skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking this thought experiment a bit further:

In case you are the smartest person in the world, the advice is still a reasonable thing to do: How will you ever know you are the smartest-in-world if you don't try to find smarter people?

On the other hand, you'll probably never know for sure, as it is wasted effort to compare yourself with literally every other person in the world. So pretending not to be the smartest person in the world is a totally sensible thing to do even if you are.
This made me chuckle.

Brilliant!
Seem to recall an article posted on HN some time back called "Suffering Oriented Programing."[0] I doubt this is where the idea originated but the author does a good job of relating the principal to coding.

[0] http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.ht...
If you have to ask, it's probably too expensive.
I've worked in these sorts of communal environments for the past six years and never had a problem. I happen to have friends and family who I have occasional disagreements with too. It's just eating together. Can't make it one day? It's not a mandatory meeting or something.

Maybe you just don't work well with that?
The business can be rebuilt (perhaps at great cost), but since the NZ court order which led to the seizure of his property was also ruled to be "null and void", Kim is legally entitled to his property back.
Relentlessly resourceful - to a whole new level
Front end engineers are not exactly designers. Speaking as a front end engineer, I do not do design.
Record every action your users take
It would be nice if one could listen directly in the browser, maybe using the <audio>-tag and an .ogg version?
No Death, No Taxes: Peter Thiel's past and future
IE6 worries you? There's Lotus Notes!
Wow, congratulations!

Are you still all in one datacenter? Have you considered replication?
I've added it to Flapcast, in case anyone uses it: http://flapcast.com/index.php/podcasts/podcastInfo/4592
The eeepc1000 was a terrible, terrible device. I have one in my closet. The Airs of the time were/are considerably better.
Building an iOS Photo-sharing and Geolocation Mobile Client and API
FBIAA might be one of the best, and most accurate, acronyms I have seen in some time
agreed, MU has already been destroyed pretty much

however, wondering if the whole case is thrown out, what options MegaUpload has to sue. He sure seems the kind of guy with the funds to put up a fight
Absolutely right, assuming the data you keep on S3 is mission critical (for me it's mostly just archival stuff, logs and such, that we never touch but have no particular reason to delete since S3 is so cheap, so we don't worry about backups).

But even if your data does matter, spending $1000 to back it up separately is not a no-brainer, depending what your data is actually worth to your business and how likely you think it is that S3 will lose it. Assuming your data is worth a million dollars, then spending $1000 to back it up implies that you think there's at least a 1 in 1000 chance that S3 will lose it all.

I don't know what probability I'd assign to "S3 loses all my data", but I do know that the particular data I store there is not valuable enough to make it worth backing up elsewhere. If my data actually mattered, I'd work out the math and consider alternatives. I will say this, as a word of warning - I would never use Amazon's durability claims ("Amazon S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year") when doing such a risk vs. cost assessment, because the real risk is not that the expected failure modes will "get you", but that something totally unknown and unpredictable will happen, i.e. someone at Amazon totally fucks up a staging push and sends it live to production instead, and the replication system goes nuts and starts corrupting everyone's data irretrievably before anyone realizes what's going on, or something like that. SLAs and durability claims don't account for stuff like that, but it's still a risk.

Of course, there's also the "cover my ass" and "I'm not paying for this anyways" factors to consider - if you would likely lose your job if the data in question was lost, and your personal finances are not affected one bit by the company spending an extra $1k/$10k/$100k on backups, then even if math tells you it's a waste for the company, you might as well do it, because as long as it's not too much of a pain to set up it will help protect you. The calculus always changes when it's other people's money you're playing with...
Sure do.
http://cl.ly/3L223H1f2v1u3t0I3C2s
Which is why I think it is rather humours that Jquery is using it on their plugin page. http://plugins.jquery.com/
Every group of people, no matter how much they like or respect each other, will have serious disagreements. How you resolve those disagreements is what matters. There has never been any "at each other's throats" here.

Eating together facilitates communication and understanding with a group, which makes it more likely that conflicts will be resolved in a productive manner. Again, this is what works for us and yes, we hope to attract people who find this kind of culture compelling. Appreciate your taking the time to discuss these topics with us.
I think team dinning is important, but going to lunch as a group (or the group has a fav. place for take out) usually is a much better option.

Our little story of AdMob is this:

There's this Teriyaki take out place at downtown San Mateo. We affectionately call it the "Cornerteri" since it locate at the corner of 4th and San Mateo Dr. Ask any x-AdMob about Cornerteri and they'll know about this place... That's how you build a company culture.
For jailbroken iPhones, there is NCSettings, which adds SBSettings-like settings options to iOS 5.0's Notification Center: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/26/ncsettings/
You live in a dreamworld. Sorry to be so blunt, but grow the fuck up.

