skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, there's a mixture of interesting and fairly mundane stuff in here. On the mundane side: one of the points is that Microsoft objects to the requirement to procure the lowest-price software that meets the specs, because there is FOSS that meets many of the specs (as written) and it's no-cost, therefore no commercial supplier can possibly compete. That's an argument you'd expect any commercial software supplier to make, and in fact they do make that argument pretty much anywhere those kinds of procurement rules come up. Whether making that argument is trying to fleece the government or not probably depends on whether you agree with commercial software providers' arguments about benefits of their software vs. FOSS, e.g. in functionality and/or total cost of ownership.
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And of course, depending on the application, you should be using 1+0 for performance reasons over 5 anyway, if it's a database server.
I've got something simmering for solving this problem. Can you do web design sort of stuff? I've never been so good with the HTML bits but need a nice front-end. Shoot me an email via my profile here!

I can't promise equity in a company, because this idea was looking more towards being a lifestyle business. Revenue/profits of operation would thus be the thing at stake.
Good plan. I've started to print out man pages and using them for learning / reference. This post: http://macgeekery.com/tips/cli/pretty-print_manual_pages_as_... got me set up using groff to pretty-print the good stuff.
"and if I ever get around to finishing it, I can have my own web-based front-end for it."

If you finish it let me know. I would be interested in possibly buying the front end from you (even if it's rough wouldn't be customer facing.)
Have you talked to your market? Done any type of research? Did you one day decide this would be a great thing to build?

If you answered no any of the first two questions and/or yes to the third one, then go ahead and stop wasting your time. you need to realize one thing: Products are not born because you think there is a need. Products are born because you found a need and want to cater to it.
I spent a few months there and I think the post touches on a lot of truths. I found the place to be pretty unreal - an idyllic and unique slice of America, both in a good and bad kind of way.

The good part is that there's a lot of energy and optimism there, a great openness to new ideas and a general sense of building the future. I think this is the part that attracts people and allows for new companies to take hold and grow big.

The bad part is expressed as a kind of refusal to engage with the rest of society. The analogy I would make is when one is building a company - the easiest part is to put on some headphones and start coding, it is most geeks' comfort zone. But that's only part of it, you also have to do engage with your users, do support, get the word about about your product and a myriad of other things that are not pleasant but absolutely necessary.

Likewise, doing your own thing out west is very appealing and comfortable, but do get anything done you have to engage in the dirty, messy, horse-trading cacophony that is politics. The tech industry for example is notable for not having any significant lobbying capacity in Washington.
For me, the overwhelmingly best answer is therapy.
Design is not veneer.
Blender is primarily a 3D modelling tool. It does come with two renderers though (Blender internal and Cycles).
Definitely beats view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];! Though I'm not sure I'll ever to shake that trusty old "debugging" hack.
Snaphax: connect to the undocumented Snapchat API (PHP)
My Microsoft internship interviews in Redmond
This is a good guide for a starter, but doesn't address dealing with rock stars themselves, which is what's required if your contribution is going to be merged.

And that usually requires the skin of a pachyderm, and the patience of a fox. The reality of today is that the world idolizes idols. Idols in turn become arrogant. Their worst trait is belittling others' contributions - especially when they're better than the rock star could've done.

I have no solution. I'm pointing out what I see as an omission from an otherwise useful post.
Startups are the Place to Find and Use Baby Boomers
It’s hard to fake passion, and even if you can, why would you?
There's several existing MySQL management solutions for powerDNS, including: https://www.poweradmin.org/trac/
https://github.com/averna-syd/PowerdnsTango

PowerDNS Tango is the prettiest looking one.
Bed risers work great (like the kind you might still have hanging around from a college dorm room). I bought some two years ago from Bed, Bath, & Beyond, coupled with an anti-fatigue mat. Not only did my developing back pain go away, but I've lost 15 pounds since then without adding anything to my exercise regimen, or drastically changing my diet.

edit: Forgot to mention: juststand.org
"Usually ships within 1 to 2 weeks."

