skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like that PM is trying to micromanage and failing to keep his troops working in their box.

If you're going to make a spec that defines 'how' as a PM, then you need to make sure your designers, coders and QA do exactly what you tell them. This can actually work if you're an incredible genius and know the details of what you're trying to do incredibly well.

Most PMs don't fall anywhere near there, and so the solution is simple: spec the 'what' very broadly. Delegate protocol specs to the programmer(s) who will be dealing with that protocol the most. Make sure the programmers create a product that the designer can 'skin' afterwards - such as moving elements around the screen without programmer assistance. Have the QA work with the actual product and not a spec - the users will be using the product after all, not the spec.

Standard stuff...
It's still relevant to the posted article, though perhaps not exactly for the reasons stated.
I wonder if it's physical or at least partially psychological.

I live in Los Angeles and my brother lives in Flagstaff. Every year at the holidays, I go spend a week with him and his family. In Flagstaff there can be entire days below freezing and the nights can easily reach single digits F. When I'm there and it's 25 F, I'm fine. Toodle along like normal. Come back to LA and it's 50 and I shiver. Same outfits even. It's the strangest thing.

Maybe altitude? FLG is 7000 ft and LAX is more or less sea level. I dunno.
"Why this works: This question is a minefield that traps most candidates. If you answer too honestly—"I'm irritable in the morning and bad at time management"—you're an instant no-hire."

I love this question. To me, the above reads as "we don't value honesty as much as you do"
Great use of the first person - this made me physically uncomfortable. Much more so than third would have.
Github is a very special company in that respect as the developers are building a product they are using for themselves. Github's model couldn't be replicated in a field where this wouldn't be the case.
It started out with people preferring the old ones. Then the bike manufacturers caught on and started making fake grandma bikes as well.
Startups – When (and how) to keep going?
I find "tell me about one of your weaknesses" a lot less offensive than "What is your greatest weakness".
That's not universally true; there are languages where if is an expression rather than a statement (e.g., Ruby.)
I think he is referring to having the clients download a copy of the database and a big chunk of javascript to create views and forms to use the database. Syncing the database with the server at specified intervals, etc.

Maybe that can be Web 4.0 - Any ideas for Web 5.0? ;)
what about audio synchronization?
So far here's what I've seen:

Language Specific

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PyCon
https://us.pycon.org/2013/registration/

$600 + $150/training

March 13-17th

Big Data

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Hadoop Summit

http://hadoopsummit.org/amsterdam/register/

~ $1750

March 20-21st

Game Dev

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Game Developers Conf

http://www.gdconf.com/

$?

March 25-29th

Hosting

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HostingCon

http://www.hostingcon.com/

$399-$599 (depends on when you register)

June 17-19

Web Performance

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Velocity

http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013/

$?

June 18-20th

Open Source

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OSCON

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013

July 22 - 26th

Startup

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Microconf

http://www.microconf.com/

$?

Date: Unknown

Other

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CES

http://www.cesweb.org/Conference-Program/Conference-Pricing....

$1300

Jan 8-11th
I prefer Blessings[1] for terminal colors/positioning/etc (except it's limited to platforms that support curses):

from blessings import Terminal
t = Terminal()
print t.bold, 'Hi there!', t.normal
print t.bold_red_on_bright_green('It hurts my eyes!')
with t.location(0, t.height - 1):
print 'This is at the bottom.'

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings/
>Would a wealth tax be less economically distorting than a capital gains tax, at least with respect to encouraging people to exchange assets in an economically efficient way?

Sure, but then you've got a different problem. What happens to illiquid assets? If the value of the illiquid assets your business uses in its operations goes up (land, trademark goodwill, whatever) then you would immediately owe wealth tax on the appreciation, but if the business is only just breaking even as an operation, now you've got to shut down the business and sell the assets to cover the tax owed.

And then of course if you exempt illiquid assets you get a whole new kind of distortion where everybody puts their money in whatever assets are exempt.

What you could do is have an asset tax with brackets, e.g. no tax on the first five million dollars of assets and then X percent on everything over that. And then presumably anyone subject to the tax would have so much wealth that selling some would not be a hardship. But it's still not perfect, because you would immediately see families dispersing their assets between everyone they can trust to keep any single individual's total below the threshold.
There seems to be only a few commercial packages in the Ubuntu Software Centre. As a commercial developer that probably means one of two things: (1) The market is yours for the taking or (2) There is no market.

I'd be curious to know if it is worth it as well. Have you spoke with any commercial developers directly?
Minimal playlists
> no cell service, or the cell service is only for Verizon phones

I remember reading somewhere that emergency calls can use any network.
So what is the best play then? Wait in the car without the engine running?
Judging by the ratio of upvotes to answers, this seems like a topic that a lot of people are interested in but nobody knows about.

