skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone in this. Open-plan is a fucking disaster. I've thought about getting together all the anxiety/panic sufferers out there for a class action against all the companies with open-plan offices (greater than 10 employees; below 10, you use the space you can get) that make it hard or socially unacceptable to escape. The problem is that I'd be black-balling myself by doing it, but it's a good idea and I hope someone does. I know a couple people whose (long-term) panic problems were caused by open-plan offices.

For me, it's open-back visibility. Noise I can shut out. Being visible gives me the creeps. If I am going to be in a place for the amount of time equal to a trans-Atlantic plane ride, then give me a goddamn decent space rather than treating my flight-or-fight response as your own personal toy. Asshole.
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In addition to your typical Outlook, i0S contacts, etc., there are a services that come to mind:

Plaxo (Plaxo.com founded by Sean Parker) has been around for awhile. I used this for some time but have recently discontinued my account.

Brewster (https://www.brewster.com/) is new on the block and I also think Fred Wilson had a blog post on them earlier this year.
Wow - excellent link. I've been thinking about this lately. I'm not alone in thinking that languages are going to be important here. This is a great resource for further study! Thanks!
Interesting... For some reason I had always assumed that Bootstrap was associated more closely with Twitter because it had the word "twitter" in the name.

Now I understand why some business are so concerned with preventing other websites and people from using their name. I'm not saying that Twitter should have demanded that these guys change the name of their framework to something else, but this is a good object lesson of how using someone other company's name can cause confusion.

In retrospect probably one of the biggest things that motivated me to investigate Bootstrap was because it had Twitter in the name, and I had the mindset "If Twitter uses it, then it must be good."

So I'm surprised to find out that it wasn't actually that deeply tied to Twitter.

Edit: I went back to the website for Bootstrap and the website clearly says:

Built at Twitter by @mdo and @fat,

versus here @fat is saying:

it isn’t actually maintained by a team at Twitter (nor was it ever).

So now I'm actually more confused.
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I'm interested in knowing how many of you on here are going to read this in one sitting. Not that it would be sufficient to analyze it for bugs, but because you're that interested.
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Makes me sad that all my post-work hacking on things has been by myself. As a musician his description sounds similar to playing an instrument by myself; fun but not as great as with a group of friends.
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Isn't it pointless for businesses to block .xxx? As porn sites know this will happen I doubt any of them rely on a .xxx
Same for me, I get "Invalid website address" when entering my URL.
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That's definitely the Apple model, and it applies so long as the tablet market is the iPad market.

That will continue to be the case for awhile, but the tablet's conceptual proximity to the desktop (even apart from its forced convergence by Microsoft) is going to make its evolution more complicated than the smartphone market has been with its proximity to the younger, less baggage-heavy mobile / PDA market.

Smartphones are reaching the slow part of an S-curve right now. Tablets are just getting started.
Because all the other TLDs are being used for exactly what they were intended for...
I do not refer to the vocabulary of methods that HTTP has, but more to naming conventions... But I definitely see your point.
Completely unrelated to the content, this is a 2 paragraph article with 2 footnotes that are a paragraph apiece. Why not just write 4 paragraphs?
I don't think the willpower/training distinction is as clear as his post suggests.

If I had more a much stronger desire/willpower than George St. Pierre to excel at fighting, I would train harder than he did... and I would be a better fighter. The man is great because he's trained hard, worked out, etc.

Willpower may not be enough to make you a success on 30 seconds notice. But you can get better at almost anything over time by working at it.
Couldn't agree more. Working isolated works for some tasks (like getting "in the zone" while developing) but I definitely thrive off of the ambiance of a coffee shop environment.
"It's obvious that an insanely motivated, untrained person would lose in a fight with George St-Pierre, the current Welterweight Champion of UFC. They would get destroyed."

Strangely enough, that was the plot to a Friends episode with Jon Favreau:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMD-TWtY9lQ
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But does this mean Javascript is talking to your server rather than S3?

Because the beauty of filepicker is that a user is not locking up one of your processes while they spend minutes uploading a file.

Especially important on Heroku, for example. Though I'm sure a self hosted node server could fare better, I'd sooner stick it out with Filepicker.
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Facebook messed up DNS, goes offline
You're absolutely correct. If you look at the commit history, you'll see that it started out as two different projects. We noticed we had the same goals and decided to combine projects. I've been in charge of architecting the API since then.

