skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure if you misrepresent yourself that blatantly time and time again you deserve what is coming to you.

"she has the top media company in the tech industry trying to take her down."

Oh please, she blatantly lied many times about many things to high profile people. That is a story and its going to get written about by someone whether its Techcrunch or someone else.
I don't think they do. As far as I understand it, employees can choose Mac, Goobuntu or Windows (though windows has to be justified b/c of the higher overheard of support). Sounds reasonable to me.

From talking with Thomas before, if I have this correctly, is that Google doesn't allow offsite development. So it seems most Googlers have a desktop for development and an laptop for other things with NO code on it. I may have that wrong, but I'm sure some Googlers here can verify that or not.
>Most of these have wide acceptance among the HN/Startup crowd; I might expect to see more disagreement if the list were exposed to corporate programming environments, or especially to their managers.

Hi, corporate code monkey here: that list looks entirely fine and not particularly controversial. Thanks.
The typical engineering setup is Mac laptop + Goobuntu workstation.
Here's a video from Puppet Conf 2011 on how Google uses Puppet to manage Linux workstations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8mbMjlr_b0
Ubuntu works for me and my wife and has for years. I pine for the days of Gnome 2 but that's not coming back. If Unity could be made into Gnome 2 but keep Unity people happy then that would be cool.
I can't tell for sure, but it seems like you all know each other outside of HN, and perhaps have a relationship that is unknown to the rest of us. I think it is better for you to keep these things to yourselves, and not involve this community.
It is the default in all mayor DEs, but he might have a custom X session, using a standalone window manager and extra tools. Or he could work in the console.
Both the Gimp and Photoshop are actually pretty lousy for UI/web development. Fireworks is much better but Adobe seems to be neglecting it. I don't really see much hope for a free alternative to displace PS any time soon but an app that was designed from the ground up to make designing interfaces easier might find a niche.
There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...

Your tax dollars at work.
I found myself agreeing with most of those.
> I pine for the days of Gnome 2 but that's not coming back.

Check out Xubuntu, it's not too different.
When the vast majority of Americans ever vote for one of the two candidates, the system is uncalibrated. Both parties try to set it up so they can cut closest to 50.000001% as possible, so the two candidates end up being fundamentally similar. If you're familiar with the game theory exercise of competing ice cream stands on a beach you'll see why.
I think your just bit too accustomed to extremists on the internet. I had no intent about looking reasonable but I'm happy you think I am.

I'd be interested in reading your sources though I don't have to stretch my imagination to believe them. I want to make it clear that I never said right media doesn't believe what they are saying only that what they are saying doesn't represent every conservative voter. The people who believe everything on fox is fictitious are equally as ignorant as the people who believe everything on fox. Most of the stories are the exactly the same as CNN... perhaps less informative, definitely with a rightist point of view, but news nonetheless.
Facebook could approach the problem from a different angle, like making it more obvious to users that they don't see everything in their news feed, and giving average, unskilled users easier ways to control what they see. Instead, they are looking for ways to make money. Even if reaching all your fans with a post instead of the most avid is valuable enough to pay for it, I don't like the direction in which that pushes social expectations of the world.
It makes me wonder what some US politicians wouldn't do for a vote. I'm not in the US at the moment, so I don't know the full extent of what his appearances. But I can only imagine. I know he was recently on Entertainment Tonight. That seemed a little peculiar. Now he's on Reddit. What next?

I'd like to see him do Fear Factor.

If you want my vote Barack, you have to go on Fear Factor. Those are my terms. Non-negotiable.
>I'm only realizing now I'm older and would rather pay a little premium for the convenience of not wading through a gazillion different sites to get the right bookings and prices for a complex itinerary

Have you tried FlightFox? I haven't yet, and have no vested interest in / association with them (i.e the suggestion isn't me shilling :)), but it seemed an interesting possibility to me.
What's next? The Putin Fund for the Promotion of Punk Rock?
You might want to look into MATE[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_%28desktop_environment%29
I'm no TC fan, but it was a fair subject and story.

That such deceptive operators can show up anywhere (and especially in a young/dynamic community) is important to know, and it can only be vividly demonstrated with tangible and current examples.

And specifically, enough people were affected by this person's claims, leaving enough of a reportable trail, that a story warning others and documenting the modus operandi could be true, well-sourced, interesting, and useful for TC's readership.
I'm not sure what point you're making. If it's that Facebook, Google, Twitter are making it harder for confidence tricksters to move on and repeat their lies when they've been rumbled - I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
A calling out for really unacceptable behaviour? Yes. Bullying? Far from it in my eyes. If you consistently misrepresent yourself and promise people things you are not capable of achieving then you deserve to be called out on it.
I have no real interest in either side of this story, and Techcrunch isn't really on my rolodex of sites to read from. That being said, I don't think the original Techcrunch article was being a bully at all.

