skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit, we're social animals. That's what makes primates so distinct. Obviously there are exceptions, which these 4chan numbnuts have exemplified, but generally we're good at socialising and being friendly with another.
the timing isn't precise to more than perhaps +-1 day, missing that particular couple minutes when the text would arrive doesn't matter
I guess I've viewed this situation entirely differently than everyone else - which almost certainly means I'm wrong - but the alternative perspective might be useful.

9to5 made some claims about instapaper being a "scraper", Marco is very sensitive about the grounds that he treads with regards to "Fair Use" - and, in an overabundance of caution (paranoia?) - decided that he didn't want to risk having 9to5 claim that he was violating fair-use by scraping their website, and so he put them in the "Do Not Scrape" list.

What he may not have realized, is that it also appeared to a significant portion of the community, that he was "censoring" 9to5 because they were making claims against him that he didn't appreciate.

The thing about one-man-shop entrepreneurs - they have to walk a very, very fine line between responsible business behavior, and accepting the status quo. The first is an imperative for any long-standing business model, but the second is death when they come up against any major obstacles (as every small venture does).

I think Marco tripped here - hopefully he'll pick himself up, dust himself off, and move on to do great things. I'm looking forward to this new IOS 6 stealth App he's been working on...
Supposedly the browser will switch the rendering engine on you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo.
Yeh. Totally my bad. should have been more careful with the phrasing. We are not down. All is well :-)
File for unemployment.

Review your finances & savings. Look into cutting back on things. Figure out how long you can hold out with just your unemployment before you have to dip into your savings (or retirement, life insurance, whatever).

If you have student loans, now is the time to tell them you lost your job & won't be paying. They're far friendlier about it if you tell them before than after.

Polish up the resume. Start posting it to Dice/Monster/etc.

Go have a beer. Getting laid off sucks. Have another one because beer is good.

Depending on how evaluating your financial situation went earlier, you may want to take a few days to relax & just not give a fuck, if you can afford it. If you can't, time to get started...

Start looking for jobs. Depending on how much experience you have & how much local demand there is for them, you might have to put a lot of work into this & spam out resumes, or you might get bombarded by recruiters. Either way, eventually, you're going to have to start working again.
I won't debate your comment, it sounds reasonable. But as with my previous comment, I'll repeat "context is important".

In the documentary, I watched footage of him sitting 5ft from grizzly bears by himself for 15-20 minutes before they discuss his death.

In this article it explains how the girl teased 4chan repeatedly for 3-4 paragraphs before they described the attacks against her.

My emotional/empathetic response after hearing what happened to both of them was heavily influenced by rational thought beforehand.
The real question is, will it affect our recruiting effort. If we find someone to join up that tells me they found out about us because of the story, I'll call it 100% successful.
Lesson 0: make the text on your blog/site darker than the current fad du jour says it should be. It's a pain to read this on the common computer display.
My suggestion makes sense since they are a very big ISP and they simply don't care about the cost of a service that they would need to provide to their clients anyway.

Namecheap does the same and most people think that they provide a good service.

Seriously, pay if you want, but if you aren't Google, you don't need to pay for reliable DNS hosting.
They do seem to prioritize paying customer, particularly during outages.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/151

"We prioritize getting top-paying customers back online over our larger base of free users, which is why customers (particularly those with dedicated databases) were back online much more quickly than free apps. While we think this prioritization makes sense, we do strive to provide a high level of service to everyone. Even though the outage was much shorter (less than 16 hours in most cases) for our top customers than for our free users (as much as 3 days in some cases), we measure our downtime as the time it took to get 100% of apps back online."
We think we have a good idea that seems like a bad idea:
http://hometract.blogspot.com/2012/09/connectwithcontractors...
From the job posting:

"Salary is $100k+ (you'll pick the actual number)"

Is this a 'can you think like a founder' test?
He was tacked on to the project, not part of the original team. And he seems to be somewhat ashamed that he created something people usually describe as addictive and time-wasting.
Ok, I've read [1] that this guy has developed a new set of mathematical objects and techniques which he is (almost) the only one to understand.

That means that if someone wants to check if the proof is right, he'll first have to learn how to use all these objects.

I'll guess we won't have a tested proof for some years.

[1] [SPA] http://gaussianos.com/posible-demostracion-de-la-veracidad-d...
sudo apt-get install nginx php5-common php5-fpm is all you have to do :\
Might be a bug: window size is incorrect with my setup.

AboutMyBrowser.com (correct):

Screen Width	2560

Screen Height	1440

Browser Width	1932

Browser Height	1271

Browser Top	22

Browser-Details.com:

Screen Resolution	2560x1440

Window Size	2560x1366

https://aboutmybrowser.com/4031483493
Sometimes i dont even read the article at all.
If getting a lot of real work done is overrated, then yes, Java is overrated.
That explanation was not written by Gowers at all (his name appears on it now that the answer was marked community wiki, becuase he is the most recent person to edit it, to fix a typo), and indeed although Gowers is certainly brilliant, this is far from his domain of expertise. That answer was written by Martin Weissman (username: Marty), the author information is at the bottom right corner of any answer and here says "Marty 98%".