People change. People's lives changes. People who fit into your narrow little culture now will grow out of it in a few years time. But they are still your "friends", they are still valuable employees, maybe even more than before. What are you going to do then, fire everyone who grows out of your cozy little "family" culture because they have a live of their own?

It's either that, or start a cult. Or of course, grow up and run a real company instead.

The 1% you're looking for isn't just a minority, it's just fraction of those people's lives. Real human beings are more complicated than that.
Rocket companies hope to repurpose Saturn 5 engines
I cannot decide if this is exciting, ironic, just plain depressing, or all of the above...
Stephen Woods (flickr) on responsive HTML5 interfaces and Star Trek
Kim Dotcom responds to the latest procedural error
Set Wordpress Default Text Editor
Any chance of the backend source for this being released? It's 2012; I shouldn't be stuck with `grep -r` and OpenGrok on a good day.
Haha, was anyone surprised when they found out you knew all the 常用漢字 even though you'd just come to Japan?
Spain Gets Its Own Netflix Today With Youzee’s Public Launch
That was my first search too. I think it'd be interesting to see a list of the most searched terms.
I don't know where you got that idea from, but I took an online test for English (which is my native language) vocabulary, and found that I knew about 30000 words. And I wouldn't consider myself to be that unusual.
It's worked pretty well for Google, wouldn't you say? ;)

Ultimately it depends about who works for you. Some people need a well defined framework to perform well, and for those people the "Siebel approach" makes perfect sense.

On the other hand, some people absolutely hate rules and conventions that seem silly to them, and need to be free from artificial constraints to perform at their maximum (that includes playing foosball after spending hours fixing a complex algorithm). This is likely the kind of person that works at Google.

One category of people isn't inherently "better" than the other— it's just different. I have friends who went to some of the top businesses schools in the world and perform very well in renowned firms, but they'd be completely lost and unproductive if they had a Google environment. On the other hand, I have brilliant CS friends from undergrad who would be extremely frustrated and unproductive if they had to show up to work in a "formal attire" at 9am and had to follow strict rules and hierarchy.

As an employer, know the kind of people you employ.
As an employee, know who you are and how you perform best.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's certainly true that some people work to make money and see their personal time as their own. We're not saying our way is the "correct" one. I'm not sure that a highly restrictive company is necessarily linked to making more money but certainly anecdotes like Siebel's exist.

At Ridejoy, we believe that work is a major part of a person's life and it should be fulfilling and enriching. We believe that create a workplace where people feel respected and cared for is one where people will do their best work.

We have a big goal - making rideshare a ubiquitous and convenient form of transportation for people everywhere - and we aren't looking for worker drones who will follow every rule and wear the company uniform. We're looking for people who believe in our mission and are inspired to come to work toward it.
iCloud integration between iPad and mac app makes iawriter pretty awesome for me.
I like MAFIAA too :) https://www.google.ca/search?q=mafiaa
> It's not a mandatory meeting or something

Try missing 20 in a row, because you'd much rather eat with your friends or SO. What happens? The happiness manager comes and pays you a visit is what happens.
Google Sync for BlackBerry

I wonder if this is a subtle way to nudge BBM users towards Android.
MAFIAA.org
If journalists knew how to start Companies, they would not write about it but just do it.
Please keep on keeping on. You are the real deal.

History is written by the winners...I hope you can focus on being the winner in your market, and then tell your story the way you would want ;-)
Exactly. They took the site down and gave pause to anyone who is thinking of starting a similar site. Mission accomplished!
Which he might eventually get back, after 5-10 years I guess.
I'm interested in hearing how Instagram won, if you have the time.
It's simply not scaleable, and shouldn't be a goal for a startup - if it happens naturally, great everyone loves each other, but it shouldn't be somebody's job description to organize this sort of thing with an implication of alienation if one doesn't partake.

As a company grows larger people are not going to be cooking for each other and the boss isn't going to spend $1k a day on lunch and dinner.
Hacker Perspectives on Understanding In-App User Behaviors
I hope this signals the end of that bubble.
Dropping Linux Picasa is tellingly lame.
It's quite handy though, it looks for close synonyms where it expects they will return superior results.

For instance, if I search for "how to learn Castillian", it might replace that with Spanish since that also describes what I'm looking for and will get more results.
What is the reason why Google is shutting down Patent Search and (they already shut down Uncle Sam)? I mean - does it really cost them a lot of money to keep these sites running but not update them? For search products like that they should at least make a google product archive to at least access some stuff that could be easily found via those search products even though they no longer update or provide support for them anymore.

They are going away from their motto of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". Yes you can find patents via other means or get government info via other means but it's defeating the motto of making it universally accessible.

Google+ is ruining everything.
My previous comment was an attempt at humor, but actually, the notion of "smartest person" is too ill-defined to be very useful. People are smart at different things. For example, one person might be smarter at playing chess than another, while the second might be smarter at writing computer programs.

