skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Crowd Funding Really Work, Or Is It Becoming Over-Saturated?
>> "You can't have everything you want," Mayer cautions. "But you can have the things that really matter to you. That empowers you to work really hard for a long period of time on something that you're passionate about."

If by "everything you want" you mean "all the activities you'd like to schedule outside of business hours," then, um... yes I can. Step 1 is called "clear expectations." Step 2 is quitting when pressured to do too much. It has worked great for me.

I'm not passionate enough about any work to pull the kinds of hours she describes. Heck, even if I were -- even if the project were "build software to save your own life" -- I'd be writing some crappy code after 60+ hours.
Works without problems in Scala. Maybe Clojure isn't using the available resources efficiently enough?
If you read the post you will see the list of judges and criteria.
Oh I see - I read iOS as 'all Mac devices' for some reason. I'm sure it won't be a huge big deal.
Copyright laws, at least in their current form, most certainly have been instated unethically, specifically by the process of "lobbying," which nowadays is a euphemism for technically-legal bribery and corruption, a subversion of the democratic process.
Yes, copyrighted content that the copyright owners had hosted. Now they can't access it. Your point is?
The Problem with PaaS
Mono recreates the code of Visual Basic, but doesn't have the VB UI builder (last time I tried it was in mid-2011, might have changed).
Start with Udacity, it's university-grade material thought by college professors and/or highly experienced professionals while Codecademy (at the moment) is more like an interactive tutorial that walk you through how to do simple, practical stuff like building an html work, how to use CSSs etc.

You can benefit from both, depending on what you want to build and at what stage of your project you are in.

I would start with Udacity, but be advised it's going to be no cakewalk.

I have no deep experience with MitX (nor Coursera) though I checked them out briefly and they seem to provide insane quality considering they come with no price tags.
Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
What I would love to see is a system that validates claims made by those involved in townhall meetings and TV debates.

Nothing would please me more than to see a politician make a claim of coal only outputting X carbon, and a sidebar slide over that pulls in Wolfram|Alpha or some other empirical data with a giant FALSE. This way, they can't use showmanship to sway opinion.
Government Cloud Finally Maturing
>> "It doesn't get PC viruses" will, by definition, always be true.

Until someone writes a 2-in-1 virus that can infect cross-platform.
Online billing system software recurring credit card
Chargify is the best way to securely manage billing. Recurring billing software makes it easier to keep track of your recurring payments. See how it works!
Packers and Movers Hyderabad
List of all packers and movers in Hyderabad - addresses, telephones, emails and reviews for all movers and packers in Hyderabad and Secunderabad (Madhapur, Kukatpally, Kondapur and more), only on fullhyd.com.
USA: 382 kg
USSR: 0.32 kg
Recovered from meteorites: 48 kg

But that's from Wikipedia, so you can add a few grains of salt to those figures.

One of the main reasons the moon missions were cut short is because the public lost interest, just as they did with the Space Shuttle. The inspiration argument only gets you so far, and we've been that far already.
I love sonic. We used them for the reddit office. They were the cheapest and fastest option. Once one of their reps stopped by just to say hi and make sure we were happy.

I've been begging them to let me give them money for my home connection.
> and help optimize information flow between various parts of a business.

Yes, they're go-betweens. I don't think this was meant to imply that IAs can't be good at what they do. There are plenty of great HR people.

I think the point was that the job of IA is similarly useless, and just like I don't think anyone has ever said "Oh thank the FSM, we have another HR analyst," I don't think anyone has every said "We finally have an information architect!"

> they aren't DBAs, but they seem like it sometimes.

