skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true. However, the alternative is worse (hiring someone unqualified)
Yeah, there are plenty of blog posts out there telling people how some developer switched to developing on his iPad or installed vim or a SSH client. Personally, I do a lot of work on my Touchpad with a bluetooth keyboard. It's portable, effective (if not 100% efficient), and I don't look like a tool dragging my laptop around places (no honey, I'm just bringing the tablet!).
The VPS that I used to run my blog on cost a bit over $100 a month (1 GB Rackspace slice + 160 GB of bandwidth

Are hosting services much more expensive in the USA than in the EU? I pay 25 euro for a colocated 1U slot, 100MB/s guaranteed but always seen at top speed, 500GB total traffic/mo, and I can put in there what I want, as long as it doesn't require more than 60W of power.

So I bought myself a nice 'green' 1U server for 700 euro or something, and happily run nginx/cherrypy and apache/mysql/php on it.

The same provider I rent this from also offers VPSses, but I found them underpowered, cramped, and expensive. I guess it's worthwhile to stash your own hardware into a data center ;-)
Hi, thanks so much! The heatmaps are normalized on a per county basis, and red is a 97-98 percentile block in terms of crime density.

We're not doing per capita normalization because we haven't had that data on a per block basis, but definitely looking in to ways to start to do more granular normalization.
Content-wise, the good thing is that there is quite some information here. One thing that caught my attention is the phrase "Metro style apps available from Microsoft that support a wide variety of industry-standard media and document formats". It made me wonder whether we will see a PDF viewer from Microsoft.

Style-wise, as often when reading MS 'blog posts', I wonder how many marketeers were in the committee writing it. This post is way longer than its content deserves, with repeated almost content-free adjectives such as "unique" or "intrinsic". To make things worse, it seems to suffer from serious copy-paste errors (for examples, search for "has a very high degree of commonality" or "enables creativity").

The post also sometimes almost conflicts with itself due to what I imagine to be marketing forces. For example: "WOA builds on the foundation of Windows" vs "With WOA you can look forward to integrated, end-to-end products—hardware, firmware and WOA software, all built from the ground up"

I also found it funny to read "of what we call, for the purposes of this post, Windows on ARM, or WOA". Are they really thinking that will prevent people from calling it WOA elsewhere? In a similar vein, we have "Note: This is not a product plan or even a hint at a product." and "(which are not the subject of this post)" Phrases like that belong in a press release, not in a blog post.

As a final reason why I do not like the writing style, I had to laugh when, over 1300 words in the article, I find "This post is organized with the following sections"
Google Developing Home Entertainment System
What bugs me about Settlers isn't that it's got too much luck, it's that I can pretty much tell who is going to win (or at least one of two) based on the initial settlement placement. Or at least who's going to lose. And it's pretty much completely no fun to play a game where the result is preordained that you'll lose.

Speaking of settlement placement: There aren't enough rolls in a game of Catan for the distribution of rolls to come out as you'd expect them. I've played a game where more 12s were rolled than 6s (though OMG were there a lot of 8s). It's not bad dice -- it's just the normal result of a "random" distribution when you're not generating that many results.

So a HUGE part of the strategy that the article misses is to maximize your DISTRIBUTION of numbers. I don't care if there's an 8/9/10 combo available for your second settlement; if you already have 8 & 9, you're much better off with a 3/4/5 combo (assuming you have none of those). Otherwise you're stuck with a feast or famine situation; sure you might be lucky, but you might instead be resource-starved for large parts of the game.

I actually picked up a "Deck of Dice" [1] to use with Catan, which is 36 cards that have a regular distribution of results of rolling two dice, but haven't given it a try yet to see if it makes Catan feel different. It seems like it might play a lot different; I really should give that a try... :)

[1] http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5460/the-deck-of-dice
That charger is $10,000. About the cost of 208 fill-ups in my Mazda in the Chicagoland area. I fill up once every other week.

The Leaf already costs double what my car does. We're not quite at the point where this makes sense.
50% jewelry (half to india), 40% investment, 10% industrial
Absolutely. The server-side code is also open-source and can be found here:

https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Code/Website/Group/stable

Of course, we write the software specifically for the Khan Academy site so you would need to change some parts of it to adapt it to other uses, but everything is out in the open for anyone to work on and use.
yep Pixar must have been on the USAs equivalent of List X
s/county/country/d
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If it comes down to: letting Iran threaten us and our allies with nukes, vs dropping some bombs on a city and killing a lot of people, everyone would pick dropping bombs on the city. We expect the Iranian people to realize this, and consider pre-emptively disarming themselves out of self-preservation.
The point behind prefix was to support experimental CSS features and the prefix gets dropped once it's out. This is not Webkit specific, other browsers do the same. It's a pretty bad idea indeed, but I am not sure why you are pointing at webkit only.
Apple news: US NOAA moving from BlackBerry to Apple
Paul,

Now that you're a parent, I'm curious if your opinion has changed (or will change in the coming years).

