skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP pretty much sums up exactly my experience working remotely at mozilla (and previously couchbase).

I did write about it previously, not as well though - http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html
This is the third holiday season in a row I've seen blog posts about the future of games on the web on HN that effectively ignore flash. Each year, flash portals such as Kongregate.com have grown into even larger juggernauts, even growing on a percentage basis on Alexa (http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/touchgallery#/contrejour). And each year, I've seen various examples of "incredible" html5 games put forward that would have difficulties even getting 3.5 stars out of 5 on kong or newgrounds.

This is beginning to feel like a ritual HN ceremony!

That isn't to say, JS-based games aren't progressing. They are for sure. Most notably on a platform the article didn't mention-- facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto ?
OK, as a former professional athlete this piece is, as usual, half-smart and largely uninformed (and hugely frustrating).

Important points:

1 - Don't confuse a "health club" with a gym.
2 - Don't confuse a "personal fitness trainer" with an athletic trainer.
3 - Most of all.... Don't confuse Performance and Results.

If you actually really care about Performance and training - I would suggest you start by learning the fundamentals of training. You MUST own your own training. And to do that you need to be informed. The author obviously didn't do any of this work as he just ran from "expert" to "expert" rather than taking personal responsibility. A simple rule of thumb.... if you're not talking about periodization, you're working with the wrong person (and doing it wrong).

Kevin Brown was one of the best PTs on the west coast and I'm incredibly fortunate to have worked with him. He was a huge loss to the community, and to his friends and family. But he wasn't the sort of 'holy man' that is implied in this piece. Unlike everyone else who the author worked with throughout his efforts, Kevin was just a highly skilled, highly trained, athletic performance professional. These people exist throughout the athletic world - including working as trainers.

So make the effort.

1 - Educate yourself on performance and athletic training principles.

2 - Fine a serious professional and work with them.

If you're not up for the above - then accept that you're not going to get the "magical" results you dream of. That's life.

Oh... and a fundamental flaw throughout this piece is the idea that there is some sort of "shortcut" to high performing physical fitness and athletic performance. Other than using PEDs there is no shortcut. And even PEDs are only effective if you ALSO take no shortcuts in your training.
He's not bothered - it's an experiment for both of us. If it works out then I'll see him right, but there's no point in hashing out some lengthy agreement if it doesn't bring in the bucks.
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It's also by far the best looking of the bunch!
Before modern life, we had plenty of opportunity to urinate well before it became a serious problem.

If we were intelligently designed, after all, I think God would call holding it for hours a "user error" and mark it "won't fix".
Well, exactly - if there was more incentive for wind power, that number would be much higher.
I used Google Reader for years and years as a central repository for all of the webcomics i read.

I switched to Newsblur this year and haven't looked back. It definitely has a better take on sharing.
Interesting.

What's Instacart's range/pricing like? Would you say they're closer to a higher price/smaller range inner city convenience store, or do they have a lower price/larger range like an out-of-town big box retailer?
The primary line of reasoning is that a buckshot shell is going to pack more force than a handgun (12-gauge #00 buckshot is 1.2k-3k ft/lbs of force spread out over 9 pellets, depending on the shell and weapon versus ~500 ft/lbs of force from a .40 handgun round), but because it's spread out over multiple pellets, it will be more easily stopped or slowed by walls or other obstructions, reducing the chances of a round penetrating a wall and harming a bystander. Additionally, a shotgun requires far less precise aiming to operate effectively, specifically because of the physics of it being a short-range weapon. Since most people don't have training in precisely aiming and firing guns in high-stress situations, a weapon that requires less precision to use effectively is going to be much more useful if you ever did find yourself in a situation that you needed to use it.

A shorter barrel would obviously be more maneuverable, but shotguns must have a minimum barrel length of 18" by law, specifically in order to prevent them from being easily concealed.
Keep in mind there was no social security in 1922. And life expectancy actually hasn't risen that much among the poorer classes, eg see http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/workingpapers/wp108.html

Money has lead to health and prosperity for more, but the poor remain in the lot of our ancestors.
Being a programmer doesn't mean you have to be excited by programming languages in and of themselves; and not wanting to learning Haskell doesn't make you a 'mediocre programmer', it just means you have different fascinations than those that enjoy that sort of thing.

A parallel - I'm a 'designer', but I hate the idea of shipping PSDs for someone else to code. I love diving into the programming rabbit hole, but again I have no interest in being the best Rails & JS guy in the world, I just like to realise the interactions I design as code rather than flat files.

There's wealth of things to do with code inside startups that don't involve Erlang, as there are a wealth of things to do with design skills that don't involve Photoshop.

