skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first person who comes along and hits the web industry jackpot at an unprecedented level who is also not a stereotype antisocial nerd douchebag* is going to thoroughly debunk all theories that correlate this sort of character to financial success without any evidence of causation.

* The degree to which sheer luck and network effects are factors in this particular sector makes this plausible.
Jumping up the curve
The Challenge of Designing Non-Latin Typefaces
California launches online voter registration
Typography: Where East Meets West
It was actually posted much sooner that that, but gained no traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542383
Google Expected to Surpass Facebook in Display-Ad Sales
neither is Amazon
Appboy (Not-YC Summer '11) is Hiring
The question in my head about this data:

Is the spike because LinkedIn traffic actually spiked, or was it just getting misattributed as Twitter traffic?
Private Clouds Will Change IT Jobs, Not Eliminate Them
I think the keyword "big data" ends up being used in even a lot of smaller cases, because everyone thinks what they have is "big data", I'm guessing because they do all genuinely have much more data than they might have a decade ago. But that still varies widely in size; what some companies think is "big data" is still perfectly analyzable, for non-realtime purposes, on one beefy workstation. Yet, because they'd never seen data with tens of millions of rows! before, and it breaks whatever system they were previously using to analyze stuff (SPSS, etc.), what they want to hire is a "big data" person.
Is it really so hard to understand that it hasn't been called the language shootout for over 5 years - and you are promoting "the same sort of (misinformed) tribalism-by-language" by talking about it in those terms?

The "benchmarks game" is largely the same as when it was called the "language shootout" now with more caveats plastered about. Please explain to me which language tribe I am promoting by calling the "benchmarks game" by its original name? Is it the tribe of skeptics? Perhaps use an HTTP 301 to redirect <http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/>; to <http://microbenchmarks.alioth.debian.org/>; and expunge "shootout" from all names?

My guess is that your mistaken view of what the benchmarks game promotes reflects a lack of familiarity with what the website says about itself on the homepage and the Help page and the Conclusions page and ...

Instead of guessing what my "view" "reflects", consider what the "benchmarks game" has promoted in TFA:

Title: "The Go Language is faster than the computer language benchmarks game thinks it is"

Well, this isn't what the "benchmarks game" says it measures anywhere (in fact, the site explicitly decries this interpretation) and yet this is what it indirectly promotes in various language communities (and linkbait tastes good).

Conclusion: "So Go should be between C and Clean, smoking scala, clojure, java and lisp."

Again, this isn't what the site says it measures (it measures some aspects of some implementations, not languages) and yet this is how it is portrayed by third parties. I understand that it is difficult to give people a lot of 'easy' data and simultaneously educate them about the reasonable limits of inference based on those data. I understand that the benchmarks game has taken great pains to try to educate its readers and inform their conclusions. I don't know if it will ever be enough -- people (as we can see) like easy answers and aren't willing to 0.) do the work to get more complete data sets and 1.) temper their findings with objective reality instead of drawing misinformed conclusions.

Do you see how the easily-digestible plots (indirectly) promote tribalism over rationality? Do you see how a plot is worth a thousand words?
The 2X model still supports ABS:
http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2x.html
Anything that isn't "normal" news is a PR piece for someone or something - http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Looks like a tech company list looking to hire data scientists - essentially a sneaky job advertisement wrapped up in a fluffy HBR (aren't they all?) article written by a consultant who probably wants to get in on the new new thing.
Um Jack Dorsey?
The worst was complaining about a cab fare(?) to JFK.

But don't shoot the messenger. There are plenty of facts he's giving us. It is not pure opinion. An eye witness is an eye witness. He was there. As long as he is credible, his character, for our purposes, is irrelevant.
Well, this is only for stubbing an API, you don’t build an actual API, so nothing in the filesystem is changed when you PUT, POST or DELETE.