I think that goes right along with the comment of doing several things poorly and nothing well.
What is amazing about the IOIs is that the high school students who participate have a more broad and deep understanding of algorithms in graphs and networks, combinatorics, dynamic programming, recursion and number theoretics than pretty much any CS student in a college/university with exception of perhaps PhDs. Indeed, you don't find many CS students devouring Knuth's TAOCP just for fun!!! However back in the day when I also participated in Nationals and this sort of competitions I always favored Cormen's Intro to Algorithms over Knuth's, but that was just a matter of personal preference.
Overall kudos to this young man and I hope he keeps it up. And I also encourage everybody to take a look at past IOI problems (they are online) and their solutions and even attempt solving them, it is an amazing feeling when you are able to crack even one!
:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it (I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself)!

But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, if you know what I mean...

[1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.0/api/cluster.html
HN's tptacek on how to break into a security job
What about professional ID10Ts?
Running Lean Flowchart
Google threw their weight behind a bunch of 10.1 tablets before this [1],[2]. Both these were priced higher than the iPad at launch.
I Never said there was a previous "Nexus" branded tablet or that there were no 7" Androids at all.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-l...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Xoom
And then Apple disabled Java, and Apple no longer ships Java. Java has been a huge security vulnerability for a while now...
Show HN: How HN's upvote link works
Each link has an anchor tag like this:

<a href="vote?for=4156127&amp;dir=up&amp;by=asto&amp;auth=12345&amp;whence=%6e%65%77%73" onclick="return vote(this)" id="up_4156127">
<img vspace="3" hspace="2" border="0" src="http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif">
</a>

The vote function looks like this:

function vote(node) {
var v = node.id.split(/_/); // {'up', '123'}
var item = v[1];

// hide arrows
byId('up_' + item).style.visibility = 'hidden';
byId('down_' + item).style.visibility = 'hidden';

// ping server
var ping = new Image();
ping.src = node.href;

return false; // cancel browser nav

byId is getElementById. I don't know about you guys but I thought this was pretty neat!
Ubuntu could do better here to have a more representative voting panel. 0% female judges is pretty bad.
I'd love to hear the arguments for doing $11/hr programming jobs instead of just getting downvoted.
New York City’s Getting a Tech Upgrade
I have not yet used Kinect; would it be possible to build this type of UI using the Kinect (or similar) Hardware?
How Do I Create a Digital Document Archiving Strategy?
Indeed. International copyright law needs revising - but I don't think we'll all be agreeing on anything soon, especially after the whole SOPA debacle.

If you run a dubious website, your only option is to block all countries other than your own, and provide a notice to that effect.

Is it silly? I dont know. It's hard to argue that you have the right to interact with a country's inhabitants but that the country cannot govern those interactions. Though the governing needs to be fair...
Yes, Facebook allows Amazon affiliate links. Just keep in mind that posting a link or two, does not automatically translate into revenue. You can check your tracking id report in Amazon Associates to see how many clicks you received.
Check out microsofts "lightSwitch" for a RAD.
I can't believe you managed to get this submitted to HN before I did. That's what I get for posting it to twitter before coming here ;D Since I knew the URL, I could have totally cheated and done it before even uploading the blog post.
I'm wondering if this posting is a practical joke of some sort. The post linked to here is so dense with vocabulary, yet somehow lacks any meaningful content.

I kept reading only to see if there was a punchline at the bottom. Something to the effect of: "See? All that crap written above really cries out for some information architecture, doesn't it?"
I added a little bit more to this post. I realized, thanks to your comment, that it started in one place and ended in another.

I'll continue to expand on all these topics in the future.

Thanks for the kick!
They deleted it, but it can still be seen in Google's cache. Someone needs to tell Wikipedia and StackOverflow that they're going a bit overboard with all this deleting. Why don't they just demote stuff to show lower down in searches or something?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mdxfQ2k...
Barnsley's Fern
Browsing from work? Browsing from an anon'd browser?

Even if we assume your 90% figure isn't like 68% of statistics (made up on the spot), there are still other reasons why a screenshot might be more appropriate.
How about answering "a computer"? :-)
I have a free video course on udemy.com that teaches in a see-and-do style.