One of my goals was to make it very modular and easily extendable. In the overview page of the documentation I explain how this was accomplished (http://jstat.github.com/overview.html)
I went to a science/technology magnet high school, and 10 years out more of my classmates are in one of: law, consulting, or finance than any other. Even people who did a BS and sometimes MS often ended up getting graduate degrees and going into consulting. Why? The real money in this country isn't in making things, but in managing the people who make things, or in providing professional services to the managers. Silicon Valley is an exception right now, but only because consultants have yet to figure out how to drive down engineering salaries by outsourcing social network development to India (although Google, Microsoft, etc, have tried ardently to keep salaries down by engaging in anti-competive practices like agreeing not to poach each others' engineers).

Heck, even the Valley isn't immune to this phenomenon. Taking your CS degree to Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan then lateraling to a VC fund after a few years is probably, adjusted for risk, the highest return career path in the Valley.
What's interesting about their blog is that they never post about managing projects or how to organize your contacts. You know, the problems/solutions related to their popular products.

Although I agree with most of the other things you said, this particular paragraph is not true. Over the last couple of months (starting with http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3194-backstage-an-inside-look... I think) they've published several Basecamp projects showing how they use it. It's not only a write-up either, you can go into the actual BC project and see it's entire history.
You are correct. IIRC (and assuming nothing has changed in the months I was on hiatus):

If you have ever looked at an application for YC, it requires every member of the applying team to have a membership here and asks for your HN handles. If any team members do not have handles, they are required to get one in order to complete the application as that cannot be left blank. If you were an active member here for any time prior to submitting your application, your remarks here are, in some sense, part of the application. Participating here is an opportunity to showcase your skills, knowledge and general intelligence and also prove whether or not you pass the YC "don't be an asshole" rule of thumb.

That, no doubt, does quite a lot to help keep the place relatively polite and respectful since, for some people here, being an asshole can cost them a shot at potentially millions of dollars (assuming they get in and their startup is successful). Getting back at some jerk, carrying a grudge, etc just isn't worth so much if in the back of your mind you realize it could close doors to your big break. Even if you do not wish to apply to YC, enough members here are successful, influential business people that, for most members, it just does not make sense to run around pissing people off and burning bridges for shits and giggles.
They're already overused in genome biology. They do a beautiful job of representing interchromosomal rearrangements in cancer, but don't actually convey a whole lot of information.
See the IOIO board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10748
Children Building with Code
Mark and I built bootstrap while we were employed at twitter on twitter hardware. Also, undeniably it was largely influenced by our work there (and later would largely influence a lot of the code at twitter as well as power lots of projects both internally and publicly) – but it was never a company mandated project. It was something that Mark and I came up with on our own and pursued outside of work hours.
Israel, as a country, is nothing like apartheid, and it's a shame that you use that term. Arabs can and do freely participate in all parts of Israeli life, including membership and elected officials in just about every mainstream political party. It's acknowledged that more needs to be done to bring Arab income and educational levels up to those of Jewish Israelis, and there are far too many places in which Arabs officially and unofficially face discrimination. But there's a world of difference between discrimination and apartheid.

An increasingly vocal slice of economists, investors, and entrepreneurs are saying that helping Arab citizens to found high-tech companies would be good for the country, good (obviously) for those individuals, and might help to bridge the divide between Israel and the Arab world.

The situation is sadly different in the territories, which I believe is a moral and legal albatross around Israel's neck, and one which we need to resolve as quickly as possible -- preferably by pulling out most settlements and recognizing a Palestinian state.

As for Palestinians returning to their ancestral homes, I'm afraid that as with countless wars over the centuries, that will not happen for the overwhelming majority of them. The alternative would lead to an unlimited civil war, one which would have dire consequences for the entire public. I feel bad for people who lost their homes, and believe that they should be compensated. But no Israeli government, left or right, will agree for such a thing to happen, and I happen to believe that it's counterproductive for the welfare of Palestinians to focus on that, rather than building a free, democratic, and open Palestine -- something which has yet to occur, I'm afraid.

Finally, I'm not sure why you keep referring to me as a settler. I'm an immigrant, a resident, a citizen, and all sorts of other things. But I bought my home in a city within Israel proper, within the Green Line, despite all sorts of financial encouragement that the government gave me to go over the Green Line. If you want to make personal claims and accusations, I ask that you do so based on facts, rather than slogans.
No, I'm not just arguing that a patent is an abstract idea. I'm arguing that all patents cover abstract ideas. Patents don't cover any physical cotton gin, but rather the idea of a cotton gin, i.e. the arrangement of materials that separates the seed from the fibers.
Pretty graph but how useful is it ? There is lots of data on it and it looks crowded and seems hard to interpret unless you use the right panel to filter down the data. Even then, no numbers mean that you only get a feeling of relative quantities. The interesting info for me is the "Division 1" graph showing large numbers of Arts/Literature people going into Technology/Engineering/medicine.
Oh hi, class of 2001 here, Ephs represent!
& get off my lawn etc etc etc.
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I think that growth, as a metric for gauging success will soon fall out of favor. Soon stodgy old concepts like "revenue" and "profit" will begin to take hold again.

