their friends have done in the area.

Here comes in ctrleff! (ctrleff.com :X sorry for shameless plug) I'm a solo founder and things are going really smoothly! I hope to see something launched soon! And naturally, HN will be the first place I'd seek feedback from.
This is why you should not read or work while lying down in bed. now that I think about it. The most productive years of my life were done in dedicated work areas where I encoded "focused agile work time" into a specific monitor and keyboard and room. I was able to focus for 10 hours at a time there without caffeine or stimulant.
It's a very minimal explanation. But it's good that more people know about KVO, it can really simplify your code. It becomes even nicer when you use something like BlocksKit, because then you don't have to do the annoying checks in the observer method: http://dizzytechnology.com/data/BlocksKit/Categories/NSObjec...
hehe sounds like my life, moved back from San Francisco to Sydney last year and whereas I used to live a 15 minute bicycle ride from work in SOMA I now live 35 minutes train ride from Sydney CBD to hold my housing costs at the same level.

"Eating Out" has all but disappeared from my life because to get equivalent quality restaurant food, it's about double to triple the cost of SF. I drink a lot less beer too now don't know whether it's good or bad.

I suspect you're right, all the 'nice stuff' and discretionary leisure activities are in the expensive areas so we're all paying indirectly for the insane price of real-estate.

Even though I have a mortgage I'm really hoping prices stagnate in absolute $ terms so our real standard of living can catch up again.
If they are making $500 a day, they only need this to work for a few months, then they have enough cash to keep them going for a few more to come up with another great idea.

I'm not sure it's sustainable, but it's certainly viable!
GoDaddy support for SOPA aftermath - daily domain transfer impact graph
Except that Paypal has only solved fraud from the consumer side. Policies like this leave the sellers ripe for fraud.
St. Petersburg, FL - Paradise Advertising

http://paradiseadvertising.com (don't worry, one of your projects will be to help me build a new rocking website)

On site with possibility of remote days.

We're looking for an entry-level - jr software engineer/front-end dev to help fill out our interactive department. You'll need to be comfy with HTML/CSS, working in Photoshop/Fireworks, and willing to dabble in everything from MySQL to javascript.

This position is unique in that we are not a software company, but work on and in a lot of software projects. You'll be the 2nd technical hire, and will have the opportunity to make you mark in the department.

Email nathan@paradiseadv.com
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Python has this idiom for a while now: it's known as a "context manager", also known as the "with" statement. Here's the PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/
As the programmer, you wouldn't call getMap if you didn't know the return type

As the reader, this situation would be analogous to looking up the what map is, assuming it was declared earlier ... is a datamember etc.
something that might as well arise when typing..

private HashMap<Integer, String> map ;

then 30 lines later

this.map = getMap();

You would have to check javadocs or function header some time
OT: What is deMarco's association with tMMM?
4 Healthcare/Technology Predictions for 2012
I've heard from several current Google employees that the so-called "20% time" is known in the office as "120% time". Meaning you don't get time to work on it, you simply work on something on top of what you already do. Which actually defeats the purpose and just gets employees to use their personal free time to work on a company project. Nonetheless, it's a good idea for a class, as long as you make sure to give them 20% of class time to work on it
I think government and the populous as a whole play a large part in this natural progression of things as well.

When it comes to innovation and changes to the way the world works we're faced with two competing sides:

1) Let innovation take over and increase all things good to the consumer

2) Protect jobs

Once the MPAA/RIAA or whatever finally realize that their role is no longer to play the middleman between the artists and the consumer there will be massive job loss. Its not my job to envision where these workers will migrate but its an unfortunate truth of life when processes become automated and require less people in the whole scheme.

And that's primarily how people maintain support for the associations instead of piracy or streamed content. Those ads in the theater of the key grip going "piracy is killing my job" is the pity response they're trying to drive from us. The Key Grip in reality shouldn't be hurting MPAA should be. They haven't realized yet that their role in the process isn't worth the same amount as it was 10 years ago and they're refusing to take a pay cut as a part of things.
PresenterFirst pattern in Backbone.js
IMO anyone performing useful work at the command line using a phone keyboard is hard core!

(I use the logitech android bluetooth keyboard)
Yahoo names Paypal's Scott Thompson as new head
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To me, stealing is taking someone else's brand, renaming it, and selling it as your own. By that definition, this case is not stealing. It reminds me of the saying "everything that can be invented, has been invented" (I do not remotely believe this) BUT, the man looked at all the best features of the existing inventions and bundled them up into one, and made the best one yet. In fact, he did such a swell job, we still debate, discuss, and use his invention today. /Think stackoverflow's about page...
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Given that the initial pain point was needing a printer, I hope most people here would have enough sense to realize that an online-only solution wouldn't work.
The ideal thing would be to combine them, web and van. You could call it 'Webvan'!
I'd love to see these learning centers have certificate programs so that you can get the piece of paper that we still need these days.
The feedback economy
You aren't imagining that. With the increase in population and the number of people classified as celebrities, in the future, we'll see what Kottke called "An abundance of death"[0].

