skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a few people coming at this discussion from a disturbing place.

They seem to exist in a world of absolute rights and absolute wrongs, where no leniency can be granted based on the circumstances of the wrong, and no sympathy, empathy, or support is granted to account for the life that led to the wrong.

It sounds like a sad and hostile world.
Because marketing is using religious techniques to promote brands , and religions are using marketing mediums to grow( mega churches , on demand salvation , etc ... ). Religion = Marketing = All about the money.
Show some respect and you'll get respect back.

Yes, I've used it in a VM. Yes, I know about arm and so on. Suggest to focus more on being nicer towards others, less about questioning things where the answer can easily be found. If you're not courteous, why would anyone spoon feed you answers?
That was an unmitigated disaster, possibly contributing to the total destruction of their employer?

Well, I don't label people based on single data points; they might be very nice people and perfectly competent. But I certainly wouldn't hire them after this.
Hi Greg, thanks for sharing your story. It's great to hear that you're staying very healthy now.

To all other friends here, I'm sure most of you have read the recent article by Jessica Livingston, What Goes Wrong. In the article, she said, "We tell people that during YC there are really only three things you should focus on: building things, talking to users, and exercising." Over the past year, I've been doing exactly the three things, and I'm feeling healthy in spite of the long hours, and crazy schedule.

Take care of yourself, everyone. So often we hear people say that doing a startup is a marathon, not a sprint. We really need it take it to heart.
Now the most important question here is how will this effect spam levels.

Will they go up due to cheap viagra in canada hawked in the US?

Or will they go down since anyone who wants cheap viagra can get it from Canada?

If the US does not issue a similar ruling, one thing you can expect is histrionics about banning drugs from Canada, even more than there already is.
AT&T's flip-flop on FaceTime over cellular should scare you
> Most self-service businesses are setup to streamline (ie avoid) human-interactions which would also suggest they are honestly pricing their goods/services.

This doesn't follow. It shows they are concerned with reducing their costs, not that they will pass those cost savings onto the customer.

Don't ask, don't get. If you are going to be a solid, profitable customer for a business, they have a clear incentive to get you on board by sweetening the deal.
It seems that, as only Americans call it soccer, only Americans think it's real name is "association football".
One quote caught my eye:

He said those employees need to understand malware and techniques for fighting it, such as deep-packet inspection, which involves a very detailed examination of traffic on a computer network.

They must also have a deep knowledge of what network traffic should look like. "There are probably only 18 to 20 people in the [U.S.] who have those fundamental skills," Mr. Paller said.

His numbers seem WAY off to me. Can anyone support/refute this claim?
This is, of course, a narcissistic nonsense.

A primitive arithmetic interpreter and the set primitive (why?) is not even close to what Lisp is.

Lisp is not just a prefix notation with parenthesis. It begins with the notion that code is data - the list structure and that everything is a symbol, a reference and that a value has a type, not a variable, which, together, gives us macros for free.

An implementation of a prefix-notation calculator? Well. It is less than one screen of Scheme code, and is a part of one lecture of freshman's CS61A course.

btw, people who have seen Scheme interpreter from SICP and capable to appreciate its beauty and elegance (structure, clarity, compactness) would never try to do something like that.)
Yes, stuff like this shouldn't be in the source. UglifyJS and Closure compiler make this optimization, but I've used other js minifiers that did not.
I believe I understand the concept, and the purpose, but this seems limited to specific types of web apps. General sites (news, blogs, and most services) - this approach would not make the most sense, since JavaScript interacting with the DOM does not compare speed-wise at this time.

This would work well for example and demo sites (portfolios, resumes, showcaes, etc) and possibly web games. It could be useful for building in-app content, such as if you have a large project like lucidchart.com - you could use something like this to build dialogs, modals, help content, and those types of things easily, in page, by loading a javascript asset on demand rather than running a request for more HTML/CSS/etc.
With a straight face, you're going to tell me that the reason there was such a brutal crackdown on OWS was that people were smoking pot and there were isolated incidents of rape?

