skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm asking you this question because you seem to support the article, what exactly do you think the author means by the term "brilliant jerk"? It seems like their description is of a very nice, respectful, talented person, but who maybe is open about their disagreements with decisions that are being made? Am I correct? I just don't understand how this person is a "Jerk". I value someone like this in a company, they are the ones who usually stop a bad decision from being made.

I've dealt with what I thought were brilliant jerks before, and they always made people feel small and inadequate, and generally had an attitude of annoyance with "lesser mortals", if you will. This didn't change whether the company was 3 people or 100 people.

Is my analysis of that author's type of "Brilliant Jerk" correct? And if so, what are the problems that the "Brilliant Jerk" causes as the team grows.
The reason can be found in the negation of the first seven words of your comment.
Great app. One piece of feedback I have which affects me is commuting from Hoboken, NJ to a place in NY. It basically requires me to take 2 different public transportation systems and Google was able to handle that scenario pretty well.

I'm pretty sure it's a low priority but it does affect some people (namely me!)
What do they mean by "resell its cloud telecom apps"? I run a Twilio driven product (BetterVoicemail.com) that we've been selling to enterprise customers. Is my product an example of one of these "apps" that AT&T will resell?
"I’m very kinda unsure", "I guess", "will maybe have", "Maybe not, maybe so", "Hopefully there’ll probably be".

Is this what passes for an article? Or even hacker news?
Sorry! I know you do (for the benefit of the thread: I've been talking to 'borski for awhile about Tinfoil). I'm not commenting about Tinfoil so much as developers who are surprised to not be using secure cookies. :)
This is obviously ironic.
Here's just an example of what high school students do for fun when the "popular kids" band together http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120924/METRO/209240341
Engadget has also done a low-light comparison today: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/lumia-920-low-light-shoot...

920 seems to live up to the promise also in this regard.
Nobody mourns vb.net which is essentially a bastardized C#. Many mourn the original Visual Basic which was killed off by vb.net.
But I'm not frustrated, nor whining. I have no cause to advance; I no longer seek publication of my ideas.

Your comment demonstrates the following thinking I've seen in today's scientific community though: If you have anything to say against blanket rejection of ideas based on subject matter, you're an even bigger crackpot (or whiner) than we assumed you were.
The Joy of Erlang; Or, How To Ride A Toruk
Criminal intent is probably the easiest to prove here. If one defines "intent" as the desire to bring about an action, there has certainly been the intent to take pictures. After all, they do not collect themselves automatically, someone decided that they should be taken.

It's something of a tossup if Lower Meirion is covered by the wiretapping statutes - those tend to cover communication and it's a bit dubious if photographing someone in one's private space is covered by that. Perhaps one could invoke the Fourth Amendment, but then someone would have to argue that private entities are also covered.

It's likely that the student and the parents were informed of the spyware and has to sign an agreement to accept it, but then the laptops were required for classwork, one could not attend school without once, so one would have to consider if consent wasn't given under duress.

We notice that the family collected handsomely under personality rights. That is firmly covered under civil law, so the law has some teeth. However, when there is some entity, private or public, that makes a business of violating personality rights, at that point such actions impact society as a whole, and it's criminal law that must be invoked to to restrain them.
Lumia 920 low-light shootout with iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III
A situation similar to the Birthday Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Hyperboria.net - the decentralized network powered by CJDNS
Yeah, I'm a fan of Routesy too. Thanks for the app! Definitely looking forward to seeing what you do for routing...
I had this issue with my iPad, but not my iPhone (same wifi network) and then an hour later.... magic. It worked.
Oh Gruber, all that analysis and your little footnote strikes me as the most likely explanation.
It's nothing to do with the language, it's to do with the threading model. It's a much argued about topic nowadays: one approach give peace of mind to programmers, and the other one gives peace of mind to users.
Excel.

pivot tables and VBA sucks (you may NOT comment on what a horrible language VBA is. )
Granted the quality of the article isn't amazing, but the points it brings up are certainly interesting/warranted.
Very strange, I tried searching http://blog.pmarca.com for obama and romney and there were no results.