Also, take a look at Minhyong Kim's answer.
I just don't see how making a very poor decision and then reversing in the face of intense and justified backlash is a net positive. Read it later apps are a dime a dozen and mostly interchangeable. Now we have a "willing to censor over a personal vendetta" checkbox in our comparison shopping. Even if he learns from this, I just am not going to do future business with a person who has crippled his product for users over a petty blogfit.
> That's a strong assertion that I actually tried to keep out of my post as I hypothesized what I saw as a plausible scenario given only whats been in the media.

You said it was "more likely," implying you had some reason to believe it besides what people say on the Internet.
Free dynos shut off after inactivity (~30 minutes in my experience). So you're probably subsidizing a lot less than you think, since most production apps have scaled beyond the free tier.
I think the best comments are the ones where someone just pastes the "important" bit.
I won't answer the question of who I'd rather work with on a daily basis as I can see both of their strengths and there's no reason they cannot both fit within a team.

If I were management, I'd groom Gabriella to be a Development Manager/Project Manager. She has the skills to speak to developers and actually understand their problems yet she also has the skills to face off with stakeholders.

Rodrigo will need to be babysat and is more suitable for less structured roles that offer more freedom from daily rigors of development work; such as an Architect or Technical Lead.
That may be so, but it doesn't change what I originally said; even if it's true, then as society becomes more urban, it'll both become less religious and more supportive of animal rights.
Yeah, doing weight to ID multiple users would work in most environments (which is how the withings wifi scale works with multiple users). NFC = nearfield communications = RFID = short-range RF, useful for opening doors, unlocking computers, etc. Basically a contactless smartcard.
Alright, interesting, but I want to counter your points.

Either I didn't communicate my points correctly or you're not really countering my points.

Manager doesn't care about details, so Rodrigo comes across as "unable to explain technical issues to manager".

The point is not about Rodrigo's (in)ability to explain technical issues to less technical people. The point is that Gabriella is supposed to be able to do so well, yet unable to grasp the concept of performance. To quote the author, Gabriella's attitude is that "if it works, it works!" I was pointing out that this is rather inconsistent with the ability to understand complex technical issues well enough to be able to explain them to non-technical people.

Gabriella often comes across as if she explains complex technical issues well -- but perhaps this is because her understanding of it is somewhat superficial.

Unless I'm totally misinterpreting you, you're saying that Gabriella isn't actually explaining complex technical issues well, but instead misrepresenting them as simple issues.

While that might counter one part of my second point, it really does underline my final conclusion about the message the author tries to convey.

I don't think the OP implied that Rodrigo can't get stuff done, but rather, because Rodrigo cares about the quality of his work, it comes across as if he's deliberately ignoring the deadlines.

Again, you seem to be countering a point I wasn't making. My point wasn't about deadlines, but about communication and collaboration. The phrase "you can't get a clear thought out of him without rambling incoherence surrounding it" describes a kind of person that can't communicate well enough even with their peers. Maybe my understanding of open source is naive, but I somehow find it difficult to believe that they can thrive when their "core contributors" (as the author claims Rodrigo to be) have such a low signal-to-noise ratio.

I've seen managers that prefer a Gabriella who hits the deadline even if the thing is full of bugs.

Yes, I've seen quite a few of those, too. What invariably happens is that the "client" (i.e. whoever the software is for) either ends up "paying" extra for those bugs to be fixed or living with crappy product if they can't "pay". And when I say "pay", it's not necessarily in money -- it could be in time before they can use the software or reap expected benefits from it.

Like I stated, wherever this is acceptable behavior, it's because the concept of successful project is redefined to accept this. The reality is that you didn't really hit the deadline, you just strongarmed everyone into accepting the fact that you cheated by redefining rules.
Disagree. C has good debuggers - visual c++ is fine. In my opinion, C has all the features that the parent post was referring to (you might quibble about being easy to learn, but I'd also quibble whether a tool needs to be easy to learn)
Thanks for the link. Makes me feel better :)
Outcasts are vulnerable, yes, but that's why you try to prevent becoming one. I have seen Dogville, but I don't see why this fictional anecdote would refute my thesis which is based on what I believe is the consensus in modern anthropology. I didn't imply that 'nothing nasty would happen to anyone', that's a straw man. I merely pointed out a contrast between small close-knit groups vs. large anonymous crowds.
Not really. I am really curious as to why they don't. Seems like a natural way to keep them separate in cases there are performance issues that do arise.
The governorship of Texas is largely ceremonial. Obama arguably got more experience in public service as a community organizer than Dubya did as governor.
While you may be able to find attribution of that to some fringe elements of the Republican party, I have not heard Romney or Ryan say anything even close. In fact, they seem to be far more process oriented than the current administration that continues to try to find ways around government process (avoiding votes, expansion of executive orders, use of conference, recess appointments, etc).
Here's some links on average returns for the Dow Jones (ie, top public companies in the US): [1][2]

I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it was 1000% per year at some point in the tail, if not at 1% then for the top .01 percent of companies.

