skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the headline references the secondary meaning of "reveal":

To bring to view; show.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reveal

But, then, editors are experienced at seducing readers. I wouldn't be surprised if the ambiguity of "reveal" is well-known in their bag of linguistic tools.
Pictures, in this case, speak louder than reputations. The explanation isn't bad either. Though I do wonder about the historical accuracy.
No, but that's not his point. (I think) he says there's something wrong with him basing his price on what criminals would pay (regardless of whether he would actually sell it to criminals).

I don't know. If he can't ask whatever he wants for it and Apple can't pay whatever they want for it, there's no simple solution.
20% time learning, 80% time coding. Mainly PHP and ASP.NET.
Then no amount of customization of the delay would make any difference.
I lived on my own @ 17, quit my job I had from age 14 to 18 and been on my own ever since. Just do it, you know what you should do better than anyone else.
This was posted a year ago, but it produced such an "ah ha" moment for me, I thought I'd re-post. My favorite paragraph:

"Now again, emotional commitment is not enough. It is a necessary condition apparently. And I think I can tell you the reason why. Everybody who has studied creativity is driven finally to saying, ``creativity comes out of your subconscious.'' Somehow, suddenly, there it is. It just appears. Well, we know very little about the subconscious; but one thing you are pretty well aware of is that your dreams also come out of your subconscious. And you're aware your dreams are, to a fair extent, a reworking of the experiences of the day. If you are deeply immersed and committed to a topic, day after day after day, your subconscious has nothing to do but work on your problem. And so you wake up one morning, or on some afternoon, and there's the answer. For those who don't get committed to their current problem, the subconscious goofs off on other things and doesn't produce the big result. So the way to manage yourself is that when you have a real important problem you don't let anything else get the center of your attention - you keep your thoughts on the problem. Keep your subconscious starved so it has to work on your problem, so you can sleep peacefully and get the answer in the morning, free."
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Go for it! If you're depressed, that's reason enough to seek change. If you have a web business that's "close to taking off," ensure that it happens by taking the plunge. Make it take off!
You make a great point and I do agree to a certain extent. However, there have been some projects I've worked on where having a great manager made all the difference in the world. Having someone that deals with all of the non-technical minutia so that programmers can keep building stuff is really valuable IMHO.

Maybe software could fulfill this role one day, but as you say we're not there yet.

It may be that I'm getting too old and cynical, but when I hear arguments about eliminating the middle-man I can't help but think of a quote from Malcolm Reynolds in the show Firefly:

"About 50% of the human race is middlemen and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated."
Yeah, something about that design rubs me the wrong way... but thanks :)
Its not worth staying somewhere you hate. You only live once. I say quit the job and work on the web thing.
Life is too short to be unhappy, especially with what you do during most of your waking day. Bail out, find some thing better, and at worst enjoy some time off. I'm also assuming you've already spoken with your hiring manager to ensure that they can't fix the situtation?
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There is no "think". There is "do" and "do not".

Sounds like you've made your decision and you just want a push. And since you've asked here, instead of anywhere else, you know that we will push. And that's what you want. You are just a tiny bit insecure and want someone else to say it, but you've subconsciously guaranteed you'll get the push you want.

Ok then, I'll oblige.

DO IT! It sounds like you can afford it. Bad economic times are a good time to start. If you can survive through these times, you'll be positioned to explode when things take off. You don't have major financial obligations. You'll never regret quitting your job and taking a friggin chance. Take the chance. Embrace it. You only live life once.
If you've got a decent cash cushion, then go for it!

(Just don't blame me later ;-)
I remember LoadImpact being posted a while back as a "review my app" submission, with a very warm response; I wonder how well the site's doing financially now...
This is the best time to start. Marketing is easier then ever, servers are cheap, opportunities are still here. Go for it!
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Especially in light of the fact that to be effective, you have to forget the delay is there. Then there's the moment of panic, then there's the moment of remembering that there IS an undo feature, and then the moments to click back to the GMail tab and click.
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I wrote a silly little Rails app one weekend to help me with problems like this.

http://SeeURLater.com

You add a bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks toolbar, then whenever you're on a page that you want to remember to revisit later, you use the bookmarklet which fires up a little popup window, delicious style, that lets you save the URL. Each night you get one email message with all the links you added the previous day, reminding you to revisit them. No links added? No email the next day.