I guess I've been spoiled by the grace of the past 10-15 years of technical book buying, but that is insane.
Well, many of us still don't. I don't think I have the necessary teamwork skills. I just want to code, I don't want to deal with people who do, or read thousands of lines of foreign code.
RT AristotelesSD: lopezobrador_ GANO AL PENDEJO DE MEXICO EPN 
RT @ReziztenCIA_: RT @AristotelesSD: @lopezobrador_ GANO AL PENDEJO DE MEXICO @EPN - goo.gl/8tkG3 // #ReziztenCIA #MORENA #GDL
I'll bet it's Ubuntu for touch devices (based on the wording).
RT @ReziztenCIA_: RT @AristotelesSD: @lopezobrador_ GANO AL PENDEJO DE MEXICO @EPN - goo.gl/8tkG3 // #ReziztenCIA #MORENA #GDL
This build tool is not for you
I keep some UIColor categories around so at least I can have prettier colours for debugging. It would be nice to make a variant of the method that (somewhat randomly) colours all views and logs the usual info + the colour out to the console.
Newly-designed Site and Expanded Docs for Riemann
Yep, there is an example twitter clone called Status. https://github.com/RetroMocha/obvious_status

It can run as a rails app, sinatra web app, sinatra api app, command line app, or desktop app using jruby. Backend database is pluggable and can use json files, mongo, mysql, or even its own api as a data source without switching the application code itself.
It has nothing to do with intelligence. Rather, it's about ability. You have to understand that none of these elected leaders make their decisions in a vacuum. They instead rely on experts to give them the correct information with a clear explanation of the consequences of each choice. With encryption this wasn't very possible at the time, since back in 1993 not many people understood encryption especially in terms of how critical it would turn out to be for innovation.
This mom gave her son an 18-point contract with his iPhone
Wow, incredibly true, but sobering.
That seems awfully pedantic and useless as an official guideline. I mean, it's the same article nonetheless.
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I hope to see something like alternativeto.net too, were you can link multiple items and compare facts about them. I realize this is what can be done with the tags.
It can be easier to see which programs are similar than coming up with a unique tag for them though.
Understand and fix your posture
Depends if it was an investment or a loan, but in this case I would agree with you that it was largely an investment
A fairly normal person might decide on New Year's Eve that, this year, everything is going to change. "I'm going to stop watching TV, I'm going to eat only healthy foods, get plenty of exercise, and spend 8 hours a day working towards my goals."

But, of course, that person won't do most or even any of those things in a sustained way. The reason is that the person's second order desires, feelings like the impulse to eat ice-cream or the urge to put off making a certain phone call or writing a particular program, those desires are almost always more powerful than first order desires (like goals or ideals).

That's because our behavior is ruled as much or more by subconscious motives as conscious ones, and those subconscious motives aren't governed by the decisions we make or the picture we have of the life we want. They're ruled by an imprint of your childhood, by habit, and by anxiety, depression, and so on.

Another easy example is addiction. It's not that most alcoholics don't want to stop drinking. They can't, because their second order desire to drink is much more powerful than their first order desire.

I've known this was true for me for some time, but this year I really came to understand it and see it happening throughout every day of the year. And I realized the extent to which this dynamic dominates most of the people I know, and how difficult or impossible it is for anyone to overcome their subconscious motives with conscious ones. It's very, very hard and very emotional work to address your subconscious and most people aren't interested in doing it. So the patterns that govern their lives just continue, and they can't gain any freedom from their own conflicts.
It's super preliminary, but if you're debugging the problem I suspect you're debugging by looking at the view hierarchy (iOS touch handling), this might be helpful: https://github.com/MaxGabriel/debugiOSTouchHandling/blob/mas...
I don't understand why you think it's instructive to compare government investments to venture capital. The government engages in plenty of investments, and none of them operate that way.
This blog post is worth reading. In it he apologizes for the book taking so long and expresses some regret for taking on the project in the first place:

"Ironically working on the book (or not working on it, however you look at it) actually compelled me to NOT blog more as every time I wanted to write a technical blog post I was forcing myself to make the decision “I’m writing about 1000 words on a technical matter, shouldn’t this just be going towards my uncompleted book?” and would just end up writing nothing as a result."
We are all looking for connection, and many don't find it, don't even know how to find it. Much of the technology in our modern world (television, web sites like Facebook, mobile phones) make this problem worse. That is, there is an economic incentive to drive us apart.
I think a lot of mediocrity comes from layered management. Line managers are driven by customer requirement. Executives by the board.

But middle managers are driven by ... nothing in particular. The only thing they have to optimize is budget and hitting schedules. SO they maximize their budget and minimize deliverables. Which is diametrically opposed to company objectives.

How to get them to behave better? I don't know, so I suggest lining all middle managers up in the parking lot, and firing a single bullet through all their heads. To optimize bullet costs.
This is not a business problem for me, it's a personal interest. This problem interested me because I noticed that there was very little correlation between how smart my friends were and the types of offers they received. And more broadly, I noticed that most interviewers will tend to over-weight negatives. Then I realized that I did the same thing, which got me thinking.

I'm not just trying to find talented programmers. I'm trying to address the more general problem of figuring out whether somebody is good at X. You're right that the easiest way to judge on a case-by-case basis is to ask known experts. But since this is/was a cognitive bias of mine, I'm trying to overcome it myself.

