skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on how you run the war room. The way I prefer it is no off-topic conversation, no distractions, inside voices, and a lot of respect for your co-workers. Also, you need to provide convenient nearby meeting and lounge spaces so that people who want to do those things can easily do it elsewhere. I think that's a great environment for focus.

It takes some commitment to make it happen. Without everybody committing to a low-distraction workplace, volume is definitely the default. But I think the benefits of a team environment make it worth the effort.
So we should just give everyone a couple of weeks to sort their systems out or go out of business, and problem will be solved?
Awesome. This approach can definitely work for lots of people. We default to WOFF because it's essentially just a slightly more compressed OTF file, it's something all browser venders seem to agree on, and it just seems like The Right Thing To Do for the web. We serve raw TTF files for the stock Android Browser. I had so much trouble hinting the raw OTF font for Chrome on Windows that I gave up and used SVG. As I mentioned in the article, SVG fonts don't get mangled by the browser's font rendering engine or ClearType.

Also, I never had any problems with FontSquirrel.
They're already getting a slice. Look at any stock quote and notice that asks and bids are different amounts. That's where they get their money from: transactions, not growth. (Look up the expression "delta neutral".)

Is there a magic money tree? That involves a lot more economics classes than I took, so I won't even attempt to answer.
It's up on the east coast, but that was almost 50 minutes of downtime. (I heard that they make $100,000/minute...)
Back up her in Norway also.
Exactly. People say they lose $X/hour. The next hour when they come up, is the order rate back to $X/hour, or $X + delayed demand / hour?

(Surely there's some loss from being down, but it's not a simple loss = current order rate * downtime argument).
I've been running into this problem while working through marketing docs/accelerator apps/etc. with a new startup. There's still a huge hole in collaborative document editing. Tools are either too simple to do this well (thinking of hackpad) or too complicated for quick uses (editing mode in word/comments in google docs).

An elegant solution for this kind of back-and-forth editing dialog on short-form copy would be huge. Surprised it doesn't exist already. And the concept of one-click "commits" is a powerful one for versioning -- makes it much easier to find things than google's atomic "save everything" version control.

Nice work. Look forward to giving this a try.
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More likely the other way around. Destroy the competition and keep prices the same, but push costs down.
Are we really talking about "the team" here, or are we talking about a PM who interrupts developers multiple times during a day, in order to re-prioritize tasks, get status reports, etc?
Good one. Apparently, no one else is capable of laughing.
It’s also important to remember that the total rate of death is constant at 1 death/person. Some death types going down will automatically result in others going up, so an increase or decrease in one type might not necessarily mean that the risk has changed.

I guess the goal is to reduce the deaths we can do something about.
Before anyone asks - Android is in the works!
12:34 PST and OK from Vegas.
http://angularjs.org/#todo-html

This just does not jive with me. My template knows that submission should be handled by `addTodo()`? Or even worse, looping. I want all of my logic to live in code, not some abstract framework specific attributes that don't add much in the way of clarity (context switching between template and view just to follow the workflow, for example).

I use (and love) Backbone because the DOM is considered a pure presentation layer, nothing else. Any behavior, logic, whatever that the code controls is defined only in the code.
I managed to clip the isitdownrightnow.com status while it was down:

http://clipboard.com/clip/LQOyBd-lpIMCZzlmvYHqted7GrrQ3zkJis...
Yeah, I CANNOT IMAGINE why anyone would assume anything ill of the revolving door between business and government, what a bunch of conspiracists. You also might want to learn what the word "xenophobia" means since at no point in this article does it discuss foreign actors or organizations.
Boy, I love Jared Diamond's books. An absolute must read for any hacker.
This. I regularly feel that I'm just one more 20 hour day from getting the thing finished so I can relax. It's starting to look like there is no such thing. There will always be things to tweak, new features to add, things that break, et al. It's exhausting, and there is no escape from it at 5:00pm.
produce a development library or product they can't live without. you then become an integration specialist.
Per http://gizmodo.com/5980618/amazon-is-down, a hacker group named Nazi Gods has claimed responsibility for the downtime.
Facebook's Revenue Model is Broken
"No default apps on a new phone"

Speaking as a user and not a developer (though I am a mobile app developer), this is a horrible idea.

I would be so pissed if I bought a new Android phone and gmail/Google Nav/maps/calendar/etc weren't preinstalled.
Good point. I hate it when folks make up names and acronyms without checking first for existing work, at least in related areas.
If you have experience solving hard problems that helps. I had the good fortune of doing so in graduate school. That lead to a job solving another totally unrelated hard problem, with a technology stack totally unrelated to my graduate work. Once I had two gigs like that, the only people who responded to my resume's were people looking for someone to work with immature technology, or had a very hard problem to solve.