What does change though is the state in the working memory, specifically in the stubb server process, by means of which you can change the response by using the response sequences described in the README. You might for example test a client-side deletion procedure, so you specify a stalling response sequence with two members. Your first DELETE request to /photos/5 will be responded to with the content described in the first sequence member (say 200 OK), while all further requests will be responded to with the content described in the second sequence member (say 404 NOT FOUND, using YAML frontmatter for specifying the HTTP status).
This is all fine, except the choice of colors is maybe not the best one, when so many people are red-green color blind.
Agreed. Apps like Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and AfterEffects would be amazing with Retina compatibility.

I think everyone is anxiously awaiting an updated Photoshop, but I'm just not sure how they'd do it. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks, but it's a pretty major problem. Ps is all about mapping an image to exact pixels, but that's not practical on a Retina display. A 1x image would appear too small (or pixelated, just as it is now, at 200%), and 2x images would be too small at 100% (Retina actual size) to do pixel perfect detail work.

Maybe there's an obvious solution I'm overlooking.
This was one move by Twitter that I still can't wrap my head around. That was some prime real-estate Twitter had on LinkedIn, advertising the service in a way that few paid placements could match. It's not like I'm going to go to LinkedIn to follow anyone's Twitter activity on a regular basis; it's just publicity for the Twitter feed's existence and substance, so I know to follow them in a real Twitter client.
The day Twitter broke this, I just wrote an ifttt recipe to replace it: https://ifttt.com/recipes/42950
Cool.. now if they would just update their product page to match :)
Bah... I'll wait until Apple invents this technology about five years from now. I never buy non-apple product or technologies because I'm creative.
Seriously, does this guy not have any parents/siblings/super close friends who can tell him it's time to move on? This is a great happy hour story, but not such a great epitaph.

On the bright side, at least he's thematically consistent! "I keep getting screwed over by life" is the only reason I can think of to start the post with so many words about Final Clubs before the pivot.... Suffice it to say, anyone who can graduate from Harvard with a CS degree and feel screwed over needs some perspective.
That's certainly an expensive laptop, but you really can't say it's comparatively expensive, since it's got more than twice the resolution of any other laptop. There is no direct comparison to be made as yet.
The downvotes were probably because of the injection of nakedly partisan soundbite politics. Did it add to the discussion? Plenty of room to expand and actually discuss the matter, like you did.

As far as "you didn't build that", the context was "you didn't build that alone". Seems like you agree, in general. Nothing wrong with being satisfied with a job well done, but there is something wrong with growing up in the most advanced society in world history and thinking you're some sort of rugged pioneer.
Is twitter imploding? What's going on there? Maybe their costs were much higher than we thought 'per tweet'?
Humility like arrogance are both wrong. Humility is unearned guilt, unearned self-doubt, and arrogance is unearned confidence, unearned pride. It's best to have a sober assessment of one self and act accordingly.
Yeah, big data crunching pervades basically everything Google does. I joined Google as a UI SWE (basically a webdev), and find that most of my daily work nowadays involves processing large amount of data to come up with new features. I suppose I made a conscious effort to move back in the stack to more algorithmic back-end work, but even if you stick with UI work, the launch process is so data-driven that you almost need to have a basic familiarity with statistics & data processing.
Ask HN: Life as optimization problem 
I asked this question a while ago on both Quora and Ask MetaFilter, but many of the answers were hung up on the metaphors. ("Don't think of your life as a decision tree" was one popular response). I think HN readers are more likely to appreciate the structure. I'm not trying to write a system of equations and solve for happiness. But I do find the following formulations a useful way to approach a set of very big questions:

-How can I engineer my life to maximize happiness, financial security, and independence?
-How can I reconstruct as much of my decision tree as possible before making big decisions?
-What choices did you make that locked you into a suboptimal outcome in these areas, and how could you have avoided them?
-In your experience, what small actions or decisions offer the greatest marginal returns on these categories?
-Of the decisions I face now (or soon), which will have the greatest impact on future branches of the tree (i.e. eliminate or open up future paths or options)?

