skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting read, I've been in both situations one where the 'toxic rockstar' was managed out and one where the 'toxic rockstar' was tolerated because of their code output.

The critical bit though is toxicity. There are people like Jeff Dean at Google who are 10x more productive than anyone else but make everyone work harder, and there are people who are 10x more productive but they make everyone around them feel like crap. That makes them toxic.

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."

I think the author was going for people who had become toxic, not people who were still moving everyone forward.
The Startup Kids | Documentary about Vimeo, Soundcloud, Dropbox and others
First world problems: Launch day of a whole new operating system. Only 7000 apps to choose from. T______T
I smell a bad sci-fi horror movie in the works.
Plenty of adults choose to work hours over quality. Lawyers fit in this, and that's largely because a lot of their work is billed suspiciously, a lot of their work is very low status (so while highly paid, they have to work around client schedules), and because a lot of their work is dull as hell.

If you're constantly pulling 60 hour weeks (about what you have to pull to bill 40 honestly), you're likely delivering what I am pulling 35-45 hour weeks, billing 25-35, but at a higher cost to your family/health/rest of your life.

That's not adult. That's slavishly burning yourself out in your early years.

Study:
http://www.hcgexperts.com/scheduled-overtime-effect-on-const...
I used to be a vb.net developer and I'm glad they killed the language. C# is far more elegant and sophisticated.
"Say your words"
Intel's OpenGL support is a software, not hardware issue. The hardware is capable, but their OpenGL stack is pretty limited right now.

They've publicly stated that the hardware is OpenGL 4 capable. (Google it.)
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Actually, I agree with the article: if you have a Brilliant Jerk on board, please fire them as soon as they've got another job. Think of it not as your company outgrowing this person. Rather, face that this Jerk is simply in another level. Your big, homogeinized corporation can't play it anymore. They need to graduate to bigger things.

Honestly, if I were to manage the kind of self-driven, startup oriented, charismatic doctor that the article talks about, I would feel like I was wasting their talent every time they came to work. This kind of talent doesn't belong in a proverbially esclerotic Enterprise, it belongs in a medical startup or something. Kick them out and send them to an employer that really needs someone like them. You're not that startup, you're BigCorp now. Put on your grey suit.
Me and many others are encountering similar issues on Apple laptops since upgrading to OS X 10.8 (search for mountain lion wifi problems). Things that appear to help for me are running a ping to the router in the background, or disabling WPA 2.

Also, iOS 6/OS X 10.8 users are having trouble access points at my workplace, while other devices appear to be working fine. Since OS X 10.8, I'm also having trouble connecting it to my Samsung Galaxy S3's WiFi hotspot, whereas my girlfriend's 10.7 laptop is connecting without issue.

That said, every OS upgrade seems to have a bunch of issues that affect a small number of users, and the current ones don't seem particularly abnormal.
well, i would be interested in aac examples, they only compare it to mp3 ...
Advice finding independent contractor (corp to corp) work in Bay Area
I moved back to the bay area about half a year ago, currently work as a salaried employee but I would like to start taking on some corp to corp work. I do realize what this entails and my plan is to do this properly, where I am actually independent, only go on-site for meetings, etc and would eventually have more than 1 client.

I'm interested to possibly work with startups or more established companies, have a background in some of the newer web technologies as well as Java-based search engines, etc. I'm curious if anyone has advice as far as where I can get the most "bang for my buck" as far as networking with people who are open to contracting out work on a corp to corp basis, I'm fairly busy as is and it seems not everyone is open to this (they just want full-time in-house employee). Would appreciate any advice.
This will be more specifically 'release' or album oriented metadata than the echonest, which is far broader in scope and whose own metadata is more track oriented.

Arguably, being album oriented goes against the trend in the world of the 99p download. But there still exist niches where album orientation is important.
So serious question- right now its not accepting connections to the (websocket? haven't looked at the code) server as its out of connections.

Any theory as to what the most likely bottleneck for something like this is? I've been tempted a few times to put something like this together, and never been sure where its most likely to fall apart.
Can't you just scale down to half-size an interlaced gif/jpeg and have the browser intelligently decide to stop downloading once it is at sufficient quality?
Won't it be possible for newer versions of OGL to be implemented in drivers? Or is there a hardware piece required for newer OGL which that chip lacks?
I have a 4S and my home WiFi with AES is nearly unusable (extremely slow and major packet loss), I have to disable WiFi and use cellular. Was working fine with iOS 5.

At work my iPad3 is doing the same thing with our AES WiFi but working fine at home.

Also WiFi tethering is not working with similar issues between the two devices but bluetooth is fine.