The fact that she allegedly has gotten away with the simplest of social engineering tactics against a group that most likely thinks of themselves as at least smarter than average, was fairly interesting to me. It shows how easy and effective social engineering can be, even by someone as young as Shirley Hofnstein.

All the author appears to write is that they don't like the fact that Techcrunch wrote an article about their friend. It appears that the author of the above article doesn't even defend Shirley Hornstein, which leads me to believe that she was in fact guilty of these acts of social engineering.

If that's the case, then it seems like a decent bit of journalism to me. Do I think it's a huge crime? No, it's not like she pulled off a Madoff scam. But was it an interesting article? Yes, and it really points to the fact that we all need to keep on our toes.
Seriously. You expect me to cry over a hustler's lies? It is amusing how recursively narcissistic the tech community is, but eventually even they reach their stack limit.
I've recently been wondering why they don't move away from the 'default subreddits' model homepage and to a splash page: "Welcome to Reddit, a place where you can share links and talk about your favourite subjects. What are you interested in?", with a big search box, and a list of suggested subreddits that you can subscribe to. It gets users to create an account, and can allow for a friendlier experience for new people. Of course, there'd still be a 'go to the front page' link for people who preferred it, but this would help change the 'default' reddit experience, which for most people isn't great, as well as helps convey the message that reddit isn't a singular, rage comic-loving, pro-weed legalisation commmunity.
I'm not bashing anyone but there must be some observations made obvious.

He's lived in Chicago, the Bulls comment makes sense. Appealing to his home town.

"NOT BAD" - do you REALLY think he knew to say that or do you think someone prompted him?

There are very smart people that control his speeches, people behind the curtains, to get the maximum appeal from the audience in which he is speaking to. Everything is scripted ever so carefully. Always keep this in mind. He's trying to win you over, for your vote.
TC's world is people who have to look up what "BBS" means every time it comes up, both employees and readers.
Linux Mint also has a desktop, Cinnamon, that resembles Gnome 2: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/. I haven't tried Cinnamon, but I've used Linux Mint before and will most likely be switching to Mint next time I reinstall Linux.
> Think about a web developer who shows up to a hackathon [...] He just wants a quick way to persist and retrieve data.

This is the _worst_ reason to use Mongo.

If you are doing a hackathon or just prototyping and need persistence, use pickle. Or store JSON to a text file. Who cares what the solution is. It should:

a) Be built into the standard library.
b) Not require bringing up another service to work.

[Edit.. clarity in the quote]
1 every 3 minutes, not bad.
I think the point isn't that it's harder for grifters, but that it's harder for everyone. Even people who genuinely think they're playing the game, and have made statements too far, lies, or even genuine mistakes. Before, they could say "Wow, I guess I was wrong. I've learned my lesson." and try to be better. Now, they're branded, and must suffer, forever.

It's a point I personally know all too well. I was fired from a journalism job a year ago; my boss accused me of looking at pornography at work. (I argue that "looked at porn" and "looked at 4chan", are vastly different, and intent is an important factor. I didn't think I was doing anything wrong.) I'm 31, and in this market, as someone who worked my way into a "producer" role without a degree? It's an employer's market. Even after a year of job hunting, people hear that story, and the conversation goes silent. There's plenty of people they can choose from with no discernable "problems" in their past.

It seems my choices are "go into marketing, despite how you feel about hocking clients you hate", or "work two mediocre jobs of low wage". One drove me crazy, two isn't great.

And I'm not trying to make a sob story out of this; I went to a website my employer didn't like. I'm not going to lie about that, I learned a lesson is all. I'm just trying to drive the point home. If you make a single "mistake," that may be all it takes.
I'm inclined to side with the author. In the 13+ years I've been writing Java, there's only been a handful of cases where I switched a field to a more complex implementation. And in all of those cases, the IDE would have helpfully pointed out where I need to update client code. I can understand the value of strong encapsulation when publishing library code, but for internal code getters and setters are usually massive overkill.

Fortunately projectlombok takes away most of this pain, and pretty much every modern language post-Java makes attributes/getters a non-issue.
No about page, no way to register, no mention of Yehuda Katz...

edit: Apparently, the site was launched by Joshua Stein (after getting hellbanned from HN), not Yehuda Katz. https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
Jokes on the internet are illegal
As someone who stopped reading them years ago, let me tell you an incontrovertible fact of the Internet: if it's worth reading, it will show up in every aggregator you still pay attention to, three times on the front page of HN if necessary. Propagation is a cue for importance, which is why TC (and RWW, and...) spend so much effort manually posting these stories all over the place themselves. They're faking it, too.
I think it's good journalism. That's their job, to get to the bottom of things and I think he did a great job.
> There are ZERO trust fund benefits for most people, ...

Trust funds are a liability shield.

> ... your parents should have kept the money in their bank account.

