skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every public change is a breaking change
Part of the problem is that "save" and "upvote" are the same thing. I am an obsessive bookmarker, so I "upvote" stuff all the time, without reading the article, just because the title strikes me as sufficient to into "Hmmm, look at this later" territory.

If there were a "save" feature (ala Reddit) that was separate from upvoting, I think that would help. Or maybe I'm the only one who does that and it wouldn't matter a bit. :-)
never mind, that doesn't seem to work for me
If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit
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That's the point... "to test out some hypothesis" - this is something you can do just for fun if you work at Google.
Maybe one way to solve this problem is to define several milestones, and a percentage of the funds get released once milestones are reached. At each milestone, each funder can decide whether or not the person has achieved their stated goal for the milestone.

If the person who puts money into the project gets cold feet, they can back out at any time, but any money they have committed up to the current milestone goes to the founders and the rest gets returned.
How many people & how long before you think your idea's worth pursuing?
I am not looking for a right or wrong answer on this one. I have always the principle "Always be validating". So every idea of mine is shared with the intent of answering questions such as need, pricing, positioning etc.
How often (how many people do you talk to and how long) do folks here validate their ideas?
Will Apple make iMovie for interactive books?
Has SAP gotten cloud religion?
Cool. There seems to be a lot of sites right now in this space.
Python is far from deprecated in production.

Working on (what you saw as) a legacy project was your experience. My experience was far different (I'm sure many others would agree).
2 ways to use a smartphone to log into Google on a PC
I can't wait for a complete reworking of the game, and this is great for emulation (and for the fun), but surely someone somewhere has long ago created an open framework allowing for different versions to be made, akin to Mugen?
I see what you're saying, but there's a big issue in doing this with domain names - the margins are slim to none (at least they are if you want to be price competitive).

Whereas registrars are paying 10%-20% on sales affiliates generate.

You need to think about whether you can actually beat this margin on your own, taking into account overheads like payment processing fees, customer support, billing issues & fraud etc. Not to mention the hassle of it all.

That's why Beau talks about branching out into hosting below.

GoDaddy make money off domains because they have massive scale, recurring billing, and a hell of a knack for in-cart up-selling.

Personally, I don't want to get my hands dirty with any of that!
I'm not familiar with the outcome of any other "failed" projects, but has Kickstarter ever forcibly refunded money or intervened in any way? If not... they're obviously growing (nearly 4x as much pledged in 2011) and I don't know if more strict guidelines would really help.
Why Jason Putorti co-founded Votizen
Did as you suggested in a different browser.
It sounds like you need copies of signed contracts before making any big decisions. If your team is pushing forward without you, or involving you less, it would be nice to have the security of a legally binding contract.

Without knowing the details of projects X, Y and Z it's hard to say what to stick with but at this stage in your career, it's not good to burn bridges. If you do exit X, make sure it's on good terms. Who knows, they may need you again in the future to join another project they're working on.

Long story short, you've clearly communicated that there is more work available than you have time to do. Seems like it's just a matter of determining which projects are most likely to yield positive results (financial or personal/general interest) and sticking with those. In the meantime, hold onto that salaried job. Having that solid fallback when you're uncertain about side projects is extremely valuable.
You're going to be successful no matter which road you choose. You have skills people value that you can always use. Not knowing more about the details, I say go with the new opportunity with the guy that seems to want to work with you. Who do you want to spend the next x number of years with?
I think i'll miss hard links the most. I recently switched from linux to windows due to better display management and it seems that many programs fail at handling symlinks in a reasonable way, only hard links make them act rationally.
Great work. Do you guys host this yourself on EC2? Also, would be great to get SSL transfers.
Problem is that oftentimes most of the money is needed before a first prototype. And many concerns wont emerge until the prototype comes out. So effectively what will happen is that the milestone system will be gamed so that most of them are "paper" or "cad" which dont take much effort.
Does seem that way lately. However, I do think Mistash has a better focus on the social aspects than the others and is also going in the best direction for a product focused system. Plus, it's more fun :P
+1 for tmux. I still have two pet peeves with tmux. Nicholas (maintainer of tmux), if you're reading this ... :)

All in all, tmux is one of the greatest programs ever. Even when working locally, I prefer to work within a tmux session. I've got single-key pane-switching shortcuts. Along with the inability of native terminals to create a vertical split (AFAIK), this is a significant productivity enhancer.

1. Too aggressive buffering of pane output. runaway output on some panes (due to e.g. a bug in the program running in the window, not tmux) will really hose things up so bad that the only way to fix it is to disconnect the underlying ssh connection.