(that's not to say you shouldn't just move to a beach in Thailand or work on a farm or something, but if you enjoy technology you should explore other options that are only a slight pivot rather than a total life change)
This is utter nonsense. Spend even a small amount of time with someone who works outside of the computer hardware/software industry and observe how and why they use a smart phone or computer. UI walkthroughs are not only necessary, but desired. They act as the equivalent of standing next to someone and "showing" them how something works. As the OP correctly notes there is a very heavy reliance on mimicry for most learning.

Visual cues are nice, and even desired, but gentle introductions outlining how to get started are as well.
You seem to be outraged by the idea that these legal theories lead to the conclusion that the president can torture children. That idea has been discussed in several legal and political circles, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo#Regarding_torture_of_d...
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I was wondering about that. Why would the author want to mask the name of the service in question?
The advantage of ambiguity
I've recently found The Old Reader: http://theoldreader.com/

Feels like greader would be if they kept driving it forward. They also do an import of all your greader feeds in one step, so I was able to just drop-in replace greader.
No, I'm reacting to the fact that you didn't even read my comment, but instead assumed that anyone who would take issue with the way you constructed an argument must believe in Yoo and Addington's interpretation of the Constitution. Just stop digging.
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Fever looks interesting. However, the video that walks through installing recommends changing the permissions on a folder and its contents (complete with executable code) to 777.

O_O

Not sure I trust you with my feeds.
Yup! Turkey has placed high in the world-wide rankings for growth throughout the '00s, despite the financial crises happening on its doorstep. It's interesting, because when EU negotiations began, the attitude was very much "poor little Turkey is looking to the rest of Europe for help" and the EU was playing the part of reluctant partner. Today, most Turks are against EU membership, but the EU has been making more and more efforts to prevent negotiations from breaking off. (I wouldn't say that the EU wants Turkey to join...and even if they did I don't think it would be possible for most EU members to admit to wanting Turkey to join.)
> I'll gladly agree that Europe is gloriously diverse, but you really should stop underestimating American cultural diversity.

Same differences exist in Europe in particular countries. Mountainers in Poland have different culture from Silesians, or Kashubi. Kashubi have different language, too. And Poland is one of the least diverse countries in Europe thanks to Stalin forced expulsions.

Switzerland has smaller population than New York City, and still have 3 official languages (or 4, depending on how you count). And there are countries in western Europe that have serious separatist movements. More serious than Texas.

People all over the world watch Hollywood movies, so we know at least something about cultural diversity of USA. People in USA don't know anything about smaller countries in Europe, so they assume it's all the same. Availability heuristic.

I think that it makes it more probable for people in USA to underestimate Europe diversity than the other way around.
the legacy codebase refactoring is likely harder than designing new algorithm and all.
Does Walmart or Target not deliver? In the UK all the large supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S, Asda) let you order online and deliver to your house. They actually just get someone to go round a supermarket and pick the stuff off the shelves.
We sell on Amazon, eBay, Sears, buy.com and newegg, and have been almost dounling our sales year over year. Weve learned this year that the shipping cost advantage of fulfilled by Amazon is just insane - and we already get significant UPS discounts.
This question assumes that people have some sort of innate passion or obscure talent that they wish to pursue, which is not always the case. For instance, I have no objectives in life other than to maximize income and leisure, and to pursue ends that necessitate said money. If I did not need money, I would sit home all day drinking coffee and reading voraciously. I think many other people have similar desires. Not everyone is happy pursuing some arcane dream for little-to-no money.
"I don't know anyone who likes to code for the sake of writing code."

I have a different perspective to offer. I found that for a fair few years in my teens, I loved writing code for the sake of writing code. Any project would do, and it didn't even matter if I finished it, I just loved writing the code.

I don't think the fact that I failed to finish most projects impeded my learning much. I learnt an unbelievable amount, and didn't even realise it because I was having so much fun.
From your link:

> On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup.

To be more precise, this is only true for non-ARM systems. This is evil, since it's entirely possible to have an ARM desktop/laptop, and I really hope there's some kind of anti-trust legislation here. At least Apple offers a way to boot into an alternative OS, even though it is still a bit locked down.
You're not kidding. Although I don't doubt there are propaganda teams on many sides that patrol the internet, I have a hard time imagining that these come from one, except possibly as part of a weird bluff. They're so bad that there's no way they'd actually cause positive feelings toward China. My bet is that some small group of regular Chinese internet users found this comment thread and are going to town. Their language is much like any typical jigoistic crap you'll find scattered all over the internet from many different countries.
you're completely passing over the fact that there are people with illegitimate grievances, the response to which genuinely should be "well, don't use rails then". i thought dhh's post provided a good analogy for people who don't get that on a software stack level to relate to.
Ask HN: Why did Poke fail while Snapchat succeeded?
I looked at the App Store top charts today and noticed that Facebook Poke was no longer listed, while Snapchat is currently at #4. On top of that, even searching for Facebook Poke puts the actual Poke app as the #4 result. For a moment, I even thought the app had been entirely pulled.