For example, do you think you could have built ViaWeb if you had had children at that time?

Is it possible to "neglect everything except your work AND your family", and still have the same probability of success a your childless doppleganger, who neglects everything except work?
Voxer uploads your entire Address Book
Louis XIV or XVI :-) Would that make Larry elision cardinal richelieu then
We're partnering with SpotCrime.com and CrimeReports.com for their crime data, who both work with police agencies to syndicate their data. In most cases our crimes are updated on a daily or weekly basis.

Unfortunately, New York doesn't publish their crime data in a granular way. I think much of SpotCrime's data is scraped from various sources including newspapers, and we're showing what we get from them. This is a bummer for us, as it's probably not complete, but hopefully New York will publish their data soon!
Redis Reliability for Realtime Apps
Lua. Relatively simple language, but super fast (lua jit rivals C). Dead simple C api, so you can hook up whatever library you want to, if you need it (say GTK or even openGl, though I assume that somebody has already done that).

Either that or some form of Scheme. Not that it is simple to most programmers but it has very few basic pieces of syntax learn and when you start programming all of it is foreign anyway.
* But when designing in photoshop, theres rarely a need for a full version control system since I usually only have 5-6 PSDs of each iteration per design (or logos/sites/etc) and at that scale its easily manageable.*

I feel like the word "version" means completely separate things to a programmer talking about (d)vcs and to a designer talking about mockups. To a programmer, version control is more likely to mean revisions of the same file as it evolves and is changed. To a designer, a version is a distinct mockup that represents a new look.

(Sure, a programmer may rewrite something, and a designer will tweak something. But, even then. Different words are used to describe what took place.)
County: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)
Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X
Do you use a virtualized environment or just install stuff locally on the computer. Any merits of using one over the other besides performance ? Looking to have a place to muck around in all kinds of languages and technologies, starting with Java, and eventually whatever fancies me (couch db, python, nosql etc) without messing up my main pc so that I dont have to format/re install stuff.

I ask because I know installing stuff on linux/unix 'sprays' files all over the place but not sure how it works on OS X. I have used OS X but only developed on Windows so far.
Looking at that list... I wouldn't count the three from 2010/2011 because it's too early to tell, so that leaves 12 players. Of those 12, I would say there are 2 superstars (Bailey, Johnson), 2 great players (Rodgers-Cromartie, Routt), a #1 wideout and potential emerging star (Heyward-Bey), and 3 players with promising early careers that were derailed by injury/death (Mathis, Washington, Williams).

That's a pretty fantastic hit rate, especially given how rare it is for any draft pick to work out. Similarly, if Google tries a bunch of projects of which only 10% are expected to work, but 20% of them end up working, then they still did a great job even though 80% of their projects are failures.
What technologies do you use on client side?
This is exactly what blew me away during my trip to China. The collision of quickly prototyping hardware using Arduino with the manufacturing muscle of China is fascinating. One interesting company to check out is http://makible.com.
Windows 8 on ARM: the desktop is there, so's Office, but not much more
Just want to add that we received some really valuable feedback from Helen in Dec and it helped us take our site to the next level! Her comments were not only helpful but on target and extremely constructive! If you are getting feedback - take it to heart and if not - you should!
"a servant’s natural inclination is service to others — not coercion — for the purpose of others’ growth, health, wisdom, freedom, autonomy, and benefit, and for that reason, in the future, 'the only truly viable institutions will be those that are predominantly servant-led.'"

One problem. The current education system is entirely based on coercion, and the result of K-12 education is a mass of people that don't know any other system.

Even with a servant-led organization, it takes a lot of effort to lead employees in how to be achieving their "growth, health, wisdom, freedom, autonomy, and benefit". It's possible, but I think the reason the great bulk of the population is not demanding a better work relations and environment is that they've never experienced anything different.
How about a towable electric generator for long trips? It could run on diesel, gasoline, ethanol, or whatever.
Mine: I'd implement them myself, explaining how I would proceed (I would be able to implement square root on the white board easily, division I haven't tried yet).
I guess it depends on what you're writing. Using rbenv and bundler keeps ruby apps in check, but if you want to install a whole load of stuff, you could take a look at Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com).
My setup is as simple as creating a new text file with the content, using basic markdown syntax to create the post, adding it to git (totally optional), and running a brain dead script to deploy. I could probably teach my mom to post content to my blog in one 30 minute lesson.

This setup could easily scale with the org so that you have tons of people writing content for you. Let them write a post, push it to github, and have some gatekeeper in charge of posting to the site.
>Not everyone can afford a $2,500 laptop

Apple also makes a sub $1k laptop, and a $600 desktop.
I thought Apache had died a long time ago? I haven't used it in a production environment in years. Nginx + php-fpm for WordPress. Hell, you can use any web server you want with some kind of decent caching plugin like wp-super-cache and you'd be able to host this on a $6/mo GoDaddy account.

