skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your site doesn't really say what you do. What do you do exactly? Also, could allow a way for people to control the auto scrolling on your site.

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Also can you tone it down when you describe yourself as "we are elite". It can be mistaken for arrogance by your users:

Even though our business is growing at an amazing pace, we
are hiring slowly. We are an elite, close-knit group of
people
- Code reviews

I have to take issue with this one. Code (and Requirements, and Design) reviews, when done properly probably have the greatest impact in improving product quality. No, I don't have time to look up the SEI research on the subject, but it has been consistently shown to be true.

Part of the problem I had with the article was that Shirley was rejecting code for non-specific reasons. You can't say "it's not written down anywhere." If it's important enough to reject the code, it's important enough to write down.
Sure, it's an issue. PSD isn't actually all that opaque though (Adobe has published some specifications for it).

I guess most consumer formats are pretty broadly supported by open software, most of the hard to access stuff will be pretty specialized.
You get my upvote for 'Correlation != causation'. I say that probably twice a week myself - i'm still looking for a way to solve for causation, when I figure it out, i'm heading to Vegas.
No one has said they will avoid any topic at any time.

Anderson has said they will avoid overtly partisan talks during an election year.

You can talk about the topic, Anderson just won't promote if if you do it in a partisan manner.
I was surprised it works great on my 3.2 android tablet with firefox as well. Everything works perfectly, great job.
People have learnt from the UK "Doomsday Book" laser disc problem.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project)
I've considered doing this as well, but I can't get myself to trust Facebook to keep my photos my property.
Demand, no, but often it is the best idea.

Having just (as in hours ago) been through the wringer of adding new features to a mass of spaghetti that had not been touched in 10 years, the only way I could maintain my sanity (and have some assurance beyond regression testing) that I wasn't breaking something, was to refactor the existing code and then insert my changes.
I really like to see a pragmatic relationship between Dev and QA where you reach agreement on the best way to build confidence in a change.

QA should absolutely be able to push back on Dev with regards to quality and relevant test cases, but likewise Dev often need to be able to direct the testing and mutually agree on the scope that will get the change signed off adequately.
Anyone having some more information on that PR firm? Could become quite hand one day.

They seem to be doing a great job at stirring up artificial controversy and laying the groundwork for a great political talk show "victim" career.
So, basically, the only no-go areas in 60s USA (for african-americas) were in the middle of nowhere where hardly anyone wanted to go, but now-a-days, the people can't go into half of a large, populous city? I think you might have a rosy eyed view of the past…

You know crime in the USA has actually fallen a lot recently?
You make it seem like it's either-or.

Why don't you consider the option that americans just screwed this good idea up?
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 12 Notes—War and Peace
The code behaves differently after some event happens.

Midnight. Y2K. Daylight Savings Time change. Leap Day. Congress changes when Daylight Savings Time happens and one component in the system didn't know about it. Year 2038 problem.
I'm considering creating a page where I own the space and the domain, but I put in just enough Facebook integration so that only people who are logged in to Facebook and are my friends can see it, and they can comment and Like photos as they please, but the photos themselves aren't in any Facebook server.

This way the social interaction around photos are still available, but I keep the photos instead of handing Facebook copies of it.
Yo! Agreed -- we've been so busy on building/iterating on product that we haven't finished the site. Ironically, our UI/UX gal Jenn is working on arrows as I write this!

While we upgrade our site, here's a little overview about what we do: https://speakerdeck.com/u/m3moore/p/overview-of-crowdmob-may...
Who's chastising anyone? All I said was that they were "late", which is undeniably true. And I tend to agree with you ethically, though that "used to be" leans heavily on "used". Since the PC revolution in the 80's, almost no tech companies have gone public with multi-year profitability.
C'mon cletus give us a bit of credit. Are you telling us that a company with the World's Smartest Engineers(tm) doesn't already do exactly this with their custom front end machines? :-) It's one of the more entertaining new hire classes.

You are correct that perfection is not achievable and you don't even want to get so close that you get very many false positives. But honey pots are bandwidth, which for folks who pay for bandwidth as part of their infrastructure charge, its a burden they are loath to bear. Rather to simply toss the packets into the ether whence they came rather than bother waking up their EC-2 instance.
Thanks oliver. That is reassuring to know. I will take it for a spin.
Gonzo Futurist Manifesto
I like code reviews for higher level concerns - new class hierarchies, big pieces of refactoring, new areas of functionality etc.