Does anybody have any theories for why Facebook's app failed so quickly? Did users realize that Snapchat was the original and decide to support it (seems unlikely), or is there another reason? I can't seem to find any information about this.
You're right - people get confused between a UI's learnability vs it's usability. Just because you need to ramp up on something initially doesn't mean it's hard to use over time.

Plus a new feature can get lost or ignored by people already familiar with an existing interface, so it needs it's own little mini walkthrough just so it'll get noticed. Here's an example of Facebook's mini popups focused on a single new feature:

http://cl.ly/image/3a3c1z2f0j21

I've built wizards of various kinds over the years and I call them "training wheels". The trick is to make it so they can start pedaling on their own relatively quickly, rather than using it as a catch-all where you dump every possible use case.
I wonder if we will see Amazon as a competitor to FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL?
If a team is using different versions/runtimes of ruby I would have to agree this is an organizational feature in some cases. If you're working on a webapp you should be aiming to make as few differences between a development box & production as possible. Its unlikely that you have jruby & mri in production, wherein lies the failure.
If you have to be taught how to drive a car, they blew it.
Nah. English is an easy language, taught in a vast majority of high schools in Europe, the Northerners already all speak it perfectly, it has Latin roots and Germanic roots, it's fairly neutral, used by the US and Canada and is so far the de facto language of business. We should invest in English.

I've wanted English to be a mandatory second language after your native one in all of Europe for a while.

Also creating languages never works, see Esperanto and all those ridiculous lab-synthetized languages that pretend to solve all the problems and all end up showing the very same bias it was trying to avoid in the first place (Esperanto for example is WAY easier for a romance-family speaker than for say a dude from Poland).
Online grocery shopping is more developed in the UK than any other major market. A large part of it is the London effect where you have a large number of middle-class shoppers who don't have cars in close proximity to each other, that makes the economics vastly better for the supermarkets.
"I love technology. But coding just doesn't exite me. ... I just enjoy playing with the latest [...] product, watching TV, and reading Hacker News. What kind of life is that?"

Have you considered something in systems administration?
I am stating two things:

1) Americans generalize.

Defense: Everybody does, it should be no suprise that Americans are no exception. You really want data on this?

2) Americans, for the most part, do not think that all of Africa is "Africa-y", nor that all of Asia is "Asia-y", nor that all of Europe is "Europey".

Defense: Suggestions otherwise are absurd. If you disagree, you provide the data.
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software defined radio would be a good bet for that.
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Nitpicking: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other satelittes of USSR weren't really independent. Certainly not in same way that UK or France were allies of USA. Maybe Yugoslavia was independent, but others for sure not.

Moscow made all the decisions, elections were rigged, there were uprisings, etc, etc. I know you probably know that, but just in case.
An uncle of mine was in a situation like this once. He was sitting in first class and had to tend to someone in economy class. He decided that it would be best that he stayed by the man he was tending to so my uncle swapped seats with the man's wife. They gave him a bottle of wine for his help but I would have expected something more.
Looking at his list, it seems that he is merely dividing Europe into West and East, no Centre. What's Northern Europe? What's Southern Europe?
What is the minimum lease period?
People keep repeating that like it's some commercial gimmick, but what does it really mean? How is Rails or rails-api not suited for APIs? What's lightweight? What's easy?

And more particularly since you seem to know about this, what other option would you favor?
While this may be nice - it's only a partial solution. Anybody can take a photo of screen from device #1 with camera from device #2. Nothing can prevent that.
That's actually my point.

A lot of Europeans would answer, "I'd have to take the train (or the plane)," because they would think about the nearest country, not the nearest janitor.
not arguing, but your post made me think.
When europeans talk about americans, do they mean north, south, both, or USA citizens ?
I tweaked my Google Reader to get back the functions that were dropped out. You can read more here: http://tek-that.blogspot.com/2012/10/getting-good-old-note-i...

Note sure if it helps, but thought I would share it..
What a load of broad sweeping nonsense. UI walkthroughs are perfectly valid for many apps. A lot of interesting software these days (read: disruptive) is introducing new concepts for accomplishing old tasks. Walkthroughs accomplish a lot more than just making up for bad design.
How is the salary at these remote-only places? Living just above the poverty line* would mean a salary of ~$45k in Norway.