I'm having trouble parsing that sentence. I think you are saying that you think 1000% per year returns are normal for the top 0.1% of companies.

This is absolutely not the case. Even Apple (by far the best example of rapid share price growth in a large company) might, maybe manage to increase its share price 100% this year (low of ~$374 in Nov last year, currently at ~$662). That's exceptional - companies like Standard Oil, Exxon, etc never managed that.

(Occasionally you may get a smaller resource oriented company that fids oil, gold reserves or something and sees a 1000% increase. Or a small drug company that has a successful trial. These are very unusual too though, and more similar to VC investing that the typical public markets).

[1] http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com.au/2009/03/average-...

[2] (pdf, sorry) http://www.risadvisory.com/images/uploads/Rydex_Historical_t...
That was just opinion. Should have made that clear.
Good insight. I still think that having them tiered would make more sense. More curious as to why they aren't.
I've never really give heroku a chance.. because of the cheap price of 20$/month for a linode. I once was tempted to use it for a contract but I felt there are so much cheaper and good alternatives..
Sad that hemp is overlooked, it's truly a wonder material. So much so that it sounds fake.

http://www.informationdistillery.com/hemp.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Wears_No_Clothes
No not all. The original founders all have sub-$100k salaries but also have more than 1% equity.

I don't like having salary negotiations with people that could work anywhere or could start their own company. I'm humbled and honored by their decision to work with us (that decision always comes before we talk salary).

I show them the cap table, the bank accounts, and everyone else's salary in our company...and then ask them where they would like to be.

We can't do it this way forever, but for now, it means that everyone in the company feels good about where they stand. In talking to my other startup friends, our salaries are very similar to their's, so it doesn't seem to make much of a difference in the outcome.
I generally try not to start meta discussions here, but this HN submission is an example of a trend I'm seeing more of here lately. The title used to give context without editorializing, until an administrator changed it to the cryptic 9to5, which matches the title of the blog post but conveys no information about the article unless you were already following the story.
I'm socially liberal and believe in a carefully regulated free market, as well. I don't think civil liberties are an issue that bind strongly to either party; there are principled advocates for civil liberties coming from both directions.
A conversation with Anders Hejlsberg, designer of the C# programming language.
Agile beyond the hype
Actually the problem children are excellent coders who are toxic to the Gabreillas in the office. As a manager having a person who writes perfect code but pisses everyone else off, is less useful than one who writes moderate code but gets along, even if they are quiet and moody.
Instead of a snarky reply, perhaps someone will think of a good solution.

The simplest possible thing: instead of supporting a single git URL, allow specifying several. That way, if anything goes down the system can fallback to the next git server.

Another nice benefit of doing this could be automatic load balancing.
He doesn't understand how the economy works. Neither do nearly everyone in government. They are all basically academics without practical experience. You can't fix something you don't understand. You'd have better luck asking a virgin about sex.
Between this and his sponsorship of DOJ domain seizures ,without due process of any kind, it's hard to see how any technologist could support Obama.
Too bad, I really wished it was a DNS renewal thing.
Search engine wars: Microsoft invites Google to "Bing It On"
Customer acquisition, I would think. The cost to them is very small compared to the gains they get by attracting so may people with an awesome, simple-to-use service. Think of it as the "gateway" dyno.

Tiers would just get in the way of the simplicity of their service.
I often do this when its a link baity article title e.g. like "OO sucks, and this is why ..." or similar
GoDaddy Gone: Can the Domain Giant Recover Its Reputation?
FoundationDB — Not Your Standard NoSQL Database
My 2cents, I'd be recruiting Rodrigo hard and just pay him to hack on ghc full time, and that other one I'd at best refer to another company that might be a better fit.

Granted, what I'm up with Wellposed is pretty darn special, and I am planning on pulling baller solid computer scientist engineers in as fast as capital permits starting late fall :-)
Donate to the Syrian rebels via a U.S.-backed vehicle
Cupcakes Better Than Startups at TC Disrupt
Steam Big Picture Available Now (Beta)
Taliban reportedly using fake Facebook pages
You've picked apps with necessarily minimal interfaces; the only exception being Microsoft Word. Word doesn't need a new UI every other year but it gets one because, without making the UI sexier each year, people don't buy it.