However, I don't see as much value in reviewing low level changes such as one liners or odd bug fixes.

Making code reviews mandatory is too much overhead and too inflexible for me.
I agree with you here. That's a ton of free time. Unfortunately Ed probably posts one disgruntled story each month. I predict he'll post one next month too. He wont quit, he'll just complain on Hacker News.
Pardon me for being ignorant, but what exactly is Travis CI? I can't find any information on that site or on the github repo page. If I don't know what it is, I can't donate.
They wouldn't be his projects. They would be the company's.
If you really want top talent, platform's less of an issue than problem. As long as you choose a platform that is appropriate to the problem you're trying to solve (e.g. you probably shouldn't write web-apps in C or weather simulation code in pure Ruby), I think most of the people you'd consider 'top' talent would recognize that the platform is secondary.
What’s a premium WordPress theme worth?
Facebook's Technology Timeline
You sure about that? Have you compared their financials lately?
Cant read the titles properly which is off putting since i cant determine fully what the video is about without clicking on it.
Agreed. I think the main problem in this story however is the the red-tape between people and not so much the process itself.

Ask Homer, well Homer is not in so ask Marge, well I don't have access to Marge. Delays like this that come from artificial communication barriers can be easily avoided if they worked on improving communication throughout the organization. It would probably have saved them 1-2 days, if not more.
As good a 'system' as you might have, it is still no match for having a middle manager with a clue (and some freedom to move within the system)...

Sure - this should have still been tested (and thoroughly!), but putting this 'on the queue' when it needs doing now? Making the programmer deal with other issues (rename the variable) while doing it? Not making sure that a testing machine was available? No....
With all the hubbub around Saverin renouncing his US citizenship, do you worry about the bad PR associated with taking his money?
Means to an End: The Silent Killer
Millenials are Gen Y: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

So this is referring to people born in the 80's and onwards. You're close but I guess it probably does apply to the late Gen X'ers as well.
I liked this post on the topic - http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/dont_scar_on_the_first_cu...
There are also some great services out there if your web application is database driven - such as http://chart.io. Easy connection, nice dashboard, and really modestly priced.
Interesting. The author quotes Pincus:

One thing I learned is that while your vision should never change, you should keep trying different strategies until one works

And yet, the definition of a pivot, as given by the person that made the term widespread is very similar[1]:

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision

And the author, at the end seems to actually agree with it:

But it's important to realize that taking different bites of the same apple is very different from biting into an entirely new pear or banana, and it seems like a lot of people are actually doing that

So I guess he is actually warning against one interpretation of a pivot, that is change in vision.

[1] http://www.marywisemandesign.com/pivot-change-the-strategy-n...
I have also seen a messed up (404 erroring) robots.txt file cause a site to get deindexed out of the blue
PFFile: Because the Internet is not a Truck
why pastebin then?
Awesome. I was just about to have to write a reputation system in Rails... and I'm sure this is better than what I'd have done. Very nice!
My point is that trying to provide data that can be used in one way but not another way is a pretty ridiculous concept. If you have a lot of data, you should have an API.

The idea that you can have a ton of data accessible on the web but somehow only let humans access it, and not computers, is quite simply untenable. My point with #3 (and to a lesser extent #1) is that it makes little sense to solve this problem at all.
"And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring."

When a consumer chooses not to buy something, i.e. commerce does not take place, saving occurs. Savings means there will be money available in the future. Money available for a small business loan. Money available to buy shares in a company, freeing up capital from the person you bought the shares from. That capital could actually end up in a new venture that makes it cheaper to produce X, or make X last twice as long, producing more savings in the economy.

That decision by the consume NOT to purchase something tells the producer that they better figure out some way to reduce the price, or go under. Capital, including human capital, frees up for more productive uses. Occasionally imbalances (e.g. too much capital tied up in housing) cause a massive recession, but most of the time this process is relatively benign. Victims of this cheap-credit fueled bubble and recession don't have money to save and invest right now, but innovation will provide jobs again one day. It happens every recession, sometimes longer than others.

