skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially in Iowa... Not that many tech places hiring. Luckily the best place that I know of is Des Moines, where the OP is at.
There is a connection to reality.

What Linus is saying is: if you don't agree with me, you're an incompetent developer, get out of the way and shut up, and I don't want to hear any counter-argument.

It's a means of quality enforcement, to some degree. OK. But there is a point where it goes too far.

I don't insist on political correctness. I haven't complained about Linus' normal insults but he's telling people to kill themselves... it's a step too far.
This comment could easily be mistaken for a comment made in 2008. I don't think that 'people are just noticing now' is accurate.
GoC:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\HAMLET.TXT

frock or livery
That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either curb the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency. Once more, good-night:
And when you are desirous to be bles'd,
I'll blessing beg of you.--For this same lord
[Pointing to Polonius.]
I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so,
To punish me with this, and this with me,
That I must be their scourd says...
Just an FYI, but they are at the end of their testing the RC of 5.4, so it should be declared stable in about 2-3 weeks.
Think Stats is available for free under a Creative Commons License:

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i would love to be able to pay with amazon checkout. google checkout would be great too. as a datapoint, one reason i didn't pay for the book was that i avoid dealing with paypal wherever possible.
where do you wanna work?
> Making an actual business with actual profit is different than what everyone calls a "startup" these days. You don't have to work your ass off.

And yet it shouldn't be, because profit-driven tech businesses can still be scalable and have many of the advantages of true "startups". It's still much closer to a "startup" than it is to a brick and mortar operation.

On the flip side, people seeking viral growth probably should not be killing themselves with work either. If you love what you do and you are productive then maybe 60 hours a week is okay, but certainly it's not serving VC interest or anyone else if you're burning out. Personally I think if there were a guaranteed way to use the other 138 hours in a week as personal R&R that would result in an uninterrupted, in-the-zone, 30-hour work week, that would be a good deal for any employer of creatives.
I think you're overestimating how much they care. Being busy and looking at a ton of applications, they will probably just accept your email at face value, remove your name from the app, and move on to the next.
Been there, done that, got the meds. It taught me the valuable distinction between normal mood swings and out-of-whack brain chemistry.

Seriously, if you have a strong bout of suicidal thoughts in reaction to flippant remarks such at Torvalds's then you need to bring this up to a mental health professional because your current coping mechanism isn't working.

If you're merely tut-tutting with disapproval however I simply disagree. Wanting a world where people never get their feelings hurt is a fruitless quest.
Hacks and Monkey Patching with JRuby
This is not supposed to elicit laughs; it's supposed to emphasize his point.

Of course, I know that. Not all jokes are there to elicit laughs --unless one is a clown or a stand-up comedian. It's a joke in the sense that it's not meant seriously.

As, in, if somebody DID kill himself following his advice, Linus would be genuinely upset, sad, and most of all surprised.
The point made about Chinese is harsh, but basically valid. I’m a Mandarin Chinese language minor, and I’ve been studying it for a couple years now; it’s really just the writing system that’s difficult, because it’s so heavily memorisation-oriented. The syntax, morphology, and phonology are way simpler and more uniform than English. Even my peers with the most pronunciation difficulties had little trouble with tones. (It’s mainly the affricates and some vowels that cause trouble.)

If China were to move to a further simplified writing system (as Korea has already done with Hangul), then sure, it would remove barriers for foreign learners. But it won’t happen, for basically the same reason that English spelling reform won’t—the orthography is fairly standard across dialects, and nobody is willing to accept “breaking” changes.

Now, as for French…I’ve spoken French since I was little, and speaking it lets me understand Spanish and other Romance languages rather well. But I think perhaps I would be better off knowing Spanish, because French pronunciation differs so much from the Romantic norm. You’re much less likely to be understood speaking French to a Spanish speaker than you are speaking Spanish to an Italian speaker.

So my votes are for English, Mandarin, and (some variety of) Spanish.
Better Integration Between Jenkins and GitHub, By Stephen Connolly, CloudBees
Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much)
Jaco Aerospace
Something big is happening in the world of music
Amazon 1 – Microsoft 0, By Sacha Labourey, CloudBees
That same thought process went through my mind (kids, mortgage, cars, start up, yada yada). I decided to enter the zero, though, for two reasons:

1. Even though it isn't cash, it is a way for me to tell Raganwald that I appreciate his efforts, both the book, the blog, and the community. Of course this is not as valuable as cash and I'm really not trying to rationalize not paying, but I can only give what I've currently got.

2. If I gain some particular value from having read this, I am always free to remunerate the author in the future based on that value. I can't do that (and perhaps could have missed an opportunuty) if I'm not subjected to his ideas first.

