skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the question, anon user who created an account 3 minutes ago.

You can't realistically boil these things down in a web form text input. So we put a wide range for both salary AND equity to indiciate optionality on the part of the person we end up hiring.
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Deploying the VMware vCenter Virtual Appliance on OSX
How to Charge 100X More Than Your Competition
Well said. Also, the very fact that the service allowed lower quality games is actually a good thing ... many game developers made well received titles on XNA and have moved on to bigger and better things (see Ska Studios, and Zeboyd Games for two examples).
Several years ago, Blackberry was the only way to get reasonably secure email on remote devices. Lots of companies standardised on that, and have kept going because it's the easy option and it still works.

It's been possible to get mail/calendar/etc on other devices for a while (and even for devices owned by your employees rather than purchase by you). But if your directors are all using Blackberries then it can be hard to justify the migration cost, especially for small/medium companies or places that are particularly conservative.

But when it looks like Blackberry might not be around for much longer, all that changes. Articles like this are the sign of (another) tipping point for RIM.

[ I'm a sysadmin at a small Blackberry-only company. Two managers sent me this article today and asked what we were doing ]
That was a great read. Some of the author's enthusiasm comes across a bit campy at points, but in general, they seem justified in casting themselves as pariahs.

The whole scenario is a collission of off-color concerns. On one hand, you have notaries and the notary establishment (yeah, I made that up) fighting to save their place in the market. Then you have lawmakers who see it, fail to understand it, and are then lobbied by the aforementioned establishment. Then you've got consumers like PG who are (rightfully) on edge about the legality and scam-factor associated with the idea. Everyone is watching this out of the corner of their eye, defaulting to the position that something is fishy.

Notarization is something business people are trained to treat with some reverence. The entire concept of a signature as an agent of identification is a bit bizzare when you think about it. Your signature is not a secret, but it remains a critical security element. Notarization is a hack. It's another layer of the same thing varnishing over the whole "signature means agreement" show. Yet it's so simple, and so engrained in our way of conducting business that any attempt to change it freaks everyone out. Fascinating.
He wants the animation to be smooth, but once you finish scrolling, it should be align itself to the nearest line.
It’s close enough to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to work for me. I’m more concerned with whether the general idea adds some value to my thinking than trying to take them down a peg for any perceived smugness.

And speaking as an ex-salesperson, this general model is extremely relevant when attempting to persuade someone to change. Within the narrow confine of a single decision, different people are at different places in a hierarchy like this, and you are wasting your time if you argue at the wrong level.

It’s important to remember that placement in the hierarchy with respect to a specific choice is not a value judgment about a human being. I spend a lot of time daydreaming about programming languages, but when there’s a plumbing problem in my house I just want it fixed. Someone might be a latte-sipping derivatives poet but happy to hack together some Perl to process some data feeds.

It’s up to you of course, but I find I get a lot less out of essays I read if I get sidetracked into making value judgments about the authors. If there’s something there worth thinking about, why let the other stuff distract you?
No, it's the best time.
Does it crawl revision history as well? I can deal with the gigabytes - it's the terabytes that scare me! (i.e full revision dumps).
Wasn't the only question asked:

> Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching?

Which to me is still unanswered but very interesting.
This is a great point, I've always been towards the bottom of the pyramid (just coding to "make stuff work"), so when people have tried to sell me on the latest and greatest, based on the beauty, etc... were never compelling enough for me to switch.
Mail-Pilot is awesome for email as an inbox. Take a look at Mail-Pilot.com and how it has read later, tasks, connections to people, and more. Disclosure that I'm one of their backers.
I used to do this for passwords and such. The problem was that the file would become un-synched and I'd end up with several "<computer name>'s version..." copies. The problem is that with Dropbox you aren't accessing a single file, you're accessing a local copy. So concurrent access, especially when a file is being held open on Windows, creates problems.
I figure for $99 this is a fun experiment. If it sucks, I backed an interesting idea and I'm not out much money. If it doesn't suck, I have a neat new toy to play with.

