skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of:

sudo ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" \
/usr/bin/subl

I would link it to /usr/local/bin/subl or just create an alias in ~/.profile file:

alias subl='/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl'
IT services and call centers make up for only 3% of GDP despite the general perception
Cat.jpg from an unknown user of Basecamp. This tells us nothing about anyone. Get over it.
Great piece of work! Thanks! Have added it to my Pathogen plugins already - wonder where we'd be without Pathogen?
I have been "cold-called" via email a few times from non-technical people looking for a technical co-founder. I'm still a student at the moment though, so I feel like anyone that I should be working with in the near future should lead in the technical aspects.

I have no idea how it has worked out for these people.
If C would have lisp syntax it could do the alot of the same abstractions.
Jasper is clearly a pro
> T-shirts or products with logos visible, artwork visible, song lyrics, videos with uncleared background music. Get creative.

Seems like something that could be automated, if only there was a big database of copyrighted works. (Maybe transloading videos to YouTube and watching for the "copyrighted works detected" flag to pop up?)
His Stanford class few years back made a few millions in a few months and a few million dollar start-ups :) just by making tiny Facebook apps. Don't know exact names, but I'm sure Google will.
"Famous Internet Person": I don't know. I would much more prefer some artist, director, politician and not another "internet activist".
Can we get a source on TDS not making money? It's one of the most popular shows on Comedy Central, syndicated in many countries. If it doesn't make money, it's hard to see how Comedy Central stays afloat.
> I do not live in the US

Not as relevant as it once was.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428991
"In an industry dominated by eccentric introverts, Ballmer is out of place in that he’s pretty normal."

OK. I don't know where to start.

And we should have been warned about the photographs.
So, is this just an article advocating outsourcing? Because I don't know how else you could hire a programmer for a month for a couple thousand dollars

I think the implication is that if you can't afford to hire someone to code for you, you aren't going to succeed at running a startup.

Why? Because you should be good, really good, at something, whether that's your current day job, being able to sell your plan to others - friends, family, acquaintances, bank managers... - or having the self-belief and determination to fund the entire venture on credit cards.

Although that last one might be... risky ;)
dumb question but is there literally a theme called "new theme" or are you just talking about the new default sublimetext theme?
Vintage SOPA: The end of the world as we knew it...
Aren't all freelancers outsourced? Do you mean offshoring?
Get a plugin that sets X-Forwarded-For in your http headers to some random US IP. Doesn't work on all sites, but it does work for comedy central.

I use Modify Headers in Firefox.
>..but I've had too many downvotes to really believe that people are thinking critically

Did you stop to think that maybe you're getting downvoted for nonsensical and wrongheaded arguments? We get it - you don't like Google. You just don't have a valid reason for doing so. You're entitled to your opinion, but not your facts.
I totally agree, I have done something similar to this. Instead of waiting to find someone I just got started on my own.

Tough at first not having someone to bounce ideas off but after the first hire it's fine :-)
Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246
Wow fantastic feedback. Consider all of this done. What browser/OS are you using?
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Hmm maybe if you dig deeper past Lamar Smith, you'll find insurance companies? :-)
Which is worse: someone supporting SOPA because they know nothing about copyright or someone supporting SOPA because they know a lot about copyright?
I'm a noob. Can someone please explain how to install this thing?
The original^2 post: http://sachagreif.com/stop-looking-for-a-co-founder/

It wasn't linked from the OP, so I had to trawl for it on Twitter, where it is sure to get lost within a few days.
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ahem... won't we be doing media lobby's work for them :)..
The format of Stewart's show is such that he gets most of his talking points directly from his media targets. It seems reasonable, then, that in an effective media blackout, he and his writers might have legitimately missed SOPA.
Hey guys, we are still working out some stuff with regards to the future of the company. We will be emailing all our users and making a formal announcement soon!
Passwords.
Plaintext.

You're welcome.
Well said. I'm a journalist and photographer by trade. Any work I'm commissioned to do, I charge for. Anything I do for fun I release under Creative Commons for anyone to use.

We need to make a living, of course, but if you hold onto everything, it will die with you. Whereas in the public domain, your work becomes immortal.
Relationship Marketing in a Nutshell
So, almost all of the code I've released has been part of a group effort--either something in-house I may not be able to release, or as part of a small team writing OSS.

How does this actually help me? I'm not going to take credit for entire projects, especially not when I'm working on them with friends.
(Un?)fortunately, the people deciding Internet policy in DC aren't quite as clueless as Stevens, or at least not as prone to gaffs. I think we've gotten all the "Series of Tubes" moments we're likely to see. The next idiotic thing out of a politician's mouth may rile the technorati, but I doubt it will be as easily and widely mockable as the Tubes.
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yeah, sorry, thats what I meant.. I don't know if he meant just part-time or what, but no decent programmer in the U.S. would work for a couple thousand a month full-time on a project.
Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA
I have been programming since the 70's. I have hired at least 100 programmers, either full-time or contract, over those years and have always sought to hire women. As a matter of fact, I give preference to women candidates. This is because, in my experience, teams with both women and men perform better than those with only men.