Again iOS5 had been working perfectly for a year on these networks. I am not happy.
Facebook Integrates With Dropbox To Power File-Sharing Within Facebook Groups
You can buy them without 2 year activation if you pay the normal price. Then call ATT/Verizon/Sprint get it unlocked. It is now selling for 1,000 on ebay.
There is a group of people paid to sit at computers and upvote all the crazy fake free energy ideas, so that nobody notices my real free energy idea.
This application blocks USSD codes in tel: URLs from executing in the dialer without explicit user action.

The hack itself was discussed yesterday.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4569686

Unfortunately, most people think it is only Samsung phones or the Galaxy S3. In reality, the vulnerability affects most Android phones out there right now.
http://dylanreeve.posterous.com/remote-ussd-attack-its-not-j...
I'd highly encourage you to come by for a tour, and sign up for a class before jumping into membership. Not that membership just right away is bad, but doing this will give you a better idea of if the place is a good fit for you and your needs. Send me a PM if you'd like a tour or hit up our contact info on the main website.
Oh, he is a lot sleazy, trust me. Even so, in this fight he is the right sleazy for me, and no amount of sleazy excuses bad legal-work. I wish him only the best.
I saw a post about http://www.clientheartbeat.com/ some weeks ago. Interesting value prop and worth checking out. Other than that, using email marketing tools (MailChimp) with survey links in them may also help. Good luck.
"While going to Stanford or somewhere and getting a CS degree might pay off, you don't actually have to go to freaking ivy league schools if you don't have the money or want the debt."

The idea that one has to go into debt to go to a top-level school is an outdated one. Every fancy school I got into was cheaper than the University of Texas after financial aid.
The tray is large enough to contain enough resin for roughly 12 hours of printing and all of the uncured resin can be reused for the next print.
I think another simple "solution" is to realize that these issues are probably way rarer than the press seems to indicate. I got my iPhone 5 on release day, and haven't had any of these problems. Same with my iPhone 4 and "antennagate." Maybe I'm just fortunate to avoid these issues, but I've seen no reason to not upgrade immediately.
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I have had a similar experience until iOS6, I am not happy.
The JVM the only game in town if you want some combination of high performance, the ability to do user-space systems level programming, type safety, and GC.

There's Google Go now, too, which is arguably a better solution than the heavyweight JVM (though a worse one than C or Ada).
It would be really nice if they laid out how far they are on the road to making this 3D printer into an actual product.

When you pre-order something the money that you spend should go to manufacturing, the bill of materials, shipping, handling, warranty and so on. It should definitely not go into product development and process development. The reason for that is that those are very long phases with plenty of opportunity for trouble which may cause delays, price increases, large changes to the product and even aborted runs.

Pre-ordering a device from a company without a history of shipping product is a risky business.
Logarithmic, eh?
Great piece on the Brandery
I think its a beautiful cartoon - I'm just worried that it sounds so wistful, did something happen in the author's personal life to make it so contemplative?
Evan (Founder and CEO of Status.net) is working on ActivityPump (https://github.com/evanp/activitypump) which is looking to replace Status.net and I'm guessing OStatus as well:
http://identi.ca/notice/96065721
It gives misleading results in that:

"password" shows in green

"1234" shows in green

"hello world" shows "hello" in green and "world" in yellow

so while you're able to calculate the entropy, it missed out on the fact that some high entropic words are still bad choices.
What is so horrible about a default bootstrap production site and why would that make you develop a hatred for the framework?
I disagree: I think it was somewhat warranted. The fact the end-result looks similar to the faked result is beside the point.

Many countries, the US included, have decided that if you cannot fake product demos in advertising unless it is clear that's what's going on. Hence the "Sequences Shortened" text on the iPhone ads.

It is rather unethical to produce a marketing video that fakes functionality and doesn't make it clear that's what's going on. You may well not be over-exaggerating anything, but personally I don't think that's relevant.
The author is essentially saying that learning to manipulate women teaches you to think strategically. He wouldn't say it like that ... but that's very close to what he's saying. He's NOT saying that it helps you learn social skills (which IS valuable and IS NOT really the point of what pickup is trying to teach you, let's be honest).

I could go on and on about this. But this Quora answer knocks it out of the park so I don't have to. Her analysis is spot on:

http://qr.ae/8VDLj
Press Alt in a ribbon UI, and the UI gives you a stable multi-level hotkey set:

http://imgur.com/ZYaxc,xQiiK,2WbYk,VVW0S - this is when pressing alt, r ("start menu"), au ("auswählen" = select), f ("fangen" = catch - the icon for "select" changes in the last picture).

You can move backward using ESC, too: "alt-r, au, esc, esc, a" puts you in the "Ansicht" (view) ribbon. Once in "alt-mode" it always shows you what you can do, and how.
Can Android apps without network permissions open pages in the browser? If so, there's one way.
That's a good idea. OMAP doesn't deserve to die.
Ok, now to protect my health I should be taking this drug (Metformin?), taking aspirin, drinking a glass of wine, eating blueberries... what have I missed? Maybe a pill that combines all that? There's an actionable startup idea!
Funny you say that, because Microsoft's software problems are often attributed to bending over backwards to be backward compatible while other vendors like Apple quickly kills compatibility with almost ever release, with even point releases.