[0]: http://kottke.org/09/08/an-abundance-of-death
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Dr. Howard Blackwood, your dentist in Ottawa, offers a number of family and cosmetic dentistry services that are safe and gentle enough for the entire family.
Also mapping state to scope e.g. mutex objects that set/clear on ctor/dtor
PayPal President Named C.E.O. of Yahoo
Pantech Element waterproof tablet hits AT&T’s LTE network next week for $299
At least mine would have been to create a site. When told about this option, my first thought would've probably been "What a waste of talent and time!" though I mean absolutely no offense. If anything I'm inspired to look for those small things that make a difference.
The State of Michigan is just now upgrading off of IE6. Maybe we were the difference!
The copy on https://reddi.sh/ is fine. It's more the blog post that talked about phpmyadmin and stuff that I found confusing.

How do you plan on handling security? Seems like people will need to poke holes in the FW directly into their data store for this (that's probably the other thing that was pulling me towards a non-hosted product).
Patents don't require copying for liability to exist. Are you talking about copyright?
DeMarco wrote Peopleware with Timothy Lister, Fred Brooks wrote The Mythical Man Month.
Two of those 400k Android apps are mine, one is free with ads and restricted, and the other is paid. So duplicates of the same app have to be considered. And most of them are junk apps, poorly built, thrown together by some experimenting devs testing the water... Like me.
no need to use bit.ly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK5Z709J2eo
The US Says Goodbye to IE6
IPhone 4S Launches in China on January 13
For the younger crowd who may not get the joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
I think if they pull off CS:GO correctly it could bring quite a substantial portion of retired CS 1.6 players back online... boosting that number a bit.
Or you could create a site where people would always get the latest forms and proper guidance? It wouldn't help the applicants who get rejected at the consulate though.
I think there's an inherent tension in frontend web programming, particularly when you're the sole operator in charge of UX, visual design and implementation.

The part of you responsible for the UX and visual design wants to design nuanced flows and pretty pages. The part of you responsible for implementing wants designs that will be pragmatic (or easy) to implement.

My own personal exploration of this stuff began in late 2009, when I got into web programming again after a nearly 10-year hiatus.

What has helped me is to study design and implementation separately. The more knowledge I have of the modern frontend ecosystem, the more I expand the realm of "things that are pragmatic to implement". And the more knowledge I have of how design works, the more flexibility I develop in terms of "acceptable UX and visual design".

Put another way: if you know what is easy to implement, you can combine that with a study of design to combine those building blocks into something that looks good and works well.

Design resources:

The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams

-- An excellent book that lays out clearly and concisely principles that will make your designs work. Perfect for the analytically-minded.

Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton

-- The web is still largely a written medium. Getting the typography right is a huge win. And this book is great.

Implementation resources:

* Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Freeman et. al.

* CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards_ by Budd et. al.

Helpful:

* CSS frameworks like Blueprint, Bootstrap, Compass

* Using grids

* SCSS/CASS/LESS

Also, Smashing Magazine (web) is very good.

To build implementation skills, it is helpful to take a screenshot of a site that you like and then implement it. To build design skills, it is helpful to sketch layouts that you find aesthetic and then build them out using lorem ipsum text.

You'll get there. It gets easier. And as someone told me when I complained about the breadth of stuff one needs to know: web development isn't going away anytime soon, you have plenty of time.
You've just demonstrated that our society is insane (at least in this case).

If we were not crazy, what harm could such a copy possibly do ? None. You effectively (though unwillingly) donated your knowledge to the world. You deserve even more than if you kept your code secret.

But.

By "donating", you lost leverage. You can no longer threaten people with not giving them what they want if they don't pay you.

This is by the way the problem with basically everything: making something abundant will add actual value, while at the same time destroying market value. It is most visible with Free Software, (vs Proprietary Software), but applies to anything. Say for instance that we could copy food the way we copy software.

Conclusion: our society in general (and the market in particular), is very poor at valuing things in the face of abundance. Somehow it needs scarcity. Paraphrasing In Time, "For a few to be wealthy, many must starve". I don't have a solution, but this is nuts.
For the sake of internet, valley and Yahoo! - I hope he succeeds big time. Yahoos deserve much better than a foul-mouthed, talentless and outdated CEO they ousted. I hope he lives up to the promise!
Here's what real transparency looks like
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Is There A "Best" Time To Respond To A Job Ad?
Cool data. I've always wondered this myself. Is the best thing to do to try to be the first resume to respond to a job ad? It turns out there are 4 statistically "best" times you're most likely to hear back from an employer.
You can either connect directly to public instances (like from redistogo.com) or use our proxy which will (before we release) support encrypted connections.
"Enhanced" eBooks Are Bullshit
ThemeForest is a great resource. Thanks for sharing this. I found what I was looking for under the Site Templates dropdown.
In short, no. I've used it, but I think that the problems that RVM solves are largely orthogonal to those.

