skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, obviously some of what he's saying is marketing appealing to emotion, but those corporations do exist. If you think you work at one, then it might be time to go, as something led you to that perception.

There is no hard and fast rule for when to leave a company, but the one rule that works for me is: it's time to go when it isn't fun anymore.
Browse around iTunes until you find a track that doesn't quite fit horizontally. Click the "zoom" button, to make the window big enough. Oh wait, it doesn't.

If by "developers" you mean "Apple" then yes. I never use the "zoom" button because it exhibits apparently random behaviour.
I go to UGA, and it's funny to see this on Hacker News.

Sad, but I swear this is how many of them think. (Male perspective, here.)

Yes, I'm in a fraternity. No, I don't date Greek girls, and it's precisely for attitudes such as this.
If you're writing really sensitive things then callbacks are great, but I strongly disagree that this should be considered "good enough" for app-level code, but with the current state of node as a community it seems like would be very very awkward to even introduce something else right now. node-fibers is definitely annoying since you have to compile but even if you didn't you'd still be wrapping all of your favorite existing libraries to have a nice interface. As for back-pressure etc there's no reason why that doesn't work well if not better and implicitly with sync-style, many languages do this already and do it really well. I love node but the core community needs to stop being ignorant towards other concepts thinking that callbacks are simply "the way to go" when they're simply codesmell for many if not most applications.

Stuff like "hey @nodejs people lets make a website called http://fibersarestupid.com in which we provide education on how to use callbacks and streams" certainly doesn't help, it just makes node as a community look childish, maybe the site should be called iDontUnderstandFibersThereforeIDismissThem.com... come on.
Thunderbird "papercuts" bug fixes - some continuing UX development
This is a real product that has been built. The manufacturer is shipping at the end of July and has several other arm boards to their credit.

Ouya doesn't have anything more than some marketing.
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Can Betaworks Make Digg into the Web’s First Ever Turnaround?
Awesome! They have some of the best, brightest, young engineers at tellapart. Can't wait to go!
Can you elaborate as to why you think this would be a bad thing?

Shouldn't the companies be allowed to keep their own IP and product?
It seems like you're describing something completely different from FB chat. anyway you could just encrypt the text, base64-encode it, and paste it into the chat box. still more convenient than email.
One thing that I don't get about BrowserID is how it's supposed to work on shared systems / web cafes. There doesn't seem to be any obvious way to log out. The best you can do is 'log me out after an hour', which is crap.
Thought of the PicoStation right away too. I'm still surprised competition at the same level/price hasn't sprung up.
> (aka a 2:1 ratio and a 1:1 ratio)

I don't recall saying it was a 1:1 ratio. As I recall, jrockway specified 20 minutes content, 10 minutes ads. It's plausible to call ten fifty percent of twenty, leading to his unfortunate grammar vs math, but that wasn't his point.

Btw, per Wikipedia, "a typical 30-minute block of time now includes 22 minutes of programming and eight minutes of advertisements", making it quite clear as I also used the terms, that "programming" is not "ads".

Using the wiki terminology, that's a 30 minute block of time, 22 minutes of programming, 8 minutes of ads. So, contrary to your assertion a couple comments up, programming and ads and time were the correct words, and my application of the word "time" was appropriate and accurate.

As it happens, this topic was of interest to me as I've researched ad load periodically for my work in online video delivery.

A few years ago, reality programming had 17 to 18 minutes of content and 12 - 13 minutes of advertisements, while scripted shows were consistently 22 minutes of content with 8 minutes of ads. Depending on your sampling of shows, 2:1 (20 to 10) is a reasonable average. To be fair, total ad content has gone back down a bit since.

However, it's still getting worse if you include sponsored content in the shows themselves. This link:

http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/average-hour-long-...

shows that of late night talk shows in 2009, "the combined load of brand appearances and network ad messages in these late night shows is 29m34s per hour, or 49% of total content time."

There's your 1:1 ratio! In any case, whether 33% or 49%, or "36% of an average prime-time hour", as reported above, saying that +/- 2 mins of ads undermines jrockway's double dipping claim is like an airline stewardess pushing your seat that last quarter inch forward as if it made the difference between life and death (with apologies to Seinfeld).

There are simply too many damn ads to be paying again for the privilege of being advertised to. That's why I no longer subscribe to cable (that, and half the cable bill being the particular genre of reality show called "sports", which isn't of interest to me). I spend my dollars à la carte.

TL;DR:

This link offers measured commercial time per television hour:

http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/average-hour-long-...

It says late night talk shows may have advertising "49% of total content time", while commercials are "36% of an average prime-time hour".
Cost? Squatters will ask for $2k as soon as you demonstrate interest.
Where to find mentors and peers if you don't stay in SV?
"Papercut" is Mozilla's term for annoyances and inconsistencies experienced by users when interacting with an app.