I like this anecdote from Raymond Chen on this subject:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/25/14125...
It's sort of a bummer that so many people re-write quickstart documentation like it's new or helpful.
Uh, I think you're missing the part where Apple didn't copy or steal the Windows OS design and fell far behind in operating systems.

Or when they forgot about developers and let MSFT gain 90% of the market.

Or: Lisa. The Apple ///. Etc etc etc.
The story of Bob
Equalize.js - jQuery plugin to equalize element height and widths
Why Jobs Remain Unfilled Even Though Unemployment Is High
The claimed proof doesnt directly help us in factoring primes. At least not now. It has more to do with "structure" of primes.
Thanks for the this. In my opinion, there's too little written about passing fd's (use of dup2). It seems like a technique that is more useful than just as part of shell redirection. Safer than popen()?
That's true. After all, Gruber is (at least in name) a journalist. Marco's blog is just a place for him to express the opinions/emotions he wears on his sleeve. The only reason anyone pays attention to him is because of the popularity of Instapaper.
Good controls for video games can go a long way
Stacking Changes Coming to position:fixed elements
Ask HN: How do I show a company that I'm worth hiring?
I want to start applying to companies looking to hiring junior developers, but I don't seem to meet the requirements for any of them.

I don't have a college degree. I don't have an amazing GitHub account. I'm not the best programmer in the world. I'm certainly not a "rock star" or a "ninja".

What I DO offer is passion and the ability to learn quickly. What else do I need to convince a company to hiring me?
The Crowd Has Spoken: Check Out The Coolest US Tech Companies
How DICE Does It
"Crippled" is a bit of an overstatement. Of the billions of websites in existence, he blocked one, for a poorly-thought-out but well-intentioned reason, and reversed it in a candid and transparent way.

I don't see how that would outweigh almost any other comparison shopping consideration (UI, features, etc.).
Menuez: "A couple of co-workers who were falling in love celebrating with abandon at the Adobe annual holiday party of 1988. They were married shortly after the party but divorced a few years later."

The phrasing here bothers me. I'd rather it read: They were married shortly after the party and divorced a few years later.

Using "but" is editorializing to me -- like saying they shouldn't have gotten married in the first place, since they later divorced.
The way I see it, this website features two types of design. The first is skeumorphic design, and the other is a sort of mimicry of skeumorphic design by people who presumably did not realize the underlying point of skeumorphism.

Cargo cult design, basically.
If you don't really need Java, get rid of it
I don't know much about cryptography. So, what you're saying is basically that cryptographic algorithms are largely implemented relying on primes?

This is fascinating.
In one of my other posts in the object-relational series I noted that select * has very different implications in an object-relational vs a strictly relational model. In a strictly relational model you want your SQL query to define your data structures on output. In an object-relational model often times you want your data structures to be formed properly so the db can do other object-relational stuff with them later. So there select * becomes very useful as a way of ensuring that the data structures on output can be simply re-used later.

Of course if you are doing pure physical storage queries, select * is probably not what you want but if you have a logical model built up, you may want to do select * from it in order to ensure that your output matches some specific set of rules.
Can Amazon Topple Netflix’s Streaming Empire?
Why are you posting a link to my comments? Don't be a dick.
Design & Code for HTML5 Web Development
When Smarter Isn't Better
I have been known to ask that in interviews: "Tell me three things that you know won't work".
A developer making his product worse over personal bullshit would outweigh almost every other consideration, especially in such a competitive market.
I just finished reading Peter Thiel's notes from his Startup class and he suggests almost all businesses are in fact monopolies, yet pretend not to be by competing in other environments. Google has a monopoly on search, FB a monopoly on social networking, etc. I don't know if I agree that either of them are complete monopolies, but the moat is certainly thick. In a perfect business world, shouldn't those be broken up if they are in fact monopolies?
I've seen "tips" on the internet of hooking up pingdom to keep dynes active at all times
I think you are going to attract some very smart people just with that level of honesty.
Like I stated, wherever this is acceptable behavior, it's because the concept of successful project is redefined to accept this. The reality is that you didn't really hit the deadline, you just strongarmed everyone into accepting the fact that you cheated by redefining rules.

Sadly, this can be a very important component to your success as a developer (or anything else) in corporate America.
There should be a FAQ for parents of founders.
Yeah I thought I was clicking on it to read about some sort of lifehacker style discussion regarding not working normal hours. I don't understand this policy.
It is reasonable to question whether civil liberties were among the "main things" Obama ran on; however, they it is clear that they were present.

Beyond the aforementioned platform changes, you can see, for instance, the last section of the following:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080710165621/http://www.baracko...

or perhaps the section "2008 Campaign Event" on this page:

http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barac...

Of course those are just two sources, but it's a pain to search Lexis-Nexis. Google News, AFAICT, has a much less comprehensive archive available to search.
This is exactly what I thought too.