Unfortunately, my experience is has always been that there are far fewer women to choose from. If anything, I agree that it is worse today than 10 years ago.

Anecdotally, I have 2 teenage children, a boy and a girl. I would say that in terms of computer _usage_ they are approximately equal. However, while my son loves to program, my daughter has no interest at all even though she does well in and enjoys both Math and Science in school and I have urged her to learn. Go figure.
Think of the power a law that everyone breaks gives the government! They must love it.

Mostly the executive branch, but others too.
It is linked - the whole title is a link to the OP on all my linked posts. I often refer to the post in the article body too, but forgot in this case. I've fixed that now.
Good point, i just think the author is a bit off on how much it would actually cost to hire someone
The key is 'getting in touch with folks'. Frequency matters - weekly works great for some, it will sink others.

Make the appropriate decision for your products, your audiences, your channels - but the advice to regularly highlight benefits is sound. For example, Evernote did a great job when they were small* of highlighting clever ways folks used their product. It didn't require any extra product development on their part, just honest interest in and engagement with their customers. New and old customers were encouraged to explore, the brand was humanized, it helped build a community, they reminded past users that they existed, it provided a natural outlet for mentioning real product improvements - all at the low cost of sending an email now and again.

* I'm just a former-Evernote user, and not terribly familiar with how they talk to customers now.

edit: meant to respond to lukeschlather. oops.
I would argue the following below is a little nicer:

awk -F':' '$3 != $4' /etc/passwd
Same thing happened to me. It claims I have 5+ years of Ruby experience.

But, I learned Ruby in May 2008, because I got a job doing Rails development. (I just looked it up). So, 3 years, going on 4.
yeah, I get these too from time to time, they go straight to my trash folder. I have my own ideas for startups so I would never just "hook up" with some random person to join their venture for equity only unless I already knew them well and respected them. Of course, if they are actually willing to pay money then its a different story.
I suspect a good portion of those installs are for doing things like getting amazons free app of the day outside the US.
Jasper is awesome. Love his typing technique.
I can speak volumes for this practice. Our app is inherently designed to be forgotten.

Shooting out a weekly or monthly email always brings an uptick in engagement which ultimately means more usage for the app and subsequent plan upgrades.
The way you would install any Vim plugin. Extract these files inside your ~/.vim directory such that.

copy vim-poweline/autoload/* to ~/.vim/autoload/*
copy vim-poweline/doc/* to ~/.vim/doc/*
copy vim-poweline/plugin/* to ~/.vim/plugin/*

and so on.

PS. Learn Pathogen or Vundle. It will be very well invested time.
This is precisely what I was going to say.

I'd like to add that "coffeescript" returned zero results and "javascript" a lowly two (both paid courses from udemy.com), even with the wonderful codeyear.com and codeacademy.com.
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There are just a few very simple steps to decide whether or not you should "look for co-founder"

[1] Take a good look at what needs to be accomplished to build and scale your business

[2] Identify critical missing pieces you do not have expertise with or do not want to do

[3] Estimate how hard/easy it would be for you to manage these pieces yourself, with some hired help

[4] Weigh pros/cons of possible dilution / distraction / misfit vs. likelihood of acceleration / risk reduction / strength in numbers

[5] Make up your mind on what is the right way to go and GO FOR IT!

IMHO, saying "you always need a co-founder" is a cargo-cult-like mindset. There are plenty of successes and failures doing it with or without one.

The only thing that ACTUALLY matters is whether you can put together something that will make money. Whether or not you had any co-founders along the way is about as casually related as whether building an airstrip attracts cargo planes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult)

Just determine what you actually need and do not get distracted by people trying to mold you into their perception of the "ideal".
This is just a form of content marketing.
No, this is for awareness. Everyone here is aware.
It even shows which git branch I'm in. How cool is that!
Contribute to BSc thesis - business modeling methods applied to startups
There's this, too.

http://yepthatswhatshesaid.com

It randomly samples tweets for training, but it doesn't write back automatically. If you find one you like on the site, though, you can tweet it.

</shamelessselfpromotion>
I've considered this problem, even built a product to address it. A difficulty is that if its anonymous users won't know who there friends are and if you add a pin exchange system you are creating excessive difficulty to your friending system.

If you figure out a way to get around not knowing who other people are on the network while still being able to find your friends then you will be one step closer, but you will also have to figure out a system that is simple enough to be comparable to the easy of adding friends on Facebook.

