skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most programmers are retarded about everything but programming. Everybody knows this, hence Big Bang Theory, nerd culture, etc.

Acid test: how good are you at picking up chicks? That's a pretty good proxy measure of how good you'll be at sales/marketing.
TBH, we currently just convert the debs to rpms when necessary. But RPM-based servers are only legacy here so it doesn’t happen too often.

We have no windows and no BSD _yet_. There might come some FreeBSD for ZFS's sake soonish, then I’ll have to refactor. :)
Interesting observation on how Americans optimize on living space. In a certain way I optimized for more time with my family. That comes as #1 priority. That means to thing: more vacation time and minimum commute to work (it take me 7 minutes to get to work). This mean reducing the living space and living in an older house. Granted I am not American by birth so perhaps it is something in the "blood" as they say.

Commutes and spending time in traffic is killing me. It is a dead, useless time, it creates stress and eats away at my life little by little every single day. If you spend 1.5 hours driving to work each way, add that time up for 10 years and you'll be shocked. If I wouldn't have a family I might think twice, but thinking that I could spend that time with them instead and being stuck on the freeway is unbearable to me.
I may have missed something but API calls looks like a regular Ruby call with a hash and since all [] are dropped it's systematically shorter (not even counting the fact that you don't have .h/.m, declaration/implementation, it's not just a matter of API calls).

i.e. [obj method: param second: param2]; vs obj.method(param, second: param2) which is exactly two characters shorter in ruby.

And what would be the point of having something that looks like Objective-C?
I posted this to the blog comments, but it's under moderation so it might not show up for a while:

An "Edit" button. You can change the content of a page and save your changes for later visits. Optionally: a history of your edits to a page, or a way to share your changes, or see that other people have edited the page, or "subscribe" to changes from certain users. Like turning the web into your private wiki.
I'm pretty sure the Windows installers are made by another individual. Not the GIMP team.
I wouldn't call it completely passive, but I was making $3000/month with only about an hour of work/day. However, this was after I put 6 months and many hours of work into figuring out exactly what works.
It wasn't even results.

Back in the day you could be on the second page of Google search results before Excite or Altavista had even loaded.

Yahoo wasn't much faster.
That is certainly true and I am not taking issue with that.
For really good specialists, student loans from med school are forgiven after 10 years of practice in academic medicine (which your residency counts towards), and often paid off for you if you go into private practice.
I've played around with what seems like ever alternative framework under the sun (Titanium, Rhodes, PhoneGap, MonoTouch, Corona) and have been pretty frustrated with how clunky they usually feel. However with everything its claiming and the decent price point I'm toying with purchasing site unseen...just wish I could try it for a few hours first.
In the Ars article, I noticed the author mentions you can't use XCode's layout tools.

In practice, how big a problem is that?
I saw a presentation on it last night and it looked pretty awesome. We're planning to use their Messaging API in our upcoming project.
What do you get paid? I'm curious about this "consulting money machine." Most contracts I see are $50-$75/hr with no bennies. Not exactly stacking mad chips.
First of all, tech news does not need to route again. There's no "establishment" as it was with TV. Too much information? I agree, there is way more information than blogs can handle. Does that indicate that we have to rethink tech news? In no way.

A startup show is a good idea, of course, but it's not a disruption in the tech news world.

What I find worst of this post is that it could have been a great post about the state of the tech news world, but instead it's a post about how bad are the others and that the necessary change is what you're going to do, but without providing any insight about it.

Edit: misread the post.
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Job Posting – Technical Cofounder and CTO
contact: dustin@hockeyfollower.com
The Company
Hockey Follower is a web application that combines a social network for competitive hockey players with an unparalleled aggregation of statistics from hockey leagues around the world. In a model similar to LinkedIn, players, coaches, and scouts can communicate and track statistics on the private side, and fans can follow and interact with players on the public side.
Founder Dustin Sproat recognized the need for better statistics and communications within the hockey community while managing Hockey Players for Kids (HP4K), a successful charity engaging over 70 pro hockey players with kids in their communities. The Hockey Follower site will feature game statistics, an interactive charitable application, and the hottest news, blogs, videos, and twitter postings about the players. Amateurs can get noticed by scouts, and pro’s are able to brand themselves by using simple applications that make it easy to interact with fans. Once proof of concept in hockey is realized, a rapid expansion into other sports with similar cultures will ensue.