At the very least, it might let me drop my XBox Live Gold subscription, which I only have so I can stream Netflix.
The lack of a plan between tiny and huge may be intentional. Cellphone providers seem to work the same way, offering cheap starter plans with just enough minutes so you either go over each month, and consider upgrading to the massive plan.

If only cell providers also followed this precedent of regularly stepping down the price of all the plans!
You have too many generalizations in your post with no mention of the countless variables which make a project a success or not. Dollar figures are almost meaningless as this is just one small part of the whole picture.

One of the best pieces of advice I have ever heard regarding offering development services is that the technical skills are easy to pick up, it's the people skills which are difficult. It's the people skills that buyers are willing to pay for if they have the budget. These cheap developers aren't able to connect with the people skills, so they aren't able to break out of their low cost offerings. Instead, they might work for a middle-man who handles the client for a mint and hands off the work for cheap.

Also, if developers on Odesk racking up 5 star ratings are so great, then why don't companies such as Github and 37Signals with mostly remote teams just go snap up all the 5 star developers they can find on Odesk? The reason is that there is a big gap between A-level developers and C-level developers and that gap is measured in ROI. Dollar amounts mean nothing, ROI is the most important number. A 5 star developer working cheaply on Odesk might get the job done with passable code, but the A-level developer who isn't on Odesk (no need because this person has no problem finding work) will deliver a much higher ROI.

Sure, the A-level developer won't be a good fit for every situation (maybe you really just need someone really cheap to get the job done ugly) but this person doesn't have much competition.

As for the service from the OP goes, just get going. You never know until you at least start the initial probing.
3D Load Packer - an efficient 3D rectangular space optimization tool
3D Load Packer (3DLP) is one of the best space optimizers designed to help you plan quickly and easily the best compact arrangement of a number of different size 3D rectangular objects within one or more rectangular enclosures.
If any Dwolla folks are looking, this page seems to have massive character encoding problems when viewed with the Android Browser (Android 2.3). It's...rather interesting.
I am in a cargo-cult, what do I do if the plane actually lands...
Unfortunately for PA, their content is probably 90% games/pop culture topical. After a month it'd be completely stale and irrelevant (with exceptions of course).

I think the better move would be to have pay users not have to see any ads. Simple web re-design to remove that for pay users, otherwise free users still have to look at the ads. There are a ton of sites that do this and are quite successful.
He uses cufon on the website, but this page is just a bunch of jpegs — mail1.jpg, mail2.jpg, etc.
Shinji Kagawa's girlfriend Ameri Ichinose
No I am not sure and that's not the point...
Computer Watches Humans Play Connect Four, Then Beats Them
7,000 binary packages for OSX Lion
And then some of them at that "bad programming tutorial" level somehow end up really entertaining :D

e.g.: I made a game with zombies in it
(yes, this is a shameless plug, nope I didn't write it, nope I don't know who did; but... for a dollar, it's some of the most fun I've had on xbox and it is a VERY rudamentary concept)
3-2-1: Three copies, two local, one remote. That's backup. Anything less is "backup".

I use Time Machine for local and Backblaze for remote. Very happy with both. Dropbox is great for stuff I want to sync across machines or share with others. And my local Dropbox is watched by TM and BB, so even if DB implodes, locks me out, and wipes everything from my local drive, I maintain local and remote copies that its system can't reach.

