skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you need the opposite temperament: a hunger for money.

Wrong. It's easily leads one to make money a self goal, which a grave pitfall.
See also:

http://80000hours.org/
Really insightful article, especially for someone like me: a EE/CE student wondering about whether or not the current trends in tech jobs will continue into the future. I know I can get a job when I graduate in either hardware or software design, but I've been uncertain as to how quickly the industry will saturate and whether or not jobs will still be around (or pay well enough to be satisfied with the additional educational investment) in 5-10 years. Glad to see some insightful, well-informed confidence in the future of the industry.
Nice catch! Actually, that's one of the places where a B would come in handy, but it's only collected in level 3 so the chest can't be accessed yet :)
iateyourblog.com is a spam blog, would be great if it could be completely killed.
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i'm seeing this 3 days later, but it sounds like you have a clear path. although keep in mind that other people trying to do the same thing is a form of validation of concept on the flip side. good luck!
Anyone coming up with a personal equivalent to Dropbox? as in same simple interface, but storage is a multi-terabyte box at your home/office (instead of a few gigabytes "out there")?
Facebook will pay a $200M breakup fee if Instagram acquisition doesn't work out
> Most people aren’t self aware enough to realize what is happening that is making their jobs disappear: a strong trend in software automation to make business processes more efficient.

This reminds me of a really helpful salesperson at the Apple store that was really excited/proud to tell me that you can now walk in and purchase an item without ever talking to a salesperson...
I assume, perhaps wrongly, that there are more efficient methods of becoming an entrepreneur than pure trial-and-error and plugging oneself into HackerNews, Quora, and irc channels, and reading books. People always ask, where do I begin? What's the most efficient way of doing X?

I'd love to see a mind map, or even a basic checklist, of all the skills you need in a typical startup and the different options for gaining that skill. Maybe I'm being too picky and demanding, but knowing what you know and what you don't know would be a nice efficient alternative to "I don't know what the heck I'm doing. Grit FTW!"
FB’s Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six Percent From Last Quarter
On the contrary, I think there's a problem with a world where this can't happen. If it could not, there would not be incentives for shoot-for-the-moon ideas. There would not be the freedom to benefit from providing value to society. Grand innovation would be stifled in favor of "lifestyle" careers and businesses. While there is nothing wrong with most people taking smaller amounts of easy money for long term work (i.e. salary,) we all benefit from others who take large risks to improve our lives.

Further, much of that $78M will be recycled through the economy, some of it re-invested in the hopes of making similar returns.

The idea that because some prosper, others suffer, is a consequence of one of the most dangerous human emotions: jealousy. I agree that institutions should promote long term distribution of wealth through taxation and incentives. However windfalls for big thinkers and executers are extraordinary incentives for big thinking and executing, from which we all benefit.
If memory serves one of the YC companies was doing exactly this, however I forget the name.
This is a link to the amended S-1; search for "termination fee" to get to the appropriate section.
because our deepest needs are unfulfilled and entertainment is opium for the masses.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but fluff and entertainment has a much lower barrier to entry than tackling real, tangible problems. Writing software is "free" in that I can sit and code for a few months in my free time, and put out a halfway decent game or piece of "fluff" software as you call it. Inventing the next battery technology, on the other hand, requires several PhD's and millions in funding.
The graphics in IVB are not just on the die, but are part of the internal memory ring and thus the shared L3 cache. So CPU cores are able to directly send and receive shared memory from the GPU, and the GPU is able to use the same last-level cache (LLC) as the CPU cores.

This is why you see the simple fill-rate benchmarks of IVB blow away SNB and discrete GPUs.
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
I wasn't using Canary, I had Version 18..., thanks!
With a 25GB/user limit less than 1% of the users need more than 7GB of storage.