Also keep in mind that the Tea Partiers were carrying around assault rifles.

Yeah I'm not buying it.
I was born and raised in Turkey. When I was little, I and the other kids in my neighborhood got together regularly and played soccer using crushed soda cans. While it was fun, there were several disadvantages:

1. They required one of us to purchase a soda (and chug it)
2. The cans only worked on asphalt and concrete. We couldn't play on grass.
3. Since the crushed cans had sharp edges, they ruined our shoes.
4. Occasionally they would take to the air and become dangerous flying projectiles.

That said, they were far more reliable than actual soccer balls, which we could buy easily from sporting stores. They didn't go flat (they already were, ha!) and didn't need to be inflated regularly.
"This Is Why You Don't Buy an iPad From Walmart"
Show HN: RubyGems Wall of Fame
Solitaire App Acquired for $10,000 via Apptopia
How Can We Cultivate Youth Entrepreneurship in America?
Whippy PHP WebSocket server
Sharing my first proper open-source contribution with the world.
Is this a Windows port of wish (WIndowing SHell), or an all-new, confusingly named project (WIndows SHell)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_(Unix_shell)
GNUstep-base is pretty solid if you're looking for an open source Foundation (constructors, destructors, container classes, networking, etc.) that's compatible with Apple's implementation.

If all you're looking for is constructors and destructors, consider ObjFW. https://github.com/Midar/objfw/

ObjFW is much more lightweight, although it does have its own set of conventions. Fortunately, +alloc, -init, +new and -dealloc are all present and accounted for.
Whether it's "part of the game" is probably regional, but he does say it takes the presence of several to really pinpoint the toxic ones.
DBMusic - winner of Big Data 2012 hackathon
PicMonkey gaining traction with 1.5M Daily Visitors
> In the March Y-Combinator demo day, there will be a team presenting with no member that was ever accepted to Y-Combinator

> Please note that I (with the support of Y-Combinator) asked for the dissolution of the company and return of all funds to our investors

If you have YC's support on this, then why will they be presenting at the March demo day?
Obviously that the performance is sometimes absolutely terrible is known. I'd wish it was not like that. Llvmpipe is not a good solution, nor are bad drivers.

But IMO bad drivers are unacceptable. Why do we accept such sorry state? We had fallback mode for various years, as well as the need of GNOME 3 and Unity. Yet various drivers still are terrible.

IMO I'd rather take the "my way or highway" approach: a driver is just plain not good enough. The hardware can do way more. Time to get your driver into the year 2005+.
I would say this tutorial is an excellent one to read through when you are first learning Haskell, and then return to it later when you have a better understanding of the language. Some important concepts are glazed over, and you will almost certainly not understand what is going on the first time you read the tutorial.

Once you are comfortable with Haskell the code makes much more sense and is a great starting point for writing an interpreter of your own.
Michael Porter's consulting firm is bankrupt.
Pelican + Heroku + Cloud9
I feel like I read about some of our customers in post and comments. 10% of our customers generate 1-2 percents of revenue, and 70-80% of support emails (all urgent), phone calls, complaints to quality of service, requests to implement tons of custom features for them, e.t.c, e.t.c.
Oh wow, this could turn out to be very useful. Can use this for automated testing for public APIs.
I don't know whether they will for sure, or what the outcome will be. Only that YC strongly suggested, along with me and neutral parties, that the correct outcome would be the dissolution of the company and return of the funds to investors.
He writes in the very next sentence: “Unfortunately due to the composition of the board, this outcome has not taken place.”
Is there going to be an east coast version in the future?
Disagree w/ your specifics, strongly agree w/ the perception of a narrative being present. Agree that Romney was never in real danger of winning, disagree that he himself threw the contest. He wanted to win, it just wasn't in the cards.
I'm actually glad for the inefficiency of the Windows command-line. Every time I boot up into Windows to test something, I'm reminded of how much I hate it. Since moving to Linux, development is just easier in every way:

* viM instead of Visual Studio has made me a better programmer
* think more, guess less
* I can keep customizations when I remote in and patch production code
* Bash is much more productive than .bat files
* Piping is amazing (cat file | sed | awk | ...)
* Tons of documentation online

If Windows had a decent command-line (with decent documentation of course), I might convince myself to put up with less malleable tools just to play games without rebooting.