But I swear that back in 2007-2008 I remember him having blog posts about meeting Obama?

edit: found it at the archive
http://pmarchive.com/an_hour_and_a_half_with_barack_obama

I guess it was just deleted over time as the blog.pmarca.com was made more professional.
Nova Orleães a cidade mais condimentada dos Estados Unidos da América
The image of the states is white on white.
The thing is he'll probably have at least a moderate amount of success with it.
Google's self-driving cars will be available to 'ordinary people' within 5 years
3 Months would be great. Raising angel money in Canada is a little slow. (I'm being kind)
Either AdBlock or the ad-blocking-hosts-file block all Comedy Central ads (including Daily Show, Colbert, and South Park), so their shows play without commercials. Sometimes weird things happen, ie. after a commercial break, the show will play for 30 seconds then jump to after the next commercial break.
The documentation for the feature is near the bottom of the commit.

This is a really great addition. Every non-trivial Django project I've ever worked on has required extending the user model using both the bolted-on AUTH_USER_PROFILE pattern and hacked together middleware in order to support email-based logins.

While there's a bit of possible backwards-incompatibility with my hacks, it looks like this change addresses both pain points.
"Learn More" -> "Page not found"

Nice.
> Google was willing to add in more functionality

may have been willing and to let apple access. The application itself was never under Google control, only under Google API restrictions.
How to take control of your VPN performance
Orphan Drug Law. If you want someone to do all the work to actually prove it works, which is incredibly expensive, they must be compensated in some way.

There are certainly other ways to compensate people who do this research, but this way maps pretty well to our current laws.
Huh? How do you patent metformin? It's an extremely widely prescribed drug.
Dive Into Great Barrier Reef With Google Maps
thank you for the Docracy link, much appreciated!
You should have focused more on the "metaserver" you built. It looks pretty cool!
The link to the melted bridge is pretty darn funny. I agree with his premise about the maps, Google Maps in iOS lags the Android version pretty badly. Gotta do what you gotta do I suppose...
They've had "DrEdit," a plain text editor, as their example Drive app for a while now. Kind of ironic, since you still can't edit plain text files in the vanilla Google Drive web app.
Children are not small adults. There's a point in their lives when not throwing temper tantrums in public is what you want out of them and they're just not mature enough to negotiate with reasonably. This is also the age where hopefully you're going to have to install some sort of conscience, since kids aren't really born with one, either.
(more notes... i signed up for the free account, added my website, it brought me to a page that did nothing. i tried to sign in and it said i needed to confirm my account. okay, a notice would have been nice... i confirm the account and log in, and my website i added initially is not there? ok, i add it... now it's asking for my software stack? that seems slightly unnecessary, but okay, i try to remember what i'm using. now i'm done setting up and verifying and finally scanning.... the picture slideshow is cute, but unnecessary. the manual scan i started is still sitting there... not sure what's going on but it doesn't look like it's doing anything... my e-mail now says a report is ready, though the page never changed. i go check it out. looks nice, fairly easy to browse around. i click on 'All Stats' and a column in the lower middle of the page has vertical text. i don't know about you, but my head doesn't like to tilt 90 degrees to read text... i look at the 'Modules Run' section and i don't see SSL modules, though i added an https:// url. considering the recently popularized SSL exploits i would probably add a module for this. for security geeks like me, having a Knowledge Base of documentation of what your scans look for would be nice for reference)
Have you tried a recent version of Google Maps on Android? It has improved a lot over the last couple of years.
Please excuse my ignorance but what is "corp 2 corp"?
I'm still having trouble signing up. I put in the information and click 'launch tent' and nothing happens. I assumed yesterday that the problem was overwhelming demand, but ~2500 users over 20 hr shouldn't overload the site.
Taking back our information
The Windows Store... why did I sign up with this mess again?
See webfinger.
If that person happens to be the person without which it would have been impossible to have that team in the first place, then maybe the right thing is to find out why they have that bad attitude and what can be done to change it.
xkcd has been wistful pretty much from day one.
Hi-- What browser and OS are you using? Autocomplete seems to be causing trouble for some people.
Maybe I'm overreacting to this but this seems like a real disappointment for Twilio customers. We, the developers that use Twilio, are the people who have made Twilio a success, by building businesses that do things like "...survey tools, ad-hoc workgroup messaging and calling, appointment reminder services..."

