skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Given enough exposure, the impossibly lucky becomes the inevitable."

Nice story, but I don't know if I would go that far. You don't have an unbiased sample, so you don't know how many do exactly the same thing and nothing comes of it. It's the classic "what do successful people have in common" fallacy. An equally justified conclusion, based on "the hundred ways I failed leading up to this moment" might be "the chances of success are about 1%".
Interpol Arrests 25 Suspected Anonymous Hackers
Scripting: Higher- Level Programming for the 21st Century [1998]
I liked this.
Uh, what? If you want to learn Java, learn Java. If you want to learn CS, learn CS. An algorithm, for instance, isn't dependent on any particular language -- it's up to the programmer to incorporate it into whichever language he/she wants.
Unfortunate Product Names
Marketers do a great job of convincing us to buy stuff (often stuff we don’t need) – but through the annals of history they have occasionally gotten things wrong. This is a list of the ten most unfortunately named products.
What great approaches?

There's a difference between working at a startup with 3 people and working with a team of, say, 5-12 developers, who have a running product with paying customers and processes in place. "Ship often, iterate fast" has to be tempered with "you have existing users using system X - don't mess with it just because you want to experiment with something".
Ask HN: If TechCrunch is "dying", what besides HN do you read for tech news?
The sentence is excluding the possibility of Google getting it right while leaving some pockets empty.
Is it just my browsers or the last column of buttons in Sencha demo, User Interface-->Buttons seem to be getting clipped on desktop and iphone 4s?
Inspired by this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644798 - where everyone is saying how bad TC is (don't disagree).

But I'd like to know what folks read now. And please no lectures on why reading tech blogs are a waste of time. I like to waste my time :)
Hi,

We'll look into this issue. Which generation iPad do you have?

All Leanpub books include free lifetime updates, so when it's resolved you'll have a free update. (You also get free updates if the author updates the book for any reason, like adding new content, etc. We believe in self-publishing in-progress ebooks, so that you can iterate on your book like you would a startup. We call this idea lean publishing.)

Also, we have an unconditional 100% refund policy, so if you're unhappy for any reason just forward your PayPal receipt to hello@leanpub.com and we'll refund your money.

Thanks!

Peter, Leanpub co-founder
Does he really think his friends will tell him the truth about how often they play Facebook games? He might as well ask them how often they exercise and how much junk food they eat. Nobody is going to admit they play CityVille or Sorority Life.
The empowered employee is coming
I used to spend a lot of time on Reddit, Ars, Vulture Central and others (I abandoned the craptacular /. years ago).

Now I mostly spend time switching between HN/frontpage and HN/new as I find it has all the main stories, plus other interesting stuff that I just would not find anywhere else.
I don't know how idiomatic that phrase is, but Schmidt's statement is a direct rip off of Micro-Soft's mission statement https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+computer+in+...

Google is the new Microsoft, indeed.
By the way, thanks very much for linking to that post -- you've more than tripled its karma points!

I guess a year ago we were slightly ahead in our timing, or my post was too long, or (probably) I didn't emphasize Eric Ries and Venture Hacks enough...
I did the same, used textile before markdown and i use it on textpattern. yes, the code's syntax is was annoying so i prefer to use html instead of textile for code's. I still more familiar with the textile compared with markdowns.
Finding Employee #1
I'm a student at Iowa State and know of plenty of opportunities in the Des Moines area. Have you looked around Des Moines? Seems like the insurance companies (or maybe even a big startup like Dwolla) would have a use for someone with a Math masters.
In Facebook's case I absolutely do not trust the waiter. I'm glad Google tells me what the waiter has access to.
A zsh prompt for Git users
I wrote a short Python tutorial (http://www.korokithakis.net/tutorials/python/) which I packaged up as a book in a few hours and put on LeanPub. I used to sell it for $2, but the LeanPub guys changed the pricing structure to minimum/recommended, so I set the recommended price at $5.

People have been buying it for $5 ever since, and I've even had some $8s and $10s. I even include a link to the tutorial right on the book page, because I don't think it's worth even $2, but apparently people do!

Anyway, I love LeanPub so much.
linkedin works pretty well = search for the skill set you need, and it will show you connections that are close to you - then you can get a reference from your direct connections who know them. That's been the most effective way I've found.
I spent over an hour on the phone with Mac support (remember, iTunes doesn’t have a customer support line)

That's because Mac support lines are the iTunes support line. He obviously figured this one out, yet he keeps claiming there's no number to call for iTunes-related issues.
I'll second that. I think a post-pay model is really useful. The only problem is getting people to come back to pay for the thing.
This comment right here is the reason we have the author royalty slider. Thank you!
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Edison was kind of a jerk in a lot of ways, but he was spot on with this.
No one has abandoned WebSQL except Mozilla.