I would love to work at such a company--preferably one with a flat organization structure--to get a glimpse of a possible future. But I'm not entirely sure how it would make sense financially for either party.

*Using the EUs definition of relative poverty at 60% of the country's median income.
I find it interesting that development products/projects are probably the only place where no one will allow you to have a valid opinion as a non-contributing user. And people will defend this lunacy to amazing extremes, presumably because it's easier to tell everyone to fuck off than to filter and respond to the valid points.

I find this a bit disappointing because in any other situation, feedback and constructive criticism is welcome and typically acted on, even if you weren't involved in the production process. You might not be listened to, but you won't be silenced by your peers.

To use the silly analogy in the OP: you don't need to be a chef to say the food tastes like shit.
Bullshit. Fake it till you make it, huh?

Don't believe this bullcrap people. This person is lying to get covered by Hacker News and similar sites. I bet he didn't make $500 in total.
You can get a USB-OTG cable and connect your regular controller to your phone, mine works fine.
Makes sense, the usage is probably common in the language of countries with recent colonial ties to the UK.
This picture is quite true. The company I work for (Danish company) have little to no issue getting into the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Baltic and Icelandic markets. While we are not the same (although I am hoping for a Nordic Federation coming up!), our markets and policies are generally similar.

But right now we are trying to get in on the German markets (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), and that is a lot harder. First of all, German companies are very reluctant to purchase anything from a non-German company (if you are not German, you need an address in Germany, that's for sure), and secondly, they require that the product is in German (both itself and the manual).

The internal markets of the EEC is making a lot of things a lot easier than it was 20 or 30 years ago. But it is nowhere as easy as moving across state line in the US (or even to Canada).
Well, this is entertaining.
I was referring to your specific examples (Budapest, Egypt, Africa) as well as your thesis (Americans have certain finer-grained generalizations).

Not saying your conclusions are incorrect, just that your only data point is yourself, even though you phrase your comments as though you had tons of data. Everything else is just speculation, gut feeling, pop psychology, outright invention etc.
Germany has an incredible amount of wind power, almost to the point of saturation. They are in the process of upgrading old ones to be more efficient instead of creating more. Here are some numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country
you know, while i don't talk to people like that (and especially not in public), i have considerable sympathy for linus's position there. it is clearly a deeply held philosophical belief of his that kernel changes should not break working userspace code, and here is someone who is evidently a long-standing kernel maintainer trying to blame a user app for breaking against a technically bad kernel patch.

i'm betting he made that mail public very deliberately, as a way of telling the world at large that as kernel dictator he would not tolerate his "staff" treating users like that.
It was:

* in 2011

* contracted out to a corporation called Ntrepid, see more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntrepid

* worth $2.76M

* targeted non-US websites to counter-act extremist propaganda

That is hardly representative of the US military rather than pet project, let's stop the fear mongering.
My guess is that everyone who would use either app was using Snapchat and saw no reason to switch. The idea isn't compelling enough to draw in new users, so Poke failed.
Good-bye books, nice to have known you, hello e-books
Such a thing doesn't exist.

For one, neither Beidou nor Galileo are operational GNSSes, so there is no economic incentive to create receivers that work with those services.

Also, the Chinese government only just today published Beidou's ICD, the document that specifies the open-access Beidou signals: http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3331
> His contrast of personal liability for entrepreneurs in Europe with the essential absence of any such liability in America is true.

Not sure what you refer to here since as far as I know most European countries have provided limited liability companies to entrepreneurs since the 19th century. I know for sure Sweden has has them since 1848.

EDIT: Read the original article and it seemed to talk about failure to pay social charges for employees being a criminal liability. That may or may not be the case in Spain, but at leats in Sweden it is no different from failing to pay salaries in general. If you cannot pay what you owe you have to bankrupt your company and the government will pay the salaries. If they think you did it for fraudulent reasons they might press charges against you personally, but that is rare.
Gold's Gym on Shoreline in Mountain View next to Google. $20/month and plenty of barbells for the serious lifter.
I participated in one such example of this oversight (most fun test I ever did).

We were hired by a Special Master that Congress appointed to conduct a pen test against a branch of the DoI without their knowledge[1]

[1] As part of this class action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobell_vs._Salazar
I'm curious how soon mobile phones will have so many tuners that SDR is worth it. A typical phone now has what, 4 GSM bands, 3 UMTS bands, 3 LTE bands, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, GLONASS, FM Radio, 1seg, NFC...
Why on earth do you think it's failed less than a week after it came out? Also, App Store search is known to be terrible.
You've to ask him for that, not me!