So let's replace the notion of "smartest person" with something better defined, like "most successful at playing chess, as measured by their chess rating." In that case, we know who the best in the world is, it's Magnus Carlsen. It would indeed be a waste of time for him to seek chess matches where there was somebody better than him, but it is in fact good advice for everybody else to seek to play against better opponents.

However, the strongest players all find that inevitably, they are nearly always stronger than their opponents. For example, the #2 in the world, Levon Aronian, is stronger unless he plays Carlsen. Every grandmaster finds that the large majority of his games are against weaker opponents.

So if you're really "smart," it's good advice to try to surround yourself with "smarter" people, but don't beat yourself up if you find it hard to do--it's an inevitable consequence of mathematics that the "smartest" people will tend to surround themselves with less "smart" people, at least if you're only measuring "smartness" in one way.
The Patent Search shutdown is a dud to me. I wish the dedicated undiluted space continued.
I just figured it out. They're looking for software testers.
Jeff has a broken link on his mention of it here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/the-iphone-software...
Just a reminder, these meals are taxable as fringe benefits for your employees.

"Meals provided to improve general morale or goodwill, or to attract prospective employees, are not provided for a substantial noncompensatory reason and are taxable. Reg.1. 119-1(a)(2)"
At least they are integrating Patent Search into the core (which I think makes sense and happens to be something I like).
Your logic doesn't follow, because "they did in 2012"... with Kickstarter. I don't deny that Whedon could do it in 2012... with Kickstarter.

For that matter he may even be able to do it himself, but my point is and remains that he's going to spend money on the collection and that he's at best only going to do incrementally better than Kickstart prices, not wildly better. And he'll probably have a hard time even doing that well.
I'd be suing like crazy now if I was in his position. And anyways, since computer hardware depreciates like crazy, wouldn't he be in a position to get cash to make up the lost value? Don't know about that one, but it would be the right thing.

A few law enforcement types are going to lose their jobs soon, I take it. (And if they were connected with this farce of a case, all the better)
http://livegrep.com/search?q=bastard
Because people like easier SEO optimisation :P
Maybe not, at least not if they made only negligent errors. Hitting a city is hard (with the size of asteroid we are talking about here). If they didn’t do it on purpose but because of a combination of some negligent errors and extremely bad luck I’m not sure whether they deserve to be financially wiped out.
They're not shutting down patent search - they're just kludging it into the regular Google search interface.

(My Google Scholar still has a []patents check box. Will that go?)
From TC: "Other tools, like Patent Search, are being integrated into the main Google experience."

From Google's own announcement:
"We're redirecting the old Patent Search homepage to google.com to make sure everyone is getting the best possible experience for their patent searches. Over the past few months, we've been making updates and improvements to the Patent Search functionality on google.com—not only are you able to search the same set of U.S. patents with the same advanced search options, the new experience loads twice as fast as the old Patent Search homepage, contributes to a unified search experience across Google, and sports Google Doodles as well. The team looks forward to including patents from other countries soon, and will be rolling out additional features to Patent Search on google.com in the future."

Please re-read the whole announcement.

Oh and I don't think I see anywhere Google+ being mentioned....
Congrats on your new job. Now shut up and listen.
I'm not sure it's even subtle. RIM is circling itself at this point with no one really even caring if they pull out, such have their string of bad decisions come to taint them).
Many thanks.

I prefer the linear story (not for the range-index though): it shows how consistently extreme the high end is from the median relative to the distance the low end is from the median (from a dense concentration of homes just above the median?).
Take a look at https://code.google.com/p/codesearch/.
I could see how that's problematic for in page img tags, but for background images, couldn't one just use media queries to grab the higher resolution image?
The Darwin Awards : Never too old for a Darwin Award
>Spend time with your family in the morning?

You have not lived with a typical family, especially not one comprised of night owls.
If you look at MacRuby, it actually takes a very similar approach. You need something like HotCocoa on top to make it more Ruby like.
I was recently talking to a friend working at a hedge fund, and the Groupon topic came up. They say that, after some deep analysis/valuation, Groupon ain't worth more than $1.5bn (max). He also said that many investors don't see Groupon as tech, so other companies thinking of IPOing anytime soon should be save from this disastrous company.
Socialcam coding contest with interesting real-world problems happening tomorrow
Apple announces 500 new jobs in Ireland
Absolutely agree, there is no magic fix for the effects that Data Gravity has (there are ways to lessen the effects). The only exception is in the API, a fully open stack gives you greater portability of your app and export of your data is easier because transformation isn't required (just export/import or replication/copy).
It's like JavaScript with different warts. Examples: Bad at Unicode, arrays start at 1, regexps is a second-class citizen, weird OO, arrays are implemented as hash tables (like PHP), hash tables are weird, no int type, Java-like inflexibility wrt extensibility (no generalization for iteration, for example) etc.
There is, however, a limit to the number of podcast I can listen to.