6 devs (so far) plan to fix 5 of these each over the next year, and improve UX.

More details here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.d...
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You say this, but I assure you that, for many women at UGA, it is not. Men are right to be apprehensive, as there's nothing worse than being locked down by the "wrong" one. I'd swear to you, many women here date complete tools for fear of not having a boyfriend. They are, in effect, in love with the idea of being in love. No one wants that.

Satire aside, the author is correct about a happy marriage being important for one's future. Indeed, a good marriage is far less transient than one's career, and once kids arrive, you're financially tethered for 18 years+. Also, let us not forget studies showing the importance of a few meaningful relationships' effect on one's happiness.
Ask HN: Am I the only Developer who's turned down offers to become a Tech Lead?
The standard progression at my organization seems to be Dev->Senior Dev-> Lead Dev.

I've been a Senior Dev for 3 years and have turned down 2 offers to become a Project Tech Lead. It seems to have surprised a bunch of people in the management so I'm getting second thoughts about whether I'm doing the right thing by bucking this trend.

My primary reasons for not becoming a tech lead are
1) I make enough money that at this point in my life, I'd rather have more personal time than money.
2) I feel like a Tech Lead's role is more stressful given the responsibilities. Why would anybody want to take on extra stress/responsibilites is beyond me.

3) I haven't felt any sense of 'stagnation' in my development career, I don't see why I should f* with it.

I'm looking for opinions about what other people would do in my situation. If you've taken a decision like this before, I'd love to hear about it. I feel a weird pressure to conform to this trend by watching my peers climb the ladder while I stay where I am.
Yep, this is planned once we get cross platform support (still need IE8 and mobile) https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor/issues/41
This is the next thing we'll be tackling after IE8 support actually. It'll have a totally custom look for mobile. https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor/issues/27
What are you suggesting then? Are you looking for a co-founder?
Show HN: A streaming redis client for node
Was reported today and we responded here: https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor/issues/148
That's...fucking awesome.
Fair enough. I'm not trying to be trite, just reading what I see.
> your robot needs to be able to be decontaminated when it gets back

unless it's disposable
I was editing for brevity, there are some awesome things about my job that balance the terrible.
Note it's 'acquiring the assets' rather than 'acquiring the company'.

In general this means the steaming wreck of a company will be left behind, asset stripped. In other words, if Digg owes you money, you're not going to be able to ask the new owners for it.

It also means it's up to them which employees (if any) they take on.

This is a sale of brand name, domain name, IP and probably very little else.
This news made me lose my interest in FB more. They continually go beyond user's privacy.
That's not culturally unique to UGA or any specific region. I've met such women up here in the Northeast. It's still a satire piece; the author posted a poll a few hours later to clue in anyone that didn't see that right off the bat.
Which isn't mentioned in the title.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/wgix8/til_its...
You are absolutely correct; I have consulted with several companies, large and medium sized, who have this exact thing happen. Just to quote the article again:

Having internal firewalls between servers that don’t need to talk to each other — again a good idea. But if your service doesn’t actually need this, don’t necessarily do it

I can not think of any reason why "your service doesn't actually need this" and "don't necessarily do it". I understand that it costs money to do these things, but setting up a firewall is relatively cheap, significantly less than the cost of the additional cleanup if the breach is not contained.

Security, in a way, can be compared to insurance. Sure, if you are young and live a healthy life style you may not necessarily see the need to spend $100+ a month for a health insurance policy, you can save a bunch of money... but if an accident does happen, you can rest assured it will cost you significantly more than if you had just bought the insurance in the first place.

This, in a sense, is the security tradeoff.

I think really smart engineers who are well versed in security can know where security needs to be, and yes it is possible to go overboard, but I think this is the exception rather than the rule. Advising readers that it's ok to not worry too much about security because:

lot of services (even banks!) have serious security problems

is absolutely ridiculous and is horrible advise.
When I'm coding the bottleneck is my brain, not input speed... so vim seems like a micro-optimization to me.

I use CUA and can be productive everywhere immediately, even if it may be a bit less efficient.
I would say this is close enough to warrant the hyperbolie.

https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel

Encryption is great, as long as the people you don't want to hear it can't decrypt it. Given the NSA's recent moves to build up computing power, and the way Moore's law works, your encrypted communications today are fodder for review tomorrow.
A Proposal for Simplified, Modern Definitions of "Object" and "Object Oriented"
Don't forget the controller and software. The concern is that they promised too much, not too little.
If there really is a smaller barrier to developing for Ouya than other consoles, there will be Ouya exclusives.
Why? I think this is a real psychological effect. Humans are not Vulcans. I think a similar psychological effect also works with minorities. Or really anyone about whom stereotypes exist.