Personally, as a user of Ubuntu, I never use the Ubuntu Software Centre - not even for free software - I much prefer apt-get, and I'm not aware of anything (aside from paid software, which I didn't even know about until you mentioned this) that Ubuntu Software Centre does that apt-get doesn't.
Right, object oriented is not everything, sometimes ifs or switches are just fine.

I would suggest that decision tables, rule engines, workflow, DSLs, even finite automaton and other abstractions etc are better than having many many objects that are avoiding ifs :)
Switch to metric system USA!
It's actually using the second person.
Super Meat Boy, which has over 1M sales across all platforms, has a whopping 77 sales from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
I expect bitcoins to become significantly more valuable in the coming years, so I own about 100BTC.
YouTube confiscates 2 billion views from Universal and Sony
$16k seems a bit much for a leisure bike while $450 isnt. top-end custom racing bikes can cost $16k+ though. i'm currently on a $2k Specialized mountain bike, though i wouldn't classify what i do with it as 'leisurely pedaling'...
2012's 5 Most popular Linux stories
Hartmut Esslinger's early Apple computer and tablet designs
find someone you can trust. it's not that hard. start with people who are already trusted by people you know.
The new CEO is just brilliant! well done!
Seriously, has anybody created a decent userscript or browser extension to fight this problem yet? I had no luck searching for one.
I guess the price difference between the two setups is huge. I'd love to hear more about that.
Work history is essential.

After an initial screening (minimal technical competence, etc.), and a review of work samples already prepared, I think a walkthrough of "what have you done, and why", starting as early as possible, makes sense. It's not just passive "I worked at X, Y, Z", but trying to actually understand the candidate and his motivations. It's interesting to explore what someone didn't do as much as what they did do. The point of being comprehensive is that it's much more difficult to come up with a bonus story with that level of detail while keeping it consistent, and the most interesting stuff is not the overt things ("I worked on guidance systems") but all the details and motivations.

This could easily take 2-3h even for a 30 year old. Doing it without 1) being a dick 2) psychologically taxing 3) being confrontational is the hard part. I'd personally rather have a 2-3h interview/talk with a manager or founder, and a half-day of technical stuff, than sit through 8 interviews with people I won't be working with doing a combination of technical and non-technical.

Then, work-product sample, as close to the actual work as possible.
Have you heard of despotify? As long as you have a premium account, it's a 3rd party library with a CLI interface that works well on the Pi.
They're generally pretty terrible bikes, put together by some guy who didn't read the directions and doesn't care. They're so heavy and unpleasant to ride that sure, you could buy one for $150, but you'll never want to ride it. They're also full of false-comfort "features" like front shocks and heavily padded seats which sap your pedaling power and actually make your butt more sore, respectively.
Read this a while back but this passage:

"In 1980, 16 shipwrecked Danish fishermen were hauled to safety after an hour and a half in the frigid North Sea. They then walked across the deck of the rescue ship, stepped below for a hot drink, and dropped dead, all 16 of them."

Damn!
Windows 8 User Complaints app disappears from Windows Store
If you "expect" them to become "significantly more valuable", why do you own so little then?
Most Popular Dataversity Content in 2012
interesting. out of curiosity, what do you use for a trusted exchange and/or bank?
It's totally worthwhile to learn about interviews, successful and unsuccessful, both as an interviewer and interviewee.

"Just be honest and be yourself" is necessary but insufficient. You really should understand how interviewers think and work to be interviewed successfully.
Read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_State...
Yeah, baidu.com ;)
The Verizon network is CDMA, which is incompatible with most other phones (GSM).
Also the trend is down. So, they keep loosing.
The author lives in Ireland. Hence he's most likely a native speaker.

Is it just me or do others also have the impression that it's mostly native speakers doing this incorrectly? Or are there some schools/conventions/… where "it's" is correct or at least an acceptable alternative?
I was a PM at a bigger company (~350) before jumping into startup land. After being the CTO and de-facto PM for a couple startups, I've had an idea that probably needs some vetting:

I think when you're still small, most typical PM functions should be distributed instead of centralized, with a manager getting in the mindset of managing people who are 10-20% PM / 80-90% engineer or designer.

While the overall product/business strategy and business requirements should be owned by one or a few founders/officers, I think as many people as possible in an early stage web/mobile product company should have most of the general skillset of a PM. Highly specialized talent might be an exception if you're creating a sophisticated product or have unique interface goals. But the general PM skills -- mockups, basic design principles, writing stories, writing requirements, managing a story/requirement from creation to deployment -- should be universal while you're small.

The inflection point goal at web/mobile startups is getting MVP after MVP out the door until you've pivoted or iterated your way to a good-enough product for a good-enough market. (Or good-enough product for a specific customer.) It's an all-hands-on-product affair.