WordPress is SO easy to make work, I am totally shocked you're spending $2,500 a year to host your site. What a tremendous waste of money.
Killjoy, I know, but you'd probably want to have permission from Spoon (or, more likely, Merge Records) before repurposing their most popular track commercially.

Similarly, annoying as it probably sounds, virtually anything a startup would ever want to do with a piece of music anyone has heard of before† is probably not kosher. On the flip side, there's thousands of amazingly talented musicians willing to record tracks for tiny amounts of money, so maybe investigate that instead of just grabbing random tracks from iTunes.

The obvious and (please presume) prolific apologies apply if rights to You Got Yr Cherry Bomb were secured for this. Totally possible.

† Including but not limited to putting it center stage on a cheerful and uplifting branded company blog post about resumes.
Advice on gifted education
I don't remember what course I took for that (6-2), but I'm pretty sure I didn't have to use TeX.
"If you had bought and held the stocks that make up the Dow over 60 or 70 years, you'd have gotten demolished because the Dow constantly shuffles its index."

No, but if you put your money into an index fund, you'd be shuffling your money exactly when Dow did.
That the player with the most resources wins seems obvious to me, because you have to buy all wining points yourself.(Cities, Towns, tech cards, streets, etc)
There is no other way.

But you have a bunch of different strategies to get the most resources.

Trading is a pretty big aspect in a real Settlers game and the value of your resources depends on the overall resource output of the game field. E.g. When your the the only one controlling a iron field, it becomes more valuable for the others.
Hey Kerry,

Thanks for your feedback! We've talked to a few designers and it seems like everyone has a slightly different workflow. There are definitely people who manually save different files as you do and some more hardcore designer/developers who use git to manage versioning. We think there's a middle ground in between where you don't have to think about versioning and it just happens in the background.

We've hidden it in the demo but we've baked in collaboration as well. You can create a group for your team or even show it off publicly, a bit like Dribbble. The benefit of using Pixelapse is that you can learn how a design was created from start to finish. Like you said, not all designers necessarily work with other designers, but there's definitely collaboration and conversations with managers or developers or other stakeholders who may not be design/tech savvy. We want to save you from the cycle of exporting the psd, emailing the copy to a bunch of people, getting feedback and having to repeat as you incorporate the feedback. We're still thinking about different ways to expand and move forward and doing a Dribbble + Github may well be where we ultimately end up. :)
For anyone interested in going, I highly recommend hearing Ed Boyden's talk on "Engineering the Brain." Fantastic research and an amazing guy.
Thinking about it, I am absolutely certain that I'm not interested in working for a company that would throw out resumes with color.

In fact, I'm going to have to add color to my resume now just so that I don't accidentally get an offer from a company like that. ;)
This is something a few people asked for. What would you like to use it for? Besides matching people to people, you can match people to products (if properly tagged). Do you see other uses for something like this?
I don't understand this desire to only meet people who are similar to yourself. I want to meet people who are interested in, have done and are passionate about different things than me. I don't know about you, but talking about the same old thing again and again is boring to me.
Facebook began using HipHop (their PHP compiler) at a time when they already had 200 million users and a website that by definition is very hard to cache. So in other words, PHP without Facebook's custom compiler was able to handle a site having 200 million frequently returning users. I'd say that's pretty good.

Sources: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/HipHop-Facebook-s-PHP... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Quit college and learn about entrepreneurship just by reading books at home?
You came to your conclusion based off a sample size of 1 from an anecdotal story...
Initially writing Java, will be using a app server (tomcat or glassfish) along with a DB (either oracle or mysql). Looking to work with their enterprise technologies.
Leadership theory is such a notoriously vague subject. Academics are still fighting over if it is possible to even "teach" leadership or not. In my view it still comes down to do what works best for you and your company on a case-by-case level. Sure, there are universal truisms, but you can't "lead" some military operation the same way you lead a charity fundriser. In my opinion "Servant Leadership" is just another marketing phrase that follows others such as transformational leadership, transactional leadership, participative leadership and so on.
I'm confused, then. It seems like all of King County, in Washington (where Seattle, Redmond, Bellevue are located) is all green. If the heat-map is normalized by county, shouldn't even a place like King County have some red spots?

Perhaps I don't understand ~how~ you normalized.
We've found that candidates who submit a dynamic resume are good because

1) it shows personality

2) it shows initiative

and 3) a willing to think outside the box, all of which we value.

