skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MySpace isn't exactly a great example since many suggest its death spiral is due to their bet on Microsoft technology and .NET :)
http://scobleizer.com/2011/03/24/myspaces-death-spiral-due-t...

I'm not sure Plenty of Fish is a great proof either (that .NET is good for a start-up) since it was built by just 1 man, who just uses Response.Write http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture/:

>> In the process of getting rid of ASP.NET repeaters and instead uses the append string thing or response.write...

Even as a long time .NET developer, I don't believe .NET is optimal for Internet Start-Ups. Most of the pro-web talent are in Ruby/Python/node.js camps where they enjoy first class support of all the popular web DSL's (e.g. less, sass, jade, handlebars, etc). As well as all the bundling, optimization and minification tools which were available for years in other platforms and have only recently been a supported option in .NET with System.Web.Optimization. The pro-web (Single Page App) community is relatively non-existant in .NET. E.g. none of the showcase apps on http://backbonejs.org (the most popular SPA JS fx) are in .NET.

The ASP.NET website packaging model doesn't scale (productivity-wise), since the larger the website becomes the slower build/iteration times get - which is especially important for start-ups. I do believe typed languages are better suited for typed back-end services - I just no longer believe in them for fuzzy development tasks like UI/HTML generation, automated scripts, etc.
you should do the income based repayment right away. it will take some of the stress off.
At the risk of being productive, what is the benefit of using this "service" over posting my own message on my website? (Honest question)
It wasn't a "rescue" it was a lawsuit settlement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
Charlotte really suffered with the financial mess as BOFA and Wachovia were the heart of the city. Winston Salem and Greensboro don't have a lot to offer. Asheville is one my favorite cities but just doesn't have a lot going on either unless you're on your own.

The Triangle really is a good place. You've got UNC@Chapel Hill, NC State and Duke all within a short(car) distance. Cisco and NetApp have a large presence out on Kit Creek in the Park in Cary. At the time I left that area I believe Cisco's campus was 12 or 13 buildings and NetApp was up to 4. IBM still has a significant footprint there. And Red Hat is headquartered there.

There is a lot of small startup stuff happening in Durham(American Tobacco District).

Here's a good resource:
http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+direct...

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Morrisville-Cary-Apex : Take your pick and you'll find a lot going on. On a map basically look at the intersection of Highway 55 and 54 and you're looking at the center from everything.
Why I bill daily
Sequential thinking. Long methods tend to come from thinking only about accomplishing a task step by step rather than building a machine that can solve many problems (an object model).

As for Smalltalk's conditional, of course it has them, but they're not procedural constructs of the language. Smalltalk implements its conditional behavior with an object model of course, the abstract class Boolean has two subclasses, true and false. The keywords true and false reference the single instance of each of those classes. Each class implements a set of methods like ifTrue:ifFalse: which take blocks (closures in modern smalltalks). True implements ifTrue by evaluating the block, False implements ifTrue with a no op, an empty method. Bam, Boolean logic implemented with objects and polymorphism.

Thus in Smalltalk, conditionals are method calls on booleans and come after the comparison rather than before.

1 = 2 ifTrue: [ 'boom' out ]
What's your goal for the press? To get users? Investors? Customers?

For a tech blog like you describe, don't bother with a press release. Best to send a short email describing why what you're doing is interesting. Most reporters prefer hearing from founders rather than PR people.
Rumor: Windows Phone 8 devices to launch this November?
6% of drivers are sadistic killers
That only counts paid time off, though. She gets paid enough to take a day off whenever she wants, though, so practically speaking, it's still the "you're the CEO—you call the shots" thing going on.
Shopping start-up goes viral (Password is JustinBieber Twitter handle.
Android 4.1 APIs
Spotify, one year in the US
I don't quite understand why we're celebrating articles that gossip about her career and life. This article felt like the nerdy version of a tabloid piece that also took some cheap shots at entrepreneurialism. I can't properly articulate why this article (and others like it) irk me, but they do.
Longbets is kind of the same idea, but seems restricted to famous people (tptacek or pg would qualify I think).
Just bought my popcorn machine and home soda dispenser. Really looking forward to seeing this unfold!

Seriously though I'd bet that Google studied the value of Yahoo's traffic especially in Asia and decided getting someone on the inside makes business sense. Why should Yahoo take the fantasy sports cake for example? Wouldn't it fit right in at Google Plus?
"Background Check. You represent that all information provided to Yahoo! or its agents with regard to your background is true and correct."