How is this good for me as a customer of Twilio if they've decided to now compete with me? Why should I scale up my business with Twilio if they're just going to partner with a huge company to offer their own version?

I have loved you for a long time, Twilio, and this really sours me.
This comes up a lot in the bitcoin world where people think it is neat that they could use a pass phrase as their private key to their wallet.

It's actually incredibly dumb, if the attacker knows you are using a pass phrase then a dictionary attack is about as effective as a brute force attack. And in the case of bitcoin wallets, even a pass phrase with 12 dictionary words has substantially less entropy than a random key.

You could of course use 3 instead of e and do other unusual things, but all that stuff reduces the memorability of the phrase while gaining you less than you think in terms of entropy.

If you want entropy in your passwords or phrases, and you do even if you don't realise it, then you need them to be random.

User friendly key management is the real problem in online security, something that is secure and simple enough for the average senior to understand and use could make a ton of money.
Indeed. It is definitely not big enough though.
Well, I was responding to the "only game in town" characterization with respect to the points you gave, all of which are addressed in Go. You could add as requirements a mature and highly optimized GC and a large pool of talent, then it might be correct. (If you are talking Scala, Clojure, and some other JVM-based languages, I think Go talent pools will quickly catch up if it's not already there.)

I would think HN has a very broad readership across many occupations. Dismissing Go as an HN bauble seems very odd. The point is that I enjoy Go, and it handles all the things you mention and a few more within its sweet spot. And it works well even now, immature that it is. It's a reasonable alternative to the JVM for lots of problems.

Go is also most pertinent from the Python perspective because it's probably gaining recruits from that community instead of the C/C++ community.
Facebook isn't the devil, it's just a bunch of nerds running a hugely complicated system and trying to be self-sustainable. Anything else is simple paranoia.
Seems to me that being able to run legacy apps is kind of more important than the scaling.
Do you have a point that you intend to write a supporting argument for, or are you just casting aspersions?
HopStop is much better IMHO. It can show real maps for one thing, and supports multiple transit agencies.
i went searching for more info as i don't know much about all this, and found

Apple is actually responsible for building the app, which is why so few of the many advancements that have come to Google Maps on Android

at http://fury.com/2012/06/wills-and-wonts-at-WWDC-2012/

which no-one else seems to be mentioning (the implication seems to be that google made the ios app crappy on purpose, which the above seems to contradict).
Mortgage-driven development is distinct from "brilliant jerk."

http://codemanship.co.uk/parlezuml/blog/?postid=147
"Or the API changes in Android?" At least Google releases the support library to overcome that
Russia suspends import and use of GM corn after study revealed cancer risk
I last used it about a year ago. However, I think that was on Android 2.3 still.
I suspect the necessity of the PHP path may be outdated.

Today, I imagine the lowest barrier to entry would be to build a one-button install on one of the many PaaS's with free tiers. Heroku, DotCloud, maybe even an Amazon micro EC2 instance.
It's not a good idea to take it preemptively. Only take low-dose aspirin if you've been diagnosed with heart problems or likely to have problems in the future.
Awesome! I'd be happier moving around using WASD keys.
I think the explanation goes more like this: Google took a look at the maps shipped with the beta version of iOS6 and though to themselves "There's no way that Apple can bring this up to Apple quality software in 3 months, we've got lots of time to ready our replacement". They were right about the first part, but wrong about the second.
Hubble captures photo that looks back 13.2 billion years
You don't. You patent "Nocan", a drug with an extremely similar (most would say "identical") chemical structure. Metformin is a diabetes medication, while Nocan will be a cancer drug, so they're totally different. The diseases aren't even handled by the same medical specialists. ;)
Bad title for the article in my opinion. Anyone who is brilliant should be smart enough to not be a jerk - it's in his or her best interest to be perceived positively. Valuable jerk? sure. Now that sounds like a dilemma.
at least it is a new indication, see the Makena Pricing Controversy to learn about what the Orphan Drug Law allows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV_Pharmaceutical#Makena_prici...
I have to admit I found myself wanting to tell the author that his article about the unrealistic expectations about the time it takes to raise funding had some very unrealistic expectations around the time it takes to raise money!