Also once you decide that you want to have a professional career jumping on technology grenades, do not work as an employee. I made that mistake. The nature of grenade jumping is that your are asked to solve a hard problem that needs to be solved in a short time, if you are an employee this amounts to massive hours, (70-90 hour work weeks), of unpaid overtime. Work as a contractor and be sure to bill for every hour. Or be sure to get a very healthy option grant if it is a promising start up. My life has been much happier once I started doing that.

Also be sure to work out, this sort of work takes a severe toll on your health if you do it for 20-30 years.
>As cynical as everyone is about how "big companies suck", they have historically done a pretty good job creating value. And I think that will continue for some time. //

It's not like resources can run out or anything. You just dig up more.
"ease of extending the language played a large part in its tremendous success,"

It's the reason I picked it up back in 2001. Being a C programmer up until that point it made the transition to web development incredibly easy.

On a side note, I still remember how awesome being able to do `"some string" == $var` was.
Remembering that this is a "work" in the strict copyright sense, could you give an example of a [copyright] work that produces other copyrightable works? (that aren't just derivatives).

My instinct is to say that if a copyright work produces something else then it is technical and falls under the auspices of patent protection instead. If you can copyright technology then you circumvent a primary purpose of the patent system - the freeing of inventions to the public domain.

A language is not a copyright work it's not fixed in a medium, for a start. A description of a language would be copyright protected but you couldn't use such protection to do anything beyond stopping the unlicensed copying of the work itself. The lines of code (or sentences in natural language [or other presentations]) aren't derivative of the work itself but of the ideas that the work presents.

Imagining you could copyright a language, and thus effect the licensing of code in that language, would be to me like imagining that the writer of a cookery book had a legal right over anyone making food using those recipes.
Right on ! I've often wondered the same. It's very annoying too. I can't stand working in offices but if you employee me as a remote employee you get a distraction free, self-motivated, 10+ years experience dedicated worker.. if you want me to come to your office so you can see me do exactly what I can do without coming to the office only with traveling and other distractions... I'll just say, "no thanks!" and find a company that gets it . (P.S. been telecommuting for 8 years and wouldn't have it any other way).
Flight doesn't care where things are rendered.

> It's agnostic to how requests are routed, which templating language you use or even if you render your HTML on the client or the server.
My comment was predominately directed to the bit about adding a random number of seconds.
Could be completely explained by someone having the right relay for this data in the right place at the right time (which would have been the result of a considerable outlay of resources and compensation to establish, thus boosting economic output long ahead of any potential killing(tm) made here).

And I can't see any particularly efficient way to level the playing field with a government that barely understands facebook and fair use. Just try to explain microsecond latency to them, go ahead, really, should be even more fun than a series of tubes(tm).
That's my point... from the merchant standpoint there is no additional integration required... they just process it as a credit card. Facebook limits the spend based on the merchant identifier that gets sent to them from the POS. Basically they've created a multi-gift-card using existing credit card technology without the partners needing to update their POS to support it.
http://invezz.com/news/alternative-investments/625-uk-report...

"Veteran traders would usually wait in anticipation for the weekly report of gas-inventory figures by the U.S. Energy Information Administration released on Thursday at 10.30 AM and then dive into the busiest trading window of the week. This is no longer true as most traders are now staying out of the market due to the HFTs new strategy - sending floods of orders in an effort to trigger huge price swings just before the data gets released, also known as “banging the beehive”."

edit: Fast algo puts orders out on multiple equity exchanges and then hedges itself with a slow algo in the futures market.
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Holistic improvement is good.

Every popular technology goes through this. (C, Java, PHP, etc)

What is encouraging to me is the speed with which these issues get patched in Ruby and Rails, and how the ecosystem is paying attention to these lessons and learning from them.

Contrast this with the length of time recent Java flaws took to get patched (6 months or more) or some of the bugs reported in TOSSA got fixed years later.

The deal is to learn from each of these incidents.

Very few people want to take the trouble to write and use correct programs. We, as an industry, would rather Ship Early and Often. It takes a lot of energy and time endeavor to write correct programs. Very few do that. Three that come to mind are Dijkstra, Knuth, DJB.
But the collateral damage is real. Going out on a limb financially is celebrated but most stories don't end with a win - just the ones we tell.

The biggest danger from startups as I see it isn't even the financial loss. That's very bad, don't get me wrong-- $100,000 losses aren't uncommon-- but it isn't the worst thing. The worst thing that comes out of startup failure is the confluence of opportunity cost with the extremely harsh age-grading of VC-istan.