...internally referred to as "The Scott Thompson Clause".
Huh? Every non-compete I've had forced down my throat (I've refused to sign the last several) was specifically guarding against me leaving the company for a competitor.
Fez started development over 4 years ago when steam wasn't as big for indies as it is now, they probably signed an agreement back then giving exclusivity to Microsoft for a period of time after initial release on XBLA in return for some promotion.
"It's illegal in California to have a non-compete clause."
Not quite. They're just unenforceable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

"It also only applies if one is fired from said previous employer, not one who's left at will."

?

Are you referring to California here, or non-competes in general? If the latter, I'm, pretty sure that you're incorrect. " The use of such clauses is premised on the possibility that upon their termination or resignation, an employee might begin working for a competitor or starting a business,..." (top of same Wiki page)
Do top executives come back from taking a year or two off? If she wants to be a top executive in 10 years, or wants to have had the experience of being a CEO so she can go do something else interesting, can she afford to take two years off now? The ones I can think of worked through their children's early years.

Parents with time consuming stressful jobs usually make it work. Every parent has regrets, but there's a difference between having regrets and bungling raising a child. Which brings to mind [1]. I don't think Mayer will bungle it.

[1] “If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I will freely admit to thinking I knew something about functional programming after learning about lambdas, map, filter and reduce in Python (and lamenting the language's lack of tail call optimization). Three days with Haskell set me straight.
Outlook lampoons Time, calls Obama 'underachiever'
How is the permission handling in Firefox better?
Non-compete's are generally considered un-enforceable in California.

Also, fired/quit doesn't affect non-competes.
No, seriously - if your employees are "fearless", and just jump in with no regard for the consequences, then you're going to lose.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to clean up after honey badger go-getter types, who should've thought for five minutes before jumping in.
Why would non-competes only apply if fired? I think they are in fact designed specifically to apply when the employee leaves on their own volition.
Did anyone else pause at the $80k and think that's not very much, before continuing to read "per month"?
Manu invested in card.io and is absolutely fantastic. He is extremely tactical, constantly pushed us to focus on the numbers that matter, and most importantly, provided gobs of awesome counsel. He should be your first call if you're looking to raise money.
Hey, you just found a niche!

I wonder if this is something Google Voice/Twilio could be scripted to handle.
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Wow, just this week I started a project that will be my first multitenant website, using PostgreSQL no less, and have been wondering how to handle that in the db.

I take a break, pop onto HN, and the top comment of the top story explains how to do exactly that. Thanks!

You wouldn't happen to have come across any good tutorials on using PG schemas for this purpose have you?

Also, do schemas provide enough separation of data, when strict client/tenant confidentially is a requirement?
I was not able to find a website that exactly does this.
I feel like this idea might have big potential, and can go viral easily.

edit: seems like everyone can create a bet on that site.
MSN.com
The Joy of Tech comic... An Apple apology.
Don't forget about time. I value my time and I spend way too much of it dealing with physical servers. Unfortunately AWS has not been an option for us because we are very I/O intensive.... however this new SSD instance is kind of making me drool. But anyways, raw cost of hardware vs raw cost of leasing from AWS, yeah AWS might be more expensive. But god damn if dealing with real servers isn't a pain in the ass and a huge waste of time.
If I was worth $300 million, I would not be working and I would be spending annoying (to my daughter) amounts of time with my daughter. Fuck work! You only get 1 life.
It's an interesting point about the speed. In this case, since it's just a function pointer, there's no polymorphic overhead, so avoiding branches is a no-brainer.

On the other hand, if you were actually extending a class to make a DoNothingClass version, then the overhead of dynamic binding plus the function call would make it somewhat slower (branch prediction on a NULL comparison will cost at most 5 clock cycles in a single-thread pipeline, or none if you predict right) on those checks where the DoNothingClass is the one you find. For instance, if you had a sparse array of Class* and wanted to iterate over them, the NULL check would probably be more efficient than pointers to a singleton NullClass, especially since branch prediction will start correctly predicting NULLs more often.

So, you know, trade-offs.
It is possible. I did it in college for a week. Couple of days is easy, but after six days you feel that is messing with your system. Like another comment mentioned it was a once in a lifetime kind of thing. I don't recommend it to anybody.
I'll stick to 9rules.com, thank you very much
Heavier Infants may Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer | Science feature
Tech layoffs hit 3-year high of 51,529 in first half of 2012
Now assuming that she commutes, takes showers, eats, bathroom breaks, then that means that she was sleeping even less than that.
A new way to experience shopping online
It's not a parlor trick, rather it's what it means to be object oriented. Traditional language constructs are built with object and methods as library rather than special magic keywords. Whatever the problem, Smalltalk builds the solution using objects, thus it is oriented towards objects.