This is interesting in terms of game theory. Where the very existence of a stereotype makes ending that stereotype harder.
Please make it accept bitcoin. No, seriously.

If you convert the bitcoins to cash automatically on reception I don't see any issues with people's confidence in the currency -- it just transparently becomes a payment vector for real dollars that automatically get exchanged via mtgox or whatever.

I really look forward to the day when I can just toss a few bitcoins towards programmers or musicians on the internet. Right now, signing up my credit card for every website I want to interact with is just not going to happen, and Paypal isn't an option for me either.

I wish services like bandcamp and things like bug bounties and the like allowed me to just throw some coins their way, but instead there's this whole complicated credit system with one or more third parties to deal with, and it's annoying. I hate typing my CC number into every damn website I want to make a microtransaction with.

Personally I don't know or care whether bitcoin will transform world economics the way some people predict, but I do think it's a pretty convenient way to deal with internet transactions, even if it's just used as a temporary medium for real currency. This kind of thing, in all honesty, is its "killer app."
You can use any editor over ssh these days. Just mount it with sshfs.
to be fair he did mention array_pluck, but the odds are for the most awkward name.
Compete just makes numbers up. Those uniques are so far off for reddit it isn't even funny.
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I love Vim, but I don't ever recommend it to anyone. I think it gives me an advantage. Whey would I want other people using it and thus lose that advantage?
It wasnt an email exchange, it was a quora comment thread, here:

http://www.quora.com/Reddit/Why-has-this-link-on-Biggest-fin...
Unless it pays a lot more it's not worth it.
Independent currencies don't have that particular source of demand, but economies are made of much more than tax debts. And you could argue that overbearing policy itself creates demand for currencies that enable untaxable (and other illicit) transactions. Government itself could be said to encourage demand for both forms of currency.

I doubt that the 'neat technology' aspect contributes much to the exchange rate; or little more impact than coin and banknote collectors have on mainstream currencies. You don't need to put much money in, or participate in many transactions, in order to examine the technology itself.
Russia's parliament votes for Internet censorship law
I don't know... I was part of a big migration to reddit around 2008-2009.

I remember there being tons of threads on Reddit of ex-diggers making fun of Digg around then. There were frequent posts daily about the complete degradation of quality on Digg back then.

The running joke was all the posts on Digg's current frontpage were from Reddits frontpage yesterday.

The redesign (in 2010) was the nail in the coffin.
This article mentions that digg was "outmaneuvered" by Facebook and Twiiter. But I don't think they are even really related, I was a Digg user in the early days and it's Reddit that killed Digg in my opinion.
My Chuck Close problem
Hi Mattt, in PFQueryTableViewController, the downloading does not start until the scrolling stops. We chose to do this because we wanted the default loading behavior to be very passive. You could verify this is indeed the behavior from the animated gif - the network activity does not start until the table finished scrolling.
Looking for someone to run and grow the site for share of the profits.
There are a lot of smaller cities without public transportation. Not just frustrating public transportation like San Francisco's MUNI or even complete jokes of public transportation like Los Angeles, but literally none at all.
The "Pitch" page asks for a US address though :(
Are there any boards out there that have an open GPU?
Sonar scans show that Baltic sea'UFO' may actually be a secret Nazi super-weapon
You do realize that you're in the minority, right? Not too many people would buy an Xbox and use it for Netflix and though Microsoft is happy to have your money, they probably were not betting the farm that many consumers would have your spending profile.
What if Google did this with its properties (search, gmail, gtalk, etc)?
JJ Abrams & an idea on Ripping Off The Work of Others
Don't Forget About the API Pioneers When You Think APIs Wont Work
I don't think it is that simple.
A length extension attack is fairly irrelevant for password storage...
I know the bidders who were seeking designing their new Utah Datacenter. I think I am perfectly well acquainted with what the NSA does.
Elastic is Hiring Engineers + Come by and grab a drink tomorrow night!
We're not building CRM software; we're creating the sales communication platform of the future. We're looking for designers and developers to help us unify the world's sales calls and emails into one beautiful workflow.

https://elasticsales.com/

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/28/swipegood-is-now-elastic-sales-as-a-service/

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Our team is small and fast-moving and we're looking to bring on a couple people who will directly help shape the products we're building. You should be comfortable taking project ideas and running with them, design mockups, iterating, and working closely with other developers to implement great UIs.

You should care about:

- Pixels: have a strong sense for visual design and know your way around Photoshop

- Users: design/implement UI/UX that create positive experiences for people

- Code: a deep understanding of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. (Bonus for Backbone.js or Python/Django experience)

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We're looking for a couple strong developers to join our core team who have a strong understanding of web technologies and want to help design, implement, and scale major features and systems.

