skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no it doesnt. when something "better" shows up people will want to move on, but you are right there will be like "oh, all my photos and tags, I cant leave them". "But wait, there is that App that Joe programmed and Mary, Mike, John and Jennie already used it, I can use it too and all my photos will be re-linked and re-tagged on that new site. yay me!"

is it really that hard to imagine??
Kodak maintained an underground nuclear reactor for over 30 years
Seems like this is a good answer to those asking "how could learning to code help X to do their political job". That's how. By giving them some basic sense of proportions when it comes to software.
I can't tell if you're purposefully not understanding...

You know how the page linked lists "the largest government contractors"? Try not working for a government contractor.
Don't forget stunts like Tmo updating the HTC Sensation, but removing wifi hotspot at the same time: http://www.tmonews.com/2012/05/confirmed-htc-sensation-4g-ic...

With my G2 it took 12 months from Gingerbread being available to it being on the phone. I'm now using a Nexus but that sadly means no wifi calling.
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Wife and I spend a few hundred dollars a year via itunes on shows and movies we love and want to own in high quality.

We also pay netflix under ten bucks a month and for that we save a few hundred dollars each month vs what it would cost to itunes all those shows.

Can anyone say how Amazon's streaming offering compares with netflix? Is it basically the same shows and movies (meaning we should go for one or the other?)
There is really no difference though. Whether you 'script' away a mundane task with AppleScript or an elaborate C 'program' you still wrote down a series of instructions that were run by a machine. That's the definition of programming in some dictionaries.
The intuition of game theory is instinctive part of human nature and primates in general. It only gets hard when you do sophisticated calculations. Kids learn how to ride bikes too, but the physics of gyroscopic motion is hard.
I had this same moment at work not long ago. My boss gave me a task to compare user permissions exported from a directory (not a database). The output was ridiculous and it could easily take 10 hours to work through lining it up and correlating just 5 users. They had been doing this by hand for 6 years before I got there. Within a few minutes of her explaining it to me, I flat-out said "I don't want to do this, so here's my plan". 30 hours of Bash scripting later, I had the task completely automated, and we could run through 20 users in less than 2 seconds, with the output going straight to Excel.

You can't be afraid to tell your boss you think a task is ridiculous, but you'd better be prepared with a better solution.
Redis now has several scripts for various analysis. This is a right time to build a user interface that clubs together all these various utilities.

1. Query Analyzer based on Redis-faina, with the ability to grep only a subset of commands or only inspect commands from a particular IP Address.

2. Memory Analyzer based on Redis-rdb-tools

3. Lua Script editor that allows you to "dry run" a script against your data. There could also be a mode to revert the changes by using a combination of dump and restore commands

4. An Admin UI to visualize/inspect the data, something along the lines of http://www.servicestack.net/RedisAdminUI/AjaxClient/
Aargh-- first of all, why don't you have vesting in place? what were you thinking being irresponsible?

Solution given the circumstances-- if you have any doubts, he has to go. It would be best to have a frank conversation, explain your reasoning, and wrap things up cleanly with paperwork from your lawyers. Convince him that its better to part in a good way and find something that excites him. Give him a fair separation agreement, e.g. pro-rated stock for the 3 months etc. Get everything in writing, help him find a good next gig, and you'll salvage the relationship AND your company.

I would recommend giving some stock even if you had vesting and he hadn't hit his cliff for a few reasons:

(a) startups are a small world, no point in making enemies

(b) a little stock aligns long-term incentives. If he goes, and the company is successful because of that, he actually makes $$. When you're getting acquired he'll be there to help, because he will see a financial outcome. Giving no stock breeds hate and resentment.

(c) Startups are hard, grueling experiences, not everyone makes it. Its OK.
Care to source that? Anyway, the point is there's something wrong when capital income is taxed at half the rate of labor income. In particular, taxing carried interest income that low is especially egregious. Private equity and VC partners that are earning a guaranteed % of funds under management annually are NOT taking a risk.
Yes, but it isn't particularly widespread, I checked the RSS for a few of my favorite podcasts and they don't have them. I also checked to see if any of my favorite podcast players support torrent downloads and they don't appear to.
Note that "not messed with by your carrier, no bloatware, no extra skins you don't want and more timely updates direct from Google" is a fairly strong bullet point for some.

At the very least this will raise the bar so everyone else will have to do better.
And in the minds of everyone in the group, you are trying to tar a number of people with the same brush. It grates on us that you write like you don't understand it's a civil case. But you are more important than everyone else, so let's use your method.
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Very good point, I should've phrased it that way.