Don't get me wrong, Windows is fine, but it's not Unix. A better command-line app can't change that.
Honestly, quite a few of these logos are objectively pretty bad. I don't get a very positive view of LoudNoises' business acumen after reading this article.
Yet Another Random List of Logos. Please somebody flag this off the front page.
This seems like it could get unwieldy fast. If you are looking for a way to abstract web development to a single, concise language, why not check out http://elm-lang.org
You misunderstand. This is not an anonymous data-dump like the AOL fiasco, and there is no way to get any raw data.

Basically you just pick a few things like your age, salary and where you live, and then out of all of the people out there "like you", you're shown an average of where people like you tend to spend their money (travel, food, etc.).

Even if you spent a lot of time manipulating the data to try and get it to tell you one person's spending by category (assuming it were possible), the data would be relatively meaningless.
Please provide reference to that huge portion.

The background of this is that fallback mode did not work very well. Various applications have been requiring the same hardware support.

Obviously at the moment this will cause pain. But I don't understand why there is not more anger towards the sorry state of graphics drivers on Linux. My GPU of 6-7+ years old support GNOME 3 fine. At that time I bought a silent GPU, it was NOT the quickest GPU. Why are we accepting that we have such poor drivers?

The anger should be focussed towards the drivers, not something which tries to use 7+ old technology.
She probably would have had a more difficult time claiming that Lisa wasn't her daughter.
This is not necessarily connected to the Sandy relief efforts, and there's nothing wrong with different parts of the Occupy movement working on different problems.

There's already enough houses, we don't need to build more. What needs to change is peoples' tacit acceptance of the current debt relations, which is precisely what this action is challenging.

I'm not sure why you put social capital in scare quotes, it has an accepted definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital
This is a deal for the right publisher. It would cost much more to get built from scratch.
Sounds like this guy has never dealt with any Indian prospects, which notoriously exhibit many of these characteristics. Our most recent lead, which was a subsidiary of one of the largest companies in the world, involved dealing with one of the most painfully disrespectful employees in procurement that we've ever dealt with. After giving them an ultimatum that we weren't going to sign their agreement and that they could take ours or not sign at all, another employee at their company finally stepped in, apologized, and signed.

Fortunately, the more qualified leads we've encountered and close in the area tend to exhibit only a few of these traits and are generally much more respectful, but prosecting is still quite different from the US.
Steve is a genius... thanks for this, it helped me at many levels.
「分かり」 even, so that it's not completely phonetic.
Bookfarms - a new avenue for authors to sell ebooks.
37signals had an article a few months ago that essentially argued you should never do that. The argument went that if your biggest customer is only worth $200/month, it prevents you from getting confused about who you work for. If Coke paid 37signals $2,000,000 a month for Basecamp, it would turn into Cokecamp. When Coke takes their business elsewhere they'd be stuck with a weird product highly customized to Coke which nobody else wants. This does happen in practice--it's certainly one view of what happened with BitKeeper and Linux.

I think both perspectives are worth considering.
There's less of a performance hit at runtime than using a scripting language like Ruby/Python/Lua/Perl/PHP, since the generated code uses a fair amount of compiled C.

You can use Smalltalk-style messaging that C++ and C alone wouldn't give you. So you can query objects for methods, variables, and other things that they may or may not have without causing your entire app to crash.

