skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's first worth having policies that recognize the modern knowledge worker. Unlimited vacation, hardware budgets, a results-only work environment, optional meetings. No company bullshit. Etc. That way folks won't go "maybe a vacation will help" - because you've already done it.

Of course, that is just removing roadblocks. That's not an active measure. You should be having weekly one on ones with all direct reports (and so on up and down the chain). Rarely when a coworker quits is it completely unexpected. At some point a switch is flipped from "not going to even consider it" to "sure, I'll talk to recruiters." And then the clock starts ticking. In some ways, the organization has already lost if it got to that point.

Raises and titles are not the only thing that drives people; I'd probably argue that's the worst sort of extrinsic motivation. If a bigger title is all that keeps someone working there, you've already failed. As a manager it's your job to know what motivates your people and help get them there accordingly.
I'm legitimately curious for my own early-stage CEO sake: why did you have to ask the board just to promote them?

EDIT: nvm, on re-read, I see you were just asking for feedback. I wasn't sure if you needed permission from your board to promote to CMO, etc.
The email featured in the article bothers me. First line: "If either were to come to us with a competing offer, we'd work with all our might to keep them". Then, almost in the same breath "They're fairly compensated, IMO." Cognitive dissonance, anyone?
I definitely noticed the distracting nature other comments have mentioned of having a constantly available Internet connection today. I saw that FX was showing "Monsters vs. Aliens" late last night. I had not seen it, so DVRed it. I started watching this evening.

Early in the movie, a character is excited about the chance for an anchorman job at a Fresno TV station. His fiancée says she thinks Fresno is a top 50 market. He tells her it is #55.

It took a tremendous act of will on my part to not hit pause and grab my iPad to check to see if they got Fresno's rank right.
I'd love to hear from the community -- what are your favorite debugging tools?
Others have contributed good answers to this question in your sub-thread, so I will just clear this up for you:

domain tool - a tool which can be applied to, and adjusted according to the needs of the domain of your application. You can embed the Lua VM in your 'broader application' and use it as an internalized scripting language. If, for example, you've got a C/C++ program which sorts apples, you can export those apples, with bindings, into the Lua VM and reference them from the Lua language as apples, just the same ..

board-spectrum scripting language - python, perl, lua. Each of these can be (usually) found in /usr/bin somewhere, as a single executable that can be used to run the language scripts. Lua has a part in this role too - I frequently write system-admin scripts using #!/usr/bin/lua, but in this particular case I don't have any 'customizations' - I get only whats built-in to the Lua executable as shipped by my distribution.

But, beyond this, I could take the Lua VM and build my own domain tool with it. See the difference now?
I think he meant more generally. ARC, as a general algorithm, has killed the need for garbage collection, as a general algorithm [I]anywhere[/I]. As supposed to what you're saying: ARC, Apple's implementation of ARC, has persuaded Apple to abandon their GC implementation. These are two very different meanings (but yes, in Apple's case ARC has killed GC because of particular characteristics and needs of Apple's developer toolchain and environment).
the f_0000x files are different resources, the first one is a PNG file, the next few appear to be javascript. None of them however are archived or encrypted in any format.
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Online dating is just like online marketing
Imprisonment of journalists worldwide reached a record high in 2012
If that is working, then it is because they did a great job in content creation, not because of some fancy business strategy.

I was trying to subscribe to NYT months ago because a wonderful piece they did and I thought I should offer my share of respect. Unfortunately I tried with Paypal many times for about one hour and still couldn't get the payment through. Then I gave up.
How private are your Facebook settings?
I don't think it will be perceptible to most people - the cost of goods will rise relative to their usual decline, but it will still be a decline.
Once you see the strength gains tapering off, go into a cut phase - eating less than maintenance calories - and you'll see aesthetic gains to rival your strength and confidence gains.
This post convinced me to get off my butt, and better learn the Unix tools that I have available. I hope there are some follow up posts going into the specifics of each tool.
It would seem like it since it has libcef which contains the definition for 'cef_browser_create'. Furthermore, it seems that they have added other Javascript libraries into it like CKEditor (http://ckeditor.com/)
@fpgeek,
Can you please elaborate, what was so painful?
It's 40 pounds of muscle, give or take (at most) a couple of pounds of increased bone mass. I take weekly caliper-based readings of body fat percentage, which has fallen by over 10% in the last 6 months. Overall I've gained 20 pounds while losing 20 pounds of fat.
Yes, you can write some functionality in C/C++, and export it to the Lua VM, and access those features from within the Lua language environment. This is really awesome!