It will get you started:

http://www.udemy.com/learn-iphone-step-by-step/
I think you're right, I certainly don't see much of that kind of thing around here now (there probably are some engineers pulling long hours, but they're the exceptions and it's not generally expected). Could be partly related to the location, although I haven't seen evidence of people doing 80+ hour weeks in other offices yet either.
Show HN: my weekend project: Locate and reconnect with friends when you travel.
He makes some very good points, but I think it's still very early days for PaaS and it's evolving at a very rapid pace.

I'm sure functionality such as "load balancing between multiple data centre providers" isn't too far around the corner.
The thing is just about every router is available on Amazon. So there's no incentive to recommend an inferior product just to make money. Given that it also doesn't cost you anything I don't see the aversion to letting someone profit from driving traffic to Amazon for products they happen to like.

On the other hand I can see frowning upon writing a completely off-topic post just to drive affiliate traffic.
The NYT limits you to ~10 articles per month. Incognito mode is anonymous so it bypasses your maxed-out quota.
In perl culture, "Modern Perl" refers to bad programming by a core group of egocentric, sanctimonious developers who are to Perl what Lennart Poettering is to Linux.

There are now dozens of CPAN modules with names like "common::sense" and "Modern::Perl" that provide no useful code, but introduce packaging dependencies and administrative overhead in the name of not having to type "use strict;" out by hand.

Modern Perl is using Moose::Any instead of just using a language that does what you want. Modern Perl involves an average of 130 CPAN dependencies for any give application.

Modern Perl is when perl stopped being perl and started being awful.
Not to mention my Ghostery Chrome Extension found 25 tracking sites on the page.

* 24/7 Media
* Advertising.com
* AppNexus
* Bizo
* BlueKai
* DoubleClick
* eXelate
* Facebook Connect
* ForeSee
* Gigya Beacon
* Gigya Socialize
* Google +1
* Google AdWords Conversion
* Google Analytics
* Invite Media
* Krux Digital
* Legolas Media
* Media Innovation Group
* Right Media
* ScoreCard Research Beacon
* ShareThis
* TargusInfo
* Turn
* Vertical Acuity
* Visual Revenue

I think that's a little excessive, especially for an article about keeping logs.
I'm going to try this on my BBC Micro when I get home.
The tech field is like that. Work won't be any easier. In fact, expect major libraries and build tools that are internal to a large organization to be less elegant and documented. Learning stuff like that quickly is a skill you're going to need.

I don't have a lot of advice besides "practice".

Well, I do have some. Don't be afraid to open up the tool's source and read it. Try to design the tool yourself and you'll get a better sense of how it's likely to do things.

But mostly, practice.
If you measure success as being in senior management in a big company, it often is
Correct. People from "Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Rhode Island, or Connecticut" are banned from entering the program. [1]

1. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...
What is modern Perl? Python. (I'll elaborate more here from my earlier one-word answer).

Long-time perl programmer here, until I found Python. Perl is powerful, but Perl is for the programmer, not the programmer's coworkers. It's not even for the programmer 6 months down the line. This is nothing new, and it has become a stereotype in the community.

Yes, this argument has been made and refuted many times, but I argue the reason isn't the language, but the dominant language paradigms.

Perl's "monk" ideal is not sustainable in the long term, and encourages "clever hackers" who can do things with the fewest lines of fundamentally unreadable code. Yes, the language has evolved. Yes, it is slightly easier to read now. But the goals of the community still tend toward the ideals of becoming a master of arcana who can pass his wisdom down to the less experienced.

Give me a language that the commoners can read, that a beginning programmer can feel empowered to learn because he can take one look at the source code of someone truly experienced and know at least a part of what is going on.

You can change Perl all you want, but you cannot get away from the fundamental guiding principles of the language, which encourage antisocial, clever, and magic code.
Apple seem to be less interested in comparing themselves to MS and PCs in general these days.