It doesn't just have objects, it's built out of them, Smalltalk "is" objects; library and language are the same thing. Your custom constructs are syntactically identical to core language constructs because it's all just library.
A much better explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxNuVDJZEY
Ah, looked more like a native app using the browser rendering engine or something. Will take a closer look later when I upgrade to 12.10.
I just watched a 10 minute video whereby nearly all the issues pointed out can be solved with one line in my.cnf or dynamically by setting SET GLOBAL server_sql_mode=TRADITIONAL. Yeah the default is no good. Learn your RDBMS and the problem goes away. Watching him point and click and move windows around also made it very difficult to follow.

PostgreSQL is an awesome RDBMS, but adoption will never eclipse MySQL until they have a scalable replication model that allows tiered replication, multi-master replication, writable slaves (very useful for reporting boxes), and the ability to purge data on a master without purging it on the slave. That, and the ability to reliably upgrade your binary without performing a massively time-consuming dump and reloading. Replication and upgradability is everything when you are in operations, which are things many (not all) developers do not consider.
Mobile in the Enterprise (Infographic)
This leaves them more options, and they incentivize the CEO to stay through stock grant vesting.
Objective citation, please?
Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which
anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or
business of any kind is to that extent void.

Its CA law. From the business and professions code [1].

[1] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc...
California is an at-will employment state. In California, you can quit or be fired at any time.
Anyone interested in a pgadmin-like console client? I started one, and if a few people with more in-depth experience helped out I think it could be handy.

https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/dumbo/
...for the social-media world

His search is focused on short text blurbs from social media. Not replacing Google.

EDIT: Though the technique may work well for general search.
Tech culture is pop culture.
For what it's worth, I've had a pair of SSD's in RAID1 on a production server for well over a year now and they're still spanking any other hard drive I've ever used with regards to performance. This is for a heavy-read/heavy-write database. Granted the database is only a few GB, however, I think there's way too much FUD floating around about SSD degradation. I haven't experienced it at all, so I suggest everyone stop worrying about it already.
What did she contribute to Google exactly? Articles like this hand-wave through actual contributions with "influencing the minimalist and user-friendly interfaces of Google web search and Gmail" which is extremely vague and could easily amount to nothing.
If you don't mean to be snide then don't be. It's not that hard. Just skip the snark and explain what OP is missing. If you have some knowledge of employment contracts to share, OP and all the rest of us would appreciate it.
http://iwagerr.com is a twitter-based platform for random, friendly bets people make with one another all the time.

Disclaimer: This was my "weekend" project a year or so back. A revamp is in order!
App-creating software could be the machine tools of the mobile world
Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides
Has Google not been doing this for ages?
Hdfc mobile banking application,
HDFC bank offers its mobile banking application that is called NGPAY.It is available for android too in the market.It offer various services to you and makes your mobile a shopping mall.

With the help of this hdfc mobile banking application, you can recharge your mobile,book train tickets,get pnr status,shop for cloths,book movie tickets,pay utility bills etc. Is'nt it great?
Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
It's industry news and gossip. It doesn't gratify one's intellectual curiosity.
Exactly! I did.
In regards to the stock:

> "provided that, in each case, you are employed by the Company on the applicable vesting date or as otherwise provided herein"

So unless she beats the current CEO lifetime running average she will only see 9mm of that 45mm. Minus the fact that half the stock are options.
> The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_%28Gulliver%27s_Travels%...
At-will employment is the law in California and several other states meaning either side can end the relationship for any reason other than discrimination against a protected class. So it's not Yahoo's choice, their just stating the law.
Definitely Bill Gate's Mini-Me
Marissa Mayer 2010 interview: Running Yahoo Would Be “A Difficult Job”
The way I see the relationship between Convergence and TACK is that Convergence is trying to provide trust agility for when we need to trust third parties, while TACK is trying to reduce the amount that we even need to trust a third party at all.

I think the first problem gets considerably easier to solve once the latter is in place, and there's a lot we could do with Convergence-like systems that would make them more deployable if TACK is adopted.

In the short term, however, TACK stands on its own, and we hope it's a fairly uncontroversial proposal that will be easy to integrate into the ecosystem.
I don't get the jump between talking about how "functional" doesn't evoke purity, yet "expression-oriented", does. To be fair, most (probably all) functional languages aren't fully pure. Haskell is probably more pure than most of them, but eventually you have to get things done and dive into the sin bin.