But I think the first step in giving someone the opportunity to code is to make them want to try it. So that was the intent behind me saying "everybody should learn how to code".
Your comment made me realize that while I click on ads on Google all the time, I have never clicked on an ad on Facebook.

I don't have a really good explanation why, except that maybe the ads I see on my Facebook pages seem to have a 'scammy' feel to them (the most common ad I see is for Canadian Pardons - Facebook must think I'm a criminal).
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I feel the sake way about "bochs".
The only really interesting thing about this is the claim that it was weapons grade uranium. I wonder if they mean the same thing other people do when they say that (for me, 90+% U-235), or if the mention of californium means it was blended?
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This is a pervasive problem, one of the prime examples of why knowing the basics about algorithms and programming is a great skill to have.

Many people do not think about whether they can automate certain things. Even if you tell them too, they will often not have the right mindset for it and be unable to recognize that something is automatable.

This is not the fault of those people, it’s a fault of education. Automation is not intuitive, it’s not something humans understand instinctively. To know what works and what doesn’t, to know what’s possible, people need to learn the basics about how to code. (Maybe some will even be able to do some of it themselves, while others can at least ask around for an actual implementation.)

No, it’s not the solution to the failing education system in the US. No, it’s not the best thing since sliced bread. It’s not the savior. What it is, though, is just a good idea.
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I have a few concerns about the author generally speaking, but this particular article I like because I think it's good advice to find customers sooner rather than later. :)
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He "earned" the money in the US and only our deferred tax model on stocks allowed him to extract the value much later. I wonder if we will ever just tax the actual options, shares or RSUs by number rather than by their dollar value.
Most people I know block ads on Facebook. It's hard to sell a product (eyeballs) when the eyeballs circumvent the tech!
If you watch hours a night and find content on Netflix (or some other all you can eat streaming service) that meets your requirements, that's going to win hands down against an a la carte service every time. Personally, my viewing is more on the order of 5 or 6 hours a week so I tend to gravitate towards services that let me buy exactly what I want even if at a premium. I dropped Netflix streaming when they changed the pricing (I still have the 2 DVD per month plan) and occasionally am tempted to resubscribe but never quite get around to it.
There seems to be something similar going on with "side project" ideas, where there aree (I'm told) people who want to have a fun side project but don't have any ideas. I wish there was a good place where idea people can stick their excess ideas for other people to pick up. You could vote for ideas you want to see implemented, link to your own implementation, etc. I would probably do it myself, if I didn't have too many ideas already.
"This is an URL that is fetched via Ajax by a Javascript function in response to the menu item click."

I find this incredible, I wonder how widely they have rolled this out (or plan to).

Robert Scavilla created a pretty cool demo site to test out AJAX crawling awhile ago: http://ajax.rswebanalytics.com/seo-for-ajax
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Speaking as a kid (19 y/o), we like rejecting things that are uncool. Nobody my age uses Google Plus, for example.

Aha, now I know why Google+ seems so pleasant :)
Yes, the out of control entitlement state which collects... significantly less taxes than most of the 20th century.

Spending is just deferred taxation, and spending keeps going up. Yes, after adjusting for population and inflation: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1970_2017...
Thank you. I'm not sure if I'm proud or embarrassed to be an unintentional Keynesian.
What's so crappy about it?
The documentation is frankly awful. For example, when getting the status:

rhc domain status -l <myemailhere> I get an error about ~/.ssh/config not existing. I added my ssh key via the web interface and have no idea what's going on here.

In looking at the User Guide, I find it gets me no where. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/OpenShift/2.0/html/User_Gu...

The relevant message here is:

"If your system fails any of the tests, make a note of the error message and consult the relevant section of the OpenShift User Guide for further information."

Nothing like a circular reference that leads to nowhere.
It's not in Davis or even on campus which is adjacent to Davis. It's on McClellan Air Force Base.
Really I think we just need to use the term Automation for this, rather than "coding" or "programming".

My take on this latest Jeff Atwood fiasco[1] is that yes, I certainly agree with him that "coding" should not be lumped in with the same concepts as general literacy and numeracy.

But certainly automation using a computer should be, and there are a range of ways available to teach people how to do that.

[1]http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/When_does_automation_...
Leads me to believe that "all patent office employees should learn to code."

(Yes, I know this technically about copyright, but the principle still applies.)
There is another side to it when a programmer looks for a technical solution unnecessary (when all you have is a hammer -- everything looks like a nail)
Could you explain your calculations on that? How is building new infrastructure with brand new technology cheaper than plugging into the existing infrastructure?
Let me counter by describing a possible hypothetical:

An idea approaches a developer with 'offer' to join start-up. Offer is in quotes as during 2 years idea development idea man was focused on wrong problems and wrong strategy and because no corp formed, no business funding efforts made during the 2 idea period and some major miss-understandings of copyrights, fair use and at what stage a start-up starts worrying about having a business plan actually planned out.