I'd love to hear answers on all scales, from, e.g., "buy the best noise canceling headphones you can afford" to "ride a bike everywhere" to "don't have children."
Oh, I have buzz-words aplenty. I live in Canada though...maybe that's it.
Like this?

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/get-infinite-scrol...
They only do stuff like that when it's totally awesome... like faking Big foot: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xll6vp_sonoma-bigfoot-video...
95% of the news is negative.
Ask HN: Help, I'm a developer who can't pay rent
It feels smarmy posting to HN like this, but here goes.

I was laid off from my Software Engineering in March and instead of picking up another position I coasted for awhile to work on some personal projects, figuring I could coast for at least a year. This month I incurred a financial disaster and now I'm thoroughly broke and am slightly concerned about paying my rent next month.

I'm a fairly young guy without a college degree but about 7 years development experience total (since I was a kid) and about 2 years "professional" experience. I know Erlang/OTP like the back of my hand, lots of experience with x86 & C/C++ and contemporary information security and exploit development practice (Not just old tricks like stack overflows! I know dlmalloc and jemalloc allocator internals and have tried my hand at faking more than one vtable pointer in an use-after-free). I doubt any of you are hiring for this but I also have considerable experience with Reverse Engineering as well, mostly on Windows with IDA, but my understanding of Linux (and ELF) internals is definitely better than average. I'd like to think I have very good networking knowledge as well, ranging from TCP protocol suite to client I/O strategies to building distributed systems from pragmatic (and academic) perspective.

I know Rails/Ruby + Python/Django/Pyramids and have passable Javascript skill as well (honestly mostly jQuery, don't really care much for JS, but can do it). I have a fairly extensive github and my Git skill is fine (maybe above average) as well.

Given how "hot" the market for developers in SF is right now, I'm a bit embarrassed to be posting for a such a shameless quick gig hence the throwaway. If you're interested, post here contact me @ zettavolt@hushmail.com if you need help before the end of the month or are willing to give me some cash up front in exchange for a longer term agreement I am more than fine with that as well.

(I'm located in San Francisco BTW!)
With all due respect, neither the designer, nor the client knows what the right copy and the right layout is.

A/B testing does.

The layout will be changed to accomodate the best conversion of customers to cash. Anything else is under-selling your client.
X11 has (had?) a virtual desktop setting that you could make larger than your monitor and either share between different monitors or scroll around using a single monitor.
> sometimes you're faced with choosing between a quick 20-minute change (that introduces coupling between previously uncoupled code), or a day-long refactoring to do it "right".

I don't relate to this only b/c this choice between 20 minutes vs. a day doesn't (shouldn't) come up as frequently to make it a time-to-market differentiator.

If it is -- if you're repeatedly bombarded by having to 20 minute hacks -- I think your problems are going to surface very very soon, not years from now.

Many teams I've witnessed code fast, fast, fast -- the wind in their hair and all -- but if you look at the puck you'll see that they're doing "suicide sprints" -- back and forth, back and forth. The team that does this right (that makes the "right" wise choices) is more like an elephant -- fast land speed, not quite a rabbit, but wise -- continually pushing the puck forward and at a much higher overall pace than the rabbit.

(Sorry for the potentially stomach turning analogy.)

> If a junior dev makes tightly-coupled code, then at some point down the line, schedules slip.

It's much, much bigger than slipped schedules. Take this interaction with a Product Manager:

PM: How long will it take to build this feature?
Engineer: Three days... I think?
PM: Nevermind, we won't do that.

In an inflexible code base this conversation happens over and over and over again. The "potential" of the codebase starts to become a tacit, subconscious limiter of innovation (the PM eventually stops asking certain questions--i.e., stops imagining ideas.)