The assumption that eyeballs will eventually equal dollars has been proven false again and again. Eventually Angel Investors and VC's will have to return to the same types of fundamentals that banks have been following all along (the recent financial...hiccup...aside).
Does Williams have an active ACM/CS club on campus?
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Could you please expand on this? Why did you hate this mechanic, and how was TA's mechanic better?
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It's not clear. What Ubuntu did is a serious issue that merits discussion. Dropping a Stallman bomb on the situation just gets people eye-rolling so badly they can't bother to care. He's not one to take a soft tact even if that's the best way to get results.
There's a lot of truth to the notion of 'building things with friends' is what fuels a lot of developers. I am the same way. I think the same thing can be said for building a startup. It just has a completely different feel and excitement when it's something mutually taken on with a friend.

Also major props to Bootstrap for everything they have done for the web.
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Woah, downforeveryoneorjustme says: Huh? http://www.facebook.com doesn't look like a site on the interwho.
Ask HN: Would you participate in a weeklong Hackathon for 2 hrs each morning?
I haven't attended a hackathon in years. I feel like a loser saying that, but I have a wife and a daughter now.

I love hacking, but weekends (when hackathons are typically held) are when I get to spend large blocks of uninterrupted time with my family. As much as I love hacking, I simply cannot justify the trade off (especially since my daughter is under 2 years old and grows an insane amount every day).

I came to the realization that the only "free time" I have starts about 4am and ends at about 7am. If I am going to engage a side project or do general purpose hacking, this is the only time I have available for it.

This got me to thinking: What about a weeklong hackathon? What if instead of missing the majority of a weekend with my family, the hacking happened over the course of several days in the wee hours of the morning? There have to be a ton of people who, like me, find that this is the only free time they have.

What do you think? Is this something you would try? Why or why not?

Thanks!
Gmail was down earlier, Facebook is down now
It's perverse to put people in a collaborative open plan office and make them be quiet. Quiet, focused employees do not need to be there; they can work from home or a closed office. And they should absolutely be empowered to do so.

This smells like a "hurry in and shut up" situation. While it's better to have quiet crammed mandatory office hours than loud ones, it's even better to keep people who need solitude out of the bullpen entirely.
Out of curiosity, does this bother you? I'm sometimes glad when authors take the time to be concise and put their ideas out there in the shortest way possible while still being interesting.
Pay for servers from someone other than GoDaddy--almost anyone else, really. Home servers are a really bad solution for anything remotely important, but shared hosting from the likes of Dreamhost, VPS from a company like Linode, or EC2 instances from Amazon are all fast, reliable, and cheap.
glusterfs would be fine for your situation. There's just some tuning you'll want to do to handle the WAN situation without performance hits.
So instead of looking at the evidence you smear the author instead.

Congratulations! You've just discovered the ad-hominem fallacy.

Details available from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
Yep, I checked there too. Also getting:

Ping request could not find host www.facebook.com. Please check the name and try again.
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I am not at all clear why you would say this. In fact, I think you are committing an argument from authority in the reverse. You refuse to listen to this guys because you assume that they are not authorities. That's just bogus and I am sure you know that. Instead, you should listen to Hawking discuss metaphysics and decide if he is worth listening to. You would, I think, do exactly that if it were philosopher speaking.

Why should I listen to Hawking discuss metaphysics? I only have limited time, and I'm entirely unconvinced that would be a good use of it. It's not that I'm refusing, merely that I have no inclination to because I don't have any expectation of particular insight.
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Nope confirmed.
Facebook down same day as GMail outage
Both gmail and facebook down within an hour or so? Something going on?
Same here. Seemed to be a little light. It was a well intentioned article but one that could've used more info. A startup is a very complicated animal and I'm sure there is a much bigger list of things not to do than this. However, still enjoyed the light reading. :)
Okay thanks... I understand now. You started the project at Twitter, but it wasn't owned by Twitter. I'm glad that Twitter didn't claim Bootstrap as company owned code, because I and thousands of other people have really enjoyed using it in our projects.
Part of the problem with the St. Pierre comparison is that he's in the top 1% of fighters worldwide. It's unlikely that even with far greater motivation you could see dramatic gains over him as a fighter. There are also genetic factors when it comes to physique that are out of either of your controls.