Take this game bundled with Windows 95. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS/Hover.exe

It runs even on Windows 8. Upgrading from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

As I said in another comment, I still see some ASP and Visual Basic usage even after all these years, those applications are still supported in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Microsoft stopped making new versions because it wanted to move on to better technology. Want to take a poll on HN about what developers think of Visual Basic and Classic ASP? A case of damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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Looks like a good class of startups.
I think this is a great tool, and desperately wanted it to work. In fact, decided to try it out on a project I'm currently working on. That said, the autosaving has been causing me problems all morning. It's unclear when it saves, and because it seems to lack a manual saving feature I was unable to save the last 30 min of work. All lost after reloading the page reverted to the version I started with. Very frustrating.
Entrepreneurs: Don’t Fall Into the Equity Trap
I don't see how 3rd and 4th examples aren't superior to green.
Can you give examples of the sort of problems it found?
NYC video ad startup Genesis Media raises $3M, gets 15m opt-in users in the US
And the IRC channel is very active now, #TearsOfSteel on freenode.
Thank you very much. fistbump
You can get more information and weigh in with a message to Congress on these bills at:

HR 6530: Global Free Internet Act of 2012
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr6530

HR 6529: ECPA 2.0
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr6529
Google Play services and OAuth Identity Tools
In the meantime, check out http://tctransit.mobi. (shameless plug)
While they haven't announced any of it in public, it does seem hard to believe they'd be migrating running applications. It's much more likely that they're targeting nx page sharing, you'd still have build the os for both isas, but it'd allow you to run many tasks on the low poer cores and only spin up the hot ones when the application required the performance or binary compatibility. Think more like switchable graphics than big.little, though the low power architecture would stay usable all the time.
A month later: "Was it 'un1corn' or 'unic0rn'?".
Dunbar's number: you can only maintain personal relationships with about 150 people.

When a company grows beyond this limit, it has to be managed by process and hierarchy. The human brain simply cannot apply tribal management to a few thousand employees, contractors, suppliers, customers, business partners, etc.

If you tell your friends "You guys are crazy, that will never work", they interpret it through an emotional lens that will probably make them enthusiastic about trying harder with a different approach. If you do the same thing to a task group you barely know, their enthusiasm will evaporate and at least a few will start working on their resumes. This is the Brilliant Jerk problem.

Some of these Brilliant Jerks can probably be retrained to work in the new, larger company. The thesis of the article is that some of them cannot, and it is best to jettison them sooner rather than later.
Looking at the context, their "start up" is a group of doctors. A medical practice. If you can obtain the right mix of credentials, this is one of the most time-tested service businesses there is. Medical practices regularly persist for decades at a time.

A web search for "STI Knowledge" http://www.the-resource-center.com/catalogs/sti_knowledge_ce... suggests they do training seminars for help desk staff.

Sounds to me like this guy doesn't have a clue about the kind of talent management applicable to high-tech startups.
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Recommendation to you: Just put the code up on github and share that instead. It's static, so you can even host it on a github page. Write a readme that makes it obvious that this is just a technology demo and not a for-real online password checker.

Because sadly people here are too dumb to just 1. read your totally readable javascript source or 2. wget the code and try it out for themselves in a local sandbox (if they are really that worried about MITM). I guess it's way easier to just dash off some negative comment about something that's not even a problem in the first place.
Top 50 Bills of the 112th Congress on POPVOX
With Congress closing up shop for the election, we thought it was a great time to look back on what you had to say since the 112th Congress started back in January 2011. Having the most activity does not by any means indicate that the bill has the most support.

The top five bills for the 112th were:

1. HR3261 (SOPA) Stop Online Piracy Act

2. HR3035 Mobile Informational Call Act

3. HR2306 Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act

4. S3240 Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act

5. S968 (PIPA) Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act

See all 50: http://www.popvox.com/blog/2012/top-50-bills-112th-congress/
It's also a bummer when startups don't factor the time it takes to fundraise into their calculations when figuring out how much cash they need.

Live and learn, I guess.
Requiring adding the page or modifying DNS or the home page (adding custom meta tag) is awesome. That way, I can't set them to scan a site I don't control. Security scans can be very invasive and I don't imagine admins want this done unknown to them on their live sites.
Get the Fainting Chair
> More seriously, it should simply mark every password as being horribly insecure, seing as how you just typed it into an unknown web site with no reason to trust it.