After solving those problems, good luck getting over the network affect of Facebook's already established network.

Personally I think you need to look forward instead of backward, Facebook and Google products already exist and have an established user base, the next big thing on the internet isn't going to be a remake of what already exists, it will be something NEW.
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I'm used to looking at linked post titles as permalinks, so I missed that. Thank you for the correction, and the insight in your post.
This demand that people write tons and tons of code on our off hours is understandable but is getting, I dunno, obnoxious? If not tons, then perhaps something of very high quality. I could write a nifty little linked list implementation but would it really show that I'd be a good programmer for your particular needs?

If you think it does, I predict having code written in off hours is a requirement will result in github being flooded with just horrible code. It's hard to evaluate code in a quick glance. Let's keep it as a bonus type thing so the pressure won't be so high to produce just anything, to torture a text editor until it gives something that pleases the eye and sleights the mind.

Please, keep the industry from moving to make this sort of thing a requirement. I write crappy code in my spare time for fun not because I think it'll get me hired.

----

Not everyone can write code for 50 hours a week and then 10+ more at home, especially if they have outside interests, a family or are just plain tired of it.

Writing code in spare hours is neat, and I do it myself, but I think it needs to be seen as a bonus, not as a requirement.

Perhaps employers are wanting to hire burn-out proof people. I don't think there are enough programmers on the planet to meet employer's demands to hire the best. The implication of wanting 'the best' and asking for code in off hours is that if you don't write code in off hours, you are not the best and not worthy. It's thinly veiled and having been through a few interviews (sometimes I showed them code I had written in off hours, sometimes not) recently, my experiences are probably anecdotal but it makes me wonder.
Even though the concepts are easy (nothing you cant do with a couple of excel/google docs formulas) I think it's quite nice if you want to do some basic startup pricing maths.
A humble suggestion, you can improve the UI, i.e. reduce the video size (as suggested by others) or also give more visibility to calculated data in the page, i.e. "Units Required" and "Sales Revenue Needed" should be more clear and highlighted because they are actually (one of) the "result" of the calculation
FWIW, This Developer's Life has an interesting interview with a fortran programmer this month: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/2-0-7-dinosaurs
its a great idea, just a little bit more polish and i might consider using it

suggestions:

if there's nothing found, try listing some results from google (or a link to a google search)

after hitting search, the most important thing to list is the search result, not the logo (try showing a very small logo on the results page)
I'm pretty excited about this movement (if it's fair to call it that yet) since my startup, Beeminder (mentioned in the article!), pretty much epitomizes the author's definition of Programmable Self (ie, quantified self + motivation hacks).
>> I guarantee that 37signals would not sanction such a ridiculous statement. Most SaaS companies wouldn't touch such claims with a 40' pole.
The industry lives and breathes on the feeling that the data is confidential. We're currently looking at some hosted helpdesk ticket solutions, and I can tell you that if there was even the slightest hint that the vendors casually browsed our data we would rethink the whole adventure.

This encapsulates exactly why I think your position is naive. You're confusing reality with what-companies-say-to-make-money. It's as if you're completely unaware of the concept of marketing. You seem to be in a position to make purchasing decisions for your company, so let me explain: marketing is a tool used to make money. Again: MARKETING IS A TOOL USED TO MAKE MONEY.

37signals knows that people want to feel like their data is confidential. So they plaster pictures of locks and words like "safe", "secure", "24-hour surveillance", and "biometric locks" on their signup page. This is called marketing. It creates a feeling -- and nothing more -- so that people like you will click "Buy". It's like the airline commercials that depict flights as being comfortable and quiet. It's like oil company commercials that talk about how great it is to be green. It's like McDonald's commercials that show thin and healthy people eating Big Macs. It's smoke and mirrors, and you're falling for it.

The reality is that you have a choice: belong to the 99% who simply want to buy into a "feeling", or belong to the 1% who read the privacy policy and ask questions.

But if you're going to choose to be in the 99%, then do us all a favor and stop complaining about it.
IBM Brains Turn 12 Atoms Into World’s Smallest Storage Bit
Median can be described as what you get when you discard all but the centremost value or two as outliers.
I agree, there are cases where you would want a more robust client side data model, but, IMO people are a bit too quick to jump to using this and it can make more work in the end and make a project more costly to maintain. I think the cases where it is useful are mainly for highly interactive sites like those that would have previously done in flash, with animations (such as games, etc), for just regular CRUD webapps I feel its a bit of overkill
I think your negative sample set is a little biased. Since all the phrases start with verbs like "was in the car" or "went to the park", these kinds of phrases are given lower probabilities.