Though I do agree that you can get better at things over time - in fact I advocate developing habits as a way of "improving" your ability to manage your behavior and augment your willpower.
I'm a little late to this, but my wife and I share an iTunes account since we have shared devices. The fact that the same password is used to download a free app and to REMOTE WIPE my primary business machine is terrifying. I would like that nuclear password to be 20 random characters and symbols, please, not one that I have to type in on my iPhone whenever I download the new Cut the Rope.

It's just upsetting to think back to the story of the gentleman who had every single device wiped remotely after someone called into Apple support and impersonated him with publicly available information from his Amazon account. Yet very little has been done.
4 peta bytes doesn't seem that much. How long is that going to last them?
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It is down from here, (Holland, Amsterdam) And from France ( OVH )
DNS issue? I can ping some of their IP addresses but not others.
So far, the best thing I've found for my Transformer TF300T is Better Terminal Emulator Pro. It's four bucks, and comes with ssh and vi. The ctrl, tab, and arrow keys all work, and the back key (upper left of keyboard) is remapped to esc.

Unfortunately, the developer appears to be MIA, and the website (which help redirects to) is broken. Still well worth the four bucks.
It is up for me in Austin, Texas. Maybe a localized DNS issue?
Australia it is down
jup, looks like it, London here.
I think most people would imagine a project called "Twitter Bootstrap" that was developed by people "employed at twitter on twitter hardware" would be property of Twitter. Does Twitter own the copyright?
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Live tweets about it: facebook.twitterconsole.com
Can we get a laymans explanation of what this is about? I understand what p np is, but don't really understand what this person is claiming. Is this some kind of claim about the overall concept of p np? Or proving a specific case?
"ping: cannot resolve www.facebook.com: Unknown host" from Seattle.
Down for me here (UK, broadband provider is Eclipse) - looks like a DNS problem. isup.me also fails to resolve it.
I'd try it out. My hesitation would be that things come up in the morning, but an interesting thesis and I frequently find that the weekend is overloaded.
I can filter out people talking (as long as they're not listing numbers when I'm also doing numerical work) but get driven insane by little noises like repeated sniffing, foot-drumming, or even one coworker with a particularly squeaky scroll-wheel whose job seems to be to scroll through log files at high speed all day. The first two of these seem to cut through any music I put on headphones, too.

So for me a "library rules" office would just mean fewer conversations to drown out the little noises that nobody even realises they're making. I'm sure I unknowingly make some variety of noise that someone else hates too.
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Down here (Rome, Italy)
Anyone fond of Lasersquad (XCOM and such) type games please take a look at the flash game "Mission in Space: the lost colony" http://www.kongregate.com/games/StormAlligator/mission-in-sp...

It has very nice mechanics. I especially like the unlimited shots of opportunity fire (well, limited by the ammo left in the clip) that allow for fun play while being hugely outnumbered.
I'm not sure you know what bikeshedding is.
webmon.com (click on demo) shows it's been up from 4 locations with couple glitches in the past hour.
I think the message the blog post is conveying is that Bootstrap grew out of two developers wanting to build something, not out of a manager wanting to setup an internal project and assemblying a team being instructed to work on the project.
Up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Down here (Israel).
Cyberattack! Don't panic! Everyone make your way to your nearest cyber-shelter! ;-)
Down for me: Amsterdam
Data That lasts forever
You chose a great interface for display the data. I might add the numbers themselves, something I was curious about when browsing it.
I'm in Sacramento, CA - It's down at my house, but not at my neighbor's house (we're both on Comcast).
Strange, yes downforeveryoneorjustme says it is not a site, but I can refresh FB just fine.
Down in Chicago
Would you judge the contents of a library by the size of the books?
looks like it is down in the US
The facebook.com ping in Brazil don't work.
The HN effect;) Down for me in germany.
bad day for the interwebs
Down in Spain
Down from Amsterdam ( IX5 ) And France ( OVH ), Track live tweets here http://facebook.twitterconsole.com
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I wonder, how do people do pair programming in quiet offices? Those two things, both regarded by many as desirable and positive, seem to be at odds with each other.
Down for me in Sacramento.
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One of the reasons I worked at twitter is that they want you to open-source virtually everything. They weren't likely to put up a fuss, and everyone was really proud of bootstrap.
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Down for me in Chicago . . . its been a hell of a day for big web companies!
More comments/reports here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4901965
Down in Portugal as well