The Position – Technical Cofounder (CTO)
We are shifting our development from being outsourced to being done internally. The CTO would manage this transition and all technical components of the business. This Full-Time role would require:
•	The ability to program virtually any portion of this database-centric social media platform
•	Project management and vision in creating a strong technical architecture
•	Daily management of internal staff, consulting support, and any outsourcing requirements
•	Interaction and integration with the business development side of the company
•	Use of traffic analytics to direct feature set, online marketing, and SEO
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate would live in Vancouver, have a BSc in Computing Science, and have 3 – 5 years of related work experience. Skills, competencies, and passions would include:
•	A desire to work very hard in an exciting, high risk-reward startup environment
•	Ability to self-start, lead projects, and manage teams
•	Experience with DBMS database management software and social media
•	A passion for sports – particularly hockey – and knowledge of related statistics
•	Proficiency with at least some of the following: MySQL, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby on Rails, Python, iOS, Objective C, Amazon EC2
•	Should be an open source contributor, please share Gitub projects
Compensation
The technical cofounder and CTO will be granted a major equity stake in the company, and this would comprise the main form of compensation. A cost-of-living salary in lieu of some equity would be negotiable.
Please apply with resume and links to online projects:
Dustin Sproat - President
dustin@hockeyfollower.com
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And here's a Rosetta Code entry explaining everything:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fork#Fexl
The risk with this line of thinking is buying 'great' camping gear is going to have minimal impact on the experience of camping. You can go to more extreme places safely and have a lighter pack, but being able to spend more time camping is probably more important than being able to comfortably go another 2 miles a day.

There is a reasonable minimal threshold, but if your spending more than 500-1,000$ on camping gear a year your probably just buying gear for the same sorts of reasons people buy 100,000$ cars.
Oh, I'm a big fan of logistic regressions. And this model actually has some logistic regression in the mix. But I just used this break down of 5 groups to easily report the performance of the model. I can also report a gini but it is way more visceral to see "this is who I predicted to be my top performing group, this is how big that group was, and this is how they actually performed."

In general your work may be complicated/sophisticated. But your results need to be simple.
Anyone who has done any serious MacRuby development would already tell you that normal Ruby gems aren't usually the best way to go (slow, don't use Objective-C frameworks).

I can see where this could be a problem if you typically just glue gems together to make products, but if you're used to rolling your own solutions it isn't a big deal.

Sucks, but not a show stopper.
Are there any example apps in the wild that were made using RubyMotion?
Excellent points. Your typical doctor or lawyer is in a revenue generating function (doctors, in fact, are THE revenue generators of hospitals), and are therefore hired by other revenue generators and paid accordingly. But your typical programmer is writing some access database for the HR department to throw away in a year.
I'm not saying life is bad in San Francisco, those statistics are just one part of the equasion. (the other parts: leaving behind family, friends, the good life I already have etc)

I am just against the notion that propping up that random incompetent guy (at least to some degree, so he wont roam the streets doing crazy stuff) is always a bad decision.

Preventing those people from failing miserably (and the negative side effects that come with it) - thats basically why we have a lower income over here.

And my pricetag for giving up all that is higher than just doubling my income.
Great stuff. We use an xmpp chat room on jabber, github with hooks to jabber, and a knowledge engine that i build myself which is basically a search engine that will index anything you submit. Oh and Asana of course because its dynamic. Does the book mention any cool integrations or mashups between the three?
I know some engineers that get 30 days off (including federal holidays).
Interesting fact: Holidays do affect productivity - positively [1].
As an Austrian, I have to say that I can't imagine life without holidays. I'm self-employed now and don't go on vacation as much as employees, but I really need the occasional week off (also, I'm working way less hours). I once heard of a study that Europeans are as productive as Americans, although they work much less (could not find it, here is an article on the issue [2]).

My girlfriend is psychology student and they told her in a lecture that studies have shown that productivity ROI massively declines if working more than 30 hours per week (again, no citation, shame on me). That surely depends on whether you really do focussed work, or if you spend the workdays socializing at the water dispenser or coffee machine.

[1] http://www.vacationgap.com/
[2] http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2009/gb2009...
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Or they've been spoiled by certain language features and it seems unbearable to go backwards.
The usual "NiCad" and "NiMH" batteries are straight-forward to replace, but lithium-based batteries can be dangerous. They'll explode if not properly charged and have electronics paired to the cell to manage the charging cycle.

I'd be extremely careful when hacking lithium batteries. If you must, follow a guide (http://www.electronics-lab.com/articles/Li_Ion_reconstruct/) and be very careful.