You wouldn't have to wait at runtime for a VM to startup, since Objective-C has no VM. :)

Just a few things.
No worries, I think you have the right read on the prestige issue. Of course in an academic research center, no one makes any money and prestige is reserved for grant-winners and first authors in Nature.

Publications would be hard as a non-PhD. If you wanted to focus on that, I have found that PIs welcome outsiders into their research groups. I'm certain you could put yourself in a position to publish with the same amount of credit as a grad student on a team (not much?). Especially with good data hacking skills, someone will be willing to help you scratch that publication itch. I think it would be like having a major side-project in addition to a fulltime job though.

Oddly enough, even though the work I do here is less technical than what I have done in the private sector, I seem to perceive a slight up-tick in respect from enterprise software groups.
Great points I hadn't thought about. Thanks. Letting customers remove their testimonial sounds like a smart way to relieve some anxiety. Maybe even let them edit it so they can add to or update their results & experiences over time.
No, the parent was correct. 313 to 225 was Nate Silver's prediction (note "Forecast"). The actual electoral vote was (assuming Obama won Florida) 332 to 206.
Yea this is what we do. Estimate how painful and time-consuming this client will be and price the sale accordingly. That $200 a month product we sell? For you, just $50k upfront for setup and training and $100k per year for support and licensing. Sometimes they turn out to be good clients after the initial pain.
"Association Football: the game controlled by FIFA and organised in accordance with the Laws of the Game."
[FIFA Statutes, July 2012 edition, page 5 (definition 12)]

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/generic/01/66/5...

This definition applies to the FA per it's constitution and bylaws.

"All Clubs and Aiffliated Associations shall play and/or administer football in conformity with
these Rules and also:
(a) The Laws of the Game (as deﬁfned in the Articles); and
(b) the statutes and regulations of FIFA and UEFA which are in force from time to time."
[THE RULES OF THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED, page 1]

http://www.thefa.com/~/media/Files/TheFAPortal/governance-do...

Here is a list of references to "association football" on the FA's Website: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athefa.com+%22associat...

"Beach Soccer" is of course relevant because that's the name of the game sanctioned by FIFA.
"I wanna open up with SEOmoz, because they are one of our favorite brands. Their logo doesn’t blow me away necessarily, but it is really great because their company is great."

The first of the 30 best web industry logos doesn't blow us away, but we'll include them because they're a great company. Flagged.
The idea is that by dropping fallback, people can change gnome-panel and metacity as they wish. Meaning: making it work (and look) more like GNOME 2.

I'm not sure if this is entirely feasible in practice. Actually fallback mode consist of various changes in loads of projects. I'm guessing it'll be broken pretty quickly in GNOME 3.7.x. The intention was still that you could still get a more GNOME 2 experience by not needing gnome-panel+metacity for fallback mode... but after all the investigations, not sure if that can still be achieved.
Soccer balls are probably a less volatile export than religion.
Bryne, perhaps you're right. In hindsight perhaps we stretched our own standards to hit an arbitrary number. Point taken, we'll revise the post. Thanks for the feedback.
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The other issue is that many of my good customers have done some of the things on the 'difficult customer' list. You can't easily pigeon hole customers as 'bad'. I have only had one REALLY bad customer - he tended to swear in his email (and his password was "fuckyou"), he used various aliases, and lots of people on forums said he basically scammed them. Also he was very rude and dumb. Anyways, I decided to charge him about 5x the normal rate (and he was too dumb to notice). This is the only time I've ever done this. Anyway, he paid for a year or two and then (thankfully) went out of business.