Obviously the content of the resume has to be great and everything else has to line up too, but this gets you a lot of facetime that not everyone gets. We were looking for a UI guy and got a ton of interest from folks (thanks HN!), but one applicant stood out to us because he went through the effort of making a site focused on getting the job with us (http://jaredhardy.com/fee-fighter/). We hired him.
Open Source High Performance Computing Cluster
HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) is a massive parallel-processing computing platform that solves Big Data problems. The platform is now Open Source!
Zmqc: netcat for ØMQ
Until the seller decides to monopolise the valuable items (Monsanto).
I am so up fo ra 3 month getaway. Sign me up if something comes around. I think we could do it in India for super cheap.
Doing a statup now.

There is a LOT of work and a LOT of learning. I don't see how I can get to launch without working my tail off.

I think this kind of crap us peddled by startups which happened to succeed because they hit profitability quickly and have cash cows that throw off a lot of cash.

In a startup your going to be doing a lot of stuff you have no clue about - your going to gave to work your ass off in the beginning.

But yes, starting a business is different from "startup". Lots of entrepreneurs dont get that.
What's the right perl module to use for queue based worker stuff these days? I like rabbitmq, but unless there's something I'm missing, AMQP support in perl seems a little sketchy. Is STOMP the way to go? Or should I just build 0mq workers off mongrel2 and roll my own solution with POE or something? I kinda feel like Perl is falling a little behind in this space, but maybe I'm just not seeing what everyone else is doing.
For the single variable case there is an algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_root_theorem

Whether it is a fast algorithm depends heavily on the sizes of the first and last coefficients, as you have to factorize them.
Betrayed by a bitfield
Aren't Bill Gates and Warren Buffett currently trying to spend as much of their money as possible on charity work, as well as lobbying to get the amount of taxes they have to pay increased?
For Python, virtualenv is the way to go.

For PHP development, I used to run a VM, but at this point I just run XAMPP.
Excellent stuff! Thanks, Eli! OP: It's Barzilay, not Barzila.
It's true that the person with the most resources will probably win, but a key factor getting to that point is ability to best ramp up production to produce those resources.

Early in the game it is important to try to get that next settlement or city. If you can place a robber to block important sheep or whatever is in short supply then that can be better than just blocking a high number of pips. When placing a settlement sometimes it is better to spread out rather than circling around one hex with high pips (and being vulnerable to a robber knocking out your entire production chain).

Another aspect of placing the robber on an opponent's "high pip" space is that they become motivated to play soldiers and possibly move the robber to your own high pip space. If you instead place the robber on a ho-hum tile you might not block as many potential resources, but the robber will stay away from your tiles for a longer period.
BufferBloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?
I'd definitely recommend using a virtual machine; even if I were running Linux I'd be using one. You can install your SSH key on the VM and have an iTerm2[1] profile which connects directly to it. I also use SSHFS[2] for shared directories so that I can edit my code in MacVim and TextMate, but run code and tests on the VM (note: I run headless VMs, attempting to run two GUIs in parallel on a MacBook Air wouldn't be pretty).

[1]: http://www.iterm2.com/
[2]: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS
Part of programming is laying out your data structures and algorithms in advance; you can perfectly do that on paper or a whiteboard. A whiteboard is even better at demonstrating pointer manipulations, since you can easily wipe out arrows with your hand and draw new ones.

Someone standing behind you, looking over your shoulder, might be a bit intimidating at first, but if you have your reasoning figured out for yourself, there is no reason why you couldn't speak out your thoughts out loud and let others know the way how you came to a solution.
I disagree on the "irrational" part: I think it raises your chance of getting an interview by a huge amount, and getting that interview sooner rather than later.

Also, consider: The whole effort doesn't need to be unique. Yes it would need to be customized for each employer, but once you've done the work, you can potentially use it again.

Unless it gets featured on Hacker News, of course. At that point you'd pretty much need to start over for your next job application. But hopefully at that point it's earned you a job. :)
Looking at all this incredible talent makes my mind boggle with amazement. It's more than just the skill, it's being able to reach out to people in innovative ways that make the best impression. Pumping up a resume seems to be less and less relevant than showing what kind of person you are.
Hint: the value of USD isn't as an investment. In fact, if the value of USD goes up, that makes it less useful, because the point of having money is to spend it. For example, one of the many reasons of the utter trainwreck of Bitcoin is the fact that more people were holding it as speculation than actually using it to purchase anything.

And it's only 3% in the last year if you aren't trying to compare it to something mid-bubble. The USD is totally going down with respect to tech stocks, guys!
You have missed a bit there. The less responsibility you have, the more time you have. You are paying to lose some of your artificial responsibility. Cut some of the middle-man out (money) and some real responsibility and the net effect is the same. Less things, less ownership, less dependency.
I guess nothing's more relevant than the FBI files on Steve Jobs ;)
I just used it to calculate how many days 1 million seconds was, but I didn't need it for that obv. I just love that I can give it plain text. We needed the answer to tell us how long a relay was good for worst-case :)