With this in mind, I think the early CTO should be a hybrid of engineering talent and director of product management. Or perhaps depending on skillset a separate person (another co-founder or the person you thought should be the first PM) is that director of PM and the CTO is more like a lead architect. The point is that rather than doing all the product management or all the VP Engineering stuff, this person (or two) manages a team of hybrid engineers/PMs, retaining some important overall product and architecture decision-making responsibilities, but empowering and helping designers and engineers employ basic PM skills individually or split among a small group such that the person or small group owns more process for a feature.
About.com (not the best resource, but I googled the answer since I don't know it) recommends running your engine for short periods and cracking the window open.

I'm hesitant to actually agree, since cracking the window open doesn't seem like an awesome idea in the middle of a blizzard but... eh.

http://weather.about.com/od/winterweather/a/winter_survival....
Wy would you need to clear the cache with disqus? Isn't it a JS-served comment system?
Frankly I'd rather use a system where 0 degrees is "fucking cold" and 100 degrees is "fucking hot", but neither fatally so, with 100 different steps in between.
What about spec the "why", then engage with the team to figure out the "what", then let the team figure out the "how" by themselves. Believe it or not, the PM is not the only one with problem-solving skills on the team to tackle the mapping between "why" into "what".
I know this is possible with Linux. At my previous job one of the developers used to pipe his music stream to the broadcast address on our LAN. I don't remember much about the exact protocols involved, but I'm sure it's possible. Even better, do multicast, since broadcast is out in IPv6.
If you have a phone you can make an emergency call from it as long as there is service. The different networks have different frequencies and if your phone doesn't have the antenna its not going to work. This is more than just CDMA vs. GSM, although not sure about GPRS.

I was a big fan of the Android phones that had AM/FM radios awhile back. At least you'd be able to hear broadcasts to have a general idea of where the storm is heading. I grabbed one of those survival kits that have matches, a knife, first aid, etc.
I love my bicycle, but they are:

Slow, one person at a time, low hauling capacity, no protection from the elements, and easily stolen.

Like it or not, cars have their place. People who are so proud of not needing a car? They do a lot of mooching off car-having friends.
According to the earlier story about Super Meat Boy, it was on the store for a year and only sold 77 copies.
It depends on your definition of "little"; that's nearly £900 worth.
Unless you are joking, I think he was characterizing Fahrenheit itself as old, not saying there was a separate, "old Fahrenheit" scale.
Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
Mt. Gox.
Given Amazon's recent outages (and the fact that they happen a lot more frequently)... hearing about this new service offering doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
Could it be the humidity? Wet air usually feels colder.
I just went through this process and it seemed like a scam. After registering I got a sales call where they pushed the $300 package, suggesting that it would take over a month to get set up with Apple if I did not purchase it. When I refused, they had the audacity to say I should reconsider purchasing when I could afford it.

I registered on iupdate.dnb.com and only paid $50 to expedite the request for a DUNS number. The entire process was complete in a week and we were approved by Apple.
Trust me, I'm all too familiar with swim workouts.
While emergency calls must be routed even if you don't subscribe to a plan with the carrier of your phone, I'm not sure it would get through if you only have a GSM radio in your phone and the only tower nearby is a CDMA tower. Someone might correct me on that. Regardless, it will keep you from calling someone nearby that may be able to help without needing to call for emergency services.
And many, many more grammatical errors in the article itself.
It's a pressure question, a kind of interrogation. If you are honest, you will realize that you have a ton of things wrong with you and it isn't all that meaningful to pick the "worst" one.

People have been asking this for so long that it really only gauges whether the applicant canned an answer to it which sounds bad enough that you won't think it's bullshit, but good enough that they aren't hurting their application. As with other interrogation techniques you often aren't selecting against lying, but just for plausible lying that you are unequipped to detect. It is certainly an illusion that you are selecting for honesty this way.

If you do want to hire honest people, and it isn't for an area like sales where it is important for them to project unrealistic levels of self-confidence, you will cause less needless anxiety and get more actionable information if you can get specific on what sort of disclosure you need, rather than just asking the applicant to incriminate themselves in the worst way they can imagine.

If you want to punish people with ability and integrity but lower self-esteem then this question is your ideal instrument.
True, but my point was that should never "expect" anything to happen with investments.
WIFI Guests? Generate QR code with WiFi details for easy access
Agree. My first reaction when reading the article was "your blog was massively overengineered". And while it was (after all, it got replaced with static HTML pages), I'm sure it was fun measuring and tweaking the performance and learning about building a scalable infrastructure.
I don't think I've ever read one. And I'm not planning on writing one any time soon. (The professional life of a pharmacist is, ideally, extremely boring. If it isn't, someone's going to be very ill, if not dead.)
An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance?
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I would salute and remember Ratan Tata even for the last two years of his work. He has achieved some of the most unthinkable awesome things as an entrepreneur off India:

1. Delivered Tata Nano, an awesome product built ground up that just works.

2. The way they managed their injured employees, and even those not working for them, after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

Indian Government did not provide any support to the small tea-stall vendors, beggars, railway employees and injured policemen. Ratan Tata did.