I don't use (or need) RVM on servers, and I don't use it on a daily basis, but I find it useful for testing gems across multiple interpreters before I release them.
As I was writing the blog post I kept thinking about how specializing one thing may, counter intuitively, lead you down another series of diverse paths that relate only somewhat to the original specialization. In the road race coordinator example from the post, it's possible that specialization in that area may lead to other opportunities in event planning unrelated to road races. Perhaps it even leads to a book deal about planning sports events.

Since I haven't specialized in anything yet I'm not sure I'm qualified to speak about it but I have a hunch specialization actually broadens opportunities.
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My point was that storing unprotected keys for all your servers on one or more "unprotected" laptops/PCs seems like a bad idea.

Yes, to some extend it can be mitigated with ssh-agent, but that's not what they do in their tutorial. And even with ssh-agent, can't someone steal all your keys from memory?.

"It's not as crazy as you imply: it's a configuration management system - it has complete control over your machines. Giving it root or not is irrelevant."

This is crazy in its own regard: Giving one piece of untested, unhardened code control over all your machines. At least the code-base is small..
Maybe that's why I feel so crazy whenever I try to use it. We can have bitmapped interfaces now, no need for the arcaneness of vi and similar editors.
I specifically avoided the term "open", because I agree with you 100%. No one knows what the hell open is. There is, however, a not-insignificant amount of talk in the main stream press about Apple's constrictive nature. Headlines like "Will Apple Boot the Kindle App?" [1] raise red flags in consumers' minds. Some people I've talked to are startled to learn that Apple can even do that. After all, they can load any software they like on their Mac/PC, and there's nothing Apple or Microsoft can do about it.

1 - http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/15/technology/apple_kindle/inde...
Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies
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How a STEM Startup’s Virtual Labs Helps Students Find Their Inner Mad Scientist
I agree - I'd rather people wrote their opinion, in a respectful manner of the counterpoint view, but without a need to apologise first for disagreeing! Discussions always demand alternative views, and apologising for entering the discussion seems pointless!
They were, but my most recent experience has been that Windows will offer to make one for you on the first boot of a new machine.
Right. I applaud this. Even if this opportunity will only last a few more months, they'll be sitting on thousands of dollars in cash (less what they actually spent on living costs), that can be used for their next startup - most likely based around a much bigger idea.
A toc but no links, maybe you need to add: learn usability
"Hammers were invented for a world that doesn't exist anymore".

"Manual screwdrivers were invented for a world that doesn't exist anymore"

"Chisels were invented for a world that doesn't exist anymore".

Etc.

The mere fact that people are still using vi[m] is evidence that this author is wrong.
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?
I didn't ignore it, I hadn't even thought of it! :) That's actually a really good point, and I'm a little disappointed that I didn't think of it. Nearly every time I see Metro, I'm reminded of my XB360 console interface, and I've always felt that the XBox is Microsoft's best product. It works in a way that very few products do. I turn it on, it does exactly what I expect. Except when I get the RRoD... Heh.
The Unsustainability of Never-ending Workplace Marathons
Your problem at that point is getting the customers to you. I'd be willing to bet that not many people would be willing to pay for it before they have tried and failed at the consulate. And at that point, they are going to stumble on that van before they see your website.
Nice! Geez and finally.
Chinese Astrology Compatibility - How Do You Get It?
The Chinese astrology compatibility rating is usually affiliated towards your beginning signal as well as beginning signal involving your partner.
And all that speculation serves an interesting point, which is that unit sales alone don't really tell you the whole story about the popularity of a platform. I agree with the author; I would also like to see some data on that.
Web Startup Officially Endorses Ron Paul on Homepage
You can't sign into the Steam client on multiple machines. If you try to sign in at another location, you'll be signed off wherever you are currently logged in.

Maybe he means he's signed into the Steam website on three machines...?
Outside of the large cities infrastructure is almost non-existent. The national highway network is horrible compared to the US, the rail network is even pokier. Hospitals and schools are of a much lower standard as well government just doesn't have the money to build this stuff.

Secondly, large businesses who provide employment don't want to be based outside of large cities because there's no talent so you get this problem the net migration is to the large cities forcing up real-estate prices and labour costs.