When things go wrong, the results are spectacular (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3o_2mwRPdw).
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Does vacation here mean paid only or total? Personally I wouldn't mind that much if it meant paid only and I was allowed to take a pay cut in exchange for more (unpaid) vacation days.
Cool. What are you planning to build, if you don't mind me asking?
At the bottom of the features page

>RubyMotion is 100% compliant with Apple's App Store policies. Your code is compiled ahead-of-time, never interpreted, and you access the entire set of iOS public APIs.
At the end, a RubyMotion app looks pretty much the same as an Objective-C app.
Yes, that's true. They didn't think search would be a huge business. Back then the model was to sell search to portals charging by query volume, and it was a race to the bottom. Our Solaris servers were more expensive than Google's Linux boxes.
Wow that's a little scummy. Was it at least a copy of the gimp it linked to even if it had more ads around it?
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On the upside, CocoaPods support is integrated with RubyMotion. Sure, there is a whole world of useful Ruby gems, but, generally speaking, the libraries you'll find in CocoaPods have been developed specifically for iOS.
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I tried a bit, technically it works but currently you have to compile your xib to nib manually using ibtool.

That may have changed tough because I dropped the xib as I didn't really needed it.
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No. From the FAQ (http://www.rubymotion.com/support/#faq):

"Applications submitted to the App Store must conform to the Review Guidelines dictated by Apple. RubyMotion implements a dialect of Ruby that conforms to those rules. RubyMotion apps are fully compiled, do not download or interpret code and are using public iOS APIs through the exact same machinery as regular Objective-C apps."
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I love Vim but couldn't get it to work with Clojure. I'm very inexperienced as a programmer, so there may be something obvious that I'm missing.
Some impressive stuff here, check out the getting started video at around 4:30 The 'positioning a label' live from the simulator command line is way cool. http://www.rubymotion.com/getting-started/
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It might be too confusing to ask users if they want to pause their trial. But A/B testing would be good for sure.

I like it when companies offer a test account that has full access to all the features that you can play around with.
You're relying on someone else to build the core of your business. While it works in some cases (maybe yours), there are many problems that can arise. For example, it could be harder and slower to iterate new versions of your product. It can also be expensive, and as a startup you want to keep your expenses as low as possible.

A friend of mine had outsourced development and later on that dev team said they wouldn't finish the product unless they take 50% equity of the company. Of course this happened because he had very little experience outsourcing, so if you have found a reliable team to do your work then it's fine.

I just think incubators are worried about it because a large majority of the time it doesn't end up working.

As far as single founder goes, I've found it invaluable to have a co-founder. Even just for the emotional aspect and to keep each other accountable for the work is an important part of having a co-founder.
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I like C but have Obj-C-aversion because "high level" languages that still need header files all over the place just ain't right.
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I don't see the point of this. Objective-C is not hard to learn, and with ARC, blocks, the new literals for NSArray and NSDictionary, etc, Objective-C has actually become pleasant to write IMO. The example RubyMotion code also doesn't look very nice either.

The problem with Rubyists (being one for the past 6 years I feel qualified to say this) is in general they want to use Ruby for everything. It's not always the best tool for the job.
Two suggestions:

1) http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/05/exclusive-build... (Review with code)

2) http://pragmaticstudio.com/screencasts/rubymotion (Screencast)
The point is that the existence of layoffs does not rebut the claim that programmers cannot be fired (individually) in Austria.
Probably "in my humble experience".
Yeah, you can work from home whenever, so long as you're generally in the office for core hours on weekdays, or let people know that you're going to be out. Eg, I wanted to go camping Fri-Sun, so I worked a few hours on the previous weekends.
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Personally I find great that we have a native Ruby compiler, even if it means a static language with Ruby like syntax in the end.

I hope for the day when we have better and more type safe languages for system programming.

Most attempts so far, Modula-* family, Ada, Oberon and so on, failed to catch on, to my dismay.

Still it does not hurt to know some C.
>>Programmers seem to think of themselves as laborers

Worse than that in fact. Never heard of any labor union that would be OK with workers putting in extra hours without overtime pay.
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As mentioned above, CocoaPods will probably be used for this purpose as it is already the de-facto repository for MacRuby.
Ah, it seems I didn't realize this was a Google+ hangout event. Well, ours happens once a month in real life around beers so it's an excellent opportunity for networking at the same time.
isnt duckduckgo just awesome with their duckduckhack approach.
He shows it on a teensy, which if you're decent with a soldering iron can be done for as little as $16 + shipping. power supply is usb so no extra cost there. not sure how well talking to a phone would do directly but worth checking into.
How does memory management work with ruby and iOS? I did not find the information on the website.
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LOL, do you hear yourself?