It's stupid simple, and very minimalist right now, but it's been working for me, and you're all welcome to use it. =-)
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We have a lunch bell at work. Actually, it's a kind of chuck-wagon like gong. Though, because it's announcing the arrival of the catered lunch, I'm guessing the circumstances are somewhat different than yours. :-)
BrainFuck indeed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

…wow!
Enjoy the short period of exhiliration. Then be prepared to ride the roller coaster of emotions. You will enjoy both highs and lows that top anything in your previous experience. Once you've done it you will learn there is no better job. Best of luck!
I have been reprimanded for such atrocities as my lunch hour not matching exactly with the bell, and for talking casually to a co-worker. They have been running their company this way for a long time and have had many many people quit for that exact reason. They have not changed anything yet, I have no reason to believe they would if I talk to them, nor do I have much desire to stay if they do.
Contact your friend and ask him if his offer is still valid and then take the opportunity.
You'll be happier unemployed and penniless, than staying where you are and wondering what could have been I think. Having said that, I'm in a similar position and I'm not quitting anytime soon.
You are absolutely right. I think my main hang-up is the guilt I feel for quitting my job when so many of my friends cannot even get a job in the first place. I think maybe it's just simply unfounded.

And yes, everyone here is very good at pushing for risk and action over all else (myself included), and that is exactly why I posted here. Though, even if I had gotten the opposite reaction, I probably would have said you guys don't know what you're talking about, and then taken the plunge anyway ;-)
I may sound like an utopian, but I think that being satisfied in what we do and how we accomplish it is the only goal to target, to be happy and satisfied. One should always seek for happiness through efforts, no matter how hard it may seem: I believe that good ones will always give you back the same goodness you were able to spend, no matter how bad the context is.

I also know that not everyone likes to do its best, and many are simply looking for the "easiest" way, but this implies abiding to some kind of lunch bell, as you described. But you're not this kind of person: it seems that you're still able to dream and tend towards something better.

So, good luck with your future projects and give good karma, you'll receive it back! :).
Corporate espionage has turned pro, but most companies don't take the threat seriously
Wait, you hate your day job, but you've already lined up both your next big idea and the means to fund it while it gets going? And now you're here asking for permission?

Seriously, dude or dudette, what more do you need? An engraved invitation to follow your heart from Cupid?
Good enough, sounds terrible. Bail out, what are you waiting for! :)
it could be, though it seems like they'd want to make the startup names explicit.
Quitting my day job and starting my own business was the best decision of my life.

It's a risky move in any economy. The potential downside is losing everything you own. If you find that motivating, rather than paralyzing, you're probably on the right path.
The job market is hardly a zero-sum game, though. By growing from a startup to a major player in an industry you helped found, you can do a lot more economic good than you would by creating one job and leaving one available in the existing market.
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> the guilt I feel for quitting my job when so many of my friends cannot even get a job in the first place.

So your quitting opens up a job for another guy to take. :)
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I graduated about 4 years ago from Northeastern University and I've never been asked for money. Maybe they can see I still have student loans to pay off?

If they ever do call me, I plan to tell them I'll donate some money if they fire one of the 2 staff members I absolutely despised. When I was a student there I would think to myself how much money/influence it would take to get them canned.
I've been told that the Indian middle class will prefer a regular car. But this certainly beats a scooter.

I have a Vespa. I'd love a covered motorcycle. It could be electric, because I have no plans on going long distances. Solar panels on such a small vehicle might actually work quite well. They could unfold from the sides to take up the same area as the roof of a sedan.
Based on my experience over the years at least 10% of the developers who join these companies are actually really good. How can they not be? While someone graduating from an IIT might not work at these companies, they hire the best candidates from local engineering colleges. Most of these people either burn out and leave in 3 years or lose interest but trudge on. I think they would not only be able to work on llvm and MySQL but do well at it. Like the previous commenter points out, they could start with testing but I'm sure they would pick up fast. Work satisfaction would shoot UP!

The reason this might not work unless it comes down as a diktat from top management at these co.s is - there are very few outsourcing companies that think long term at the middle management level.
This post has a list of 26 designers on twitter along w/ the design of their business card: http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2008/10/26-business-cards-of.... If you're looking for folks to follow, this would be a good place to start your search. There is also this directory: http://justtweetit.com/graphic-designers/.
Go for it, may be I will follow you!
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What is the conventional advice given during a depression/recession?

Keep your head down, keep a stable job, keep that income coming in, you're better off than all those other poor sods on the street.

What is the conventional advice given during boom times?