A really good example for you is MOAI: http://getmoai.com/

Look underneath the covers (i.e. build MOAI from sources) and you'll see all of the techniques I'm promoting, albeit in an open, easy to understand - and DAMNED POWERFUL - form.

MOAI is a cross-platform game development toolkit, but since its been designed by talented engineers with great ideas, it could as easily be used to build a next-generation Operating System, akin to what is happening with Android and the Dalvik VM.

The Linux Kernel + MOAI(Lua) would be a formidable challenger to the Android eco-system, imho, given a little more love .. I've already gotten my rPi booting directly to the MOAI runtime, anyway, and its a much more fun way of writing apps for the thing than anything else right now, at least in my opinion. With the advantage that those same apps, with very, very little effort, will run on Windows, Linux, OSX .. iOS .. Android .. Chrome Native Client .. and so on ..

MOAI is an example of the ways in which the LuaVM can actually fulfill the promises made back in the Java honeymoon days ..
As a manager it's your job to know what motivates your people and help get them there accordingly.

And keep them motivated, all the time, every day, every week, which you imply in the previous paragraph but I feel needs to be repeated explicitly.

I recently just accepted a new job which is better for a variety of reasons, but there really was no reason I should have been looking for a new job given what I was doing at the time I resigned. I had sent my resume out months ago when my now former team started disbanding during a shakeup, leaving me as the only developer on the team. The implications of having a development team with no developers should be obvious.
PiCloud dev here.

The IPython notebook feature itself is comparable to other offerings. The advantage of PiCloud's offering is that it is not just a web-based python; it also is the interface to a supercomputer that you can leverage with the cloud library (http://www.picloud.com/platform/). As long as you wish to make use of that supercomputer, the notebook allows you to run an interactive interpreter on your already configured PiCloud environment.

As far as security goes, every user is run in separate LXC containers. (http://lxc.sourceforge.net/)
I think you may have broken your own first rule ;)

http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/35-so-you-wanna-be-a-freelan...
I actually think we're just at the very beginning of the information revolution. The reason growth seems to have slowed is that we experienced a hype bubble. People (correctly) predicted that a globally connected network of pervasive computers would fundamentally change every industry, it just looks like it's going to take 50 or 100 years, not 5 or 10.

At the turn of the millenium people got tired of waiting and the speculative markets fell apart.

But the engineering continues. The friction separating the world's information is in mid-collapse, but the actual diffusion has barely even started.
You can almost sense Google doing something right finally!
I'm surprised it didn't create the buzz it actually deserves, IMO the most underrated new product of 2012.
In my experience, companies that find themselves in the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” situation are rarely ever prepared to actually do what it would take to keep you there. The very next sentence out of their mouths is usually "but only management is eligible for that level of..."
Start with -just- the bar.

Or get Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe, which has about 70 pages of instructions and diagrams on the correct form of each lift.

Or find a gym that has a personal trainer willing to teach you the proper form.

Or do it, record yourself with a camera of some sort, and find a community of weightlifting people (/r/fitness welcomes this) to correct your form.
The cost of goods might not even rise. Employees who are stressed, overworked and in pain probably have higher defect rates and turnover than employees who are treated more humanely.
Apple will find it really hard to better this!
Write a nice, clean C library and export a decent header. Then, use the tolua tool to read that header and generate the bindings for the Lua VM. Build the LuaVM with those bindings, and suddenly you have the features of your C library available to you within the Lua language environment.

There are some great tutorials on this, here are a few I found with google-fu:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/BindingCodeToLua

http://csl.sublevel3.org/lua/

http://www.nicolasgoles.com/2012/08/03/lua-tutorial---c-bind...

http://www.gandogames.com/2011/01/tutorial-using-luabind-to-...

I think you will see, once you study the above, that there is a vast amount of power available to you. The Lua VM, written itself in pure C, is an utter joy to behold, and I encourage every new C programmer to inspect the Lua VM sources (its only about 12 files..) and see for yourself just what it has to offer you. C+Lua can be a very, very powerful tool .. and anyone learning C today would benefit greatly from also doing some Lua bindings, themselves, to see what I mean ..
In denial on God. It's okay. This will end badly for you.

God says...

7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with
God.

7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I
give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be
faithful.

7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I
say, that it is good for a man so to be.

7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin
marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in
the flesh: but I spare you.

7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that
both they that have wives be as though they had none; 7:30 And they
that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though
they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away.

----

God says...
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element nostrils narrowly bought watery important unjustly
crisis interpose sorrowfulness clearness cheered mangled
divinity gates horrendous cry Essence
I really don't like the trend of apps installing to the user profile. Chrome does this too, and I think it's a mistake.