The OP said "under no circumstances will I work overtime". Someone says that he really meant "i will sometimes do overtime".

I said, "he could have said I will rarely do overtime, only for exceptional cases".

And you claim that this isn't more precise? Did you pass reading comprehension in grade school?
You can get the cheapest Arduino you can find. About $50 total probably.

I would love to see this on a Raspberry Pi, but you will likely have to do some 3v3 to 5v translation or use the upcoming Gertboard.
Some time back, I built a Ruby gem called lessify[1] and a webapp[2] to do this. Maybe we should combine forces :)

[1] http://rubygems.org/gems/lessify

[2] http://lessifier.heroku.com/
Hi gjulianm - sorry you didn't agree with this post.

My hope wasn't to tout 5in5nyc so much as to call others to action to start things like it in their areas to help fix the problem themselves. 5in5nyc is very much a side project for me, and I have no intentions for it other than to do something good for the community rather than simply complaining.

I do disagree regarding whether there's an establishment, and I'm hearing the same from the founders I'm talking to. It's becoming extremely hard to get covered by the existing blogs even with exciting, relevant news. In turn the big tech blogs have become "kingmakers" where a post can be a crucial factor in a startup's success.

That imbalance has many side effects, very few of which are good for the community in my opinion. I hope to help, and that others join in with us.
check out myGengo.com .. they may have something
There I agree with you.

Header files are so 70's.
No one has suggested that it does (at least, no one in this thread).

Look, I get that there are people who really like Java, and that you've had to defend it for years against (often bogus) claims that it can't be used for x and y. I am not making any claims of the sort. Here is what I claim, put absolutely precisely so we can stop this nonsense:

The intersection of the following sets

1. engineers who I know
2. engineers who think deeply about performance
3. engineers who choose to write Java

is empty.

That's it. I haven't claimed that writing Java makes you uncool. I haven't claimed that it's impossible to do anything in Java. I haven't claimed that Java is unsuitable for any task. It's entirely possible that I simply don't know the right people, and that even though the intersection of the first two sets is large, it's not large enough. I certainly don't know everyone.
This is awesome news. Microsoft Research already has a great set of theorists in their New England lab, but clearly they were missing resident sociologists/economists. They can't have hoped for a richer haul than what they just landed here, that too in one shot.

Also this just proves further (in case anyone doubted) that Microsoft is in the game for the long haul.
I was looking at the example and their are a fair number of commas. If you pass 3 selectors it is longer.

UIColor.colorWithRed(red/100.0, green:green/100.0, blue:blue/100.0, alpha:1.0)

vs

[UIColor colorWithRed:red/100.0 green:green/100.0 blue:blue/100.0 alpha:1.0];

>And what would be the point of having something that looks like Objective-C?

Because the name of the function is not colorWithRed(), it is colorWithRed:blue:green:alpha:.
Part of me is happy. Apple pushed MacRuby before Lion and effectively killed it internally going forward after the ARC announcement. MacRuby relies on the GC capability of Objective-C which is incompatible with their new ARC baby. Just a few days ago I wanted to take a backend framework we wrote and build a command line tool to call some of it's methods in MacRuby (lots of command line parsing and Ruby has good facilities for that) but forgot we converted that framework to ARC. No dice.

This looks promising but at the same time I really wish the backend compiler was open sourced and worked on Mac and not just iOS.
I'm pretty sure that Google Translate already supports Pinyin since it shows the pinyin on the dedicated translate.google.com page (click the pronunciation guide button after you translate something to Mandarin - it's the capital A with an umlaut).
But the point is that if you drive to a gas station, there is gas to buy. Imagine you drive a delivery truck, the price of gas goes up, and you go out of business. It means you didn't have a profitable enough business to handle the reality of the market you operate in.

Companies that complain about not being able to afford decent developers are just saying they don't have a strong enough company to cover the costs of the inputs to their business. It doesn't matter if the input is oil, steel, baking powder, or software developers.

Companies that can afford high developer salaries when there is a shortage are the ones that get a high enough ROI on a developer's time that they can actually buy more of that time at the current market rates, and still have enough left over to pay the executives.

It's not about being cheap vs. generous.
That's right on the money, but technically I'm using a nano. Any Arduino will work though. There are knockoff Arduinos out there too, but I like to give back to the Arduino organization by buying an official board.
From the Features:

"It's Ruby, you don't need to think about managing memory. Ever. RubyMotion will by itself release the objects you create when they are no longer needed.
Our memory model, similar to Objective-C ARC in design, does not require any extra memory or processor footprint to allocate and reclaim unused objects."