Google uses it for all offline apps (Gmail, Docs, Calendar).

Amazon uses it for the Kindle HTML5 app.

The best thing to do is to use WebSQL. That way, Mozilla will be forced to implement it or become less useful than other browsers.

It's the only way. IndexedDB is a clusterf*ck. Poor performance, hand-rolled joins, etc, etc.
For anyone interested, here is an excellent quora post on how undersea cables are laid out on the ocean:

http://www.quora.com/How-are-major-undersea-cables-laid-in-t...
I got it for free, because I don't see me ever reading it (but I'll put it on the Kindle just in case), and I wouldn't have ever gotten it otherwise. I don't feel guilty, if I like it I'll buy some other of his books.
I'd be reluctant to make a symlink inside your home directory to a system directory like /tmp -- there are always unforeseen consequences. (For example, every backup of your home directory could end up including an unintentional copy of _everything_ in /tmp at the time of backup.)

IMO it's better simply to add "rm -rf ~/.macromedia" to the list of shell commands that get executed upon every login -- or add the commmand as an entry on your personal crontab.
The two linked popsci.com pages are both giving 404 errors for me – are you able to find a working link? They look interesting!

(Technically speaking, the web server is returning 200 OK, but it's 'Page Not Found')
Because users don't care about the backend. They care about the shiny features, look-and-feel and the availability of plugins and themes.

Wordpress delivers these in spades.
Antichamber
There's a need for a website like this - meetup is the closest thing I've found, otherwise you just kind of have to be in the know. Find one person who's well known in the circle you're trying to find conferences for, then email them or google them to see other places they've spoken. All you really need is that one insider to find out everything that's worth going to.

But outside of that advice, someone needs to build this!
Magnet links become the official currency of Pirate Bay
One step closer to the SDF-1
Thanks. This was helpful.

In theory, I see your point about Google not having direct access to a site's first party cookies, but Google is clever. If you monitor the requested resources when you visit any site with those cookies, you'll notice a request to http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif? followed by parameters sending the values of those cookies to Google. So, they are tracking said cookies.
You're correct in that tech companies can pay overtime but in real terms this legislation results in no tech companies that actually pay overtime (but Im sure there is some rare exception). I'm sure there is a bandwagon of free-market folks who would be quick to point out why this is good for tech workers but from a practical point of view it has lead to an industry that treats long hours for the same pay as the norm.
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You're describing basecamp, verbatim. Check it out http://www.basecamp.com
Let me start by saying welcome to San Francisco!

We've got lots of opportunities for smart guys like you and we love C++ here at Room77.

We may not have the "big data" opportunities like Twitter has but we have a big dream, to build the best hotel shopping site in the world and we've got amazing VCs and people backing us and we have a lot of interesting problems to solve.

Your quant and derivatives background is especially interesting since we have a new project that's basically custom made for someone who wants to build a highly algo-driven engine.

Send me an email roger[at]room77.com if you're interested in finding out more or just shoot us your resume here and complete a few of our problems https://www.room77.com/jobs/se_resume_form.html?p=SWE&s=...
Would you like to see what your book would look like as a Leanpub book? It's trivial for us to import the HTML, which automatically gets converted to Markdown for you. If so, just reply here or email me (peter@leanpub.com) -- or try it yourself of course :)
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> many people haven't even adopted 5.3.

> no reason for anyone really not to have adopted it.

These things are not mutually exclusive. I.e. you could be write, but Klinky definitely is.
What is a Leap Year? [video]
> They don't care. The cost of the occasional lawsuit is baked into the system cost already.

The cost of run-of-the-mill settlements is baked in, but if they do not quickly and decisively handle every claim, then a person who claims $10M will automatically win. So large companies usually have staff whose job is to clean up disputes with some degree of competence.
You are far better off using your network, if you don't have a network to reach out and find a key technical person find out if someone else you know does. If you would like to take it offline you can email me, I help a lot of organizations find that key technical person, I don't do it as a service it's more for the karma and to promote my business should a company ever need my services.
That's how I have always seen it though - top flaps open...

I still can't see how the base of the box is aligned :(
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Furthermore, based on a quick estimate based on my current Firefox cookies, Google is (through Google Analytics) aware of 80%-90% of my browsing activity.
I agree with this. I think you can get a job in insurance companies on your hometown. Good luck!
Scalable Machine Learning Lectures
I see, thank you. I'm not very knowledgeable about the stock market, but at least I finally understand shorting!
this also allows you to squash and merge commits to make a tidy patch for mainline
As CS teacher I'm agree with others that JS is terrible choice as first language. Python is much better. Also Pascal is good option here. Even Java better than JS.