The best part is that I never think about any of it. All this just runs in the background, keeping (virtually) up to the minute copies of whatever I'm working on. And I've tested the recovery features well enough to be confident that I can fully restore where ever and when ever needed. I consider backup a solved problem.
Because dropbox will save bandwidth by only updating the parts of files that have changed. If you use truecrypt the entire file will change for every small change you do. Basically you lose any advantage of using dropbox over a standard FTP system.
Arabic Machine Manuscript
Ways to refine your product idea (and get early users)
I find I get a lot less out of essays I read if I get sidetracked into making value judgments about the authors

Similarly, I find I get a lot less out of essays when it seems that the authors are making value judgments about me.
This looks like it would be great for competitive research as well. I just created a digest of 10 apps or so that I want to keep tabs on. I'll probably eventually go back to iTunes Reviews RSS/Google Reader but getting an email digest will be personally helpful in the short term. Thanks!
hopefully this line doesn't use the 'advanced format' abomination
How is it any different from downloading any other code and running it?

Are you saying you audit every piece of unsigned code you run?

I admit that putting bit.ly into the chain of trust is quite a bold step, but is it really that different to, say, the rubygems server? Or your wireless router?

EDIT: also, LOL at "mundanes."
> Higher-perf than its "green" line of hard drives (but not as good as "black")

So better performance than drives optimised for low power consumption and less performance (but less power consumed) than drives optimised for performance. Sounds like their blue line.

> rated for 10°F hotter conditions than previous WD offerings

Now that is useful assuming the rating isn't artificially inflated somehow (or the other drives deflated) - the heat build up in little NAS boxes packed with drives can be rather considerable.
Spy Agencies Say They Won't Read Americans' email
"If comms are out, we have power to turn them back on so we can talk to the other parts of government" sounds like a really good idea. Not a power overreach.

Shitty headline IMO.
Planet Argon launches FamilyLink - Helping aging adults live at home longer
Bitly Raises $15M Led by Khosla Ventures
I use mbsync (http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html) and mutt. The thing I hate is that Mutt's native OfflineIMAP support is broken, forcing me to use an external maildir syncer, but other than that, it works great. I still haven't set up search.
'Over-engineering' is a term I'm starting to pay a lot more attention to :)
The CEO Is Not The Talent
If we share files using dropbox it comes out of both of our allowances (+ what everyone else said)
> Don't make "unfair" accusations -- say why you think that

Because there seems to be a bias in selecting the problems solved in the benchmark games: to be "fair" they should be randomly selected from a pool of all possible problems solved with computer programs. Or, maybe, the frequency of these problems in the real world should be taken into account?

Of course, they're not actually unfair since they hide nothing. The error is in the interpretation, e.g. "My program will be faster if I write it in language X instead of Y."

The nice link you posted sums it up well:
"Programming languages are compared against each other as though their designers intended them to be used for the exact same purpose - that just isn't so."

edit: Spelling..
It was not a flimsy basis. The site was specifically claiming online notarization was legal in all states, if I recall correctly[1].

It is NOT legal in California.

They now appear to have modified their claims. As far as I can see, they only say online signing is legal, not online notarization.

[1] The Internet Archive has not crawled them since 2009, when the domain appears to have been used for something completely different, so I can't check to be sure exactly what they said and what has changed.
> The majority of the Clojure startup time is spent on initializing the Clojure runtime.

That's correct but even without this startup time Clojure is significantly slower than other functional languages. Look at SBCL and Racket in

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...

That doesn't mean that I don't like Clojure. I am even considering it for a business project. But Clojure is definitely unsuitable for small apps (shell scripts etc.)

Btw the benchmark listing doesn't take LuaJIT into account. This JIT is the fastest I have ever encountered, way ahead of JVM regarding startup time.
Imagine Bit.ly gets backdoored, and that shortlink is repointed at a script that just contains rm -rf /
you're free to replace one by a facade around a remote service.

RPC rarely lives up to this promise. Starting simple is certainly a good approach, but don't fool yourself about how hard it's going to be when you need to deal with latency and partial failure later.
This is so close to Sparrow because it completely rips-off the Sparrow's design.

Take a look at the compose new mail window, it's the same except the send button is red (and I think the bcc line has moved up). The toolbar icons and order of the icons are identical to Sparrow.

All sorts of other little things that could be different too are not, like the select state of the current email.

It would be ok if he, at least, mentioned that it was based on Sparrow.