All good points. I would just add that I'd double the time here. Secondly, time is to some extent on the investors side. A lot of folks burn out quickly so seeing you still dedicated and (mostly) telling the same story 3 to 6 months later is important.
Freelance Marijuana Trimmers Advertise Their Services on Craigslist
I agree, document conversion is one hell of an issue. But it doesn't bite everytime you open a MS Office document (at least it very rarely happens to me). I think that the lost productivity is made up for in terms of savings, which we do need.

We can hope that this issue gets solved if more heavily invested in. The "10% of savings go towards developing free software" rule is promising.
The question is whether that scales past a certain point.

I've worked with a few "Brilliant Jerks"; it's probably not the best name, but there are people who mean the best and will probably be stars in one environment but will demoralize larger teams. I thought that was what the author was trying to discuss.
> So if your brilliant engineer spends their time telling younger or less brilliant engineers how they just threw out all their crappy (but functional) code and re-wrote so that they could tolerate reading it, it doesn't bring others along. If they 'sign up' for all of the work so it will "be done right" and then slow the whole project down because nobody can work on it, they aren't "adding value."

The problem might be hiring the younger or less brilliant engineers, and also placing them in positions where they cause significant damage, as it's driving your brilliant engineers to be toxic.
By the Google Drive web app I assume you mean the Google Docs editor? In which case, yeah, you can only edit Google Docs type files in their editor. That's the point of this SDK - if you want to edit other types of files, you can build an app to do so.
They should have released this immediately after they released Google Drive.
Visually impaired users say iOS 6 App Store redesign is a downgrade
As will Apple Maps in a few years. Good to have some decent alternatives out there. I know, people will argue with me that Apple is the evil one here...
Hey Peter - please feel free to email support@tinfoilsecurity.com or join us in our support chat at http://tinfoilsecurity.com/chat

We'd definitely like to take a look into your issues and see what went wrong.
Seems pretty good situation for Google that most of my closest friends with iPhones are decrying the loss of Google Maps due to Apple. One person I met even swore she would not upgrade to iOS 6 until GMaps is available. Google can now step in and play the hero, having netted a ton of good grass roots PR for their solution. Just because users are pissed and press is loving a story doesn't mean some company isn't benefiting from that.
The marginal utility of college is declining. Our near ancestors got a lot out of a college degree. The author is noticing that we won't get nearly as much.
And which one of those doesn't work anymore?
Patents are the foundation for knowledge trickle-down-theory.
For the average chinese person, is it cheaper to use taxis & long range busses & subways to go everywhere, or a personal car? Will the taxis come out to your residential area, at any time? Your still paying for taxi labor on top of a car.
The internet at large seems to have picked up the "Android doesn't get updates meme" and so remains unaware of that fact that even crappy low-end Android's running 2.3 (and before) get the latest updates to Google Maps and have been streets ahead of iOS Maps for a very long time.
Any software engineer? Any statistician?

Data scientists are to business analysts as Sanitation Engineers are to janitors. And that's all. Everything they think they're discovering, guys already did with supermarket loyalty programmes, frequent flyer programmes, etc 20 or 30 years ago.