Creative Destruction: it's the primary reason why we're all not planting seeds or hunting right now.
Continous integration. Like Jenkins or Bamboo. Builds and tests your project automatically and gives instant feedback.
Node Http Proxy: https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy

No need for Varnish for proxying your websockets.
Depending where you are and how old you are, it's already happened.

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for 7 years now, since 2005. My wife's a high school teacher, and when it was legalized her students were 8-9 years old -- too young to care about who can and can't marry whom. Same-sex marriage being legal is, to them, now the default. They don't see it as being a 'debate' and and don't really understand why it's such a big deal in the States.

She says that homophobia in general is almost entirely a thing of the past. There's the odd student that says something homophobic, but all the other students look at them like they're weird. This is a complete 180 from when I was in high school 8 years ago.
Facebook’s Missing Risk Factor
Spivak pronouns do indeed come with drawbacks (as do all proposed solutions for gender-neutral language) but I put forth that said drawbacks are minimal. The pronoun set is intuitive to English-speakers and I've found that brief explanation, if any, has been required no more than once per person before they can easily grok my usages.

I agree that from a perspective of getting more people to use them the drawbacks are greater but from the perspective of understanding the drawbacks are essentially non-existent.
A Wi-Fi module like the RN171 from Roving Networks which has a full TCP/IP stack embedded is less than $35.
Generally speaking, if you're in the business of collecting data, but you have a competitive incentive not to share and disseminate that data as broadly as possible, you're in the wrong business. This article seems to address a problem of business model more than anything else. And if you're using technology to solve a problem in your business model...
If you subscribe to the Strauss and Howe theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_(book) , then we (millenials) will guide the world during its next high point.
It could be /data.zip like /robots.txt
Don't want to get "too political"? Then don't trumpet how you're in the "business of ideas"…
Time to change the character: 10 seconds

Time to find out what charater to change: 3 weeks
The new site looks much better.
I found this article incredibly insightful, and was surprised to find no discussion (disagreement?) from the community here.

It's based on a potentially (?) flawed analysis of the impact of advertising early (or later) in a product's life, but it reminds me of a very real debate as to whether a product requires a business model to be worthwhile (in the long term) or if an acquisition exit is sufficient.
Trust me, I'm oddly familiar with the country this used to be. Go back and read some primary sources - there are a lot here:

http://unz.org/

Crime statistics in the USA have actually fallen a lot recently. What's your explanation of this? You didn't by any chance watch The Wire? You don't by any chance read the New York Times?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/nyregion/no-room-for-disse...

The former captains spoke of an unrelenting, often unethical pressure to manipulate crime statistics. In addition, the professors studied police and health data and found weird divergences. City hospital data shows a 90 percent increase in emergency room visits for assaults from 1999 to 2006. But police data for the same period records a nearly 50 percent decrease in assaults.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodharts_law
Veracity - an alternative to git, Mercurial, Bazaar and fossil
As an example, Canada's in a housing bubble right now, but when I tell my friends and family they should consider selling now and renting for a couple years they look at me like I'm wearing tinfoil.
Hewlett-Packard to Cut About 30,000 Jobs (9% of workforce)
Apparently, white births are now a minority in US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18100457

I could not see this as a submission on its own but it seems relevant here. As the US (white) population ages, it seems that immigration has played an incredible part without anyone noticing - its less about race now, then about age, but the dividing lines might not be drawn that way.

And we all know what can go wrong if you are looking at the wrong question for your answers.

[edit - wanted to emphasise age context more]
Use case as a UI context
From the love website:

"Continuous Integration for the Open Source Community"

"Travis CI has run 757,465 tests for 10,844 open-source projects to date, including Ruby, Rails, Rubinius, Rubygems, Bundler, Leiningen, Parrot, Symfony, ...
If you use any of these then you benefit from Travis CI."
What year did this occur? Do you get a lot of paper cuts from feeding the punch card reader?
> Disagree. If the result of certain economic practices result in social inequality, is that entirely political?

The concept of social inequality is inherently political. You can formulate methods of quantifying anything, but if what you're quantifying is inherently political in the first place, it doesn't make it any more objective or empirical.