I'm still using Thunderbird because I can't find a nice client with true threading (not the 'conversation threading' that seems to be popular recently). This client appears to be no exception.
Not many people knew of Google Now. I was surprised why Google didn't go overboard to publicize it.
Hopefully one day you would want to apply the rule of law to the lowly non-Americans and not kill them with a remote control button but ask for a trial of any criminals if there is any evidence incriminating them.

BTW what do you think of the recent "media confirmation" of a successful strike on terrorists in Yemen which later turned out to be a murder of ALL innocent civilians and not one militant? 11 lowly Yemenis were "liberated" from life within seconds and more died later on the same day. Now the entire village is ready to join the bad guys to seek revenge of the murder of innocent women, children and regular folks.

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/26/yemen-fears-backlash-as-d...
"In early September, Yemeni officials sought to bury stories about a US drone strike killing 14 civilians in an attack on a highway by insisting they were actually their own warplanes that launched the attack. Eventually, the truth came out."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/19/newtown-...

"Consider this irony: Monday was the three-year anniversary of President Obama's cruise missile and cluster-bomb attack on al-Majala in Southern Yemen that ended the lives of 14 women and 21 children: one more child than was killed by the Newtown gunman. In the US, that mass slaughter received not even a small fraction of the attention commanded by Newtown, and prompted almost no objections (in predominantly Muslim nations, by contrast, it received ample attention and anger)."
The "citation needed" is one of my favorite know-it-all, over-objective "hacker" sort of memes. It's just hilarious. Not everything that is true or helpful has or needs a citation. Are you really asking for a citation to a controlled study that measures readability of a flat and not flat designs?

And more than that, if you disagree, don't pretend to ask for a citation, just explain why you disagree. Most likely, even if you can't admit it, you'll find that you don't disagree, you are just misinterpreting.

In this case, the statement is

- an opinion based on experience

- obviously true

- coupled with an example anyways

In addition, the statement is relative, allowing for successful designs that are flat. So examples of readable flat designs are irrelevant to the truth of the statement.

You probably received down votes because "citation needed" is lazy, uninformative, uninteresting, and, in this case, wrong.
Perfectionists Are Often The Best At 'The Art Of Procrastination'
I can't recommend the slim template engine enough.

http://slim-lang.com
The difference is that there's a limit on the "free work", and it's on my own terms. I'm already running a self-sustaining business (contributing to my savings rather than living off them), so giving out some free work to get interesting projects won't kill me. It will, however, help me to stay sane.
The Typographica link has a great collection too!
One more worthy mention would be Behance - http://www.behance.net/search?search=font
Zomato, on that list, is a living example - http://zomato.com
That is quite cool! I wrote a JVM for the PalmPilot in 1998:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mcdirmid/ghost/

Lots of fun fitting the 1.0.2 class libraries into 180K (out of 256K available, needed some space to run in!).
Never thought of that. Should try it myself.
Did you still like the UI after disabling styles? Won't that look a bit awkward?
From my reading of it, that email is in fact written by the author (Rand Fishkin).

In any case, I have to admit that in most situations if I were given a new title without an accompanying raise or bonus, I'd consider it to be somewhat patronizing and it would have the opposite impact of what the author here is suggesting.

Of course, YMMV. I'm a programmer and I don't care much about specific titles.
That's a good one! I would click on that.
Trippy optical illusion
This is a great point. One of the best things you can do to quickly build a friendship is ask for a small favor. Borrowing a book or asking for advice are good examples. I think this only works when the cost to the favor-giver is small and the value for the favor-receiver is large.

I love it when I can save someone 4 hours with a few minutes of effort. It feels great and triggers "warm fuzzies." That's why posting on sites like Stack Overflow or Quora is so addictive. But if someone asks me to spend two hours on something that would take them the same amount of time, it feels more like an obligation.
The difference between crazy and genius is sometimes just the final outcome.

What to do when the outcome is mostly determined by luck?

These books and articles are just cloudspotting. They see a bunny rabbit, I see a lucky skunk.
As a CEO, many of the scariest days I've faced have been those when a critical member of our team told us they were leaving the company. Your heart sinks...

I'm always happy to hear that a company values their employees, and takes a proactive approach to keep them happy. I'm also surprised how little some companies do on that same front, and only scramble to analyze pay, work conditions, etc. after an employee has announced they're leaving. By then it's too late.

One case that sticks out for me was a few years back when a brilliant lead dev I know left the company he was working for. I knew the company's work conditions weren't favorable, he didn't have a job title worthy of what he was doing day to day, and after hearing the salary he was being paid (about half a typical market-rate salary at the time), my only question was why he hadn't left earlier.