That sounds like an argument in favor of keeping the 25GB cap. Does Microsoft not trust their own data? Are they really allocating 25GB/user currently, do they need the revenue from the 1% that will now have to pay or what is going on?
True, but I don't see why we shouldn't critique the fact of the matter.
The reason that his ability to communicate is relevant is that he specifically questioned the value of a communications class.
This episode of javascript jabber goes in depth about the chrome dev tools: http://javascriptjabber.com/006-jsj-chrome-dev-tools-with-pa...

I especially like the source maps, which allow you to debug code cross-compiled from another language in that other language.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
Disclaimer: I'm on the Chrome team and specifically focus on the Inspector/DevTools

Majd and I have talked a lot about tooling and the Chrome DevTools in particular. He ends up tweeting me a few requests or bugs a day that I'm routing to the engineering team. I love it.

Majd's writeup here is incredible. I hope to find a way to augment our existing documentation with this very thorough roundup. He's done a similar thing before ( http://jtaby.com/2011/05/31/google-chrome-why-i-hate-it-and-... ) and the Chrome team filed and fixed 33 bugs as a result. For the new article in particular, I expect us to iterate and improve based on the excellent feedback provided here.

I would add that CSS Selector Profiling is mostly in the DevTools so you can see how insignificant of a cost it is (in 99% of cases). But focusing on your network waterfall will pay performance dividends a few orders of magnitude bigger than optimizing selectors. :) That said, Majd knows what he's talking about quite well.
Given that my DVR is 1) provided by that same cable company, and 2) rather awful (5 years old, and yet still the newest model available), I still don't have any sympathy.
"Modern Web Development" does not mean "Works in Webkit", and it does a disservice to future/novice developers to reinforce that notion. What's dominant now was not in the not-too-distant past, and may not be in the not-too-distant future.
I don't know how well this carries over to the W series, but the T series are pretty rugged. Drop test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkSxdR-W0g
That's exactly what they've done. Mesh became the SkyDrive desktop app. It lets you get remote access to your PC (either files or remote desktop), as well as sync with the cloud.
As we know, that's going to be "River Tam Beats Up Everyone": http://www.xkcd.com/311/
I've certainly found some like that useful. Admittedly for didactic purposes--when I'm learning something new, I like to look at existing code. I've also sometimes found solutions to problems I'm having from random projects which just happened to solve the same problem.

Admittedly it doesn't happen often, but it does, so you may as well put them out there :).
I'm guessing he was excited because he knew very well that the majority of people at an Apple store have no idea what they really want to buy and need the salesperson's expertise. Probably the same reason that BestBuy hasn't been killed by Amazon yet.
Quora Co-Founders Share Numbers, The Secret Of Surviving The Hype Cycle
I rely on Dropbox shared folders for exchanging files with some clients. I also use the Dropbox integration of a few essential iOS apps quite regularly. For me, switching would mean having my clients install Skydrive, as well updates to those iOS apps for Skydrive support.
Interest: what do you need that bar for?
> "into global site-packages that you shouldn’t use for any serious coding"

Any specific reason for that? I find it quite good and have quite large deployments using .debs only with packages in global location. (tens of packages produced locally - either updated or unavailable dependencies and the service itself) Any direct dependency is handled by package pinning and no update goes into production untested, so the whole "new sqlalchemy suddenly appears" issue does not exist. As long as people don't break API versioning in silly ways, what's the problem with this?

The only version-related issue I remember was when someone thought it would be nice to install something through pip, instead of via package. (went to /usr/local)
(drug war causes crime)

I phrase this as "the drug war is a collection of laws that are not required for the proper functioning of society."
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Google Spends Record Amount on Lobbying
I wouldn't be surprised if he's talking about integer overflow, which has bitten people in surprising ways for decades.
I'm slowly working my way through the book in order to write a review, myself. I've only gotten through the Chapter 1-Down the Rabbit Hole, but already, I'm pretty happy with how the book is fairly gradual and walks you through what it's presenting to you.
Because the parts of the economy providing food and housing take up a small fraction of the total work available to be done. The rest of the work (ie surplus) can go to one of three things:

1. "Storing food for the winter". R&D to prepare us for challenges we'll face in the future. Ex: alternative energy research. This sort of thing is extremely difficult to fund in a capitalist society. We need more of it.

