skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure YC companies get either free or heavily discounted Rackspace.

http://www.rackspacestartups.com/yc/index.html
This is really a shame. Grove.io is a big part of our startup's communications. I really hope Leah considers open-sourcing the project, or turning it over to someone else.
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I know, but for some reason, twitter never got off here.
I just dont see. Beatuiful is extremely subjective, so the title of this is inherently incorrect. And beautiful they may be, but they are not usable, consistent, or friendly. And the ones that are close to being good, have niggling issues like spacing between items, which drives me nuts
Have you installed any apps on your iOS device? Consistency is pretty hard to come by these days.
If that's true, why is disproportionate number of companies such as Google and Apple and Microsoft thriving here if they could be anywhere? I believe there is a secret sauce in the US or Google would have been from elsewhere.
Ok -- next on my to-do list is a new name.
Logs, globbing, regexes and bucketed retention rules
I sure hope this exploit gets a lot of attention, in this way most people will understand the importance of upgrading their browser and thus... we, web developers, will not have to support crappy browsers (IE7 I'm looking at you!) :D
> Besides, when each app takes up all available real estate, do you really need consistency between apps?

Yes. Consistency between apps is what allows you to start up a new app and intuitively know how to use it. You shouldn't have to re-learn how to interact with each app.

> Distinctive styles are just a nice reminder of what app you're in.

Distinctive style up to a point is useful and pleasant. Gratuitous differences make interaction more awkward. Even at the purely aesthetic level, a reasonable level of consistency improves the feel of the device. When an app looks completely different from all the apps that come with the device, it looks less distinctive and more out-of-place.
In comparison,

- Facebook raised $200MM in its Series-D round with DST in 2009, at a valuation of $10B.

- Twitter in 2010, with plateauing growth, raised $200MM (series F), with a valuation of 3.7 B.

Square has strong growth and a proven revenue model and still just got a multiple of 16x. Clearly the market has adjusted its expectations quite a bit. In other words, it is going to be quite hard for a Pinterest to raise money at 1.5B valuation today.

I'm going to have to conclude that reports of another tech bubble burst were quite exaggerated.
Hans Boehm talk on Garbage Collection and Finalization (2012 video)
Very briefly put, I use MongoDB to start off most new projects.

My primary objective is that my application fulfills it's use case. Data is malleable, so you should use the right tools for your needs.

That being said, it sounds like the OP was trying to use a chisel as a replacement for a toolbox. Basically fighting the software (mongodb) to fit his requirements, instead of using additional tools.

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/05/15/NODB.html

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosql/
I can go onto LinkedIn myself and harvest profiles (as agency recs have to). I can "touch base" with 100+ developers myself if I need to.

I doubt you can. Not easily, anyway. Think about the social implications for a minute.

If you do this in the most efficient way - grab profiles with a simple algorithm, then send the same pitch email to everyone using blind-carbon-copy - you're cold-calling. The problem with cold-calling is that it doesn't enhance your reputation. Do you really want your name and email address filed in the spam filter along with the clumsiest of recruiters? Do you really want to experience the indignity of being unfriended on LinkedIn?

Just wait until your amateur spam-o-rama accidentally hits four employees and a hiring manager at another company. They will talk to each other, and figure out that you're attempting to "poach" their employees in the clumsiest possible way, and now your name is mud, twice over.

Cold-calling does work, though. (There's no shortage of evidence.) Most of the best candidates don't surf job listings for entertainment, and those few who do are window-shoppers, who have trained themselves to read but not to act. But they might respond to a little poke, when it happens to arrive at the right time. But: You can't be doing that nagging yourself. Frankly, you need a scapegoat. A third party. Perhaps someone whose job description protects their reputation a bit: Everyone knows that recruiters gotta recruit, or be fired.