I diplomatically stated that to reduce risks and improve odds of gaining VC funding I would have to have power and authority to change both prototype implementation and business model and other adjustments to fix all the defects otherwise I would not even consider developing the prototype or joining the start-up.

My first response when push came to shove was to refuse to join with the above defects. It is not someone that currently is my network of people I know or have experience working with.

I can state that people do some weird emotional changes under pressure. its of course easier if you are dealing with someone who is transparent as you see it coming..

The only thing I can think of that might prevent your case from re-occurring is diplomatically ask for a financial outlook of the person although you want to be careful as this is a potential employee and there will be a limit to what you can ask for even with the person's signature.

In my case I am always upfront that in whether I can do 100% equity or not within the first conversation.
You do have to respect the terms of the deal. That being said, here's what I would do:
1) Fire him. Co-founders can be fired, and you and the other partner have majority vote. You wouldn't owe him any money because he hasn't worked since you stopped paying him.

2) Decide a fair company value and buy his equity stake. This guy is clearly a distraction and the best thing to do would be to completely cut dies and free up equity.
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I just got rejected by Adsense. They say I don't have enough content/ navigation menu for visitors. I don't think content is the problem. Can someone give me some advice to modify my site (www.techship2038.com)

Detailed reasons:
"Enough: If you want to meet the qualifications to participate in AdSense, the text content of your site must be adequate; As a result, the AdSense expert to audit our crawlers to find suitable display relevant ads on your page. Therefore, we recommend that you add a more complete textual and paragraphs on the site. According to regulations, the site content must be comprehensive on-line and normal operation, allowing users to navigate through the site through the menu, site navigation, or the appropriate link. As long as the vast majority of your site are complete and functioning properly, we will be happy to retrial of your application."
Weird, had to look it up. Mozilla Developer Network entry on pointer-events: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/pointer-events
Windows may be an OS for experts, but only as far as those are experts on Windows.

Anyone who has used anything else for any significant amount of time would rather have a root canal treatment than returning to Windows.
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We shouldn't get so worked up about exactly what we eat. When we look around the world, we see that people who eat a modest diet and are physically active every day live long, healthy lives.

If we go back to what we would think of as the dark ages of nutritional knowledge, there were lean, healthy, athletic people back then. And it wasn't just people who ignored all the nutritional dogma of the day, either. The people who swallowed it most conscientiously were lean as well. It seems like so much has changed since then, but has it? Go to the gym today and you'll see a bunch of people who work out, eat paleo, and have low body fat. Thirty years ago they'd still be lean and in great shape, but they'd believe an entirely different dogma about nutrition.

If what we ate was anywhere near as important as how much, then the people who were most disciplined about following the old low-fat, relatively-high-carb diets would have been at a disadvantage compared to people who paid no attention and half-assed it. Or, if the low-fat guys were right, they should have been leaner than the guys who thought milk and eggs were the secret. But consistently, decade after decade, people who are disciplined about diet and exercise are lean and fit no matter what they believe. When people let their discipline slip, most of them end up overweight to some degree. The entire sum of our nutritional knowledge has yet to change that.
Note that it isn't just the carriers that suck, it's the manufacturers too. Many of them put their own tweaks on Android which means that they have to do updates on their end to get Android upgrades.

It's absurd that I as a developer am forced to release for 2.2 at this point. 95% of my iOS customers are on 5.0 or better, and 88% of them are on 5.1 which came out in March. I think roughly 20% of android is still on 2.2, and most are on 2.3. Seems pretty silly when 4.0 came out 7 months ago.
It's been an ongoing meta for nearly 10 years now, between ideatorrent, brainstorm, ideaswatch et al which have all failed to engage for one reason or another (I suppose because good ideas are something people don't want to share?). Can always keep a watch on un(der) funded projects on kickstarter or angellist to gain insights also.
I was going with the example of Facebook using their knowledge my tastes, as well as the tastes of millions of people who are somewhat like me, to introduce me to things that I would have a legitimate interest in, even if I'm not searching for them.

Example: Subject is a coffee-drinking, Vespa-riding, snappy-dressing, backyard chicken-farming, photo-snapping, game-playing father of two small children. He's not looking for bluetooth cuff links, but we know that once he sees them, he'll be likely to buy because that's what other people in his micro-niche tend to buy.
I did the same thing, got momentarily distressed, then realized it means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things and smiled at a playful little implementation of a voting widget.