2. Waste. Accounting and lawyering and sales and such.

3. Entertainment. Everything from movies to luxury goods.

If given a choice between 2 and 3, I'd pick 3 any day. I'd like for there to be more of 1, but I guess that makes me a socialist :).

I don't see any functional difference between a Farmville cow and a ceramic cow that sits on a mantlepiece. They have exactly the same practical use, but one cost way more energy to produce than the other. My argument for how Farmville will save us from global warming is a post for another time.

tl;dr: Value is what the market says it is, not what you say it is.

See also: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/12/12/let_them_eat_...
Thanks for the idea. Keeping firm grip on income and expenses could help. I noticed that my motivation declined when each piece of income added to the pile that was shrinking at the same time due to unspecified expenses.
HuffPo and Mashable are no more aggregators than old media. Most of their content is original.
Nehalem was a "tock", as was Sandy Bridge. Both rolled out lots of new features (integrated DRAM controller, QPI, hyperthreading, AVX, uop cache, etc...). So of course they were more "exciting" to a software person.

Ivy Bridge is a "tick" (OK, "tick+") which means that it's fundamentally a die shrink of Sandy Bridge. It's rolling out lots of new stuff too, but it all has to do with how the 22nm Tri-Gate transistors are produced, the logic implemented is mostly the same. Compare this to Clarkdale/Arrandale, not Nehalem.
Software is indeed eating the world. What's going to devour it?

HARDWARE + SOFTWARE.

think nest, tesla (yes, it's a huge software play), and the like.
Dropbox adds link file-sharing, paints target on its back in wake of Megaupload.
> Sounds like you have had the usual experience with 3rd party sellers on Amazon. Never ever buy from them!

As a counter-anecdote, I can't remember problems with 3rd party sellers. But then I'm only buying stuff like books.
I was looking into creating a bot that would randomly click and browse around on the web whilst logged in to Google to add some entropy to my "persona".

Alas, programming is hard.

I don't know what it is--perhaps my get off my lawn mentality--but I am terrified of not owning my anonymity. Though obviously not scared enough to stop using these services...
Thanks! I'm at a loss for words. It's very kind of you.
unless I'm planning to make a profit (in which case I wouldn't publish the source)

Quick, someone tell RedHat - they're doing it all wrong! [0]

[0]: http://opensource.com/business/12/3/billion-thanks-open-sour...
Minus has been doing this for awhile. It's incredibly handy to be able to share something with someone instantly and without a need to create an account. http://minus.com/
Probably against the grain here, but agree. Not so much SkyDrive but more the integration between Mesh Skydrive, windows, mac, free office web apps and windows phone 7.

It's a seriously impressive, well integrated platform that costs nothing and doesn't tie you into keeping the data in the cloud. There's a copy always on your machines.

no-one is doing it as well as Microsoft if you ask me. Outside the mainstream tech press trendy Microsoft bashing I know a lot of people who are switching back to Live and Office 365. They're sneaking in the back door while everyone is bitching about them.
Thanks to Avi for the very kind words.

FYI, the preface, ToC, and first chapter are available here [PDF]: http://cdn.oreilly.com/oreilly/booksamplers/9781449394707_sa...
First of all I’m afraid the point about Apache & MySQL is misleading and I’ll have to clarify it: We don’t use neither for internal projects. It’s all PostgreSQL. :)

They’re both for our customers as we sell traditional web hosting with a LAMP stack (and yes, we have to compile PHP ourselves too, so we can offer different flavors).

I never said you _have_ to compile everything yourself. In case of Python I said you shouldn’t inflict the pain of programming Python 2.4 just because you’re on RHEL/CentOS 5 or earlier.