Read and learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAdvantage#History
Firefox 15.0, Fedora 17. I am using Lastpass for passwords so that may function similarly to autocomplete. I'll try typing in directly.
I think it will be similar to leaving your wallet,jacket,etc on the subway.
Why Twitter Has No Plans to Go Public
@7Digital also discuss their ServiceStack on Linux deployment strategies using Nginx / FastCGI Mono + Capistrano which they describe in detail at:

http://blogs.7digital.com/dev/2012/09/25/atomic-mono-deploym...

They also discuss their experiences with ServiceStack, and how they've customized it to their liking:
http://blogs.7digital.com/dev/2012/09/20/lessons-learnt-whil...
I sense serious incongruity between the author's aspersions and the "jerk's" performance and accomplishments.

Before firing a brilliant team member with what the author perceives as an incorrigibly caustic attitude, he'd better be very sure there are not genuine issues in the organization that really ought to be resolved first.
- Open and Decentralized (diaspora)
Technically it's much more than Twitter - it's a way to subscribe to activities in realtime (Activity Streams + Pubsubhubbub), a way to easily do so for users on a website (WebFinger) and a way to notify people of others activities which they are being part of (Salmon).

The activity can be small status messages like Twitter - but can also be anything else, like photos, check-ins, whatever. So in that way it's much more like a distributed Facebook than a distributed Twitter - but right now the existing clients out there don't really show that very clearly.
OStatus is open and decentralized, and has a vibrant community.
Pursuing poker as a career is usually a poor decision for a variety of reasons, but the cost of learning is not one of them.

The overwhelming majority of poker hands are now played online, and the limits go as low as $0.01/$0.02 -- in today's poker landscape, the winning players tend to be those who initially invest a small amount of money and gradually climb the ladder with careful bankroll management.

The opportunity cost, on the other hand, can be very high. Many people waste a lot of time trying to become good at the game without experiencing any meaningful degree of success.
I didn't mean to be insulting and surely didn't say civil servants "perform less" than consultants. I don't think that performance can be measured by the amount of time you spend on desktop software :)

Let me clarify my point: most people (civil servants being only one example among others) don't use even 10% of MS Office capabilities (esp. on Excel, I've never seen anything but basic formulas, no array formulas, no macros and so on). For these people using a tool that performs reasonably well on these 10% is not a stupid choice.

Of course, MS Office is better than LibreOffice. But LibreOffice is absolutely no shitty software and most of the time it gets the job done.
Ugh, that's not good. It's also interesting that you can update your areas in iTunes Connect without any review, so there's no friction to just saying "continental US".
Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
1) Re: equipment

Typing this on a work supplied Macbook Pro, 16gb of ram, 256 gb SSD. Cost to me: $0.

I am ssh'd into my development server which has 78gb of ram. Cost to me: $0

I have IntelliJ Idea Professional (price comparable to -- if not greater than Visual Studio) open in another window. Cost to me: $0. I didn't even need to submit an expense report, just asked IT to provide me with a license.

I have Windows 7 installed in a VMWare Fusion VM. In this case, I didn't even need to request it from it, there was a self-service application that I used to install it. Cost to me: $0.

I have an Android Nexus Galaxy 4G LTE phone on Verizon for work purposes. Could have an iPhone if I chose to. Cost to me: $0.

Google is my employer's primary talent competitor, so I can't imagine they (per game theory) can be any different when it comes to this. I have not worked at Google, but I do know anecdotally (many of my friends work at Google) they're very generous when it comes to equipment.

2) Re: hours/flexibility. I am currently at home typing this and it's ~11:30 am here. I can chose to work from home where are no meetings scheduled and can come in/leave whenever I'd like. Earliest recurring meetings I've ever had scheduled had been at 11 am.

3) Re: salary. Look up my employment history (titles and employers), then see Glassdoor figures (same title at same employer). They're actually lower (on average) than what my own base salary had been at those companies.

You can choose not to believe me, but in this case, you're simply being paranoid.

tl;dr Get out of defense contracting/working for the government or traditional (non-technical) corporations. You'll fare far better working for private sector technology companies.