Get a new house, a new car, a new TV, consume, consume, consume. Don't worry about debt, since you're always going to make more. Don't like your job? Quit it now and get a better one to your satisfaction.

There is no doubt that the current economic situation is affecting the relative ability for someone to acquire income. However, if you have your current job in your current situation say, two years ago during the boom, would you feel any different? I'd say you would feel less anxious about surviving, yet, you wouldn't be as driven to succeed in your new endeavor simply because at the back of your mind, there's that safety cushion of getting another job.

If you don't have any dependents and no sigificant debt, I think you would be off your rockers to stay where you are.
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Really? Why not? I'm assuming from the username, you're not much of a risk taker, but if you know you'll be happier, why not pursue it?
You should at the specs really.

The last time I read its review during a local auto-showin my place, the middle class guys would probably go for a revised version of the good old Maruti-800 car which costs around $5000 approx and has the basic safety features that a car requires (and also A/C and other optionals). But Nano doesn't even have a front bumper.

So as you said it's really just a casket on wheels that people should avoid buying (what's a car without it's basic safety features).

I'm not much into auto, but I guess there's a govt team that reviews cars manufactured in India. So if that team ever reviews such a car, it should presumably fail the safety test (so guess that the Tata guys 'might have' bribed them).
Defense Department makes more open source moves
Add this to the ongoing work in developing a military forge site and you have an agency that seems as serious as a heart attack, not just about taking advantage of open source, but of being a model citizen in an open source world.
hey man,

i also quit around a month ago and have now been thinking why i did'nt do it earlier. bad economy or good economy, i don't think it should make much of a difference.

actually i think this is a good time to start, less competition and also, if we can make something which is making good enough money, when economy becomes better. people will be running after few good startups around.
No dependents, yes significant debt (student loans). But oh well, as everyone else seems to be in agreement with, you only live once!
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Am I the only one whose browser crashed while reading this article? Spooky.
Honestly? Unless you have your exit pretty well hammered down, you should try to save your job, even if that means having uncomfortable conversations or going over your boss's head. You say that your friends have "enough extra work to keep [you] busy". Try to get something in writing before jumping ship. "I'll send work your way" from a well-intended friend is not a guarantee.

The economy really sucks right now. Unless you have a guarantee of income (e.g. letter of employment) you should do whatever you can to save your job. Talk to your boss about the issue, and if he doesn't make things better, talk to your boss's boss. Insecure middle managers love to pull shit like bait-and-switch, but somewhere up the food chain, there is someone who would not want this to happen to a talented person (either that, or you're at a shitbag company) and you just have to find him. Now is the time to work aggressively to repair the situation-- the worst that can happen is that you get fired, but in that case you get severance and unemployment, as opposed to the $0.00 you get if you quit.

Regarding depression, it's probably not just your job. I love what I do and I'm bordering on clinical depression right now; the fact that my career could easily go to hell (something statistically impossible two years ago) and that society might collapse, although neither is likely, doesn't lead to happy thoughts.
I think the kind of work that satisfies the deep parts of us ends up being the kind that looks harder and takes more effort.

Being mindful of the present, as you advise, is a good practice in my opinion. They clear up enough confusion to gain insight about oneself. Sometimes, those insight tells you to move on. I don't buy that it is the only goal to target, and one should always seek for happiness through efforts, as those beliefs becomes attachments and delusions over time. They're simply there because someone hasn't gained insight to themselves yet.
I don't think you should really let the state of the economy affect you that much one way or the other. As the owner of a fledgling company, you'll have a lot of flexibility to adapt to the market as needed. The people who are in trouble are more likely to be established businesses who have already built a lot of infrastructure designed to extract profit from revenue sources that are currently drying up. This leaves them unpleasantly stuck with the overhead for that infrastructure but not the expected profit. Unless you're running around looking for capital (which is probably expensive in terms of equity right now), I'd guess you'll be relatively unscathed by the economy.
If I were you I'd look at the math. If your friend can off load enough web development work on you for you to get by at least for the next few months, enough time for this web-based company you have been working on to ramp up, then do it. If not, don't, not in this economy. Only do it if you are sure you can fly on your own, and won't have to be out looking for another job soon.
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I think that the natural language of the 30 or so keywords that define a language does not pose a serious barrier.