> Economics is a social science

Exactly. Most social sciences are based upon subjective value systems and not objective empirical data; they're not really sciences in the same sense as physics, chemistry, or biology.
True, but I think that is just the special case being asked about. Would it make sense to have an exception for “www”?
IIRC these clones may not be able to play all games - especially ones with add-on chips (Super Mario RPG is the only example I can think of right now)
It is true that "not all men are the same" (and "not all women are the same"), but splitting into "trans male" and "trans female" is probably more accurate than lumping all "trans people" into one category.

After all, it would be silly to have only 2 chategories "trans" and "cis" (trans:cis :: gay:straight).
Node runs on Linux, but Linux isn't the hot shit.
Also http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/
That's a great question. I am definitely biased here, but in my mind The Truth™ is that he's been in Singapore a long time, and it's a great place for him to be. If you haven't been to Singapore yet, you should go. A16Z and we here at CrowdMob have gotten a lot of benefit out of working with him, so the results speak for themselves. We haven't noticed any bad side-effects, so we're really happy all around!
That "legacy code must be brought up to current standards whenever it's touched" policy doesn't seem very wise. I'm all for practical refactoring, but it's a major decision to be treated with care when it comes to legacy code. You don't always want to invite it. I certainly wouldn't want to enforce it.

I mean, it's one thing when your oldest legacy code is two years old, and it's all one program. It's something else entirely when it's, for example, written in Fortran and running on hardware you can't buy anymore. Sometimes you don't want to rock the boat any more than you absolutely have to.
ACM ICPC 2012 Final Results
tl;dr; Unpolished speaker is right.
This also relates to what PG said,

"When you decide what infrastructure to use for a project, you're not just making a technical decision. You're also making a social decision, and this may be the more important of the two. For example, if your company wants to write some software, it might seem a prudent choice to write it in Java. But when you choose a language, you're also choosing a community. The programmers you'll be able to hire to work on a Java project won't be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. "

That may be why the OP is having trouble finding talent, because talent doesn't like the stacks he used.
Oh man this brings back a lot of memories. Let me explain:

A few years back, we made a bet private sharing was going to be a very big thing. I'm talking maybe 4.5 years back.

So we went and designed a product called Sharekoo.com which basically allowed users to create private contexts where they could share any type of media. These contexts were by invitation only.

Developing it took a lot of time because this baby was/is very complex and it scales beyond belief. In the process we made an abstraction of the concept and created a sharing engine so that we could use it for any product we could develop in the future.

Sharekoo as product never saw the light of day (so many reasons that don't matter for this post) but we had our engine so we hooked it up to an existing PIM product and applied to Techcrunch50. We were invited to present in SF but for personal reasons we couldn't make it.

Here's the demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hx6L3ldWs&feature=youtu...

After this, using the same engine we created Twitalbums.com which was private sharing via Twitter. I actually did a review our startup here in HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051311

Here's a review RWW did for us:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitalbums_private_coll...

If you read the HN thread you can see how the conversation and the arguments for Twitalbums (and previousy Sharekoo) private sharing and the selling arguments of Everyme are basically the same.

We ended up putting the projects in stby, taking another direction but we kept the technology and made it better over time.

This is a lesson in having idea and being way ahead of time (I have learned a few more lessons and recognize lots of error along the way to) and being patient.

Maybe now is time to dust off the old projects, paint a pretty face on them and see what happens now :)

Exciting times ahead indeed!
Bluetooth Low Energy would be well-suited too.
And more and more smartphones have radio chips that support it (iPhone 4s, Droid Razor, ..)
Considering I can get the tablet included for about the same price. And that allwinner a13 is on the market. The price should be dropping soon.
Windows Phone shows signs of life
I just went through the same thing. Except I was smart (or so I thought) and had what I needed changed in a config file.

PHB decided that it still counted as a "code" change because someone needed to log onto the box and change the config. Literally it was removing 3 characters from it. The only reason I even had it in the config was to avoid it being a code change to begin with. I argued back that in the time I would take to get through the whole process I could write a screen to do the same thing.

PHB said that would be fine as from that point on its a config not a code change. So off through the whole process, where I present the change to people who don't care, or understand the change and ask for them to approve it. I get that they need awareness, but seriously couldn't a short email saying X is going to happen at time Y suffice?

Im tempted to embed a Python/Ruby interpreter into my next project with a web interface to modify the code. Then I can do these minor changes without going through the 7 day process.