System packages have several problems I outlined too. Most important: you add a middleman to the release pipeline, no virtualenv and possible dependency conflicts: I have apps that depend both SQLAlchemy 0.6 and 0.7 – they couldn’t run on the same server.

But OTOH we use stock packages as far as possible, because it’s less work. Eg. there’s no reason to compile an own Python on Oneiric and later. Same goes for PostgreSQL which is uptodate.

It’s all about freeing yourself from constrains in points that matter, not adopting a new religion.
Facebook owes Instagram $200 million if deal goes south
The Peter principle revisited: Promoting at random is an effective strategy
>Wouldn't it be nice if Android was GPL v3?

Not necessarily. WebOS is/was closer to a Linux/GPL distribution than any other smartphone and look what happened to them.

>You can put BSD software in the AppStore, which is nice short term,

It's also nice long-term as the code maintainers don't have to make decisions based on the risk of getting sued, as they would with GPL-based code.

>but long-term that's helping platform that is a golden cage.

Golden cage? How do you figure?
Add in support for the 360, and it becomes a cloud home media center.
Thanks for the code compliments Zack. As I've gotten more experienced with D3, I've been trying to use it exclusively, even for jQuery type things. In this case I'm just using jQuery for old browser fallback, since D3 doesn't go to great lengths to support old browser quirks.

And btw, no code cleanup tools in use, just my OCD. ;) I haven't used Coffeescript yet. Will have to check it out.
Whoa buddy, there aren't even any ads on it. What's your problem? It does have some formatting issues from a theme I tried to apply to it though.
"Quick Sync" is a marketing term for the hardware video codec on the die, and a software suite built around it. The Intel software is windows-only, but I'm pretty sure the codec is documented. At least it has a section in the big SNB graphics docs dump they did a while back. But AFAIK there are no free drivers written to it.
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I haven't tried or used this, but you could try implementing your own version of sparkleshare: http://sparkleshare.org/

It's open source, and uses git to backup files. Not sure how close to your needs it is, but I'm sure there's other stuff a google search away.
Arguably, a 'superclass' of that is 'The government should run everything the private industry could'. Is it still correct?
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Equivalent except that 'whilst' can't be used as a noun.
I have nothing against millionaires. Especially those that improve environment around them as a side effect of their efforts to get rich and stay rich.

The way I feel is much closer to the fisherman but I don't have his confidence to make an argument that his lifestyle is good.
Fake it 'til you make it baby!
The target of the first level was to cover hjkl. I know it's a pain and when you're proficient enough you usually don't use them but use tf*#/ and such, but it's the basics... The motions are working only on text areas (There are some on the 2nd level). Bookmarks are indeed planned for teleporting back to places, and I have plans for /Hello if you look at the first screen ;)
Constantly feeling like you have no idea what you're doing can be a good thing.

It means you're constantly putting yourself in position to grow. It means you're challenging yourself instead of simply falling into a routine. After a while, it means you know what you're doing in a lot of areas that you wouldn't have if you'd just stuck to what you know -- so even if you don't know what you're doing in this specific way, you know what you're doing in a lot of supporting areas. Because of all the figuring out you've done in the past, you're able to figure it out this time too.

(This advice is remarkably applicable to parenting, as well.)
When I read things like this, I have to wonder if the people saying it are really naive or sheltered enough to believe it:

"You want to be in the tech game, because in time it will be the only game in town."

Well, no...because tech won't be big enough to employ more than a relatively small percentage of the population. And it won't matter that companies want to pay tech workers to help automate people out of jobs. Because once everyone is unemployed, no amount of tech will keep a company in business if nobody is making enough to buy its products.

Without a doubt, things are going to change. Just like they always have. Some industries will gain, and some will lost. Some people will find their skills in high demand, and some will find their skills obsolete. We won't, however, end up in world where you either work in tech or you're unemployed.
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Right, I truly think it was genuine pride for the excellent addition of technology to the process. The guy rocked, but the point remains - the addition he's excited about will likely result in frictional unemployment in his particular position.
> I'm personally glad they went with the MIT license. Also, even if a fork takes place, the original code is still available.