It is interesting the psychology that goes into this kind of thing. I contrast this with the Humble Bundles, where I don't download them, because my available time for gaming is so small that I cant even claim my download is a show of appreciation for the work.
It's not "a mistake", it's perjury. With written acknowledgement from the offending party. I hope TechDirt find this worth pursuing in court, these kinds of abuses of the system should not be allowed to continue.
User-guided design results in better products
Adding an LCD layer to a transparent OLED screen just gives you an alpha channel, effectively. Independent control over emission and transmission. I've thought about this many times when my mind has occasion to wander.
The numbers are unconvincing. The argument is: Staff flees leading to plummeting traffic. What we essentially see is one data point (January year-over-year change). At a minimum, I'd like to see what it looks like for each month in the series to even out any anomalies.

It's hard for me to judge whether the quality of TechCrunch has indeed gone down, but to point to one month of data and say that traffic plummeted seems a bit of a stretch. I could just as easily point to February year-over-year and say, see, these staff defections haven't had an impact.
I sent an email after I beat it, but never got a response =(
NextBox 2.0: The Future of Television Isn't Wonkavision
Hi edw519 - that was me.

I also made a slightly reformatted HTML version here http://static.v25media.com/edw519_mod.html - I just added anchor links so it was easier to navigate the sections and such.

Thanks for putting that all together, it's been an inspiration. Looking forward to Raganwald's as well.
How I got a job from a Hacker News post
Unfortunately tests page for PHP does not mention PHPUnit: http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.6/en/index.html
which is the best solution for testing in PHP. Neither it mentions xdebug for debugging and xhprof for profiling.
Your speculation on and advice about my mental health is rude and insulting.

I'm not merely "tut-tutting". I don't think telling people to commit suicide because of a legitimate technical disagrement or hurdle is acceptable. If you disagree, put up a reasoned argument or shut up.
Slate Story Helps David Imus Sell Over 11,000 Maps
If you report it as soon as possible, I am sure it will be fine. You will be correcting a situation before they even have time to start evaluating John's application...

Also, announcing that you already have plans to submit your own application will make them realize you are not hiding any of your intentions.
Can We Please Stop Using Text-Shadow
You need to look up the definition of "joke" before you insult Americans in general and call them "9 year olds" based on an incorrect usage of that term.

Telling someone to commit suicide, even if not meant literally, because of a technical disagreement, should not be (in my opinion) considered acceptable in any culture. Unless it's just an established colloquialism of everyday speech, as maybe it is for Finns. I don't think that should be brought to other cultures.
what about "data science"?
Try 'export TZ=my/timezone/name' sometime.
HP lays off 275 employees from webOS division
We'll be sending out replies within the next week or two. Don't worry, there will be T-shirts for all!
I love the positive response this is getting! Sometimes I fall back into thinking HN is just another list of news, but a real sense of community pops up at a moment like this. Good luck finding work lesterfremn!
perl will get you a job running the internet ;)
> On second thought, why do you even need an account to update the software?

From what I can tell, it seems to be largely based on having a record that you've checked the box that says you've read their legal agreements.
No "I" In Team But There Is In Win
The Verge is a rag full of SEO spam and reworded news, built by ex-AOLers for AOL to buy again.
but they are proficient at patent submission... which might catch those off-guard that are building products.
Wow, nice. I've used the "feature branch until the continuous build passes" method before with great results, but also requiring code reviews before merging could be a great addition.
Maybe the fact that you didn't get hired has something to do with you coming off as a total asshole. What exactly makes you think the OP is a "bad coder"?

Maybe you should write a post titled, "How Twitter Failed to Fulfill My Sense of Entitlement".
> You're not helpless and beholden.

For many people, especially those with families (not to mention those with family members with medical issues) the healthcare issue really does leave them beholden. It also stifles entrepreneurship.
One of the most startling things I learned in law school is that in international law, it really matters what maps say. If your country publishes officially, or allows to be published privately, maps that show a particular set of borders, other countries can use that printed evidence to support a claim in international law that your country accepts those borders. This is one reason why many maps published in the United States include the statement "Boundary representations not authoritative" if there is any doubt or dispute at all about the proper way to draw the boundary line on the map.

When I first lived in Taiwan (1982), under the former Nationalist Party dictatorship, one way the dictatorship showed up in daily life was world maps with BIZARRE territorial claims for the Republic of China, the official name of the regime that still rules Taiwan. Those maps of course showed both Taiwan and the mainland regions of China proper as one country colored in by one map color on the map, but they also showed no country of Mongolia at all--all of that territory was colored as for China--and a northern border of China that spanned Lake Baikal in Russia. (I even saw a historical world globe in a display in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial in Taipei showing the entire Korean Peninsula in the same map coloring as China, but that wasn't the usual territorial claim in Taiwan by the 1980s, in the interest of friendly diplomatic relations with South Korea.) I also have English-language dictionaries bought during that stay with whole entries (for example, for "Mongolia") blanked out of the pages. Some countries are quite in earnest about this. Taiwan no longer cares much about such things, but maps of the border region of India are a very sensitive issue in India,

http://www.boundaries.com/India.htm

http://www.globalization-group.com/edge/2011/01/india-ban-of...

and plenty of other countries get into disputes about maps.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/manchurian-t...