I'd like to be able to specify a maximum data rate on a per-client basis. If any client is backed up, freeze panes visible to that client.

2. The keep changing the pane switching key bindings with every new release. :| With 1.5, they've taken away the ability to rotate thru every pane in a window in order: i.e., no concept of a "next" window. Only left and right.

3. I wish they'd add the option to move to the "next clockwise pane" or "next counterclockwise pane". Maybe the new left-right infra might help with that.

Yeah, yeah, it's open source. I should probably go fix it myself instead of whining on a forum. Maybe I will one of these days. :)
This is what I'm talking about, if I choose to fund a project and the reward I choose is that project, isn't that the point of funding? For example, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petertreadway/spnkix-wea... is a project being funded at the moment and will reach it's goal, I've backed with $500 so I can get a pair, if they don't deliver on that isn't that an issue? Kickstarter does not present it as a chance to maybe see a project and if not, well great free money for the project creator, it's presented as a way to fund a project to creation, to delivery.
You can also actually boot from ZFS (the code for this is actually GPL'ed in grub), and many of the caching features like ZIL and L2ARC are "third party opportunties" whereas they're built into ZFS.

I wonder if/when this will actually take off - most Microsoft "edge case" solutions have trouble gaining adopters. If it gets boot off mirror support, it has a chance.
SGEntrepreneurs Does Not Support SOPA/PIPA
You're not investing when you give money away on KickStarter. That would be in violation of SEC regulations.
Hard-working is not the same as workaholic. A hard-working person might be a workaholic, or they might just care about accomplishing stuff.
Based on your knowledge of English, is the phrase "pie nearing" likely to come up in conversation as often as the word "pioneering"? No? Then setting the outline "PAOI/NAOERNG" to "pioneering" is probably safe. Still, this kind of probability check needs to be done whenever defining a multisyllabic word in a steno dictionary, and the decisions are not always as clearcut as "catalogues" and "pioneering".

Really? In the days of Google, there's no clear and widely accepted answer to questions like this?
I bought an aluminum Element Vapor Pro and it has no problems. I actually got it to see how it fits in my current Kickstarter project, the Elevation Dock, b/c a lot of people asked and they love them.

It has plastic around the top left corner and small foam pads so the aluminum never touches the steel antenna. If I were these guys, I would machine out the corner and make a polycarbonate piece to fit.

If anyone here has one, I'd machine the modifications for you just to show it.
Yo, jurisdiction is the reason for SOPA
Working now :). I've seen my iPad act strangely before, so it could have been something on my end or just server traffic.
The closest thing I could find to a tutorial (besides Apfelmus' posts) is this:

http://www.formicite.com/dopage.php?frp/frp.html

No time to check it in detail now, but at first sight it doesn't seem tutorial-ish enough.

If you're interested in doing something on the lines of the above, I'll do it with you. I'll drop you an email.
"You also don't have a set workload: you do as much work as you think is appropriate and then go home."

Looking at both sides of this: the common complaint in most traditional companies is being under the thumb of the beancounters, and work being shipped incomplete, or buggy, etc. Or people working insane hours to make things happen.

It's a wish then for many in technology to eliminate this problem. At Google it appears this has happened. However, it seems to have introduced an entirely new problem...with no communication with end users, and no real deadlines, google's user facing software is often lacking obvious features that don't get worked on for ages...and forums full of users complaining without much of an acknowledgement or response from Google. The lack of focus and community interaction on certain Google products is at times bizarre.

It's an interesting note that you're damned if you do or damned if you don't. But it's very interesting to see both sides of this.
This is a fairly known issue in elec. design. What is happening here is that the case is acting as a Faraday cage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage) that blocks out signals.

It is not just enough to wear the designer hat. An engineer hat is absolutely essential as well.
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For one, there are many instances of US laws being 'exported' via trade agreements and such like, so yes it does affect people outside.
There are some "really hard problems" that could definitely use the brain power assembled but apparently are never pursued.

Like self-driving cars I guess.

Are there effectively (company) political red lines at Google Inc. that preclude pursuit of solution to problems such as distributed, non-centralized, social networking, or, somehow the engineers unconsciously choose to [only] pursue solutions that fit with the corporations business model?

Google had at least 3 goes at building decentralized social networking[1][2][3].

As an external observer the one time I've seen behaviour that could have been characterized as avoiding pursuing a solution because of Google's business model is that Chrome has decided not to implement the "Do not track" solution that Firefox has implemented[4]. Google does have some reasonable technical arguments on their side (arguments that are best made by Apple, which doesn't really have a lot of skin in the tracking game[5]). Still, if you want to look for political interference that's where I'd look, instead of expecting yet another tilting-at-windmill quest to build an decentralized social network.