There's one or two original things in the design, for example, he put his url in the left corner though.
This came at a perfect time for me. When Google Drive came out, I made the leap. GD was priced significantly better than DropBox, so I went with GD. However, I've had an awful experience with Google. Tons of syncing issues and the background app that does the syncing is awful.

I've never had a problem with my free Dropbox account - and I can't wait to move over to this.
Best practices in web design: contract management via Docracy
While I see a phone call as fundamentally different from an email, I don't see SMS as different. In fact, I see it as a really lame competing implementation of the same basic idea that deserves to die as soon as possible.
That example is full of state.

That's why I said it appears to try and avoid state. Either way, as far as I'm concerned it's an horrific way to write code in an imperative language such as PHP.
Lack of reasonable Linux support made it surprisingly difficult to find a backup provider. I ended up going with CrashPlan. I tried SpiderOak but their client software was terrible and the headless install basically didn't work.
Force-directed graphs (as in the WikiWeb "node view") tend to fascinate but then frustrate me.

They seem to show so much, in the relative placement/distances/angles of nodes and edges. But when you get right down to it, almost all that eye-catching detail is random noise. The same "spokes" could be in any radial order. The relative above/below/right/left positioning could be reversed with no loss of meaning. Often dragging a cluster can result in a completely different set of 'nearnesses'. And as andymangold mentions elsewhere in this thread, for WikiWeb even the set of nodes that are expanded from any origin are randomly chosen... so you can't even follow the same path twice.

So these graphs tempt with their visual connotation that they are information-dense and stable like a real map, but then turn out to be splatter-art, pretty but with most of the ink being random noise.

These problems might be fixable with extra layout constraints. What if shorter articles were always up and longer ones down? More-inlinked to the left and less-inlinked to the right? What if edge lengths or thicknesses were correlated to other notions of bidirectional similarity? Of course doing this, in an automated fashion that continues to look nice and meaningful in every corner of the dataset, is quite hard.

Something forcing a little more of a 'tree' feel, at least when moving in certain directions, could help pack more deterministic meaning and text into a small area. (Think vague intimations of Miller Columns within a rendered graph.)
What if you'd like to develop a gem not for any specific platform? What if you want to develop desktop apps, or make CLI apps to automate little things on your usual platform?
I never got used to Chrome's Developer Tools. Firebug and a properly working Scrollbar Anywhere / Grab-n-drag (lets you right click anywhere and drag up and down to scroll anywhere in the page) are the only extensions keeping me on Firefox.

The equivalents on Chrome are simply not good enough. I don't know if this is an issue with all Chrome extensions, but Wet Banana / Scrollbar Anywhere on it seem to be running in a low priority and thus have sub-par performance. Scrolling is choppy and doesn't always even initiate, depending on where on the page I right-clicked.
California Northern District Court, Case No. 3:12-cv-01082-MMC
Tradehill, Inc. v. Dwolla, Inc. et al

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=716058
And yet, our deepest condolances.
Microsoft is a natural monopoly because of the network effects between number of consumers of an OS and number of developers for an OS. What makes Google a natural monopoly?
Again you inject the authors into the discussion. Why don’t we pretend I have this warehouse full of monkeys tapping on typewriters. We walk by one of the monkeys and look at what it has written. Hmm, seems interesting. It could be all wrong, it could be useful. Why can’t we just just examine the words on the paper for what they are and see if they're useful to think about?

If you’d rather not, you go your way and I will go mine.
I think what pron is saying is that initial writes are lock-free but updates to existing data will require locks in most cases?
Why Dosen't Linux Companies Do Web Design on Linux?
The irony of the whole thing is that it is usually the pragmatists and not the idealists who wind up "moving industry forward", because by definition, the pragmatists get things done. The world needs C not lisp.
Set "Camera upload" to On in Settings in the app
Do You know Who’s Killing Your Word of Mouth?
It sounds from the article like Uber had a $15 minimum already. Now they're dropping it to $12, in "apparent defiance".