What is their goal. It seems that John Resig only wants to teach his favorite language/tool JS.

Main goal must be to teach fundamental CS concepts, programming basics, algorithms and data structures. Language choice is must to be appropriate to that goals.

He talks about teaching prototypal inheritance, is he serious? For those how have not any prior programming experience.

It seems, that he has no any prior pedagogical experience. Why that guy make such decisions and why Khan academy can't hire more experienced CS teacher.

Yes, I know, he is great guy who wrotes jQuery, but pedagogy and JS programming is two very different areas.
Unfortunately, I would probably agree. Right now, big data means very little. The buzzwords may come and go, but the ability to extract useful information from data is here to stay. Honestly, extracting useful information has always been around. It is just now getting popular.
>.. and now I need to find a new distro that actually works on the Macbook Air.

What would that be exactly? I didn't realize any Linux distro's worked well on MBA yet.
Try Linkedin Event Search:
http://events.linkedin.com

Other sites:

http://conferencehound.com/

http://allconferences.com

Scientific and engineering:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/events

http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~mathijs/conf/

http://www.conferencealerts.com/engineer.htm

http://www.medscape.com/medscapetoday/conferences
you now must show a passport to leave the US

Since when do you have to show a passport to leave the US? All you have to do is prove that you are eligible to enter the country you are traveling to. (This is strictly a money thing: the airline doesn't want to transport you to another country where you'll be refused entry, because then they'll have to fly you back, which costs them money. So you show a passport at checkin and they save money, making your ticket cheaper.)
I don't see anybody saying one need to use REPLs only. What's nice with JS is you have the option to open browser's JS console and try stuff there. You don't need to. But you can.

All modern browsers has JS console. That's dev environment setup freely for you. And if you use FF, enhancing that env with Firebug is just a few clicks away. WIth the rise of web apps nowadays, this is actually a very good move.
The lectures on data streams are my favorites: http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/streams.html.
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I would be worried about the same perception, it sucks but people do wonder when shadiness is unearthed, they naturally wonder what the other side of the story is. Personally I would probably not bring the issue to a head unless I was specifically questioned on it. I would save the Skype chat as a log of what transpired. Chances are the fact that you are on two applications will not be correlated, if it is I personally would give you a chance to explain the situation. There are a lot of us with multiple irons in the fire, that is most likely the perception they would have, there is nothing wrong with chasing two ideas, so long as you are willing to drop one to pursue the one that hits. So given that I don't think that even if it was correlated that it would immediately disqualify you from getting a call.
Wow, that's interesting. Thanks for that bit of history!
Auto shipping quotes
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A few years ago, being a data company was not the "cool" thing. Back then, it was cool to be a social site. Thus, I think Twitter and Facebook correctly considered themselves social sites. I am guessing that in the companies early days, someone must have seen the value in all the data that was being collected.
Finally, Someone Remembers the East Coast
Will the challenge continue on after you guys post the solutions? I have not had enough free time to have a go at it and would like to.
Color-Blind Artist Neil Harbisson Uses Webcam-Like Eyeborg to ‘Hear’ Color
"For men fright at relinquishing their material goods, but shackle their time to others willingly."

This is a paraphrased quote from a weird version of the Stoic Philosophy of Seneca; I'm sure the correct quote is out there, but hopefully you get the point:

Your time is your most valuable asset. Dole it out like your employers (or clients, etc.) dole out their money: carefully.

I know people who'll complain about taxes, drive further to get to a cheaper gas station, order goods in bulk to save money, etc. all to save some cash. Rarely do these people have this diligence with the allotment of their time.

Be careful and cautious with how you use your time. View it as something being spent, and if higher dollars means less free hours then don't do it.

This philosophy, in my (albeit small amount of) experience, helps you avoid a lot of the issues OP brings up.

Be careful, people. Paper money can blow away in the wind but then be recouped fairly easily. The few seconds you spent reading this comment, for example? Permanently gone. Be wary of how you spend your time...
Feeling sympathy for first world poor doesn't mean you can't also feel sympathy for the third world poor.
For Startups, Joel Spolsky’s Management Model is Mostly Wrong
Yeah, I searched after it happened to me and found a lot of cases, including a couple of angry exes.
The "what do successful people have in common" fallacy is more commonly referred to as survivor bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Ok, fine. They win a court case against the offending party.

The problem though is that instead of the RIAA/MPAA facing competition from a thousand directions, TechDirt is facing the threat of takedown from a thousand nameless companies. I mean, who's ever heard of Armovore before?

The DMCA, right now, puts the burden of "guilty until proven innocent" on the innocent. TechDirt is innocent.

The problem is the DMCA. The solutions available include:

• Fix campaign finance rules, elect better congresscritters, and repeal the DMCA.