Where it can be taken in a personal injury claim, or seized as alimony by a vindictive ex wife, or spent down by a the parent's medical trustee, or hundreds of other financial disasters.

The point of establishing a trust fund is to give a young person money that cannot easily be diverted or frittered away. Strings can be attached so that a teenager does not destroy themselves with money.

P.S. Companies like this make money by keeping overhead low and scaling up to bazillions of customers. You don't have to be a cheat or even expensive if you can get 10,000,000 customers.
Both this article and the one it discussed seemed to go right over my head. The only impression I could get is that there is a small faction of tech related people who have formed their own hollywoodish faction and act like it too. Anyone care to take a go at explaining to me what really happened and why it matters?
Clearly there is a gradient of people and how much misinformation they spread around themselves. Few never lie, some will occasionally slip a word here and there to exaggerate a truth, some will lie from time to time about small things, and then waaaaaay on the other side of this gradient there is photoshopping yourself into pictures with famous public figures and similar tactics described in the article. Of course we are not all saints, but based on the outcry most people (myself included) agree that there is a line that was crossed here.

I appreciated the article as an interesting case study.
The word 'profession' and the data are both leading you astray. In 2010, the percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States (or total labor union "density") was 11.4%, compared to 18.6% in Germany, 27.5% (Historically,"professions" were medecine, law, and accountaincy etc...as opposed to the "trades" It was only the trades which had unions. US, we have public sector unions (very large), including teachers, etc. Public sector = "Bureaucrats"!= professions.
If a tool is continuosly missused... that means the tool is badly designed.

A tool, any tool must make it easy to use, hard to missues and most importantly protect you from damage when using it.

Based on that criteria, most comments make more harm than good.
I haven't tried it but I'll check it out.

With an agent I could say stuff like - these are roughly the parameters I want to fly under; these are the airlines I'd rather chew razor blades than fly on; use your common sense to figure something out I'm not going to hate as an itinerary.
> Then when you added in the "think different" line you made it seem even more like your comment was based off some kind of blind loyalty to Linux rather than loyalty to facts.

Don't read too far into things, and "...loyalty to facts" eye roll.

Anyway, It's pretty common knowledge to Linux users that hardware/driver support on Linux can be a challenge. Sometimes things work right out of the box, other times you have to do a lot of work and a lot of Googling.

That being said, I don't agree with the parent. For basic hardware needs, Windows and OSX have a fairly high success rate of plug-and-play functionality. For me on Linux, it's about 50/50.
Actually OSX development environment is only horrible to cross-platform / open-source application developers.

But if you are Apple pet developer then you'd just use XCode/XCode projects/etc for all your needs. And would be very happy with that.
I absolutely agree that it's tough to be honest and off-the-cuff in politics, much less modern politics. However, as someone else said, no one should look at Obama and think about how 'hip' he is for using Reddit as a phone-in for stances he's already talked about. It's called "Ask Me Anything". I would have even been a little impressed if he were honest and said "AMAA".
"Most of us are not as big of a deal that we convey that we are. 99% of the industry is guilty."

Bullfuckingshit.

Speak for yourself.

Thou protests too much.

"I’ll admit it. But so have you."

Again, fuck you speak for yourself.

A bit self-serving, aren't we?

And I can't stand TechCrunch.
I also really liked the XSS levels. I thought it was clever how they used PhantomJS to simulate a victim. It kind of makes it more fun than just a regular exploit.

On level 6 I got around the quotes limitation by using eval(String.fromCharCode(11, 22, 33, 44, etc));

For fun I tried using http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365868, which worked, though if the script was long it would end up being truncated.
> So shame on TechCrunch for publishing something that belongs on TMZ.

TechCrunch is TMZ for Silicon Valley.
I'm sorry, but in which line of work is coding and pushing emergency bug fixes at 3AM an acceptable occurrence?
Bionic eye goes live in world first by Australian researchers
I don't understand why this is either/or. Life is long. It's possible to write code for fun AND race motorcycles, travel the world, cure meats, play soccer, sail boats, read books, etc...
I didn't get that from Rand's blog although I have read it. I got my figures through testing with some junk domains (I experimented with around 25 domains - .net, .com and .infos) to see of they get sandboxed when pushing X amount of links to it or by doing certain things and those were the results which I found albeit it's a small sample size.

Regarding the second part, it's very easy to beat the approval system on many blogging softwares - Wordpress for instance is extremely easy to do.