Looks like 'earned media' to me, free mentions in the press for throwing a fit.
Isn't that when it matters the most?
Ok, so the $2500 is the budget for the developer's machine. A more important question is: who owns the machine, the developer or the company?

If it is the former, I see no reason to complain.
Perhaps they've run the numbers, and decided that a fair price for, say, a 25G account is less than the hassle of having to do billing is worth?
Trust me, I'm fully aware of all of the trouble with getting RPCs to work properly. I still think that it is easier to do that work after you have the original non-rpc version as a reference.
Broadcasting live from inside a human stomach
Would not the top of the pyramid intersect with the bottom in the land of computer science research, where new ideas are being developed but the software itself is often hacked together to the point of just barely working?

Not sure if this is a useful observation, or only an observation.
Imagine your wifi box gets backdoored.

Imagine your ISP's router gets backdoored.

Imagine if the server you got your bash from gets backdoored.

Imagine if the rails repo gets backdoored.

Imagine if the plant where apple images the macbook HDDs gets backdoored.

Imagine all the people, living for today...

(But yeah, personally, I'd forgo the bit.ly part as its unnecessary.)
Yes but it's a lot easier and cheaper to protect against e.g. a major bug surfacing in amazon's cloud management api vs protecting against an asteroid hitting earth.
Python REST Examples For Parse
Tablet screen sizes compared
Seems like such a perfect opportunity for competitors to step up.
Organize and secure your bill payments [USA only]
This is a weird one. Does this enhance something that Oracle already does or are they exploring new areas?
New sit/stand desk
It also acts as Steam's XBLIG equivalent for games that haven't (yet) been approved for Steam proper, which I don't think is a bad thing.

As long as they allow developers to link to their own downloads and homepages, this is going to be a huge opportunity for smaller indies to market themselves, with a Steam brand name and a simple voting mechanism. As a developer of niche games, I'm pretty excited about it.
And yet the ideas of Lisp are what's driving modern languages forward. The world needs both.

The world needs people actually getting relevant stuff done right now, and the world needs the dreamers who focus on Utopia. Ideally, both learn from each others' experiences, without declaring that really, they are the group the world really needs.
Construção de piscinas
It's built into Outlook 2010. See the attachment tab in the People Pane [1] -- I use it all the time.

[1]: https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/introduction...
There's a reason Dropbox won't introduce smaller plans. As it stands the vast majority of Dropbox Pro users aren't filling up their boxes much at all, effectively paying for capacity and bandwidth they're not using, and subsidizing a minority of superusers that are maxxing out. If Dropbox introduced a 25GB plan a vast chunk of their user base would switch to it, Dropbox's hosting costs would hardly change (users aren't using most of their space), but their income from subscriptions would drop massively.
"I just can't see it fitting into a natural flow of purchasing."

Dwolla is a benefit to merchants. Under $10 no fee over $10 .25 (see how long this lasts of course). Presumably the merchant because they are saving money will offer an incentive to the buyer to make the trouble worth it, at least in theory.
I found using a staging environment that is a clone of production to trump developing in a vm. All code goes through staging before production so there is no surprises
Iirc skydrive offers 25 gigs. I wonder why they're saying just 7 though.

EDIT - Yep my account says 25. I'm thoroughly confused.
This reminds me of Hamdy Taha and his textbook on Operations research, who proposed that simpler approaches should be approached first:

Responding to complaints of slow elevator service in a large office building, the OR team initially perceived the situation as a waiting-line problem that might require the use of mathematical queuing analysis or simulation. After studying the behavior of the people voicing the complaint, the psychologist on the team suggested installing full-length mirrors at the entrance to the elevators. Miraculously the complaints disappeared, as people were kept occupied watching themselves and others while waiting for the elevator.

update: fixed formatting.
Intel shows off the tip of the Windows 8 iceberg