For example:

> twss.prob("was on a stiff pole");
0.016050826334564946

Only 1.6% chance of that's what she said?!?

EDIT: Counter example:

> twss.prob("that's one stiff pole");
0.9767718880285885
IBM was granted 6,180 US patents in 2011, Apple? 676 Samsung 4894 No. 2
I agree. I'm a firm believer that the TV itself should remain fairly stupid while the peripherals get smart. I love that i can hypothetically pop a roku stick into my carry on and make my hotel TV smart for the duration of my stay.
You Can't Cut Your Way to a Billion Dollar Business
This is probably the most social feature I've seen on Facebook in a while. Sharing music is one thing, but listening together is actually syncing with your friends, which is what Facebook is all about.
That's my position too -- bought a new TV recently, and made sure to look for a "dumb" TV, since I'd rather have all those features separately.

We're probably in the minority though; more people would rather have "all in one" machines.
Urban Airship to shut down SimpleGeo
I'm waiting for someone to write "Why behavioral interviews are obsolete with facebook" next. </sarcasm>
Each community is pushing their own way of establishing the "great developer" presence and calls their solution the best one out there and the rest are obsolete.

Software Developers around the world becomes this victim of a bubble. Be it the StackOverflow bubble (collecting rewards from answering questions) or the GitHub bubble or the blogging bubble.

I'm tired playing the alpha-geek Fire-and-Motion.
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Looks like this could easily be integrated into a script for Hubot
You're absolutely right, these are a top priority on our list (we compiled a huge list while researching the idea). Thanks for the suggestions! :)
I searched for "Ruby" devs from my city. I search for Ruby because I know a couple of good Ruby developers and was curious if any of them popped up.

And the results are pretty bad.

Not only did I get awful results from other countries, the actual 2 results I got from my city are 2 devs ranked as being in the "top 20% of GitHub users by estimated expertise".

One of them has 2 forked projects with NO contributions and is contributing to a third that he just started. He also has no followers. The other is an intern at a local company, with a single project of a few lines of code and no other public activity to speak about. I also searched for them on Google and couldn't find anything else, other than a LinkedIn profile.

Now, I'm not saying that these 2 results are bad developers. But if these are classified as in the top "20%" of developers based on information available online, then the algorithm is doing a pretty shitty job.

To make things worse, I didn't see any personal acquaintance out of dozens that I know have meaningful GitHub accounts and are living in my city. Instead, I got somebody from Istanbul (different country, not even a neighbor) that submitted his configuration files to GitHub and is also in the "top 20% of GitHub users by estimated expertise".
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SOPA: The gloves come off
We'll add some django resources as soon as possible! :)
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Every Google phone (G1,Nexus,Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus) was made with a hardware manufacturer (HTC, Samsung, etc). - why add Google to that list?
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I think it is important to point out that Google seems to be saying they are willing to talk w/ the other networks about getting in the same position, but as of now those talks have not happened.

Would Google have G+ suggestions AND Twitter suggestions presented in the same way if they still had an agreement w/ Twitter?

Would the G+ suggestions be wrong if they still had the Twitter suggestions?
FWIW, bingbot basically DDOS'ed our site a few months ago by crawling links that were labeled nofollow/noindex in the hrefs. Adding a rule to robots.txt fixed the problem.
Why should I spend $1M to bring something innovative to market if it can be copied instantly by a competitor?

You seem to think that WO patents, the answer is different for hardware and software. Why?

Because software companies have shown repeatedly that it's possible to bring something innovative to market for much less than $1M, and the exceptions usually occur when the innovation builds upon previously patented (and expensive to license) technology. This discourages small independent development in favour of larger companies, which is probably the crux of the problem as I see it.

Manufacturing and marketing a new physical device, on the other hand, can rarely be done for less than $1M (or rather, for applications of comparable complexity I think it is fair to say that producing a software widget will almost always involve less initial overhead than a hardware widget, especially at market scale).

That's where my assumptions come from. I know that trade secrets can't be used in every situation, and I accept that software patents may make sense in a minority of cases. I still think we'd be better off without them.

At any rate, I can see this conversation continuing for a long time, and I don't think it will accomplish anything, so this will be my last comment on the thread. Thank you though (sincerely) for your intelligent discourse.
FWIW, I was actually pretty well convinced of this by reading Steven Levy's In the Plex.
No worries, you're not the first one to get confused! Funny thing is, I copied John Gruber's model (see http://daringfireball.net ), and it seems to work very well for him. Not sure why people get confused on my site and not on his (but maybe they get confused there too!)

I want the title to be linked to the destination article so they get any link-juice I may have to give associated with the article. The little star thing next to it is the permalink.
Thanks for gathering these together. "F Wall Street" looks like a great book.
Cool, looking forward to seeing it grow