I have spent a lot of time, done plenty of reading, and spent my own money on this problem. Like you said, I actually have paid experts to give me advice on how to identify talented people their field. More frequently though, I'll network and ask in an informal setting. And as a result, I have managed to severely correct several biases I had, such as thinking that anyone who couldn't do basic Math must be not be very bright.

One thing that's relatively easy (i.e., only took me a few months of effort) is learning how to identify generally smart people who learn fast. (I would actually divide this into learning social systems quickly vs. learning technical systems quickly.) If two people are entering a field or starting a job at the same time, I can generally predict which one of them will learn faster after a 30 minute conversation. The biggest surprise was that very smart people can be catastrophically bad at things "normal people" would consider basic-like eating spaghetti or not offending their interviewer (or even realizing they'd offended someone.) Before I tended to assume that fast learners would be good at most things and exceptional at a few things.

A more challenging problem: say I meet a lawyer, or doctor, or anyone with a lot of experience in an area I don't know much about. How can I tell if they're genuinely good at what they do? So far, general intelligence + percentile-based accomplishments ("I boosted revenues by X which is better than 95% of marketers...") + asking them to walk through a real life situation has been my best predictor. I'll validate this by asking known experts afterwards or looking up the person's career track.

Even so, it's not a particularly good predictor, and asking a real expert works much better. But by looking at actual data, even if it's relatively weak and anecdotal, my ability to accurately judge competence has become much stronger over the last few years. I think this is something that most businesses could benefit from, but the more common response seems to be throwing up their hands and complaining about the lack of qualified people.

Edit: when I said "how we judge talent is actually one of the biggest problems", I should have specified "we as a society." It clearly came across as "we as a company", sorry about that.
Tutoring site I made for my laid-off work wife.
Many mmo's don't die, they just contract to a single server of active players that are profitable long after everyone else has forgotten about the game and development and bug fixes have stopped.

There seem to be a similar tiny minority of fans that could keep these Zynga games barely alive for much longer, so why isn't Zynga doing this? My guess is they view hardcore customers as suckers and would rather have them spending $20 a month on a new title with new content then $1 a month keeping a near dead title just over break even. Carrying the example math forward even if they lose 95% of these hardcores it's going to be worth it if they can move 5% of them to a new release.
The first thing you will need to get started with Lisp is a beard.
At the D.C. TechMeetup groups you can always expect to have a public policy aspect to the tech offerings the problem is the majority of these fail. As someone who works in the government and is part of the start-up culture, I can tell you: these attempts are typically terrible at coming up with ways to blend tech and bureaucracy. I have no idea why. Well, not no idea. I think the main hurdles are as follows:

1. The people who make the best change in industries or start-ups are people who have been working in it a while.

2. Few people who have worked in government are the types to become high-growth entrepreneurs. They exist but in general the mindsets are reciprocals.

3. It takes a long time (in start-up time) to understand how a federal/state/local government does things. Anyone who wants to make a mark from the outside isn't going to identify a problem/solution efficiently. So anyone who has a real solution has likely been in government for 5-10 years and is established in a comfortable position - not likely to break out. Not only that they probably have schooling in something political science-y/history/etc.. versus math/CS/physics

4. As a general rule, it takes a long time (infinitely long in start-up time) to actually get a federal/state/local government to implement anything. Part of this is by design and the other part is incompetence or ignorance because they have...

5. Really really poor understanding of how to implement technology. For example $25,000 for a shitty 4 page web 1.0 government website because that is what was budgeted and Booz Allen took the contract because...

6. ...they promised to make the whole thing comply with the IT requirements (ie: IE7 is the most recent browser) and security requirements.

So yea. It's kind of hard to solve tech problems for the government. Even moreso, having whole programs handed over from the government to a bunch of 18-30 year old's who haven't made all the right friends and gone to the right schools.
> If and when the line is fully automated someday... Until then, human operators can't reliably get the train cars to stop in the same place.

Note that it certainly is possible to consistently do very accurate stops with only unassisted human operators; Japanese rail operators have done this as a matter of course, AFAIK using simple visual alignment aids, for as long as I can remember. [Traditionally it's done because people are lined up at the door locations (marked on the platforms), not for platform barriers.]

It's more a matter of operating culture and training than technology.

[Of course changing the latter may be easier in NYC!]
That's an interesting perspective. Though it sounds like Dambisa Moyo is singling out "system aid" between governments, not all charitable/philanthropic giving.
I'm not telling anyone "Do what you want!" per se, and many people don't have a clear picture of what they want (of course most people just want simple things: they want to be loved most of all, to feel good about themselves, to feel safe, and to be free of stress and anxiety).