The term "functional" really evokes "first class" invokable function symbols that can be passed around in a higher-order kind of way. Everything else is secondary.
honest question: why can't banks when customers open a new account, give them a card with 1. the bank's ip addresses (in each region) and 2. their printed public key (ssl or ssh format). and why doesn't the bank ask for a public key from each customer? in-person key exchange.

no one even pays attention to the client side of ssl. how many of you use your own ssl certificates? you basically can't under the cert authorty scheme. it's a racket and no one is going to pay for these. and do the banks even care? they use tactics like cookies and follow-up emails to verify customers (hardware).

and why does the bank have to be able to switch their ip address without telling anyone? what if the same was true for phone numbers? people would be like wtf? load balancing? c'mon. too difficult ot type? thnk about the trade-offs in security, all for the sake of not looking at a number? ipv4 is no longer than an area code and phone number. just tell people where your servers are and let them choose the one that is nearest. which incidentally, contrary to conventional wisdom, is not _always_ the one that will be the most responsive in the ever-changing state of the network.

there's nothing more annoying than being subjected to using trial and error and you are not allowed to do any of the trial when the errors start coming. out of your control.

what happened to the concept of "important numbers"? are we to believe you only need to remember "google.com" or "yourbank.com"? that's a security problem waiting to happen.

second honest question: why does bank website need to embed links to third party reources and require that customers enable their browsers to access all these indiscriminantly (user doesn't get to choose) and to enable javascript?

is javascript needed for security of a connect or to accomplish a financial transaction? because that's all i need from the bank website.

i think we're past the point where customers need to be enticed to use the web to do things like banking and shopping. they're going to be forced to. so we can forgo the silly demonstrations and gratuitous use of javascript. save for "show HN".

what we need is simplicity, reliability and security.
I slept under my desk and showered at the office gym once for two weeks and pulled about if not more than that. Not sustainable, but not unnatural either - I don't drink coffee and think I had a Red Bull once or twice.
Even with a corporate proxy intercepting SSL connections, individual browsers are still protected against attacks on the local network involving SSL impersonation (rogue access points, DHCP or ipv6 neighbor announcement abuse...).

Companies have their firewall infrastructure locked down (hopefully), but lan segments (except in high-security environments) not as much.
Anything that creates a bad user experience is ultimately bad for the platform so it's in everyone's best interest to get it fixed. In this case the update is probably 99.9% similar to the last paid update. That should really be a freebie. When you get into more significant changes that's a different discussion. If you get one free update when you publish the game the assumption seems to be that most games are going to need a patch so it's built in. It would probably be safe to assume that a patch is likely to introduce at least some small bugs and would also require a minor update later.
Making things like if/else/switch statements true expressions is a great feature, but I'm not sure it deserves a new foo-oriented programming buzzword.
First you need to define machine, consciousness, normal intelligence of a human being, running, being destructible, shutting down, and objective.

Most of those words have a meaning in our current daily life which lose sense when applied to a larger temporal scale.
Thanks a lot jashkenas.

I have to admit that whenever I see “MVC something” a lazy instinct kicks in. Probably because it seems like an overkill and I know I can code something in a few minutes (which is never true) that will do the same without having to learn it.

Usually, learning is most fun for me when I have a problem to solve or when I get really curious about something.

And that song example falls in the second category.
Ramen in the US refers to instant dried noodles that come with a packet of bouillon, not with the labour-intensive-but-awesome real article.
Who was at my meetup event ?
I created this to solve my problem of remember who was at my meetup
> If you're worth $300 million and you don't plan to take, say, a year or two off to play and connect with your soon-to-be-firstborn child?

If she were male, would you say the same thing?
I've had a similar feeling, and have been experimenting with a little library that's fairly similar to Knockout(which is awesome), but is smaller and enforces what I think is a cleaner binding syntax.

If you're curious: http://adamsanderson.github.com/ivy/
Something tells me that the vacation time isn't getting used.
I don't think I'll ever understand people like you.
What do you want? If it's not homebrew, but also not an app, what does that leave? A pkg? Not really a step up from the other two. Or just a tarball with the source?
I would also accept "Compositional Programming". Just as the secret to deeply understanding Erlang is to understand that it is primarily about reliability and not about "functional", the secret to understanding where the bulk of the Haskell community is going (except the ones strictly studying theory for theory's sake) is that they are primarily working on composition. Purity and functional and lazy are just some of the buzzwords being turned in that direction. Just as aping Erlang's message passing in $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE while missing everything it does for reliability is really missing the point, dropping a map and a fold into your language (and eyeing Monads, then skittering away, though I suspect this is often not because they're too complicated but because the languages are too weak to make them syntactically palatable) is also really missing the point.

(Also, mocking Haskell and/or its community for being too theoretical is really missing the point. It's one of the few places where progress is being made on the topic of practical compositional programming. No, the work's not done yet, but, then, that's sort of my point, work is in fact being done. Almost everybody else is just shuffling the same handful of 25-year-old primitives around.)
Handling blocking IO in Go
Based on the down-votes I'm receiving I have to say I agree.