Consider Lisp's cons, car, and cdr: these are not part of anyone's natural language yet they survive just fine.
I wonder if it would be possible to make some kind of "geometry analyser" that scours the (Google) Earth, looking for "un-natural-looking" structures/patterns outside of the known ones like cities and such.
Oh, I definitely am not quitting before having something in writing! They're suppose to get it to me by lunch today.
Regarding competition, I'd expect less from established players in the market, but as unemployment rises, shouldn't the number of startups go up as well?
They don't seem to distinguish between the language itself and the API. I'd think for many languages the core keywords wouldn't be too hard to translate... Translating the .NET API would be a bigger call (there seem to be examples of this there).
If it's light weight, I'll forget the size matter.
Here's a mental exercise:
1) Decide what is the worst that could happen.
2) Assume that it happens.
3) Is it really so bad?
4) How could you recover?

Do it for both leaving and staying. I was surprised to learn that the worst thing that could happen to me in my job was that I continue to have success, further chaining me to a job for which I have no passion.

I have a different situation than you (married with a young child), but answering those questions has encouraged me to make a 2-year plan to get out. Two years because that is when my child will start going to school full-time and my wife will presumably go back to work, providing us with affordable health insurance.
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
You actually missed the point entirely, where Zed's saying that he doesn't want to piss people off but that he still thinks "fucking" is a necessary descriptor to announce his emotions.
The idea is that Stackless allows you to easily get concurrency via coroutines and message passing. My understanding is that, along with some other things, it's basically Python with no C stack and no Global Interpreter Lock.

It sounds like you already have a method you're comfortable with, so there's obviously not much reason to look for something else unless you are tearing your hair out with your current solution.
Sadly, there's no real trick to it other than being a good graphic designer. Please note this is a career unto itself with all the traps and pitfalls "career" implies. Before you decide to spend a weekend learning Photoshop to cook yourself up an icon, consider the scorn with which you would look upon someone who turned out an application after only a week of study of the frameworks, languages, philosophies, and methodologies involved.

If you care about your application's icon[1], your users will thank you to hire a professional.

[1]: And you should. As the HIG says, "Application icons are the most visible to users. Since they are seen in the Finder and the Dock even when your application is not running, they form a significant part of a user’s first impressions" (http://tinyurl.com/d82lkq)
Re-making old games used to be more common I think:

http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/atari2600.htm
You've already quit your job :)

The best advice in this economy is to get your head down and stick in your job till things pick up again.

But, you know, were not here because we do what were told or are supposed to do. :) so get outta there and go make some real money (belief!).
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I'm in a similar boat, was mulling over it hard because of the economy and people having problems finding jobs, but the last time I went out on my own, I made it work and I had a lot less going for me back then. So I felt like there was no better time and motivation to deal with the roller coaster of working for yourself is something you have to be mentally prepared for and I am now.

Good luck and don't second-guess yourself, just make sure you've got enough fail safes in place to make a go for it and don't look back.
> So I would hesitate to donate to a university rather than, say, an AIDS prevention charity.

You know that most AIDS prevention charities are a giant waste of money? There is almost no metric with which they are measured - so people keep doing the same thing over and over.

With private colleges the metric is fairly clear (publications, degrees awarded, patents, etc...).
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... their son had strung rubber bands across his dresser drawers and was replicating classical tunes by ear, moving drawers in and out to vary the pitch.

Damn, I guess that answers the question: Would he still play music if he had been born to an illiterate family in a desolate rural part of a third world country? Yep, he still would.
Here are two interesting related videos.

First, what Django can learn from Zope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipFKyW2FA4

Next, what Zope did wrong and how it is being fixed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAsa1P9Dvd0
You read the 4 Hour Work Week, didn't you? :-)
> Does that mean that it has be done by the same class of people-seekers who seem to have gotten us into this mess and who expect their every profitable or unprofitable action to be "bonused" to the hilt?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03...

"The handful of souls who championed the firm’s now-infamous credit-default swaps are, by nearly every account, long since departed. Those left behind to clean up the mess, the majority of whom never lost a dime for AIG, now feel they have been sold out by their Congress and their president."

"If they did walk out the door, who would volunteer to work at the Chernobyl of the financial world? And what would become of the mammoth portfolio that remains?"

"'It would become the biggest naked position on Wall Street,' one longtime Financial Products executive said, 'and everybody would exploit it.'"
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I really do like Jeff Atwood, I think for the most part he has been beneficial to the community. But for the love of god, I wish he would stop making half of his post quotes from someone else's post. I don't mind that he gets an idea to write something based off of another person, but he could at least add something substantive to it.
The problem is that nature makes a number of things that appear decidedly unnatural.

Take, for example, bismuth crystals: http://www.bismuthcrystal.com/week.html