It's not people dying but it's innovation, it's a stock price, it's jobs. It's a huge deal. That's why the frustration.
It's all about having the right campaigns and optimizing for conversion. It isn't easy, but it is certainly doable for most people. Adwords is like golf - it's a simple game to play but the being good requires a mastery of nuance and fine details that takes lots of experience.
B2B/enterprise would likely be covered in his first point about having a high LTV so you can invest in user acquisition.
Logos Corporate Culture, Best Software Company on the Planet
I work for Logos and can attest that it's one of the best software companies to work for on the planet. Unlimited vacation, autonomy, smart co-workers, few rules, fun problems, HOAGIES... it's all here.
So it happened that in my junior year of college, I came across the web site of one of the many finals clubs on campus, the Fly Club.

It's "FINE-UHL clubs" not "FINE-UHLZ clubs."

And he shockingly did not understand why information privacy might be a controversial issue.

And then

He had been searching the houseSYSTEM Facebook for the twins' profiles

So much for privacy.

Aside from the Facebook, the sites had overlapping features for course schedulers, photo albums, message boards, digital posters for student groups, and eventually exchanges for buying and selling on campus and mapping your network of friends.

Irrelevant. People only used Thefacebook for obvious and simple things: connecting with people they knew, poking, messaging, and photos. No one used mapping your network of friends (which sucked, incidentally, and also was faily most of the time) and no one even used the course scheduler. To state the obvious, facebook was not successful for its features, it was successful because how it was executed!

This was claimed to have been written for historical significance, but I know that every time an article is written by this author and about this subject dozens of people are thinking the same thing: move on. Create a successful company first, then retire and write about this topic. I'd love to see blog posts regarding Think Computer's technology. As it stands, this blog post gained a lot of attention but there isn't even a a sidebar with "Hi, I'm Aaron Greenspan and I'm the CEO of Think Computer. We have this product, click here to learn more." It's a marketing failure to not capitalize on such an opportunity.
I'm more inclined to build a stable business that makes me enough passive income to continue to work on it. Building a $100M company sounds exhausting. 37signals has definitely influenced me in going in the direction of small and lean instead of big and greedy. However, I find the insight into the way VCs think fascinating.
How old was he when he made that comment? We all do/say dumb things when we are young...
I think another solution could be to link the Organ Donor programs together. I think several US states have DMVs that register Organ Donation options. It could be a good starting point to get Donors matched up with Recipients. On similar lines, various blood donation program registries and bone marrow registries can also be incorporated in this marketplace. At least we will be sure that who ever is participating is doing so out of his/her own will.
No, it does not. The platform is made out of acrylic and apparently does not heat up. It looks like the Replicator 2X is designed to use both ABS and PLA but the standard Rep2 is PLA only.
California And 11 Other States Now Allow Online Voter Registration
It's got more pixels yes, but that doesn't make it N orders of magnitude more useful.
Interesting article and insights. I'm wondering if there's a hybrid model where you can enjoy both - high LTV AND high viral co-efficient. Or if that's unrealistic. Maybe Ebay?
op forgets the most important point:

assumption is the mother of all fuckups. and the fuckup is what i just read.

protip: define "we" before you start wasting other peoples time
I still can't understand Twitter's strategy. The sharing of content is what made it popular, isolating "their" content will drive it to celebrity watchers.

I guess advertisers understand publish/subscribe better than social interaction.
Legal defense fund started for hacker activist Aaron Swartz
Search for Obama on Facebook and You Get Romney
Muslim cyber attackers give attacks on banks a name: Operation Ababil
Twitter wants to "own" the consumer end of the experience so they can monetize it with display ads.

If you watch over the past six months, they've actively encouraged third-party publishers so businesses get more invested in twitter, while simultaneously discouraging third-party consumer-focused clients.
No, i do understand; but you are missing the point of the comment that you replied too -- which is that the purpose (public policy) of net neutrality is to prevent the collusion of private actors from acting against the common good. This type of collusion has issues associated with it that are far broader than what you are thinking of. And there are other laws/policy ideas beyond net neutrality to consider. This consideration isn't optional or arbitrary. [And this isn't an adversarial or snarky comment its just how the world works.]
he hasn't gotten much nicer with age, he just got a bit more careful on what he says in public.
PDF report by symantec of how the C&C was configured and how it works: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/secur...