AFTER EDIT:

The sources here

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

and especially here (LONG)

http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/transnational/vol13_1/donova...

mention the importance of maps in identifying and resolving international boundary disputes.
Interesting thought. But MS deals with that by showing you an agreement when you first run Windows, do you need anything more nowadays?
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The Perl described in this article is COMPLETE SHIT. He calls deprecated and improper libs for some functions, unnecessary libs in others, assumes improper or unoptimal syntax in other examples. The list goes on. Learn languages before releasing articles on them.

He never even uses Perl's foreach in equivalency examples!! WTF.
I'm curious to know what you think, Hacker News.
Wow, Arrington caught a plane and the dude next to him was talking on the phone .... but he's a better person now and won't drop that bomb.

About halfway down the comments is someone who sums it perfectly - another commenter reveals that they too have heard other people talk about things, and user "Fuck" posts:

"Nobody cares".

http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/26/this-daniel-guy-is-definite...
This is definitely a hot area, but unfortunately, it is also becoming the thing everyone wants to be attached to.
And so the term is becoming increasingly meaningless.

It's 2012s "location-based services" or "gamification" or "cloud" (wait, that's still hot). That said, I suspect big data (at least as I think I understand it) has more legs. But defining what it is is important else it becomes yet another buzzword.

Are compete.com and quantcast big data? Is eBay who analyze terabytes of user meta data "big data"? Is SeatGeek big data? Is Twitter big data?

Just because you have a potentially large database of stuff doesn't mean you are big data. Hopefully the term comes to mean something but right now, I fear it does not.
I think you're talking about a totally different context than I am.
I agree with another comment in reply to yours that this is a tired argument.

But ignoring that; someone who is new to programming is not going to understand the value of any of these concepts anyway, so it doesn't matter that they don't discover them immediately. At about the same time people figure out how to do OO cleanly, they will start hearing about libraries too.

If you were to navigate a largish Perl codebase today, you'd encounter the old-school bless, Moose trickiness, and all kinds of variants on these themes. Extremely clever stuff that Damian Conway would give you a gold star for.

I've worked on a number of post-Moose codebases, and most people did the conversion cleanly and all at once. (I can't explain it, I'm just reporting the facts. I was surprised too.) The biggest Moose-hacking pain point I've seen was someone trying to subclass DateTime with Moose. It just doesn't work very well; DateTime is werid and Moose is weird. (Of course, the solution is delegation rather than subclassing. Even in languages with real OO, you often want a "does X interface by delegating to Y class" rather than "isa Y".)
Why is the DropBox logo wrong?
> The cost of the occasional lawsuit is baked into the system cost already.

The cost of an "Apple can disable your computer" (true, or not) headline may be substantial and more convincing.
5.3 Come out in 2009, I has a small list of backwards compatibility breaking changes (http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php), no reason for anyone really not to have adopted it.
Database Changes Done Right
I'm so close on level06. If Real Life(TM) would just stop getting in the way, i'd be done by now :). I guess its going to be another late night...
I appreciate the upvotes but I really need money, a job, feedback, something. I am emailing everyone I can think of. Ideally, I would prefer to develop an online income because I have a compromised immune system and I briefly had an online income via some freelance work but it suddenly fell through and I am seriously out of resources and options.

Thanks.
adjust your perspective, it is a box with the top flaps 'open'. :)
Beware of the Turing Tar-Pit
The fact that I probably won't fly in an unmanned aircraft anytime soon rather supports my argument that these transitions don't happen overnight, no?

24 months is still way too quick. If and when driverless cars start being sold, I'd guess 10-20 years before they make up a solid majority of what's on the road.
It's bad on Opera and "OK" on Chrome (checked on Win7 / OSX), but it's definitely noticeable when you close The Verge and go to someone else's site.

edit: just checked your link. Urg, they really need to stop people being able to post images, my opinion of the quality of that site just dropped sharply.
Same here.
Was amazed by the initial marketing gloss, but let down by the 1366x768 display :(
Why are there so many language wars-lovers in some open source communities...?

Probably the same reason the French don't like the English or the Indians don't like the Pakistanis. The closer two things are to each other, the more passionate people are about the differences.