Alternatively, to be kind to your colleagues, you can screen profiles more carefully, making sure not to email people who are obviously not a fit, and making sure not to target the employees of companies run by your friends, and making sure to write lovingly personalized emails to each person, asking about their dog and their kids and then oh-so-discreetly suggesting, as if by accident, that maybe they'd like a new job? This strategy works to some degree - it is, in fact, what most of us do as we wander down the hall at a conference - but it doesn't scale. We call it networking, but when you have to do it with 100+ developers it is a full-time job called recruiting. Perhaps you should consider outsourcing it? And now we're back to square one.
My hope is that I helped people figure out which one is right for their business. :-)
Given the context of the OP, a brand new project or startup, my advice still stands true.
Right, I just meant something as global as the windows namespaces (I don't know how it is designed, kernel module for vfs or userspace)
On the other hand, I was so annoyed by the G+ notifications I now never access Google services as a logged in user. I now check gmails with Mail.app (faster than web-based GMail any way), read Google reader feeds with Reeder, and I never feel missed out. If you think this Google+ strategy is brilliant and cost-free, then I'd at least argue that it costs some long-term loyal users and annoys a whole bunch more.
CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
In my personal experience, more and more content -- e.g. items I have previously queued -- has been disappearing from Netflix streaming. Which I find ironic, given the big marketing push they made for streaming a year or a bit more ago.

This is one aspect of an increasing personal discomfort with "subscription" content services of all sorts. I think I'm about done with them and will go back to purchasing "perpetual access" products, whether physical media or DRM-free electronic distributions.

These better suit my patterns of acquisition, sometimes delayed consumption, and the need and desire to go back and review / re-reference.

Worse than the middleman, is the middleman who insists in staying in the middle (and profiting from it) forever.
Heh, I see a LOT of Android 2.2/2.1 and even a few 1.6 devices on that page. Most of the ones claiming 4.0, if you look closely at the pictures, it's not the 4.0 interface (some of them have the old search bar from the 1.6 days). I don't know if the pictures are just wrong, but I certainly wouldn't trust them with my money.

The few that did claim 4.0 and did have accurate pictures, the specs were pretty poor and the price wasn't that low.
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Yeah. It must be pretty energy intensive for the brain consider all that rewiring that occurs. I take the interlaced GIF approach to learning hard things.
I reached out to Leah with the same questions, but in lieu of a response I spent a few minutes setting up a replacement that is both an IRC server and a hosted web client: https://github.com/LocalSense/hosted-irc

I'll hack on it a bit more tonight, but it shouldn't be too difficult to replicate what Grove.io does.
Call it Baffa (Japanese translation of Buffer)
Riviera Partners' 2012 Bay Area Startup Market Snapshot [pdf]
Check google play - there are apps that will handle the ICS files for you
I'm not saying 100,000 is an unfair statistic, but what I meant to get at instead was growth through g+ versus inclusion through tack-on services (a totally valid and excellent way to bring users into your product :-) as I tend to agree with some of the other comments describing it as "the path of least resistance" for sharing content through google.
Why advertise the trendy technologies (-PHP) it's built on?
I like the screenshots but I don't understand the navigation of the page and why would you hijack the default scrollbar of your browser?

I'm surprised that so apps look WP metro style
Yeah yeah, I'm an "active" G+ user, but all I've done in the past month is have my photos from my phone automatically uploaded to it (not shared, just for backup), and maybe shared a couple of things I saw on Google Reader, that nobody will likely see, because, well, google broke readers social interface.
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Your implied negative standpoint, with the products are "cheap" and "generic" and "Chinese", is rather naive and amusing. The entire point of this article is the fact that these products are indistinguishable from the same ones with a HTC, Samsung, HP or Apple logo emblazoned on the device.

Hardware will truly be dead when people realize just how much they're paying for the brand name and nothing more.
That sounds like my buddies' startup Work For Pie: http://workforpie.com/dpritchett

The single-score approach is a bit heavy handed but it's still interesting information.
"Tampon"? Seriously? Let the app shine without stopping people short because of the name.
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Riviera Partners' 2012 Q2 Bay Area Engineering Salary Report [pdf]
I feel your pain, which is why I wanted to address it to some extent, and why I wrote that post.