It's this vicious catch-22 - how can you attract people and businesses to regional centres without investing in infrastructure yet where's the demand to build infrastructure if populations of said regional centres is declining not increasing.

It's 2012 and the drive to urbanization (especially mega cities) has never been greater than now and yet to solve some of Australia's structural economic problems we need to attract people away from big cities by creating self-sustaining (in the sense it provides adequate opportunities for its own population) regional towns with fast rail links to major cities. It's an impossible feat with the system of Government we have now which fosters basically a 2 party system where both are slightly right of centre and stuck in their echo chamber of mediocrity.
This graphs show there is a pike in a single day for domain transfer outs. But seems like it would not impact GoDaddy business.
I wish the title of the article was "Joy leaves Sun", dual meanings are always more fun.
"In many ways, corporate computer networks have been locked down since partly because of the vulnerabilities found in IE6,"

This is the most frustrating aspect of the article. For example, a surprisingly large proportion of international banks and corporations in the UK & Ireland still use IE6. For that reason unfortunately, I don't think it's going to die anytime soon in this part of the world at least.
Wow, what a nice surprise to see my creation on HN.

To all the critics, I built this to be a slide deck on responsive web design, not a responsive website itself. Its main purpose is for me to launch full screen on Chrome and show on a projector or tv. Its for educating my co-workers on the subject (haven't even had a chance to actually give a presentation yet). Can I at least get some points for using rem's? That's pretty cool, right? haha

Anyway, I did this over my winter break - as well as creating Scrollorama and scrolldeck.js and taking care of a new baby (yay! my 2nd son was born dec. 6). Thanks for checking out my stuff. Hope it is useful for some of you!

By the way, I'm currently rebuilding this using Bartek Szopka's excellent impress.js framework. http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js
Yeah!

Objects in the stack are easy to use, logical, and orders of magnitude faster to instantiate than objects in the heap!

(when the underlying runtime uses malloc)
On the quality of proof used in ICGA's ban of Rybka
What will happen if social networks start selling things?
I think social networks selling things is a good idea. Maybe someone has posted topics like this before. Do you guys have any idea about that or know something about that?
Yahoo names PayPal exec as its CEO
Do one thing well means fix one problem very well; if check in alone doesn't solve the problem anymore you may want to rethink the solution.
We can add code to destructors to do general stuff, not only deallocation. The same applies for constructors.

In C++ this works amazingly well for objects in the stack (not in the heap, as you need call the destructor yourself).
But also add caching... :)
Pfff: A set of tools to perform source-to-source transformations on PHP etc.
If you've opened that file in the right mode, you can conceivably append to it once you reach its end. Even in read only mode, I imagine you may conceivably seek back for further reading?
You don't need the verbosity of Java to get good I/O or to understand how servers work. See: Go.
Track Your Phone
Cell Control is the perfect Cell Phone Spy Software to find out who your family members, friends, partners or employees are in touch with.
I agree with the first part of your statement, depending on your definition of "company beliefs". Corporate culture is pretty far from most consumer's minds at the time of purchase.

You have to ask questions regarding the second half of your statement though:

1) Why are there 10 Android phones and 1 Windows phone?

2) Why do salesmen steer consumers way from Windows Phone?

In my view, the first has to do with Microsoft's approach to Windows phone. Like Apple, and in contrast to Google, want tight control over the end-user experience. This combined with the fact that they were late to the market is creating a negative incentive for carrier's to put WP7 on handsets.

I still maintain that the second has to do with the enormous momentum of consumer sentiment at this point. Phone salesmen spend a lot of time around phones. Many of them are "in to phones", so they're more acutely aware, albeit often misinformed, of the tech-punditry's view of these devices and the types of consumers that buy them. WP7 also lacked a strong device at launch, so a lackluster start resulted in negative feedback. The salesman is going to push what he likes, and gadget people like Android devices.
Facebook is missing the "game" aspect of checkins. That's the reason I've always though foursquare was really neat.

FourSquare is missing the facebook part though, so I think facebook could stomp them pretty easily if they wanted to.
If there is one thing you can depend on bureaucracy for it's an endless stream of new bugs to work around.
Try AlertPay
My mistake, added edit. Thanks for pointing out.
Here's a screenshot from my browser IceWeasel (Debian's Firefox) 3.5.16: http://i.imgur.com/IlL0W.png
Okay. Out of interest, do you have any idea on how you would design a configuration management that works without root access to all of the machines you want to configure?
After two rough days, they consistently keep on getting twice as many transfers in than out.

Storm in a tea cup...
We'd have to look at the details of the lawsuit itself to get the real story. There could be much more to this.
Thanks!

It would also be nice to see a summary, or at least put new+in above zero, and deleted+out below it.
IBM Speeds up Data Analysis With New Algorithm