I simply wanted to voice my opinion that I choose a different podcast over this one for the same subject area - and I thought this was worth say publicly because there are others out there that maybe don't know about the other podcast and could benefit from my mentioning them. That is all.
Added to PocketCast on my phone. (Highly recommend that app for both video and audio casts. All I had to do was do a search for HNPod and it quickly found the stream and added it to my subscriptions.) (For the lazy http://pocketcasts.com/)
> but it is in fact good advice for everybody else

If so, then please don't nitpick advice which is good for everybody else. Magnus Carlsen can do that for himself.
Unless he decides to fight back in a precedent-setting way, which he now has the free time to do.
Hey there. I built this. Top 10 queries, all lengths:

f,s,fu,fuck,fuc,a,c,p,d,t

Top 10, >=4 characters:

fuck,shit,peni,penis,linu,craz,cunt,linus,test,hell

I weep for humanity :)
http://www.startupjobs.com/ maybe?
Apple-like Products
The unstated punchline of this article is the 4/26 earnings call.
> Or... nobody would ever try anything to gain experience, always someone better.

Could you please clarify?
Um, in Britain, we call them "zips". It's generic and not trademarked.
Whoa, 3-4 negative comments at the top already.

If your employees are a bunch of single college-aged people who are already friends with one another, by all means eat together, play together, sleep together, do whatever else you want to do together.

If your employees have their own families and social circles outside of work to care about, let them leave at 5:01.

As usual, the important thing is to adapt to the needs of your people. When some of your employees get married, have kids, etc., you'll have to adapt accordingly. Problems arise when you refuse to adapt and try to impose the same culture on everyone. As long as you remember not to do that, I don't see any issues here.
Are they really searching the static source in real time with the threads? This is what I understand from the description. Why don't they use something like Lucene, I believe the searched content is pretty much static, so why wouldn't just index? Wouldn't that be much faster?
Well, of course, they make money by selling standards, since they sell them.

From your link (2011):

55 %	through membership fees
45 %	through sales of publications and other income from services

2010: 53/47
2009: 55/45
2008: 60/40
..
2006: 62/38
2005: 65/35
..
2002: 80 % - financed directly
20 % - member body subscriptions and publications income

I think they can operate without paid publications. They could, at least.
I admire you for your tenacity and humility. It's clear to me that your best days are yet to come. I think anyone, whether trying to build the next "big" thing, to the folks like me just trying to build a "lifestyle" company in their free time between child-rearing, can learn a lot from you. Godspeed.
I wonder how many real criminals (murderers, etc.) are never prosecuted because of all these procedural errors.
Interactive journey into Responsive Web Design
Mobile-first, Adaptive, and Responsive Web Design are hot subjects sprinkled with tricky subtleties that can be difficult to fully understand without visualizing them. I believe this course is one of many great resources to untangle those subtleties and fully understand them.

I joined the Code School team earlier this year and it was my dream to see the work of Ethan Marcotte, Luke Wroblewski, and Aaron Gustafson turned into one of our interactive courses.

While I haven't participated that much in this course's conception, I'm proud of the great work our team has done over the past few weeks to get this done and I think more product and company builders should take a step back to understand the potency of the "context" principle.

It's something that goes far beyond the aesthetic layer of a website, product or service. It defines what this product should be, and how it should be.
They probably choose that asteroid diameter to say exactly the above: i.e. "relax, it can't hurt you."
Oracle and Google Trial Day 4: the Lindholm email
Telling of what? How few people use it, or . . .?
Have they already wiped all of the Megaupload's HDDs?
In the US, the police can take anything they want from you without compensation. For example, if you have a sports car and the police need to chase a suspect, they can take your car. If they crash it into a bridge and it explodes in a big ball of fire, that's your problem, not theirs.
Better enum handling in Python
Articles like these both reflect and perpetuate this problem. I'd don't like the idea of blaming successful people for the opportunities that they declined on principle - I'd rather look at the ones they chose to focus on, and see whether those were well-executed.

But furthermore, I'd rather have the decision to fund actually mean something more than "This is just barely convincing enough that there's a slight chance I might look like an idiot if I don't throw a bit of money at it'.

I'm painting a picture of extremes, but you get the idea. Fine, a16z made X on this investment when they could have made Y, where Y > X. But look at X itself - is that a respectable rate of return? And if not, do they make up for it by getting good returns on the other investments that they've also invested money (and time!) into?

The VC game is about identifying enough companies - not all companies - that will be successful. Errors of the first kind and errors of the second kind are not equally noteworthy, and it seems we're focusing too much on the wrong one. There are valid reasons for turning down a company even if you think it may be successful - if you feel that your limited time/money/effort will be more valuable other companies.