[1] http://www.waveprotocol.org/

[2] http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/

[3] http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ (Ok, OpenSocial isn't decentralized. But it does allow application portability between social networks which certainly has the effect of decentralizing power)

[4] http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/chrome-do-not-track/a...

[5] http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/papers/Apple.pdf
"Hemo, the Magnificent" probably kindled my interest in the biosciences.
Here's one I funded. It's a documentary: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scot...

They haven't even been shot yet. Heck when I pledged, the guy hadn't even bought the cameras to do the shooting yet. There's no gurantee about the content of the films. Sure, I'll get a copy, eventually, but that's not really why I pledged. I pledged to fund the making of these films.
Hacker threatens to release Norton Antivirus source code - E & T Magazine
Seems like kickstarters are mostly okay with the risks.. it is inherent in the site, after all, but man, it doesn't seem necessary to be mean about things..
even if you had had the same brilliant insights into the graph structure of the web when they did, you most likely would have failed because it was prohibitively expensive (the cost in the article is probably underestimated by orders of magnitude). it's simply a fact that:

1) getting the data, 2) computing the eigenvector of a large matrix, 3) and serving that data to users, wasn't cheap in 1998. it's comparatively dirt cheap today.

not to diss larry and sergey's impressive achievement - they were brilliant and they pulled it off - but i think back then game was so costly that a lot of brilliant people never made it to the starting line. it's cool to see that it's become a much more level playing field now. i'm curious what cool stuff we missed out on because of people who didn't make it to the starting line!
Wikipedia blackout notice now on all English Wiki articles.
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It pretty well blows my mind that they just wrapped the whole antenna in metal and didn't think that it might cause problems. You shouldn't need to wear any hats at all for that one, just apply some common sense.

When I saw the thing, I assumed they must have come up with some extremely clever way to avoid signal attenuation. Turns out they were just ignoring the blindingly obvious. Oops.
Built-in Hybrid storage coming to Linux
>What if I had a file named "How to beat 37Signals.docx"?

They wouldn't have released it, and you would be a moron for storing that data on _their_ servers.

> Or "Next iPad Specs - Official.pages"

You'd be a moron for storing that data on their servers.

The existence of cloud solutions doesn't beget the use of self controlled servers for truly critical data.

The reality is that the vast majority of business data is not interesting to anyone but themselves and possibly competitors. And the vast majority of those businesses and competitors are well outside the scope of 37. Thus your data is relatively safe. If you're that worried about the hosting provider being able to view you data, host it yourself. Simple...
Frustratingly I read that and it doesn't mention what SOAP is or why the site needed to be blacked out.

It goes on to explain action is needed and that wikipedia is supporting the blackout, but I've not really learned anything at all :(

It really needs to be more direct without fluff. Put the rest of that stuff further down the page.
My guess is vast resources...
I still don't really "get" the syllable perspective but it seems like it's just a mapping of one stroke (I think my confusion is what constitutes a "stroke") on specialized hardware to several on a qwerty board? [..] It seems the main benefit is having those mappings done for you and available system-wide.

From playing around with it for a few minutes, there's a little bit more to it than that. It auto-inserts spaces between words, but there are some keys which add to the end of the previous word (e.g. one button adds 'es' to words ending in 's' or 's' to other words, or makes a new word if part of another chord). So it isn't a direct one-chord-to-one-string-of-characters mapping.
So are buildings.
I feel very "get off of my law'ish" when I say that I miss anonymity on the net. The way people share information, personal information, so freely disturbs me. Now it is looking to be a government mandated thing. Has there ever been a shift this big in regards to privacy?
Tech Industry Buys Itself a Mouthpiece
I live without much sense of urgency, because I plan far enough ahead to get things done at a nice pace. Why would you let things pile up until you end up in the hospital under the weight? seems silly
Yes, when you call a function you often jump to the stub. When you take the address of the function, it does something more complicated for PIC executables. Try examining the assembly of the following code:

void func1(void);
void *func2(void) { return func1; }

You'll notice that unlike function calls, the code here differs with PIC enabled. I think your assumption is that function calls and function addresses in C use the same address, which is not true.
I think that's pretty sound advice overall. Thanks. I appreciate it.