Instead I'm saying that even if you are, like me, a person who could write down exactly what you want, from the scale of your lifetime down to how you would like to spend each morning and evening, that clarity doesn't actually enable you to do any of those things.

I would love to wake up each morning and exercise for 20 minutes, cook a healthy breakfast with a small pot of tea, read the New York Times, and then watch the sun rise.

But I cannot do it. Not because it's hard, or because of its existential absurdity, or because it would require something that I don't have. I can't do it because my subconscious has other motives, like the motive to stay in bed until the anxiety of scheduled events compel me to leave it.

Psychology, in my opinion, does not seem designed for contemporary life, which makes many people's lives much more difficult than they need to be.
There are some city blocks in the Financial District where you're perpetually in the dark and are essentially in a wind tunnel due to the tall buildings. It's creepy as hell. :)

I presume that's mostly the reason.
Hooking startups up with these foreign investors would be a great startup in and of itself.
Carl R. Woese dies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_volition

Not a great entry but you get the idea.
I use PowerDNS too, but with BIND flat files as a backend. Setting up replication is even easier than MySQL: I just rsync the flat files from a central server to my 2 DNS servers whenever I make changes. PowerDNS automatically reloads the files based on their mtime.
Recognizing that fact is the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist or socialist.
Love your Job. Olark is hiring for Marketing Communications/PR
Yeah, I spotted that earlier today actually Max, I think it must have been something related to maintaining cocoapods. The library definitely has potential :)
Because the government chooses not to monetize and propertize them that way. In a very real sense, the government has ownership rights to a massive amount of valuable stuff and writes it off their books every year.

The easiest example is how logging rights in federal lands are basically given away for near-free rather than sold at a market rate for a profit to the government.
The article describes why scrubs don't happen often enough: it's slow and disruptive. I have a 3-way RAID-1 /home partition (long story) and it's checked on the first Sunday of the month. I always remember this because I can tell from the performance of my workstation that something is up with the disk. This is with operations like a single thread running "ls". If you're running a production service, you're also going to notice, and you're also going to have more than 3TB of drive to scan. That makes running regular scans rather difficult.
Hah, very meta, good idea to start with man's manpage, then work your way from there. Best of luck to you.
As these are reader submitted, I thought I would mention that I've just released a library for dealing with multiple analytics providers with a single API: https://github.com/orta/ARAnalytics
I don't think he was implying that everyone with an HR is a drone. I believe he was referring to the HR industry's less inspired members.
How To Learn To Code In 2013
I do a lot of Go development on lots of ARM boards and I find that on the Raspberry Pi (the 512M model anyway) the Go compiler is quick enough on the actual device that there's not much point to cross-compiling, at least if you're running Raspbian/Linux (based on Dave Cheney's post here it sounds like things aren't quite as nice in FreeBSD due to various kernel issues).

On my old chumby boards, though, which are hamstrung for memory, I do cross-compile (in Windows!) and then rsync the resulting binary over, which is a much quicker turn around than compiling on the device and yes, the cross-compile system in Go is absolutely delightful compared to C/C++ toolchain hell.
One thing I'd love to see if you embark and stick to this new year's resolution is creating a blog post per man page with all the exercises and examples you tried out by applying what you've learned from each man page. It'd be great if each post included something like:

(1) What is the command
(2) What kinds of things you can accomplish with it
(i.e. why should I learn this command? how will
it benefit me)
(3) Examples of the command applied by itself
(4) Examples of the command applied in conjunction with
commands you've previously written about via piping.
Yes, exactly.

Just as a simple example, Nancy Pelosi might retire in the next few years (I'm skeptical that D's are going to retake the house in 2014), if that's the case where is the developer/entrepreneur candidate for that seat?
Through the Woods
The underpinning idea in US governance is the idea that if you don't like the society you live in you can build a new one a little further out west.

And this is also the basic root of most of what's wrong with the United States. There is not always another Western frontier freshly depopulated by mutated smallpox.
Early adopter stops using service as service becomes mainstream.
Off topic: I love how this was just typed up in a text file. I love using my text editor for writing and I wish more people I worked with did too.
I would not have believed this if I hadn't helped a friend shop for a car recently. It was surreal to both of us that his only hard requirement was a manual transmission and, despite visiting every dealership we could find, few had them at all.

Interesting note: Be very careful about believing a dealer's website or phone description of a car as a "manual." We ran into multiple dealerships that misidentified paddle shift or "manumatic"/"tiptronic" cars as manuals.

He ended up with an RX-8, but that's an entirely different set of stories... :)