My experience is that all the languages are identical. Python has a culture of cleanliness at the core, but there is a lot missing from the language that makes it unclean in practices. (See: the investment bank I worked where all new apps were written in a C#/C++/Python trialect, to coin a new word.) Perl is a very messy language, but the community has hyper-overreacted and have made a very clean set of "best practices". I haven't done much Ruby, but I can't say anything other than that it looks like a combination of Perl and Python, with a relatively new community around it.

These three languages are largely the same thing: they run slow and they're fun to write. Hence all the infighting.
You are right it is far from perfect, it is pragmatic and providing a great amount of value for people/ businesses. It is surprising to me that we haven't seen a big challenger trying to do it right from a back end perspective.
python will get you a job at google

I used Perl for all of my job interviews at Google, and I work at Google.

But Google is a Java and C++ company, with some Python around (but a bit of an anti-scripting culture as well).
So my background in this is in consumer debt issues, largely dealing with banks, CC companies, and debt collection agencies. In my pre-HN days, I spent a lot of time hanging out on a message board for folks who had issues with that, after having a credit report that got totally trashed because of a poorly chosen hash function causing my identity to collide with someone else's. Because I have really screwy hobbies I would write letters for folks to send to their banks.

Add the two dozen letters I had to send for myself and I have personal knowledge that this definitively resolved the issue in 40+ cases, in many cases jumping over "our policy is to never...", "you can't do that", and collections at fairly advanced stages.

It is entirely possible that Apple is a tougher nut to crack than BoA or Capital One, but that is not the way that I would bet.

Edit: By the way, this is a catchphrase for me: bureaucracies are stage machines which take paper as input and return outcomes you want. Hackers should be comfortable with paper. Consider it an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to hack non-technical systems.
ruby will get you a job at twitter.

I heard that twitter are moving from ruby to scala.
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I'm more excited by the Ivy Bridge processor thats supposed to show up in the new Airs. I for one am waiting for the new Air to be announced (the rumor mills say Q1/Q2 of this year), whereupon it will replace my aging Mac Pro (which, being almost 6 years old, is still a champ as long as you have an SSD in it).
Hi,

We'll look into the formatting issues in the Mobi version. A couple things:

1. Leanpub is not a "publisher" in the sense of having proofreaders, editors, etc. We're a website that authors can use to self-publish ebooks, including in-progress ebooks. Self-publishing an in-progress ebook lets you iterate based on feedback like this.

2. We have an unconditional 100% refund policy. So if you're unhappy with your purchase for any reason just email your PayPal receipt to hello@leanpub.com and we'll refund your money, no questions asked.

Thanks!

Peter (Leanpub co-founder)
How does this help "scale" databases?

It just looks like a connection pooler with a RPC interface?

Am I missing a feature?
Thanks, I'll look into the .mobi version, I'll DL Kindle for iPad now. Everyone will get the update for free as usual.
There are no "indie" iOS developers, because iOS developers are not independent. There are only "iOS contract developers", paid on a royalty basis, but retained at-will by Apple.
Maximally inoffensive atheist bus ad rejected as being too controversial
Ask HN: Where can I find interesting conferences in my area?
Can anyone recommend a website for finding local conferences?
I do development work on the 11" MBA (4GB RAM, i7). We run VMs all day long, and you can definitely feel the lack of RAM in this scenario. For day to day use it's fantastic and I love the portability, but I really wish it were available with 8GB or more of memory - the SSD does not make up for the fact that it's constantly swapping (I currently have a 6GB swapfile with 3 million pageouts with less than two weeks uptime and three days of actual usage). CPU has not been a problem. I haven't used physical media in any real capacity since around 2007, so the lack of DVD burner is a welcome addition (less weight/bigger battery/slimmer profile/whatever else it entails).

Before you ask - yes, I also use an external display. I'm not insane. But at the same time, the 11" screen does not feel cramped unless I'm doing heavy work away from the office.

Would I get it again, over the Pro? Hard to say, given the amount of time it spends doing dev work. If they offer an 8GB option, it's an easy yes. Truth be told I'd prefer to just work off an iMac (or Mac Pro tower) and have a locked-down laptop that's really just for VPN stuff out of the office.
I don't think so, as far as I understand analytics, there is nothing to link with other Google products since it only uses first party cookies.

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConcep...

On a side note, the doubleclick cookie is explicitly excluded from linking without explicit consent:

> We will not combine DoubleClick cookie information with personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent.
YES! That's it. Brings back memories from my senior design project looking through the ThorLabs catalog for the right laser components.
A (Very) Quick Glance At Beer In China
Vitess A Golang project to help scale MySQL databases
Issue filed and pull request sent. Thanks for the bug report, instakill! :)

https://github.com/toolness/collusion/pull/67
Not the OP: Google Checkout, followed by Amazon. (Then again, I'm biased ;)

Simply because it allows me to pay with something I'll always have handy, my user credentials. At any given point, I might or might not have a credit card close by. (Yes, I read HN in bed :)