However even my best (and nicest) customers do some of the things here...sometimes they give me a big long list of questions at their first contact, or persistently call if they have what they think is an urgent problem or question. Usually as long as they're not rude I don't have a problem with it, and they're normally pretty happy if I send an email saying I'll reply after the weekend or whatever.
Parsing the NYTimes Paywall
The Many Sites of CloudFlare
I work with a SaaS product, and we've noticed that almost every customer that asks us for a discount right off the bat tends to 1. Have a low LTV and 2. Not be a good fit for us support and headache-wise. Just our experience.
It does. Thanks to you and the other excellent replies, I now finally understand how ink works. Apparently it's a filter, and we see the light after it has been twice filtered by the ink, down through the ink into the paper and reflected from the paper back up through the ink to our eyes. In contrast to paint or polish, which reflects from its surface.
Ask HN: Where would one go to get professional tech career advice?
Many "coaches" or career counselors don't have the technical knowledge to offer accurate career feedback. I would be really interested in employing a career coach to help me get to where I want to be.
With generic drugs coming on the market, Pfizer will certainly soon face some stiff competition.
Hey Brian, to us, actually Roger Mozbot is a much more attractive from a branding standpoint. We considered including him as well, looks like we should have. Thanks for the feedback.
Except you're the one who brought up $200k as a number to begin with. And those people who sold themselves into debt slavery, by going to an extremely good school, may actually still hold jobs that will allow them to repay their loans eventually. Ignoring your arbitrary choice of debt number, we're looking at many people in debt and many of them without any college degree whatsoever.

And talking about parents isn't helpful. Parents are the ones watching the State of the Union address where the President talks about higher education and competing with China and then go out in the town and talk to the other parents about where their children are going to college and what their children are doing with their degrees. Thinking that only 18-year-olds can be fooled into saddling themselves with excessive debt is nonsense.
One of my developer pet peeves is when 3rd parties (especially ones that think they're helping you) tell you that something they want should be "easy" to do.

Changing the interface to a payment processing gateway, including all of the support documentation and code/security audits, is not easy.

If everyone that wanted something from you prefaced their request with "I don't see why they can't"... you'd probably get annoyed, too.
Eli Whitney's cotton gin.

Einstein, of course.
Should you ditch your interface?
Agreed. It would be very useful as a potential user.

As an example, I like how Basho provides some comparisons[1] of Riak vs other popular options.

http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/references/appendices/comp...
I'm not knocking this idea, but it would be so much better if the balls could be manufactured in Africa using locally sourced materials rather than paying a factory in Taiwan to make them and ship them around the globe.
No problem, huge congrats on shipping!
He gave a ted talk and it seems credible.

http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear...

the main thing that lacks credibility is the title... i read that he did attend college classes as a child. also, the fusion experiment is also currently housed at a university.
Here you are talking sense.
A very tough problem to solve: you organize by customer and you start to get requirements driven by particular customers, making your more of a custom dev shop that can't scale the business. You organize by engineering team and you become a project manager with less visibility into customer needs. You organize by Product, intersecting between projects and customers and you end-up with lots of ownership questions and gaming by PMs (strong PMs often will circumvent others to get satisfy their customer and/or project deadlines).

I've settled on the same conclusion as I've grown our team (and tried out all of these pivots along the way)... focus on the product and scaling the business out. Settle cross-ownership disputes by trying to clarify who makes the decision. Reflect regularly and adjust accordingly.
Not only are Windows users moving to Linux, but Windows devs seem to be arriving as well, bringing their diseases with them – corporate ‘kill off the competition’ mentalities that don’t serve Linux, merely exploit it.

Delusional is the only way to describe this statement. It almost resembles the garbage Fox News has been giving for reasons why Romney lost the election. First of all, developers in a "corporate" (I emphasize "corporate" because this has nothing to do with windows development) environment generally aren't the ones with the "kill off the competition/brand" mentality. This mentality lives higher up in the corporate chain where business decisions are made. Developers themselves don't make these choices, they simply execute them because that's what the business has decided needs to be done. If the claim was instead that CEOs, VPs, etc, are switching to Linux and getting involved in the management of Gnome, the claim would still be wrong, but at least it could have made some sense.