• Implement a technical solution that renders the DMCA outdated

(What other solutions are available?)
Congratulation this is a great bored for people to discover each other and cool projects. I actually learned about another provider in that post who supports a technology stack that I have been looking for a BaaS provider that supports it. The company you got the job from was contributing to it too and seemed like a great bunch of guys, I would have definitely used their product if it supported what I am trying to do. I love reading the win-win storied on HN.
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But the cookie is per analytics domain, right? And not directly linked to other google cookies.

So I think Analytics "sees" 80% of your browsing but it's multiple fragments, each going to different analytics domains. It's never seen as a single user.
Optimizations Can Have Side Effects
I've grown up diagnosed as ADD (and ADHD), ODD, and Bipolar. The bipolar was because I was not mature yet, and had trouble communicating effectively. I get angered when I hear people talk as if these aren't real. My ADD makes it to where I have a tough time evaluating priorities to the point where my impulsiveness can cause me to 'not' do thing. I just can't. Like I recently tried doing a bit of homework on paper (first time to write on paper this semester) and my mind raced faster than I could write (I just saw the answer), but most importantly I had trouble just writing. I just couldn't force myself to do it. The hyperactive portion of ADHD is just because I'm either 150% going all out, or I'm asleep. (This makes 60 hour work weeks a breeze because I just keep going and going and going, as long as I have someone around that can help keep my focus, or if my attention isn't needed (like large compiles for programs, somehow I can focus better in the spurts between compiles). The ODD part comes in because I love to challenge people, especially authority, but only when I feel like they are incorrect or misguided. Interestingly though, I find that, for example, I can't bring myself to do the dishes when at my Parents house, but at anyone else's house I'm the first to clean the table up after dinner.
The feature list on the linked page lists a lot more than that. Also see:

http://code.google.com/p/vitess/wiki/ProjectGoals
Linus Torvalds: requiring root password for mundane things
Hello from the fourth floor!

Actually I am in Long Beach now but usually I am upstairs.
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Awesome, I'm really looking forwards to these. I was stumped from level 1 and it made me worry about what I'm doing wrong/not doing for my own servers.
I think the problem is that you honestly believe that he was genuinely telling people that they should die. It's an expression, and not terribly uncommon, either.
CoffeeScript is great, but it's pretty important to understand JS in order to use it.
Some suggestions for some quick cash:
http://fiverr.com/
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
What kind of freelance work do you do? If you do design or coding, there's elance, guru.com and many others.
There's day work if you're desperate for money and homeless shelters for food and a roof.
I don't know much about the US financial system but it seems like bankruptcy might be an option?
Regardless, I would suggest that your best bet does not lie in trying to make money from some low traffic, low revenue (you said it) web sites.
I agree with you that they shouldn't be in conflict. There are only a few outliers (FB) where they truly are, and the chance any one of us has of creating the next one of those are so tiny as to be nonexistent.

When I write about "startups" (with quotes), I am writing a reflection of what most people (at least people who write, talk, and comment) believe. :) Not what I believe ought to be.
We're taking it down on Wednesday at noon PST. We'll probably bring it back sometime in the future though!
Quitting my job to do YC RFS
WHERE.com (a PayPal company) Office Tour [slideshow]
25 alleged Anonymous members busted by Interpol
Linode: Native IPv6 now available in all locations
Did you contact them, as them what happened? They likely have backups. We use dropbox extensively at work and I've never had this happen.
I'm surprised Instagram hasn't swooped in and purchased it to acquire the developer (talent acquisition). Obviously @krisrak has a tremendous grasp of the platform.
Responsive Design or Device Specific Experience
Ask HN: What can a startup do to help fix law for the average person?
The law is very difficult for the average user. Legal fees are extreme to the point of pricing many potential users out, and the incentives for legal firms often aren't aligned with the best outcomes for clients and the interests of justice.

Many of these issues affect startups and entrepreneurs - patent issues, financial law, contract law - founders find themselves unable to fight battles that they ostensibly should be able to win according to the law, but cannot afford to fund.

These pain points seem like potential opportunities for a startup to turn into an opportunity.What could actually be accomplished by a startup in the legal space, and what kind of effort and resources would it take?
What is your area? That would help. In my area, I find many of the most interesting things are on eventbrite. But it all depends on where you live and what is popular with the local 'scene' (also what you find interesting).
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Meetup is great, I've used it to find a few startup grounds in my area but conferences seem to be a little out of it's scope.
Maybe there is a gap in the market for this kind of website to be developed. It could even be helpful for smaller conferences trying to get more traction.
Go a few miles out and there is very little to debris to fall onto the ocean floor.
Find a way to end the lawyer cartel: http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=51

Good luck with that :-/