It's somewhat of a touchy situation because I don't feel like I've contributed that much to Startup X (again... it's been tough without proper communication) and don't have much to leverage should they say "what have you contributed?" At the same time, I feel that signing a "draft" contract and then being pushed out flirts with being a bit unethical.
In that case, I will go with this guy's view :) He seems to know what he's talking about. Bring on the blackout!
I always find this kind of self-analysis via comparisons with others interesting, having done it many times myself.

of course I didn't bother with the SATs at all, and have never even thought to ask another person what they scored on a standardized test they probably took 10-20 years ago, so I think I find all this fretting over these sort of meaningless academic MacGuffins absolutely fascinating...it reminds me of how many people who went to Tier-1 schools manage to slip in what school they went to in conversation several times a day instead of just saying "when I went to college". It's a weird verbal tick that becomes supremely fascinating (and annoying) once you become attuned to it.
Definitely one of the biggest pros of the newly presented opportunity is the guy I'd be working with. And thanks for the encouragement.
http://railstutorial.com

http://railscast.com

http://peepcode.com (costs $, but the Rails 3 Part 1 & 2 screencasts are worth the $25)

http://rubyonrails.org

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/ (When you need to improve on the Ruby side of things)
Big sites to shut down for SOPA
Donald in Mathmagic Land was one of my favorites for sure. Surprised to see it was made in 1959 though. I didn't think it was that old (For reference I was born in 1980).

I found it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD4gb0p5RM
ratopolis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FxXKtnJEEs

Ok. I wasn't a young child, I was a teen but it marked me.
The OP didn't say "hard-working". He said "fiercely hard-working".

Anyway, I'd still call even someone merely described as "hard-working" a workaholic -- meaning that they are probably working an excessive number of hours, and have an unbalanced life/work ratio.

The amount of hours Americans work compared to much of the rest of the world is already insane. It's quite typical for employees to be expected to work more than 40 hour weeks -- 50 or 60 hours is much more the norm. So when someone's called "hard-working" that means that they're probably putting in even more hours than that.

I don't even want to imagine the hours a "fiercely hard-working" Google employee puts in to compete with other brilliant employees who've all just gone from being exceptional at former jobs to "just average" at Google.

And don't even get me started on the startup rat race.

I'd take a cushy, "boring" job where I can work a sane number of hours without needing to impress anyone over an "exciting", high-pressure job at some trendy corporation any day.

I can find plenty of challenge and fulfillment outside of work, thank you very much. My life outside work means a lot more to me than any trinkets they can dangle in front of me at work, even if it is 4000 servers I can run map/reduce on at whim.

As for "accomplishing stuff", any company where you have to put in more than 40 hours a week to accomplish what you need is dysfunctional.
I see it's already hit the front page, but here is another page of advice directly from a Googler: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/posts/Gas8...
they basically put a bunch of rats in cages to try to provoke certain behaviors in an overpopulated environment.They show homosexuality,murder and addiction amongst rats.
I work there. Its been four and a lot years. I don't work in mountain view, though.

working hours: I average 40h a week. Which is what all the studies say is optimal. The key perk here is picking your hours. If I'm feeling hungover, I work less. If I'm on a roll, I work more. If I have to wait at home for half a day to let in my landlord or something, thats fine. As long as work get done, no one cares. no one clock-watches. I do think there is a correlation between working hard and getting promoted, but its not that strong a correlation - my last promotion came at the end of working 40h weeks... I can't imagine people feeling like they have to leave because they aren't putting in stupid hours.

boozing: there is a certain amount of company paid for drink. there is a certain amount of people bringing in booze. However, the line has been drawn about having a drink and then working. And really, on the scale of drinking, google is kinda lame. At tgif I think the most I've managed is a couple of beers.

Another twist on the "smart people" thing: its not about everyone being smart, its about no one being stupid. I don't have to spend tons of my time explaining stuff to people. I don't have any co-workers where it would be faster to do their work for them.

grades etc: I do run into people who name drop uni or test results or whatever, but most of the time, no one cares. I work with people who studied a subject completely different to computers at uni. I work with people who never bothered with uni. I do think there a bits of the company where going to mit over random uni still matters, but I don't work with those bits.

My big dislike is that its a big company - there is lots of existing code and systems, some of which is showing its age, its hard to change company policy on the big issues, you do feel like one in X cogs, and there is a lot of internal bikeshedding.
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Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm
I think we can safely abandon the practice of downvoting for disagreement when we can abandon the practice of upvoting for agreement.
Or more accurately, lack of it.
No, it's really quite strange. This thread has got me thinking, until this thread, I can't even recall the last time somebody mentioned their SAT score. Probably more than 15 years ago? I've heard more IQ scores, GRE scores and even TOEFL scores than SAT scores.

A fascinating circle you run in indeed.
It protects against exactly one more type of vulnerability than the normal login method, so it's still better.