I hope that thread dies, and the discussion moves here.

Can you not see however, that the recruiters are all over the list, hitting reply-all, and not really helping the list at all, and it's because of that, that we need to make it clear why they're not wanted, why they shouldn't be on the list in the first place, and why we want our list back?

Don't be part of the problem (leaving the list so making the recruiter/coder ratio even worse), be part of the solution. Re-join the list, and let's start some interesting tech discussions. I'll start. Check the list in 20 minutes.
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Hey if iPad overcame its name, this could work too!
This advice -- the most frequent reply in this thread -- is the same as saying you should be able to accurately predict the future. Database management is a big and complicated topic. Especially with emerging tools like Mongo there is no way reading a book is going to give you the expertise and experience you need to choose the right tool. You do your best and maybe make the wrong decision. It's not stupid to go down the wrong path. What's stupid is continuing down the path after you've encountered one problem after another.
The thing with the NoSQL guys is that many of them seem not to be in a position to make an educated comparison. For example, an, uhh, enthusiastic MongoDB advocate recently informed me that MongoDB was superior to Oracle because in Oracle you had to poll a table to see if it changed. Except, no, that isn't actually true: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14251/adfns_... - and that document is from 2005. And you could do a trigger and an AQ message/callback 5 years before that (at least). You haven't needed to poll an Oracle database for changes in a loooong time.

Basically, every evangelism point, you have to double-check and cross-reference, because as you say, the NoSQL guys are encountering issues the RDBMS community addressed years ago (7 in my example, but the sharding stuff, 20+ years) - except they think they are discovering it for the first time!
Actually, that made me think about it.
The idea came because i am having problems finding clients (same old story), since i am trying to sell my services for (around) 1k USD and they are finding ridiculously expensive, because there are some others around here doing for a lot cheaper.
How Microsoft and Apple try to free-ride on those who built mobile
I guess the key will become content.
Tablet makers will want to be "the only tablet that can do X" where X won't necessarily be a technical hardware feature but rather a deal made with a content producer to be the only platform for their content to be distributed on.

That way you can sell devices at a huge markup despite the hardware being identical to lower end models.
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Clicking on any link will make you a monthly active user on that destination site's metrics.
I initially thought it was an app for female hygiene!
Because it's an open source project: https://github.com/julien-c/Tampon
Thanks for the recommendation. Just glancing over the spec[1], I'd say there's a pretty slim chance I'm satisfying the entire thing :)

Hermes is my first real foray into the XMPP/Jabber protocols and is definitely still a work in progress; probably especially on the compliance front!

[1] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html
Humbling. I though I was doing really well making Android apps, but these examples remind me how far there is to go.
There is a common pattern in all the stuff mentioned there: closed source proprietary software. The companies who wrote them are the ones to blame. You can report bugs/problems, then sit there and wait, but as said in the article, they don't care and nothing will happen. You're already trapped in the closed ecosystem, your data in some proprietary format, and (un)happily living inside the walled garden. If everything is broken, is because you chosen broken software.
Critical zero-day bug in Internet Explorer under active attack
I appreciate the zen-like philosophical nugget.

For a more micro attempt at achieving something similar, I've recently experimented with leaving my phone at home during the day for 3-4 hour periods at a time when I go to school. A few things happen:

- I feel more calm and focused without the anxiety of another device to constantly check --> I'm better able to focus in lectures

- I surprisingly frequently pat my pocket when walking on my 20-minute commute to see if my phone's there. I notice many people outside staring into their iPhones and Android devices like zombies.