So I think a lot of companies encourage their employees to leave without even knowing it. Or even worse, they know they're shortchanging them on some level and gamble on fear or ignorance in hopes that said employees feel they're getting a fair deal. I believe this to be the case with the example I cited above, and am glad the lead dev has since found a company with much better work conditions across the board.
It is better. C++ is not what the creator of OO had in mind. (Smalltalk is).
Anecdata: when I left my last job, I made it clear I wasn't asking for a raise or match. I was leaving, very sorry to do so, but if someone tried to hold me hostage for a raise, I'd fire them.
Non-sequitur and False equivalence.
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yeah....thanks for that.
CSS: Logo of our time
Why not work on your own project and try to escape the monotony of freelance work?
"capable of doing virtually everything Thunderbird, etc. can -- and in some cases more"

Dude, just no. Don't be one of those founders. Don't get drunk off your own Koolaid. I'm a heavy daily thunderbird user with 10 accounts and at this point in time, with this release, Thunderbird literally does everything better than Inky. Everything. From account setup, to available options, to information density, plugins, sorting collumn options, UI and collumn flexibility, customization, massive options, and about 35 other things. Email is broken not because it isn't pretty, it's broken because there's too much email, too much spam, and a lack of good threading. Common let's be honest, you made email pretty. You mac-afied it. Took out Spam filter and replaced it with Relevant/Not Relevant.

Your design, name, logo, URL are amazing.

However, Inky couldn't connect to my custom domain inboxes like support@mywebsitename.com and hangs on the "discover settings" page even after I specify the pop and smtp settings. Gmail works fine though. I'm sure you'll fix that quick so I'm not judging you on it.

Also, Inky has a bad case of the "looks over functionality" flu and "hide everything off the screen and call it minimalization" disease that's been going around. Information density is really low. Every message takes up too much space. With thunderbird my inbox fills up my whole monitor and I could skim through my entire inbox in 15 seconds. With Inky every little message takes up so much visual room it takes forever to check my mail. And everything takes more clicks than usual to complete. And clickable icons like checkboxes etc... are too small.

Not to mention, where is the spam button?

If you sing on your own merrits you'll always find fans, but when you compare yourself to Whitney Houston you're just asking for a backlash. Likewise, had you not compared Inky to Thunderbird you would have been fine.
The 5 biggest tech failures of 2012
Pretty sure if you speak to the tap in parselmouth it starts shooting out water.
love playing with this on the desktop...any hope of an iOS client anytime soon?
> Unlimited vacation, hardware budgets, a results-only work environment, optional meetings. No company bullshit.

Aside: I've become convinced unlimited vacation policies are a bad idea at scale. Everywhere I've seen them applied, they lead to less vacationing for the people who need it most: the eternally stressed and overworked who feel like the world will end in their absence or that they will get dinged or plain fired in their next performance review if they're not always in the office. You don't need to force people to take a vacation, but the old system of assigning them a fixed number of yearly days with some sort of limited rollover strikes a good balance I see no reason to upset. A system based on firm expectations can still accommodate exceptional events like honeymoons.
Even easier than that is just to not eat those calories in the first place.

With resistance training you are not trying to burn calories, you are building muscle. This new muscle will need calories to support itself and will make it easier to lose fat in the future because your body will need more calories to function.
Not necessarily - they've got branding deals going on, notably with CocaCola and distilleries. I'm sure restaurants also pay handsomely to be featured on the city homepages.
I just got a Fire as a gift. I was told it was on sale very cheap. Maybe you're talking about the HD?
Can't speak for Komli, but VWO is certainly a startup. They grew from a single digit headcount very recently and didn't exist too long before.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Imagine the things that would have been said about Steve Jobs if he had failed to bring Apple back to prominence
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Lighter-than-air material discovered
I'm surprised Groupon's IPO wasn't on there.
I have several side projects which I do work on, but working on 25 hours for free on someone else's project is more likely to lead to future paid work than working for 25 hours on my own projects.

I also find it hard to justify working on my own projects when there's client work to be done.
It's intentional, but not because of that. In order to be indexed, they have to show the content to google. It is against googles TOS to show them content and not display it to visitors referred by their index.
Sherlock, Game of Thrones
Tip:

Make sure she doesn't wear it when pregnant. Women swell up a bit and the ring will start to choke her finger. Then you will have to cut it with a Dremel at 11:00 PM on a Tuesday and lose your "investment". Don't ask me how I know...