In ~2005 their entire marketing was based around trying to sell you a Mac as a PC replacement "Your next PC should be a Mac".

I guess they are less interested now because it's a smaller % of their revenue and most of the people who would want/can afford a Mac are already giving them plenty of money so there's no desperate need to increase their market share in that area.
I used Sonic when I lived in SF. Dane himself tweeted back when I mentioned them, and their customer service has been super transparent (you can see on their support page [1] how many calls are on and waiting), extremely honest and helpful, even for a nerd like me.

I have nothing but admiration for these guys.

[1] http://www.sonic.net/support/index.shtml
HTML Code Headings paragraph
You may also want to consider directly marketing yourself to web agencies. Many agencies use freelancers when they have an overflow of work.
Which part did you find neat?
But if the volume of industrial products they sell goes up. then having just discovered that you get a cut of everything the customer buys - not just the book you linked to.

This could be good, especially when Amazon start selling 747s
SMOKING MAY BE GOOD FOR YOU
Device drivers are Linux device drivers, while not the most stable, that interface is quite mature and people have been mantaining device drivers for a decade. In my experience UI code gets messy much faster and easier than lower level.

No, there is no way Google is providing updates for hundreds of devices.
Everyone can take a bite at this type of problems for free, with online results evaluation on topcoder, interviewstreet and probably a few others.

Worth a visit a couple times a week, unless you are actually working on a hard problem yourself.
I believe that pwn2own has demonstrated that OSX and Safari are susceptible to drive by attacks; no download is necessary.
It sounds like you've worked with, at best, mediocre user experience designers. In my experience, a good IA never creates wireframes or comps. They rely on data (or testing when no data exists) to make meaningful associations and groupings of content. They use those learnings to help the uxd rationalize placements and flow through a ui. They work with content strategists and copy writers to maintain that structure as the site or application matures.

A good IA is really tough to find, and it's disappointing to hear engineers undervalue that role. It's typical from clients, but engineers I know that have worked with a good IA turn into advocates going forward.

And no, I'm not in UX.
Wikipedia is editorial warzone, says study
What if they were drinking buddies though and had known each other since childhood or somesuch?

Is there a rule that says a criminal defence solicitor can never be in a social setting with a Police Officer?
Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration
Most referrals actually come from other professionals (i.e. no I'm busy/too expensive, but there's this new kid that looks pretty promising.)

So what should get the ball rolling for you is to build one really great portfolio site at the top of your ability, making it as good as you possibly know how to make it.

Be prepared for it to be taken apart by a keen eye all the way down to someone checking out your HTML/CSS/JavaScript (don't minify!) to see if it's good quality.

Then find your local frontend/freelance community and stand out, be confident, tell people to check you out, approach top-notch guys and ask them for feedback and you should be all set ;)
I agree that this is probably a bit of an exaggeration, but probably not too far off. My brother who was a key part of mp3.com in the late 90s, was more or less working constantly for a couple of years. I lived with him for part of that time. He always got home later than me, left earlier, and rarely sat down to eat. He'd be up at all hours of the night working or checking servers, etc. He was wildly passionate about his work and was driven to make the company successful.
'Twisted light' carries 2.5 terabits of data per second
Since folks seem to not recall prior articles about marissa mayer, I believe it's clearly mentioned elsewhere that she's one of those people who via medical accident/ virtue only need a substantially reduced amount of sleep compared with most people. The journalist for this article is clearly an idiot for neglecting that important contextual info.

That Is all.
Thanks. I never read an article there because I always hit that page and assumed it was a pay wall. I don't accept cookies by default so maybe that's why I was never getting through. Do I feel the fool.
Well, theoretically they DO get viruses --but practically they don't.

All those past false alarms, touted to high heavens, were trojans. And they aren't even that many, at that. The one genuine virus like thing --which still wasn't a virus as it needed you to visit specific webpages-- infected like 100,000 Macs.