- When I return, any calls, text messages, reminders, emails, and notifications found do not really seem all that important nor urgent. Having the ability to avoid such distractions feels like positive steps in reducing impulsive behavior.
The great irony is that page runs terrible on my galaxy2 tablet..
This seems like a neat feature but it's also painfully slow. Is that normal or is the dashboard under unusual load? Mysterious slowness seems like a recurring theme on Heroku.
I have a feeling this is the case as well. Can you cite any references?
Google managed to hire Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Dick Costolo, but couldn't produce a meaningful competitor to Twitter.

Failure is a feature indeed.
You mean, companies should differentiate their product and not compete on price? You crazy man.
Good idea, but this sounds a bit too close to Buffer :)
Awesome, this deep rumble is oddly soothing in my MDR-7506s.
> is the fact that these products are indistinguishable
> from the same ones with a HTC, Samsung, HP or Apple

Thats very very very far from "fact". In fact, reality is just the opposite.
verified with a friend this weekend who's using Verizon with his iphone 4s... when you get a call while using data on cell network, the data access stops and the phone call takes precedence (you'll still receive the call). if you try to switch to an app or browser for data while on a call, you get a message saying it won't work
I noticed that a lot of the UX designs have that flat UI/Metro style.
Hope you enjoyed the cheese!
Neat concept. Concise summaries really make browsing for interesting articles easier. Although there is a lot of overlap between 140-character "summaries" and plain old titles, which tend to be about the same length.

I think the body should be allowed to be a bit longer (2 pages?) and include figures, links to source code, etc. I was frustrated by the extreme brevity when I wanted to know more about specific articles.
OTOH, better to spend your time and effort on the best, than to spend it in varying degrees of frustration with the relatively poor quality of alternatives.

In this sense, an excellent list of the best resources can indeed be part of a "crash" course. Because, going in, the student may not know what to pick, and without a good instructor/mentor/advisor -- whether in person or in video and text -- less optimal choices may considerably slow things down.
The last time I saw any mainstream news that wasn't part of a youtube joke clip or actually important enough to make it to news sites like slashdot was... well... I think this one time in 5th grade around 1991 I was forced to read a news article of my choice to write an essay about. I don't remember what it was about or anything though these days.

So yeah, last time I saw a paper was 1991. Last time I saw a news TV thing was probably mid 90s as well, but I don't remember it since I have literally never seen a full news hour or however long it goes.
What G+ notifications do you mean?
Some of the best GPA's in my college graduating class (class of 2012) were known cheaters. They went on to prestigious jobs at companies such as [large american aircraft manufacturer] and [large american defense contractor]. Those of us that left with less amazing GPA's (say 3.0-3.5/4.0) are working dead end jobs making minimum wage.

Though as far as immoral/unethical/illegal activities go, cheating was really the tip of the ice berg for my particular university.
Very neat. It seems to me the really interesting bit here is the ability to add execution meaning to arbitrary bits of text. Can anyone who uses Acme comment on whether or not that is primarily what gives Acme its power? Is there something else key to it that isn't shown cleanly in the video?

Interestingly, I also see Light Table as an "Integrating" Development Environment - something that utilizes all the amazing tools out there and strings them together into a very fluid workflow. I think we need to decouple the raw functionality of dev tools from the experience of their use, since it seems to me the latter is infinitely configurable and far too subjective to get "right" in all cases.
I knew Harris and Klebold had brought bombs with them, although I'll admit I'd forgotten about the bomb that didn't go off they'd set outside.

When I said "planted bomb", what I was thinking of was a situation where the bomber visits the intended target site in advance, stealthily hides the bomb, sets at timer (or remote detonator) and then leaves. Later the bomb goes off with the intent of killing people.

I don't consider Columbine to be similar to this in spirit because 1) the boys brought the bomb with them that day; it wasn't set up "in advance". 2) the bomb wasn't intended to hurt people, really; it was to draw people out so the boys could shoot them. And, of course, there was no "bomb threat" call, either. This was a travel-to-the-site school shooting that just happened to involve a(n) (unsuccessful) bomb, which I believe to be very different in spirit from something like the OKC bombing.