Most industries give you 25 years to build a career, and then 15 more on the plateau before you even start to worry about age discrimination. That's something people start to face in their 60s, not 30s. In VC-istan, you have much less time and losing 2 years to a dogshit startup is catastrophic. The loss of opportunities even between 25 and 30 is a substantial drop. By 35, if you're not retired or an executive (never mind whether you actually want to manage) people start to ask what happened.

VC-istan is a hypocritical culture, because it superficially champions risk and failure, but if you don't have an unbroken stream of successes, you become yesterday's dogshit pretty much immediately. What "we accept failure" means in VC-istan is that people with the political skill to make their failures appear to be someone else's fault can continue their careers uninterrupted, but how is that different from the rest of Corporate America? It's not. VC-istan is just as narcissistic and intolerant of missteps. If you're not VP/Eng by 35 and a Founder by 40, goodbye.

The real calamity you risk in a bad startup is the career damage. You can easily end up in a position well below your level of ability in the next job, and once that happens, you're screwed because most people get bored rapidly and lose motivation when this occurs. I have no idea what happens to the people who fall under their age curve. I hope to never find out.

It's no wonder why people are so depressed. A world in which the aging process starts so prematurely is depressing. It's like modeling, but with uglier people.
Nothing quite this catastrophic tends to happen to things that aren't PHP.
Perforce has an Office plugin (P4OFC) to manage documents, might be a little more appropriate for enterprise work.
I've never read a blog post at launch.co before, interesting that the author chooses not to include any bio.
Parsing FIX correctly faster than the next dude.

I've seen some fast FIX parsers. I've seen few that actually produce correct results :)
I imagine he means the ability to deploy code to prod at will, not full access to their database.
My comment was predominately directed to the bit about adding a random number of seconds.

As for the 10 minute idea, I'm not entirely sure. I'll ask some friends who are in the industry and see what they think.

I am just generally wary of people in one industry proposing regulations for those in another industry.
Heroes and your happiness
I just don't get gift cards. Why would I give someone 20£ and then force them to spend them in a particular shop, rather than giving them cash or transferring money through the bank? It is a honest question, I've never given or received a gift card, I might just be missing something obvious.
He is talking about mitigating risk, not avoiding it.
If Democrats are in favor of expanding rights for copyright holders, why did the Republicans a few months ago back away so far and so fast from their policy memo exploring opposition, to the level of firing the person who wrote it (never mind that it appears that it went through the correct channels to be published with the party's name on it)?

What copyright reform needs is someone with deep enough pockets to be able to b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ lobby politicians effectively. Or perhaps a general public that understands and cares about the issue...
And why exactly shouldn't the guy who's invested in the best hardware have an edge? Should perhaps we also mandate that all software engineers use exactly the same 2004-era Acer Pentium 4 laptop so that any difference in productivity is strictly due to programming skills?
I experienced agism on the lower scale when I was young and would just blow them away in the interview with my technical knowledge and examples how I applied it. But would still be descriminated upon salary wise in that if I was older with the same skill set I would be paid more and that was due to me being young.

As I got older around the 30's I started to get a lot of `overqualified` after interviews which was down to the case of the manager worrying I'd take there job and presume as much OR was down to them not being able to pay me enough to what they thought they would have to pay me. Both silly as this was after interviews when they had seen my CV and skill set already and with that the shock of being that skilled should not be a reason to not offer the job. Secondly I had already seen the salary range offered and perks in the job description I applied for and for them to presume they would have to pay me more and not even try to make an offer is again just silly.

Maybe the best answear is when you get a lot of over qualified or other fob of excuses the law still allows to pass of as legaliesed descrimination then maybe you could look at working for yourself and with that charge companies 10x more than what they would pay you to do that task and one day employ somebody without putting them thru that whole bullshit.

But I did work with a chap who lied on his CV about his age and got a job, later on it came to light but the company was cool about it as they understood the reasons.

Sometimes it is best to not outshine there technical people too much initialy, get yoru foot in the door, but it is just as hard to dumb down than it is to smart up.

Bottom line you can be honest about yourself and they will lie about the reason for not hiring you or you can lie by ommision and blur that line a little. But in many ways there are good companies or parts of companies out there that are open to the full truth and are just after smebody who can do the job and that is improving compared to the older days on some levels. Though sadly the HR filtering mindset is mostly to blame for a lot of the issues we see today.
Speaking specifically about fall risk in older people: if you want to ensure a high quality of life when you're older, maintain strong muscles through exercise. This may seem like a no brainer, and yet almost nobody actually does it.