That is height of humanity shown by him, despite the urge to excel in business. Amazing stuff.
The problem is that nobody is truly going to tell you their "greatest" weakness so it is, to some degree, always going to be a bullshit answer.

It's pointless as far as discovering a real weakness in my opinion, but as somebody else said, I do think its useful to see whether someone is able to spin things for social or political reasons. For example if someone answers that question poorly, they may not handle other stressful business situations that require tact.
It looks like a test card for testing chip programming. Notice the interface pins.
Americans Support Physician-Assisted Suicide For Terminally Ill
I converted my blog[1] to be static this past weekend using all AWS (S3+CF+Route53) and it went relatively painless. But I decided to use middleman instead, and after using that I don't think I'll be going back to Jekyll.

I still have a Github.com pages account that uses Jekyll because its free, but since its so damn cheap I may convert this to AWS stack as well.

The largest problem I was running into was permissions and invalidating the CF CDN. I am thinking of rolling a simple Markdown editor using node-webkit and scripting up some things to automate everything.

[1]: http://thoughtlessbanter.com
You say something that's not an issue, therefore it is not really the worst thing about you. (Unless there is nothing bad about you. Lucky you.)
I find it odd that in an article about dispelling generalizations, the discussion seems to require a lot of generalization to make the point?

Namely, look at the following:

People in USA don't know anything about smaller countries in Europe, so they assume it's all the same. Availability heuristic.

Not all people in the USA have the same upbringing, world view, or experiences - just all not all people in the EU, Eurozone, or continent of Europe do. All of the hand-waving in the world won't change the fact the people are incredibly diverse in nearly all geographic or national units. You say it's impossible for a nation of 300+ million people whose heritage come from nearly every nation state to have diversity at a level anywhere near a population of 8 million people?

I'm sorry, but this generalization doesn't hold water, and does disservice to any point you are trying to make. When you back it up with People all over the world watch Hollywood movies, so we know at least something about cultural diversity of USA. that makes your point even weaker. "Urban Cowboy" will teach you nothing at all about the strong Chinese and Vietnamese cultures in Harris county, it won't touch at all on the wide diversity of languages and social norms that can change on a block-by-block basis here. "Love and a .45" will not teach you anything about how the culture in the Texas hill country is largely shaped by a blend of European (German and Polish primarily) and Mexican traditions.

No one is denigrating the cultural diversity here but the people claiming there is no cultural diversity in the US. You can tell me you know everything you really need to know about our culture, but then seem to miss the extreme differences in culture, or in some cases by others here, hand-wave away any difference entirely. To say that Southern Louisiana has the same "culture" as Northern California would be considered laughable by those having spent any reasonable time in the two regions. A more in-depth study rather than a few Hollywood movies would help modulate your position.
This looks like a neat hack. I might attempt something similar at some point.

Somewhat relevant, since many people here are talking about using a USB sound card: I have heard good things [1] about using this hub/dock combo with a Raspberry Pi [2]. Might be overkill for this project but it would give you an all-in-one connection dock for more multi-purpose projects.

[1] http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20120903/...
[2] http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=102750
Necessary singletons are a sign that your language/library either embraces "everything is a class" so you have to make vacuous singleton classes to get full access to the language, or it is lacking a sufficiently powerful module system so you have to implement an ad-hoc one yourself using classes.

Unnecessary singletons are usually a sign that someone, somewhere designed a way too general system that allowed multiple instances of something, then nobody ever used that feature, then someone else came in and made things a bit saner by adding a singleton constraint, leaving vestigial object-ness and meaningless pointers being passed around everywhere.

In a perfect world with perfect programmers you'd never see one so the instinct that they smell bad is correct.
You just linked to an article that dismisses your initial claim:

> Most economists now would agree on three fundamentals. First, tying is a pervasive practice that, in many instances, gives rise to substantial efficiencies, particularly when it takes the form of product integration. Second, the circumstances in which tying would lead to anticompetitive effects are very restricted. And third, not only are those conditions hard to verify, but also any attempt to balance efficiency gains against possible anticompetitive effects will prove a complex exercise.
so many was done to get rid of microsoft claws, and not let one corporation to dictate technology.. and now that microsoft is becoming a zombie, a new lord (or should say lords) rises.. with its "app stores" corporate centric mentality.. and here we go again.. two tech titans now threat the survival of free technology and principles..

and that beast you cant fight back just with GPL licenses and free/open software.. this beast is cool and people love it.. :/
Big Brother Becomes Back Seat Driver
Screen readers will use whatever document outline that the browser renders, no?