Full Analysis of Flame's Command & Control servers by Kaspersky Lab Expert
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/750/Full_Analysis_of_Flame...
Which should be the #1 comment for this article that's based on the currently popular of guilt, and pride in feeling guilty.

We build on own success - each one of us. Being successful is not making a debt to someone - and even more so to society. And being successful is sexy!

You got at least my mod point, and hopefully more will come, but IMHO we should be very worried that such misconceptions are getting so popular :-(
Direct link to registration website:
https://rtv.sos.ca.gov/elections/register-to-vote/

It works surprisingly well. Crazy that this is new.
Personal computers were thousands of dollars in the '80s, and didn't drop below $1k until after they were mainstream. If you account for inflation, this MakerBot is cheaper than desktop computers were in the early to mid '90s. If it's perceived as a useful tool, then the current price is already low enough to not prevent widespread adoption.
Last night I gave a tour to my friend who'd never seen the place before. Just before midnight, we left a dollar in the donation box. This morning this story comes out.

I can only conclude I made the difference.

edit: and by sheer coincidence, I also work for one of Peter Relan's companies (Agawi)
It was about 5 years before he became a billionaire.

If "he was young" is a defense, then "he is too young to trust as a CEO" suddenly becomes a very very valid criticism of Zuck.
If I'm in denied airspace, I'd rather be in an F-35
on LinkedIn, twitter couldn't control the inventory, so they couldn't monetize the content.

It was their tradeoff of reducing usage while users are on LI, while hopefully increasing consumption on their own site from those users.

It's certainly a gamble, since I'd argue that LI was more a source of new twitter users rather than siphoning off views from already loyal twitter users.

The other possible threat in Twitter's head might have been LI bootstrapping their newsfeed off Twitter (which they'd mostly been doing) and then growing it large enough to actively compete with Twitter.
I was looking at buying a 3d printer within the week. I am price sensitive. I have budgeted 600$ (no higher).

Will this device come within my budget?
MakerWare can use both Skeinforge (highest quality settings) and Miracle-Grue (medium and low quality settings). We are still in Beta, so interfacing slicer engine (like slic3r, netfabb, ) is still underway.

The conveyor task engine is Open Source. So if you want to write your own plug in slic3r (or anything else) first, go for it!
This matches my experience. Eclipse Indigo and Glassfish both love to crash for me on OpenJDK (amd64 ubuntu). When I switch to Oracle's JDK binaries it all works fine.
Tungle.me Closes Its Doors
if you look at the actual IA website you'll see amazon is there :)
Hm, anyone else have old AIM conversations stored on their computers? Seems convenient.
Looks nice, but I think I'd only buy something that expensive if I could make a good business case for using it.
Is processing payments for porn sites so much different that companies that specialize in it exclusively are needed? Why can't a company like Paypal or Stripe support those merchant account classes and procedures?
Ceramics or epoxy seem like to candidates. Something that has a curing step of some sort. Do you think you could make a kiln out of the same sort of material it is designed to fire?

Two or more printers that together can be self-hosting seems like a possibility to me. The only limitation would be size and price I think.
At the bottom of the blog post, it says: Aaron Greenspan is the CEO of Think Computer Corporation and author of Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era. He is the creator of the FaceCash mobile payment system, ThinkLink business management system, and PlainSite legal transparency project. (and there are hyperlinks)
The concept of a teletype predated ASCII by decades. I would not use this article for any historical references.
It brought up memories of the original Bourne shell source code which used a plethora of CPP magic to make the code look more Algol-ish, and thus similar to its final product.
Detroit Lions Pledge $500K to Support Local Entrepreneurs
Full Show 9/18/12: Romney Writes Off Half the Nation