So, assuming ~ 20M Macs, 99.5% of the Macs out there haven't got any virus, ever. And with better OS X support for security (from better address space randomization to sandboxes to gatekeeper, etc), even fewer will get any in the future.

Geeks are quick to point the possibility of virus on Macs (or Linux, for that matter), but in practical terms it's like pointing the possibility of being hit by a thunder. It can happen, it even happened at some people, but normal people shouldn't be that worried about it.

If you disagree, please answer: should Ubuntu users also invest in an Linux antivirus? Because theoretically a virus can also happen there...

It's not the "lack of market share", either. OS 8/9 used to have tons of viruses with a 5 times less marketshare than OS X. Heck, even Amiga/Atari used to have plenty of viruses back in the day, with an insignificant amount of users, and NO actual monetary incentive (no web back then, no credit card details, no bots even).
"I'm not sure what I'm supposed to gather from this John/Norman comparison"

In my opinion, one thing that can happen is the following:

Norman gets easily a job at a great company where he'll continue to improve his skills amongst other 1% programmers; while John takes a job that isn't exactly what he wants, in a so-so unknown company, where he isn't challenged as much and isn't learning as fast.

After a few years, Norman changes job easily because he has worked for Google/Facebook/whatever and that acts as vesting to move him along quickly in the interview process at the new hot companies of the time. John has yet again a harder time because having worked for that unknown company doesn't give any special credit. He might have had to take some jobs that were not exactly what he wanted (e.g. support, QA) and that is questioned when he has interviews. Even with his additional experience, he still has to go the extra mile to pass the ex-Google, Facebook, etc.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Of course, I'm forcing the trait, but I think this scenario happens fairly frequently. Also, it's certainly possible for John to break the cycle by working on his own things and putting himself "out there", or by just "waiting" a few years until things even out a bit; however it feels that the extra efforts required are not reflecting the initial difference between Norman and John.
I won't speak of them. From what I've seen there are enough idiots in this world to go around.

The times that I've heard it was from waiting in line at Best Buy for repairs. Most people wouldn't get it because it is far different when spoken.
maybe you should recommend them some other tracking sites, so that they can add them to their collection ;)
I keep trying to find a way to set it lower but I can't. Maybe someone can help me.
I played Fez for a bit. And Braid. None of others. Care to explain what makes them so special?
There is evidence that for a wide range of jobs working 3x normal produces .5x to 1.5x as much output.
That’s the legal structure, sure, but put simply, Notch invested some of the money he made with Minecraft into Scrolls. He did that by founding a company together with his friend who had the idea for Scrolls (and that company is also supposed to support Minecraft as well as develop and publish other games in the future).
Do you have a website? that can help.
Also try posting ads on craigslist and perhaps networking with small businesses in your area.
My dad is a small business owner and I was able to start building my portfolio working for him, and then moving on to other small business owners he knows.

Odds are you have connections you haven't thought about, but they can really help you get off the ground.
Haskell performance: yes, it’s worth looking at the small stuff
Excel might be even more approachable. (And it does fall back on VB for more complex tasks.)
That sure looks like magic. Cool!

It feels as if some sleight of hand is hiding in the way they're explaining it, that they've developed a "material that black & white cameras can see through, BUT THE HUMAN EYE CANNOT". The way I see it (heh), the human idea can't "see through" any material, because seeing is not an active process like that makes it sound.

Some materials block radiation from reaching our eyes, while some do not. Those that don't, appear transparent or translucent.

So, I would assume that this plastic blocks wavelengths that are visible to us, but that b&w video cameras have a slightly wider range of wavelengths where they are sensitive, and the material isn't blocking those.

So now it will become routine for counter-surveillance folks to smash all black plastic objects when sweeping a room? :)
>> so dense with vocabulary, yet somehow lacks any meaningful content

Sounds to me like you learned a lot about typical information architecture :)