You rightly complain that I'm hand-wavy, but I'd assert that even if there very easily could be such a bomb, it DOES matter that there never has been.

The goal of a terrorist is to create fear in the population at large. One of my goals as a school teacher is to reduce unfounded fear among students and parents.

Parents already have enough to worry about. There are real, likely worries: my child will be in a car accident. There are real but unlikely worries: my plane will crash. And then below that are technically-possible-but-still-unlikely-and-have-never-even-happened worries: the bomb threat at my school represents a danger to my child.

I'm not saying school violence isn't a legitimate worry, just that a bomb in a school with a phone call beforehand ought to be pretty low on what's already a pretty insignificant risk.
One thing that's interesting about China is there are literally 10s of thousands of independent manufacturers. In the U.S publicly traded companies raise and borrow money for incredibly cheap and buy out and consolidate everyone but in China this doesn't seem to happen.
> Android actually hasn't suffered from tactile UI fragmentation much more than iOS has.

If the apps on this page a representative, I'd say that Android has experienced a lot more UI fragmentation than iOS. These are being held up as examples of best Android interfaces, and they look very inconsistent to me.

In contrast, I just opened up a bunch of random apps on my phone's home screen, and they all look very much like "iOS style". Obviously the native apps match well, but so does OneBusAway, Wikipanion, Skype (though the UI is flatter than the rest), Google Voice, Amazon, OneNote, etc.

These all look like iOS apps to me.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onebusaway/id329380089

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipanion/id288349436

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype/id304878510

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-voice/id318698524

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-mobile/id297606951

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id410395246
Installing via pip fails due to missing xmpp dependency.

EDIT: install_requires=['xmpppy>=0.5.0rc1']
.txt and .pdf are the absolute wrong formats for e-books. .pdf formatting is usually broken for eReaders, and .txt has no formatting whatsoever. Also, you'll really only ever get those formats if you're pirating, which usually entails transcription errors.

I used to pirate all my books, but it got to the point where I realized paying $6 for the pleasure of a properly-formatted, error-free book was a better deal than pirating and ripping them.
Incorrect application of best practices.
You have to draw a clean line between "stuff it is really fun and enlightening to play with" and "stuff you introduce into your stack".

Even if you have a clean line, when do you promote something across that line? It is easy for little bits of weirdness to escape detection(Mostly thinking about Cassandra write failures here.) in a fun to play with environment especially if they only come out when you are running a cluster.
You're only as good as your network. Your social feed is different than mine.

My Google+ feed is way more useful to me. I follow a lot of fellow developers & tech personalities who post long-form content that can't fit on Twitter.

My Facebook feed has too much personal/trivial posts that I value it less. Not to mention the endless political rant.

I actually think that Facebook & Google+ comparison is not right.

The people I follow on Google+ are more similar to the people I follow on Twitter. But Google+ has an advantage because it has no 140-character restriction & displays media (video/picture) better.
Well why do you think that Apple has so much cash in the bank? (it is only partly from the App Store skim).
Yeah, no. The "u" as a "v" thing is stupid and cliché
A few companies do it. A lot of companies have internal recruiting. I don't think it's necessarily bad form if the offer is tasteful and customized (eg I find it fun to talk to a CTO who has actually read my LinkedIn page and wants my specific skillset). But if you're just spamming people (like a lot of recruiters do), you can damage your reputation pretty quickly.
I find the iOS UI patterns to be consistent, but the "skins" on those UI elements tend to vary quite a bit. Now this is the case on the iPad, since I don't have an iPhone I cannot speak to that. Just getting a podcast program on android that had a consistent UI where things made sense was a fruitless effort. Streaming content is not consistent either, some apps stream really well (audio galaxy), while other stream terribly. These are the types of things that I found maddening.