Balance and strength are highly dependent on exercise. Even fairly old people can maintain very good balance and strength if they don't let their muscles deteriorate through inactivity.

Being frail in old age is not inevitable. A sedentary person after age 50 loses something like 5% of muscle mass annually. But that same person can boost their muscle mass 20% in a single year if they just get serious about strength training, and then slow the deterioration to 1 or 2% thereafter. Run the numbers, it makes a dramatic difference in outcomes.
I'd be more concerned about the PPC ads leading to a 500 error.
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Developers probably have access to most production systems. Credit card processing and source of truth on orders that get shipped are most likely segregated. (actually PCI dictates that physical and data access controls be in place so only essential employees can access card data)
There are many IDEs and plugins that already do this. PyCharm, for example.
What is the benefit of trading over ms resolutions. What problem is it solving?

Wouldn't trade be more efficient if it were lock stepped - say one trade per hour (per day?): you agree your trade and the exchange processes it on the hour.

What would be lost that benefits the pseudo-capitalism of these systems by having such a regime. How would this negatively impact production.
the design with the logo tilted and tiled looks very..erm..fascist
His donation will be used to fund a position at the EFF to help battle software patents. I think the original EFF press release covers it better than the article: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-patent-project-gets-h...

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944322
If in doubt, innovate
Example: If you have a friend who likes Jamba Juice, and you wanted to get the person a gift card.

Are you going to spend the time to actually find a Jamba Juice and go there to buy a gift card? Or are you going to just click "buy as a gift for Friend" on Facebook?

Another option is to buy the gift card at another store, but then you're just filling Safeway's data hole or Target's data hole instead of Facebook's. Is that better?
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Maybe so. But there is life outside venture capital - lots of it, in fact. Most of America's biggest companies got started outside the VC ecosystem. It's possible, although it may take some unconventional thinking at times.

The other point to bear in mind is that a bad startup does not mean any particular individual was responsible. I've had a bad startup in my lifetime and went on to have a successful 2nd one, as did 2 of my cofounders there. The original startup was VC funded. 2 of the 3 others were not.
I'd say that the Progressive movement of the early 20th century and the Progressive movement of the early 21st really aren't any more similar than you'd expect any two randomly selected political groups to be.
Looking at the long, long list of Gems required by Rails these days, makes it look less like a framework, and more like a patchwork. Complete with holes of course.
This.

I mean, consider: a report got released 400ms early. So the price of the futures fell 400ms early, and some trading firm made money off of that fall (instead of some other trading firm making said money.)

What's the impact on you of the price changing 400ms early? Even if you held that asset, were you really planning your trades to the second, let alone the millisecond, to begin with? No? Then it doesn't matter.

Buy-and-hold broad index funds for decades on end, then you need only fear macroeconomics and political risk.
Not everyone can choose their browser -- either because they're still running Windows 98 and can't afford a new computer, or (more likely) because they're part of a large organization that can't afford to upgrade due to huge past investments in aging tech.

I actually deal a lot more with IE6/7 in my main job (users in the NHS) than for the music theory site, but to my main point above -- there are plenty of audio features that are just now starting to be possible in Chrome (no other browser, yet); that's simply not useful in the context of real, normal-people users.
Mongo in its most durable mode (which btw isn't what, say, Postres would call durable) is really slow. Why even bother with it anymore?

First party MVCC is the only one that matters. It affects vital things like backups, analytical queries and transactions.

Joins are extremely useful. If a database does the sharding, it is almost always better for it to do the joins as well. Performance can be good with the right model, and Mongo is slow anyway.
Who cares if I can access the credit card processing system if I can insert random code elsewhere in the system that redirects you to my phishing page whenever you enter credit card information?
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I think that "back to technology" should be the motto for the next 10 years.

Yes, I agree. I am really hoping to see a Flight to Substance. I am doubtful, however, because I think the "cool kids" malignancy-- the VC darlings, the investor in-crowd who all collude on terms-- has taken over the organism. I am very optimistic about the long-term future of the technological economy, but I think there's going to be some short-term bleeding and pain before we get there, because nothing good is going to happen until some established players are removed from power and they won't go down without a fight.

The "change the world" bullshit coming from most of these VC darlings is an excuse to underpay and exploit people, especially fresh college kids.

Bill Gates is fucking changing the world. Some build-to-flip IUsedThisToilet app that exists to get some idiot a hiring bonus along with his douchey PM job is not.
No, it is not.

Don't post outages here.
So...when are you coming to Boston?