That’s what this password checker does: http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker/. (Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4075842)
I understand that frustration can be hard to deal with but this attitude really doesn't advance your cause. No one likes to talk to whiny emo people. (Except at goth clubs where it can be kind of fun.)
I think the article uses the term "Brilliant Jerk" to describe someone who is technically brilliant but not politically apt or motivated by money ("brilliant businessmen"). That's not what I (and probably you) mean by the term. Managers that view allowing employees to work from home or giving them challenging technical work as "coddling" are the real jerks in my opinion (albeit not brilliant ones).

The article could be right if it spoke about genuine "brilliant jerks". Companies I've worked have passed on candidates who aced the technical interview but then proceeded to yell at at interviewers when there was a disagreement or make sexist remarks (duh on the latter point).

I am not saying it doesn't happen, I've yet to encounter any existing employees who were truly brilliant jerks: I've encountered brilliant engineers who had trouble related and showed impatience with average (that is average compared to other engineers within the company) engineers, but none were worth firing. They also had a particular eye for under-appreciated talent and would often spot and mentor employees with high potential, but who had underperformed (compared to their potential that is -- they may have still done well in a stack ranking, but they had the potential to contribute a lot more) whether due to lack of focus, lack of self discipline, or plain inexperience (almost always a lack of debugging skills).

I have also encountered employees who were jerks, were technically good (but never true outliers) but were political and were more interested in growing their power rather than technical excellence. They would be worth firing, but the problem is jerks follow a "kiss up, kick down" pattern: traditional ("micro-") managers love them and give them free reign to bully other employees (including the technically brilliant but less socially and politically apt individual contributors).

No solution is going to be perfect -- and I am not nearly experienced enough to speak from anything but gut feel -- but what seems to work (and have created engineerings organizations where I enjoy/have enjoyed working) is:

1) Filter out jerks, ladder climbers (those more motivated by status and money than by impact, learning, or solving hard problems) as a part of the hiring process (which includes -- but is not limited to -- the interview process).

2) Take extra-ordinary steps to reduce company politics. This is easier said than done: good[1] startups avoid that because everyone is aligned to the same goal, the trick is maintaining that kind of an alignment as the companies grows. I am currently reaping the fruits of such an atmosphere, but I am still learning and trying to understand how this is accomplished.

[1] There are just as many terrible startups as there are amazing ones -- and there is less of a thing such as "an average startup". Quality (in terms of "place to work") follows an inverted Bell Curve. I have heard (but fortunately haven't experienced firsthand) my share of horror stories of small startups that are far more political at 20 people than Google was at 20,000 people. Naturally, the earlier the stage, the greater the variance.
Paying Developers is a Bad Idea
To be fair, all the checks are running in JavaScript on your browser -- your passphrase never leaves your computer.

What's to prevent, e.g., a browser extension from listening in?
Watch this movie for a brief introduction on quantum states.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJBcXFsFa7Y

I've also googled around and found this picture explaining what is called uv curing. http://www.signindustry.com/flatbed_UV/articles/images/2008-...

So basically the uv light is kicking the electrons up multiple levels in the "photoinitiators", the "photoinitiators" stabilize by dropping levels and giving off photons. These photons excite the "Monomers" and "Oligomers" between which electrons can freely flow (radicals) making it possible to form new bonds, creating longer chains of atoms (a polymer) /amateurexplenation
IPhone 5 launch analysis: Sales were ’epic,' not 'disappointing'
Jeff Atwood has a permanent hard-on for everything Microsoft.
Much obliged. hattip
"buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" is a well-known phrase (meaning that buffalo [animals] from Buffalo [place] fool [buffalo as a verb] other buffalo from Buffalo).

"eight six…" are lyrics from a popular song (a.k.a. “Jenny”).
good luck! also, these posts on HN are the equivalent of birthdays on Facebook.
Doesn't Arch use rolling release? Kind of the opposite I think.

I use Fedora these days out of laziness, but rolling releases was one of the things I really enjoyed about Gentoo. Far less upgrade induced stress.
Plenty of people trust, like, spotify, or a mobile pandora app. I wouldn't expect that there's a software trust problem for DRM clients anymore.
In fact, that (and your other parenthetical about how having worked on something for 10 years doesn't mean it's valuable) is why I took the time to reply to you above.
I mostly agree with you. But I have also seen how one person with a really bad attitude can affect an entire team.
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Actually, the part about money not being a motivator is only partially true. Dan Pink goes into more detail about it in his book: the motivating effect of "more money" disappears if and only if the individual believes they are getting paid fairly. But if a person believes they are underpaid then it can seriously demotivate them.
Pressing enter too soon after typing doesn't search sometimes.
> (until they catch on)

Assume they already have.

Crackers do implement common patterns & substitutions.

And even if they don’t yet, your password could be cracked in 10 years to gain access to an account you never updated or data you forgot about…
I wonder if it's even possible to switch iTunes to this, from the legal perspective? Will major labels allow new format?