Our current stack includes AWS, Nginx, Python/Django, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and JavaScript/Backbone.js, but we are mostly just interested in using whatever tools work best for the problems at hand.

You should:

- Have demonstrated experience in several of the technologies we are using

- Enjoy designing and optimizing systems to make them super fast

- Be a big fan of APIs - both using and creating them

- Love startups and be comfortable in a fast paced environment

Bonus for any of the following:

- Being great at implementing beautiful UIs in JavaScript and CSS

- Have Cocoa/Objective-C experience

- Have experience with phone systems like Asterisk or FreeSWITCH

To apply, please send your resume, GitHub profile (or similar), and links to any personal projects you've worked on to meagan@elasticsales.com

Also, we’re having a pivot party tomorrow night! Come meet the team, grab a drink, and see the space!

https://elasticsales.com/blog/2012/07/06/pivot-party/
sshfs allows you to use any editor you like.
Tvintec
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Are you serious? You don't think "Nintendo" in the name wasn't at all beneficial? Or the library of first party exclusive games?
Well, we still use social auth, but now it's LinkedIn :)
He's proven his belief in the product by taking a stand. This is already more than most could hope to do. For that I offer my applause. If this isn't a next big thing, it at least offers a life changing mindset. For that I offer my thanks.
Encryption isn't just about hiding your documents. It is also about securing your assets and providing identification.

- The passwords on your bitcoin wallet give you the authority to spend your money.

- Your encrypted signature requires your private key so other's know your message came from you.

So, this law gives the government the ability to impersonate you and consume/use your assets in an unrecoverable way.

While the government might not have the authority to impersonate you or spend your money, they do have the authority to acquire the means to do so. And then all it takes is one dishonest person working for the government to use that information maliciously.
seems like solid advice to me.
That's honestly something you will only understand after having used a macbook for some while. There's tons of stuff Apple does that annoy me, especially what comes out of their legal team. I always check out the new gear from other manufacturers. Nothing quite cuts it. Of course this is all subjective and depends on the characteristics about a laptop you value most. If it's pure performance or repairability they aren't right for you.
While this break-down is very interesting, it all boils down to one thing: they announced an innovative feature that interests a lot of people. Things could have played out differently but the outcome would be the same - lots of signups.

If someone from the company is reading: I found out I already have an account (probably from the time it launched), but I can't access it. Login doesn't work and when I try to reset my password it says "e-mail not found".
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I prefer Mousetool (on Windows at least):

http://code.google.com/p/windows-dwell-clicker/
It is a fictional take on where I think Facebook is going, a cyberpunk short story.
I have a friend who works as an electrical engineer for the Israeli army. He told me that in some ways working for the military is better than working as a civilian, since a boss only cares about the work you, whereas your officer is responsible for you as a person, including your health and well-being.
What he's saying is that ivankirigin should have said that himself. I don't know that he has any credibility to his statement and wasn't going to give it any merit until akent made me realize that ivankirigin had first-hand experience.
It is native in FF. press '/' to search, type in link name and then press enter.
You know, I'm doing an experiment like this with Tetris. I was looking at the world record for 40 line clear (20.55 seconds at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUUKKuye24) and I realized that the limit is not how fast he thinks, but how fast he is pressing the keys.

So I designed my own system. One key press drops the piece instantly into the correct spot, with the correct rotation. It's making my brain hurt practicing because it requires so much thinking, but once I get it into muscle memory, things are going to get really interesting. My 40 line best using the arrow keys is 45 seconds and with my new scheme it is 2:21. But I'm dropping time quickly and I'm sure very soon I'll beat my record.
I've never been fired -- quit all my jobs. Even got rehired, by two different employers. When I quit, sometimes, things were bad, though. One employer wanted me to crack the secure hash algorithm. He's delusional, not me!

God says...
C:\Text\Words\AUGUST.TXT

path
pleasurable snares, wherein his virtuous and free feet might be
entangled.

For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should
stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so
oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and
urged in my defence when I saw him wonder, that there was great
difference between his momentary and scarce-remembered knowledge of
that life, which so he might easily despise, and my continued
acquaintance whereto if t

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One lesson I learned is: any product that is on the market is like a olympic medalist. The market is brutal, so one thing you know about any product is it was an insane undertaking. So, if your boss seems unreasonable, every product was unreasonable.

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The Lexmark OPTRA-T printer used a Dallas button with SHA. I worked for a company making toner and chips to refill cartridges.

http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/154

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I worked at Ticketmaster 1990-1996 and briefly in 2002

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1
Digg sold for 500k
Have you tried using Stripe? (http://www.stripe.com)
It's easy to say this in hindsight, but the fact is that the VC model is grow big fast, and spend lots of money to do that.

I don't see you saying Google made the same mistakes and that they should of stuck to search. And Apple had no business making a phone.