This is the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
It's interesting that these fictionalized histories are at the heart of many companies' founders' myths of how they were inspired to create their amazing products.
By my math, Eduardo Saverin doesn’t avoid any tax at all by leaving the US, regardless of whether or not his stock goes up or down. If he leaves, the US takes 15% of his stock now. If he stays, the US takes 15% of his stock later. But either way, the US have taken away 15% of his ability to spend.

Let’s work through it with numbers, in case that isn’t clear. Say Saverin has $100 worth of Facebook stock. He renounces US citizenship. He sells enough stock to pay $15 to the government, leaving him with $85 in Facebook stock. Over the next year, Facebook doubles in value, leaving him with $170 in stock. He cashes out, and there’s no tax, so he ends up with $170 in cash.

Now imagine he stays in the US. He has $100 in Facebook stock, which he pays no tax on because there is no taxable event. Facebook doubles in value over the next year, so he ends up with $200 in stock. Then he cashes out, paying 15% in capital gains, leaving him with $170 cash.

Clearly he ends up with the same amount of cash either way. Perhaps Saverin is avoiding tax by leaving the US, but neither this article nor any other article I have read identifies how he is doing so.
I've been developing using Rails on Windows since last month. It is usable for basic development for me, but I had to discard TDD with RSpec since it's painfully slow (Spork with Guard don't really help).
Note that it isn't just the carriers that suck, it's the manufacturers too.

I'm sorry for not including that in my comment, you're absolutely right. That's what I get for netflixing dr. who while browsing HN.
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Forbes named "worst CEOs" based on one pretty clear criteria: These CEOs have failed to create value (or stopped creating value) for their shareholders over long periods, yet remain employed, and their companies remain pretty large.

GE has underperformed the S&P by 40% since Immelt took over, Microsoft by 30%, Walmart by 40%, and while both Lampert and Chambers created value for a while, their companies have substantially trailed the market over the last 3 and 10 years, respectively.

Ballmer is perhaps guilty of inheriting a growth company just as it stopped growing, but you can't deny that Microsoft has essentially stopped growing under his watch.
This a hundred times. I just set up my parents with a Hulu account so that my dad could devour what little of the criterion collection he hasn't already seen at least twice. If Netflix could find a way to offer all these, with commentary or other dvd features, I'd say there's a pretty healthy market. Evens if that market is relatively small, it's the leg up they need against Hulu's (and iTunes, Amazon, etc) movie offerings.
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Did you share your solution? Imagine them reapplying your method to some testcases, yielding the same results for days of work within minutes.
That's really a distinction of degree, though. It seems like the only real difference is whether you're programming Python, Photoshop, Excel, bash or whatever, and the power of the tools available to you. I'm not sure that whether it actually involves writing text to be interpreted is important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neely_Nuclear_Research_Center link to details of that reactor for anyone interested. Kind of sad that my alma mater had to shut her down.
I know aa certain manufacturer who won't update their Nexus One phone to ICS either..
Is this new? Several years ago I wrote an Adsense-esque ad service for use by a group of entrepreneurs that wanted to promote each other's sites. I found that Google was crawling those urls even then. The text of the ads was in an HTML file, but the actual ads were served through JavaScript.
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Are you not familiar with Locksport?
Amazon's catalog is smaller than Netflix'. I also find the discovery aspect is difficult. (i.e., you go to related recommendations and now you're out of the stuff that's available for free streaming to Prime members.) I signed up for Prime when I dropped Netflix streaming and I've found it to be mostly a disappointment in that respect--although the free second day shipping has been a bigger feature in practice than I expected it to be so I'm happy on net.
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Why don't you add a navigation menu? If they tell you that's the problem, why wouldn't you just fix it?
I think the AOL comparison is very relevant. In the mid-90s, AOL was the first experience of online communication that a huge number of people had, and AOL grew rapidly; but its customer base eventually matured and discovered the broader internet, and AOL declined. There was a period without a hegemonic 'entry-level' online service, and Facebook eventually jumped into that void and dominated it.

But none of these services do anything that wasn't already available via incumbent technologies (which were somewhat inaccessible to non-geeks), e.g. BBSes, Usenet, IRC, IM, web forums, etc., and people have been developing more accessible iterations of these types of technologies (reddit, for example), and people will eventually migrate away from the constrained, privacy-compromising services like Facebook into the wider internet.

People say that the open web is dead, but I think the walled garden approach is never really long-term sustainable.