I think this is a point many fail to consider. BSD and GPL are, in many ways, synergistic. Having libraries available in both is the best ecosystem for both devs and end-users, IMO.
Having experience doesn't preclude being able to learn quickly and figure things out on the fly. There's a stigma often associated with experienced people that they become slow, complacent, and uncreative. If these traits are seen in more experienced people, I would be willing to bet that it is more of a correlation based on other things that are common in experienced people (having a family, already being wealthy, etc.)
http://www.w3.org/2011/11/webcryptography-charter.html

Something like this is the ONLY way I can see crypto in the browser gain any credibility and traction. Crypto in the JS is not only potentially the easiest attack vector, it's also abhorrently slow. With native browser constructs we get access to safe(r) implementations which cannot be DOM manipulated, MITMed or simply replaced at load time. We get access to speed boosts by running natively and on hardware supporting AESNI it can zoom.
Do people really not mind having their mail take up space on their HDD/SSD?
Give it a minute...
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Yeah. My favorite example is JS-2 mode[1]. It's a brilliant mode for editing JavaScript released by Steve Yegge. However, it had some shortcomings and (minor) bugs; Yegge did not have time to support it any more.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/js2-mode/

Then somebody cloned it on GitHub[2], changed the indentation, fixed some bugs and added some features. In the past, using JS-2 mode was a bit of a compromise--intelligence at the cost of weird behavior. Now there is no compromise at all.

[2]: https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode
You are actually identifying yourself as user of that extension. This is a much smaller group than Chrome users.
But a new process is at least supposed to provide 30% more performance even without awesomeness, not 10%.
There's plenty of action occurring outside of consumer Internet, but it doesn't get much coverage on general interest sites like HN since we need specialized knowledge to understand why those companies are interesting, special and valuable.
Because heavily regulated industries are much harder to disrupt. The risk and barrier to entry to medicine, food/nutrition, finance, etc. is very high mainly due to heavy regulation and cronyism.
People, open source your code.

I never regretted that decision. ;)
"Our ability to acquire and integrate larger or more
complex companies, products, or technologies in a
successful manner is unproven"

That's very candid.
> It's like the system discards pages of programs just because the app has been inactive for an hour or so.

From what I've read, Windows memory manager does the same thing - after a while, it swaps out unused pages, even if plenty of free memory is available.

I wonder what's the logic behind this - did the engineers assume that the speedup coming from more free memory being available for disk cache is worth the hassle of waiting for the swapped out page (when it's actually needed)?
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What I mean is that .NET as a culture and ecosystem is not full of people who embrace leading edge. Though, since you bring it up, as far as features it still isn't leading anything, just following reasonably close to a lot of others.
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> It wasn't that they couldn't keep up with the times, it's that they didn't.

e.g. Microsoft, MySpace, etc. etc. I'd argue didn't and couldn't are essentially one-and-the-same.
I don't hope it does. I'd rather we have fluff made of ones and zeroes that costs virtually no marginal energy to produce than fluff that you have to ship from China at great energy expense. Unless you live in a tent and eat nothing but cornmeal, tofu, and nutritional supplements everything you own is fluff.
That is crazily fast! Hoping that will give them the initiatives to update their movies quicker!
Uhm, as a rule, authors should do none of those things. (I will make an exception for Douglas R. Hofstadter. If you want a book where presentation is interwoven with content and you can't really separate one from the other you have to read Gödel Escher Bach. In general, though, it’s safe to say that most authors are not Douglas R. Hofstadter. Gödel Escher Bach is also one of those books that’s hard to make into an ebook – and hasn’t been for that reason – because web technologies are lagging behind the printed book so badly.) They need experts to do that.

I’m not suggesting that authors start bikeshedding. I want professionals to do their profession. Authors are rarely good designers.