And regardless if you agree with me or not, blog commenting is a Grey Hat SEO technique. I also said that the effects for doing a few links is minimal in terms of negatively affecting a sites SEO rankings which I agree with you on, I am just disagreeing with you over the fact that this should be a startup's SEO strategy
That's the point. It's actually easier to use MongoDB than to store JSON in a text file. And things move faster, and you still have the dream that you can scale it up (even if 99% of the time it doesnt happen).
As a FreeBSD user since 2007 I found the desktop options to be just as clunky as Linux if not more so. It was the only part of the OS that didn't just work when I used it in my travels, so it's stayed as server duty. If there was an open source windows managing system that was on par with Mac's version...whole new world. (There might be, I havnet' looked since 2009 so)
No. There's simple conventions for adding feature flags (user.some_feature_enabled?). Features are enabled and disabled by changing the code and deploying. This works because deploying new code is fast.
The press loves to talk about changes, because news only comes out when something changes. The timeless pieces only exist in opinions section.

In startup's context, fund raising is definitely a change, and revenue numbers may be a change (when they are surprising or previously undisclosed). But building a sustainable business, treating customers well or even being profitable should be long-lasting and timeless. It's interesting to keep reading about these issues in Hacker News, but these are not exactly news.

It's like business fundamentals ("common sense"). The press never talks about them but it doesn't mean the industry doesn't care or doesn't treat them as important.
I think I know the thing you mean, but I can't find it either.

I did find 'flippers' from Flickr[1] which sounds like a very similar "keep it all in master and turn stuff on and off" methodology.

[1] http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/12/02/flipping-out/
Speaking of weirdly complex, I've always been a fan of the totally deadpan delivery of the 'Straight Line Tutorial' [gimp lacks a 'line' or 'shape' tool]
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/
Wages are just part of the supply / demand curve. At the high end it's worth a lot of managment overhead to keep people happy, at the low end there is little incentive to do so.
You're one user. I've been using the same System76 laptop at work and at home for 3+ years. Still works flawlessly (fn keys and all).
http://gawker.com/5938904/notorious-silicon-valley-fraud-shi...

She's apparently the bane (or Bain) of the Republicans now
I expect the staffers answering the questions to put in some more time, but then that'd ruin the facade.
WalletBit pursues to be one of the easiest entries into Bitcoin usage
> Also, the app quits when the last window is closed, which isn't how OS X apps are supposed to behave.

Close the last document in TextEdit on Mountain Lion and see what happens to TextEdit.
I think there is a clear distinction between failing and lying then being exposed.

Join a start up and it fails horribly? Turn around and join a big corp, no cares if you didn't make a dime during that time.

Lying blatantly about everything to everyone until they find out is not in the same league as checking 4chan during work. Which is hardly a fireable offense imo.
> As for the "lack of a usable shell" part, have you looked at Powershell?

No, and I have zero reason to do so. I don't deploy on windows, I have no reason to ever deploy on windows, so why would I bother learning another syntax just to develop on windows? It really doesn't make any sense. Powershell only makes sense for IT admins whom have to manage windows networks, it makes no sense at all for developers deploying on *nix.
In the past reddit was described as a child porn site. I wonder if that will be brought up.
you'd be surprised how powerful fake connections can be
With Ember.js the routing framework is client-side and Ember.js stores all dynamic values in the URL fragment. The server doesn't see enough information to render a page, even if you were willing in theory to duplicate your rendering logic server-side.
The only time I need to pull out a debugger is when I can't reason through the problem on my own (possibly with a couple print statements)

By and large, the only time I can't reason through the problem on my own is because the code in question is not properly unit tested, and it is complex to isolate the problem itself.

The only time it's worth my time to bring out the debugger is when the issue is so opaque as to require that level of in-depth investigation. I've spent days tracking down esoteric heap smashers in gdb.

However, most of the time, I just watch my unit test assertions fail, and then fix the issue.
I have no desire to join a union. You and I have plenty of bargaining power without one. Nor can a union represent this very diverse field.

Unions are fantastic when there is no bargaining power, horrible conditions and most critically no mobility. Coal Miners in a town in the middle of Pennsylvania come to mind.

You and I have plenty of mobility. Hell I have moved across the US three times for various jobs and can find work all over the world while sitting on my butt where I am.

If you are building on someone else's platform, you should know there is more to that then technical risk. There is business risk. Did Twitter pay you to develop against their API, did you have them sign an SLA when they return an fail whale?

Once you realize that you are tying your business lively hood to a transient non-binding agreement, you might think twice. Then you will use your mobility and go another direction.

Are external developers what make these tech companies great? Balmer got that one right. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6304687408656696643) But to suggest a union? Won't see me paying dues.
The average American kid has an IQ of 100 and will attend a state subsidized community college, trade school, etc. They need to minimize loan interest and time spent working their way through school with menial jobs, not worrying about the exact financial aid efficiency of Harvard.
Have you heard about Google Authenticator? http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/ It's a wonderful, standards-based, open-source project that brings two-factor authentication to Android, iOS, Blackberry, and PAM.

I doubt Google would want to talk about every single way that we try to secure our networks from hackers, but Google is pretty good about open-sourcing things (or publishing papers) to contribute to the industry's security practices.